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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
3836 Chris M. Herbst
Erdal Tekin
Child Care Subsidies and Child Development
Child care subsidies are an important part of federal and state efforts to move welfare recipients into employment. One of the criticisms of the current subsidy system, however, is that it ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (4), 618-638)
I18, I2, J13
3835 Steffen Altmann
Armin Falk
Matthias Wibral
Promotions and Incentives: The Case of Multi-Stage Elimination Tournaments
Promotion tournaments play an important role for the provision of incentives in firms. In this paper, we extend research on single-stage rank-order tournaments and analyze behavior in multi-stage ...
(revised and extended version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2012, 30 (1), 149-174)
M51, M52, J33, C92
3834 Eberhard Feess
Michael Gerfin
Gerd Muehlheusser
Contracts as Rent Seeking Devices: Evidence from German Soccer
Recent theoretical research has identified many ways how contracts can be used as rent seeking devices vis-à-vis third parties, but there is no empirical evidence on this issue so far. To test some ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2015, 53(1), 714-730)
L14, J63, L40, L83
3833 Barry Hirsch
Edward J. Schumacher
Underpaid or Overpaid? Wage Analysis for Nurses Using Job and Worker Attributes
The nursing labor market presents an apparent puzzle. Hospitals report chronic shortages, yet standard wage analysis shows that nursing wages have increased over time and greatly exceed those ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2012, 78 (4), 1096-1119.)
I12, J31, J44
3832 Juan J. Dolado
Rodolfo Stucchi
Do Temporary Contracts Affect TFP? Evidence from Spanish Manufacturing Firms
This paper evaluates the impact of the widespread use of fixed-term contracts in Spain on firms' TFP, via its effect on workers' effort. We propose a simple analytical framework showing that, under ...
(published in: SERIEs Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, 2016, 7, 421-459.)
C14, C52, D24, J24, J41
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