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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
367 Christian Dustmann
Parental Background, Primary to Secondary School Transitions, and Wages
The degree to which economic status is transmitted from one generation to the next is an important indicator for the inequality of opportunities. One crucial element of intergenerational mobility is ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2004, 56 (2), 209-230)
I2 J24 J31
365 Helena Skyt Nielsen
Michael Rosholm
Nina Smith
Leif Husted
Qualifications, Discrimination, or Assimilation? An Extended Framework for Analysing Immigrant Wage Gaps
In this paper, we analyze immigrant wage gaps and propose an extension of the traditional wage decomposition technique, which is a synthesis from two strains of literature on ethnic/immigrant wage ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2004, 29 (4), 855-885)
J15, J16, J31, J71
364 Markus Jäntti
Stephen P. Jenkins
Examining the Impact of Macro-Economic Conditions on Income Inequality
This paper proposes a new approach for analyzing the relationship between macroeconomic factors and the income distribution. The conventional method of analysis is regression of summary inequality ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2010, 8(2), 221–240)
C51 D31 E6
363 Heather Antecol
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Stephen J. Trejo
Immigration Policy and the Skills of Immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States
Census data for 1990/91 indicate that Australian and Canadian immigrants have higher levels of English fluency, education, and income (relative to natives) than do U.S. immigrants. This skill deficit ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2003, 38 (1), 192-218)
J61 J68 J31
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
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