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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
4580 Bernhard Boockmann
Stephan L. Thomsen
Thomas Walter
Intensifying the Use of Benefit Sanctions: An Effective Tool to Shorten Welfare Receipt and Speed Up Transitions to Employment?
Benefit sanctions imposed on non-compliant welfare recipients are a new element in the German welfare system. In practice, the sanction policy and the application of sanctions vary considerably ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2014, 3:21, https://doi.org/10.1186/2193-9004-3-21 )
I38, J64, C31
4579 Raul Ramos
Jordi Surinach
Manuel Artís
Human Capital Spillovers, Productivity and Regional Convergence in Spain
This paper analyses the differential impact of human capital, in terms of different levels of schooling, on regional productivity and convergence. The potential existence of geographical spillovers ...
(published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2010, 89 (2), 435-447)
O18, O47, R23
4578 Eric Bartelsman
John C. Haltiwanger
Stefano Scarpetta
Cross-Country Differences in Productivity: The Role of Allocation and Selection
This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm-level) policy distortions on aggregate outcomes. On the one hand, a growing body ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (1), 305-334)
E02, L11, L16, L2, L25, O4, O57
4577 Saul Estrin
Tomasz Mickiewicz
Do Institutions Have a Greater Effect on Female Entrepreneurs?
This paper compares the impact of institutions on individual decisions to become entrepreneurs in the form of new business start ups by males and females across 44 developed and developing economies ...
(published as 'Institutions and female entrepreneurship' in: Small Business Economics, 2011, 37 (4), 397-415)
L26, J16, H11, O16, O17, P43
4576 Eric A. Hanushek
Ludger Woessmann
Schooling, Cognitive Skills, and the Latin American Growth Puzzle
Economic development in Latin America has trailed most other world regions over the past four decades despite its relatively high initial development and school attainment levels. This puzzle can be ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 99 (2), 497-512)
H4, I2, O4, N16
4575 Eric A. Hanushek
Ludger Woessmann
Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation
We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth is appropriate and whether cross-country evidence supports a case for the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2012, 17 (4), 267-321)
H4, I2, J3, J61, O1, O4
4574 George W. Hammond
Mehmet S. Tosun
The Impact of Local Decentralization on Economic Growth: Evidence from U.S. Counties
We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our findings suggest that government organization matters for local economic growth, ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2010, 20 (10), 1-18)
E62, H7, R11
4572 Sarmistha Pal
Public Infrastructure, Location of Private Schools and Primary School Attainment in an Emerging Economy
The paper argues that access to public infrastructure plays a crucial role on the presence of private schools in a community, as it could not only minimise the cost of production, but also ensure a ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (5), 783-794)
I20, I30, O15, P36
4571 Maarten C.M. Vendrik
Christiane Schwieren
Identification, Screening and Stereotyping in Labour Market Discrimination
According to social-psychological research, feelings of uncertainty in decision-making evoke two opposite responses: (i) reduction of uncertainty by information search, leading to less stereotyping ...
(published in Journal of Economics, 2010, 99 (2), 141-171)
J7, M51
4570 Roland Benabou
Jean Tirole
Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility
Society's demands for individual and corporate social responsibility as an alternative response to market and distributive failures are becoming increasingly prominent. We first draw on recent ...
(published in Economica, 2010, 77 (305) , 1-19.)
D64, D78, H41, L31
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