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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
987 Andrea Ichino
Gerd Muehlheusser
How Often Should You Open the Door? Optimal Monitoring to Screen Heterogeneous Agents
This paper shows that monitoring too much a partner in the initial phase of a relationship may not be optimal if the goal is to determine his loyalty to the match and if the cost of ending ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 67 (3-4), 820-831)
D2, D8, M5
986 Herbert Brücker
Parvati Trübswetter
Do the Best Go West? An Analysis of the Self-Selection of Employed East-West Migrants in Germany
Since the inequality of earnings in East Germany has approached West German levels in the late 1990s, the standard Roy model predicts that a positive selection bias of East-West migrants should ...
(published in: Empirica, 2007, 34 (4), 371-395)
R23, J61, P23
985 Štepán Jurajda
Heike Harmgart
When Are ‘Female’ Occupations Paying More?
We compare the importance of occupational gender segregation for the gender wage gap in East and West Germany in 1995 using a sample of social-security wage records of full-time workers. East ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2007, 35 (1), 170-187)
J16, J21, J71
984 Wiji Arulampalam
Alison L. Booth
Mark L. Bryan
Are There Asymmetries in the Effects of Training on the Conditional Male Wage Distribution?
We use a quantile regression framework to investigate the degree to which work-related training affects the location, scale and shape of the conditional wage distribution. Human capital theory ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (1), 251-272)
J24, J31, C29
983 Daniela Del Boca
Marilena Locatelli
Daniela Vuri
Child Care Choices by Italian Households
In spite of relatively generous public subsidies and a reputation for high quality, only a very limited proportion of Italian families use public child care. In this paper we explore ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2005, 3 (4), 453-477)
J2, C3, D1
982 Ingo Geishecker
Holger Görg
Winners and Losers: Fragmentation, Trade and Wages Revisited
Our paper investigates the link between outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and combining it with industry level information on industries’ outsourcing activities from ...
(revised version published as 'Winners and losers: A micro-level analysis of international outsourcing and wages' in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2008, 41(1), 243-270)
F16, L24, J31
981 Hugo R. Nopo
Matching as a Tool to Decompose Wage Gaps
In this paper I present a methodology that uses matching comparisons to explain gender differences in wages. The approach emphasizes gender differences in the supports of the distributions of ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008, 90 (2), 290-299)
C14, D31, J16, O54
980 Hugo R. Nopo
Jaime Saavedra
Maximo Torero
Ethnicity and Earnings in Urban Peru
In this paper we study the relationship between ethnic exclusion and earnings in Urban Peru. Our approach to the concept of ethnicity involves the usage of instruments in many of its several ...
(revised version published as 'Ethnicity and Earnings in a Mixed-Race Labor Market' in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2007, 55 (4), 709–734)
J15, J31, J71
979 Martin Moreno
Hugo R. Nopo
Jaime Saavedra
Maximo Torero
Gender and Racial Discrimination in Hiring: A Pseudo Audit Study for Three Selected Occupations in Metropolitan Lima
In this paper, we adapt the audit studies methodology to analyze gender and racial differences in hiring for a particular segment of the market of three selected occupations in Metropolitan Lima: ...
(published as 'Detecting Gender and Racial Discrimination in Hiring through Monitoring Intermediation Services: The Case of Selected Occupations in Metropolitan Lima, Peru ' in: World Development, 2012, 40 (2), 315-328. )
C93, D63, J4, J7
978 John T. Addison
Pedro Portugal
How Does the Unemployment Insurance System Shape the Time Profile of Jobless Duration?
This paper examines the effects of unemployment insurance on escape rates from unemployment using data from the 1998 Displaced Worker Survey. Transitions from unemployment to employment are modeled ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2004, 85 (2), 229-234)
J64, J65
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