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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
4433 Jonathan Wadsworth
Did the National Minimum Wage Affect UK Prices?
One potential channel through which the effects of the minimum wage could be directed is that firms who employ minimum wage workers could pass on any resulting higher labour costs in the form of ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2010, 31 (1), 81-120)
J6
4432 Christian Dustmann
Albrecht Glitz
Thorsten Vogel
Employment, Wages, and the Economic Cycle: Differences between Immigrants and Natives
In this paper, we analyse differences in the cyclical pattern of employment and wages of immigrants and natives for two large immigrant receiving countries, Germany and the UK. We show that, despite ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2010, 54 (1), 1-17)
E32, F22, J31
4431 Loren Brandt
Aloysius Siow
Jackie Wang
Substitution Effects in Parental Investments
The paper estimates how parents adjust bride-prices and land divisions to compensate their sons for differences in their schooling investments in rural China. The main estimate implies that when a ...
(Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 28(2), 423-462 [Winner of Kuznet's Price 2015])
D13, J12, J13
4430 Melanie K. Jones
Peter J. Sloane
Disability and Skill Mismatch
This paper integrates two strands of literature on overskilling and disability using the 2004 British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS). It finds that the disabled are significantly more ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2010, 88 (s1), 101 - 114)
I0, J2, J3, J7, J24, J31
4429 Panu Poutvaara
Andreas Wagener
The Political Economy of Conscription
Though in decline recently, military conscription is still a widely used mode of staffing armies. Since not many valid economic, social or military arguments in favor of the draft can be put forward, ...
(published in: Christopher J. Coyne and Rachel L. Mathers (eds.), The Handbook on the Political Economy of War, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011)
H56, D72
4428 Frank Cörvers
Arnaud Dupuy
Estimating Employment Dynamics across Occupations and Sectors of Industry
In this paper, we estimate the demand for workers by sector and occupation using system dynamic OLS techniques to account for the employment dynamics dependence across occupations and sectors of ...
(published in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2010, 32, 17-32)
J21, J23
4427 Larry L. Howard
Nishith Prakash
Do Means-Tested School Lunch Subsidies Change Children's Weekly Consumption Patterns?
This article examines whether the means-tested component of the National School Lunch Program changes beneficiaries' dietary patterns by taking advantage of variation across public school districts ...
(published as 'Do School Lunch Subsidies Change the Dietary Patterns of Children from Low-Income Households?' in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2012, 30 (3), 362 - 381)
I38
4426 Richard V. Burkhauser
Shuaizhang Feng
Stephen P. Jenkins
Jeff Larrimore
Recent Trends in Top Income Shares in the USA: Reconciling Estimates from March CPS and IRS Tax Return Data
Although the majority of research on US income inequality trends is based on public-use March CPS data, a new wave of research using IRS tax return data reports substantially higher levels of ...
(revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94 (2), 371–388 )
D31, C81
4425 Alan Barrett
Seamus McGuinness
Martin O`Brien
Philip J. O'Connell
Immigrants and Employer-Provided Training
Much has been written about the labour market outcomes for immigrants in their host countries, particularly with regard to earnings, employment and occupational attainment. However, much less ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2013, 34 (1), 52-78)
J24, J61
4424 Sarah Brown
Mark N. Harris
Karl Taylor
Modelling Charitable Donations to an Unexpected Natural Disaster: Evidence from the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics
Using household-level data, we explore the relationship between donations to the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami disaster and other charitable donations. The empirical evidence suggests that ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 84 (1), 97-110)
D19, H24, H41, H31
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