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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
5550 Alain Cohn
Ernst Fehr
Benedikt Herrmann
Frédéric Schneider
Social Comparison in the Workplace: Evidence from a Field Experiment
We conducted a randomized field experiment to examine how workers respond to wage cuts, and whether their response depends on the wages paid to coworkers. Workers were assigned to teams of two, ...
(revised version published as 'Social Comparison an Effort Provision' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2014, 12 (4), 877-898)
C93, J33, M53
5549 Nezih Guner
Remzi Kaygusuz
Gustavo Ventura
Income Taxation of U.S. Households: Basic Facts
We use micro data from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to document how households' tax liabilities vary with income, marital status and the number of dependents. We report facts on the ...
(published in Review of Economic Dynamics, 2014, 17(4), 559–581)
E62, H31, J12, J22
5547 Ozkan Eren
Daniel J. Henderson
Are We Wasting Our Children's Time by Giving Them More Homework?
Following an identification strategy that allows us to largely eliminate unobserved student and teacher traits, we examine the effect of homework on math, science, English and history test scores for ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (5), 950-961)
C23, I21, I28
5546 Assaf Razin
Jackline Wahba
Free vs. Restricted Immigration: Bilateral Country Study
This paper tests the differential effects of the generosity of the welfare state under free migration and under policy-controlled migration, distinguishing between source developing and developed ...
(revised version published as 'Welfare Magnet Hypothesis, Fiscal Burden and Immigration Skill Selectivity' in: Journal of Scandinavian Economics, 2015, 177 (2), 369 - 402)
J61, J48
5545 Badi H. Baltagi
Francesco Moscone
Elisa Tosetti
Medical Technology and the Production of Health Care
This paper investigates the factors that determine differences across OECD countries in health outcomes, using data on life expectancy at age 65, over the period 1960 to 2007. We estimate a ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2012, 42 (2), 395-411)
C31, C33, H51
5544 Luc Behaghel
Eve Caroli
Muriel Roger
Age Biased Technical and Organisational Change, Training and Employment Prospects of Older Workers
We analyse the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the employment prospects of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late ...
(published in: Economica, 2014, 81(322), 368-389)
J14, J24, J26, O30
5541 Michael P. Pflüger
Stephan Russek
Business Conditions and Default Risks across Countries
The risk of default that business firms face is very significant and differs widely across countries. This paper explores the links between countries' business conditions and international trade ...
(revised version published in: Open Economies Review, 2013, 24 (5), 963-976)
F12, F13, F15, L25
5540 Susanne Ek Spector
Bertil Holmlund
Part-Time Unemployment and Optimal Unemployment Insurance
A significant fraction of the labor force consists of employed workers who are part-time unemployed (underemployed) in the sense that they are unable to work as much as they prefer. This paper ...
(published in International Tax and Public Finance, 2015, 22(2), 201-223)
J64, J65
5539 Szilvia Hámori
János Köllő
Whose Children Gain from Starting School Later? Evidence from Hungary
We look at the effect of school starting age on standardized test scores using data covering all grade four and grade eight students in Hungary. Instrumental variables estimates of the local average ...
(published in: Educational Research and Evaluation, 2012, 18 (5), 459-488)
I21, I28, J24
5538 Patrick Kampkötter
Dirk Sliwka
Wage Premia for Newly Hired Employees: Theory and Evidence
We investigate wage differences between newly hired and incumbent employees. We show in a formal model that when employees care for wages as well as match-specific utility, incumbents earn less than ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 31, 45–60)
J31, J44, J62
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