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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
1045 Stephan Meier
Alois Stutzer
Is Volunteering Rewarding in Itself?
Volunteering constitutes one of the most important pro-social activities. Following Adam Smith, helping others is the way to higher individual well-being. This view contrasts with the selfish ...
(published in: Economica, 2008, 75 (297), 39-59)
D64, I31, J22, Z13
1043 Friedrich Schneider
Robert Klinglmair
Shadow Economies around the World: What Do We Know?
Using various statistical procedures, estimates about the size of the shadow economy in 110 developing, transition and OECD countries are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (in ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2005, 21 (3), 598-642)
O17, O5, D78, H2, H11, H26
1041 Claudio Lucifora
Dominique Meurs
The Public Sector Pay Gap in France, Great Britain and Italy
We investigate public-private pay determination using French, British and Italian microdata. While traditional methods focus on parametric methods to estimate the public sector pay gap, in this ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2003, 52(1), 43-59)
J31, J45, C14
1040 Xavier Chojnicki
Frédéric Docquier
Fiscal Policy and Educational Attainment in the United States – A Generational Accounting Perspective
In this paper, we investigate the consequences of the rise in educational attainment on the US generational accounts. We build on the 1995 accounts of Gokhale et al. (1999) and disaggregate them ...
(published in: Economica, 2007, 47 (294), 329-350)
E62, H6, J24
1039 Ansgar H. Belke
Matthias Göcke
Martin Hebler
Institutional Uncertainty and European Social Union: Impacts on Job Creation and Destruction in the CEECs
With the extension of its competence for social policy legislation in the Maastricht and Amsterdam treaties, the EU has adopted a significantly new social dimension in the past ten years. According ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Modeling, 2005, 27 (3), 345-354)
D81, J23, P26
1038 Ansgar H. Belke
Ralph Setzer
Exchange Rate Volatility and Employment Growth: Empirical Evidence from the CEE Economies
According to the traditional 'optimum currency area' approach, not much will be lost from a very hard peg to a currency union if there has been little reason for variations in the exchange rate. ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2003, 34 (3), 267-292)
F36, J32, P27
1037 Orley Ashenfelter
Michael Greenstone
Estimating the Value of a Statistical Life: The Importance of Omitted Variables and Publication Bias
In this paper we show that omitted variables and publication bias lead to severely biased estimates of the value of a statistical life. Although our empirical results are obtained in the context of ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2004, 94 (2), 454-460)
J17, C8, H43, I18, R4
1036 Patricia Apps
Ray Rees
Life Cycle Time Allocation and Saving in an Imperfect Capital Market
This paper combines income and expenditure with time use data to provide a unique picture of the time paths of labour supplies, saving and full consumption for two-adult households over the life ...
(revised version published as "Family labor supply, taxation and saving in an imperfect capital market" in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (3), 297-323)
D13, D91, H31, J2
1035 N. Anders Klevmarken
Estimates of a Labour Supply Function Using Alternative Measures of Hours of Work
Depending on data source, estimates of hours of work give widely different results both as to level and change. In this paper three alternative measures of hours worked are used to estimate a ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2005, 49 (1), 55-73)
J22, C81, C39
1034 Maarten van Ham
Felix Büchel
Unwilling or Unable? Spatial, Institutional and Socio-Economic Restrictions on Females' Labor Market Access
We analyze the effects of regional structures on both females’ willingness to work and the probability of being employed for those willing to work. Special permission was granted to link regional ...
(published in: [Regional Studies], 2006, 40(3), 1-12)
R23, J13, J21, J64
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