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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
4268 Andries de Grip
Didier Fouarge
Jan Sauermann
What Affects International Migration of European Science and Engineering Graduates?
Using a dataset of science and engineering graduates from 12 European countries, we analyse the determinants of labour migration after graduation. We find that not only wage gains are driving the ...
(published in: Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2010, 19(5), 407-421)
F22, J61
4266 Petter Lundborg
Paul Nystedt
Dan-Olof Rooth
The Height Premium in Earnings: The Role of Physical Capacity and Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills
The association between stature and favorable labor market outcomes has been extensively documented. Recent studies have attributed this height premium to cognitive and social skills. We offer an ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49(1), 141-166.)
J10, J70
4265 Lídia Farré
Libertad González
Francesc Ortega
Immigration, Family Responsibilities and the Labor Supply of Skilled Native Women
This paper investigates the effects of Spain's large recent immigration wave on the labor supply of highly skilled native women. We hypothesize that female immigration led to an increase in the ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions, 2011, 11 (1), Article 34)
J61, J22, J13
4264 Jan C. van Ours
Will You Still Need Me – When I'm 64?
For various reasons the relationship between age and productivity is a matter of policy concern. I present new empirical research showing how productivity is affected by age. I study age effects at ...
(published in: De Economist, 2009, 157(4), 441-460 )
J14, J24, J31
4263 Olof Aslund
Anders Böhlmark
Oskar Nordström Skans
Age at Migration and Social Integration
The paper studies childhood migrants and examines how age at migration affects their ensuing integration at the residential market, the labor market, and the marriage market. We use population-wide ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 35, 135–144)
J12, J15, J13, J01
4262 Johannes Abeler
Steffen Altmann
Sebastian Kube
Matthias Wibral
Gift Exchange and Workers' Fairness Concerns: When Equality Is Unfair
We study how different payment modes influence the effectiveness of gift exchange as a contract enforcement device. In particular, we analyze how horizontal fairness concerns affect performance and ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2010, 8(6), 1299-1324)
J33, D63, M52, C92, J41
4261 Benoit Dostie
Rajshri Jayaraman
The Effect of Adversity on Process Innovations and Managerial Incentives
This paper asks whether adversity spurs the introduction of process innovations and increases the use of managerial incentives by firms. Using a large panel data set of workplaces in Canada, our ...
(published as 'Do Higher Costs Spur Process Innovations and Managerial Incentives? Evidence from a Natural Experiment' in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2013, 22 (3), 529–550)
L20, O31, M52, J33
4260 Alan Barrett
EU Enlargement and Ireland's Labour Market
Ireland, along with Sweden and the UK, allowed full access to its labour market to the citizens of the accession countries when the EU enlarged in May 2004. Given the limited number of countries that ...
(published in: M. Kahanec and K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), EU Labor Markets after Post-Enlargement Migration, Springer: Berlin et al. 2009, 145-161)
J61, F22
4259 Axel Dreher
Justina A.V. Fischer
Government Decentralization as a Disincentive for Transnational Terror? An Empirical Analysis
Using panel data for a maximum of 109 countries over the years 1976-2000, we empirically analyze the impact of decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2010, 51 (4), 981 - 1002)
D74, H70, H40
4258 Almut Balleer
Thijs van Rens
Cyclical Skill-Biased Technological Change
Over the past two decades, technological progress has been biased towards making skilled labor more productive. What does skill-biased technological change imply for business cycles? To answer this ...
(published as 'Skill-Biased Technological Change and the Business Cycle' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95(4), 1222-1237)
E24, E32, J24, J31
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