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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
805 Gerard J. van den Berg
Aico van Vuuren
The Effect of Search Frictions on Wages
Labor market theories allowing for search frictions make marked predictions on the effect of the degree of frictions on wages. Often, the effect is predicted to be negative. Despite the popularity ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (6), 875-885)
J3, J6, J4, C5
802 Heather Antecol
Peter J. Kuhn
Stephen J. Trejo
Assimilation via Prices or Quantities? Labor Market Institutions and Immigrant Earnings Growth in Australia, Canada, and the United States
How do international differences in labor market institutions affect the nature of immigrant earnings assimilation? Using 1980/81 and 1990/91 cross-sections of census data from Australia, Canada, ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2006, 41 (4), 821-840)
J38, J64
800 Thomas Beissinger
Christoph Knoppik
Sind Nominallöhne starr? Neuere Evidenz und wirtschaftspolitische Implikationen
Bei Vorliegen nach unten starrer Nominallöhne erschwert niedrige Inflation Reallohnanpassungen und führt so möglicherweise zu erhöhter gleichgewichtiger Arbeitslosigkeit. Dieser Aufsatz analysiert ...
(published in: Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 2005, 6 (2), 171-188)
J30, E24, E31, E52
799 Robert A. Hart
General Human Capital and Employment Adjustment in the Great Depression: Apprentices and Journeymen in UK Engineering
The relationship between training and firm-level employment adjustment given an unanticipated fall in product demand has been central to human capital theory. The most cataclysmic negative output ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2005, 57 (1), 169-189)
E24, J24, N34
798 James J. Heckman
Jeffrey A. Smith
The Determinants of Participation in a Social Program: Evidence from a Prototypical Job Training Program
This paper decomposes the participation process of a prototypical program into eligibility, awareness, application, acceptance and enrollment. With this decomposition, we determine the sources of ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2004, 22 (2), 243-298)
J24
797 Espen Bratberg
Øivind Anti Nilsen
Kjell Vaage
Assessing Changes in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility
Previous research on changes in intergenerational mobility suggests that mobility is decreasing over time. One explanation for this pattern is increased cross-sectional income inequality. In ...
(published as 'Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in Norway: Levels and Trends' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2005, 107(3), 419-435)
J62, C23
795 Barry Hirsch
Reconsidering Union Wage Effects: Surveying New Evidence on an Old Topic
I examine evidence on private sector union wage gaps in the U.S. The consensus opinion among labor economists of an average union premium of roughly 15 percent is called into question. Two forms of ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2004, 25 (2), 233-266)
J3, J5, C81
794 Paul Frijters
Michael A. Shields
Stephen Wheatley Price
Investigating the Quitting Decision of Nurses: Panel Data Evidence from the British National Health Service
There is currently a worldwide shortage of registered nurses, driven by large shifts in both the demand for and supply of nurses. Consequently, various policies to increase the recruitment and ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2007, 16 (1), 57-74)
J45, J63, I18
793 Tapio K. Palokangas
Foreign Direct Investment, Labour Market Regulation and Self-Interested Governments
This document examines foreign direct investment (FDI) when multinationals and labour unions bargain over labour contracts and lobby the self-interested government for taxation and labour market ...
(revised version published as "Investment, Expropriation and Unionization" in: Economics of Governance, 2009, 10 (1), 27-42)
F21, F23, J51, D78
792 Lex Borghans
Bas ter Weel
What Happens When Agent T Gets a Computer? The Labor Market Impact of Cost Efficient Computer Adoption
This paper offers a model to explain how computer technology has changed the labor market. It demonstrates that wage differentials between computer users and non-users are consistent with the fact ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2004, 54 (2), 137-151)
J30, J31, O33
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