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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
846 David de la Croix
Frédéric Docquier
Diverging Patterns of Education Premium and School Attendance in France and the US: A Walrasian View
We evaluate the effect of technology, demographics and policy on the differential evolution of the skill premium and on the rise in education investment in France and the USA. We use a computable ...
(published as 'School attendance and skill premiums in France and the US: a general equilibrium approach' in: Fiscal Studies, 2007, 28 (4), 383-416)
J31, D58
845 Gerda Dewit
Holger Görg
Catia Montagna
Should I Stay or Should I Go? A Note on Employment Protection, Domestic Anchorage, and FDI
This paper examines how employment protection legislation affects location decisions of multinationals. Based on a simple theoretical framework, we estimate an empirical model, using OECD-data on ...
(published as 'Should I stay or should I go? Foreign direct investment, employment protection and domestic anchorage' in: Review of World Economics, 145 (1), 2009, 93-110 )
D80, F23, J80
844 Dirk Sliwka
On the Hidden Costs of Incentive Schemes
By enriching a principal-agent model it is shown that the introduction of monetary incentives may reduce an agent’s motivation. In a first step, we allow for the possibility that some agents stick ...
(revised version published as IZA DP 2293 and in: American Economic Review, 2007, 97 (3), 999 - 1012)
M52, J33, D23
843 James J. Heckman
Rosa Matzkin
Lars Nesheim
Simulation and Estimation of Hedonic Models
Making use of restrictions imposed by equilibrium, theoretical progress has been made on the nonparametric and semiparametric estimation and identification of scalar additive hedonic models ...
(published in: T. Kehoe, T.N. Srinivasan, and J. Whalley (eds.)- Frontiers in Applied General Equilibrium, Cambridge, 2005, 277 - 340)
C31
842 Michael Svarer
Michael Rosholm
Jakob R. Munch
Rent Control and Unemployment Duration
In this paper we investigate whether rent control affects the functioning of the labour market. Particularly, we focus on the effect of rent control on the length of individual ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2005, 89 (11-12), 2165-2181)
C41, J61, J64, D45, L51
841 Badi H. Baltagi
Daniel P. Rich
Skill-Biased Technical Change in U.S. Manufacturing: A General Index Approach
This article applies recent advances in productivity and efficiency measurement to the evaluation of skillbiased technical change. Using the general index approach we are able to establish an ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2005, 126 (2), 549-570)
J23, C33, O33
840 Erkki Koskela
Rune Stenbacka
Equilibrium Unemployment Under Negotiated Profit Sharing
We study employment, employee effort, wages and profit sharing when firms face stochastic revenue shocks and when base wages and profit shares are determined through negotiations. The negotiated ...
(published in: Journal of Economics, 87(2), 2006, 159-180)
J51, J41, G32
839 Andrea Bassanini
Giorgio Brunello
Is Training More Frequent When Wage Compression is Higher? Evidence from the European Community Household Panel
When labor markets are imperfectly competitive, firms may be willing to finance general training if the wage structure is compressed, that is, if the increase of productivity after training is ...
(revised version published as 'Is training more frequent when the wage premium is smaller? Evidence from the European Community Household Panel' in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15(2), 272-290)
J24, J31, J41
838 Sourafel Girma
Holger Görg
Eric Strobl
Government Grants, Plant Survival and Employment Growth: A Micro-Econometric Analysis
In this paper we analyse the impact of governmental grant provision on plant performance. To this end we utilise rich information derived from three data sources for the manufacturing sector in ...
(revised version published as 'The effect of government grants on plant survival: A micro-econometric analysis' in: International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2007, 25(4), 701-720 )
J2, L2, H2
837 Wendelin Schnedler
What You Always Wanted to Know About Censoring But Never Dared to Ask – Parameter Estimation for Censored Random Vectors
This article considers a wide class of censoring problems and presents a construction rule for an objective function. This objective function generalises the ordinary likelihood as well ...
(published in: Econometric Reviews, 2005, 24 (2), 195-217)
C13, C24
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