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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
5935 Claudia Olivetti
Barbara Petrongolo
Gender Gaps across Countries and Skills: Supply, Demand and the Industry Structure
The gender wage gap varies widely across countries and across skill groups within countries. Interestingly, there is a positive cross-country correlation between the unskilled-to-skilled gender wage ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2014, 17 (4), 842-859)
E24, J16, J31
5934 Andrew Grodner
Thomas J. Kniesner
John A. Bishop
Social Interactions in the Labor Market
We examine theoretically and empirically social interactions in labor markets and how policy prescriptions can change dramatically when there are social interactions present. Spillover effects ...
(published in: Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2010, 6 (4), 265-366 )
D11, J22, Z13 D31, D63
5933 Charlene M. Kalenkoski
Donald J. Lacombe
Minimum Wages and Teen Employment: A Spatial Panel Approach
The authors employ spatial econometrics techniques and Annual Averages data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 1990-2004 to examine how changes in the minimum wage affect teen employment. ...
(published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2013, 92 (2), 407-417)
J08, J21, J38, J48, C31
5932 Chiara Mussida
Matteo Picchio
The Trend over Time of the Gender Wage Gap in Italy
We analyse gender wage inequalities in Italy in the mid-1990s and in the mid-2000s. In this period important labour market developments occurred: institutional changes have loosened the use of ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2014, 46 (3), 1081-1110)
C21, C41, J16, J31, J71
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