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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
5125 David McKenzie
Dean Yang
Experimental Approaches in Migration Studies
The decision of whether or not to migrate has far-reaching consequences for the lives of individuals and their families. But the very nature of this choice makes identifying the impacts of migration ...
(published in: Carlos Vargas-Silva (ed.), Handbook of Research Methods in Migration, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012, 249-269)
O12, J61, F22, C21
5124 John Gibson
David McKenzie
The Economic Consequences of "Brain Drain" of the Best and Brightest: Microeconomic Evidence from Five Countries
Brain drain has long been a common concern for migrant-sending countries, particularly for small countries where high-skilled emigration rates are highest. However, while economic theory suggests a ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2012, 122 (560), 339 - 375)
O15, F22, J61
5123 Gil S. Epstein
Ira N. Gang
Migration and Culture
Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding openly into the discussion, usually under some pseudonym. The authors bring ...
(published in: Epstein, Gil S. and Gang, Ira N. (eds.): Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald: 2010)
R23, O15, F22
5121 Ana Rute Cardoso
Paulo Guimaraes
José Varejão
Are Older Workers Worthy of Their Pay? An Empirical Investigation of Age-Productivity and Age-Wage Nexuses
Using longitudinal employer-employee data spanning over a 22-year period, we compare age-wage and age-productivity profiles and find that productivity increases until the age range of 50-54, whereas ...
(published in: De Economist, 2011, 159 (2), 95-111)
J14, J24, J31
5120 Randall K. Q. Akee
Mutlu Yuksel
Skin Tone's Decreasing Importance on Employment: Evidence from a Longitudinal Dataset, 1985-2000
We investigate the effect of skin tone on employment probabilities in a longitudinal data set. Using an objective measure of skin tone from a light-spectrometer and a self-reported measure of race we ...
(revised version published as 'The Decreasing Effect of Skin Tone on Women's Full-Time Employment' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2012, 65 (2), 398-426)
J15, J16, J71
5119 Xiaodong Gong
Robert Breunig
Anthony King
How Responsive is Female Labour Supply to Child Care Costs: New Australian Estimates
The degree of responsiveness of Australian women's labour supply to child care cost has been a matter of some debate. There is a view that the level of responsiveness is very low or negligible, ...
(published as 'Partnered Women's Labour Supply and Child Care Costs in Australia: Measurement Error and the Child-Care Price' in: Economic Record, 2012, 88, 51-69)
J22, J13
5118 Christian Bredemeier
Falko Juessen
Assortative Mating and Female Labor Supply
This paper investigates the pattern of wives' hours disaggregated by the husband's wage decile. In the US, this pattern has changed from downward-sloping to hump-shaped. We show that this development ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 31 (3), 603-631)
E24, J22, J16, D13
5117 Christian Merkl
Dennis Wesselbaum
Extensive vs. Intensive Margin in Germany and the United States: Any Differences?
This paper analyzes the role of the extensive vis-à-vis the intensive margin of labor adjustment in Germany and in the United States. The contribution is twofold. First, we provide an update of older ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2011, 18 (9), 805-808)
C10, E32, J21
5116 Eileen Trzcinski
Elke Holst
Gender Differences in Subjective Well-Being in and out of Management Positions
This study used data from the German Socio-economic Panel to examine gender differences in the extent to which self-reported subjective well-being was associated with occupying a high-level ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2012, 107 (3), 449-463)
J16, J29, J69
5115 Maarten van Ham
Lee Williamson
Peteke Feijten
Paul Boyle
Right to Buy… Time to Move? Investigating the Effect of the Right to Buy on Moving Behaviour in the UK
One of the goals of the Right to Buy (RTB) was to stimulate labour migration by removing the debilitating effect of social housing on geographical mobility. This is the first study to examine ...
(published in: Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 2013, 28 (1), 129-146)
J60, J61, R23
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