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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
5745 Richard Blundell
Andrew Shephard
Employment, Hours of Work and the Optimal Taxation of Low Income Families
The optimal design of low income support is examined using a structural labour supply model. The approach incorporates unobserved heterogeneity, fixed costs of work, childcare costs and the detailed ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2012, 79(2), 481-510)
J22, I38
5744 Thomas K. Bauer
Stefan Bender
Alfredo R. Paloyo
Christoph M. Schmidt
Do Guns Displace Books? The Impact of Compulsory Military Service on Educational Attainment
Compulsory military service typically drafts young men when they are at the height of their learning ability. Thus, it can be expected to depress the demand for higher education since skill atrophy ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2014,124 (3), 513–515)
I28, J24
5742 Pablo Agnese
Pablo F. Salvador
More Alike than Different: The Spanish and Irish Labour Markets Before and After the Crisis
This paper analyses the labour markets of Spain and Ireland, which have experienced a severe downturn in the recent global crisis as reflected by the largest increases in their unemployment rates ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, December 2012, 1:9)
E24, J21, E22, C32
5741 Thong Le Pham
Peter Kooreman
Ruud H. Koning
Doede Wiersma
Gender Patterns in Vietnam's Child Mortality
We analyze child mortality in Vietnam focusing on gender aspects. Contrary to several other countries in the region, mortality rates for boys are substantially larger than for girls. A large ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (1), 303-322)
C13, C31, C35, C41, I12
5740 Björn Bartling
Ernst Fehr
Daniel Schunk
Health Effects on Children's Willingness to Compete
The formation of human capital is important for a society's welfare and economic success. Recent literature shows that child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's ...
(published online in: Experimental Economics, 2012, 15(1), 58-70)
C90, I10, J24
5739 Katherine Grace Carman
Peter Kooreman
Flu Shots, Mammograms, and the Perception of Probabilities
We study individuals' decisions to decline or accept preventive health care interventions such as flu shots and mammograms. In particular, we analyze the role of perceptions of the effectiveness of ...
(published as 'Probability Perceptions and Preventive Health Care' in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2014, 49(1), 43-71)
I10
5738 Oluwarotimi Owolabi
Sarmistha Pal
The Value of Business Networks in Emerging Economies: An Analysis of Firms' External Financing Opportunities
The paper argues that networked firms are likely to have an advantage in securing external finance in countries with weak legal and judicial institutions since it helps financial institutions to ...
(published as 'Does business networking boost firms' external financing opportunities? Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe' in: Applied Financial Economics, 2013, 23 (5), 415-432)
G21, G30, L14, M20, P21
5737 Almas Heshmati
Ilham Haouas
Economies of Scale in the Tunisian Industries
To date, empirical investigations of trade liberalization under the conditions of increasing returns to scale (IRS) and imperfect competition (IC) have either assumed or imposed the market and ...
(published in: International Journal of Economics and Finance, 2013, 5(1), 48-64. )
C32, C52, D24, F12, L00
5736 Hugo R. Nopo
Nancy Daza
Johanna Ramos
Gender Earnings Gaps in the World
This paper documents gender disparities in labor earnings for sixty-four countries around the world. Disparities are partially attributed to gender differences in observable socio-demographic and job ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2012, 33 (5), 464-513)
C14, D31, J16, O57
5735 Alberto Alesina
Paola Giuliano
Nathan Nunn
On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough
This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional ...
(published in: The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2013, 128 (2), 469-530)
D03, J16, N30
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