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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
5151 Peng Sun
Almas Heshmati
International Trade and its Effects on Economic Growth in China
International trade, as a major factor of openness, has made an increasingly significant contribution to economic growth. Chinese international trade has experienced rapid expansion together with its ...
(published in: China Economic Policy Review, 2012, 1(2), 35-60.)
C23, D24, F10, O24, R58
5150 Michael C. Burda
Mark Weder
Payroll Taxes, Social Insurance and Business Cycles
Payroll taxes represent a major distortionary influence of governments on labor markets. This paper examines the role of payroll taxation and the social safety net for cyclical fluctuations in a ...
(published in: Journal of European Economic Association, 2016, 14 (2), 436 - 467)
E24, J64, E32
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