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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
7092 William E. Even
David A. Macpherson
The Effect of Tip Credits on Earnings and Employment in the U.S. Restaurant Industry
According to federal law in 2012, employers can take a credit of up to $5.13 for tips received by workers in satisfying the minimum wage requirement of $7.25. This study uses interstate variation in ...
(revised version published as "The Effect of the Tipped Minimum Wage on Employees in the U.S. Restaurant Industry" in: Southern Economic Journal, 2014, 80 (3), 633-655)
J30, J31, J38
7091 Vincenzo Scoppa
Daniela Vuri
Absenteeism, Unemployment and Employment Protection Legislation: Evidence from Italy
Efficiency wages theories argue that the threat of firing, coupled with a high unemployment rate, is a mechanism that discourages employee shirking in asymmetric information contexts. Our empirical ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 3:3)
J41, M51, J45
7090 Hartmut Lehmann
Alexander Muravyev
Klaus F. Zimmermann
The Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey: Towards a Better Understanding of Labor Markets in Transition
The paper presents the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS), which is one of the most widely used household and labor force surveys in Eastern Europe. It is based on a statistically ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2012, 1, Article 9 )
C83, J00, P20
7089 Michael S. Delgado
Daniel J. Henderson
Christopher F. Parmeter
Does Education Matter for Economic Growth?
Empirical growth regressions typically include mean years of schooling as a proxy for human capital. However, empirical research often finds that the sign and significance of schooling depends on the ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 76 (3), 334-359)
C14, J24, I20, O10, O40
7088 Christian Pfeifer
Base Salaries, Bonus Payments, and Work Absence among Managers in a German Company
Questions about compensation structures and incentive effects of pay-for-performance components are important for firms' Human Resource Management as well as for economics in general and labor ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 61 (5), 523-536)
J22, J24, J31, J33, M12, M52
7087 Greg J. Duncan
Aaron Sojourner
Can Intensive Early Childhood Intervention Programs Eliminate Income-Based Cognitive and Achievement Gaps?
How much of the income-based gaps in cognitive ability and academic achievement could be closed by a two-year, center-based early childhood education intervention? Data from the Infant Health and ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2013, 48 (4), 945-986.)
I2, J24, I3
7086 Erich Battistin
Antonio Schizzerotto
Threat of Grade Retention, Remedial Education and Student Achievement: Evidence from Upper Secondary Schools in Italy
We use a reform that was recently implemented in Italy to investigate the effects on academic achievement of more stringent requirements for the admission to the next grade at upper secondary school. ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2019, 56 (2), 651-678)
C31, I24, I28
7085 Eline van der Heijden
Tobias J. Klein
Wieland Müller
Jan Potters
Framing Effects and Impatience: Evidence from a Large Scale Experiment
We confront a representative sample of one 1,102 Dutch individuals with a series of incentivized investment decisions and also elicit their time preferences. There are two treatments that differ in ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 84(2), 701-711)
C93, D03, D81
7084 Ann-Sofie Kolm
Mirco Tonin
In-Work Benefits and the Nordic Model
Welfare benefits in the Nordic countries are often tied to employment. We argue that this is one of the factors behind the success of the Nordic model, where a comprehensive welfare state is ...
(published as 'Benefits Conditional on Work and the Nordic Model' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 127, 115–126)
H24, J21, J24
7083 Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado
Mayssun El-Attar
Income Inequality and Saving
Over the last three decades, average income for the bottom half of the US distribution increased by 8% while their average saving rate decreased by eight percentage points. Over the same period the ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80 (6), 1029 - 1061)
D91, E21, C23
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