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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
673 Alison L. Booth
Marco Francesconi
Jeff Frank
Labour as a Buffer: Do Temporary Workers Suffer?
In this paper, we investigate whether or not there is an equal opportunities dimension to regulating equal pay and conditions for temporary work. We develop a “buffer stock” model of temporary work ...
(published in: Gabriel Fagan, Francesco Paolo Mongelli and Julian Morgan (eds.), Institutions and Wage Formation in the New Europe, Edward Elgar 2003)
J21, J30, J63
672 Amelie F. Constant
Douglas S. Massey
Self-Selection, Earnings, and Out-Migration: A Longitudinal Study of Immigrants to Germany
In this paper we seek to deepen understanding of out-migration as a social and economic process and to investigate whether cross-sectional earnings assimilation results suffer from selection bias. ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 16 (4), 2003, 631-653)
J61, J2, C4
671 Amelie F. Constant
Spyros Konstantopoulos
School Effects and Labor Market Outcomes for Young Adults in the 1980s and 1990s
This study examines high school effects on the labor market success of young adults, above and beyond individual and family characteristics. We employ data from two longitudinal, nationally ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 49 (1), 2003, 5-22)
J1, J3, A2, C1, C3
670 Maristella Botticini
Zvi Eckstein
From Farmers to Merchants: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish Economic History
Since the Middle Ages the Jews have been engaged primarily in urban, skilled occupations, such as crafts, trade, finance, and medicine. This distinctive occupational selection occurred between the ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2007, 5 (5), 885-926,)
N3, O1, J1, J2, Z1
668 Jürgen Meckl
Stefan Zink
Solow and Heterogeneous Labor: A Neoclassical Explanation of Wage Inequality
The paper analyzes the effect of human-capital investments of heterogeneous individuals on the dynamics of the wage structure within a neoclassical growth model. The accumulation of physical capital ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2004, 114 (498), 835-854)
I21, J31, O15
667 Pascal Arnds
Holger Bonin
Arbeitsmarkteffekte und finanzpolitische Folgen der demographischen Alterung in Deutschland
Die deutsche Bevölkerung durchläuft in den nächsten Jahrzehnten einen demographischen Alterungsprozess, der als erstes die Erwerbsbevölkerung erfasst. Dieser Beitrag diskutiert die ökonomischen ...
(published in: M. Herfurth, M. Kohli and K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), Arbeit in einer alternden Gesellschaft (Labor in an Aging Society), Leverkusen: Leske+Budrich, 2003, 131-177)
N30, E66, J00, H55
666 Pascal Arnds
Holger Bonin
Frühverrentung in Deutschland: Ökonomische Anreize und institutionelle Strukturen
Das durchschnittliche Rentenzugangsalter in Deutschland liegt erheblich unter der gesetzlichen Regelaltersgrenze. Dieser Beitrag analysiert die arbeitsmarkt- und rentenpolitischen Ursachen der ...
(published in: M. Herfurth, M. Kohli and K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), Arbeit in einer alternden Gesellschaft (Labor in an Aging Society), Leverkusen: Leske+Budrich, 2003, 65-91)
J26, H55
665 Holger Görg
Fancy a Stay at the 'Hotel California'? Foreign Direct Investment, Taxation and Firing Costs
This paper looks at the trade off between investment incentives and exit costs for the location of foreign direct investment (FDI). This issue does not appear to have been tackled in much detail in ...
(revised version published as 'Fancy a stay at the 'Hotel California'? in: Kyklos, 2005, 58 (4), 519-535)
F23, H25, J65
664 Jan Rose Skaksen
Anders Sorensen
Skill Upgrading and Rigid Relative Wages: The Case of Danish Manufacturing
Relative wages have been remarkably rigid for the last two decades in Danish manufacturing despite large shifts in relative employment from unskilled labor towards skilled and educated labor. ...
(published as 'Skill Upgrading and Rigid Relative Wages' in: B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics: Contributions to Macroeconomics, 2005, 5(1), Art. 7)
J31, J51, E32, F02, O39
663 Alan B. Krueger
Pei Zhu
Another Look at the New York City School Voucher Experiment
This paper reexamines data from the New York City school choice program, the largest and best implemented private school scholarship experiment yet conducted. In the experiment, low-income public ...
(published in: American Behavioral Scientist, 2004, 47 (5), 658-698)
I2
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