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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
3921 Jennifer Hunt
Marjolaine Gauthier-Loiselle
How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?
We measure the extent to which skilled immigrants increase innovation in the United States by exploring individual patenting behavior as well as state-level determinants of patenting. The 2003 ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2010, 2 (2), 31-56)
J61, D24, O32
3920 Tomi Kyyrä
Pierpaolo Parrotta
Michael Rosholm
The Effect of Receiving Supplementary UI Benefits on Unemployment Duration
We consider the consequences of working part-time on supplementary unemployment insurance benefits in the Danish labour market. Following the "timing-of-events" approach we estimate causal effects of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 21, 122-133)
C41, J65
3918 John T. Addison
Claus Schnabel
Worker Directors: A German Product that Didn't Export?
Despite its lack of attractiveness to other countries, the German system of quasi-parity codetermination at company level has held up remarkably well. We recount the theoretical arguments for and ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2011, 50 (2), 354-374)
J50
3917 Oriana Bandiera
Iwan Barankay
Imran Rasul
Social Connections and Incentives in the Workplace: Evidence from Personnel Data
We present evidence on the effect of social connections between workers and managers on productivity in the workplace. To evaluate whether the existence of social connections is beneficial to the ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2009, 77 (4), 1047-1094)
J33, M52, M54
3915 Bruce Headey
Jürgen Schupp
Ingrid Tucci
Gert G. Wagner
Authentic Happiness Theory Supported by Impact of Religion on Life Satisfaction: A Longitudinal Analysis with Data for Germany
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey (SOEP), this paper assesses the relationship between life satisfaction and religious practice. The main new result here is longitudinal. It is ...
(published in: Journal of Positive Psychology, 2010, 5 (1), 73-82)
A12, A13, Y80, Z12
3914 Simon Gächter
Daniele Nosenzo
Elke Renner
Martin Sefton
Who Makes a Good Leader? Social Preferences and Leading-by-Example
We examine the effects of social preferences and beliefs about the social preferences of others in a simple leader-follower voluntary contributions game. We find that groups perform best when led by ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2012, 50 (4), 867–879; 10.1111/j.1465-7295.2010.00295.x)
A13, C92, D03
3913 Martin Kahanec
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Migration in an Enlarged EU: A Challenging Solution?
The 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the European Union were unprecedented in a number of economic and policy aspects. This essay provides a broad and in-depth account of the effects of the ...
(published by the European Commission as Economic Paper 363, 2009; and in: Filip Keereman and Istvan Szekely (eds.), Five years of an enlarged EU - a positive-sum game, Springer, Berlin et al., 2010, 63-94)
F22, J15, J61
3912 Michel Beine
Frédéric Docquier
Maurice Schiff
International Migration, Transfers of Norms and Home Country Fertility
This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2013, 46 (4))
J13, J61, O11
3911 Melanie Khamis
Does the Minimum Wage Have a Higher Impact on the Informal than on the Formal Labor Market? Evidence from Quasi-Experiments
This paper investigates a puzzle in the literature on labor markets in developing countries: labor legislations not only have an impact on the formal labor market but also an impact on the informal ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2013, 45 (5), 477-495)
J31, J42
3910 Ulf Rinne
Arne Uhlendorff
Zhong Zhao
Vouchers and Caseworkers in Public Training Programs: Evidence from the Hartz Reform in Germany
This paper studies the role of training vouchers and caseworkers in public training programs. Using a rich administrative data set, we apply matching and regression methods to measure the effect of ...
(revised version published as 'Vouchers and Caseworkers in Training Programs for the Unemployed' in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 45 (3), 1089-1127 )
J64, J68, H43
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