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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
434 Adriana Kugler
From Severance Pay to Self-Insurance: Effects of Severance Payments Savings Accounts in Colombia
In 1990 Colombia replaced its traditional system of severance payments with a new system of severance payments savings accounts (SPSAs). Although severance payments often are justified on the ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 005, 89 (2-3), 487-500.)
E2, H2, J3, J6
433 Joshua Angrist
Adriana Kugler
Protective or Counter-Productive? Labor Market Institutions and the Effect Immigration on EU Natives
We estimate the effect of immigrant flows on native employment in Western Europe, and then ask whether the employment consequences of immigration vary with institutions that affect labor market ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2003, 113 (488), F302-F331)
J23, J61, O52
432 Erdal Tekin
Employment, Wages, and Alcohol Consumption in Russia: Evidence from Panel Data
This paper examines the effects of alcohol consumption on employment and wages for males and females in Russia. Both cross sectional and fixed-effects models are estimated utilizing data from the ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2004, 71 (2), 397-417)
J10, J20
431 Michael Fertig
Christoph M. Schmidt
The Perception of Foreigners and Jews in Germany - A Structural Analysis of a Large Opinion Survey
The ultimate aim of opinion surveys is the provision of information on the distribution of preferences and perceptions at the individual level. Yet, eliciting this information from the data is ...
(published as 'Attitudes towards foreigners and Jews in Germany: identifying the determinants of xenophobia in a large opinion survey ' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (1), 99-128)
C31, F22, J15
430 Johannes Schwarze
Marco Härpfer
Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State? Evidence From German Longitudinal Data on Life Satisfaction
We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the regional level, to estimate the degree of inequality aversion. In addition, we investigate whether a ...
(published in: Journal of Socio-Economics, 2007, 36 (2), 233 - 249)
C23, D31, D63, I31
429 Silke Anger
Johannes Schwarze
Does Future PC Use Determine Our Wages Today? Evidence from German Panel Data
Using 1985–1999 data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) to analyze wages confirms the hypothesis that existing computer wage premiums are determined by individual ability or other ...
(published in: Labour, 2003, 17 (3), 337-360)
J31, O33, C23
428 Daniela Del Boca
Mothers, Fathers and Children after Divorce: The Role of Institutions
In recent years the increase in the divorce rate in many advanced countries and the predominance of female-headed families among the poor has generated much interest in the relationship between ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2003, 16 (3), 399–422)
D10, K40
427 Daniela Del Boca
The Effect of Child Care and Part Time Opportunities on Participation and Fertility Decisions in Italy
Economic models of household behavior typically yield the prediction that increases in schooling levels and wage rates of married women lead to increases in their labor supply and reductions in ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2002, 15 (3), 549–573)
J2, C3, D1
426 Joop Hartog
Wim P. Vijverberg
Do Wages Really Compensate for Risk Aversion and Skewness Affection?
Utility theory suggests that foreseeable risk should increase the compensation for work. This paper expands on this notion: on basis of utility theory, people should care not only about risk but ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14(6), 926-937)
D8, J3
425 Felix Büchel
Successful Apprenticeship-to-Work Transitions: On the Long-Term Change in Significance of the German School-Leaving Certificate
The quality of labor-market entry achieved by newly qualified apprentices in West Germany is analyzed from 1948 to 1992. A bivariate probit model, using data from the BIBB/IAB employment survey, is ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2002, 23 (5), 394-410)
I21, J21, J24, J44, J62
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