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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
5480 Alpaslan Akay
Olivier B. Bargain
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Relative Concerns of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China
As their environment changes, migrants constitute an interesting group to study the effect of relative income on subjective well-being. This paper focuses on the huge population of rural-to-urban ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 81, 421-441)
C90, D63
5479 Giorgio Brunello
Lorenzo Rocco
The Effect of Immigration on the School Performance of Natives: Cross Country Evidence Using PISA Test Scores
We study whether a higher share of immigrant pupils affects the school performance of natives using aggregate multi-country data from PISA. We find evidence of a negative and statistically ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 32, 234-246)
J15, I28
5478 M. Hashem Pesaran
Alexander Chudik
Aggregation in Large Dynamic Panels
This paper considers the problem of aggregation in the case of large linear dynamic panels, where each micro unit is potentially related to all other micro units, and where micro innovations are ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2014, 178, Part 2, 273-285)
C43, E31
5477 Pieter A. Gautier
Coen Teulings
Sorting and the Output Loss Due to Search Frictions
We analyze a general search model with on-the-job search and sorting of heterogeneous workers into heterogeneous jobs. This model yields a simple relationship between (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) ...
(published in: Journal of the European Association, 2015, 13 (6), 1136 - 1166 )
E24, J62, J63, J64
5475 Armin Falk
Stephan Meier
Christian Zehnder
Did We Overestimate the Role of Social Preferences? The Case of Self-Selected Student Samples
Social preference research has received considerable attention among economists in recent years. However, the empirical foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments ...
(revised version published as 'Do Lab Experiments Misrepresent Social Preferences? The case of self-selected student samples' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (4), 839–852)
C90, D03
5474 Barbara Mueller
Stefan C. Wolter
The Consequences of Being Different: Statistical Discrimination and the School-to-Work Transition
When information about the true abilities of job-seekers and applicants are hard to get, statistical discrimination by employers can be an efficient strategy in the hiring and wage setting process. ...
(published as 'The Role of Hard-to-Obtain Information on Ability for the School-to-Work Transition' in: Empirical Economics, 2014, 46(4), 1447-1471)
I2, J24, J71
5473 Mirco Tonin
Ann-Sofie Kolm
In-Work Benefits and Unemployment
In-work benefits are becoming an increasingly relevant labour market policy, gradually expanding in scope and geographical coverage. This paper investigates the equilibrium impact of in-work benefits ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2011, 18 (1), 74-92)
J21, J38, H24
5472 Elke Holst
Andrea Schäfer
Mechthild Schrooten
Remittances and Gender: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence
In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained theoretically by way of intra-family contracts. We develop a basic formal concept that ...
(published as "Gender and Remittances: Evidence from Germany" in: Feminist Economics, 2012, 18 (2), 201-229)
F22, J16, D13
5471 Sumon K. Bhaumik
Ralitza Dimova
Good and Bad Institutions: Is the Debate Over? Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence from the Textile Industry
Using firm-level data from nine developing countries we demonstrate that (a) certain institutions like restrictive labour market regulations that are considered to be bad for economic growth might be ...
(published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2014, 38(1), 109-126)
D02, D23, D24
5470 Stephan Kampelmann
François Rycx
Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration: The Case of Occupations
Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also ...
(published as 'The Dynamics of Task-biased Technological Change: The Case of Occupations' in: Brussels Economic Review, 2013, 56 (2))
J21, J24, J31
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