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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
4210 Andrew E. Clark
Andreas Knabe
Steffen Rätzel
Boon or Bane? Others' Unemployment, Well-being and Job Insecurity
The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the well-being of the employed, but has a far smaller effect on the unemployed. We use German panel data to reproduce this ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 52-61)
I31, D84, J60
4209 Ian Gazeley
Andrew T. Newell
No Room to Live: Urban Overcrowding in Edwardian Britain
We study the extent of overcrowding amongst British urban working families in the early 1900s and find major regional differences. In particular, a much greater proportion of households in urban ...
(published as 'Why was urban over-crowding much more severe in Scotland than in the rest of the British Isles? Evidence from the first (1904) official household expenditure survey’ in: European Review of Economic History, 2011, 15 (1), 127-151)
I10, N33, R12
4208 Niall O'Higgins
"It's not that I'm a racist, it's that they are Roma": Roma Discrimination and Returns to Education in South Eastern Europe
This paper uses a unique survey of Roma and non-Roma in South Eastern Europe to evaluate competing explanations for the poor performance of Roma in the labour market. The analysis seeks to identify ...
(revised version published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2010, 31(2) 163-187)
C35, J15, J24, P23
4207 Luca Marchiori
I-Ling Shen
Frédéric Docquier
Brain Drain in Globalization: A General Equilibrium Analysis from the Sending Countries' Perspective
The paper assesses the global effects of brain drain on developing economies and quantifies the relative sizes of various static and dynamic impacts. By constructing a unified generic framework ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2013, 51 (2), 1582–1602)
F22, J24, O15
4206 Naihobe Gonzales
Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
Are Returns to Education on the Decline in Venezuela and Does Mission Sucre Have a Role to Play?
There is anecdotal evidence that the standard of living for the educated has fallen in Venezuela over the last few years. This evidence comes as a surprise because after experiencing an economic ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (6), 1348-1369)
J2, J24, J38, I21, O12, O15
4205 Christine Harbring
Bernd Irlenbusch
Sabotage in Tournaments: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment
Although relative performance schemes are pervasive in organizations reliable empirical data on induced sabotage behavior is almost non-existent. We study sabotage in tournaments in a controlled ...
(revised and extended version published in: Management Science, 2011, 57, 611 - 627)
M52, J33, J41, L23, C72, C91
4204 Margaret Maurer-Fazio
Rachel Connelly
Chen Lan
Lixin Tang
Childcare, Eldercare, and Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Urban China: 1982 - 2000
We employ data from the three most recent Chinese population censuses to consider married, urban women's labor force participation decisions in the context of their families and their residential ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2011, 46 (2), 261 - 294)
J11, J12, J13, J16, J22, O15, P23, R23
4201 Nikos Askitas
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Google Econometrics and Unemployment Forecasting
The current economic crisis requires fast information to predict economic behavior early, which is difficult at times of structural changes. This paper suggests an innovative new method of using data ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2009, 55 (2), 107-120)
C22, C82, E17, E24, E37
4200 Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers
The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness
By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women’s happiness has ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2009, 1(2), 190–225)
D6, I32, J1, J7, K1
4199 Donghyun Oh
Almas Heshmati
A Sequential Malmquist-Luenberger Productivity Index
This study proposes an alternative methodology for measuring environmentally sensitive productivity growth. The rationale of this methodology is to consider the features of technology appropriately ...
(published as 'A sequential Malmquist–Luenberger productivity index: Environmentally sensitive productivity growth considering the progressive nature of technology ' in: Energy Economics, 2011, 32 (6), 1345 - 1355)
D24, D61, D57, C43, Q56
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