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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
5410 Corrado Giulietti
Is the Minimum Wage a Pull Factor for Immigrants?
This paper studies the impact of the minimum wage on immigration. A framework is presented in which inflows of immigrants are a function of the expected wage growth induced by the minimum wage. The ...
(substantially revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2014, 67 (3), 649-674)
J08, J23, J38, J61
5409 Giorgio Brunello
Elena Crivellaro
Lorenzo Rocco
Lost in Transition? The Returns to Education Acquired under Communism 15 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Using data for 22 economies in Eastern and Western Europe, we find evidence that having studied under communism is relatively penalized in the economies of the late 2000s. This evidence, however, is ...
(published as 'Lost in Transition? The returns to education acquired under communism in the first decade of the new millennium' in: Economics of Transition, 2012, 20 (4), 637-676)
J24
5408 Umut Oguzoglu
Disability and Multi-State Labour Force Choices with State Dependence
I use a dynamic mixed multinomial logit model with unobserved heterogeneity to study the impact of work limiting disabilities on disaggregated labour choices. The first seven waves of the Household ...
(revised version published in: Economic Record, 2016, 92 (296), 28 - 46 )
J14, J21,C23
5406 Melanie Khamis
Nishith Prakash
Zahra Siddique
Consumption and Social Identity: Evidence from India
We examine spending on consumption items which have signaling value in social interactions across groups with distinctive social identities in India, where social identities are defined by caste and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 83 (3), 353-371)
D12, D70, O10
5405 Anna Bohnstedt
Christian Schwarz
Jens Suedekum
Globalization and Strategic Research Investments
We develop a general equilibrium model of international trade with heterogeneous firms, where countries can invest into basic research to improve their technological potential. These research ...
(published in: Research Policy, 2012, 41 (1), 13-23)
F12, F13
5404 Matthias Sutter
Martin G. Kocher
Daniela Glätzle-Rützler
Stefan T. Trautmann
Impatience and Uncertainty: Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior
We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment. We relate experimental choices to field ...
(extended version published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (1), 510-531)
C91, C93, D81, D90
5403 Daniel Fernández-Kranz
Aitor Lacuesta
Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Chutes and Ladders: Dual Tracks and the Motherhood Dip
Using rich panel data recently available from Spanish Social Security records, we find that a negative motherhood earnings differential of 2.3 log points remains even after controlling for both ...
(published as 'The Motherhood Earnings Dip: Evidence from Administrative Records' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2013, 48 (1), 169-197 )
J13, J16, J21, J22, J31, J62, C23
5402 Timo Boppart
Josef Falkinger
Volker Grossmann
Protestantism and Education: Reading (the Bible) and Other Skills
During industrialization, Protestants were more literate than Catholics. This paper investigates whether this fact may be led back to the intrinsic motivation of Protestants to read the bible and ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2014, 52 (2), 874-895)
I20
5401 Eric A. Hanushek
Ludger Woessmann
How Much Do Educational Outcomes Matter in OECD Countries?
Existing growth research provides little explanation for the very large differences in long-run growth performance across OECD countries. We show that cognitive skills can account for growth ...
(published in: Economic Policy, 2011, 26 (67), 427-491)
I2, O4
5400 Marco Caliendo
Armin Falk
Lutz C. Kaiser
Hilmar Schneider
Arne Uhlendorff
Gerard J. van den Berg
Klaus F. Zimmermann
The IZA Evaluation Dataset: Towards Evidence-Based Labor Policy-Making
The evaluation of labor market policies has become an important issue in many European countries. In recent years, a number of them have opened their administrative databases for evaluation studies. ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2011, 32 (7), 731-752)
J68, H43, C81
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