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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
926 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereux
Kjell G. Salvanes
Why the Apple Doesn't Fall Far: Understanding Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital
Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2005, 95 (1), 437-449)
I21, J13, J24
925 Anna Piil Damm
Michael Rosholm
Employment Effects of Dispersal Policies on Refugee Immigrants, Part II: Empirical Evidence
How do dispersal policies affect labour market integration of refugee immigrants subjected to such policy? To investigate this, we estimate the effects of location characteristics and the average ...
(combined with IZA DP 924 published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (1), 105–146)
J64, J61, J15
924 Anna Piil Damm
Michael Rosholm
Employment Effects of Dispersal Policies on Refugee Immigrants, Part I: Theory
This paper formulates a partial search model in which unemployed individuals simultaneously search for job and location of residence. Most importantly, we show that, ceteris paribus, a decrease in ...
(combined with IZA DP 925 published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (1), 105–146)
J64, J68, J15
923 Uwe Dulleck
Paul Frijters
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
Reducing Start-Up Costs for New Firms: The Double Dividend on the Labour Market
Starting a firm with expansive potential is an option for educated and high-skilled workers. This option serves as an insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2006, 108 (2); 317-337.)
J24, D73, J68
921 Peter Egger
Michael Pfaffermayr
Andrea Weber
Sectoral Adjustment of Employment: The Impact of Outsourcing and Trade at the Micro Level
This paper analyzes the effects of trade and outsourcing on the transition probabilities of employment between sectors, using a dynamic multinomial logit framework with fixed effects. The data ...
(published as 'Sectoral adjustment of employment to shifts in outsourcing and trade: evidence from a dynamic fixed effects multinomial logit model' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2007, 22 (3), 559-580)
F16, J63, C23, C25
920 Øivind Anti Nilsen
Kjell G. Salvanes
Fabio Schiantarelli
Employment Changes, the Structure of Adjustment Costs, and Plant Size
In this paper we analyze the pattern of employment adjustment using a rich panel of Norwegian plants. The data suggest that the frequency of episodes of zero net employment changes is inversely ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2007, 51 (3), 577-598)
D21, C23, E24
917 Rob Euwals
Hans Roodenburg
A Note on the Redistributive Effect of Immigration
In this paper, we study gains and losses that accrue to natives because of immigration. The gain on the aggregated level is called the ‘immigration surplus’, which can be seen as analogous to a ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2004, 85 (2), 241-256)
D30, D60, J31, J61
916 Stefan C. Wolter
Samuel Mühlemann
Jürg Schweri
Why Some Firms Train Apprentices and Many Others Do Not
The latest study investigating the cost-benefit ratio of apprenticeship training for Swiss companies has shown that most apprentices offset the cost of their training during their apprenticeship on ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2006, 7(3), 249-264)
J24, J31, J44
914 Ana Rute Cardoso
Pedro Portugal
Bargained Wages, Wage Drift and the Design of the Wage Setting System
This paper aims at answering the question: How does a typically 'European' bargaining system - with collective bargaining, extension mechanisms and national minimum wage - coexist with low ...
(published as 'Contractual wages and the wage cushion under different bargaining settings' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2005, 23 (4), 875-902)
D21, J31, J51
912 Daniele Checchi
Antonio Filippin
An Experimental Study of the POUM Hypothesis
The “prospect of upward mobility” (POUM) hypothesis formalised by Benabou and Ok (2001a) finds explicit assumptions under which some individuals that are poorer than the average optimally choose to ...
(published in: Research on Economic Inequality, 2004, 11, 15-136)
C91, D31, D63
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