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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
3870 Werner Eichhorst
Anton Hemerijck
Welfare and Employment: A European Dilemma?
The majority of the Member States of the European Union have undertaken remarkably comprehensive welfare and labor market reforms in the years since the 1990s. Many of these reforms, however, have ...
(published in: Jens Alber and Neil Gilbert (eds.), United in Diversity? Comparing Social Models in Europe and America, Oxford: OUP, 2010, 201-236)
J21, J58
3869 Stéphane Pallage
Lyle Scruggs
Christian Zimmermann
Unemployment Insurance Generosity: A Trans-Atlantic Comparison
The goal of this paper is to establish if unemployment insurance policies are more generous in Europe than in the United States, and by how much. We take the examples of France and one particular ...
(published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2009, 95-96, 15-23)
E24, J65
3868 Stéphane Pallage
Lyle Scruggs
Christian Zimmermann
Measuring Unemployment Insurance Generosity
In this paper, we develop a methodology to summarize the various policy parameters of an unemployment insurance scheme into a single generosity parameter. Unemployment insurance policies are ...
(published in: Political Analysis, 2013, 21(4), 524-549)
E24, J65
3866 Francis Kramarz
Stephen Machin
Amine Ouazad
What Makes a Test Score? The Respective Contributions of Pupils, Schools, and Peers in Achievement in English Primary Education
This study develops an analytical framework for evaluating the respective contributions of pupils, peers, and school quality in affecting educational achievement. We implement this framework using ...
(published as 'Using Compulsory Mobility to Identify School Quality and Peer Effects' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 77(4), 566–587)
I21
3865 Daniel J. Henderson
A Nonparametric Examination of Capital-Skill Complementarity
This paper uses nonparametric kernel methods to construct observation-specific elasticities of substitution for a balanced panel of 73 developed and developing countries to examine the capital-skill ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 71 (4), 519 - 538)
C14, C23, D2
3864 Robert Plasman
Michael Rusinek
Ilan Tojerow
The Regional Dimension of Collective Wage Bargaining: The Case of Belgium
The potential failure of national industry agreements to take into account productivity levels of least productive regions has been considered as one of the causes of regional unemployment in ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2014, 48 (2), 301-317)
D31, J31, J41
3863 Pradeep Mitra
Alexander Muravyev
Mark E Schaffer
Convergence in Institutions and Market Outcomes: Cross-Country and Time-Series Evidence from the BEEPS Surveys in Transition Economies
This paper uses the BEEPS firm-level data to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The primary focus of the study is on competition and market ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Labor reallocation and firm growth: benchmarking transition countries against mature market economies' in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2014, 3:13)
G32, L11, O12, P31
3861 Robert Orlowski
Regina T. Riphahn
The East German Wage Structure after Transition
We extend the literature on transition economies' wage structures by investigating the returns to tenure and experience. This study applies recent panel data and estimation approaches that control ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2009, 17 (4), 629-659)
J31, J24
3860 Erin L. Krupka
Roberto A. Weber
Identifying Social Norms Using Coordination Games: Why Does Dictator Game Sharing Vary?
We explore the influence of social norms on behavior. To do so, we introduce a method for identifying norms, based on the property that social norms reflect social consensus regarding the ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (3), 495–524)
C91, C72, D34
3859 Antoni Calvó-Armengol
Eleonora Patacchini
Yves Zenou
Peer Effects and Social Networks in Education
This paper studies whether structural properties of friendship networks affect individual outcomes in education. We first develop a model that shows that, at the Nash equilibrium, the outcome of each ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2009, 76, 1239-1267)
A14, C31, C72, I21
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