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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
362 Joshua Angrist
Victor Lavy
New Evidence on Classroom Computers and Pupil Learning
The question of how technology affects learning has been at the center of recent debates over educational inputs. In 1994, the Israeli State Lottery sponsored the installation of computers in many ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2002, 112 (482), 735-765)
H41 I28 J24
361 Mark C. Berger
John S. Earle
Klara Sabirianova Peter
Worker Training in a Restructuring Economy: Evidence from the Russian Transition
We use 1994-1998 data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) to measure the incidence and determinants of several types of worker training and to estimate the effects of training on ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2001, 20, 159-190)
J3 J4
360 Jörgen Hansen
Magnus Lofstrom
The Dynamics of Immigrant Welfare and Labor Market Behavior
This paper analyzes transitions into and out of 3 different labor market states, social assistance, unemployment and employment. We estimate a dynamic multinomial logit model, controlling for ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (4), 941 - 970)
I30 I38 J15 J18 J61
359 Michael P. Pflüger
A Simple, Analytically Solvable Chamberlinian Agglomeration Model
This paper presents a simple, analytically solvable Chamberlinian agglomeration model. As in the canonical core-periphery (CP) model, two agglomerative forces are at work. However, the present model ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics 2004, 34 (5), 565-573)
F12 F15 F22 R12
358 Thomas Beissinger
Oliver Buesse
Bismarck versus Beveridge: Which Unemployment Compensation System is More Prone to Labor Market Shocks?
Based on a model with imperfectly competitive labor and product markets the real consequences of labor market shocks for economies with either an earnings-related or flat-rate unemployment ...
(published in: FinanzArchiv, 2001, 58 (1),78-102)
E24 F41 J23 J51 J65
357 Christoph Knoppik
Thomas Beissinger
How Rigid are Nominal Wages? Evidence and Implications for Germany
Many of the recent attempts to find evidence of downward nominal wage rigidity in micro data have suffered from a number of problems, including composition bias and the effects of measurement error. ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2003, 105 (4), 619-641)
E24 J30
356 Christopher Heady
Theodore Mitrakos
Panos Tsakloglou
The Distributional Impact of Social Transfers in the European Union: Evidence from the ECHP
Social transfers vary enormously across the EU, as has been demonstrated in earlier research. This paper analyses the comparative effects of cash transfers on inequality and poverty, using consistent ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2001, 22 (4), 547-565)
I38 H55
355 Jochen Kluve
Hartmut Lehmann
Christoph M. Schmidt
Disentangling Treatment Effects of Polish Active Labor Market Policies: Evidence from Matched Samples
This paper estimates causal effects of two Polish active labor market policies - Training and Intervention Works - on employment probabilities. Using data from the 18th wave of the Polish Labor Force ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (6), 1270-1295)
C41, J68
354 Jochen Kluve
On the Role of Counterfactuals in Inferring Causal Effects of Treatments
Causal inference in the empirical sciences is based on counterfactuals. This paper presents the counterfactual account of causation in terms of Lewis’s possible-world semantics, and reformulates the ...
(revised version published as 'On the Role of Counterfactuals in Inferring Causal Effects' in: Foundations of Science, 2004, 9 (1), 65-101)
B30 C19 Z00
352 John T. Addison
John S. Heywood
Xiangdong Wei
Unions and Plant Closings in Britain: New Evidence from the 1990/98 WERS
In this paper we exploit the longitudinal element of the 1990 and 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Surveys for Britain to investigate the effect of unionism on establishment closings. Contrary to ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2003, 69 (4), 822-841)
J51 J65
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