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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
718 Ekkehart Schlicht
Consistency in Organization
Recent thinking has emphasized the importance of consistency in a firm’s compensation policy. By starting from Williamson’s ideas about idiosyncratic exchange, this view can be supplied with some ...
(final version published in: Journal of Theoretical and Institutional Economics, 2008, 164(4), 612–623)
L22, L25, J33, J53
716 Michael Rosholm
Lars Skipper
Is Labour Market Training a Curse for the Unemployed? Evidence from a Social Experiment
In this paper, we investigate the impact of classroom training programmes on individual unemployment rates in Denmark. In 1994 a social experiment was conducted, where unemployed applicants for ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2009, 24 (2), 338-365. )
J64, J68
715 Ernst Fehr
Urs Fischbacher
Bernhard von Rosenbladt
Jürgen Schupp
Gert G. Wagner
A Nation-Wide Laboratory: Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Surveys
Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and self-selection biases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their ...
(published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften / Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2002, 122 (4), 519-542)
A13, C42, C82, C92, C93, D84, J24
712 Ernst Fehr
Joseph Henrich
Is Strong Reciprocity a Maladaptation? On the Evolutionary Foundations of Human Altruism
In recent years a large number of experimental studies have documented the existence of strong reciprocity among humans. Strong reciprocity means that people willingly repay gifts and punish the ...
(published in: P. Hammerstein (ed.), Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004 )
A13, C70, C91, C92
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