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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
3802 Simen Gaure
Knut Røed
Lars Westlie
The Impacts of Labor Market Policies on Job Search Behavior and Post-Unemployment Job Quality
We examine empirically the impacts of labor market policies – in terms of unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market programs (ALMP) – on the duration and outcome of job search and on the ...
(revised version published as 'Job search incentives and job match quality' in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (3), 438-450)
C14, C15, C41, J64, J65, J68
3801 Anders Björklund
Jesper Roine
Daniel Waldenström
Intergenerational Top Income Mobility in Sweden: A Combination of Equal Opportunity and Capitalistic Dynasties
This paper presents new evidence on intergenerational income and earnings mobility in the top of the distributions. Using a large dataset of matched father-son pairs in Sweden we are able to obtain ...
(revised version published as 'Intergenerational top income mobility in Sweden: Capitalist dynasties in the land of equal opportunity?' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2012, 96 (5-6), 474-484)
D31, J62
3800 Richard Blundell
Monica Costa Dias
Alternative Approaches to Evaluation in Empirical Microeconomics
This paper reviews some of the most popular policy evaluation methods in empirical microeconomics: social experiments, natural experiments, matching, instrumental variables, discontinuity design, and ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44 (3), 565-640)
C52, J24
3799 Dan-Olof Rooth
Automatically Activated Stereotypes and Differential Treatment Against the Obese in Hiring
This study provides empirical support for automatically activated associations inducing unequal treatment against the obese among recruiters in a real-life hiring situation. A field experiment on ...
(revised version published (with Jens Agerström) as 'The Role of Automatic Obesity Stereotypes in Real Hiring Discrimination ' in: Journal of Applied Psychology, 2011, 96 (4), 790 - 805)
J64, J71
3798 Helmut Fryges
Joachim Wagner
Exports and Profitability: First Evidence for German Manufacturing Firms
Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality longitudinal data at the enterprise level for Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship ...
(published in: World Economy, 2010, 33 (3), 399-423)
F14, D21
3797 Robert A. Hart
Yue Ma
Wage-Hours Contracts, Overtime Working and Premium Pay
This paper offers a contract-based theory to explain the determination of standard hours, overtime hours and overtime premium pay. We expand on the wage contract literature that emphasises the role ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 170-179)
J41, J33
3796 Gustavo J. Canavire Bacarreza
Felix Rioja
Financial Development and the Distribution of Income in Latin America and the Caribbean
One of the central concerns in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has been the reduction of poverty and inequality so prevalent in the continent. Using large world samples, the literature has ...
(published in: Well-Being and Social Policy, 2009, 5 (1), 1-18)
O11, O16, G00
3795 Francesco C. Billari
Michele Pellizzari
The Younger, the Better? Relative Age Effects at University
In this paper we estimate relative age effects in academic performance using a unique database of students at Bocconi University. The identification exploits school entry cut-off ages that generate ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2012, 25 (2), 697-739)
J13, I21
3794 Laurens Cherchye
Bram De Rock
Frederic Vermeulen
An Afriat Theorem for the Collective Model of Household Consumption
We provide a nonparametric 'revealed preference' characterization of rational household behavior in terms of the collective consumption model, while accounting for general (possibly non-convex) ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2010, 145(3), 1142-1163.)
D11, D12, D13, C14
3792 Lex Borghans
Bas ter Weel
Understanding the Technology of Computer Technology Diffusion: Explaining Computer Adoption Patterns and Implications for the Wage Structure
We review the empirical literature about the implications of the computerization of the labor market to see whether it can explain observed computer adoption patterns and (long-term) changes in the ...
(published in: Journal of Income Distribution, 2008, 17 (3-4), 37-70)
J31, O15, O33
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