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No.
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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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4936
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Carol
McAusland
Peter
J.
Kuhn
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Bidding for Brains: Intellectual Property Rights and the International Migration of Knowledge Workers
We introduce international mobility of knowledge workers into a model of Nash equilibrium IPR policy choice among countries. We show that governments have incentives to use IPRs in a bidding war for ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2011, 95 (1), 77-87)
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F22, J6, O34
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4935
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Lídia
Farré
Roger
Klein
Francis
Vella
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A Parametric Control Function Approach to Estimating the Returns to Schooling in the Absence of Exclusion Restrictions: An Application to the NLSY
An innovation which bypasses the need for instruments when estimating endogenous treatment effects is identification via conditional second moments. The most general of these approaches is Klein and ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 44 (1), 111-133)
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J31, C31
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4934
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Sher
Verick
Iyanatul
Islam
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The Great Recession of 2008-2009: Causes, Consequences and Policy Responses
Starting in mid-2007, the global financial crisis quickly metamorphosed from the bursting of the housing bubble in the US to the worst recession the world has witnessed for over six decades. Through ...
(published in: Iyanatul Islam and Sher Verick (eds.), From the Great Recession to Labour Market Recovery: Issues, Evidence and Policy Options, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK; ILO/Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
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E24, E60, G01, J08, J60
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4932
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Timothy
J.
Hatton
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Infant Mortality and the Health of Survivors: Britain 1910-1950
The first half of the twentieth century saw rapid improvements in the health and height of British children. Average height and health can be related to infant mortality through a positive selection ...
(published as 'Infant mortality and the health of survivors: Britain, 1910–50' in: Economic History Review, 2011, 64 (3), 951-972)
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I12, J13, N34
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4931
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Kristiina
Huttunen
Jukka
Pirttilä
Roope
Uusitalo
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The Employment Effects of Low-Wage Subsidies
Low-wage subsidies are often proposed as a solution to the unemployment problem among the low skilled. Yet the empirical evidence on the effects of low-wage subsidies is surprisingly scarce. This ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 97, 49–60)
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H24, J23, J68
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4930
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Duha
T.
Altindag
Naci
Mocan
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Joblessness and Perceptions about the Effectiveness of Democracy
Using micro data on more than 130,000 individuals from 69 countries, we analyze the extent to which joblessness of the individuals and the prevailing unemployment rate in the country impact ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2010, 31 (2), 99-123)
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J2, O1, P1
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4928
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Vincenzo
Verardi
Joachim
Wagner
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Robust Estimation of Linear Fixed Effects Panel Data Models with an Application to the Exporter Productivity Premium
In empirical studies it often happens that some variables for some units are far away from the other observations in the sample. These extreme observations, or outliers, often have a large impact on ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2011, 231 (4), 546-557)
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C23, C81, C87, F14
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4927
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Susi
Störmer
René
Fahr
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Individual Determinants of Work Attendance: Evidence on the Role of Personality
We investigate the influence of personality as measured by the Big Five personality scale on absenteeism using representative data for Germany. In particular, the 2005 wave of the German ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2013, 45 (19), 2863-2875)
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J20, M12, M51
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4926
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Eric
A.
Hanushek
Ludger
Woessmann
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Sample Selectivity and the Validity of International Student Achievement Tests in Economic Research
Critics of international student comparisons argue that results may be influenced by differences in the extent to which countries adequately sample their entire student populations. In this research ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2011, 110 (2), 79-82)
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C83, H4, I20, O40
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4925
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Eric
A.
Hanushek
Ludger
Woessmann
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The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement
An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country ...
(published in: E.A. Hanushek, S. Machin, L. Woessmann (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Education, Vol. 3, pp. 89-200, Amsterdam: North Holland, 2011)
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I20, O40, O15, H40, H52, J24, J31, P50
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13080Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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