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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
4004 Jan Eeckhout
Philipp Kircher
Identifying Sorting: In Theory
We argue that using wage data alone, it is virtually impossible to identify whether Assortative Matching between worker and firm types is positive or negative. In standard competitive matching models ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2011, 78 (3), 872–906)
J31, C78
4002 David Card
Jochen Kluve
Andrea Weber
Active Labor Market Policy Evaluations: A Meta-Analysis
This paper presents a meta-analysis of recent microeconometric evaluations of active labor market policies. Our sample consists of 199 program estimates drawn from 97 studies conducted between 1995 ...
(published in: The Economic Journal, 2010, 120, F452-F477)
J00, J68
4001 Flavio Cunha
James J. Heckman
The Economics and Psychology of Inequality and Human Development
Recent research on the economics of human development deepens understanding of the origins of inequality and excellence. It draws on and contributes to personality psychology and the psychology of ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 320 - 364)
A12
4000 Richard A. Easterlin
Onnicha Sawangfa
Happiness and Economic Growth: Does the Cross Section Predict Time Trends? Evidence from Developing Countries
Based on point-of-time comparisons of happiness in richer and poorer countries, it is commonly asserted that economic growth will have a significant positive impact on happiness in poorer countries, ...
(published in: E. Diener, J. Helliwell, and D. Kahneman (eds.), International Differences in Well-Being. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2010)
I31, D60, O5, O10
3999 Klaus F. Zimmermann
Labor Mobility and the Integration of European Labor Markets
This paper outlines the importance of labor mobility for the improvement in allocating and distributing economic resources. We are faced with an increasing lack of skilled workers and a growing ...
(published in: E. Nowotny, P. Mooslechner and D. Ritzberger-Grünwald (eds.), The Integration of European Labour Markets, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009, 9-23)
F22, J15, J61
3998 Matias Busso
John DiNardo
Justin McCrary
New Evidence on the Finite Sample Properties of Propensity Score Matching and Reweighting Estimators
Currently available asymptotic results in the literature suggest that matching estimators have higher variance than reweighting estimators. The extant literature comparing the finite sample ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 96 (5), 885-897)
C14, C21, C52
3997 Magnus Lofstrom
Timothy Bates
Latina Entrepreneurship
We utilize individual panel data from the 1996 and 2001 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to analyze the relative success of self-employed female Hispanics. To allow for a meaningful ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2009, 33 (4), 427-439)
J15, J16, J31, L26
3995 Guido W. Imbens
Karthik Kalyanaraman
Optimal Bandwidth Choice for the Regression Discontinuity Estimator
We investigate the problem of optimal choice of the smoothing parameter (bandwidth) for the regression discontinuity estimator. We focus on estimation by local linear regression, which was shown to ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2012, 79 (3), 933-959)
C14
3994 Florencia López Bóo
Lucia Madrigal
Carmen Pagés
Part-Time Work, Gender and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from a Developing Country
This paper investigates the relationship between part-time work and job satisfaction using a recent household survey from Honduras. In contrast to previous work for developed countries, this paper ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2010, 46 (9), 1543-1571)
C13, J16, J28
3992 Guillaume Horny
Rute Mendes
Gerard J. van den Berg
Job Durations with Worker and Firm Specific Effects: MCMC Estimation with Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data
We study job durations using a multivariate hazard model allowing for worker-specific and firm-specific unobserved determinants. The latter are captured by unobserved heterogeneity terms or random ...
(published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statisticsc, 30(3) 2012, 468-480)
C11, C15, C41, J20, J41, J62
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