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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
583 Pierre Cahuc
Francois Fontaine
On the Efficiency of Job Search with Social Networks
This paper provides a simple matching model in which unemployed workers and employers can be matched together through social networks and through more efficient, but also more costly, methods. In ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2009, 11 (3), 411–439)
E24, J64, J68
581 Pierre Cahuc
Franck Malherbet
Unemployment Compensation Finance and Labor Market Rigidity
The systematic use of experience rating is an original feature of the U.S. unemployment benefit system. In most states, unemployment benefits are financed by taxing firms in proportion to their ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2004, 88 (3-4), 481-501)
J41, J64, J65
580 Ira N. Gang
John Landon-Lane
Myeong-Su Yun
Gender Differences in German Upward Income Mobility
We examine the upward labor income mobility of men and women in Germany using the GSOEP Cross National Equivalent File. Women have greater overall income mobility. However, utilizing a measure of ...
(published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften /Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2003, 123(1), 3-14)
D3, D63, J7
579 Ira N. Gang
Myeong-Su Yun
Decomposing Inequality Change in East Germany During Transition
This paper studies the cause of the changes, or lack of, in wage inequality in East Germany during its transition from a socialist to a market-oriented economic system. We are interested in how ...
(published as: 'Decomposing Male Inequality Change in East Germany During Transition' in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften /Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2003, 123 (1), 43-54)
D30, J30
578 Ira N. Gang
Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz
Myeong-Su Yun
Economic Strain, Ethnic Concentration and Attitudes Towards Foreigners in the European Union
This paper provides a statistical analysis of the determinants of attitudes towards foreigners displayed by Europeans sampled in Eurobarometer surveys in 1988 and 1997. Europeans who compete with ...
(revised version published as 'Changes in Attitudes toward Immigrants in Europe: Before and After the Fall of the Berlin Wall', in: Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Emerald, 2010, 649-676)
J15, J61, F22
577 Kenn Ariga
Giorgio Brunello
Are the More Educated Receiving More Training? Evidence from Thailand
This paper investigates the relationship between education and training provided by the firm, both on the job and off the job, using a unique dataset based on a survey of Thai employees conducted ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2006, 59 (4), 613-629)
J24, J31
576 Michael Fertig
Christoph M. Schmidt
Hilmar Schneider
Active Labor Market Policy in Germany – Is There a Successful Policy Strategy?
Each year Germany and many other developed economies spend tens of billions of Euros on active measures of employment promotion with the explicit aim of contributing to the reduction of ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2006, 36 (3), 399-430)
J68, H43, R23
575 Heather Antecol
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Stephen J. Trejo
Human Capital and Earnings of Female Immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States
Census data for 1990/91 indicate that Australian and Canadian female immigrants have higher levels of English fluency, education (relative to native-born women), and income (relative to native-born ...
(published in: Host Societies and the Reception of Immigrants, Jeffrey G. Reitz (ed.), San Diego: Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, 2003, 327-359)
J61, J68, J31
574 Randall Kuhn
Steven Stillman
Understanding Interhousehold Transfers in a Transition Economy: Evidence from Russia
This paper uses data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey to describe and model the determinants of interhousehold transfers. Russian households have experienced large reductions in income ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2004, 53 (1), 131-56)
D12, J14, O12, P36
573 Regina T. Riphahn
Oliver Serfling
Item Non-Response on Income and Wealth Questions
After reviewing the literature on item non-response we focus on three issues: First, is there significant heterogeneity in item non-response across financial questions and in the association of ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2005, 30 (2), 521-538)
C81, J30, I32
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