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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
952 Oddbjørn Raaum
Kjell G. Salvanes
Erik Ø. Sørensen
The Neighbourhood Is Not What It Used to Be
Using a variance decomposition framework which provides bounds on the effect of families and neighbourhoods, we find important effects of family characteristics and residential location on ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (508), 200-222)
I21, J13, R23
951 Pietro Garibaldi
Etienne Wasmer
Raising Female Employment: Reflexions and Policy Tools
While there is consensus on the need to raise the time spent in the market by European women, it is not clear how these goals should be achieved. Tax wedges, assistance in the job search process, ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2004, 2 (2-3), 320-330)
J0, J2
948 Adriana Kugler
Giovanni Pica
Effects of Employment Protection and Product Market Regulations on the Italian Labor Market
Labor market regulations have often been blamed for high and persistent unemployment in Europe, but evidence on their impact remains mixed. More recently, attention has turned to the impact of ...
(published in: J. Messina, C. Michelacci, J. Turunen and G. Zoega (eds.), Labour Market Adjustments in Europe, Edward Elgar 2006)
E24, J63, J65, L11, L43
947 Uwe Sunde
Potential, Prizes and Performance: Testing Tournament Theory with Professional Tennis Data
This paper tests two hypotheses from the theory of elimination tournaments: (i) that uneven tournaments, where the contestants are ex ante heterogeneous, entail lower effort exertion; this is a ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Heterogeneity and Performance in Tournaments: A Test for Incentive Effect using Professional Tennis Data' in: Applied Economics, 2010, 41 (25), 3199-3208)
J41, J33, M12
946 Marco Leonardi
Earnings Instability of Job Stayers and Job Changers
I use the PSID to decompose the rise in wage inequality into a permanent and a transitory component. I consider separately job stayers and job changers. I find that earnings instability (the ...
(revised version published in: Economic Inquiry, 2017, 55(1), 260-280)
J21, J31
945 Ronnie Schöb
David Wildasin
Economic Integration and Labor Market Institutions: Worker Mobility, Earnings Risk, and Contract Structure
This paper investigates the effects of labor market integration, in the form of worker mobility, in a model with long-term labor contracts that lead to wage rigidities and unemployment. Reflecting ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2007, 37(2), 141-164)
R0, J1, J6
944 Holger Görg
David Greenaway
Much Ado About Nothing? Do Domestic Firms Really Benefit from Foreign Direct Investment?
Governments the world over offer significant inducements to attract inward investment, motivated by the expectation of spillover benefits to augment the primary benefits of a boost to national ...
(published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2004, 19(2), 171-197)
F21, F23
943 John T. Addison
Paulino Teixeira
What Have We Learned About the Employment Effects of Severance Pay? Further Iterations of Lazear et al.
In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on industrialized OECD countries. Our starting point is Lazear’s (1990) empirical ...
(published in: Empirica, 2005, 32 (3-4), 345-368)
E24, J23, J64, J65
941 Richard V. Burkhauser
J. S. Butler
Gulcin Gumus
Option Value and Dynamic Programming Model Estimates of Social Security Disability Insurance Application Timing
This paper develops dynamic structural models - an option value model and a dynamic programming model - of the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) application timing decision. We estimate ...
(revised version published as 'Dynamic programming model estimates of Social Security Disability Insurance application timing" in Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2004, 19 (6), 671-685)
H31, H55
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