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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
6246 Regina T. Riphahn
Daniel D. Schnitzlein
Wage Mobility in East and West Germany
This article studies the long run patterns and explanations of wage mobility as a characteristic of regional labor markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 39 , 11-34)
J30, J31, J60, D63
6245 Assar Lindbeck
Mårten Palme
Mats Persson
Sickness Absence and Local Benefit Cultures
In many countries, sickness absence financed by generous insurance benefits has become an important concern in the policy debate. It turns out that there are strong variations in absence behavior ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2016, 118 (1), 49-78)
H56, I38, J22, Z13
6244 Leonardo Gasparini
Sebastian Galiani
Guillermo Cruces
Pablo A. Acosta
Educational Upgrading and Returns to Skills in Latin America: Evidence from a Supply-Demand Framework, 1990-2010
It has been argued that a factor behind the decline in income inequality in Latin America in the 2000s was the educational upgrading of its labor force. Between 1990 and 2010, the proportion of the ...
(published in: Latin American Economic Review, 2019, 28 (18).)
J2, D3, I2, O5
6243 Javier Ortega
Gregory Verdugo
Assimilation in Multilingual Cities
Using the Public Use Microdata Files of the 2001 and 2006 Canadian Censuses, we study the determinants of the assimilation of language minorities into the city majority language. We show that ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28(3), 785-815)
F22, J15
6242 Helena Skyt Nielsen
Beatrice Schindler Rangvid
The Impact of Parents' Years since Migration on Children's Academic Achievement
In this paper, we employ register data for eight cohorts of second-generation immigrant pupils to identify the impact of each parent's years since migration on their children's school achievements. ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2012, 1:6)
I21, J12, J62
6241 Hendrik Schmitz
Nicolas R. Ziebarth
In Absolute or Relative Terms? How Framing Prices Affects the Consumer Price Sensitivity of Health Plan Choice
This paper provides field evidence on (a) how price framing affects consumers' decision to switch health insurance plans and (b) how the price elasticity of demand for health insurance can be ...
(revised version published as: 'Does Price Framing Affect the Consumer Price Sensitivity of Health Plan Choice?' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52(1): 89-128)
H51, I11, I18
6240 Maya Rossin-Slater
Christopher J. Ruhm
Jane Waldfogel
The Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Program on Mothers' Leave-Taking and Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes
This analysis uses March Current Population Survey data from 1999-2010 and a differences-in-differences approach to examine how California's first in the nation paid family leave (PFL) program ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2013, 32 (2), 224-245)
J2, J13, J18
6239 Mario Centeno
Alvaro A. Novo
Excess Worker Turnover and Fixed-Term Contracts: Causal Evidence in a Two-Tier System
Portuguese firms engage in intense reallocation, most employers simultaneously hire and separate from workers, resulting in high excess worker turnover flows. These flows are constrained by the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (3), 320-328)
J21, J23, J63
6238 Stephane Mahuteau
Matloob Piracha
Massimiliano Tani
Matias Vaira-Lucero
Immigration Policy and Entrepreneurship
This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants' probability of becoming entrepreneurs. The policy change consists of stricter ...
(published in: International Migration, 2014, 52(2), 53 - 65)
C34, J24, J61
6237 Carl Lin
Decomposing Excess Returns in Stochastic Linear Models
We present a theorem helpful in estimating the mean and variance of a linear function with arbitrary multivariate randomness in its coefficients and variables. We derive a generalized decomposition ...
(revised version published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 118(1), 143-147)
G14, J31, J38
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