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4765 Jan C. van Ours
Lenny Stoeldraijer
Age, Wage and Productivity
Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and ...
(published as 'Age, Wage and Productivity in Dutch Manufacturing' in: De Economist, 2011, 159 (2) , 113-137)
J23, J31
4762 Solomon Polachek
Daria Sevastianova
Does Conflict Disrupt Growth? Evidence of the Relationship between Political Instability and National Economic Performance
Current empirical growth models limit the determinants of country growth to geographic, economic, and institutional variables. This study draws on conflict variables from the Correlates of War (COW) ...
(published in: Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2012, 21 (3), 361 - 388)
C2, O1, O47, O57, P47, P52
4761 Gulcin Gumus
Jungmin Lee
The ART of Life: IVF or Child Adoption?
This paper analyzes the effects of child adoption on the utilization of assisted reproductive technology (ART) in the US. Using state-level longitudinal data for 1999-2006, we show that ART use is ...
(revised version published as 'Alternative Paths to Parenthood: IVF or Child Adoption?' in: Economic Inquiry, 2012, 50 (3), 802-820)
I11, J13, J18
4760 John T. Addison
Alex Bryson
Paulino Teixeira
André Pahnke
Slip Sliding Away: Further Union Decline in Germany and Britain
This paper presents the first comparative analysis of the decline in collective bargaining in two European countries where that decline has been most pronounced. Using workplace-level data and a ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 58 (4), 490-518)
J50, J51
4757 Pedro S. Martins
Gary Solon
Jonathan P. Thomas
Measuring What Employers Really Do about Entry Wages over the Business Cycle
In models recently published by several influential macroeconomic theorists, rigidity in the real wages that firms pay newly hired workers plays a crucial role in generating realistically large ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2012, 4 (4), 36-55)
E24, J31, E32
4756 Stephan Meier
Charles Sprenger
Stability of Time Preferences
Individuals frequently face intertemporal decisions. For the purposes of economic analysis, the preference parameters assumed to govern these decisions are generally considered to be stable economic ...
(revised version published as 'Temporal Stability of Time Preferences' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97(2), 273-286)
C93, D01, D03, D11, D91
4755 Eugenio Proto
Daniel Sgroi
Andrew J. Oswald
Are Happiness and Productivity Lower among University Students with Newly-Divorced Parents? An Experimental Approach
We live in a high-divorce age. It is now common for university faculty to have students who are touched by a recent divorce. It is likely that parents themselves worry about effects on their ...
(published in: Experimental Economics, 2012, 15 (1), 1-23)
D03, J24, C91
4754 Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Longer-Term Impacts of Mentoring, Educational Services, and Incentives to Learn: Evidence from a Randomized Trial
This paper is the first to use a randomized trial in the US to analyze the short- and long-term educational and employment impacts of an after-school program, the Quantum Opportunity Program, that ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Longer-Term Impacts of Mentoring, Educational Services, and Learning Incentives: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in the United States' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2012, 4 (4), 121-139)
C93, I21, I22, I28, J24
4752 Emmanuel Saez
Manos Matsaganis
Panos Tsakloglou
Earnings Determination and Taxes: Evidence from a Cohort Based Payroll Tax Reform in Greece
This paper analyzes the response of earnings to payroll tax rates using a cohort-based reform in Greece. All individuals who started working on or after 1993 face permanently a much higher earnings ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2012, 127 (1), 493-533)
J31, J22, H22
4751 Achim Schmillen
Joachim Möller
Determinants of Lifetime Unemployment: A Micro Data Analysis with Censored Quantile Regressions
The empirical literature on unemployment almost exclusively focuses on the duration of distinct unemployment spells. In contrast, we use a large German administrative micro data set for the time span ...
(published as "Distribution and determinants of lifetime unemployment" in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (1), 33-47)
J64, J24
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