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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
513 Christian Belzil
Jörgen Hansen
Earnings Dispersion, Risk Aversion and Education
We estimate a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the degree of risk aversion can be inferred from schooling decisions. In our model, individuals are heterogeneous with ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2004, 23, 335-358)
J2, J3
512 Christian Belzil
Jörgen Hansen
A Structural Analysis of the Correlated Random Coefficient Wage Regression Model
We estimate a finite mixture dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the log wage regression function is set in a random coefficient framework. The model allows for absolute and ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2007, 140 (2), 333-948 )
J2, J3
511 Felix Büchel
Harminder Battu
The Theory of Differential Overqualification: Does it Work?
The theory of differential overqualification, developed by Robert Frank (1978), claims that married women in smaller labor markets have a higher risk of working in jobs for which they are ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2003, 50 (1), 1-16)
I21, J16, J24, J61
510 Eswar Prasad
Wage Inequality in the United Kingdom, 1975-99
This paper uses micro data from the New Earnings Survey to document that cross-sectional wage inequality in the U.K., which rose sharply in the 1980s and continued to rise moderately through the ...
(published in: IMF Staff Papers, 2002, 49 (3), 339-362)
J31, E24
509 Astrid Kunze
The Timing of Careers and Human Capital Depreciation
This paper explores the short and long run effects of career interruptions on wages for young skilled workers in West Germany. The analysis distinguishes four types of career interruptions: ...
(published as 'Types of absence from work and wages of young German workers with apprenticeship training' in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2017, 51 (5), 1-24)
J16, J3, J7
508 Christian Belzil
Jörgen Hansen
Unobserved Ability and the Return to Schooling
We estimate a structural dynamic programming model of schooling decisions with unobserved heterogeneity in school ability and market ability on a sample taken from the National Longitudinal Survey ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2002, 70 (2), 2078-2091)
J2, J3
507 Ernst Fehr
Armin Falk
Psychological Foundations of Incentives
During the last two decades economists have made much progress in understanding incentives, contracts and organisations. Yet, they constrained their attention to a very narrow and empirically ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2002, 46 (4-5), 687-724)
J41, C91, D64
506 Pilar Diaz-Vazquez
Dennis J. Snower
Can Insider Power Affect Employment?
Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2003, 4 (2), 139-150)
E24, J23, J31, J42, J64
505 Thomas K. Bauer
Migration, Sozialstaat und Zuwanderungspolitik
Im Rahmen dieses Beitrags wird die Frage analysiert, ob ein großzügig ausgestalteter Sozialstaat zusätzliche Wanderungsanreize generieren kann, die eine nennenswerte Zuwanderung in das ...
(published in: Vierteljahreshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly Journal of Economic Research, 2002, 71(2), 249-271)
H53, I38, J61
504 Lorenzo Cappellari
Stephen P. Jenkins
Modelling Low Income Transitions
We examine the determinants of low income transitions using first-order Markov models that control for initial conditions effects (those found to be poor in the base year may be a nonrandom sample) ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2004, 19 (5), 593-610)
D31, I32, C23, C35
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