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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
749 Vibeke Jakobsen
Nina Smith
The Educational Attainment of the Children of the Danish ‘Guest Worker’ Immigrants
This paper analyses the educational attainment of young first generation immigrants in Denmark who are children of the ‘guest workers’ who immigrated from Turkey, Pakistan and Ex-Yugoslavia in the ...
(published in: Danish Economic Journal, 2006, 144 (2), 18-42)
J61, J24
748 Michael P. Pflüger
Economic Integration, Wage Policies and Social Policies
This paper uses a two country trade and geography model of monopolistic competition to study the effects of wage policies and social policies on the location of industry. It is first shown that a ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2004, 56 (1), 135-150)
F12, F15, F16, F21, F22, R12
747 Julián Messina
Sectoral Structure and Entry Regulations
The sectoral allocation of labor differs considerably across developed economies, even in the presence of similar patterns of structural change. A general equilibrium model that captures the ...
(revised version published as 'The role of product market regulations in the process of structural change' in: European Economic Review, 2006, 50 (7), 1863-1890)
O11, O41, L5
746 Andreas Ammermüller
Hans Heijke
Ludger Woessmann
Schooling Quality in Eastern Europe: Educational Production During Transition
We estimate educational production functions for seven Eastern European transition countries, using student-level TIMSS data for lower secondary education. The results show substantial effects of ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2005, 24 (5), 579-599)
I21, P36
745 Ludger Woessmann
Educational Production in East Asia: The Impact of Family Background and Schooling Policies on Student Performance
East Asian students regularly take top positions in international league tables of educational performance. Using internationally comparable student-level data, I estimate how family background and ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2005, 6 (3), 331-353)
O15, I20, H52
744 Martin R. West
Ludger Woessmann
Which School Systems Sort Weaker Students into Smaller Classes? International Evidence
We examine whether the sorting of differently achieving students into differently sized classes results in a regressive or compensatory pattern of class sizes for a sample of national school ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2006, 22 (4), 944-968)
I28, H52, D73
742 Richard A. Easterlin
Building a Better Theory of Well-Being
What do social surveys of life cycle experience tell us about the determinants of subjective well-being? First, that the psychologists’ setpoint model is wrong. Life events in the nonpecuniary ...
(published in: Luigino Bruni and Pierluigi Porta (eds.), Economics and Happiness: Framing the Analysis, Oxford University Press, 2006)
D60, I10, I31, J12, Z13
741 Barry Hirsch
David A. Macpherson
Wages, Sorting on Skill, and the Racial Composition of Jobs
Wages for black and white workers are substantially lower in occupations with a high density of black employees, following standard controls. Such correlations can exist absent discrimination or as ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2004, 22 (1), 189-210)
J3, J7
740 Barry Hirsch
Stephen L. Mehay
Evaluating the Labor Market Performance of Veterans Using a Matched Comparison Group Design
A key concern in estimating the effect of military service on civilian earnings is bias from unmeasured differences between military veterans and nonveterans. The effects of activeduty service are ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2003, 38 (3), 673-700)
J3
738 Volker Grossmann
Managerial Job Assignment and Imperfect Competition in Asymmetric Equilibrium
This paper develops a model with multiple market locations in which the quality of intangible assets of firms, provided by management, determines the firms’ performance. Despite an ex ante symmetry ...
(published as "Firm Size, Productivity, and Manager Wages: A Job Assignment Approach" in: B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics: Advances in Theoretical Economics, 2007, 7 (1), Article 8)
D40, J31, L16
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