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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
351 J. David Brown
John S. Earle
Gross Job Flows in Russian Industry Before and After Reforms: Has Destruction Become More Creative?
This paper uses 1985-1999 manufacturing census data for old Russian enterprises to calculate the magnitude and productivity effects of gross job flow rates before and after reforms. Job creation was ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2002, 30 (1), 96-133)
E24 J63 O47 P23
350 John T. Addison
Pedro Portugal
Unemployment Duration: Competing and Defective Risks
This paper examines the determinants of unemployment duration in a competing risks framework with two destination states, namely, inactivity and employment. The major innovation is our recognition of ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2003, 38 (1), 156-191)
C41 J64 J65
349 John T. Addison
Pedro Portugal
Job Search Methods and Outcomes
Using Portuguese data, this paper investigates the effects of job search methods on escape rates from unemployment and of job-finding methods on earnings. The effectiveness of the job search process ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2002, 54 (3), 505-533)
J64
348 Shoshana Neuman
Adrian Ziderman
Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel
There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2003, 22(4), 421-432)
I21 J15 J16 J21 J24 J31 J44 J61
347 Magnus Lofstrom
Frank D. Bean
Labor Market Conditions and Post-Reform Declines in Welfare Receipt Among Immigrants
Considerable research attention has been devoted to the question of whether and to what extent changes in welfare policy legislated in the 1990s might have deterred immigrant participation in welfare ...
(published as 'Assessing Immigrant Policy Options: Labor Market Conditions and Postreform Declines in Immigrants' Receipt of Welfare' in: Demography, 2002, 39 (4), 617-637)
H53, I30, I38, J15, J61
345 Johannes Hampe
Martin Steininger
Survival, Growth, and Interfirm Collaboration of Start-Up Companies in High-Technology Industries: A Case Study of Upper Bavaria
Our analysis of the survival of firms leads to the important result that the hypotheses about differences between various industries in the life duration of new firms and about the importance of the ...
(published in: Schätzl L./J.R. Diez (eds.), Technological Change and Regional Development in Europe, Heidelberg (2001), 90-111)
C41 J2 J60 L10 R30
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