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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
730 Mariacristina Piva
Marco Vivarelli
Innovation and Employment: Evidence from Italian Microdata
The microeconomic empirical literature devoted to the link between innovation and employment tends to suggest that technological change has a positive effect on jobs, at least at the level of the ...
(published in: Journal of Economics, 2005, 86(1), 65-83)
O33
728 Michael Lechner
Jeffrey A. Smith
What is the Value Added by Caseworkers?
We investigate the allocation of unemployed individuals to different subprograms within Swiss active labour market policy by the caseworkers at local employment offices in Switzerland in 1998. We ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (2), 135-151)
J68, H00
727 Martin Raiser
Mark E Schaffer
Johannes Schuchhardt
Benchmarking Structural Change in Transition
The transition to market-based economic systems in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union involves fundamental shifts in the allocation of resources and deep ...
(published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2004, 15 (1), 47-81)
O14, O40, P20
726 Steffen Habermalz
Job Matching and the Returns to Educational Signals
This paper develops a multi-period model, in which workers are matched with jobs according to imperfect educational signals and in which their subsequent productivities depend on both their ...
(published as 'More Detail on the Pattern of Returns to Educational Signals' in: Southern Economic Journal, 2006, 73 (1), 125–135)
I20, J41, D8
724 John T. Addison
Ralph Bailey
W. Stanley Siebert
The Impact of Deunionisation on Earnings Dispersion Revisited
This paper examines the effects of union decline in Britain on changes in earnings dispersion between 1983 and 1995. As part and parcel of the exercise, the effects of changes in the wage gap and ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 26, 337-363)
D3, J31, J51
723 Melvyn Coles
Barbara Petrongolo
A Test between Unemployment Theories Using Matching Data
This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with unemployment being mainly due to search frictions or due to job queues. Using U.K. data and correcting for temporal aggregation bias, ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2008, 49 (4), 1113-1141 )
E24, J41, J63, J64
722 C. Katharina Spieß
Felix Büchel
Gert G. Wagner
Children's School Placement in Germany: Does Kindergarten Attendance Matter?
The positive effects of early childhood programs on children's school success have been demonstrated in the literature. However, most studies were completed in the U.S.A., where early childhood ...
(published in: Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2003, 18 (2), 255-270)
I21, I28
721 Harminder Battu
McDonald Mwale
Yves Zenou
Do Oppositional Identities Reduce Employment for Ethnic Minorities?
We develop a model in which non-white individuals are defined with respect to their social environment (family, friends, neighbors) and their attachments to their culture of origin (religion, ...
(published as 'Oppositional identities and the labor market' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (3), 643-667)
J15
720 Tapio K. Palokangas
Labour Market Regulation, Productivity-Improving R&D and Endogenous Growth
We present a growth model in which R&D increases productivity, union-firm bargaining determines the distribution of rents and the government can support unions by labour market regulation. We show ...
(published as "Union-Firm Bargaining, Productivity Improvement and Endogenous Growth" in: Labour, 2004, 18 (2), 191-205)
O40, J50
719 James Albrecht
Pieter A. Gautier
Susan Vroman
Equilibrium Directed Search with Multiple Applications
We analyze a model of directed search in which unemployed job seekers observe all posted wages. We allow for the possibility of multiple applications by workers and ex post competition among ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2006, 73 (4), 869-891)
J64, D83, J41
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