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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
3310 James J. Heckman
Lance John Lochner
Petra E. Todd
Earnings Functions and Rates of Return
The internal rate of return to schooling is a fundamental economic parameter that is often used to assess whether expenditure on education should be increased or decreased. This paper considers ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2008, 2(1), 1-31)
C31
3309 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Leaving Home: What Economics Has to Say about the Living Arrangements of Young Australians
Like their counterparts elsewhere, more young Australians than ever are delaying the move to establish residential independence from their parents. This paper reviews the developing economics ...
(published in: Australian Economic Review, 2008, 41 (2), 160-176)
J11, J13
3308 Jan C. van Ours
Justus Veenman
How Interethnic Marriages Affect the Educational Attainment of Children: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
The allocation of Moluccan immigrants across towns and villages at arrival in the Netherlands and the subsequent formation of interethnic marriages resemble a natural experiment. The exogenous ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 111-117)
I21, J15
3305 Paul J. Devereux
Robert A. Hart
Forced to Be Rich? Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Britain
Do students benefit from compulsory schooling? Researchers using changes in compulsory schooling laws as instruments have typically estimated very high returns to additional schooling that are ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120(549), 1345-1364)
J01
3304 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Vincent A. Hildebrand
The Asset Portfolios of Native-Born and Foreign-Born Households
This paper analyses the net worth and asset portfolios of native- and foreign-born Australian families using HILDA (wave 2) data. Specifically, we estimate a system of asset equations with an ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2009, 85(268), 46-59)
J61, G11, J1
3303 Daniela Del Boca
Silvia Pasqua
Chiara D. Pronzato
Market Work and Motherhood Decisions in Contexts
In this paper, we explore the impact of social policies and labour market characteristics on women’s decisions regarding work and childbearing, using data from the European Community Household Panel ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2009, 61 (1), 147-171)
J11, C3, D1
3302 Ioan-Sebastian Buhai
Miguel Portela
Coen Teulings
Aico van Vuuren
Returns to Tenure or Seniority?
This study documents two empirical regularities, using data for Denmark and Portugal. First, workers who are hired last, are the first to leave the firm (Last In, First Out; LIFO). Second, workers' ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2014, 82 (2), 705-730)
J31, J41, J63
3301 Fernando A. Lozano
Todd A. Sorensen
Mexican Immigrants, the Labor Market and the Current Population Survey: Seasonality Effects, Framing Effects, and Sensitivity of Results
In this paper we compare estimates of immigrants’ labor supply assimilation profiles using the Current Population Survey Annual Demographic Files (March ADS) and the Current Population Survey ...
(Published as: "Mexican Immigrants, Labour Market Assimilation and the Current Population: The Sensitivity of Results Across Seemingly Equivalent Surveys" in: International Migration, 2015, 53(2), 250–262)
J16, J22
3300 John T. Addison
McKinley L. Blackburn
Chad Cotti
The Effect of Minimum Wages on Wages and Employment: County-Level Estimates for the United States
We use county-level data on employment and earnings in the restaurant-and-bar sector to evaluate the impact of minimum wage changes on low-wage labor markets. Our empirical approach is similar to the ...
(published online in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2012, 50 (3), 412-435.)
J23, J38
3299 Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Jan Svejnar
Katherine Terrell
Globalization and Innovation in Emerging Markets
Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging market economies to innovate and improve their competitive position. Using recent data on firms in 27 transition ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2010, 2 (2), 194-226)
F23, M16, O16
3298 Stephane Dees
M. Hashem Pesaran
L. Vanessa Smith
Ron P. Smith
Identification of New Keynesian Phillips Curves from a Global Perspective
New Keynesian Phillips Curves (NKPC) have been extensively used in the analysis of monetary policy, but yet there are a number of issues of concern about how they are estimated and then related to ...
(published in: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2009, 41 (7), 1481-1502)
C32, E17, F37, F42
3297 John Tyler
Magnus Lofstrom
Is the GED an Effective Route to Postsecondary Education for School Dropouts?
We use data from the Texas Schools Microdata Panel (TSMP) to examine the extent to which dropouts use the GED as a route to post-secondary education. The paper develops a model pointing out the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (5), 813–825)
I2, J18
3296 Leonce Ndikumana
Sher Verick
The Linkages between FDI and Domestic Investment: Unravelling the Developmental Impact of Foreign Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa
While the recent increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) to African countries is a welcome development, the question remains as to the impact of these resource inflows on economic development. ...
(published in: Development Policy Review, 2008, 26 (6), 713-726)
E22, F21, F23, O16
3295 Stefano Gagliarducci
Tommaso Nannicini
Paolo Naticchioni
Outside Income and Moral Hazard: The Elusive Quest for Good Politicians
In most modern democracies elected officials can work in the private sector while appointed in parliament. We show that when the political and market sectors are not mutually exclusive, a trade-off ...
(published as 'Moonlighting Politicians' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (9-10), 688-699)
D72, J45, P16
3294 John T. Addison
Clive R. Belfield
Unions, Training, and Firm Performance
The present paper uses a combination of workplace and linked employee-workplace data from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey and the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey to examine ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Market Research/Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung, 2007, 40 (4), 361-381)
J24, J33, J51
3293 Hector Sala
José I. Silva
Manuel E. Toledo
Flexibility at the Margin and Labor Market Volatility in OECD Countries
We study whether segmented labor markets with flexibility at the margin (e.g., just affecting fixed-term employees) can achieve similar volatility than fully deregulated labor markets. Flexibility at ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (3), 991-1017)
J23, J41, J63
3292 Niall O'Higgins
Marcello D'Amato
Floro Ernesto Caroleo
Adriana Barone
Gone for Good? Determinants of School Dropout in Southern Italy
The aim of the present paper is to gain some insight into the causes of dropping out of school and, more generally, of the factors that induce parents to review their choices about their child’s ...
(published in: Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, 2007, 66(2), 207-246)
I21, J13, J24
3291 Uwe Jirjahn
Kornelius Kraft
Teamwork and Intra-Firm Wage Dispersion among Blue-Collar Workers
Using data on a sample of manufacturing establishments in Germany, we find that the use of self-managed teams is associated with increased intra-firm wage inequality between skilled and unskilled ...
(revised version published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2010, 57(4), 404-429)
J30, J31, M52
3289 John T. Addison
Mario Centeno
Pedro Portugal
Do Reservation Wages Really Decline? Some International Evidence on the Determinants of Reservation Wages
Using cross-country data, we investigate the determinants of reservation wages and their course over the jobless spell. Higher unemployment benefits lead to higher reservation wages. Further, again ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2009, 30 (1), 1 - 8)
J64, J65
3288 Markus Frölich
Blaise Melly
Unconditional Quantile Treatment Effects under Endogeneity
This paper develops IV estimators for unconditional quantile treatment effects (QTE) when the treatment selection is endogenous. In contrast to conditional QTE, i.e. the effects conditional on a ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2013, 31(3), 346-357)
C13, C14, C21
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