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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
861 Yannick L'Horty
Christophe Rault
Inflation, Minimum Wage and Other Wages: An Econometric Study on French Macroeconomic Data
This paper examines the set of interdependences between the formation of wages, prices and the minimum wage (SMIC) through a vectorial error correction model estimated on French quarterly ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2004, 36 (4), 277-290)
C32, E31, J31, J38
860 Jens Bonke
Nabanita Datta Gupta
Nina Smith
Timing and Flexibility of Housework and Men and Women's Wages
This paper analyses the effect of housework on men and women’s wages in Denmark by estimating quantile regressions on Danish time use survey data from 1987, merged to register information on hourly ...
(published in: D.S. Hamermesh and G.A. Pfann (eds.). Contributions to Economic Analysis, Vol. 271, Elsevier Press, 2004)
D13, J16
859 René Fahr
Loafing or Learning? The Demand for Informal Education
Using detailed time use data for Germany a positive correlation is found between the level of schooling education and time investments in informal education. Two hypotheses explain ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2005, 49 (1), 75-98 and in: D. Hamermesh and G. Pfann (eds.). The Economics of Time Use, Elsevier, 2005)
C24, D13, J22, J24
858 Carmel U. Chiswick
History of Historical Statistics of the United States
Historical Statistics of the United States is the premier source of quantitative evidence on American economic, social, political, demographic, and institutional history. Introduced in 1949 as a ...
(published as 'Appendix 3' in: Historical Statistics of the United States, Millennial Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2006, 5-819 - 5-824)
C1, C8
857 Marco Francesconi
Abhinay Muthoo
An Economic Model of Child Custody
This paper develops a model of child custody based on an incomplete-contract approach to the allocation of property rights. Because of the presence of transaction costs in marriage, altruistic ...
(revised version published as 'Control Rights in Complex Partnerships' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9(3), 551-589)
C78, D23, D64, J12, J13, K10
856 Dirk Sliwka
Management Incentives, Signaling Effects and the Costs of Vertical Integration
The costs of vertical integration are analyzed within a game-theoretic signaling model. It is shown that a company when being vertically integrated with a supplier may well decide to buy certain ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, 2004, 74 (1), 27-52)
C22, L22, M55
855 Bernd Irlenbusch
Dirk Sliwka
Career Concerns in a Simple Experimental Labour Market
We experimentally investigate a simple version of Holmström’s career concerns model in which firms compete for agents in two consecutive periods. Profits of firms are determined by agents’ unknown ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2006, 50 (1), 147-170)
C72, C91, J33
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