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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
776 Laura Arranz-Aperte
Almas Heshmati
Determinants of Profit Sharing in the Finnish Corporate Sector
This study investigates the role of factors that determine individual employees’ and firms’ participation in profit sharing schemes. Using a large panel data of Finnish employees for the period ...
(published in: Indian Economic Review, 2004, 39 (1), 55-79)
C23, E24, J30, J41
775 James J. Heckman
Lance John Lochner
Petra E. Todd
Fifty Years of Mincer Earnings Regressions
The Mincer earnings function is the cornerstone of a large literature in empirical economics. This paper discusses the theoretical foundations of the Mincer model and examines the empirical support ...
(updated version published as 'Earnings Functions and Rates of Return' in: Journal of Human Capital, 2008, 2 (1), 1-31 )
C31
774 Amelie F. Constant
Douglas S. Massey
Labor Market Segmentation and the Earnings of German Guestworkers
In this paper we study the occupational progress and earnings attainment of immigrants in Germany over time and compare them to native Germans. Our analysis is guided by the human capital and ...
(published in: Population Research and Policy Review, 2005, 24 (6), 5-30)
J2, J3, J4, J6, J7
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
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