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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
6118 Kornelius Kraft
Julia Lang
Profit Sharing and Training
We analyze the impact of profit sharing on the share of workers receiving training. An effect is plausible because: 1) profit sharing is a credible commitment by firms to reward firm-specific skills ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 75 (6), 940-961)
C14, J33, M52, J24
6117 Antonio Filippin
Marco Paccagnella
Family Background, Self-Confidence and Economic Outcomes
In this paper we analyze the role played by self-confidence, modeled as beliefs about one's ability, in shaping task choices. We propose a model in which fully rational agents exploit all the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31, 824-834)
D83, J24, J62
6116 Sher Verick
Giving Up Job Search During a Recession: The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on the South African Labour Market
The global financial crisis deeply impacted the South African labour market resulting in the shedding of almost 1 million jobs over 2009 and 2010. Reflecting longer term structural problems, this ...
(published in: Journal of African Economies, 2012, 21 (3), 373-408)
G01, J21, J64
6115 Joachim Wagner
The German Manufacturing Sector is a Granular Economy
Using the approach suggested by Gabaix (Econometrica 2011) this paper demonstrates that idiosyncratic shocks in the largest firms are important for an understanding of aggregate volatility in German ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2012, 19 (17), 1663-1665)
E32
6113 Martin Biewen
Constantin Weiser
A New Approach to Testing Marginal Productivity Theory
We address the long standing question of whether production factors are paid their marginal products. We propose a new approach that circumvents the need to specify production functions and to ...
(revised version published in: Applied Economics, 2014, 46 (9), 996-1020)
D33, D22, D40
6112 D. Mark Anderson
Daniel I. Rees
Medical Marijuana Laws, Traffic Fatalities, and Alcohol Consumption
To date, 16 states have passed medical marijuana laws, yet very little is known about their effects. Using state-level data, we examine the relationship between medical marijuana laws and a variety ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2013, 56 (2), 333-369)
I00, I1
6111 Benjamin Elsner
Emigration and Wages: The EU Enlargement Experiment
The enlargement of the European Union provides a unique opportunity to study the impact of the lifting of migration restrictions on the migrant sending countries. With EU enlargement in 2004, 1.2 ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2013, 91(1), 154-163)
F22, J31, O15, R23
6110 Gerard J. van den Berg
Pia Pinger
Johannes Schoch
Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life
Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (3), 465–506)
I12, J11, C21, C26
6109 Michael P. Pflüger
Stephan Russek
Heterogeneous Firms, Trade, and Economic Policy: Insights from a Simple Two-Sector Model
The robust empirical finding that exporting firms are systematically different from firms that merely serve domestic consumers has inspired the development of a new brand of trade theory, the theory ...
(published in revised form in: S. Beugelsdijk , S. Brakman, H. van Ees and H. Garretsen (eds.), Firms in the International Economy - Firm Heterogeneity Meets International Business, MIT-Press 2013)
F12, F13, F15, L25
6108 Etienne Lehmann
François Marical
Laurence Rioux
Labor Earnings Respond Differently to Income-Tax and to Payroll-Tax Reforms
We estimate the responses of gross labor earnings with respect to marginal and average net-of-tax rates in France over the period 2003-2006. We exploit a series of reforms to the income-tax and the ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 99 (1), 66-84.)
H24, H31, J22, J38
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