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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
1068 Lorenzo Cappellari
Earnings Mobility Among Italian Low Paid Workers
This paper uses Italian panel data to analyse transition probabilities at the bottom of the earnings distribution during the 1990s. The analytical framework is characterised by the ability to ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (3), 465-482)
C23, C35, D31, J31
1067 Gilles Saint-Paul
Did European Labor Markets Become More Competitive in the 1990s? Evidence from Estimated Worker Rents
This paper analyses the evolution of quantitative measures of employee rents in Europe during the nineties, using the European Household Panel Survey. One looks at two class of measures: wage ...
(published in: Labor Markets and Institutions, Santiago: Central Bank of Chile 2005; 281-300)
D3, E24, J3
1066 Gilles Saint-Paul
Why Are European Countries Diverging in Their Unemployment Experience?
During the nineties, unemployment has fallen in a number of European countries while it has remained high in others. The paper discusses potential causes for that evolution in light of recent ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2004, 18 (4), 49-68)
D7, E24, J6
1063 Kalena E. Cortes
Are Refugees Different from Economic Immigrants? Some Empirical Evidence on the Heterogeneity of Immigrant Groups in the United States
This paper analyzes how the implicit difference in time horizons between refugees and economic immigrants affects subsequent human capital investments and wage assimilation. The analysis uses the ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2004, 86(2), 465-480)
C81, F22, J24, J31
1062 Peter Fredriksson
Per Johansson
Dynamic Treatment Assignment – The Consequences for Evaluations Using Observational Data
This paper discusses the evaluation problem using observational data when the timing of treatment is an outcome of a stochastic process. We show that the duration framework in discrete time ...
(published in: Journal of Business and Economics Statistics, 2008, 26 (4), 435–445)
C14, C41
1061 Pierre-Philippe Combes
Thierry Magnac
Jean-Marc Robin
The Dynamics of Local Employment in France
We study the impact of local economic structure on employment dynamics. Local employment is decomposed into the product of the average plant size and the number of plants in the area and industry. ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2004, 56 (2), 217-43)
J21, C33, R23, J23
1059 Irwin Collier
Can Gerhard Schröder Do It? Prospects for Fundamental Reform of the German Economy and a Return to High Employment
The year 2003 has witnessed several major reform policy initiatives in Germany intended to contribute to a solution to Germany's high unemployment problem and to improve the longrun sustainability ...
(published in: David P. Conradt et al., A Precarious Victory: Schroeder and the German Elections of 2002, New York, Berghahn Books, 2005)
J68, E65, O52
1057 Claude Montmarquette
Jean-Louis Rullière
Marie Claire Villeval
Romain Zeiliger
Redesigning Teams and Incentives in a Merger: An Experiment with Managers and Students
After a merger, company officials face the challenge of making compensation schemes uniform and of redesigning teams with managers from companies with different incentives, work habits and ...
(revised version published in: Management Science, 2004, 50 (10), 1379-1389.)
C81, C92, J33, M52
1056 Janet Currie
Matthew Neidell
Air Pollution and Infant Health: What Can We Learn From California's Recent Experience?
We examine the impact of air pollution on infant death in California over the 1990s. Our work offers several innovations: First, many previous studies examine populations subject to far greater ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2004, 120 (3), 1003-1030)
Q53, I12, I18
1055 Giorgio Brunello
Francesca Gambarotto
Agglomeration Effects on Employer-Provided Training: Evidence from the UK
Recent empirical evidence suggests that the density of local economic activity – measured as the number of employees per squared kilometer – positively affects local average productivity. In this ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2007, 37 (1), 1-22)
J24, R12
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