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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
773 Axel Heitmueller
Job Mobility in Britain: Are the Scots Different? Evidence from the BHPS
The Scottish extension-sample of the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) is used to shed light on differences in job mobility patterns in England and Scotland for both men and women. Based on ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2004, 51(3), 329-358)
J60, J62, C25
772 Eleonora Patacchini
Yves Zenou
Search Intensity, Cost of Living and Local Labor Markets in Britain
A model is considered in which optimal search intensity is a result of a tradeoff between short-run losses due to higher search costs (more interviews, commuting…) and long-run gains due to a ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2006, 36(2), 227-248)
C23, D83, J64, R1
771 Antoni Calvó-Armengol
Yves Zenou
Job Matching, Social Network and Word-of-Mouth Communication
Workers are embedded within a network of social relationships and can communicate through word-of-mouth. They can find a job either directly or through personal contacts. From this micro scenario, ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2005, 57 (3), 500-522)
D83, J64
770 Axel Heitmueller
Coordination Failures in Network Migration
Previous migration facilitates future population moves, a phenomenon called network migration. However, thus far, network migration has been closely linked to network externalities. In contrast, ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2006, 74(6), 701-710)
J60, J61, C70
769 Lennart Flood
Jörgen Hansen
Roger Wahlberg
Household Labor Supply and Welfare Participation in Sweden
In this paper, we formulate and estimate a structural, static model of household labor supply and multiple welfare program participation. Given the complicated nature of both the income tax ...
(published in Journal of Human Resources, 2004, 39 (4), 1008-1032)
J2
768 James J. Heckman
Salvador Navarro
Using Matching, Instrumental Variables and Control Functions to Estimate Economic Choice Models
This paper investigates four topics. (1) It examines the different roles played by the propensity score (probability of selection) in matching, instrumental variable and control functions methods. ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2004, 86(1), 30-57)
C31
767 Pedro Carneiro
Karsten T. Hansen
James J. Heckman
Estimating Distributions of Treatment Effects with an Application to the Returns to Schooling and Measurement of the Effects of Uncertainty on College Choice
This paper uses factor models to identify and estimate distributions of counterfactuals. We extend LISREL frameworks to a dynamic treatment effect setting, extending matching to account for ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2003, 44 (2), 361-422)
C31
765 Wendelin Schnedler
On the Prudence of Rewarding A While Hoping for B
In multiple-task hidden-action models, the (mis-)allocation of effort may play an important role for benefit creation. Signals which capture this benefit and which are used in incentive schemes ...
(improved version available as IZA Discussion Paper No. 2124)
M52, D82, M41
764 Patrick A. Puhani
A Test of the 'Krugman Hypothesis' for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany
Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment (with rather stable wage inequality) have led to a popular view in the ...
(published as 'Transatlantic Differences in Labour Markets: Changes in Wage and Non-Employment Structures in the 1980s and the 1990s' in: German Economic Review, 2008, 9 (3), 312-338)
E24, J21, J31, J64
763 Martin Biewen
Stephen P. Jenkins
Estimation of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson Inequality Indices from Complex Survey Data
Applying a method suggested by Woodruff (1971), we derive the sampling variances of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson inequality indices when estimated from complex survey data. It turns out that ...
(revised version published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2006, 68 (3), 371-383 )
C14, D31
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