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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
1095 Markus Frölich
Michael Lechner
Regional Treatment Intensity as an Instrument for the Evaluation of Labour Market Policies
The effects of active labour market policies (ALMP) on individual employment chances and earnings are evaluated by nonparametric instrumental variables based on Swiss administrative data with ...
(substantially revised version published as IZA DP 2144)
C14, J68
1093 Christopher R. Bollinger
Amitabh Chandra
Iatrogenic Specification Error: A Cautionary Tale of Cleaning Data
In empirical research it is common practice to use sensible rules of thumb for cleaning data. Measurement error is often the justification for removing (trimming) or recoding ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2005, 23 (2), 235-257)
C1, J1
1092 Steven Stillman
Duncan Thomas
The Effect of Economic Crises on Nutritional Status: Evidence from Russia
This paper uses data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) to examine the relationship between nutritional status and both longer-run household resources and short-run fluctuations ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (531), 1385–1417)
D12, I12, O12, P36
1091 Dean R. Hyslop
Steven Stillman
Youth Minimum Wage Reform and the Labour Market
This paper analyses the effects of a large reform in the minimum wages affecting youth workers in New Zealand since 2001. Prior to this reform, a youth minimum wage, applying to 16-19 year-olds, ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (2), 201-230)
J38, J22, J23, J24
1089 Sara Lemos
The Effects of the Minimum Wage in the Formal and Informal Sectors in Brazil
The minimum wage literature is very limited on empirical evidence for developing countries. This already limited literature is even more limited on the effects of the minimum wage in the informal ...
(published as: 'Minimum Wage Effects in a Developing Country' in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16(2), 224-237.)
J38
1088 Don J. DeVoretz
Sergiy Pivnenko
Morton Beiser
The Economic Experiences of Refugees in Canada
Canada admits refugees on the basis of compassion and not economic criteria. It is however, important to document the economic successes or failures among Canada’s refugee population in order to ...
(published in: P. Waxman and V. Colic-Peisker (eds.), Homeland Wanted: Interdisciplinary Perspective on Refugee Settlement in the West, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2004)
J61
1087 Mark Gradstein
Maurice Schiff
The Political Economy of Social Exclusion with Implications for Immigration Policy
Minorities, such as ethnic and immigration groups, have often been subject to exclusion through labor market discrimination, residential and employment segregation policies, business ownership ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2006, 19 (2), 327-344)
D74, H41, I20, J61
1086 Ana Rute Cardoso
Wage Mobility: Do Institutions Make a Difference? A Replication Study Comparing Portugal and the UK
This study compares wage mobility in Portugal and the UK, replicating the work by Dickens (2000) and progressing to discuss the impact of differences in the institutional framework, which is more ...
(fully revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2006, 13 (3), 387-404)
J31, J60
1085 Karen A. Mumford
Peter N. Smith
Job Tenure in Britain: Employee Characteristics Versus Workplace Effects
We consider differences in current job tenure of individuals using linked employee and workplace data. This enables us to distinguish between variation in tenure associated with the characteristics ...
(revised version published in: Economica, 2004, 71 (282), 275-298)
J2
1084 Ilham Haouas
Mahmoud Yagoubi
Trade Liberalization and Labor-Demand Elasticities: Empirical Evidence from Tunisia
This paper investigates the effects of trade liberalization on labor demand elasticities. Employment demand equation is estimated by using data (1971-1996) for manufacturing industries in Tunisia. ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2008, 15 (4), 277-286)
F10, F12, J23, L60
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