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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
162 Christian Dustmann
María Engracia Rochina-Barrachina
Selection Correction in Panel Data Models: An Application to Labour Supply and Wages
In recent years a number of panel estimators have been suggested for sample selection models, where both the selection equation and the equation of interest contain individual effects which are ...
(published as 'Selection correction in panel data models: An application to the estimation of females' wage equations' in: Econometrics Journal, 2007, 10 (2), 263 - 293)
C33 C34 J3
161 Vladimir Gimpelson
Daniel Treisman
Galina Monusova
Public Employment and Redistributive Politics: Evidence from Russia’s Regions
Public employment grew surprisingly fast in Russia during the 1990s, at a time when total employment was falling. Most of this growth occurred in the country’s 89 regions, and rates varied among ...
(revised version published as 'Fiscal Games and Public Employment: A Theory with Evidence from Russia' in: World Politics, 2002, 54 (2), 145-183)
H11 H51 H52 H72 H77 J45 P52
160 Magnus Lofstrom
A Comparison of the Human Capital and Signaling Models: The Case of the Self-Employed and the Increase in the Schooling Premium in the 1980's
This paper utilizes the self-employed to analyze the observed increase in the educational earnings premium in the 1980’s. The paper compares the predictions of the signaling and human capital models ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2001, 20, 191-215)
J23 J24 J31 D31
159 Peter J. Jost
Matthias Kräkel
Preemptive Behavior in Sequential Tournaments
Rank-order tournaments are usually modeled simultaneously. However, real tournaments are often sequentially. We show that agents’ strategic behavior significantly differs in sequential tournaments ...
(published in: Economics of Governance, 2005, 6(3), 245-252)
J31 J33 J41
158 Anders Björklund
Tor Eriksson
Markus Jäntti
Oddbjørn Raaum
Eva Österbacka
Brother Correlations in Earnings in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden Compared to the United States
The correlation in economic status among siblings is a useful "omnibus measure" of the overall impact of family and community factors on adult economic status. In this study we compare brother ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 15 (4), 2002, 757-772)
D1 D3 J62
157 Patricia Apps
Ray Rees
Household Production, Full Consumption and the Costs of Children
Recent work criticises both the logic and relevance of the theoretical basis of the approach to estimating the costs of raising children adopted in much of the economics literature. This tends to be ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2001, 8 (6), 621-648)
J13 J22 D13
156 Christian Dustmann
Francesca Fabbri
Language Proficiency and Labour Market Performance of Immigrants in the UK
This paper uses two recent UK surveys to investigate labour market performance, the determinants of language proficiency, and the effect of language on earnings and employment probabilities of ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2003, 113 (489), 695-717)
J15 J24 J61 R23
154 Michael Gerfin
Michael Lechner
Microeconometric Evaluation of the Active Labour Market Policy in Switzerland
In the second part of the 1990’s Switzerland conducted an ambitious active labour market policy (ALMP) encompassing a wide variety of programmes. We evaluate the effects of these programmes on the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2002, 112 (482), 854-893)
J64 J68 H43 C14 C40
153 Adriaan Kalwij
Mary Gregory
Overtime Hours in Great Britain over the Period 1975-1999: A Panel Data Analysis
Around 40% of the male workforce regularly works 8 to 9 hours a week of paid overtime. This paper investigates the determinants of overtime hours in Britain over the period 1975-1999. For this ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2005, 168 (1), 207-231)
C23 C33 C44 J00
152 Juan J. Dolado
Florentino Felgueroso
Juan F. Jimeno
The Role of the Minimum Wage in the Welfare State: An Appraisal
In order to offer a balanced assessment of the role of minimum wages in the Welfare State, seven basic questions need to be answered: (i) Why is the minimum wage a useful redistributive tool?; (ii) ...
(published in: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie und Statistik / Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 136 (2000), 1-33)
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