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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
3366 Volker Grossmann
David Stadelmann
International Mobility of the Highly Skilled, Endogenous R&D, and Public Infrastructure Investment
This paper theoretically and empirically analyzes the interaction of emigration of highly skilled labor, an economy’s income gap to potential host economies of expatriates, and optimal public ...
(published as "Does International Mobility of High-Skilled Workers Aggravate Between-Country Inequality?" in: Journal of Development Economics, 2011, 95 (1), 88 - 94)
F22, O30, H40
3365 Tito Boeri
Michael C. Burda
Preferences for Collective versus Individualised Wage Setting
Standard models of equilibrium unemployment assume exogenous labour market institutions and flexible wage determination. This paper models wage rigidity and collective bargaining endogenously, when ...
(published in Economic Journal, 2009, 119, 1440-1463.)
J5, J6, D7
3364 François Langot
Coralia Quintero Rojas
Explaining the Evolution of Hours Worked and Employment across OECD Countries: An Equilibrium Search Approach
Since 1960, the dynamics of the aggregate hours of market work exhibit dramatic differences across industrialized countries. Before 1980, these differences seem to come from the hours worked per ...
(updated version published as 'Explaining labor wedge trends: An equilibrium search approach' in: European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2016, 13 (1), 3 - 35 )
E2, J2, J6
3363 Gabriel Felbermayr
Julien Prat
Hans-Jörg Schmerer
Globalization and Labor Market Outcomes: Wage Bargaining, Search Frictions, and Firm Heterogeneity
We introduce search unemployment à la Pissarides into Melitz’ (2003) model of trade with heterogeneous firms. We allow wages to be individually or collectively bargained and analytically solve for ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2011, 146 (1), 39-73)
F12, F15, F16
3362 Habiba Djebbari
Jeffrey A. Smith
Heterogeneous Impacts in PROGRESA
The “common effect” model in program evaluation assumes that all treated individuals have the same impact from a program. Our paper contributes to the recent literature that tests and goes beyond the ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2008, 145 (1-2), 64-80)
C21, C14, I38
3361 Massimiliano Bratti
Daniele Checchi
Guido de Blasio
Does the Expansion of Higher Education Increase the Equality of Educational Opportunities? Evidence from Italy
This paper studies the role of the expansion of higher education (HE) in increasing the equality of tertiary education opportunities. It examines Italy’s experience during the 1990s, when policy ...
(revised version published in: Labour, 2008, 22 (s1), 53–88 )
I2
3360 Marco Caliendo
Start-Up Subsidies in East Germany: Finally, a Policy that Works?
The German government has spent between 7bn and 11bn Euro per year on active labor market policies (ALMP) in East Germany in the last decade. The effectiveness of the most important programs (in ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30(7), 625-647)
J68, C14, H43, M13
3359 Thorsten Schank
Claus Schnabel
Joachim Wagner
Higher Wages in Exporting Firms: Self-Selection, Export Effect, or Both? First Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data
While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than non-exporting firms, the direction of the link between exporting and wages is less clear. Using a rich set of German linked ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2010, 146 (2), 303-322)
F10, D21, J31
3358 Carla Calero
Arjun S. Bedi
Robert Sparrow
Remittances, Liquidity Constraints and Human Capital Investments in Ecuador
Over the last decade Ecuador has experienced a strong increase in financial transfers from migrated workers, amounting to 6.4 percent of GDP and 31.5 percent of total exports of goods and services in ...
(published in: World Development, 2009, 37 (6), 1143-1154)
I20, J22, O15
3357 John T. Addison
Mario Centeno
Pedro Portugal
Unemployment Benefits and Reservation Wages: Key Elasticities from a Stripped-Down Job Search Approach
This paper exploits survey information on reservation wages and data on actual wages from the European Community Household Panel to deduce in the manner of Lancaster and Chesher (1983) additional ...
(published in: Economica, 2010, 77 (305), 46–59)
J64, J65
3356 Bernd Fitzenberger
Karsten Kohn
Alexander C. Lembcke
Union Density and Varieties of Coverage: The Anatomy of Union Wage Effects in Germany
Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining coverage is much higher than union density; and not all employees in a covered ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66 (1), 169-197)
J31, J51, J52
3355 David Neumark
Alternative Labor Market Policies to Increase Economic Self-Sufficiency: Mandating Higher Wages, Subsidizing Employment, and Raising Productivity
The principal means by which individuals and families achieve economic self-sufficiency is through labor market earnings. As a consequence, it is natural for policy makers to look to interventions ...
(published in: Heinrich, C.; Scholz, J. (eds.), Making the Work-Based Safety Net Work Better Russell Sage Foundation, New York, NY, , 2009, 5-78)
J18, J22, J23, J24
3354 David G. Blanchflower
International Evidence on Well-being
National Time Accounting is a way of measuring society's well-being, based on time use. Its explicit form is the U-index, for “unpleasant” or “undesirable”, which measures the proportion of time an ...
(published in: Alan Krueger (ed.): Measuring the Subjective Well-Being of Nations: National Accounts of Time Use and Well-Being, NBER and University of Chicago Press, 2009, 155 - 226)
J22
3353 Claus Schnabel
Susanne Kohaut
Udo Brixy
Employment Stability of Entrants in Newly Founded Firms: A Matching Approach Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany
Using a linked employer-employee dataset and taking the perspective of individuals rather than firms, this paper analyzes some effects of joining start-ups. We show that entrants in new firms differ ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2011, 36(1), 85-100)
J63, J64
3352 Karen van der Wiel
Better Protected, Better Paid: Evidence on How Employment Protection Affects Wages
This paper empirically establishes the effect of the employer's term of notice on the wage level of employees. The term of notice is defined as the period an employer has to notify workers in advance ...
(substantially revised version published as IZA DP No. 4465)
C23, J31, J38, J63
3351 Laszlo Goerke
Markus Pannenberg
Risk Aversion and Trade Union Membership
In an open-shop model of trade union membership with heterogeneity in risk attitudes, a worker's relative risk aversion can affect the decision to join a trade union. Furthermore, a shift in risk ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Risk Aversion, Collective Bargaining, and Wages in Germany' in: Labour, 2012, 26 (2), 156 - 173 )
J51
3350 Thomas Dohmen
Hartmut Lehmann
Mark E Schaffer
Wage Policies of a Russian Firm and the Financial Crisis of 1998: Evidence from Personnel Data – 1997 to 2002
We use a rich personnel data set from a Russian firm for the years 1997 to 2002 to analyze how the financial crisis in 1998 and the resulting change in external labor market conditions affect the ...
(revised version published in: Industrial Labor Relations Review, 2014, 67 (2), 504-531.)
J23, J31, P23
3349 Laurens Cherchye
Bram De Rock
Frederic Vermeulen
Economic Well-Being and Poverty among the Elderly: An Analysis Based on a Collective Consumption Model
We apply the collective consumption model of Browning, Chiappori and Lewbel (2006) to analyse economic well-being and poverty among the elderly. The model focuses on individual preferences, a ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56 (6), 985-1000)
D11, D12, D13, D63, I31
3348 Stefano Gagliarducci
Tommaso Nannicini
Paolo Naticchioni
Electoral Rules and Politicians’ Behavior: A Micro Test
Theory predicts that the majoritarian electoral system should produce more targeted redistribution and lower politicians’ rents than proportional representation. We test these predictions using micro ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2011, 3 (3), 144-174)
C20, D72, D78, P16
3347 Sumon K. Bhaumik
Subal C. Kumbhakar
Impact of Reforms on Plant-Level Productivity and Technical Efficiency: Evidence from the Indian Manufacturing Sector
It is generally believed that the structural reforms that usher in competition and force companies to become more efficient were introduced later in India following the macroeconomic crisis in 1991. ...
(published in: Journal of Asian Economics, 21(2): 219-232, 2010)
C13, O12
3346 Hendrik Wolff
Howard Chong
Maximilian Auffhammer
Consequences of Data Error in Aggregate Indicators: Evidence from the Human Development Index
This paper examines the consequences of data error in data series used to construct aggregate indicators. Using the most popular indicator of country level economic development, the Human Development ...
(published as 'Classification, Detection and Consequences of Data Error: Evidence from the Human Development Index' in: Economic Journal, 2011, 121 (553), 843 - 870)
O10, C82
3344 Andrew J. Oswald
On the Curvature of the Reporting Function from Objective Reality to Subjective Feelings
I suggest the idea of a reporting function, r(.), from reality to feelings. The ‘happiness’ literature claims we have demonstrated diminishing marginal utility of income. I show not, and that knowing ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 100 (3), 369-372)
I3, D1
3343 Aslan Zorlu
Who Leaves the City? The Influence of Ethnic Segregation and Family Ties
In the last three decades, the population of Amsterdam has been ‘coloured’ due to immigration flows from abroad and a low outflow rate among these immigrants and their descendants. The question is to ...
(published in: Population, Space and Place, 2009, 15 (4), 323-342)
J1
3341 I. Semih Akçomak
Bas ter Weel
Social Capital, Innovation and Growth: Evidence from Europe
This paper investigates the interplay between social capital, innovation and per capita income growth in the European Union. We model and identify innovation as an important mechanism that transforms ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2009, 53 (5), 544-567)
O1, O3, O52, Z13
3339 Yves Zenou
Search, Wage Posting, and Urban Spatial Structure
We develop an urban-search model in which firms post wages. When all workers are identical, the Diamond paradox holds, i.e. there is a unique wage in equilibrium even in the presence of search and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2011, 11 (3), 387 - 416)
D83, J64, R14
3338 Lesley Potters
Raquel Ortega-Argilés
Marco Vivarelli
R&D and Productivity: Testing Sectoral Peculiarities Using Micro Data
The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between a firm's R&D activities and its productivity using a unique micro data panel dataset and looking at sectoral peculiarities which may ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2011, 41 (3), 817-839)
O33
3336 Indraneel Dasgupta
Pushkar Maitra
Diganta Mukherjee
‘Arranged’ Marriage, Co-Residence and Female Schooling: A Model with Evidence from India
We model the consequences of parental control over choice of wives for sons, for parental incentives to educate daughters, when the marriage market exhibits competitive dowry payments and altruistic ...
(published in: Mukhopadhyay, H. et al. (eds.), Dimensions of Economic Theory and Policy, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2011 )
D10, D91, J12, J16
3335 Timothy J. Halliday
Sally Kwak
What Is a Peer? The Role of Network Definitions in Estimation of Endogenous Peer Effects
We employ a standard identification strategy from the peer effects literature to investigate the importance of network definitions in estimation of endogenous peer effects. We use detailed ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2012, 44 (3), 289 - 302)
I12, I20
3333 Lex Borghans
Angela Lee Duckworth
James J. Heckman
Bas ter Weel
The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits
This paper explores the interface between personality psychology and economics. We examine the predictive power of personality and the stability of personality traits over the life cycle. We develop ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2008, 43 (4), 972-1059)
I2, J24
3332 Nauro F. Campos
Yuko Kinoshita
Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Reforms: Evidence from Eastern Europe and Latin America
This paper investigates the role of structural reforms – privatization, financial reform and trade liberalization – as determinants of FDI inflows based on newly constructed dataset on structural ...
(revised version published in: IMF Staff Papers, 2010, 57 (2), 326-365)
H11, F21, O16
3331 Eleonora Patacchini
Yves Zenou
Ethnic Networks and Employment Outcomes
We analyse the effect of strong and weak ties on the individual probability of finding a job. Using the dynamic model of Calvó-Armengol and Jackson (2004), two results are put forward: (i) the ...
(published online in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2012, 42, 938-949.)
A14, C33, J15, R23
3330 Christian Bayer
Falko Juessen
On the Dynamics of Interstate Migration: Migration Costs and Self-Selection
This paper develops a tractable dynamic microeconomic model of migration decisions that is aggregated to describe the behavior of interregional migration. Our structural approach allows us to deal ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2012, 15 (3), 377-401)
C61, C20, J61, R23
3329 Jérôme Adda
James Banks
Hans-Martin von Gaudecker
The Impact of Income Shocks on Health: Evidence from Cohort Data
We study the effect of permanent income innovations on health for a prime-aged population. Using information on more than half a million individuals sampled over a twenty-five year period in three ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7 (6), 1361 - 1399)
I1, J3
3328 Eric D. Gould
Todd R. Kaplan
Learning Unethical Practices from a Co-worker: The Peer Effect of Jose Canseco
This paper examines the issue of whether workers learn productive skills from their co-workers, even if those skills are unethical. Specifically, we estimate whether Jose Canseco, one of the best ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18(3), 338-348)
J24
3326 Edwin Leuven
Hessel Oosterbeek
Joep Sonnemans
Bas van der Klaauw
Incentives versus Sorting in Tournaments: Evidence from a Field Experiment
A vast body of empirical studies lends support to the incentive effects of rank-order tournaments. Evidence comes from experiments in laboratories and non-experimental studies exploiting sports or ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2011, 29 (3), 637-658)
J33, C93, M52
3325 Amelie F. Constant
Elena D'Agosto
Where Do the Brainy Italians Go?
This paper studies the major determinants that affect the country choice of the talented Italian scientists and researchers who have at least a bachelor’s from Italy and live abroad. There are three ...
(published in: F.E. Caroleo and F. Pastore (eds.), The Labour Market Impact of the EU Enlargement, Physica-Verlag Heidelberg, 2010)
J61, J24, F22
3324 Ronald Bachmann
Michael C. Burda
Sectoral Transformation, Turbulence, and Labor Market Dynamics in Germany
This paper analyzes the interaction between structural change and labor market dynamics in West Germany, during a period in which industrial employment declined by more than 30% and service sector ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2010, 11 (1), 37 - 59)
J63, J64, J62
3323 Kathrin Bertschy
Maria Alejandra Cattaneo
Stefan C. Wolter
What Happened to the PISA 2000 Participants Five Years Later?
The transition from school-to-work has been a burning issue in most countries for the last decades. So far research on this topic has not been conclusive, and it is still not clear whether transition ...
(published as 'PISA and the Transition into the Labour Market' in: Labour, 2009, 23 (Special Issue), 111 - 137)
I2, J24
3322 Timothy J. Halliday
Migration, Risk and the Intra-Household Allocation of Labor in El Salvador
We use panel data from El Salvador and investigate the intra-household allocation of labor as a risk-coping strategy. Adverse agricultural productivity shocks both increased male migration to the US ...
(substantially revised version published as IZA DP No. 4903, April 2010)
J22, J61
3321 Hans-Martin von Gaudecker
Arthur van Soest
Erik Wengström
Selection and Mode Effects in Risk Preference Elicitation Experiments
We combine data from a risk preference elicitation experiment conducted on a representative sample via the Internet with laboratory data on students for the same experiment to investigate effects of ...
(superseeded by IZA DP 5575 and the published version.)
C90, D81
3320 Douglas J. Krupka
Douglas S. Noonan
Empowerment Zones, Neighborhood Change and Owner Occupied Housing
This paper examines the effects of a generous, spatially-targeted economic development policy (the federal Empowerment Zone program) on local neighborhood characteristics and on the neighborhood ...
(revision published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2009, 39(4), 386-396)
R0, R21, R31, R38, R58
3319 Claudia Senik
Thierry Verdier
Segregation, Entrepreneurship and Work Values: The Case of France
This paper studies the interaction between labor market integration, the evolution of “work values” and entrepreneurial capital inside minority communities. A simple model of labor market ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (4), 1207-1234)
J15, J61, J7, Z13
3318 Nezih Guner
Remzi Kaygusuz
Gustavo Ventura
Taxation, Aggregates and the Household
We evaluate reforms to the U.S. tax system in a dynamic setup with heterogeneous married and single households, and with an operative extensive margin in labor supply. We restrict our model with ...
(published as 'Taxation and Household Labor Supply' in: Review of Economic Studies, 2012, 79 (3), 1113-1149.)
E62, H31, J12, J22
3317 Indraneel Dasgupta
Ravi Kanbur
Should Egalitarians Expropriate Philanthropists?
Wealthy individuals often voluntarily provide public goods that the poor also consume. Such philanthropy is perceived as legitimizing one’s wealth. Governments routinely exempt the rich from taxation ...
(published as "Does Philanthropy Reduce Inequality?" in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, 9 (1), 1-21)
D31, D63, D74, Z13
3316 Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
Occupational Attainment and Immigrant Economic Progress in Australia
Using data from the 2001 Australian Census of Population and Housing, on adult men in full-time employment, this paper augments a conventional human capital earnings function with information on ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2008, 84, S45-S56)
J24, J31, J62, F22
3315 Barbara Petrongolo
Christopher A. Pissarides
The Ins and Outs of European Unemployment
In this paper we study the contribution of inflows and outflows to the dynamics of unemployment in three European countries, the United Kingdom, France and Spain. We compare performance in these ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2008, 98 (2), 256-262)
E24, E32, J6
3314 Timothy J. Hatton
Richard M. Martin
The Effects on Stature of Poverty, Family Size and Birth Order: British Children in the 1930s
This paper examines effects of socio-economic conditions on the standardised heights and body mass index of children in Interwar Britain. It uses the Boyd Orr cohort, a survey of predominantly poor ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2010, 62 (1), 157-184)
J13, I12, I31
3313 Jeremy Greenwood
Nezih Guner
Marriage and Divorce since World War II: Analyzing the Role of Technological Progress on the Formation of Households
Since World War II there has been: (i) a rise in the fraction of time that married households allocate to market work, (ii) an increase in the rate of divorce, and (iii) a decline in the rate of ...
(published in: Acemoglu, D. et al. (eds.): NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2008, NBER, Cambridge, MA , 2009, 231-276)
E13, J12, J22, O11
3312 Arnaud Dupuy
A Microfoundation for Production Functions: Assignment of Heterogenous Workers to Heterogenous Jobs
In very different fields of economics, economic inference and policy evaluation require economists to parametrize a production function that links measures of input factors to measures of output. ...
(published in: Economica, 2012, 79 (315), 534-556. )
D2, D3, J3, O3
3311 Libertad González
Francesc Ortega
How Do Very Open Economies Absorb Large Immigration Flows? Recent Evidence from Spanish Regions
In recent years, Spain has received unprecedented immigration flows. Between 2001 and 2006 the fraction of the population born abroad more than doubled, increasing from 4.8% to 10.8%. For Spanish ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (1), 57–70)
J2, F1, O3
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