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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
695 Sule Alan
Thomas F. Crossley
Paul Grootendorst
Michael R. Veall
Out-of-Pocket Prescription Drug Expenditures and Public Prescription Drug Programs
Canadian household prescription drug expenditures are studied using different years of the Statistics Canada Family Expenditure Survey. Master files are used, expanding the number of available ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2005, 38(1), 128-148)
I18, J42
694 Eswar Prasad
What Determines the Reservation Wages of Unemployed Workers? New Evidence from German Micro Data
This paper provides new empirical evidence on the relationship between reservation wages of unemployed workers and macroeconomic factors – including aggregate and local unemployment rates, ...
(published in: Gabriel Fagan, Francesco Mongelli and Julian Morgan (eds.), Institutions and Wage Formation in the New Europe: Proceedings of the ECB's Annual Labor Market Workshop, London: Edward Elgar, 2004)
J6, J3
693 Laurent Gobillon
Harris Selod
Yves Zenou
Spatial Mismatch: From the Hypothesis to the Theories
Since the 1950s, there has been a steady decentralization of entry-level jobs towards the suburbs of American cities, while racial minorities —and particularly blacks— have remained in city ...
(published as 'The Mechanisms of Spatial Mismatch ' in: Urban Studies, 2007, 44 (12), 2401-2427)
J15, J41, R14
692 Tony E. Smith
Yves Zenou
Spatial Mismatch, Search Effort and Urban Spatial Structure
The aim of this paper is to provide a new mechanism for the spatial mismatch hypothesis. Spatial mismatch can here be the result of optimizing behavior on the part of the labor market participants. ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2003, 54 (1), 129-156)
D83, J64, R14
691 Barbara Petrongolo
Christopher A. Pissarides
Scale Effects in Markets with Search
Reduced-form tests of scale effects in markets with search, run when aggregate matching functions are estimated, may miss important scale effects at the micro level, because of the reactions of job ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (508), 21-44)
J31, J64, D83
689 Almas Heshmati
Ilham Haouas
The Effects of Union Wage-Settings on Firms’ Production Factor Decisions
This study is concerned with the development of a theoretical model and its empirical application to the estimation of the interaction between firms and trade union in determining wages and ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2004, 11 (7), 415-420)
C33, D21, E24, J50, L60
688 Ilham Haouas
Mahmoud Yagoubi
Almas Heshmati
The Impacts of Trade Liberalization on Employment and Wages in Tunisian Industries
This paper investigates short and long-run effects of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Employment and wage equations are estimated using data (1971–96) for importable and exportable ...
(published in: Journal of International Development, 2005, 17 (4), 527-551)
C23, E24, J23, J31, F10, L60
687 Ilham Haouas
Mahmoud Yagoubi
Almas Heshmati
Labour-Use Efficiency in Tunisian Manufacturing Industries
This paper investigates the process of adjustment in employment. A dynamic model is applied to a panel of six Tunisian manufacturing industries observed over the period 1971–96. The adjustment ...
(published in: Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, 2003, 1 (3), 195-214)
C23, E24, J23, L60
686 Adriaan Kalwij
Rob Alessie
Permanent and Transitory Wage Inequality of British Men, 1975-2001: Year, Age and Cohort Effects
We examine the variance-covariance structure of log-wages over time and over the lifecycle of British men from 1975 to 2001, hereby controlling for cohort effects. Wage inequality has risen sharply ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2007, 22 (6), 1063 - 1093)
C23, D31, J31, J60
685 Lex Borghans
Bas ter Weel
Do We Need Computer Skills to Use a Computer? Evidence from Britain
Using data from the 1997 Skills Survey of the Employed British Workforce, we examine the returns to computer skills in Britain. Many researchers, using information on computer use, have concluded ...
(published in: Labour, 2006, 20 (3), 505-532)
J31, O30
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