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3846 François Langot
Coralia Quintero Rojas
European vs. American Hours Worked: Assessing the Role of the Extensive and Intensive Margins
Europeans have worked less than Americans since the 1970s. In this paper, we quantify the relative importance of the extensive and intensive margins of aggregate hours of market work on the observed ...
(published in: Economic Bulletin, 2009, 29, 530-542)
E2, J2
3845 Stephen Machin
Panu Pelkonen
Kjell G. Salvanes
Education and Mobility
We show that the length of compulsory education has a causal impact on regional labour mobility. The analysis is based on a quasi-exogenous staged Norwegian school reform, and register data on the ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 10 (2), 417-50.)
I28, J24, J61
3844 Philip Du Caju
François Rycx
Ilan Tojerow
Rent-Sharing and the Cyclicality of Wage Differentials
This paper investigates inter-industry wage differentials in Belgium, taking advantage of access to a unique matched employer-employee data set covering all the years from 1999 to 2005. Findings show ...
(published as 'Inter-Industry Wage Differentials: How Much Does Rent Sharing Matter?' in: Manchester School, 2011, 79 (4), 691-717)
D31, J31, J41
3843 Björn Anders Gustafsson
Ding Sai
Rank, Income and Income Inequality in Urban China
While some workers in China attain senior professional level and senior cadre level status (Chuzhang and above), others attain middle rank including middle rank of professional and cadre (Kezhang). ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2009, 20 (3), 497-507)
J21, J31, J41, P31
3842 Claus Schnabel
Joachim Wagner
Union Membership and Age: The Inverted U-Shape Hypothesis under Test
In this note we cast some doubt on the claim put forward by David Blanchflower (2007) that the probability of being unionized follows an inverted U-shaped pattern in age with a maximum in the mid- to ...
(published as 'With or Without U? Testing the Hypothesis of an Inverted U-Shaped Union Membership-Age Relationship' in: Contemporary Economics, 2012, 6 (4), 28-34)
J51
3841 François Langot
Eva Moreno-Galbis
Does the Growth Process Discriminate against Older Workers?
This paper seeks to gain insights on the relationship between growth and unemployment, when considering heterogeneous agents in terms of age. We introduce life cycle features in the endogenous job ...
(published in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2013, 38, 286-306)
J14, J24, J26, O33
3840 Jean-Olivier Hairault
François Langot
Sophie Osotimehin
Unemployment Dynamics and the Cost of Business Cycles
In this paper, we investigate whether business cycles can imply sizable effects on average unemployment. First, using a reduced-form model of the labor market, we show that job finding rate ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2010, 13(4), 759-779)
E32, J64
3839 Robert Dur
Gift Exchange in the Workplace: Money or Attention?
We develop a model of manager-employee relationships where employees care more for their manager when they are more convinced that their manager cares for them. Managers can signal their altruistic ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 550 - 560)
D86, J41, M50, M54, M55
3838 Anne C. Gielen
Repeated Job Quits: Stepping Stones or Learning about Quality?
Despite the fact that worker quits are often associated with wage gains and higher overall job satisfaction, many workers quit once again within one or two years after changing jobs initially. Such ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:7 )
J28, J62
3837 Sascha O. Becker
Ludger Woessmann
Luther and the Girls: Religious Denomination and the Female Education Gap in 19th Century Prussia
Martin Luther urged each town to have a girls' school so that girls would learn to read the Gospel, evoking a surge of building girls' schools in Protestant areas. Using county- and town-level data ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 110 (4), 777–805)
I21, J16, N33, Z12
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