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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
854 Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell
Bernard M. S. van Praag
Income Satisfaction Inequality and its Causes
In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to an Income Satisfaction question posed in the German Socio- Economic Panel ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2003, 1 (2), 107-127)
D63, I32
853 Ivar Ekeland
James J. Heckman
Lars Nesheim
Identification and Estimation of Hedonic Models
This paper considers the identification and estimation of hedonic models. We establish that in an additive version of the hedonic model, technology and preferences are generically identified up to ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2004, 112 (S1), S60-S109)
C31
852 Adriana Kugler
Maurice Kugler
The Labor Market Effects of Payroll Taxes in a Middle-Income Country: Evidence from Colombia
We use a panel of manufacturing plants from Colombia to analyze how the rise in payroll tax rates over the 1980’s and 1990’s affected the labor market. Our estimates indicate that formal wages fall ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2009, 57(2), 335-358.)
J31, J32, H23
851 Joshua Angrist
Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Theory and Practice
Instrumental Variables (IV) methods identify internally valid causal effects for individuals whose treatment status is manipulable by the instrument at hand. Inference for other populations ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2004, 114 (494), C52-C83)
C31, J12, J13
850 Stephen P. Jenkins
Lars Osberg
Nobody to Play With? The Implications of Leisure Coordination
We hypothesize that an individual’s time use choices are contingent on the time use choices of others because the utility derived from leisure time often benefits from the presence of companionable ...
(published in: D. Hamermesh and G. Pfann (eds), The Economics of Time Use, Contributions to Economic Analysis, No. 271, Chapter 5, 113–145, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2005)
D13, I31, J22
847 Barry R. Chiswick
Jacob Mincer, Experience and the Distribution of Earnings
This paper reviews Jacob Mincer’s contributions to the analyses of earnings and the distribution of earnings through his pioneering focus on labor market experience or on-the-job training. It ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2003, 1 (4), 343-361 )
B21, J24, J31, D31
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
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