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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8262 Aysit Tansel
Deniz Karao?lan
Health Behaviors and Education in Turkey
This is the first study which provides empirical analysis of the variation in health behaviors for adult men and women in Turkey which is a developing country. The health behaviors considered are ...
(revised version is published as 'Determinants of Health Behaviors and Obesity in Turkey' in: Sosyoekonomi, 2020, 27 (41), 11–40.)
I10, I12, I19
8261 Jacob LaRiviere
Hendrik Wolff
The Power of the Little Blue Pill: Innovations and Implications of Life Style Drugs in an Aging Population
The launch of Viagra in April 1998 led to a historically unprecedented high usage of erectile dysfunction (ED) drugs. We test whether Viagra's introduction significantly influenced outcomes for its ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2015, 53(1), 540-556)
I1, J1, O33, J31
8260 Daniel Hallberg
Per Johansson
Malin Josephson
Early Retirement and Post Retirement Health
This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to army employees 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented in the ...
(published as 'Is an early retirement offer good for your health? Quasi-experimental evidence from the army' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 44, 274–285)
J22, J26, I18
8259 Arindrajit Dube
Ethan Kaplan
Owen Thompson
Nurse Unions and Patient Outcomes
We estimate the impact of nurse unions on health care quality using patient discharge data and the universe of hospital unionizations in California between 1996 and 2005. We find that hospitals with ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2016, 69 (4), 803 - 833)
I12, J51
8258 Javier Ordóñez
Hector Sala
José I. Silva
Real Unit Labour Costs in Eurozone Countries: Drivers and Clusters
We examine the trajectories of the real unit labour costs (RULCs) in a selection of Eurozone economies. Strong asymmetries in the convergence process of the RULCs and its components – real wages, ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2015, 4:15, 1-19)
F43, F62, O47, O52
8257 John T. Addison
Paulino Teixeira
Jens Stephani
Lutz Bellmann
Union Decline and the Coverage Wage Gap in Germany
Using linked employer-employee data, this paper estimates the effect of collective bargaining coverage on wages over an interval of continuing decline in unionism. Unobserved firm and worker ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2015, 36 (3), 301-317.)
J31, J51, J53
8256 Xavier D'Haultfoeuille
Arnaud Maurel
Yichong Zhang
Extremal Quantile Regressions for Selection Models and the Black-White Wage Gap
We consider the estimation of a semiparametric location-scale model subject to endogenous selection, in the absence of an instrument or a large support regressor. Identification relies on the ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2018, 203 (1), 129-142)
C21, C24, J31
8253 T. H. Gindling
Nadwa Mossaad
Juan Diego Trejos
The Consequences of Increased Enforcement of Legal Minimum Wages in a Developing Country: An Evaluation of the Impact of the Campaña Nacional de Salarios Mínimos in Costa Rica
In August 2010 the Costa Rican government implemented a comprehensive program to increase compliance with legal minimum wages, the Campaign for Minimum Wages. To evaluate the impact of the Campaign, ...
(slightly revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68(3), 666-707)
J3, J33, J38, O17, O53
8252 Alessio J. G. Brown
Christian Merkl
Dennis J. Snower
The Minimum Wage from a Two-Sided Perspective
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2014, 124 (3), 389–391.)
J3, J6, J2
8251 Daniel Arribas-Bel
Peter Nijkamp
Jacques Poot
How Diverse Can Spatial Measures of Cultural Diversity Be? Results from Monte Carlo Simulations of an Agent-Based Model
Cultural diversity is a complex and multi-faceted concept. Commonly used quantitative measures of the spatial distribution of culturally-defined groups – such as segregation, isolation or ...
(published in: Environment and Planning A, 2016, 48(10), 2046-2066)
C63, J15, R23, Z13
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