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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
752 Nikolaj Malchow-Møller
Jan Rose Skaksen
Skill-Biased Technological Change in Denmark: A Disaggregate Perspective
In this paper, we provide an industry-level analysis of skill-biased technological change (SBTC) in Denmark over the last two decades. The analysis shows that SBTC has varied considerably across ...
(published as 'Changes in Demand for Skilled Labour in Denmark - A Disaggregate Perspective' in: Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift / Danish Journal of Economics, 2004, 142 (1), 67 - 80)
J24, J31, L6
751 Lex Borghans
Bas ter Weel
Are Computer Skills the New Basic Skills? The Returns to Computer, Writing and Math Skills in Britain
The large increase in computer use has raised the question whether people have to be taught computer skills before entering the labour market. Using data from the 1997 Skills Survey of the Employed ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2004, 11 (1), 85-98)
J30, J31
750 Reinhard Hujer
Marco Caliendo
Stephan L. Thomsen
New Evidence on the Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany - A Matching Approach with Threefold Heterogeneity
This paper evaluates the effects of job creation schemes on the participating individuals in Germany. Since previous empirical studies of these measures have been based on relatively small datasets ...
(published in: Research in Economics, 2004, 58(4), 257-302 )
H43, J64, J68, C13, C40
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
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