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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
4016 Franz Hackl
Martin Halla
Gerald J. Pruckner
Volunteering and the State
This paper explores the capability of the state to affect the individual's decision to work for free. For this purpose we combine individual-level data from the European and World Values Survey with ...
(revised version published in: Public Choice,2012, 151 (3-4), 465 - 495)
H41, H44, H31, J22, I38, H11, D30, D64
4015 Arie Kapteyn
James P. Smith
Arthur van Soest
Life Satisfaction
We analyze the determinants of global life satisfaction in two countries (The Netherlands and the U.S.), by using both self-reports and responses to a battery of vignette questions. We find global ...
(published in: E. Diener, J.E. Helliwell and D. Kahneman (eds.), International Differences in Well-Being, Oxford University Press, 2010, 70-104)
I31, J28, D31
4014 Giuseppe Moscarini
Fabien Postel-Vinay
Large Employers Are More Cyclically Sensitive
We provide new evidence that large firms or establishments are more sensitive than small ones to business cycle conditions. Larger employers shed proportionally more jobs in recessions and create ...
(published as 'The Contribution of Large and Small Employers to Job Creation in Times of High and Low Unemployment' in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (6), 2509-39)
J21, J63, E24, E32
4013 Petri Böckerman
Ulla Hämäläinen
Roope Uusitalo
Labour Market Effects of the Polytechnic Education Reform: The Finnish Experience
This paper evaluates the labour market effects of the introduction of the polytechnic education system in Finland. The polytechnic reform gradually transformed former vocational colleges into ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2009, 28 (6), 672-681)
I21,I23
4011 Stephen P. Jenkins
Richard V. Burkhauser
Shuaizhang Feng
Jeff Larrimore
Measuring Inequality Using Censored Data: A Multiple Imputation Approach
To measure income inequality with right censored (topcoded) data, we propose multiple imputation for censored observations using draws from Generalized Beta of the Second Kind distributions to ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2011, 174 (1), 63 - 81)
D31, C46, C81
4010 David G. Blanchflower
Andrew J. Oswald
Bert van Landeghem
Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility
If human beings care about their relative weight, a form of imitative obesity can emerge (in which people subconsciously keep up with the weight of the Joneses). Using Eurobarometer data on 29 ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 528 - 538)
D1, I12, I31
4009 Sonia R. Bhalotra
Christine Valente
Arthur van Soest
The Puzzle of Muslim Advantage in Child Survival in India
The socio-economic status of Indian Muslims is, on average, considerably lower than that of upper caste Hindus. Muslims have higher fertility and shorter birth spacing and are a minority group that, ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2010, 29 (2), 191-204)
O12, I12, J15, J16, J18
4008 Jos van Ommeren
Giovanni Russo
Firm Recruitment Behaviour: Sequential or Non-Sequential Search?
In the extensive job search literature, studies assume either sequential or non-sequential search. Which assumption is more reasonable? This paper introduces a novel method to test the hypothesis ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 76 (3), 432-455)
J63
4007 Bart Cockx
Matteo Picchio
Are Short-Lived Jobs Stepping Stones to Long-Lasting Jobs?
This paper assesses whether short-lived jobs (lasting one quarter or less and involuntarily ending in unemployment) are stepping stones to long-lasting jobs (enduring one year or more) for Belgian ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 74 (5), 646 - 675 )
C15, C41, J62, J64
4005 Rosalind S. Hunter
Andrew J. Oswald
Bruce G. Charlton
The Elite Brain Drain
We collect data on the movement and productivity of elite scientists. Their mobility is remarkable: nearly half of the world's most-cited physicists work outside their country of birth. We show they ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (538), F231 - F251)
O3, J6
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