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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
4198 Stephan Meier
Charles Sprenger
Present-Biased Preferences and Credit Card Borrowing
Some individuals borrow extensively on their credit cards. This paper tests whether present-biased time preferences correlate with credit card borrowing. In a field study, we elicit individual time ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2010, 2 (1), 193-210)
D12, D14, D91, C93
4197 Andreas Peichl
Nico Pestel
Hilmar Schneider
Demografie und Ungleichheit: Der Einfluss von Veränderungen der Haushaltsstruktur auf die Einkommensverteilung in Deutschland
In Germany, two observations can be tracked over the past 15 to 20 years: First, income inequality has constantly increased while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. ...
(substantially revised version available as IZA Standpunkt No. 18, published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung / Journal for Labour Market Research, 2011, 43(4), 327-338)
D31, D63, I30, J11
4194 Arnaud Dupuy
Wendy Smits
How Large Is the Compensating Wage Differential for R&D Workers?
The aim of this paper is to measure the extent to which lower wages in R&D functions reflect a preference effect. In contrast to the bulk of the literature on compensating wage differentials that ...
(published in: Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2010, 19 (5), 423-436)
J3
4193 Roger Ham
Pramod N. (Raja) Junankar
Robert Wells
Antagonistic Managers, Careless Workers and Extraverted Salespeople: An Examination of Personality in Occupational Choice
This paper is an econometric investigation of the choice of individuals between a number of occupation groupings utilising an extensive array of conditioning variables measuring a variety of aspects ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2016, 48 (7), 636-651)
J24, J62, C25
4192 Cathal O'Donoghue
David Meredith
Eamon O'Shea
Postponing Maternity in Ireland
As in many other developed countries, Ireland in recent decades has experienced a postponement of maternity. In this paper we consider the main trends in this phenomenon, considering changes in first ...
(published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2011, 35 (1), 59 - 84)
J13
4191 Fernando Alexandre
Pedro Bação
João Cerejeira
Miguel Portela
Employment and Exchange Rates: The Role of Openness and Technology
Real exchange rate movements are important drivers of the reallocation of resources between sectors of the economy. Economic theory suggests that the impact of exchange rates should vary with the ...
(published in: Open Economies Review 2011, ,22 (5), 969 - 984)
J23, F16, F41
4190 Oriana Bandiera
Iwan Barankay
Imran Rasul
Social Incentives in the Workplace
We present evidence on social incentives in the workplace, namely on whether workers’ behavior is affected by the presence of those they are socially tied to, even in settings where there are no ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2010, 77 (2), 417-458)
L2, M5
4189 Patricia Apps
Ray Rees
Relational Contracts, Taxation and the Household
This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to make precise the idea that because households are engaged in a repeated non-cooperative game, Pareto efficient outcomes can be supported by ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2011, 57 (2), 245-258)
D11, D13, H21, H24, H31, J12, J16, K36, N30
4188 Inmaculada García-Mainar
José Alberto Molina
Víctor M. Montuenga
Intra-Household Time Allocation: Gender Differences in Caring for Children
This paper analyses the intra-household allocation of time to show gender differences in childcare. In the framework of a general efficiency approach, hours spent on childcare by each parent are ...
(published as 'Gender Differences in Childcare: Time Allocation in Five European Countries' in: Feminist Economics, 2011, 17 (1), 119-150)
D13, J22, C33
4184 Gabriel Felbermayr
Julien Prat
Hans-Jörg Schmerer
Trade and Unemployment: What Do the Data Say?
This paper documents a robust empirical regularity: in the long-run, higher trade openness is causally associated to a lower structural rate of unemployment. We establish this fact using: (i) panel ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2011, 55 (6), 741-758)
F16, E24, J6
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