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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
5299 Sebastian Fehrler
Charity as a Signal of Trustworthiness
Being perceived as trustworthy comes with substantial economic benefits in many situations. Making other people think you are a trustworthy person may, therefore, be an important motive for charity ...
(preliminary study that led to IZA DP No. 7148)
C72, C92, H41
5297 Ian Gazeley
Andrew T. Newell
The First World War and Working-Class Food Consumption in Britain
In this paper we reassess the food consumption and dietary impact of the regimes of food and food price control and eventually, food rationing, that were introduced in Britain during the First World ...
(published in: European Review of Economic History, 2013, 17 (1), 71-94)
N34, N44
5296 Robert Holzmann
Alain Jousten
Addressing the Legacy Costs in an NDC Reform: Conceptualization, Measurement, Financing
The paper provides a framework for the conceptualization, definition and estimation of legacy costs that need to be addressed in a reform that transforms an unfunded defined contribution (NDB) scheme ...
(published in: Edward Palmer, Robert Holzmann and David Robalino, Nonfinancial Defined Contribution Pension Schemes in a Changing Pension World: Volume 2, Gender, Politics, and Financial Stability, World Bank, 2013, 277-304)
H55, H68, J21, J26
5295 Pedro Carneiro
Sokbae Lee
Trends in Quality-Adjusted Skill Premia in the United States, 1960-2000
This paper presents new evidence that increases in college enrollment lead to a decline in the average quality of college graduates between 1960 and 2000, resulting in a decrease of 6 percentage ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 110 (6), 2309-2349)
J0
5294 Carlos Bozzoli
Climent Quintana-Domeque
The Weight of the Crisis: Evidence from Newborns in Argentina
Argentina hit headlines around the world in 2002 on account of the largest debt default in history and a sudden economic collapse that generated statistics reminiscent of those from the Great ...
(revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 96 (3), 550-562.)
I1, J1
5293 Wiji Arulampalam
Michael P. Devereux
Giorgia Maffini
The Direct Incidence of Corporate Income Tax on Wages
We examine the extent to which taxes on corporate income are directly shifted onto the workforce. We use data on 55,082 companies located in nine European countries over the period 1996-2003. We ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56 (6), 1038-1054)
H22, H25, J50
5290 Federica Origo
Claudio Lucifora
The Effect of Comprehensive Smoking Bans in European Workplaces
In recent years many countries of the European Union (EU) have implemented comprehensive smoking bans to reduce exposure to tobacco smoke in public places and all indoor workplaces. Despite the ...
(published in: Forum for Health Economics and Policy, BE Press, 2013, 16(1), 1-27)
I18, J28
5289 Rémi Piatek
Pia Pinger
Maintaining (Locus of) Control? Assessing the Impact of Locus of Control on Education Decisions and Wages
This paper demonstrates that locus of control, i.e. whether individuals believe that reinforcement in life comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, is an important ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Maintaining (Locus of) Control? Data Combination for the Identification and Inference of Factor Structure Models' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2016, 31(3), 734-755)
C31, J24, J31
5285 Werner Eichhorst
Regina Konle-Seidl
Alison Koslowski
Paul Marx
Quantity over Quality? A European Comparison of the Changing Nature of Transitions between Non-Employment and Employment
This paper explores the empirical evidence for the claim that non-employed men and women in post-industrial labour markets are more likely to make the transition into employment than has previously ...
(published in: Jochen Clasen and Daniel Clegg (eds.), Regulating the Risk of Unemployment. National Adaptations to Post-Industrial Labour Markets in Europe, Oxford: OUP, 2011, 281-296)
J41, J62
5284 Christian Grund
Matthias Kräkel
Bonus Payments, Hierarchy Levels and Tenure: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence
Using data on executive compensation for the German chemical industry, we investigate the relevance of two theoretical approaches that focus on bonuses as part of a long term wage policy of a firm. ...
(revised version published in: Schmalenbach Business Review, 2012, 64, 101-124)
M52, J33
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