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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
4716 Leilanie Basilio
Thomas K. Bauer
Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation: An Analysis for Germany
This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using ...
(published in: Labour, 2017, 31 (3), 245 - 264)
J61, J31, J24
4715 Ariel Kalil
Magne Mogstad
Mari Rege
Mark Votruba
Divorced Fathers' Proximity and Children's Long Run Outcomes: Evidence from Norwegian Registry Data
This study examines the link between divorced nonresident fathers' proximity and children's long-run outcomes using high-quality data from Norwegian population registers. We follow (from birth to ...
(published in: Demography, 2011, 48 (3), 1005-1027)
J12, J13
4714 Rolf Aaberge
Magne Mogstad
Vito Peragine
Measuring Long-Term Inequality of Opportunity
In this paper, we introduce and apply a general framework for evaluating long-term income distributions according to the Equality of Opportunity principle. Our framework allows for both an ex-ante ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (3-4), 193-204)
D71, D91, I32
4713 Konstantinos Pouliakas
Pay Enough, Don't Pay Too Much or Don't Pay at All? The Impact of Bonus Intensity on Job Satisfaction
Using ten waves (1998-2007) of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), this paper investigates the ceteris paribus association between the intensity of incentive pay, the dynamic change in bonus ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2010, 63 (4), 597-626)
C23, J28, J33, M52, M54
4712 Laura Hospido
Modelling Heterogeneity and Dynamics in the Volatility of Individual Wages
This paper presents a model for the heterogeneity and dynamics of the conditional mean and the conditional variance of standardized individual wages. In particular, a heteroskedastic autoregressive ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2012, 27 (3), 386-414)
C23, J31
4711 Olivier B. Bargain
Prudence Magejo
Is Informality Bad? Evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa
The informal sector plays an important role in the functioning of labor markets in emerging economies. To characterize better this highly heterogeneous sector, we conduct a distributional analysis of ...
(published as 'Earnings Structure, Informal Employment and Self-Employment: New Evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2011, 57, S100-S122)
J21, J23, J24, J31, O17
4710 Björn Bartling
Ernst Fehr
Klaus M. Schmidt
Screening, Competition, and Job Design: Economic Origins of Good Jobs
In recent decades, many firms offered more discretion to their employees, often increasing the productivity of effort but also leaving more opportunities for shirking. These "high-performance work ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (2), 834-864)
C91, D86
4708 Jesús Fernández-Villaverde
Jeremy Greenwood
Nezih Guner
From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years: An Economic Model of the Rise in Premarital Sex and its De-Stigmatization
Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such as time and effort. Parents weigh the marginal gains from socialization against ...
(published in: Journal of European Economic Association, 2014, 12 (1), 25-61)
D1, J11, J12, J13, E1
4707 Erkki Koskela
Jan König
Profit Sharing, Wage Formation and Flexible Outsourcing under Labor Market Imperfection
We combine profit sharing and outsourcing, if the wage for worker is decided by a labor union to analyze how does the implementation of profit sharing affect individual effort and the bargained wage ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2012, 20 (1), 18-28)
E23, E24, J23, J33, J82
4706 Fernanda Brollo
Tommaso Nannicini
Roberto Perotti
Guido Tabellini
The Political Resource Curse
The paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (5), 1759-1796)
D72, D73, H40, H77
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