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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
151 Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger
Gender, Salary and Promotion in the Academic Profession
This paper examines the hypothesis that the gender salary gap observed in the academic labour market is predominantly explained by the differing average characteristics of male and female academics ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2001, 48 (3), 283-302)
J44 J70
149 Rafael Lalive
Jan C. van Ours
Josef Zweimüller
The Impact of Active Labor Market Programs and Benefit Entitlement Rules on the Duration of Unemployment
Swiss policy makers created a unique link between unemployment benefits and Active Labor Market Programs (ALMPs) by making benefit payments conditional on program attendance after 7 months of ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (525), 235–257)
C14 C41 J64 I38
147 Michèle Belot
Jan C. van Ours
Does the Recent Success of Some OECD Countries in Lowering their Unemployment Rates Lie in the Clever Design of their Labour Market Reform?
The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2004, 56 (4), 621-642)
E24 J68
146 Thomas K. Bauer
John de New
Employer Learning and the Returns to Schooling
We examine the dynamic role of education and experience as determinants of wages. It is hypothesized that an employee’s education is an important signal to the employer initially. Over time, the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2001, 8 (2), 161-180)
J21 J24 J31
145 Myeong-Su Yun
Decomposition Analysis for a Binary Choice Model
This paper introduces a new and simple decomposition method for a binary choice model that is equivalent to the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition analysis for wage differentials. The decomposition method ...
(see DP 877 for a revised and general decomposition method)
J21 C25 C35
144 Gilles Saint-Paul
Flexibility vs. Rigidity: Does Spain have the worst of both Worlds?
In this paper we study the structure of labor market flows in Spain and compare them with France and the US. We characterize a number of empirical regularities and stylized facts. One striking result ...
(published in: Jonas Agell, Michael Keen and Alfons Weichenrieder (eds.), Labor Market Institutions and Public Regulation, 2004, 101-122)
J20 J21 J23 J41 J42 J63 E24
142 Juan J. Dolado
Florentino Felgueroso
Juan F. Jimeno
Explaining Youth Labor Market Problems in Spain: Crowding-Out, Institutions, or Technology Shifts?
This paper examines the empirical evidence regarding the poor performance of the youth labor market in Spain over the last two decades, which entails very high unemployment for both higher and lower ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2000, 44 (4-6), 943-956)
J63 J64
140 Giorgio Brunello
Simona Lorena Comi
Education and Earnings Growth: Evidence from 11 European Countries
We use cohort data from 11 European countries to study whether experience profiles differ by educational attainment. Previous literature does not provide a clear answer to this question, that is ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2004, 23 (1), 75-83)
J30
139 Robert A. Hart
Yue Ma
Wages, Hours and Human Capital over the Live Cycle
We investigate wage-hours contracts within a four-period rent sharing model that incorporates asymmetric information. Distinctions are made among (a) an investment period, (b) a period in which the ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2008, 228 (5-6), 446-464, (Special Issue: Labormetrics))
J41 J33
138 Josef Zweimüller
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
Firm-specific Training: Consequences for Job Mobility
This paper analyzes the impact of formal training on worker mobility. Using data from the Swiss Labor Force Survey, we find that on-the-job search activities and, to a smaller extent, actual job ...
(published as 'On-the-job-training, job search and job mobility' in: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie und Statistik / Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2003, 139 (4), 563-576)
J63 J24
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