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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
940 Amelie F. Constant
Yochanan Shachmurove
Klaus F. Zimmermann
What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does It Pay? Native Men, Turks, and Other Migrants in Germany
This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial ...
(published in: International Migration, 2007, 45 (4), 69-98)
J23, M13, J24, J61, J31
939 Eric Toulemonde
Acquisition of Skills, Education Subsidies, and Agglomeration of Firms
An analytically solvable model of new economic geography is developed. Acquisition of skills is costly for workers but it allows them to earn wages that are larger than those of the unskilled. ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2006, 59 (3), 420-439)
F12, F15, J51, R12
938 Daniela Del Boca
Alessandra Venturini
Italian Migration
Italy is a country with a long history of emigration and a very short experience of immigration. The paper first surveys the Italian emigration pattern describing the characteristics of the Italian ...
(published in: K. F. Zimmermann (ed.), European Migration - What Do We Know?, Oxford University Press, 2005)
F22, J61
937 Wolfgang Eggert
Laszlo Goerke
Fiscal Policy, Economic Integration and Unemployment
In this paper fiscal policy is examined for an open economy characterised by unemployment due to efficiency wages. We allow for capital and firm mobility in a model where the government chooses the ...
(published in: Journal of Economics/Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, 2004, 82 (2), 137-167)
H21, J41, J65
936 Melanie K. Jones
Paul L. Latreille
Peter J. Sloane
Disability, Gender and the Labour Market
Using data from the 2002 LFS, we examine the impact of disability on labour market outcomes by gender. Our results indicate that substantial differences in both the likelihood of employment and ...
(revised version published as 'Disability, gender, and the British labour market ' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2006, 58 (3), 407-449)
I1, J2, J3
935 Thomas Dohmen
Performance, Seniority and Wages: Formal Salary Systems and Individual Earnings Profiles
This paper replicates studies by Medoff and Abraham (1980, 1981) and Flabbi and Ichino (2001) using personnel data from the Dutch national aircraft manufacturer Fokker. It shows how a formal salary ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2004, 11 (6), 741-763)
M52, J30, J31
934 Mariacristina Piva
Enrico Santarelli
Marco Vivarelli
The Skill Bias Effect of Technological and Organisational Change: Evidence and Policy Implications
Previous empirical literature has shown that technological change can be considered the main cause of the skill bias (increase in the number of highly skilled workers) exhibited by manufacturing ...
(published in: Research Policy, 2005, 34 (2), 141-157)
O33, J50
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