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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
5180 Didier Fouarge
Trudie Schils
Andries de Grip
Why Do Low-Educated Workers Invest Less in Further Training?
Several studies document the fact that low-educated workers participate less often in further training than high-educated workers. The economic literature suggests that there is no significant ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2013, 45 (18), 2587-2601)
J24, J31, C21
5179 Weiwei Ren
Paul W. Miller
Gender Differentials in the Payoff to Schooling in China
This paper examines the gender differential in the payoff to schooling in China. The analyses are conducted separately for rural and urban areas, and are based on a framework provided by the over ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2012, 48 (1), 133-150)
J31, J62, J70
5177 Heléne Lundqvist
Matz Dahlberg
Eva Mörk
Stimulating Local Public Employment: Do General Grants Work?
The effectiveness of public funds in increasing public employment has long been a question on public and labor economists’ minds. In most federal countries local governments employ large fractions of ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2014, 6 (1) 167 - 192)
C33, H11, H70, J45
5176 Sabien Dobbelaere
Jacques Mairesse
Panel Data Estimates of the Production Function and Product and Labor Market Imperfections
Consistent with two models of imperfect competition in the labor market, the efficient bargaining model and the monopsony model, we provide two extensions of a microeconomic version of Hall's ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2013, 28 (1): 1-46)
C23, D21, J51, L13
5175 Joachim Wagner
From Estimation Results to Stylized Facts: Twelve Recommendations for Empirical Research in International Activities of Heterogeneous Firms
Heterogeneous firms are at the heart of both the New New International Trade Theory and the Micro-econometrics of International Firm Activities. One important aim of micro-econometric studies is to ...
(published in: De Economist, 2011, 159 (4), 389-412)
F14, C21, C23
5173 James Banks
Richard Blundell
Zoë Oldfield
James P. Smith
House Price Volatility and the Housing Ladder
This paper investigates the effects of housing price risk on housing choices over the life-cycle. Housing price risk can be substantial but, unlike other risky assets which people can avoid, the fact ...
(published in D. Wise (ed), Insights in the Economics of Ageing, Chapter 3, University of Chicago Press, 2017.)
D12, D91
5172 Jason M. Lindo
Charles Stoecker
Drawn into Violence: Evidence on 'What Makes a Criminal' from the Vietnam Draft Lotteries
Draft lottery number assignment during the Vietnam era provides a natural experiment to examine the effects of military service on crime. Using exact dates of birth for inmates in state and federal ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2014, 52 (1), 239-258)
K42, H56
5171 Christer Gerdes
Using "Shares" vs. "Log of Shares" in Fixed-Effect Estimations
This paper looks at potential implications emerging from including "shares" as a control variable in fixed effect estimations. By shares I refer to the ratio of a sum of units over another, such as ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Econometrics, 2011, 54 (1), 1–7)
C23, C29, J10
5168 James Banks
Richard Blundell
Zoë Oldfield
James P. Smith
Housing Mobility and Downsizing at Older Ages in Britain and the United States
This paper investigates the effects of housing price risk on housing choices over the life-cycle. Housing price risk can be substantial but, unlike other risky assets which people can avoid, the fact ...
(published in: Economica, 2012, 79 (313), 1-26)
D12, D91
5167 Alison L. Booth
Pamela Katic
Estimating the Wage Elasticity of Labour Supply to a Firm: What Evidence Is There for Monopsony?
In this paper we estimate the elasticity of the labour supply to a firm, using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. Estimation of this elasticity is of ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2011, 87 (278), 359 - 369)
J42, J21, J71
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