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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
4639 Riccardo Faini
Steinar Strom
Alessandra Venturini
Claudia Villosio
Are Foreign Migrants More Assimilated Than Native Ones?
The paper compares the pattern of wage assimilation of foreigners with both native immigrants and local natives in Italy, a country with large internal and international migration. This comparison, ...
(published as 'Wage assimilation of immigrants and internal migrants: the role of linguistic distance' in: Regional Studies, 2018, 52, 1423-1434 )
J31, J61, C23
4638 Aderonke Osikominu
Quick Job Entry or Long-Term Human Capital Development? The Dynamic Effects of Alternative Training Schemes
This study evaluates and compares the effectiveness of two alternative training schemes for the unemployed: short, job-search oriented training and long, human capital oriented training. We ...
(revised version published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2013, 80 (1), 313-342)
J64, C41, J68, I28
4637 Marco Francesconi
Christian Ghiglino
Motty Perry
On the Origin of the Family
This paper presents an overlapping generations model to explain why humans live in families rather than in other pair groupings. Since most non-human species are not familial, something special must ...
(revised version published as 'An Evolutionary Theory of Monogamy' in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2016, 166, 605-628)
C72, D01, D10, J12, Z13
4636 Ilias Livanos
Konstantinos Pouliakas
The Gender Wage Gap as a Function of Educational Degree Choices in an Occupationally Segregated EU Country
This study investigates the extent to which differences in the subject of degree studied by male and female university graduates contributes to the gender pay gap, and the reasons underlying their ...
(published as 'Educational segregation and the gender wage gap in Greece' in: Journal of Economic Studies, 2012, 39 (5), 554-575)
J16, J24, J31, J71
4635 Alessandro Cigno
What's the Use of Marriage?
We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and ...
(published as 'Marriage as a commitment device' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2012, 10 (2), 171-192)
D13, J12, J13, J16, J24, K30
4634 Joachim R. Frick
Markus M. Grabka
Accounting for Imputed and Capital Income Flows in Income Inequality Analyses
Using representative and consistent microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) from 1985-2007, we illustrate that capital income (CI = return on financial investments) and imputed ...
(published in: Douglas J. Besharov and Kenneth Couch (eds.), Counting the Poor: New Thinking About European Poverty Measures and Lessons for the United States, Oxford 2012, 117-142)
D31, D33, I31
4633 Nils Braakmann
Joachim Wagner
Labor Market Adjustments after a Large Import Shock: Evidence from the German Clothing Industry and the Multi-Fibre Arrangement
This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement. Using the German shoe industry ...
(published in: Dierk Hirschel, Peter Paic und Markus Zwick (Hrsg.), Daten in der wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Forschung, Wiesbaden, Springer Gabler 2013, 201-224)
F13, F14, F16
4630 Pierre Cahuc
Edouard Challe
Produce or Speculate? Asset Bubbles, Occupational Choice and Efficiency
We study the macroeconomic effects of rational asset bubbles in an overlapping-generations economy where asset trading requires specialized intermediaries and where agents freely choose between ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2012, 53 (4), 1005-1035.)
E22, E44, G21
4627 Herwig Immervoll
Minimum-Income Benefits in OECD Countries: Policy Design, Effectiveness and Challenges
Almost all OECD countries operate comprehensive minimum-income programmes for working-age individuals, either as last-resort safety nets alongside primary income replacement benefits, or as the ...
(published in: D. J. Besharov and K. A. Couch (eds.), 2012, Counting the Poor, Oxford University Press, 171-209. Also available as OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper)
I38, H53, D31, H31
4626 Krishna Pendakur
Simon D. Woodcock
Glass Ceilings or Glass Doors? Wage Disparity Within and Between Firms
We investigate whether immigrant and minority workers’ poor access to high-wage jobs – that is, glass ceilings – is attributable to poor access to jobs in high-wage firms, a phenomenon we call glass ...
(published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2010, 28(1), 181-189)
J15, J71, J31
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