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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
5961 Nina Smith
Valdemar Smith
Mette Verner
Why Are So Few Females Promoted into CEO and Vice-President Positions? Danish Empirical Evidence 1997-2007
In most OECD countries, only very few women succeed in reaching top executive positions. In this paper, the probability of promotion into VP and CEO positions is estimated based on employer-employee ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66 (2), 380-408)
G34, J16, J24, M51
5960 Delia Furtado
Miriam Marcén
Almudena Sevilla
Does Culture Affect Divorce Decisions? Evidence from European Immigrants in the US
This paper explores the role of culture in determining divorce decisions by examining country of origin differences in divorce rates of immigrants in the United States. Because childhood-arriving ...
(published in: Demography, 2013, 50 (3), 1013-1038)
J12, Z13, J61
5959 Dan A. Black
Natalia Kolesnikova
Seth G. Sanders
Lowell J. Taylor
Are Children “Normal”?
We examine Becker's (1960) contention that children are "normal." For the cross section of non-Hispanic white married couples in the U.S., we show that when we restrict comparisons to ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (1), 21 - 33)
J13, J40
5958 Simone Bertoli
Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga
Multilateral Resistance to Migration
The rate of migration observed between two countries does not depend solely on their relative attractiveness, but also on the one of alternative destinations. Following the trade literature, we term ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 102, 79-100)
F22, O15, J61
5955 Peter J. Kuhn
Hani Mansour
Is Internet Job Search Still Ineffective?
While the Internet has been found to reduce trading frictions in a number of other markets, existing research has failed to detect such an effect in the labor market. In this paper, we replicate Kuhn ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124 (581), 1213–1233)
J64
5953 Aniruddha Mitra
James T. Bang
Phanindra V. Wunnava
Financial Liberalization and the Brain Drain: A Panel Data Analysis
This paper explores the impact of financial liberalization on the migration of high skilled labor from 46 countries to the OECD, taken at five year intervals over the period 1985-2000. Using an ...
(published as 'Financial Liberalization and the Selection of Emigrants: A Cross-national Analysis' in: Empirical Economics, 2014, 47 (1), 199-226)
F22, O15, P48
5952 Daniele Fabbri
Chiara Monfardini
Opt Out or Top Up? Voluntary Healthcare Insurance and the Public vs. Private Substitution
We investigate whether people enrolled into voluntary health insurance (VHI) substitute public consumption with private (opt out) or just enlarge their private consumption, without reducing reliance ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 78 (1), 75-93)
C34, C35, D12, H44, I11
5951 Stephan Kampelmann
François Rycx
Are Occupations Paid What They Are Worth? An Econometric Study of Occupational Wage Inequality and Productivity
Labour economists typically assume that pay differences between occupations can be explained with variations in productivity. The empirical evidence on the validity of this assumption is surprisingly ...
(published in: De Economist, 2012, 160 (3), 257-287)
J24, J31, J44
5949 Naci Mocan
Duha T. Altindag
Is Leisure a Normal Good? Evidence from the European Parliament
Prior to July 2009, salaries of the members of the European Parliament were paid by their home country and there were substantial salary differences between parliamentarians representing different EU ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123, 1130-1167.)
D73, P16, J22, J45
5948 Andrew McGee
Peter McGee
Search, Effort, and Locus of Control
We test the hypothesis that locus of control – one's perception of control over events in life – influences search by affecting beliefs about the efficacy of search effort in a laboratory ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 126 (Part A), 89 - 101)
J64, D83, C91
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