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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
7071 Stephen P. Jenkins
Philippe Van Kerm
The Relationship between EU Indicators of Persistent and Current Poverty
The current poverty rate and the persistent poverty rate are both included in the EU's portfolio of primary indicators of social inclusion. We show that there is a near-linear relationship between ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2014, 116(2), 611–638)
I32, D31
7070 Michael C. Burda
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Jay Stewart
Cyclical Variation in Labor Hours and Productivity Using the ATUS
We examine monthly variation in weekly work hours using data for 2003-10 from the Current Population Survey (CPS) on hours/worker, from the Current Employment Survey (CES) on hours/job, and from the ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 99-104)
E23, J22
7069 Matteo Cervellati
Florian Jung
Uwe Sunde
Thomas Vischer
Income, Democracy, and Critical Junctures
Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson, and Yared (2008) document that the cross-country correlation between income per capita and democracy disappears once including country fixed effects. This paper tests the ...
(substantially revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2014, 104 (2), 707-719)
P16, O10
7068 David Autor
David Dorn
The Growth of Low Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market
We offer an integrated explanation and empirical analysis of the polarization of U.S. employment and wages between 1980 and 2005, and the concurrent growth of low skill service occupations. We ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (5), 1553-1597)
E24, J24, J31, J62, O33
7067 Zvi Eckstein
Osnat Lifshitz
Household Interaction and the Labor Supply of Married Women
Changing social norms, as reflected in the interactions between spouses, are hypothesized to affect the employment rates of married women. A model is built in order to estimate this effect, in which ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2015, 56 (2), 427 - 555)
E24, J2, J3
7066 Anders Björklund
Markus Jäntti
Martin Nybom
The Role of Parental Income over the Life Cycle: A Comparison of Sweden and the UK
Research on intergenerational income mobility has shown stronger persistence between parental and offspring's income in the UK than in Sweden. We use similar data sets for the two countries to ...
(published as "The Contribution of Early-life versus Labour Market Factors to Intergenerational Income Persistence: A Comparison of the UK and Sweden" in: The Economic Journal, 2017, 126 (605), F71-F94 )
J24
7065 Bruno Arpino
Chiara D. Pronzato
Lara P. Tavares
Mothers' Labour Market Participation: Do Grandparents Make It Easier?
Childcare arrangements are key in women's ability to juggle motherhood and working outside the home. As such, the study of the access to childcare and its use is of great policy relevance. We focus ...
(published in: European Journal of Population, 2014, 30, 369-390)
J10, J13, C26
7063 W. Bentley MacLeod
Miguel Urquiola
Competition and Educational Productivity: Incentives Writ Large
Friedman (1962) suggested that in general, unfettered markets ensure the efficient provision of goods and services. Applying this logic to Education, he recommended that students be provided with ...
(published in: Paul Glewwe (ed.), Education Policy in Developing Countries, Chapter 7, University of Chicago Press, 2013)
D2, D8, J3, I2
7061 Olivier Godart
Holger Görg
David Greenaway
Domestic Multinationals, Foreign Affiliates, and Labour Demand Elasticities
Using information on a panel of multinational firms operating in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2005, we find that labour demand in domestic multinationals is less sensitive to labour cost changes ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2013, 149 (4), 611-630)
F23, J23, J24
7060 Gabriella Conti
James J. Heckman
The Developmental Approach to Child and Adult Health
Pediatricians should consider the costs and benefits of preventing rather than treating childhood diseases. We present an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers ...
(published in: Pediatrics, 131 (supplement 2), 2013, 133-141)
I12, I18
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