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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
168 Gil S. Epstein
Arye L. Hillman
Social Harmony at the Boundaries of the Welfare State: Immigrants and Social Transfers
The social contract of the welfare state can be strained by the arrival of immigrants who receive welfare payments financed by citizens’ taxes. We show, however, that the presence of unemployed ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2003, 87 (7-8), 1641-1655)
I38 F22 P16
167 Alan Barrett
John FitzGerald
Brian Nolan
Earnings Inequality, Returns to Education and Immigration into Ireland
Increasing earnings inequality has been an important feature of the US and UK labour markets in recent years. The increase appears to be related to an increased demand for skilled labour and an ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2002, 9 (5), 665-680)
J61
166 Ziggy MacDonald
Michael A. Shields
The Impact of Alcohol Consumption on Occupational Attainment in England
In this study we provide evidence on the effect of alcohol consumption on occupational attainment in England. To do this we use samples of employees from the Health Survey for England between 1992 ...
(published in: Economica, August 2001, 68 (271), 427-453)
J24
165 Peder J. Pedersen
Immigration in a High Unemployment Economy: The Recent Danish Experience
The purpose in this paper is to survey the course of immigration into Denmark and research and studies related to the problems encountered in this area. The first part of the paper describes the ...
(published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.): European Migration - What Do We Know?, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005)
J15 J61
164 Michael A. Shields
Stephen Wheatley Price
Racial Harassment, Job Satisfaction and Intentions to Quit: Evidence from the British Nursing Profession
This paper investigates the determinants of racial harassment at the workplace and its impact, via job satisfaction, on intentions to quit. Using data for ethnic minority nurses in Britain, we find ...
(published in: Economica, 2002, 69(274), 295-326)
J15 J24 J71
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
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