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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
5947 Alejandra Mizala
Hugo R. Nopo
Teachers' Salaries in Latin America: How Much Are They (Under or Over) Paid?
This paper documents the extent to which teachers are underpaid vis-à-vis workers in other professional and technical occupations in Latin America circa 2007. These labor earnings differences, ...
(published in: International Journal of Educational Development, 2016, 47, 20-32)
J31, J44, J8, O54
5946 Vikesh Amin
Petter Lundborg
Dan-Olof Rooth
Mothers Do Matter: New Evidence on the Effect of Parents' Schooling on Children's Schooling Using Swedish Twin Data
Behrman and Rosenzweig (2002) used data on a small sample of MZ (monozygotic, identical) twin parents and their children to show that father's schooling is more important than mother's schooling for ...
(published as 'The intergenerational transmission of schooling: Are mothers really less important than fathers?' in: Economics of Education Review, 2015, 47, 100–117 )
J0, I0, J1
5945 Jeff E. Biddle
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Cycles of Wage Discrimination
Using CPS data from 1979-2009 we examine how cyclical downturns and industry-specific demand shocks affect wage differentials between white non-Hispanic males and women, Hispanics and ...
(published as 'Wage discrimination over the business cycle' in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2013, 2:7)
E29, J71
5944 Giorgio Brunello
Margherita Fort
Nicole Schneeweis
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?
In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2016, 25 (3), 314-336)
J1, I12, I21
5943 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Stefanie Schurer
The Stability of Big-Five Personality Traits
We use a large, nationally-representative sample of working-age adults to demonstrate that personality (as measured by the Big Five) is stable over a four-year period. Average personality changes are ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 115 (1), 11-15)
J24, C18
5942 Mirco Tonin
Underreporting of Earnings and the Minimum Wage Spike
This paper documents a positive correlation within European labour markets between the proportion of full-time employees with earnings on the minimum wage and the extent of underreporting of earnings ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:2)
J38, H26
5941 Konstantinos Pouliakas
Nikolaos Theodoropoulos
The Effect of Variable Pay Schemes on Workplace Absenteeism
We estimate the effect of variable pay schemes on workplace absenteeism using two cross sections of British establishments. Private sector establishments that explicitly link pay with individual ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2012, 36, 109-157)
J22, J33, C21
5940 Gabriele Doblhammer
Gerard J. van den Berg
Thomas Fritze
Economic Conditions at the Time of Birth and Cognitive Abilities Late in Life: Evidence from Eleven European Countries
With ageing populations and a stronger reliance on individual financial decision-making concerning asset portfolios, retirement schemes, pensions and insurances, it becomes increasingly important to ...
(revised version published as 'Economic Conditions at the Time of Birth and Cognitive Abilities Late in Life: Evidence from Ten European Countries' in: PLoS ONE, 8(9) 2013, e74915)
I12, I18, J14, N14, N34, J26
5938 Alessandra Cataldi
Stephan Kampelmann
François Rycx
Does It Pay to Be Productive? The Case of Age Groups
Using longitudinal matched employer-employee data for the period 1999-2006, we investigate the relationship between age, wage and productivity in the Belgian private sector. More precisely, we ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2012, 33 (3), 264-283)
J14, J24, J31
5937 Bart Cockx
Matteo Picchio
Scarring Effects of Remaining Unemployed for Long-Term Unemployed School-Leavers
This study investigates whether and to what extent further unemployment experience for youths who are already long-term unemployed imposes a penalty on subsequent labor market outcomes. We propose a ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 2013, 176 (4), 951-980 )
C33, C41, J62, J64
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