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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
5445 Yann Algan
Pierre Cahuc
Marc Sangnier
Efficient and Inefficient Welfare States
This paper shows that cross country differences in the generosity and the quality of the welfare state are associated with differences in the trustworthiness of their citizens. We show that generous, ...
(revised version published as 'Trust and the Welfare State: the Twin Peaks Curve' in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (593), 861 - 883)
H1, Z1
5444 Kristen Monaco
Steffen Habermalz
Wage Inequality of U.S. Truck Drivers
Using CPS data for the period 1979-2009, the wage dispersion of truck drivers (and subsets of the truck driving sample) is compared to the trends in wage dispersion of males economy-wide. We find ...
(published in: Labour, 2011, 25 (2), 268–285)
J31, L92
5443 Gregori Baetschmann
Kevin E. Staub
Rainer Winkelmann
Consistent Estimation of the Fixed Effects Ordered Logit Model
The paper re-examines existing estimators for the panel data fixed effects ordered logit model, proposes a new one, and studies the sampling properties of these estimators in a series of Monte Carlo ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A, 2015, 178, 685–703.)
C23, C25, J28, J64
5442 Hans Bloemen
Stefan Hochguertel
Marloes Lammers
Job Search Requirements for Older Unemployed: Transitions to Employment, Early Retirement and Disability Benefits
In this paper, we use a recent policy change in the Netherlands to study how changes in search requirements for the older unemployed affect their transition rates to employment, early retirement and ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 58, 31-57)
C31, J26, J64, J68
5440 Olivier B. Bargain
Mathias Dolls
Dirk Neumann
Andreas Peichl
Sebastian Siegloch
Tax-Benefit Systems in Europe and the US: Between Equity and Efficiency
Whether observed differences in redistributive policies across countries are the result of differences in social preferences or efficiency constraints is an important question that paves the debate ...
(revised version pubished in 2 parts - as 'Comparing inequality aversion across countries when labor supply responses differ' in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2014, 21, 845 - 873 (also available as IZA DP 7215) and as 'Tax-Benefit Revealed Social Preferences in Europe and the US' in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 113/114, 257 -28)
H11, H21, D63, C63
5439 Pierre Cahuc
Stéphane Carcillo
The Detaxation of Overtime Hours: Lessons from the French Experiment
In October 2007 France introduced an exemption on the income tax and social security contributions that applied to wages received for hours worked overtime. The goal of the policy was to increase the ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 32 (2), 361-400.)
H24, H25, J22, J30
5437 Laura Giuliano
Michael R. Ransom
Manager Ethnicity and Employment Segregation
Using nine years of personnel records from a regional grocery store chain in the United States, this study examines the effect of manager ethnicity on the ethnic composition of employment at the ...
(published in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66 (2), 346-379.)
J71
5436 Massimiliano Tani
Business Visits and the Quest for External Knowledge
This paper contributes to existing work on innovation by studying the determinants of various types of interaction between a firm and its external environment. In particular, it focuses on ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2014, 40, 293-324)
F2, J6
5434 Horst Entorf
Turning 18: What a Difference Application of Adult Criminal Law Makes
This paper contributes to the literature on specific deterrence by addressing the issue of selecting adolescents into adult and juvenile law systems. In Germany, different from the U.S. and most ...
(published as 'Expected Recidivism among Young Offenders: Comparing Specific Deterrence under Juvenile and Adult Criminal Law' in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2012, 28 (4), 414-429)
K14, C52, K42, H11
5433 Wolter Hassink
Bernard van den Berg
Time-Bound Opportunity Costs of Informal Care: Consequences for Access to Professional Care, Caregiver Support, and Labour Supply Estimates
Patterns of informal care are documented throughout the day with Dutch time use diary data. The diary data enable us to identify a, so far overlooked, source of opportunity costs of informal care, ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2011, 73 (10), 1508-1516)
J2, I3
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