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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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(Updated and replaced by "Before It Gets Better: The Short-Term Employment Costs of Regulatory Reforms", IZA Discussion Paper 11011, joint with F. Cingano)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
9185 Jonas Kolsrud
Camille Landais
Peter Nilsson
Johannes Spinnewijn
The Optimal Timing of Unemployment Benefits: Theory and Evidence from Sweden
This paper provides a simple, yet general framework to analyze the optimal time profile of benefits during the unemployment spell. We derive simple sufficient-statistics formulae capturing the ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2018, 108 (4-5),985- 1033)
H20, J64
9184 Ulrich Kaiser
Johan Moritz Kuhn
Worker-level and Firm-level Effects of a Wage Subsidy Program for Highly Educated Labor: Evidence from Denmark
We study the effects of a Danish wage subsidy program for highly educated workers on the labor market outcomes of the persons participating in the program and on the performance of the firms that ...
(published in: Research Policy, 2016, 45 (9), 1939-1943)
D04, O31, O38
9183 Marco Caliendo
Steffen Künn
Robert Mahlstedt
The Return to Labor Market Mobility: An Evaluation of Relocation Assistance for the Unemployed
In many European countries, labor markets are characterized by high regional disparities in terms of unemployment rates on the one hand and low geographical mobility among the unemployed on the other ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 148, 136-151)
J61, J64, J68, D04, C26
9182 John H. Pencavel
Whose Preferences Are Revealed in Hours of Work?
It has become orthodox in economics research to interpret the association between hourly earnings and working hours as the expression of the preferences of workers. This convention originated in H. ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2016, 54 (1), 9–24 )
J22, J23, C13
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