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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
756 Nabanita Datta Gupta
Ronald L. Oaxaca
Nina Smith
Swimming Upstream, Floating Downstream: Comparing Women's Relative Wage Positions in the U.S. and Denmark
We compare how U.S. and Danish gender wage gaps have developed between 1983 and 1995 using U.S. PSID and Danish Longitudinal Sample data. Using a new decomposition method, we show that changes in ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2006, 59 (2), 243-266)
J7
755 Thomas Dohmen
In Support of the Supporters? Do Social Forces Shape Decisions of the Impartial?
Analyzing the neutrality of referees during nine German premier league (1. Bundesliga) soccer seasons, this paper documents evidence that social forces influence agents' preferences and decisions. ...
(revised version published as IZA DP 1595)
J00, M50
753 Simon Burgess
Hélène Turon
Unemployment Equilibrium and On-the-Job Search
This paper uses the search and matching framework to explore the impact of employed job search on the labour market. The specific features of our model are endogenous employed job search, flows in ...
(published as 'Worker Flows, Job Flows and Unemployment in a Matching Model' in: European Economic Review, 2010, 54 (3), 393-408)
J64
752 Nikolaj Malchow-Møller
Jan Rose Skaksen
Skill-Biased Technological Change in Denmark: A Disaggregate Perspective
In this paper, we provide an industry-level analysis of skill-biased technological change (SBTC) in Denmark over the last two decades. The analysis shows that SBTC has varied considerably across ...
(published as 'Changes in Demand for Skilled Labour in Denmark - A Disaggregate Perspective' in: Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift / Danish Journal of Economics, 2004, 142 (1), 67 - 80)
J24, J31, L6
751 Lex Borghans
Bas ter Weel
Are Computer Skills the New Basic Skills? The Returns to Computer, Writing and Math Skills in Britain
The large increase in computer use has raised the question whether people have to be taught computer skills before entering the labour market. Using data from the 1997 Skills Survey of the Employed ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2004, 11 (1), 85-98)
J30, J31
750 Reinhard Hujer
Marco Caliendo
Stephan L. Thomsen
New Evidence on the Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany - A Matching Approach with Threefold Heterogeneity
This paper evaluates the effects of job creation schemes on the participating individuals in Germany. Since previous empirical studies of these measures have been based on relatively small datasets ...
(published in: Research in Economics, 2004, 58(4), 257-302 )
H43, J64, J68, C13, C40
749 Vibeke Jakobsen
Nina Smith
The Educational Attainment of the Children of the Danish ‘Guest Worker’ Immigrants
This paper analyses the educational attainment of young first generation immigrants in Denmark who are children of the ‘guest workers’ who immigrated from Turkey, Pakistan and Ex-Yugoslavia in the ...
(published in: Danish Economic Journal, 2006, 144 (2), 18-42)
J61, J24
748 Michael P. Pflüger
Economic Integration, Wage Policies and Social Policies
This paper uses a two country trade and geography model of monopolistic competition to study the effects of wage policies and social policies on the location of industry. It is first shown that a ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2004, 56 (1), 135-150)
F12, F15, F16, F21, F22, R12
747 Julián Messina
Sectoral Structure and Entry Regulations
The sectoral allocation of labor differs considerably across developed economies, even in the presence of similar patterns of structural change. A general equilibrium model that captures the ...
(revised version published as 'The role of product market regulations in the process of structural change' in: European Economic Review, 2006, 50 (7), 1863-1890)
O11, O41, L5
746 Andreas Ammermüller
Hans Heijke
Ludger Woessmann
Schooling Quality in Eastern Europe: Educational Production During Transition
We estimate educational production functions for seven Eastern European transition countries, using student-level TIMSS data for lower secondary education. The results show substantial effects of ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2005, 24 (5), 579-599)
I21, P36
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