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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
1019 Feng-Cheng Fu
Chu-Ping C. Vijverberg
Wim P. Vijverberg
Public Infrastructure as a Determinant of Intertemporal and Interregional Productive Performance in China
This paper focuses on the question whether public infrastructure capital matters for labor productivity in China, both over time and across regions. It finds that public infrastructure is a ...
(revised version published as 'Public infrastructure as a determinant of productive performance in China' in: Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2011. 36 (1), 91 - 111)
H54, O47, R11
1018 T. H. Gindling
Katherine Terrell
Legal Minimum Wages and the Wages of Formal and Informal Sector Workers in Costa Rica
The dual economy development models hold minimum wages (among other institutions) accountable for persistent dualism. We use 12 years of micro data on thousands workers in Costa Rica to test whether ...
(published in: World Development, 2005, 33 (11), 1905-1921 )
J23, J31, J38
1017 Louis Jacobson
Robert J. LaLonde
Daniel G. Sullivan
Estimating the Returns to Community College Schooling for Displaced Workers
Studies show that high-tenure displaced workers typically incur substantial long-term earnings losses. As these losses have become increasingly apparent, policy makers have significantly expanded ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2005, 125 (1), 271-304)
J31
1016 Rainer Winkelmann
Subjective Well-Being and the Family: Results from an Ordered Probit Model with Multiple Random Effects
The previous literature on the determinants of individual well-being has failed to fully account for the interdependencies in well-being at the family level. This paper develops an ordered probit ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2005, 30 (3), 749-761)
C23, C25, I31, J19
1015 Holger Bonin
Hilmar Schneider
Analytical Prediction of Transitions Probabilities in the Conditional Logit Model
The paper derives analytical transitions probabilities following an exogenous shock to the deterministic component in the conditional logit model. The solution draws on the ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2006, 90 (1), 102-107)
C35, C15, J22
1014 Erdal Tekin
Single Mothers Working at Night: Standard Work, Child Care Subsidies, and Implications for Welfare Reform
Using a data set from the post welfare reform environment (the 1999 National Survey of America’s Families), this paper investigates the impact of child care subsidies on the standard work (i.e., ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2007, 45 (2), 233-250)
J13, I38
1013 Ernst Fehr
Jean-Robert Tyran
Money Illusion and Coordination Failure
Economists long considered money illusion to be largely irrelevant. Here we show, however, that money illusion has powerful effects on equilibrium selection. If we represent payoffs in nominal ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2007, 59 (2), 246-268)
C9, E32, E52
1012 Charles Bellemare
A Life-Cycle Model of Outmigration and Economic Assimilation of Immigrants in Germany
This paper estimates a structural dynamic life-cycle model of outmigration where, in each period, immigrants choose whether to work in the host country, not to work but remain in the host country, ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2007, 51 (3), 553-576)
J61, C61
1010 Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Re-Employment Bonuses in a Signalling Model of Temporary Layoffs
Temporary layoffs are an important feature of the United States labor market. If these employer-employee relationships exist because of valuable job-matches, unemployment among high-productivity ...
(published as 'A signaling model of temporary layoffs' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2009, 61 (3), 566-585 )
J63, J64, J65
1009 Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Signaling in the Labor Market: New Evidence on Layoffs and Plant Closings
In my asymmetric-information model of layoffs, high-productivity workers are more likely to be recalled to their former employer and may choose to remain unemployed rather than to accept a low-wage ...
(published as 'Playing Hard to Get: Theory and Evidence on Layoffs, Recalls, and Unemployment' in: Research in Labor Economics, 2013, 38, 211 - 258)
J60, J30
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