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3440 Tor Eriksson
Anders Poulsen
Marie Claire Villeval
Feedback and Incentives: Experimental Evidence
This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (6), 679-688)
C70, J16, J24, M52, J33, J31, C91
3439 David A. Jaeger
Esteban F. Klor
Sami H. Miaari
M. Daniele Paserman
The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds: Violence and Public Opinion in the Second Intifada
This paper examines how violence in the Second Intifada influences Palestinian public opinion. Using micro data from a series of opinion polls linked to data on fatalities, we find that Israeli ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2012, 96 (3-4), 354-368)
D72, D74, H56
3438 Milan Vodopivec
How Viable Are Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts: Simulation Results for Slovenia
By simulating the working of the unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) in Slovenia using a methodology similar to Feldstein and Altman (1998), the paper examines two questions: how viable ...
(published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2010, 52, 225–247)
J65, C23
3437 Stefanie Behncke
Markus Frölich
Michael Lechner
A Caseworker Like Me: Does the Similarity between Unemployed and Caseworker Increase Job Placements?
This paper examines whether the chances of job placements improve if unemployed persons are counselled by caseworkers who belong to the same social group, defined by gender, age, education, and ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120(549), 1430-1459)
J64, J68, C31
3436 David G. Blanchflower
Alex Bryson
Union Decline in Britain
This paper investigates the demise of unionisation in British private sector workplaces over the last quarter century. We show that dramatic union decline has occurred across all types of workplace. ...
(published in: Brown, W. et al. (eds.) - The Evolution of the Modern Workplace, Cambridge University Press, 2009)
J51
3435 Armin Falk
David B. Huffman
W. Bentley MacLeod
Institutions and Contract Enforcement
We provide evidence on how two important types of institutions – dismissal barriers, and bonus pay – affect contract enforcement behavior in a market with incomplete contracts and repeated ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33 (3), 571-590)
J41, J3, C9, D01
3434 Leo Kaas
Paul Madden
Minimum Wages and Welfare in a Hotelling Duopsony
Two firms choose locations (non-wage job characteristics) on the interval [0,1] prior to announcing wages at which they employ workers who are uniformly distributed; the (constant) marginal revenue ...
(published in: Economic Theory, 2010, 43 (2), 167 - 188)
D43, E24, J48
3433 Badi H. Baltagi
Uwe Blien
Katja Wolf
New Evidence on the Dynamic Wage Curve for Western Germany: 1980–2004
In 1994, Blanchflower and Oswald reported that they have found an ‘empirical law of economics’ – the Wage Curve. According to their empirical results, the elasticity of wages with respect to regional ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (1), 47-51)
J30, C23, R10
3432 Ofer Malamud
Abigail Wozniak
The Impact of College Graduation on Geographic Mobility: Identifying Education Using Multiple Components of Vietnam Draft Risk
College-educated workers are twice as likely as high school graduates to make lasting long-distance moves, but little is known about the role of college itself in determining geographic mobility. ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2012. 47(4), 913-950.)
J61, J24, I23
3431 Sarmistha Pal
Robert Palacios
Understanding Poverty among the Elderly in India: Implications for Social Pension Policy
The Government of India is implementing a new policy which dramatically increases funding for a cash transfer program targeted to the poor elderly. The expansion of this ‘social pension’ in terms of ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2011, 47 (7), 1017 - 1037)
J14, I31
3430 Matthias Parey
Fabian Waldinger
Studying Abroad and the Effect on International Labor Market Mobility: Evidence from the Introduction of ERASMUS
We investigate the effect of studying abroad on international labor market mobility later in life for university graduates. As a source of identifying variation, we exploit the introduction and ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2011, 121(551), 194–222)
J61, I2, F22
3429 Michael P. Brady
Steven Y. Wu
The Effect of Intragroup Communication on Preference Shifts in Groups
We use a laboratory gift-exchange game to examine decisions made by groups under three different procedures that dictate how group members interact and reach decisions in comparison to individuals ...
(published as "The aggregation of preferences in groups: Identity, responsibility, and polarization" in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2010, 31(6), 950-963)
C91, C92
3428 Thomas Dohmen
Hartmut Lehmann
Anzelika Zaiceva
The Gender Earnings Gap inside a Russian Firm: First Evidence from Personnel Data – 1997 to 2002
Using unique personnel data from one Russian firm for the years 1997 to 2002 we study the size, development and determinants of the gender earnings gap in an internal labor market during late ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung/Journal for Labour Market Research, 2008, 41 (2-3), 157-180.)
J16, M52, P23
3426 Nigel Driffield
Sarmistha Pal
Evolution of Capital Structure in East Asia: Corporate Inertia or Endeavours?
The present paper examines the capital structure adjustment dynamics of listed non-financial corporations in seven East Asian countries during 1994-2002. Compared to firms in the least affected ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2010, 173 (1), 1- 29)
G32, O16
3425 James J. Heckman
Econometric Causality
This paper presents the econometric approach to causal modeling. It is motivated by policy problems. New causal parameters are defined and identified to address specific policy problems. Economists ...
(published in: International Statistical Review, 2008, (76) 1, 1-27)
B41
3423 Herbert Brücker
Elke J. Jahn
Migration and the Wage Curve: A Structural Approach to Measure the Wage and Employment Effects of Migration
Based on a wage curve approach we examine the labor market effects of migration in Germany. The wage curve relies on the assumption that wages respond to a change in the unemployment rate, albeit ...
(revised version published as 'Migration and Wage-Setting: Reassessing the Labor Market Effects of Migration' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2011, 113 (2), 286-317)
F22, J31, J61
3422 Michele Mosca
Francesco Pastore
Wage Effects of Recruitment Methods: The Case of the Italian Social Service Sector
This paper uses a unique data set containing detailed micro-information on organisations, managers, workers and volunteers belonging to public, private forprofit and private nonprofit institutions ...
(published in: Sergio Destefanis and Marco Musella (eds.), Paid and Unpaid Labour in Social Utility Services, Heidelberg: Physica Verlag, 2009)
I11, J31 J41, L31, L33, L84
3421 Matthias Doepke
Michèle Tertilt
Women’s Liberation: What’s in It for Men?
The nineteenth century witnessed dramatic improvements in the legal rights of married women. Given that these changes took place long before women gained the right to vote, they amounted to a ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2009, 124(4), 1541-1591)
D13, E13, J16, N30, O43
3420 Martin Kahanec
Anzelika Zaiceva
Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrants and Non-Citizens in the EU: An East-West Comparison
The starkly different histories and institutions in the eastern and western member states of the European Union (EU) suggest different roles of being non-native in these two regions. In this paper we ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1+2), 97-115)
F22, J15, J61, J71
3419 Juan J. Dolado
Florentino Felgueroso
Occupational Mismatch and Moonlighting among Spanish Physicians: Do Couples Matter?
There are relevant gender differences in the labour-market status of health sciences graduates in Spain: (i) female physicians have lower participation rates than male physicians plus they are ...
(published in: Vázquez, P. (Ed.) La Feminización de las Profesiones Sanitarias, (2010) Fundación BBVA. )
J24, J42, J44, J61, J70
3418 Simonetta Longhi
Peter Nijkamp
Jacques Poot
Meta-Analysis of Empirical Evidence on the Labour Market Impacts of Immigration
The increasing proportion of immigrants in the population of many countries has raised concerns about the ‘absorption capacity’ of the labour market, and fuelled extensive empirical research in ...
(published in: Région et Développement, 2008, 27(1), 161-191)
C51, F22, J31, J61
3417 Steve Dowrick
Massimiliano Tani
International Business Visits and the Technology Frontier
This paper studies the impact of international business trips on the stock of knowledge available to an economy. It develops a theoretical model to analyse the possible effects, and presents an ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2011, 110 (3), 209-212)
F2, J6
3416 Roland Benabou
Ideology
I develop a model of ideologies as collectively sustained (yet individually rational) distortions in beliefs concerning the proper scope of governments versus markets. In processing and interpreting ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2008, 6 (2-3), 321-352)
H11, D72, D83, P16, Z1
3414 Filipa Sa
Does Employment Protection Help Immigrants? Evidence from European Labor Markets
High levels of employment protection reduce hiring and firing and have a theoretically ambiguous effect on the employment level. Immigrants, being new to the labor market, may be less aware of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (5), 624-642)
J6
3412 Harald Tauchmann
Silja Göhlmann
Till Requate
Christoph M. Schmidt
Tobacco and Alcohol: Complements or Substitutes? A Structural Model Approach
The question of whether two drugs – namely alcohol and tobacco – are used as complements or substitutes is of crucial interest if side-effects of anti-smoking policies are considered. Numerous papers ...
(published online as 'Tobacco and Alcohol: Complements or Substitutes? A Structural Model Approach to Insufficient Price Variation in Individual-Level Data' in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 45(1), 539-566)
C31, D12, I12
3410 Mirko Draca
Stephen Machin
Robert Witt
Panic on the Streets of London: Police, Crime and the July 2005 Terror Attacks
In this paper we study the causal impact of police on crime by looking at what happened to crime before and after the terror attacks that hit central London in July 2005. The attacks resulted in a ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (5), 2157-2181)
H00, H5, K42
3409 Richard A. Easterlin
Lost in Transition: Life Satisfaction on the Road to Capitalism
In the transition from socialism to capitalism in Eastern Europe life satisfaction has followed the V-shaped pattern of GDP but failed to recover commensurately. In general, increased satisfaction ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 71 (2), 130-145)
I31, P5, P27, D60
3408 Timo Boppart
Josef Falkinger
Volker Grossmann
Ulrich Woitek
Gabriela Wüthrich
Qualifying Religion: The Role of Plural Identities for Educational Production
This paper examines the role of religious denomination for human capital formation. We employ a unique data set which covers, inter alia, information on numerous measures of school inputs in 169 ...
(published in: Explorations of Economic History, 2013, 50 (2), 242-266.)
I20, H52, O10, N33
3407 Ariel R. Belasen
Solomon Polachek
How Hurricanes Affect Employment and Wages in Local Labor Markets
This paper adopts a generalized-difference-in-difference (GDD) technique outlined in Ariel R. Belasen and Solomon W. Polachek (IZA Discussion Paper #2976) to examine the impact of hurricanes on the ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2008, 98 (2), 49-53)
J23, J49, Q54, R11
3406 Michael Rusinek
François Rycx
Rent-Sharing under Different Bargaining Regimes: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
In many European countries, the majority of workers have their wages directly defined by industry-level agreements. In addition, for some workers, industry agreements are complemented by ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2013, 51 (1), 28-58)
J31, J51
3403 Marco Stampini
Benjamin Davis
Does Off-Farm Labor Relax Farmers’ Credit Constraints? Evidence from Longitudinal Data for Vietnam
We examine the relationship between participation in non-agricultural labor activities and farming production decisions, focusing on the use of inputs. In particular, we are interested in the ...
(revised version published in: Agricultural Economics, 2009, 40(2), 177-188)
J43, Q12
3402 Philippe Askenazy
A Primer on the 35-Hour in France, 1997–2007
France has experienced massive changes in its regulation of working time during the last decade. These changes generate natural experiments that may help to study a variety of issues in labor ...
(revised and updated version published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2013, 37 (2), 323-347)
J20, J30, J51, L23
3401 Alberto Bayo-Moriones
Jose Enrique Galdon-Sanchez
Sara Martinez-de-Morentin
What Are the Factors Behind Pay Settlements? Evidence from Spanish and British Data
This article presents a study of the determinants of pay settlements in a sample of Spanish and British establishments. We find that variables such as establishment size and age, foreign ownership, ...
(published as 'The Determinants of Pay Settlements. The Influence of the National Context' in: The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2013, 24 (3), 579-600)
J30, J40
3400 Petra Nieken
Dirk Sliwka
Risk-Taking Tournaments: Theory and Experimental Evidence
We study risk-taking behavior in a simple two person tournament in a theoretical model as well as a laboratory experiment. First, a model is analyzed in which two agents simultaneously decide between ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2010, 31 (3), 254-268)
M51, C91, D23
3399 Petter Lundborg
The Health Returns to Education: What Can We Learn from Twins?
This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin-differences strategy in order to obtain estimates that are not biased by unobserved family ...
(published as 'The health returns to schooling—what can we learn from twins?' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (2), 673-701)
I12, I11, J14, J12, C41
3398 Michel Beine
Frédéric Docquier
Maurice Schiff
Brain Drain and its Determinants: A Major Issue for Small States
This paper examines the relationship between the brain drain and country size, as well as the extent of small states’ overall loss of human capital. We find that small states are the main losers ...
(revised version published in: Artal-Tur/Peri/Requena-Silvente (Eds.),The Socio-Economic Impact of Migration Flows - Springer: 2014)
F22, J24, J61, O15
3396 Arnaud Chéron
Jean-Olivier Hairault
François Langot
Life-Cycle Equilibrium Unemployment
This paper develops a life-cycle approach to equilibrium unemployment. Workers only differ respectively to their distance from deterministic retirement. A non age-directed search equilibrium is then ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 31, 843-882)
J22, J26, H55
3395 Francesco Drago
Roberto Galbiati
Pietro Vertova
Prison Conditions and Recidivism
We use a unique data set on post-release behavior of former Italian inmates to estimate the effect of prison conditions on recidivism. By combining different sources of data we exploit variation in ...
(substantially revised version published in: American Law and Economics Review, 2011, 13 (1), 103 - 130)
K42, J18
3393 Yoko Niimi
Caglar Ozden
Maurice Schiff
Remittances and the Brain Drain: Skilled Migrants Do Remit Less
It has been argued that the brain drain’s negative impact may be offset by the higher remittance levels skilled migrants send home. This paper examines whether remittances actually increase with ...
(published in: Annales d’Economie et de Statistique, 2010, 97/98, 123-42)
F22, F24, J61, O15, O16
3392 Daron Acemoglu
Davide Ticchi
Andrea Vindigni
A Theory of Military Dictatorships
We investigate how nondemocratic regimes use the military and how this can lead to the emergence of military dictatorships. Nondemocratic regimes need the use of force in order to remain in power, ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2010, 2 (1), 1-42)
H2, N10, N40, P16
3391 Michael Grimm
Stephan Klasen
Geography vs. Institutions at the Village Level
There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on cross-country regressions ...
(published as 'Migration pressure, tenure security and agricultural intensification. Evidence from Indonesia' in: Land Economics, 2015, 91 (3), 411-434.)
K11, O12, Q12
3390 Mabel Andalón
Carmen Pagés
Minimum Wages in Kenya
This paper examines the performance of minimum wage legislation in Kenya, both in terms of its coverage and enforcement as well as in terms of their implications for wages and employment. Our ...
(published in: Ravi Kanbur and Jan Svejnar (eds.): Labour Markets and Economic Development, Routledge, 2009)
J23, J31, J38
3389 Volker Grossmann
Entrepreneurial Innovation and Sustained Long-Run Growth without Weak or Strong Scale Effects
R&D-based growth theory suggests that a larger population size raises either the long-run rate of economic growth (“strong scale effect”) or the level of per capita income (“weak scale effect”), with ...
(published as "Entrepreneurial Innovation and Economic Growth" in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2009, 31 (4), 602-613)
O10, O30, O40
3388 Frédéric Docquier
Maurice Schiff
Measuring Skilled Emigration Rates: The Case of Small States
Recent changes in information and communication technologies (ICT) have contributed to a dramatic increase in the integration and interdependence of countries, markets and people. This paper focuses ...
(revised version published in: Artal-Tur/Peri/Requena-Silvente (Eds.),The Socio-Economic Impact of Migration Flows - Springer: 2014)
F22
3387 Luca Flabbi
Marco Leonardi
Sources of Earnings Instability: Estimates from an On-the-Job Search Model of the U.S. Labor Market
Many contributions suggest that earnings instability has increased during the 1980s and 1990s. This paper develops and estimates an on-the-job search model of the labor market to study the ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2010, 54 (6), 832-854)
J21, J31
3386 Hans Bloemen
Private Wealth and Job Exit at Older Age: A Random Effects Model
Private wealth holdings are likely to become an increasingly important determinant in the job exit decision of elderly workers. Net wealth may correlate with worker’s characteristics that also ...
(revised version published in: Empirical Economics, 2016, 51 (2), 763-807)
J26, D91
3385 Simon Luechinger
Stephan Meier
Alois Stutzer
Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap between the Public and the Private Sector
High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2010, 45(4), 998-1045)
E24, I31, J30, J45, J64
3384 Barry R. Chiswick
The Rise and Fall of the American Jewish PhD
This paper is concerned with trends over the post-WWII period in the employment of American Jews as College and University teachers and in their receipt of the PhD. The empirical analysis is for PhD ...
(published in: Contemporary Jewry, 2009, 29 (1), 67-84 (Marshall Sklare Memorial Lecture, Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry, Toronto, December 2007) )
I21, J71, J44
3383 Maurice Schiff
Yanling Wang
North-South Technology Spillovers: The Relative Impact of Openness and Foreign R&D
This paper examines the relative contribution of openness and the R&D content of trade to TFP growth for North-South trade-related technology diffusion. The measure of foreign R&D used in the ...
(published in International Economic Journal, 2010, 24 (2), 159-69 )
F10, F15, O19, O24, O33
3382 Christian Grund
Judith Przemeck
Subjective Performance Evaluation and Inequality Aversion
Many firms use subjective performance appraisal systems due to lack of objective performance measures. In these cases, supervisors usually have to rate the performance of their subordinates. Using ...
(revised (consirably shortened) version published as 'Subjective performance appraisal and inequality aversion' in: Applied Economics, 2012, 44 (17), 2149 - 2155)
M5, D63
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