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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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)
J31
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
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