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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
4899 Murat Güray Kirdar
Source Country Characteristics and Immigrants' Migration Duration and Saving Decisions
This paper examines how immigrants' migration duration and saving decisions in the host country respond to the purchasing power parity (ppp) and the wage ratio between the host and source countries. ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration 2013, 2:8)
F22, J61
4898 Fernando A. Lozano
Mary J. Lopez
Border Enforcement and Selection of Mexican Immigrants in the United States
Since 1986 the United States has made considerable efforts to curb illegal immigration. This has resulted in an increase in migration costs for undocumented immigrants. More stringent border ...
(published in: Feminist Economics, 2013, 19 (1), 76-110)
J1, J2, J3, J6
4897 Bernt Bratsberg
Elisabeth Fevang
Knut Røed
Disability in the Welfare State: An Unemployment Problem in Disguise?
Economies with low unemployment often have high disability rates. In Norway, the permanent disability insurance rolls outnumber registered unemployment by four to one. Based on administrative ...
(revised version published as 'Job Loss and Disability Insurance' in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24, 137–150)
H55, I12, I38, J63, J65
4896 Eva Deuchert
Conny Wunsch
Evaluating Nationwide Health Interventions When Standard Before-After Doesn't Work: Malawi's ITN Distribution Program
Nationwide health interventions are difficult to evaluate as contemporaneous control groups do not exist and before-after approaches are usually infeasible. We propose an alternative semi-parametric ...
(published as 'Evaluating Nationwide Health Interventions: Malawi's Insecticide Treated Net Distribution Program' in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 2014, 177 (2), 523-552)
C14, C21, I18
4895 Eric Bartelsman
Pieter A. Gautier
Joris De Wind
Employment Protection, Technology Choice, and Worker Allocation
Using a country-industry panel dataset (EUKLEMS) we uncover a robust empirical regularity, namely that high-risk innovative sectors are relatively smaller in countries with strict employment ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2018, 57 (3), 787 - 825)
J65, O38
4894 Murat Güray Kirdar
Estimating the Impact of Immigrants on the Host Country Social Security System When Return Migration is an Endogenous Choice
In this paper, I estimate the fiscal impact of immigrants on the German pension insurance (PI) and unemployment insurance (UI) systems when return migration is an endogenous choice. For this purpose, ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2012, 53 (2), 453-486)
J61, D91, H55, J65, J68
4893 Markus Poschke
"Entrepreneurs out of Necessity": A Snapshot
"Entrepreneurs out of necessity" identified by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey are a sizeable group across countries. They tend to have low education, run smaller firms, expect their firms ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2013, 20 (7), 658-663)
L26, O40
4892 Anabela Carneiro
Natércia Fortuna
José Varejão
Immigrants at New Destinations: How They Fare and Why
Using matched employer-employee data, we identify the determinants of immigrants’ earnings in the Portuguese labor market. Results previously reported for countries with a long tradition of hosting ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2012, 25 (3), 1165-1185)
J15, J24, J61
4891 Fernando Alexandre
Pedro Bação
João Cerejeira
Miguel Portela
Employment, Exchange Rates and Labour Market Rigidity
There is increasing evidence that the interaction between shocks and labour market institutions is crucial to understanding the dynamics of employment. In this paper, we show that the inclusion of ...
(published in: World Economy, 2017, 40 (5), 993 - 1011)
J23, F16, F41
4890 Tito Boeri
Pietro Garibaldi
Marta Ribeiro
Behind the Lighthouse Effect
A large body of empirical literature indicates that, contrary to predictions from economic theory, wages in the informal sector increase after any minimum wage hike. This phenomenon was so far ...
(revised version published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2011, 57 (s1), 54-78)
J30
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