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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
5162 John T. Addison
Orgul Demet Ozturk
Minimum Wages, Labor Market Institutions, and Female Employment and Unemployment: A Cross-Country Analysis
This paper estimates the effect of minimum wage regulation in 16 OECD countries, 1970-2008. Our treatment is motivated by Neumark and Wascher's (2004) seminal cross-country study using panel methods ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2012, 65 (4), 779-809)
J20, J38, J48, J58, J88
5161 James Banks
Alastair Muriel
James P. Smith
Attrition and Health in Ageing Studies: Evidence from ELSA and HRS
In this paper we present results of an investigation into observable characteristics associated with attrition in ELSA and the HRS, with a particular focus on whether attrition is systematically ...
(published in: Longitudinal and Life Course Studies 2(2):101-126, 2011)
I0
5160 Andreas Kuhn
Jean-Philippe Wuellrich
Josef Zweimüller
Fatal Attraction? Access to Early Retirement and Mortality
We estimate the causal effect of early retirement on mortality for blue-collar workers. To overcome the problem of endogenous selection, we exploit an exogenous change in unemployment insurance rules ...
(revised and updated version published as IZA DP Nr. 11851, together with Stefan Staubli)
I1, J14, J26
5158 Gil S. Epstein
Yosef Mealem
Shmuel Nitzan
Political Culture and Discrimination in Contests
Many economic and political decisions are the outcome of strategic contests for a given prize. The nature of such contests can be determined by a designer who is driven by political considerations ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (1-2), 88-93)
H0
5157 Redzo Mujcic
Paul Frijters
Economic Choices and Status: Measuring Preferences for Income Rank
In this paper we report on the trade-offs that 1,068 Australian university students make between absolute income and the rank of that income in hypothetical income distributions. We find that income ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2013, vol. 65(1), 47-73)
D03, C91, J61
5156 Andrew Dillon
Elena Bardasi
Kathleen Beegle
Pieter Serneels
Explaining Variation in Child Labor Statistics
Child labor statistics are critical for assessing the extent and nature of child labor activities in developing countries. In practice, widespread variation exists in how child labor is measured. ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 98 (1),136-147 )
J21, C81, C93
5155 Daniela Del Boca
Christopher Flinn
Matthew Wiswall
Household Choices and Child Development
The growth in labor market participation among women with young children has raised concerns about the potential negative impact of the mother's absence from home on child outcomes. Recent data show ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2014, 81 (1), 137-185)
J13, D1
5154 Boris Hirsch
Claus Schnabel
Women Move Differently: Job Separations and Gender
Using a large German linked employer-employee data set and methods of competing risks analysis, this paper investigates gender differences in job separation rates to employment and nonemployment. In ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2012, 33 (4), 417-442)
J62, J63, J16
5153 Paul Frijters
David W. Johnston
Manisha Shah
Michael A. Shields
Intra-household Resource Allocation: Do Parents Reduce or Reinforce Child Cognitive Ability Gaps?
Do parents invest more or less in their high ability children? We provide new evidence on this question by comparing observed ability differences and observed investment differences between siblings ...
(published in: Demography, 2013, 50 (6), 2187-2208)
D13, J1
5152 John Strauss
Xiaoyan Lei
Albert Park
Yan Shen
James P. Smith
Zhe Yang
Yaohui Zhao
Health Outcomes and Socio-Economic Status among the Elderly in China: Evidence from the CHARLS Pilot
We are concerned in this paper with measuring health outcomes among the elderly in Zhejiang and Gansu provinces, China, and examining the relationships between different dimensions of health status ...
(published in: Journal of Population Ageing 3(3-4):111-142, 2010)
I10
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