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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
6426 Andrew E. Clark
Yannis Georgellis
Back to Baseline in Britain: Adaptation in the BHPS
We look for evidence of adaptation in well-being to major life events using eighteen waves of British panel data. Adaptation to marriage, divorce, birth of a child and widowhood appears to be rapid ...
(published in: Economica, 2013, 80 (319), 496–512)
I31, J12, J13, J63, J64
6425 Mara Ewers
Florian Zimmermann
Image and Misreporting
In this paper we ask if reports of private information about skills, abilities or achievements are affected by image concerns. We develop a simple model that illustrates how image utility can lead to ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2015, 13 (2), 363-380)
C91, D03, D82
6424 David A. Green
W. Craig Riddell
Ageing and Literacy Skills: Evidence from Canada, Norway and the United States
We study the relationship between age and literacy skills in Canada, Norway and the U.S. – countries that represent a wide range of literacy outcomes – using data from the 1994 and 2003 International ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 22, 16 - 29)
I20, J14, J24
6421 Claire L. Adida
David D. Laitin
Marie-Anne Valfort
Gender, Economic Development and Islam: A Perspective from France
Muslims do less well on the French labor market than their non Muslim counterparts. One explanation for this relative failure can be characterized by the following syllogism: (1) the empowerment of ...
(published in: Economics and Politics, 2015, 26 (1), 79-95)
C90, D03, J15, J16, J71, Z12
6420 Francesca Fabbri
Dalia Marin
What Explains the Rise in CEO Pay in Germany? A Panel Data Analysis for 1977-2009
The compensation of executive board members in Germany has become a highly controversial topic since Vodafone’s hostile takeover of Mannesmann in 2000 and it is again in the spotlight since the ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2016, 118 (2), 235-263 )
F23, J3, M12, M52
6419 Santiago Budría
Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell
Income Comparisons and Non-Cognitive Skills
People gain utility from occupying a higher ranked position in the income distribution of the reference group. This paper investigates whether these gains depend on an individual's set of ...
(published as 'Life Satisfaction, Income Comparisons and Individual Traits' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65 (2), 337 - 357)
D62, I31
6418 N. Meltem Daysal
Does Uninsurance Affect the Health Outcomes of the Insured? Evidence from Heart Attack Patients in California
In this paper, I examine the impact of uninsured patients on the health of the insured, focusing on one health outcome – the in-hospital mortality rate of insured heart attack patients. I employ ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2012, 31 (4), 545-563)
I10, I11, I18
6417 Farzana Afridi
Sherry Xin Li
Yufei Ren
Social Identity and Inequality: The Impact of China's Hukou System
We conduct an experimental study to investigate the causal impact of social identity on individuals' response to economic incentives. We focus on China's household registration (hukou) system which ...
(published in Journal of Public Economics,Vol. 123, March 2015: 17-29)
C93, D03, O15, P36
6416 Yuval Arbel
Yossef Tobol
Erez Siniver
Social Involvement and Level of Household Income among Immigrants: New Evidence from the Israeli Experience
Previous studies of immigrant populations suggest that ceteris paribus (after controlling for the number of years in the receiving country and other socio-demographic variables), the level of income ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2014, 35(6), 798-816)
J15, Z13
6414 Matloob Piracha
Florin Vadean
Migrant Educational Mismatch and the Labour Market
This paper reviews the literature on educational mismatch of immigrants in the labour market of destination countries. It draws on the theoretical arguments postulated in the labour economics ...
(published in: Amelie F. Constant and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, Chapter 9, 176-192)
J24, J61
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