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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
6163 Alpaslan Akay
Melanie Khamis
The Persistence of Informality: Evidence from Panel Data
Informality is a growing phenomenon in the developing and transition country labor market context. In particular, it is noticeable that working in an informal employment relationship is often not ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2012, 229 - 255)
D60, I31
6162 Pedro Carneiro
Michael Lokshin
Cristobal Ridao-Cano
Nithin Umapathi
Average and Marginal Returns to Upper Secondary Schooling in Indonesia
This paper estimates average and marginal returns to schooling in Indonesia using a non-parametric selection model. Identification of the model is given by exogenous geographic variation in access to ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics. 2017, 32 (1), 16 - 36)
J31
6161 Francisco H. G. Ferreira
Jérémie Gignoux
The Measurement of Educational Inequality: Achievement and Opportunity
This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2014, 28(2), 210-246)
D39, D63, I29, O54
6160 Mathias Dolls
Andreas Peichl
Klaus F. Zimmermann
A Challenge for the G20: Globally Stipulated Debt Brakes and Transnational Independent Fiscal Supervisory Councils
Debt-to-GDP ratios have grown to unprecedented levels in many industrialized economies. This requires disciplined consolidation efforts which are, however, supposed to come now at the wrong time with ...
(published in: Intereconomics, 2012, 47 (1), 31-38 )
H1, H3, H6
6159 Aslan Zorlu
Ethnic Disparities in the Graduate Labour Market
This paper examines ethnic wage differentials for the entire population of students enrolled in 1996 using unique administrative panel data for the period 1996 to 2005 from the Dutch tertiary ...
(published in: Economics Research International, 2012, Article ID 836379)
J15, J24, J31
6158 Aslan Zorlu
Ethnic Disparities in Degree Performance
Using unique administrative individual data, this paper examines ethnic differences in degree performance in Dutch colleges and universities. The paper estimates parametric duration models and ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration 2013 2:3)
I23, I24, J15
6157 Daniel S. J. Lechmann
Claus Schnabel
Are the Self-Employed Really Jacks-of-All-Trades? Testing the Assumptions and Implications of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data
Using a large representative German data set and various concepts of self-employment, this paper tests the "jack-of-all-trades" view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004). Consistent with its ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2014, 42 (1), 59-76)
J23, J24
6156 Joshua S. Gans
Andrew Leigh
How Partisan is the Press? Multiple Measures of Media Slant
We employ several different approaches to estimate the political position of Australian media outlets, relative to federal parliamentarians. First, we use parliamentary mentions to code over 100 ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2012, 88 (280), 127-147)
D72, L82
6155 Simone Schüller
Parental Ethnic Identity and Educational Attainment of Second-Generation Immigrants
A lack of cultural integration is often blamed for hindering immigrant families' economic progression. This paper is a first attempt to explore whether immigrant parents' ethnic identity affects the ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28 (4), 965–1004. )
I21, J15, J16
6154 Pranab Kumar Das
Saibal Kar
Madhumanti Kayal
Religious Minorities and Provision of Public Goods: Evidence from Rural West Bengal
Religious and ethnic minorities across the world face partisan treatment with regard to provision of public goods, either as outcome of discriminatory practices or due to historical antecedents, such ...
(published as 'Are religious minorities deprived of public good provision? Regional Evidences from India' in: Journal of Developing Areas, 2016, 50 (1), 351-372 )
H41, H51, J15, J71, I31
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