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3909 Pascal Courty
Do Han Kim
Gerald Marschke
Curbing Cream-Skimming: Evidence on Enrolment Incentives
Can enrolment incentives reduce the incidence of cream-skimming in the delivery of public sector services (e.g. education, health, job training)? In the context of a large government job training ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (5), 643-655)
H72, J33, L14
3908 Francesca Bassi
Alessandra Padoan
Ugo Trivellato
Inconsistencies in Reported Employment Characteristics among Employed Stayers
The paper deals with measurement error, and its potentially distorting role, in information on industry and professional status collected by labour force surveys. The focus of our analyses is on ...
(published in: Statistica, 2012, 72 (1), 103-109)
C12, C13, C83, J21
3907 Massimiliano Bratti
Konstantinos Tatsiramos
Explaining How Delayed Motherhood Affects Fertility Dynamics in Europe
This paper analyzes the effect of delayed motherhood on fertility dynamics for women living in several European countries, which differ in terms of their institutional environments. We show that the ...
(revised version published as 'The Effect of Delaying Motherhood on the Second Childbirth in Europe' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 25 (1), 291-321)
C41, J13
3906 Niels-Hugo Blunch
Multidimensional Human Capital, Wages and Endogenous Employment Status in Ghana
Previous studies of labor market outcomes such as employment and wages have mostly been limited to investigating the impact of formal schooling only and, as a consequence, have seldom considered ...
(published in: Ravi Kanbur and Jan Svejnar (eds.), Labor Markets and Economic Development, London and New York: Routledge, 2009)
I31, J24, O15
3904 Juan D. Barón
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Nisvan Erkal
Cultural Transmission of Work-Welfare Attitudes and the Intergenerational Correlation in Welfare Receipt
This paper considers the potential for the cultural transmission of attitudes toward work, welfare, and individual responsibility to explain the intergenerational correlation in welfare receipt. ...
(published as 'Welfare Receipt and the Intergenerational Transmission of Work-Welfare Norms' in: Southern Economics Journal, 2015, 82 (1), 208–234)
I38, H31, Z1
3902 Johannes Becker
Andreas Peichl
Johannes Rincke
Politicians' Outside Earnings and Political Competition
This paper deals with the impact of electoral competition on politicians' outside earnings. In our framework, politicians face a tradeoff between allocating their time to political effort or to an ...
(published in: Public Choice, 2009, 140 (3-4), 379 - 394)
D72, J45
3901 Ernst Fehr
Lorenz Götte
Christian Zehnder
A Behavioral Account of the Labor Market: The Role of Fairness Concerns
In this paper, we argue that important labor market phenomena can be better understood if one takes (i) the inherent incompleteness and relational nature of most employment contracts and (ii) the ...
(published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2009, 1, 355 - 384)
C7, D00, D2, D8, J2, L2
3899 Christopher A. Parsons
Johan Sulaeman
Michael C. Yates
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Strike Three: Umpires' Demand for Discrimination
We explore how umpires' racial/ethnic preferences are expressed in their evaluation of Major League Baseball pitchers. Controlling for umpire, pitcher, batter and catcher fixed effects and many other ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (4), 1410-1435)
J44, J71
3898 Ana Rute Cardoso
Paulo Guimaraes
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Comparing the Early Research Performance of PhD Graduates in Labor Economics in Europe and the USA
This paper analyzes the early research performance of PhD graduates in labor economics, addressing the following questions: Are there major productivity differences between graduates from American ...
(published in: Scientometrics, 2010, 84 (3), 621-637)
A23, J44, A11, A14, A10
3896 Timothy J. Halliday
Mismeasured Household Size and Its Implications for the Identification of Economies of Scale
We consider the possibility that demographic variables are measured with errors which arise because household surveys measure demographic structures at a point-in-time, whereas household composition ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72 (2), 246-262)
J12, C14
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