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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
707 Claus Schnabel
Joachim Wagner
Trade Union Membership in Eastern and Western Germany: Convergence or Divergence?
An empirical analysis of various waves of the ALLBUS social survey shows that the level and the structure of unionization has become more and more similar in eastern and western Germany in the ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2003, 49 (3), 213-232 )
J51
706 Sourafel Girma
Holger Görg
Blessing or Curse? Domestic Plants' Survival and Employment Prospects after Foreign Acquisitions
This paper investigates whether the acquisition of a domestic establishment by a foreign owner has any effects on the survival prospects and employment growth of that plant. The analysis uses plant ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2004, 50 (1), 89-110)
L25, F23
705 Giorgio Brunello
Daniele Checchi
School Quality and Family Background in Italy
We study whether the combined significant reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio and increase in parental education observed in Italy between the end of World War II and the end of the 1980s have had ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2005, 24 (5), 563-577)
J24, J31
704 Michael R. Ransom
Ronald L. Oaxaca
Intrafirm Mobility and Sex Differences in Pay
In this paper we analyze eight years of employment data of a regional grocery store chain in the U.S. The data include job titles, wage rates, and earnings for all employees. We examine initial job ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2005, 58 (2), 219-237)
J3, J6
702 M. Ayhan Kose
Eswar Prasad
Marco E. Terrones
How Does Globalization Affect the Synchronization of Business Cycles?
This paper examines the impact of rising trade and financial integration on international business cycle comovement among a large group of industrial and developing countries. The results provide ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2003, 93 (2), 57-62)
E32, F42, F41
701 Laszlo Goerke
Jakob B. Madsen
Earnings-Related Unemployment Benefits in a Unionised Economy
We show that a stronger earnings relationship of unemployment compensation reduces wages and increases employment in an economy in which wages are determined by a trade union that maximises the ...
(published in: Economic Systems, 2003, 27 (1), 41-62)
E24, J51, J65
699 David N. Margolis
Véronique Simonnet
Educational Track, Networks and Labor Market Outcomes
Does the educational track (technical or professional, as opposed to general) provide individuals with networks that are useful in the labor market? And how do these networks help? In this paper, ...
(published in French as "Filières éducatives, réseaux et réussite professionnelle" in Economie et prévision, 2005164-165, 2005.)
J31, J38, J21, J23, I28
698 Torben M. Andersen
Jan Rose Skaksen
Product Market Integration, Comparative Advantages and Labour Market Performance
In a two-country model with trade driven by comparative advantages, it is considered how imperfectly competitive labour markets are affected by lower frictions in international goods trade. Easier ...
(published as "Labour Demand, Wage Mark-ups and Product Market Integration" in: Journal of Economics, 2007, 92 (2), 103-135)
F15, J30, J50
696 Ronald Schettkat
Institutions in the Economic Fitness Landscape: What Impact Do Welfare State Institutions Have on Economic Performance?
This paper uses data from 20 OECD countries to investigate the impact of welfare state institutions (especially employment protection, wage bargaining and work incentives) on the functioning of the ...
(CESifo Dice Report , 2003, 2, 27-33)
E2, J0, P1, P5
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
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