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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
963 Luis Diaz-Serrano
Joop Hartog
Helena Skyt Nielsen
Compensating Wage Differentials for Schooling Risk in Denmark
In this paper we test for risk compensation in wages using Danish panel data. With the conviction that the type of education is as important as the education length, we use a very detailed ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 110(4), 711-731)
D8, J3
962 Laszlo Goerke
Markus Pannenberg
Norm-Based Trade Union Membership: Evidence for Germany
In the absence of closed-shops and discriminatory wage policies, union membership can be explained by the existence of social norms. We describe a model, incorporating institutional features of the ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2004, 5(4), 481-504)
D71, J51
961 Coen Teulings
Casper G. de Vries
Generational Accounting, Solidarity and Pension Losses
The creeping stock market collapse eroded the wealth of funded pension systems. This led to political tensions between generations due to the fuzzy definition of property rights on the pension ...
(published in: De Economist, 2006, 154 (1), 63-83)
E2, G2, G23, J32, H55
960 Amelie F. Constant
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Circular Movements and Time Away from the Host Country
The economic literature has largely overlooked the importance of repeat migration. This paper studies repeat or circular migration as it is manifested by the frequency of exits of migrants living ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Circular and Repeat Migration: Counts of Exits and Years Away from the Host Country' in: Population Research and Policy Review, 2011, 30 (4), 495-515)
F22, J15, J61
959 Thomas K. Bauer
Holger Bonin
Uwe Sunde
Real and Nominal Wage Rigidities and the Rate of Inflation: Evidence from West German Micro Data
The paper examines real and nominal wage rigidities. We estimate a switching regime model, in which the observed distribution of individual wage changes, computed from West German register data for ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117, 508-529)
J31, J51, E52
958 Tilman Brück
John de New
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Creating Low Skilled Jobs by Subsidizing Market-Contracted Household Work
We analyze the determinants of household work contracted in the German shadow economy. The German socio-economic household panel, which enumerates casual domestic employment, is used to estimate ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2006, 38 (8), 899-911)
D13, H24, J23, K42
956 Michael Fertig
Christoph M. Schmidt
Gerontocracy in Motion? European Cross-Country Evidence on the Labor Market Consequences of Population Ageing
Taking a European cross-country perspective, this paper addresses the most important issues in the nexus of population ageing and labor markets. We start from a descriptive overview of the ...
(published in: Wright, Robert E. (ed.), Scotland's Demographic Challenge, Scottish Economic Policy Network, Stirling-Glasgow, 2004)
J11, J21
955 Volker Grossmann
Risky Human Capital Investment, Income Distribution, and Macroeconomic Dynamics
This paper analyzes the interaction between intergenerational wealth transmission, human capital investments under uninsurable labor income risk, and economic growth in a small open ...
(published in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2008, 30 (1), 19-42)
I20, O11, O40
954 Pedro Portugal
John T. Addison
Six Ways to Leave Unemployment
This paper uses a unique Portuguese data set to examine the effect of unemployment benefit receipt and maximum duration of benefits on escape rates from unemployment. The focus is on the time ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2008, 55 (4), 393 - 419)
J64, J65
953 Oddbjørn Raaum
Kjell G. Salvanes
Erik Ø. Sørensen
The Impact of a Primary School Reform on Educational Stratification: A Norwegian Study of Neighbour and School Mate Correlations
School quality is hard to define and measure. It is influenced by not only school expenditures, but also characteristics that are hard to measure like norms and peer effects among teachers and ...
(published in: Swedish Economic Policy Review, 2003, 10 (2), 143-170)
I21, J13, R23
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