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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
875 Christian Grund
Severance Payments for Dismissed Employees in Germany
This contribution investigates severance payments for dismissed employees in Germany. Subsequent to an overview about the legal framework, we respond to the following questions: Who receives ...
(revised version published in: European Journal of Law and Economics, 2006, 22, 49-71)
M51, M52, J32, J53
874 Jörn-Steffen Pischke
The Impact of Length of the School Year on Student Performance and Earnings: Evidence from the German Short School Years
This paper investigates how changing the length of school year, leaving the basic curriculum unchanged, affects learning and subsequent earnings. I use variation introduced by the West-German short ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (523), 1216-1242)
J24, J31
873 Martin Falk
Bertrand Koebel
The Impact of Office Machinery and Computer Capital on the Demand for Heterogeneous Labour
We study the impact of office and computing machinery (OCM) on the demands for workers with different educational levels. The empirical analysis relies on a system of demand equations that nests ...
(published in: Labour Economics , 2004, 11 (1), 99-117)
J23, O33
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
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