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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
5970 David W. Johnston
Wang-Sheng Lee
Climbing the Job Ladder: New Evidence of Gender Inequity
An explanation for the gender wage gap is that women are less able or less willing to 'climb the job ladder.' However, the empirical evidence on gender differences in job mobility has been mixed. ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2012, 51 (1), 128 - 151)
J16, J33, J71
5968 Julian Conrads
Bernd Irlenbusch
Rainer Michael Rilke
Gari Walkowitz
Lying and Team Incentives
We investigate the influence of two widespread compensation schemes, individual piece-rates and team incentives, on participants' inclination to lie, by adapting the experimental setup of Fischbacher ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2013, 34, 1-7)
C91, C92, M52
5966 Andrew E. Clark
Happiness, Habits and High Rank: Comparisons in Economic and Social Life
The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off ...
(published in: Stefano Bartolini, Ennio Bilancini, Luigino Bruni, and Pier-Luigi Porta (Eds.), Policies for Happiness, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, 62-94)
D01, D31, H00, I31, J12, J28
5965 Frederico S. Finan
Laura Schechter
Vote-Buying and Reciprocity
While vote-buying is common, little is known about how politicians determine who to target. We argue that vote-buying can be sustained by an internalized norm of reciprocity. Receiving money ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2012, 80 (2), 863-881)
H0
5964 Brian Duncan
Stephen J. Trejo
Low-Skilled Immigrants and the U.S. Labor Market
Over the last several decades, two of the most significant developments in the U.S. labor market have been: (1) rising inequality, and (2) growth in both the size and the diversity of immigration ...
(published as 'The Employment of Low-Skilled Immigrant Men in the United States' in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (3), 549-554)
J61, J62, J68
5963 Dhritiman Bhattacharya
Nezih Guner
Gustavo Ventura
Distortions, Endogenous Managerial Skills and Productivity Differences
We develop a span-of-control model where managerial skills are endogenous and the outcome of investments over the life cycle of managers. We calibrate this model to U.S plant-size data to quantify ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2103, 16(1), 11-25.)
O40, E23
5962 Nezih Guner
Remzi Kaygusuz
Gustavo Ventura
Taxing Women: A Macroeconomic Analysis
Based on well-known evidence on labor supply elasticities, several authors have concluded that women should be taxed at lower rates than men. We evaluate the quantitative implications of taxing women ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2012, 59 (5), 111–128.)
E62, H31, J12, J22
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
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