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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
4966 Abdurrahman B. Aydemir
Immigrant Selection and Short-Term Labour Market Outcomes by Visa Category
This paper studies the efficacy of immigrant selection based on skill requirements in the Canadian context. The point system results in a much higher skill level than would otherwise be achieved by ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (2), 451-475)
J61, J68
4964 Vincenzo Verardi
Joachim Wagner
Productivity Premia for German Manufacturing Firms Exporting to the Euro-Area and Beyond: First Evidence from Robust Fixed Effects Estimations
This paper makes three contributions. (1) It summarizes in tabular form a recent literature made of 36 micro-econometric studies for 16 different countries on the relationship between export ...
(published in: The World Economy, 2012, 35 (6), 694-712)
F14, C23, C81, C87
4963 Michalis Drouvelis
Robert Metcalfe
Nattavudh Powdthavee
Priming Cooperation in Social Dilemma Games
Research on public goods mainly focuses its attention on the ability of incentives, beliefs and group structure to affect behaviour in social dilemma interactions. This paper investigates the pure ...
(published in: Theory and Decision, 2015, 79, 479-492)
C92, D01, H41
4961 Brighita Negrusa
Sonia Oreffice
Sexual Orientation and Household Savings: Do Homosexual Couples Save More?
We analyze how sexual orientation is related to household savings using 2000 US Census data, and find that gay and lesbian couples own significantly more retirement income than heterosexuals, while ...
(published as 'Sexual orientation and household financial decisions: evidence from couples in the United States' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (4), 445-463)
D1, D12, J15, J16
4960 Andrew Leigh
Who Benefits from the Earned Income Tax Credit? Incidence among Recipients, Coworkers and Firms
How are hourly wages affected by the Earned Income Tax Credit? Using variation in state EITC supplements, I find that a 10 percent increase in the generosity of the EITC is associated with a 5 ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2010, 10 (1), Article 45)
H22, H23, J22, J30
4959 Olivier B. Bargain
Libertad González
Claire Keane
Berkay Özcan
Female Labor Supply and Divorce: New Evidence from Ireland
If participation in the labor market helps to secure women's outside options in the case of divorce/separation, an increase in the perceived risk of marital dissolution may accelerate the increase in ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56 (8), 1675–1691)
J12, J22, D10, D13, K36
4958 Andrey Launov
Klaus Wälde
Estimating Incentive and Welfare Effects of Non-Stationary Unemployment Benefits
The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits displays a time-varying exit rate. Building on Semi-Markov processes, we ...
(revised version published in: International Economic Review, 2013, 54 (4), 1159-1198)
E24, J64, J68, C13
4957 Simone Bertoli
Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga
Francesc Ortega
Crossing the Border: Self-Selection, Earnings and Individual Migration Decisions
Many empirical studies on the determinants of international migration flows rely exclusively on macro data, and do not account for migrants' self-selection. We analyze a very interesting episode in ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 101, 75-91)
F22, O15, J61, D33
4956 Kiu-Sik Bae
Hiroyuki Chuma
Takao Kato
Dong-Bae Kim
Isao Ohashi
High Performance Work Practices and Employee Voice: A Comparison of Japanese and Korean Workers
Using a unique new cross-national survey of Japanese and Korean workers, we report the first systematic evidence on the effects on employee voice of High Performance Work Practices (HPWPs) from the ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2011, 50 (1), 1-29)
J53, M54, M52
4955 Loukas Balafoutas
Matthias Sutter
Gender, Competition and the Efficiency of Policy Interventions
Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three alternative policy interventions to promote women in competitions: Quotas, ...
(shortened version published as 'Affirmative action policies promote women and do not harm efficiency in the lab' in: Science, 2012, 335 (6068), 579-582)
C91, D03
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