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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
903 Sourafel Girma
Holger Görg
Evaluating the Causal Effects of Foreign Acquisition on Domestic Skilled and Unskilled Wages
This paper investigates the effects of the takeover of a domestic establishment by foreign owners on the domestic target’s development of wages for skilled and unskilled workers. We pay particular ...
(revised version published as 'Evaluating the foreign ownership wage premium using a difference-in-differences matching approach' in: Journal of International Economics, 2007, 72(1), 97-112)
F23, J31
902 Paul Frijters
Michael A. Shields
Stephen Wheatley Price
Immigrant Job Search in the UK: Evidence from Panel Data
Most immigrant groups experience higher rates of unemployment than the host countries native population, but it is as yet unclear whether differences in job search behaviour, or its success, can ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2005, 115 (507), F359-376)
J61, J64
901 Peter F. Orazem
Milan Vodopivec
Do Market Pressures Induce Economic Efficiency: The Case of Slovenian Manufacturing, 1994-2001
The Slovenian transition represents a slow but steady liberalization of constraints on competition. Using a unique longitudinal data set on all manufacturing firms in Slovenia over the period ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2009, 76(2), 553-576)
L1, P27
900 Mark C. Berger
Glenn C. Blomquist
Klara Sabirianova Peter
Compensating Differentials in Emerging Labor and Housing Markets: Estimates of Quality of Life in Russian Cities
The existence of compensating differentials in Russian labor and housing markets is examined using data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) augmented by city ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 63 (1), 2008, 25 - 55)
D5, H4, J3, J6, P2, P3, Q2, R1, R2
898 Gerard J. van den Berg
Gijsbert van Lomwel
Jan C. van Ours
Nonparametric Estimation of a Dependent Competing Risks Model for Unemployment Durations
In this paper we simultaneously analyze transitions from unemployment to employment and to nonparticipation. We estimate a dependent competing risks model with nonparametric specifications of the ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2008, 34 (3), 477-491 )
J64, C41
897 Martin Brown
Armin Falk
Ernst Fehr
Relational Contracts and the Nature of Market Interactions
We provide evidence that long-term relationships between trading parties emerge endogenously in the absence of third party enforcement of contracts and are associated with a fundamental change in ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2004, 72 (3), 747-780)
D2, D4, C7, C9
896 Solomon Polachek
What Can We Learn About the Decline in U.S. Union Membership from International Data?
This paper is composed of two parts. First, using international data, I corroborate that union density in the U.S. declined because of asymmetric growth between the union and nonunion sectors. I ...
(published in: Phanindra V. Wunnava (ed.), The Changing Forms of Unions: New Forms of Representation, M.E. Sharpe 2004)
J4, J5, F16
895 John M. Fitzgerald
David C. Ribar
Transitions in Welfare Participation and Female Headship
This study uses data from the 1990, 1992, 1993 and 1996 panels of the Survey of Income and Program Participation to examine how welfare policies and local economic conditions contribute to women's ...
(published in: Population Research and Policy Review, 2004, 23 (5-6), 641-670)
I3, J1
894 Rainer Winkelmann
Parental Separation and Well-Being of Youths
This paper uses recent data for Germany and a new outcome variable to assess the consequences of parental separation on the well-being of youths. In particular, it is considered how subjective ...
(published in: Journal of Socio-Economics, 2006, 35 (2), 197-208)
I31, J12, C25
892 Barry Hirsch
What Do Unions Do for Economic Performance?
Twenty years have passed since Freeman and Medoff's What Do Unions Do? This essay assesses their analysis of how unions in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2004, 25 (3), 415-455)
J5, L1, D2
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