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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
195 Felix Büchel
Antje Mertens
Overeducation, Undereducation, and the Theory of Career Mobility
The Theory of career mobility (Sicherman and Galor 1990) claims that wage penalties for overeducated workers are compensated by better promotion prospects. A corresponding empirical test by Sicherman ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2004, 36 (8), 803 - 816 )
J62 J31 I21
194 Andrew T. Newell
Francesco Pastore
Regional Unemployment and Industrial Restructuring in Poland
This paper studies regional unemployment inequality in Poland. We find that higher unemployment regions are those experiencing greater change in industrial structure. We also find high unemployment ...
(published in: Eastern European Economics, 2006, 44 (3), 5-28)
J63 P23
193 Astrid Kunze
The Determination of Wages and the Gender Wage Gap: A Survey
In this paper the extensive empirical literature on the gender wage gap is reviewed with particular attention given to the identification of the key parameters in the specified human capital wage ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Gender wage gap studies: Consistency and decomposition' in: Empirical Economics, 2008, 35 (1), 63-76)
J70 J31 C51
192 Giorgio Brunello
Absolute Risk Aversion and the Returns to Education
Individual absolute risk aversion is measured for a sample of 1373 male household heads, using the 1995 wave of the Survey on the Income and Wealth of Italian households. This measure, conditional on ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2002, 21(6), 635-640)
J24 J31
191 Gianna Claudia Giannelli
Chiara Monfardini
Joint Decisions on Household Membership and Human Capital Accumulation of Youths - The role of expected earnings and local markets
This paper analyses the effects of expected earnings and local markets conditions on the behaviour of young adults with high school diplomas. Decisions to either remain in the parental home or form a ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2003, 16 (2), 265-285)
C25 J12 J24 J31
190 Christian Dustmann
Ian Preston
Racial and Economic Factors in Attitudes to Immigration
Hostility towards minorities may sometimes have economic rather than racial motives. Labour market fears, or concerns about the welfare system, are often believed to manifest themselves in hostile ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2007, 7 (1), Article 62)
J15 F22
189 Wiji Arulampalam
Is Unemployment Really Scarring? Effects of Unemployment Experiences on Wages
This paper looks at the effects of unemployment on re-employment wage for men using the first seven waves of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) conducted over the period 1991- 1997. In ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2001, 111 (475), F585-606)
J30 J60
188 Arie Kapteyn
Adriaan Kalwij
Asghar Zaidi
The Myth of Worksharing
Worksharing is considered by many as a promising public policy to reduce unemployment. In this paper we present a review of the most pertinent theoretical and empirical contributions to the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2004, 11 (3), 293-313)
C33 E24 J2 J3
187 Thomas K. Bauer
Magnus Lofstrom
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Immigration Policy, Assimilation of Immigrants and Natives' Sentiments towards Immigrants: Evidence from 12 OECD-Countries
As in the U.S. and Canada, migration is a controversial issue in Europe. This paper explores the possibility that immigration policy may affect the labor market assimilation of immigrants and hence ...
(published in: Swedish Economic Policy Review, 2000, 7 (2), 11-53)
J61 F22
186 Christian Dustmann
Temporary Migration and Economic Assimilation
In this paper, I study temporary migrations, and its consequences for immigrants’ behaviour. I distinguish between temporary migrations where the return time is exogenous, and temporary migrations ...
(published in: Swedish Economic Policy Review, 2000, 7 (2), 213-244)
D9 F22 J24
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