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No.
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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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3975
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Graziella
Bertocchi
Marianna
Brunetti
Costanza
Torricelli
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Marriage and Other Risky Assets: A Portfolio Approach
We study the joint impact of gender and marital status on financial decisions. First, we test the hypothesis that marriage represents - in a portfolio framework - a sort of safe asset, and that this ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Banking and Finance, 2011, 24 (11), 2902 - 2915)
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G11, E21, J12, J21
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3974
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Christopher
Dawson
Andrew
Henley
Paul
L.
Latreille
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Why Do Individuals Choose Self-Employment?
This paper undertakes an analysis of the motivating factors cited by the self-employed in the UK as reasons for choosing self-employment. Very limited previous research has addressed the question of ...
(published as 'Individual Motives for Choosing Self-employment in the UK: Does Region Matter?' in: Regional Studies, 2014, 48(5), 804-822)
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L26, J24
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3973
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Mehtabul
Azam
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A Distributional Analysis of Social Group Inequality in Rural India
This paper examines the differences in welfare, as measured by per capita expenditure (PCE), between social groups in rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that ...
(revised version published in: Journal of International Development, 2012, 24 (4), 415–432)
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C15, D63, O53
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3972
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Magnus
Carlsson
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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The Impact of Being Monitored on Discriminatory Behavior among Employers: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Today there is a variation within the EU to what extent nations allow for situation test results to constitute mass of evidence in court in order to prevent ethnic discrimination. In the UK The ...
(published as 'The Power of Media and Changes in Discriminatory Behavior Among Employers' in: Journal of Media Economics, 2012, 25 (2), 98-108)
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J64, J71
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3971
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Daniel
A.
Powers
Myeong-Su
Yun
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Multivariate Decomposition for Hazard Rate Models
We develop a regression decomposition technique for hazard rate models, where the difference in observed rates is decomposed into components attributable to group differences in characteristics and ...
(published in: Sociological Methodology, 2009, 39(1), 233-263)
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C20, C41, J13
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3970
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David
Autor
David
Dorn
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This Job Is 'Getting Old:' Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age Structure
High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E.U. We study the reallocation of workers from middle-skill occupations towards the ...
(published in: American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings, 2009, 99 (2), 45-51)
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E24, J11, J21, J24
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3968
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Mehtabul
Azam
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India's Increasing Skill Premium: Role of Demand and Supply
The tertiary-secondary (college-high school) wage premium has been increasing in India over the past decade, but the increase differs across age groups. The increase in wage premium has been driven ...
(revised version published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy. Volume 10, Issue 1, ISSN (Online) 1935-1682, October 2010)
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J20, J23, J31
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3967
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Lídia
Farré
Roger
Klein
Francis
Vella
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Does Increasing Parents' Schooling Raise the Schooling of the Next Generation? Evidence Based on Conditional Second Moments
This paper investigates the degree of intergenerational transmission of education for individuals from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Rather than identifying the causal effect of ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 74 (5), 676–690)
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C31, J62
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3966
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Xavier
de Luna
Per
Johansson
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Non-Parametric Inference for the Effect of a Treatment on Survival Times with Application in the Health and Social Sciences
In this paper we perform inference on the effect of a treatment on survival times in studies where the treatment assignment is not randomized and the assignment time is not known in advance. Two such ...
(published in: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 2010, 140 (7), 2122-2137)
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C12, C13, C14
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3965
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Herwig
Immervoll
Henrik
Jacobsen
Kleven
Claus
Thustrup
Kreiner
Nicolaj
Verdelin
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An Evaluation of the Tax-Transfer Treatment of Married Couples in European Countries
This paper presents an evaluation of the tax-transfer treatment of married couples in 15 EU countries using the EUROMOD microsimulation model. First, we show that many tax-transfer schemes in Europe ...
(completely different version published as 'Optimal tax and transfer programs for couples with extensive labor supply responses' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (11-12), 1485-1500)
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H20
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13003Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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