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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
5842 Andrea Bassanini
Eve Caroli
Antoine Rebérioux
Thomas Breda
Working in Family Firms: Less Paid but More Secure? Evidence from French Matched Employer-Employee Data
We study compensation packages in family and non-family firms. Using matched employer-employee data for a representative sample of French establishments, we first show that family firms pay on ...
(revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66 (2), 433-466)
G34, J31, J33, J63, L26
5841 David W. Johnston
Wang-Sheng Lee
Explaining the Female Black-White Obesity Gap: A Decomposition Analysis of Proximal Causes
There exists remarkably large differences in body weights and obesity prevalence between black and white women in the US, and crucially these differences are a significant contributor to black-white ...
(published in: Demography, 2011, 48 (4), 1429-1450)
I1, J11
5840 Armin Falk
Florian Zimmermann
Preferences for Consistency
This paper studies how a preference for consistency can affect economic decision-making. We propose a two-period model where people have a preference for consistency because consistent behavior ...
(published as 'A Taste for Consistency and Survey Response Behavior' in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2013, 59 (1), 181–193)
C91, D03, D64
5839 Lorraine Dearden
John Micklewright
Anna Vignoles
The Effectiveness of English Secondary Schools for Pupils of Different Ability Levels
'League table' information on school effectiveness in England generally relies on either a comparison of the average outcomes of pupils by school, e.g. mean exam scores, or on estimates of the ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2011, 32(2), 225-244)
I2
5838 Roberto Bande
Marika Karanassou
The NRU and the Evolution of Regional Disparities in Spanish Unemployment
On both theoretical and empirical grounds, this paper provides evidence that refutes the natural rate of unemployment (NRU) hypothesis as an explanation of the evolution of regional disparities in ...
(published in: Urban Studies, 2013, 50 (10), 2044–2062)
R23, J64
5837 Elke J. Jahn
Dario Pozzoli
Does the Sector Experience Affect the Pay Gap for Temporary Agency Workers?
It is a well-known fact that temporary agency workers have to accept high pay penalties. However, remarkably little is known about the remuneration of workers who are frequently employed in this ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24, 48-57)
J30, J31, J42, J41
5836 Roberto Golinelli
Riccardo Rovelli
Did Growth and Reforms Increase Citizens' Support for the Transition?
How did post-communist transformations affect people's perceptions of their economic and political systems? We model a pseudo-panel with 89 country-year clusters, based on 13 countries observed ...
(revised version published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2013, 30, 112-137)
O11, O57, P2, P36, P52
5835 Sanvi Avouyi-Dovi
Denis Fougère
Erwan Gautier
Wage Rigidity, Collective Bargaining and the Minimum Wage: Evidence from French Agreement Data
Using several unique data sets on wage agreements at both industry and firm levels in France, we document stylized facts on wage stickiness and the impact of wage-setting institutions on wage ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (4), 1337-1351)
J31, J50, E30
5834 Judith Niehues
Andreas Peichl
Lower and Upper Bounds of Unfair Inequality: Theory and Evidence for Germany and the US
Previous estimates of unfair inequality of opportunity (IOp) are only lower bounds because of the unobservability of the full set of endowed circumstances beyond the sphere of individual ...
(revised version published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2014, 43 (1), 73-99)
D31, D63, H24, J62
5833 Martin Halla
Martina Zweimüller
The Effect of Health on Income: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Commuting Accidents
This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24, 23-38)
I10, J22, D31, J31, J24, J26, J64, J28
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