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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
6274 Joachim Wagner
Average Wage, Qualification of the Workforce and Export Performance in German Enterprises: Evidence from KombiFiD Data
Empirical investigations with enterprise level data from official statistics often use the average wage as a proxy variable for the qualification of the workforce, mostly due to the lack of detailed ...
(published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2012, 45 (2), 161-170)
C81, F14, J31
6273 Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel
Daniel Rosenblum
The Indian Ultrasound Paradox
The liberalization of the Indian economy in the 1990s made prenatal ultrasound technology affordable and available to a large fraction of the population. As a result, ultrasound use amongst pregnant ...
(substantially revised paper appeared as DP No. 15838)
J13, J16, O1
6272 Nick Drydakis
Men's Sexual Orientation and Job Satisfaction
This study investigates the differences in three aspects of job satisfaction – total pay, promotion prospects, and respect received from one's supervisor – between male heterosexual and gay employees ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2012, 33 (8), 901-917)
J28, C93, J7, J16, J31, J42, J64, J71
6271 Aysit Tansel
Elif Öznur Acar
Labor Mobility across the Formal/Informal Divide in Turkey: Evidence from Individual Level Data
Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thus has been addressed in several theoretical and empirical research. Turkey, given its economic and demographic ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Studies, 2017, 44 (4), 617-635.)
J21, J24, J40, J63, O17
6270 C. Sofia Machado
Miguel Portela
Hours of Work and Retirement Behavior
Using a novel dataset from the 2006 Portuguese Labor Force Survey this paper examines the impact of a voluntary reduction in hours of work, before retirement, on the moment of exit from the labor ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3 (16), 1-22)
J14, J26, J22, J21
6268 Jason Gagnon
Theodora Xenogiani
Chunbing Xing
Are All Migrants Really Worse Off in Urban Labour Markets? New Empirical Evidence from China
The rapid and massive increase of rural-to-urban migration in China has drawn attention to the welfare of migrant workers, particularly to their working conditions and pay. This paper uses data from ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2014, 3:17)
O15, R23, J24, J71
6267 Marco Stampini
Ron Leung
Setou M. Diarra
Lauréline Pla
How Large Is the Private Sector in Africa? Evidence from National Accounts and Labor Markets
In recent years, the private sector has been recognized as a key engine of Africa's economic development. Yet, the most simple and fundamental question remains unanswered: how large is the African ...
(revised version published in: South African Journal of Economics, 2013, 81 (1), 140-165)
H10, J21, O10, O55, P17, Y10
6265 Richard Akresh
Joyce J Chen
Charity Moore
Altruism, Cooperation, and Efficiency: Agricultural Production in Polygynous Households
Altruism among family members can, in some cases, inhibit cooperation by increasing the utility that players expect to receive in a non-cooperative equilibrium. To test this, we examine agricultural ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2016, 64(4), 661-696)
D13, D70, J12, O13, O55
6264 Sarah Marchal
Ive Marx
Natascha Van Mechelen
Do Europe's Minimum Income Schemes Provide Adequate Shelter against the Economic Crisis and How, If at All, Have Governments Responded?
The present economic crisis comes against the background of decades of policy changes that have generally weakened the capacity of social safety nets to offer citizens with adequate resources for ...
(revised version published as 'The great wake-up call? Social citizenship and minimum income provisions in Europe in times of crisis' in: Journal of Social Policy, 2014, 43 (2), 247-267)
I38, H75, H12
6263 Biwei Su
Almas Heshmati
Development and Sources of Labor Productivity in Chinese Provinces
As China exhibited unprecedented rapid economic growth ever since its reform and openness, the development and sources of labor productivity has gradually come to the forefront. This paper studies ...
(published in: China Economic Policy Review, 2014, 2 (2), 1-30.)
C23, J24, R23, O15
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