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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
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
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