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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
4088 William E. Even
David A. Macpherson
The Growth of Participant Direction in Defined Contribution Plans
Since 1990, most pension plans have shifted the responsibility for directing pension assets to the employee. This study summarizes some of the possible explanations for this rapid shift toward ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2010, 49(2), 190–208)
J32
4086 Glenn C. Blomquist
Paul A. Coomes
Christopher Jepsen
Brandon C. Koford
Kenneth Troske
Estimating the Social Value of Higher Education: Willingness to Pay for Community and Technical Colleges
Much is known about private returns to education in the form of higher earnings. Less is known about social value, over and above the private, market value. Associations between education and ...
(revision published in: Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2014, 5 (1), 3-42)
I2, H4, H23
4085 Anton Hemerijck
Werner Eichhorst
Whatever Happened to the Bismarckian Welfare State? From Labor Shedding to Employment-Friendly Reforms
The paper challenges the widespread view that Bismarckian countries with a strong role of social insurance and labor market regulation are less successful than other employment regimes and hard to ...
(published in: Bruno Palier (ed.), A long good-bye to Bismarck, Amsterdam: AUP, 2010, 301-332)
J26, J68
4082 William E. Even
David A. Macpherson
Is Bigger Still Better? The Decline of the Wage Premium at Large Firms
This study shows that the wage premium paid by large firms fell over the past 20 years and that the decline in the size premium has been most pronounced among the least educated work force. Empirical ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2012, 78(4), 1181-1201)
J31, J32, J33
4081 Denis Conniffe
Donal O'Neill
Efficient Probit Estimation with Partially Missing Covariates
A common approach to dealing with missing data is to estimate the model on the common subset of data, by necessity throwing away potentially useful data. We derive a new probit type estimator for ...
(published in: D. Drukker (ed.): Advances in Econometrics, Vol. 27A, Missing Data Methods, 2011, 213-249.)
C25, G11
4080 Martin G. Kocher
Ganna Pogrebna
Matthias Sutter
Other-Regarding Preferences and Leadership Styles
We use a laboratory experiment to examine whether and to what extent other-regarding preferences of team leaders influence their leadership style in choice under risk. We find that leaders who prefer ...
(revised and extended version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 88, 109-132)
C91, C92, D70, D81
4079 Brian Krogh Graversen
Jan C. van Ours
How a Mandatory Activation Program Reduces Unemployment Durations: The Effects of Distance
In an experimental setting some Danish unemployed workers were assigned to an activation program while others were not. Unemployed who were assigned to the activation program found a job more ...
(published as 'An Activation Program as a Stick to Job Finding' in: Labour, 2011, 25 (2), 167 - 181)
C41, H55, J64, J65
4078 Daniel L. Millimet
Le Wang
Is the Quantity-Quality Trade-off a Trade-off for All, None, or Some?
Although the theoretical trade-off between the quantity and quality of children is well-established, empirical evidence supporting such a causal relationship ? particularly on child health ? is ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2011, 60 (1), 155-195)
C14, D10, I12, O12
4077 Getinet Astatike Haile
Unhappy Working with Men? Workplace Gender Diversity and Employee Job-Related Well-Being in Britain: A WERS2004 Based Analysis
This paper attempts to establish empirically the link between workplace gender diversity and employee job-related well-being. Using nationally representative linked employer-employee data for ...
(Published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (3), 329-350)
J16, J82, J7, I31
4076 Sourafel Girma
Holger Görg
Joachim Wagner
Subsidies and Exports in Germany: First Evidence from Enterprise Panel Data
We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate the link between production-related subsidies and exports. We document that only ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2009, 55 (3), 179-195)
F13, F14, H29
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