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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
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
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