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737 Alison L. Booth
Marco Francesconi
Gylfi Zoega
Unions, Work-Related Training, and Wages: Evidence for British Men
Using data from the British Household Panel Survey from 1991 to 1996, the authors investigate the impact of union coverage on work-related training and how the union-training link affects wages and ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2003, 57 (1), 68-91 )
J24, J31, J41
735 Raphaël Desmet
Alain Jousten
Sergio Perelman
Pierre Pestieau
Micro-Simulation of Social Security Reforms in Belgium
The present paper analyzes the budgetary impact of various Social Security reforms in the Belgian institutional setting. Our approach relies on parameters that were derived in Dellis et alii (2002) ...
(published in: J. Gruber and D. Wise, (eds.), “Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World: Fiscal Implications of Reform”, 2007, University of Chicago Press and NBER)
J0, I3, H3
734 Stefan C. Wolter
Sibling Rivalry: A Six Country Comparison
In this paper we analyse with the PISA data on literacy achievement of fifteen-year-old pupils in six member countries of the OECD, whether the fact of having many siblings affects the individual ...
(published together with Maja Coradi Vellacott as 'Sibling Rivalry for Parental Resources: A Problem for Equity in Education? A Six-Country Comparison with PISA Data' in: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Soziologie / Swiss Journal of Sociology /Revue suisse de sociologie , 2003, 29 (3), 377-398)
D1, I2, J2
733 Stefan C. Wolter
Stefan Denzler
Wage Elasticity of the Teacher Supply in Switzerland
In order to learn more about the wage elasticity of the teacher supply in Switzerland, this paper estimates wages for teachers and non-teachers. The data used are ten surveys of graduates of all ...
(published in: Brussels Economic Review / Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, 2004, 47 (3), 387-408)
I2, J24, J45
732 Armin Falk
Andrea Ichino
Clean Evidence on Peer Pressure
While confounding factors typically jeopardize the possibility to use observational data to measure peer effects, field experiments offer the possibility to obtain clean evidence. In this paper we ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2006, 24 (1), 39-57)
D2, J2, K4
731 Barry R. Chiswick
Noyna DebBurman
Educational Attainment: Analysis by Immigrant Generation
This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the largely ignored issue of the determinants of the educational attainment of adults by immigrant generation. Using Current Population ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2004, 23 (4), 361-379)
I21, J24, J61
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
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