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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
586 Pilar Diaz-Vazquez
Dennis J. Snower
On-the-Job Training and the Effects of Insider Power
Suppose insiders use their market power to push up their wages, while entrants receive their reservation wages. How will employment and productivity be affected? In addressing this question, we ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2006, 13 (3), 317-341)
E24, J23, J24, J31, J42, J64
585 Matteo Cervellati
Uwe Sunde
Human Capital Formation, Life Expectancy and the Process of Economic Development
This paper provides a unified theory of the transition in income, life expectancy, education and population, experienced by the Western world when passing from an environment of economic stagnation ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2005, 95 (5), 1653-1672)
E10, J10, O10, O40, O41
584 Carolyn J. Heinrich
Peter R. Mueser
Kenneth Troske
Welfare to Temporary Work: Implications for Labor Market Outcomes
Recent welfare reforms are prompting some state and local welfare agencies to use temporary help service firms to help place welfare recipients into jobs. Concerns have arisen that these jobs are ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2005, 87 (1), 154-173)
I3, J0, J4
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
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