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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
911 Joachim Wagner
Are Nascent Entrepreneurs Jacks-of-All-Trades? A Test of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data
In a recent paper Edward Lazear proposed the jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship. Based on a coherent model of the choice between self-employment and paid employment he shows that having a ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2006, 38 (20), 2415-2419)
J23, R12
910 Pilar Diaz-Vazquez
Dennis J. Snower
On-the-Job Training, Firing Costs and Employment
This paper explores the influence of on-the-job training on the employment effect of firing costs. It shows that on-the-job training (generating firm specific skills) causes firing costs to have a ...
(published in: Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy, 2005, 4 (1))
E24, J23, J24, J32, J64
909 Marco Leonardi
Firm Heterogeneity in Capital/Labor Ratios and Wage Inequality
This paper provides some empirical evidence and a theory of the relationship between residual wage inequality and the increasing dispersion of capital/labor ratios across firms. I document the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (518), 375-398)
J21, J31
907 Arnaud Dupuy
Lex Borghans
Supply and Demand, Allocation and Wage Inequality: An International Comparison
In this paper, we develop an allocation model of workers differentiated by their field of study to test whether international differences in the wage structure can be explained by differences in ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2005, 37 (9), 1073-1088)
J21, J23, J31
906 Doris Weichselbaumer
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
A Meta-Analysis of the International Gender Wage Gap
Since the early seventies, hundreds of authors have calculated gender wage differentials between women and men of equal productivity. Consequently, estimates for the gender wage gap have been ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2005, 9 (3), 479-511)
J16, J31, J71
905 Doris Weichselbaumer
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
Rhetoric in Economic Research: The Case of Gender Wage Differentials
Scientific rhetoric can have a profound impact on the perception of research; it can also drive and direct further research efforts. What determines whether results are discussed in a neutral or a ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2006, 45 (3), 416–436)
J7, J16, B4
904 Stephen P. Jenkins
Philippe Van Kerm
Trends in Income Inequality, Pro-Poor Income Growth and Income Mobility
We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of income growth across the income range, and the reshuffling of individuals in the ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2006, 58 (3), 531-548)
D31, I32
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
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