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4782 Robert Dur
Arjan Non
Hein Roelfsema
Reciprocity and Incentive Pay in the Workplace
We study optimal incentive contracts for workers who are reciprocal to management attention. When neither worker's effort nor manager's attention can be contracted, a double moral-hazard problem ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2010, 31 (4), 676-686)
D86, J41, M51, M52, M54, M55
4781 Ugo Colombino
Marilena Locatelli
Edlira Narazani
Cathal O'Donoghue
Alternative Basic Income Mechanisms: An Evaluation Exercise with a Microeconometric Model
We develop and estimate a microeconometric model of household labour supply in four European countries representative of different economies and welfare policy regimes: Denmark, Italy, Portugal and ...
(published in: Basic Income Studies, 2010, 5 (1))
C25, H24, H31, I38
4780 Gerard J. van den Berg
Dorly J. H. Deeg
Maarten Lindeboom
France Portrait
The Role of Early-Life Conditions in the Cognitive Decline due to Adverse Events Later in Life
Cognitive functioning of elderly individuals may be affected by events such as the loss of a (grand)child or partner or the onset of a serious chronic condition, and by negative economic shocks such ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120 (548), F411-F428)
I12, I10, J14, E32
4779 Arno Tausch
Almas Heshmati
Learning from Latin America's Experience: Europe's Failure in the "Lisbon Process"
The current paper investigates the cross-national relevance of Latin American "dependencia theory" for five dimensions of development (democracy and human rights, environment, human development and ...
(published in: Alternatives, Turkish Journal of International Relations, 2010, 9(4), 3-90.)
J01, O52, O54, P50
4777 Simonetta Longhi
Job Competition and the Wage Curve
The wage curve literature consistently finds a negative relationship between regional unemployment rates and regional wages; the most widely accepted theoretical explanations interpret the ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2012, 46 (5), 611-620)
J31, R23
4775 Petter Lundborg
Paul Nystedt
Dan-Olof Rooth
No Country for Fat Men? Obesity, Earnings, Skills, and Health among 450,000 Swedish Men
The negative association between obesity and labor market outcomes has been widely documented, yet little is known about the mechanisms through which the association arises. Using rich and unique ...
(published as 'Body Size, Skills, and Income: Evidence From 150,000 Teenage Siblings' in: Demography, 2014, 51, 1573-1596)
I10, J10, J70
4774 David W. Johnston
Michael E. R. Nicholls
Manisha Shah
Michael A. Shields
Handedness, Health and Cognitive Development: Evidence from Children in the NLSY
Using data from the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, and fitting family fixed-effects models of child health and cognitive development, we test if left-handed children do significantly worse ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2013, 176 (4), 841-860)
I12, J10
4773 Conny Wunsch
Optimal Use of Labor Market Policies: The Role of Job Search Assistance
This paper studies the role of job search assistance programs in optimal welfare-to-work programs. The analysis is based on a framework, that allows for endogenous choice of benefit types and levels, ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (3), 1030-1045)
J64, J65, J68, D82, D86
4772 Jonathan Haskel
Gavin Wallis
Public Support for Innovation, Intangible Investment and Productivity Growth in the UK Market Sector
Pressure on public finances has increased scrutiny of public support for innovation. We examine two particular issues. First, there have been many recent calls for the (relatively new) UK R&D subsidy ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 119 (2), 195-198)
O47, E22
4771 Olaf Hübler
Lukas Menkhoff
Do Women Manage Smaller Funds?
Based on a sample of 467 asset managers from four countries we robustly find that women manage smaller funds than men, despite tough competition in this industry. Interestingly, the gender gap exists ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 58 (1), 107-126)
J16, J44, G23
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