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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
4624 Mariana Blanco
Dirk Engelmann
Alexander K. Koch
Hans-Theo Normann
Preferences and Beliefs in a Sequential Social Dilemma: A Within-Subjects Analysis
Within-subject data from sequential social dilemma experiments reveal a correlation of first-and second-mover decisions for which two channels may be responsible, that our experiment allows to ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2014, 87, 122–135. )
C72, C90
4623 Admasu Shiferaw
Arjun S. Bedi
The Dynamics of Job Creation and Job Destruction: Is Sub-Saharan Africa Different?
This paper analyzes the creation, destruction and reallocation of jobs in order to understand the micro-dynamics of aggregate employment change in African manufacturing. The nature and magnitude of ...
(published as 'The Dynamics of Job Creation and Job Destruction in an African Economy: Evidence from Ethiopia' in: Journal of African Economies, 2013, 22(5), 651-692)
J20, J23, J49
4622 Raquel Fonseca
Pierre-Carl Michaud
Titus Galama
Arie Kapteyn
On The Rise of Health Spending and Longevity
We use a calibrated stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement to investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and life expectancy ...
(published as 'Accounting for the Rise of Health Spending and Longevity' in: Journal of the European Economics Association, 2021, 19 (1), 536 - 579)
I10, I38, J26
4621 Joan de Martí
Yves Zenou
Social Networks
We survey the literature on social networks by putting together the economics, sociological and physics/applied mathematics approaches, showing their similarities and differences. We expose, in ...
(published in: Ian Jarvie and Jesus Zamora-Bonilla (eds.), The SAGE Handbook of the Philosophy of Social Science, London: Sage Publications, 2011.)
A14, C72, D85, Z13
4620 Amelie F. Constant
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Integration
This chapter deals with the economic and ethnic diversity caused by international labor migration, and their economic integration possibilities. It brings together three strands of literature dealing ...
(published in: M. N. Jovanovic (ed.), International Handbook on the Economics of Integration, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, 2011, 145 - 168. Revised version published in: A. F. Constant, K. F. Zimmermann, International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, pp. 13-36.)
F22, J15, J16, Z10
4619 Jens Suedekum
Katja Wolf
Uwe Blien
Cultural Diversity and Local Labour Markets
During the last decade there have been marked changes in the composition of the non-native workforce in the German labour market. In particular there has been a notable increase in the diversity of ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2014, 48 (1), 173-191)
R23, J21, J31
4618 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
David C. Ribar
Financial Stress, Family Conflict, and Youths' Successful Transition to Adult Roles
We analyze the effect of mothers' and youths' reports of family financial stress and conflict on youths' transitions into adult roles. We find that mothers’ reports of financial stresses and ...
(published as 'Financial Stress, Family Conflict, and Australian Youths’ Transitions from Home and School' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2012, 11 (4), 469 - 490.)
D13, J13
4617 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Susan Pozo
New Evidence on the Role of Remittances on Health Care Expenditures by Mexican Households
Using Mexico's 2002 wave of the Encuesta Nacional de Ingresos y Gastos de los Hogares (ENIGH), we find that international remittances raise health care expenditures. Approximately 6 pesos of every ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (1), 69-98.)
F24, I1
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