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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9195 Thomas Hills
Eugenio Proto
Daniel Sgroi
Historical Analysis of National Subjective Wellbeing Using Millions of Digitized Books
We present the first attempt to construct a long-run historical measure of subjective wellbeing using language corpora derived from millions of digitized books. While existing measures of subjective ...
(extended version published in: Nature Human Behavior, 2019, 3 (12), 1271–1275)
N3, N4, O1, D6
9194 Deborah Goldschmidt
Johannes F. Schmieder
The Rise of Domestic Outsourcing and the Evolution of the German Wage Structure
The nature of the relationship between employers and employees has been changing over the last decades, with firms increasingly relying on contractors, temp agencies and franchises rather than hiring ...
(pubished in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2017, 132 (3), 1165 -1217)
J31, D22
9193 Andrea Salvatori
The Anatomy of Job Polarisation in the UK
This paper presents new evidence on the evolution of job polarisation over time and across skill groups in the UK between 1979 and 2012. The UK has experienced job polarisation in each of the last ...
(published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2018, 52, 8 (2018))
J21, J23, J24, O33
9192 Wolfgang Frimmel
Thomas Horvath
Mario Schnalzenberger
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
Seniority Wages and the Role of Firms in Retirement
In general, retirement is seen as a pure labor supply phenomenon, but firms can have strong incentives to send expensive older workers into retirement. Based on the seniority wage model developed by ...
(publshed in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 164, 19 - 32)
J14, J26, J31, H55
9191 Helmuth Cremer
Kerstin Roeder
Means Testing versus Basic Income: The (Lack of) Political Support for a Universal Allowance
This paper studies the political economy of a basic income (BI) versus a means tested welfare scheme. We show in a very simple setting that if society votes on the type of system, its generosity as ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 136, 81-84)
D3, D7, H2, H5
9190 Markus Jäntti
Eva Sierminska
Philippe Van Kerm
Modelling the Joint Distribution of Income and Wealth
This paper considers a parametric model for the joint distribution of income and wealth. The model is used to analyze income and wealth inequality in five OECD countries using comparable ...
(published in: Research on Economic Inequality, 2015, 23, 301-327)
C1, D31, J10
9189 Andrew E. Clark
Claudia Senik
Katsunori Yamada
When Experienced and Decision Utility Concur: The Case of Income Comparisons
While there is now something of a consensus in the literature on the economics of happiness that income comparisons to others help determine subjective wellbeing, debate continues over the relative ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 70, 1-9)
D31, D63, I3, J31
9188 Philippe Askenazy
Christine Erhel
The French Productivity Puzzle
Since 2008, France experiences a sharp productivity slowdown. Both output per hour and total factor productivity are particularly deceptive in the market economy. This recent trend contrasts with the ...
(published in: Ph. Askenazy et al. (eds), Productivity Puzzles Across Europe, Oxford: OUP, 2016.)
O40, J20, D20, E24
9187 Andrea Bassanini
A Bitter Medicine? Short-term Employment Impact of Deregulation in Network Industries
There is evidence that pro-competitive reforms in an industry with large incumbents induce the latter to re-organise and reduce prices in an attempt to deter entry of new competitors. Using data for ...
(Updated and replaced by "Before It Gets Better: The Short-Term Employment Costs of Regulatory Reforms", IZA Discussion Paper 11011, joint with F. Cingano)
J23, L11
9186 Richard V. Burkhauser
Mary C. Daly
Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Protecting Working-Age People with Disabilities: Experiences of Four Industrialized Nations
Although industrialized nations have long provided public protection to working-age individuals with disabilities, the form has changed over time. The impetus for change has been multi-faceted: rapid ...
(published in: Journal of Labour Market Research, 2016, 49 (4), 367-386)
I10, I13, J14, J18
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