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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
5718 Jörgen Hansen
Xingfei Liu
Estimating Labor Supply Responses and Welfare Participation: Using a Natural Experiment to Validate a Structural Labor Supply Model
In this paper, we formulate and estimate an economic model of labor supply and welfare participation. The model is estimated on data on single men from Quebec drawn from the 1986 Canadian Census. ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2015, 48 (5), 1831-54.)
J22
5717 Jason Loughrey
Cathal O'Donoghue
The Welfare Impact of Price Changes on Household Welfare and Inequality 1999-2010
This paper provides a single welfare measure to show the effects of consumer price changes upon households in Ireland between 1999 and 2010. This measure combines an efficiency component using a ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2012, 43 (1), 31-66)
D12, D31, D63, E31, P46
5716 Niaz Asadullah
Nazmul Chaudhury
Poisoning the Mind: Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water Wells and Children's Educational Achievement in Rural Bangladesh
Bangladesh has experienced the largest mass poisoning of a population in history owing to contamination of groundwater with naturally occurring inorganic arsenic. Prolonged drinking of such water ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (5), 873-888)
I21, Z12, O12, O15
5715 Robert Holzmann
Johannes Koettl
Portability of Pension, Health, and Other Social Benefits: Facts, Concepts, Issues
Portability of social benefits across professions and countries is an increasing concern for individuals and policy makers. Lacking or incomplete transfers of acquired social rights are feared to ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2015, 61 (2), 377– 415,)
D91, F22, F53, G23, J61
5713 Francisco H. G. Ferreira
Anna Fruttero
Phillippe Leite
Leonardo Lucchetti
Rising Food Prices and Household Welfare: Evidence from Brazil in 2008
Food price inflation in Brazil in the twelve months to June 2008 was 18 percent, while overall inflation was 5.3 percent. This paper uses spatially disaggregated monthly data on consumer prices and ...
(published in: Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2013, 64 (1), 151-176)
D31, I38, O15
5712 Stefan Denzler
Stefan C. Wolter
Too Far to Go? Does Distance Determine Study Choices?
A number of studies have long shown that the probability of studying at university is influenced by the distance to the next university. This study shows for the first time that distance to ...
(published also in German as "Der Einfluss des lokalen Hochschulangebots auf die Studienwahl" in: Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft, 2010, 13(4), 683-706)
I21, I23, R10
5711 Saioa Arando
Monica Gago
Derek C. Jones
Takao Kato
Efficiency in Employee-Owned Enterprises: An Econometric Case Study of Mondragon
We provide the first econometric study of efficiency for a member of the Mondragon group of worker cooperatives. Eroski is a retail distribution chain and, most unusually, there are two distinct ...
(resvised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68(2), 398-425)
J54, D21
5710 Torben M. Andersen
A Flexicurity Labour Market in the Great Recession: The Case of Denmark
Flexicurity labour markets are characterised by flexible hiring/firing rules, generous social safety net, and active labour market policies. How can such labour markets cope with the consequences of ...
(published in: De Economist, 2012, 160, 117–140)
J01
5709 Daniel Fernández-Kranz
Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Unintended Effects of a Family-Friendly Law in a Segmented Labor Market
Family-friendly laws may backfire if not all workers with access to the policies use them. Because these policies are costly to the employer, hiring practices may consequently be affected at the ...
(significantly revised version published as 'Too Family Friendly? The Consequences of Parents' Right to Request Part-Time Work' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 197, 104407)
J21, J68, J78
5708 Karsten Kohn
Dirk Antonczyk
The Aftermath of Reunification: Sectoral Transition, Gender, and Rising Wage Inequality in East Germany
Using a large administrative data set, this paper studies the evolution of the East German wage structure throughout the transition period 1992-2001. Wage dispersion has generally been rising. The ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2013, 21 (1), 73-110)
J31, C21
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