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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
6490 Francine D. Blau
Peter Brummund
Albert Yung-Hsu Liu
Trends in Occupational Segregation by Gender 1970-2009: Adjusting for the Impact of Changes in the Occupational Coding System
In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the change in the Census occupational coding system that occurred in 2000 and use it ...
(published in: Demography, 2013, 50 (2), 493-494)
J16, J24, J62, J71
6489 Wei Huang
Xiaoyan Lei
Geert Ridder
John Strauss
Yaohui Zhao
Health, Height, Height Shrinkage and SES at Older Ages: Evidence from China
Adult height, as a marker of childhood health, has recently become a focus in understanding the relationship between childhood health and health outcomes at older ages. However, measured height of ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5(2), 86-121.)
D1, I12, J13
6488 Mirko Abbritti
Andreas I. Mueller
Asymmetric Labor Market Institutions in the EMU and the Volatility of Inflation and Unemployment Differentials
How does the asymmetry of labor market institutions affect the adjustment of a currency union to shocks? To answer this question, this paper sets up a dynamic currency union model with monopolistic ...
(published in: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2013, 45 (6), 1165-1186)
E32, E52, F41
6487 Francesco Pastore
"I Wish I Had 100 Dollars a Month …" - The Intergenerational Transfer of Poverty in Mongolia
This paper aims to study the mechanisms of the intergenerational transfer of poverty: it considers household poverty as a risk factor for youth poverty. The study is based on a unique, nationally ...
(substantially revised version published as 'I wish I had 100 dollars a month…: The Determinants of Poverty in Mongolia' in: European Journal of Development Research, 2016, 28 (5), 934-956 )
D63, H24, J62, I32, P36
6486 Masaru Sasaki
Katsuya Takii
Junmin Wan
Horizontal Transfer and Promotion: New Evidence and an Interpretation from the Perspective of Task-Specific Human Capital
This paper provides new evidence about horizontal transfer and promotion using the largest available personnel panel data in Japan and interprets them from the perspective of task-specific human ...
(published as 'Synchronized job transfer and task-specific human capital' in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2020, 56, 101075)
J62, M51
6485 Martin Kahanec
Labor Mobility in an Enlarged European Union
The 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the EU extended the freedom of movement to workers from the twelve new member states mainly from Central Eastern Europe. This study summarizes and comparatively ...
(published in: A. F. Constant, K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, pp. 137-152)
F22, J61
6484 Ronald Bachmann
Thomas K. Bauer
Hanna Kroeger
Minimum Wages as a Barrier to Entry: Evidence from Germany
This study analyses employers' support for the introduction of industry-specific minimum wages as a cost-raising strategy in order to deter market entry. Using a unique data set consisting of 800 ...
(published in: Labour, 2014, 28 (3), 338-357)
J38, J50, L41, L80
6483 Claudio Lucifora
Federica Origo
Performance Related Pay and Firm Productivity: New Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in Italy
This paper investigates the causal effect of a switch from fixed wages to collective performance-related pay on firm productivity, exploiting an exogenous variation in the institutional environment ...
(published as 'Performance-Related Pay and Firm Productivity: Evidence from a Reform in the Structure of Collective Bargaining' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68(3), 606-632)
J31, J33, J52, L61
6480 Josse Delfgaauw
Robert Dur
Arjan Non
Willem Verbeke
The Effects of Prize Spread and Noise in Elimination Tournaments: A Natural Field Experiment
We conduct a natural field experiment in a large retail chain to test basic predictions of tournament theory regarding prize spread and noise. A random subset of the 208 stores participates in ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33(3), 521-569)
C93, M51, M52
6479 Aaron Sojourner
Do Unions Promote Members' Electoral Office Holding? Evidence from Correlates of State Legislatures' Occupational Shares
Controversies over the promise and perils of union political influence have erupted around the U.S. This study develops the first evidence on the degree to which labor unions develop members' ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66 (2), 467–486)
D7, H7, J5
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