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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
4988 Matteo Picchio
Jan C. van Ours
Market Imperfections and Firm-Sponsored Training
Recent human capital theories predict that labor market frictions and product market competition influence firm-sponsored training. Using matched worker-firm data from Dutch manufacturing, our paper ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (5), 712-722)
D43, J24, J42, L22, M53
4987 Huong Thu Le
Alison L. Booth
Inequality in Vietnamese Urban-Rural Living Standards, 1993-2006
Using data from five waves of the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey, we find evidence of significant urban-rural expenditure inequality. Urban-rural inequality in Vietnam increased ...
(revised version published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2014, 60 (4), 862–886)
O18, O53, C13
4986 Tsunao Okumura
Emiko Usui
Concave-Monotone Treatment Response and Monotone Treatment Selection: With an Application to the Returns to Schooling
This paper identifies sharp bounds on the mean treatment response and average treatment effect under the assumptions of both concave monotone treatment response (concave-MTR) and monotone treatment ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2014, 5 (1), 175-194)
C14, J24
4985 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Trong-Ha Nguyen
Immigration Background and the Intergenerational Correlation in Education
This paper analyzes the degree of intergenerational education mobility among immigrant and native-born youth in Australia. We find that young Australians from non-English-speaking background (NESB) ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2012, 88 (283), D 554-575)
I20, J11, J13
4984 Pierre Koning
Karen van der Wiel
Ranking the Schools: How Quality Information Affects School Choice in the Netherlands
This paper analyzes whether information on high school quality published by a national newspaper affects school choice in the Netherlands. For this purpose, we use both school level and individual ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (2), 466–493)
I20, D10, D83
4983 Bernhard Boockmann
The Combined Employment Effects of Minimum Wages and Labor Market Regulation: A Meta-Analysis
This paper provides a meta-analysis of 55 empirical studies estimating the employment effects of minimum wages in 15 industrial countries. It strongly confirms the notion that the effects of minimum ...
(published in: Applied Economic Quarterly, 2010, 56, 156-188)
J38, J20, C12
4982 Ana Lamo
Julián Messina
Formal Education, Mismatch and Wages after Transition: Assessing the Impact of Unobserved Heterogeneity Using Matching Estimators
This paper studies the incidence and consequences of the mismatch between formal education and the educational requirements of jobs in Estonia during the years 1997-2003. We find large wage penalties ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (6), 1089-1099)
J0
4980 Ronen Bar-El
Teresa García-Muñoz
Shoshana Neuman
Yossef Tobol
The Evolution of Secularization: Cultural Transmission, Religion and Fertility Theory, Simulations and Evidence
This study presents an evolutionary process of secularization that integrates a theoretical model, simulations, and an empirical estimation that employs data from 32 countries (included in the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (3), 1129-1174)
C15, C25, D13, J11, J13, Z12
4979 Chunbing Xing
Migration, Self-Selection, and Income Distributions: Evidence from Rural and Urban China
As massive rural residents leave their home countryside for better employment, migration has profound effects on income distributions such as rural-urban income gap and inequalities within rural or ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2014, 22 (3), 539–576)
O15
4978 Tarjei Havnes
Magne Mogstad
Is Universal Child Care Leveling the Playing Field? Evidence from Non-Linear Difference-in-Differences
Advocates of a universal child care system offer a two-fold argument: Child care facilitates children's long-run development, and levels the playing field by benefiting in particular disadvantaged ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 127, 100–114)
J13, H40, I28, D31
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