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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
872 Jakob R. Munch
Michael Rosholm
Michael Svarer
Are Home Owners Really More Unemployed?
This paper investigates the effects of home-ownership on labour mobility and unemployment duration. We distinguish between finding employment locally or by being geographically mobile. We find that ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (514), 991-1013)
C41, J61, J64, R23
871 Yannick L'Horty
Christophe Rault
The Impact of Growth, Labour Cost and Working Time on Employment: Lessons from the French Experience
To account for employment evolutions at the macro-economic level, we propose a modelling where employment is explained by added value, working time and real labour cost. Estimations using quarterly ...
(published in: Labour, 2005, 19 (3), 595-620)
E24, J22, J23
870 Stephan Klasen
Andrey Launov
Analysis of the Determinants of Fertility Decline in the Czech Republic
In this paper we study the decline in total fertility rates in the Czech Republic during the transition process. To identify transition-specific features of this decline we use a multiperiod model ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2006, 19(1), 25-54)
J00, J13
869 Alan B. Krueger
Alexandre Mas
Strikes, Scabs and Tread Separations: Labor Strife and the Production of Defective Bridgestone/Firestone Tires
This paper provides a case study of the effect of labor relations on product quality. We consider whether a long, contentious strike and the hiring of replacement workers at Bridgestone/Firestone’s ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2004, 112 (2), 253-289)
J5, M5, M1
868 Pablo Brañas Garza
Shoshana Neuman
Analyzing Religiosity Within an Economic Framework: The Case of Spanish Catholics
Using a sample of Spanish Catholics, we examined the level of religiosity (measured by beliefs, prayer and church attendance) and the relationship between religiosity and various socio-economic ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2004, 2, 5-22)
Z12, I21
867 Thomas Dohmen
Ben Kriechel
Gerard A. Pfann
Monkey Bars and Ladders: The Importance of Lateral and Vertical Job Mobility in Internal Labor Market Careers
The research area of the new economics of personnel has a short but important and insightful history. Theory ahead of measurement asks for testing newly developed human resource concepts. These ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2004, 17 (2), 193-228)
J31, J41, J63
866 Amelie F. Constant
Immigrant Adjustment in France and Impacts on the Natives
The purpose of this paper is to study the immigrant performance in France and the impacts on the natives by drawing on research findings from the existing academic literature on the economics of ...
(published in: K.F. Zimmermann (ed.), European Migration: What Do We Know, Oxford: OUP, 2005)
F22, J18, J24, J31, J61, J62
865 Solomon Polachek
Mincer's Overtaking Point and the Lifecycle Earnings Distribution
In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand earnings distribution. In the years since Mincer’s seminal work, he as well as his students and colleagues extended the original ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2003, 1 (4), 273-304)
B20, B31, D31, J24, J31, J33, J41, J6, J7
864 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Chris Ryan
Robert Breunig
A Couples-Based Approach to the Problem of Workless Families
The goal of this paper is to evaluate a “couples-based” policy intervention designed to reduce the number of Australian families without work. In 2000 and 2001, the Australian Government piloted a ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2006, 82 (259), 428-444)
H3, I38, J68
862 John T. Addison
Clive R. Belfield
Union Voice
This paper offers a critical evaluation of the notion of collective voice, advanced by Freeman and Medoff (1984) in their pioneering contribution What Do Unions Do? It takes note of theoretical and ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2004, 25 (4), 563-597)
J51, J53
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