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4146 Molly Dahl
Thomas DeLeire
Jonathan Schwabish
Stepping Stone or Dead End? The Effect of the EITC on Earnings Growth
While many studies have found that the EITC increases the employment rates of single mothers, no study to date has examined whether the jobs taken by single mothers as a result of the EITC incentives ...
(published in: National Tax Journal, 2009, 62 (2), 329–346)
J3, H2
4145 Alessio J. G. Brown
Christian Merkl
Dennis J. Snower
An Incentive Theory of Matching
This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are heterogeneous variations in the characteristics of workers and jobs, and firms ...
(published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2015, 19 (3), 643-668)
E24, E32, J63, J64
4142 Alexander M. Danzer
Barbara Dietz
Temporary Labour Migration and Welfare at the New European Fringe: A Comparison of Five Eastern European Countries
This paper investigates patterns and determinants of temporary labour migration in Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine after EU enlargement in 2004. Migration incidence, destination ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Labour Migration from Eastern Europe and the EU’s Quest for Talents' in: Journal of Common Market Studies, 2014, 52 (2), 183-199)
F22, J61, I31, P23
4140 Gerard J. van den Berg
Petter Lundborg
Paul Nystedt
Dan-Olof Rooth
Critical Periods During Childhood and Adolescence: A Study of Adult Height Among Immigrant Siblings
We identify the ages that constitute critical periods in children's development towards their adult health status. For this we use data on families migrating into Sweden from countries that are ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2014, 12 (6), 1521-1557.)
I10, I12, I18, F22, I20, I30, J10, N30
4139 Fredrik Carlsson
Peter Martinsson
Ping Qin
Matthias Sutter
Household Decision Making and the Influence of Spouses' Income, Education, and Communist Party Membership: A Field Experiment in Rural China
We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then jointly. We ...
(revised version published as 'The Influence of Spouses on Household Decision Making Under Risk: An Experiment in Rural China' in: Experimental Economics, 2013, 16(3), 383-403)
C91, C92, C93, D10
4137 Erling Barth
Bernt Bratsberg
Torbjørn Haegeland
Oddbjørn Raaum
Performance Pay and Within-Firm Wage Inequality
This paper examines the impact of performance-related pay on wage differentials within firms. Our theoretical framework predicts that, compared to a fixed pay system, pay schemes based on individual ...
(published as 'Performance Pay, Union Bargaining and Within-Firm Wage Inequality' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 74 (3), 327 - 362)
J31, J33
4136 Devashish Mitra
Priya Ranjan
Offshoring and Unemployment: The Role of Search Frictions and Labor Mobility
In a two-sector, general-equilibrium model with labor-market search frictions, we find that wage increases and sectoral unemployment decreases upon offshoring in the presence of perfect intersectoral ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2010, 81 (2), 219-229)
F11, F16, J64
4134 Guy Lacroix
Assessing the Impact of a Wage Subsidy for Single Parents on Social Assistance in Canada
In 2002 the Quebec government implemented the "Action Emploi" (AE) program aimed at making work pay for long-term social assistance recipients (SA). AE offered a generous wage subsidy that could last ...
(published - as joint work with Dany Brouillette - in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2011, 44 (4), 1195–1221)
I38, J31, J64
4133 M. Ayhan Kose
Eswar Prasad
Ashley D. Taylor
Thresholds in the Process of International Financial Integration
The financial crisis has re-ignited the fierce debate about the merits of financial globalization and its implications for growth, especially for developing countries. The empirical literature has ...
(published in: Journal of International Money and Finance, 2011, 30(1), 147-179)
F3, F4, O4
4131 Josh Ederington
Jenny Minier
Kenneth Troske
Where the Girls Are: Trade and Labor Market Segregation in Colombia
Gary Becker's theory of discrimination argues that increasing competition will reduce discrimination in the labor market. We use the Colombian trade liberalization episode over the period 1984–91 to ...
(published as 'Trade and labor market segregation in Colombia' in: Review of International Economics, 2024, 32 (4), 645-1670)
J7
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