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3232 Sumon K. Bhaumik
Manisha Chakrabarty
Is Education the Panacea for Economic Deprivation of Muslims? Evidence from Wage Earners in India, 1987–2005
Few researchers have examined the nature and determinants of earnings differentials among religious groups, and none has been undertaken in the context of conflict-prone multi-religious societies ...
(published in: Journal of Asian Economics, 2009, 20 (2), 137-149)
J31, J15, I28
3231 Randolph Luca Bruno
Marco Stampini
Joining Panel Data with Cross-Sections for Efficiency Gains: An Application to a Consumption Equation for Nicaragua
This paper explores how cross-sectional data can be exploited jointly with longitudinal data, in order to increase estimation efficiency while properly tackling the potential bias due to unobserved ...
(published in: Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, 2009, 68 (2), 149-173)
C33, C42, I38
3229 Etienne Dumont
Bernard Fortin
Nicolas Jacquemet
Bruce S. Shearer
Physicians' Multitasking and Incentives: Empirical Evidence from a Natural Experiment
We analyse how physicians respond to contractual changes and incentives within a multitasking environment. In 1999 the Quebec government (Canada) introduced an optional mixed compensation system, ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27(6), 1436-1450)
I10, J22
3228 Tilman Brück
Alexander M. Danzer
Alexander Muravyev
Natalia Danzer
Determinants of Poverty during Transition: Household Survey Evidence from Ukraine
The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty in Ukraine during transition using two comparable surveys from 1996 and 2004. We measure poverty using income ...
(revised version published as 'Poverty during Transition: Household Survey Evidence from Ukraine' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2010, 38 (2), 123-145)
P20, I32, J20, O15
3225 Rob Euwals
Marike Knoef
Daniel van Vuuren
The Trend in Female Labour Force Participation: What Can Be Expected for the Future?
During the 1980s and 1990s, the Netherlands experienced a strong increase in the labour force participation of women. This study investigates the increase of participation over the successive ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2011, 40(3), 729-753)
J11, J21
3222 Giuseppe Bertola
Daniele Checchi
Veruska Oppedisano
Private School Quality in Italy
We discuss how a schooling system’s structure may imply that private school enrolment leads to worse subsequent performance in further education or in the labour market, and we seek evidence of such ...
(published in: Giornale degli Economisti ed Annali di Economia, 2007, 66 (3), 375-400)
I21
3221 Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
Within and Between Gender Disparities in Income and Education Benefits from Democracy
There is data evidence that welfare has improved post democracy in Nigeria. However, the distribution or concentration of the benefits in subgroups of the population is unknown. In this paper, the ...
(published as 'Disparities in the Benefits from Democratic Reform in Nigeria: A Gender Perspective' in: Developing Economies, 2010, 48 (3), 345–375)
O15, P00, J16, D63
3220 Marco Caliendo
Alexander S. Kritikos
Start-Ups by the Unemployed: Characteristics, Survival and Direct Employment Effects
Fostering and supporting start-up businesses by unemployed persons has become an increasingly important issue in many European countries. These new ventures are being supported by various ...
(revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2010, 35(1), 71-92)
J68, M13
3219 Silvio Rendon
Alfredo Cuecuecha
International Job Search: Mexicans In and Out of the US
It is argued that migration from Mexico to the US and its corresponding return migration are determined by international wage differentials and preferences for origin. We use a model of job search, ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (1), 53-82)
F22, J64, E20
3218 Almas Heshmati
Rhona Davis
The Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment Flows to the Federal Region of Kurdistan
The flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) has increased dramatically in the last two decades. However, the distribution of FDI is highly unequal and the competition among countries to attract ...
(published in: Heshmati, The Economy of Southern Kurdistan, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2010)
D53, E44, F21, G28, G38, O16
3217 Krishna Patel
Francis Vella
Immigrant Networks and Their Implications for Occupational Choice and Wages
This paper employs United States Census data to study the occupational allocation of immigrants. The data reveal that the occupational shares of various ethnic groups have grown drastically in ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (4), 1249–1277.)
J24, J3, J61
3216 James J. Heckman
Paul A. LaFontaine
The American High School Graduation Rate: Trends and Levels
This paper uses multiple data sources and a unified methodology to estimate the trends and levels of the U.S. high school graduation rate. Correcting for important biases that plague previous ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 92 (2), 244-262)
I21
3215 Bruno Crépon
Marc Ferracci
Denis Fougère
Training the Unemployed in France: How Does It Affect Unemployment Duration and Recurrence?
Econometric evaluations of public-sponsored training programmes generally find little evidence of an impact of such policies on transition rates out of unemployment. We perform the first evaluation ...
(published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2012, 107-108, 175-199.)
J24, J41, J58
3214 Lena Edlund
Hongbin Li
Junjian Yi
Junsen Zhang
Sex Ratios and Crime: Evidence from China’s One-Child Policy
Sex ratios (males to females) rose markedly in China in the last two decades, and crime rates nearly doubled. This paper examines whether the two are causally linked. High sex ratios imply fewer ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95(5), 1520-1534. )
J12, J13, K42
3213 Almas Heshmati
A Model for Industrial Development of the Federal Region of Kurdistan: Science and Technology Policy, Instruments and Institutions
This report introduces two of the most successful industrial development models of the modern time – the Japanese as a leader and the South Korean as its follower. The objective is to review the ...
(published in: Heshmati, The Economy of Southern Kurdistan, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2010)
H54, L52, L78, O14, O20, O25
3212 Ingo Geishecker
Holger Görg
Jakob R. Munch
Do Labour Market Institutions Matter? Micro-Level Wage Effects of International Outsourcing in Three European Countries
This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2010, 146 (1), 179-198)
F16, J31, C23
3210 Ana Rute Cardoso
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
Mentoring and Segregation: Female-Led Firms and Gender Wage Policies
We explore the impact of mentoring of females and gender segregation on wages using a large longitudinal data set for Portugal. Female managers can protect and mentor female employees by paying them ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2010, 64 (1), 143-163)
M52, D21, J31, J16
3209 Francesco Pastore
Employment and Education Policy for Young People in the EU: What Can New Member States Learn from Old Member States?
The EU experience with youth unemployment has changed over recent years with the launch and re-launch of the Lisbon Strategy and the Bologna process. A dramatic shift has taken place from the 1990s ...
(published in: Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations, 2008, 65, 235-254)
I2, J24, J68, P3
3208 Almas Heshmati
Review of the Recent Trends in Development Economics Research: With Experience from the Federal Region of Kurdistan
This study is a review of the recent trends in development economics research. The focus is on the development in the recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies ...
(published in: Tocha (ed.), Development Economics Research Trends, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2010)
D83, F10, F21, I30, L24, O10, O47
3207 Angel Calderón-Madrid
Alexandru Voicu
The NAFTA Tide: Lifting the Larger and Better Boats
We use panel data on Mexican manufacturing plants to study the connection between plants’ responses to changes in the economic environment and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth in ...
(revised version published in: Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2011, 20 (4), 467 - 505)
C13, D24, F13, O47, O54
3206 Alexander Chudik
M. Hashem Pesaran
Infinite Dimensional VARs and Factor Models
This paper introduces a novel approach for dealing with the ‘curse of dimensionality’ in the case of large linear dynamic systems. Restrictions on the coefficients of an unrestricted VAR are proposed ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2011, 163 (1), 4-22)
C10, C33, C51, O40
3205 David L. Dickinson
Marie Claire Villeval
The Peter Principle: An Experiment
The Peter Principle states that, after a promotion, the observed output of promoted employees tends to fall. Lazear (2004) models this principle as resulting from a regression to the mean of the ...
(revised version published as 'Job allocation rules and sorting efficiency: Experimental Outcomes in a Peter Principle Environment.' in: Southern Economic Journal, 2012, 78 (3), 842-859)
C91, J24, J33, M51, M52
3204 Alfonso Miranda
Migrant Networks, Migrant Selection, and High School Graduation in Mexico
This paper examines whether family and community migration experience affect the probability of high school graduation in Mexico once unobserved heterogeneity is accounted for. Bivariate random ...
(revised version published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2011, 33, 263-306)
F22, I21, J61, C35
3203 Almas Heshmati
Chemen S. J. Bajalan
Arno Tausch
Measurement and Analysis of Child Well-Being in Middle and High Income Countries
Starting from the recent UNICEF publications on child poverty in the developed countries, which received a wide audience in the political and scientific world, in this paper we further analyze the ...
(published in: European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2008, 5(2), 227-249)
D31, I10, I20, I30, J13
3201 Francesco Figari
Herwig Immervoll
Horacio Levy
Holly Sutherland
Inequalities Within Couples: Market Incomes and the Role of Taxes and Benefits in Europe
In spite of there being few elements of tax or cash benefit systems in developed countries that are any longer explicitly gender-biased in a discriminatory sense, it is well recognised that they have ...
(revised version published in: Eastern Economic Journal, 2011, 37, 344-366 )
D31, H31
3198 Arno Tausch
Almas Heshmati
Chemen S. J. Bajalan
On the Multivariate Analysis of the "Lisbon Process"
Starting from Professor Kornai’s assertion about the necessity to focus on the long-term perspectives of the transformation process, we analyze in this paper the Lisbon performance of the countries ...
(published in: History & Mathematics: Processes and Models of Global Dynamics, Volgograd, Russia, 2010, 92 – 137 )
C43, C21, F15, R11, F2, F5
3197 Robert M. Sauer
Why Develop Open Source Software? The Role of Non-Pecuniary Benefits, Monetary Rewards and Open Source Licence Type
A review of the basic theory of optimal open-source software contributions points to three key factors affecting supply: non-pecuniary benefits, future expected monetary returns, and open-source ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2007, 23 (4), 605-619)
C61, C80, J24, J44
3196 Vibeke T. Christensen
Nabanita Datta Gupta
Martin V. Rasmussen
Hearing Loss and Disability Exit: Measurement Issues and Coping Strategies
Using unique representative data containing self-reported functional and clinically measured hearing ability for the Danish population aged 50-64, we estimate the effect of hearing loss on receipt of ...
(published in Economics & Human Biology, 2017, 24(C), 80-91)
J26, I12
3195 Claudia Senik
Direct Evidence on Income Comparisons and their Welfare Effects
This paper provides unheard direct evidence that comparisons exert a significant effect on subjective well-being. It also evaluates the relative importance of different types of benchmarks. Dynamic ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 72 (1), 408-424)
C25, D31, D63, I31, J31, O57, P3, Z13
3194 Werner Eichhorst
Der Arbeitsmarkt in Deutschland: Zwischen Strukturreformen und sozialpolitischem Reflex
Die Arbeitsmarktreformen der letzten Jahre haben die strukturellen Anpassungsprobleme des deutschen Beschäftigungsmodells zum Teil gelindert – allerdings sind noch längst nicht alle Schwierigkeiten ...
(published in: Gesundheits- und Sozialpolitik, 2008, 62 (2), 17-30)
J68, I28, J28
3192 Madeline Zavodny
Is There a ‘Marriage Premium’ for Gay Men?
It is well-known that married men earn more than comparable single men, with typical estimates of the male marriage premium in the range of 10 to 20 percent. Some research also finds that cohabiting ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2008, 6 (4), 369-389)
J12, J16
3191 Marcos Chamon
Eswar Prasad
Why Are Saving Rates of Urban Households in China Rising?
From 1995 to 2005, the average urban household saving rate in China rose by 8 percentage points, to about one quarter of disposable income. We use household-level data to explain why households are ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2010, 2 (1), 93-130)
D12, E21, O16
3188 Nabanita Datta Gupta
Marianne Simonsen
Non-Cognitive Child Outcomes and Universal High Quality Child Care
Exploiting a rich panel data child survey merged with administrative records along with a pseudo-experiment generating variation in the take-up of pre-school across municipalities, we provide ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (1-2), 30-43)
J13, J18
3187 Carmen Pagés
Marco Stampini
No Education, No Good Jobs? Evidence on the Relationship between Education and Labor Market Segmentation
This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three Latin American and three transition countries. It looks separately at the markets ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2009, 37(3), 387-401)
J21, J24, J31, J63
3186 Eswar Prasad
Raghuram G. Rajan
Arvind Subramanian
Foreign Capital and Economic Growth
We document the recent phenomenon of “uphill” flows of capital from nonindustrial to industrial countries and analyze whether this pattern of capital flows has hurt growth in nonindustrial economies ...
(published in: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2007 (1), 153-230)
F3, F4, E2, O4
3185 Danuta Biterman
Björn Anders Gustafsson
Torun Österberg
Economic and Ethnic Polarisation among Children in Sweden’s Three Metropolitan Areas
This paper investigates certain issues of economic and ethnic segregation from the perspective of children in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden by using a relative new operationalization of ...
(published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften / Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2008, 128 (1), 121 - 152)
D31, J13, J15
3184 Gary S. Fields
Robert Duval Hernández
Samuel Freije-Rodriguez
Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta
Earnings Mobility in Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela: Testing the Divergence of Earnings and the Symmetry of Mobility Hypotheses
This paper examines changes in individual earnings during positive and negative growth periods in three Latin American economies: Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela. We ask whether those individuals ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2015, 13, 103-128.)
D31, J3, J6, O54
3183 Giovanni Facchini
Anna Maria Mayda
Prachi Mishra
Do Interest Groups Affect Immigration?
While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration, there is no systematic empirical evidence on this issue. To motivate our analysis, we develop a simple ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2011, 85, 114-128)
F22, J61
3182 Damon Clark
Selective Schools and Academic Achievement
In this paper I consider the impact of attending a selective high school in the UK. Students are assigned to these schools on the basis of a test taken in primary school and, using data on these ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2010, 10 (1))
C21, I21
3181 Solomon Polachek
Earnings Over the Lifecycle: The Mincer Earnings Function and Its Applications
In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population. In the years since Mincer’s seminal work, he as well as his students and ...
(published in: Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2008, 4 (3), 165-272)
J1, J3, J7
3180 Sebastian Findeisen
Jens Suedekum
Industry Churning and the Evolution of Cities: Evidence for Germany
In this paper we show that the recent model by Duranton (AER, 2007) performs remarkably well in replicating the city size distribution of West Germany, much better than the simple rank-size rule ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2008, 64 (2), 326-339)
O18, R11, R12
3179 David McKenzie
Yaye Seynabou Sakho
Does It Pay Firms to Register for Taxes? The Impact of Formality on Firm Profitability
This paper estimates the impact of registering for taxes on firm profits in Bolivia, the country with the highest levels of informality in Latin America. A new survey of micro and small firms enables ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 91(1), 15-24)
O17, O12, D21
3177 John Micklewright
Sylke V. Schnepf
How Reliable Are Income Data Collected with a Single Question?
Income is an important correlate for numerous phenomena in the social sciences. But many surveys collect data with just a single question covering all forms of income. This raises issues of quality, ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2010, 173 (2), 409-430)
D31, C8
3176 Štepán Jurajda
Katherine Terrell
Regional Unemployment and Human Capital in Transition Economies
Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2009, 17 (2), 241–274)
E24, J0, J61
3174 Eric V. Edmonds
Philip Salinger
Economic Influences on Child Migration Decisions: Evidence from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh
Why do young children migrate without a parent? We consider the economic components of the answer to this question by examining the correlates of out-migration for children under 15 whose mother's ...
(published in: Indian Growth and Development Review, 2008, 1(1), 32-56)
J82, O15
3173 David McKenzie
Johan Mistiaen
Surveying Migrant Households: A Comparison of Census-Based, Snowball, and Intercept Point Surveys
Few representative surveys of households of migrants exist, limiting our ability to study the effects of international migration on sending families. We report the results of an experiment designed ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2009, 172 (2), 339-360)
C42, O12
3172 Lena Nekby
Magnus Rödin
Gülay Özcan
Acculturation Identity and Educational Attainment
This paper explores the identity formation of a cohort of students with immigrant backgrounds in Sweden and the consequences of identity for subsequent educational attainment. Unique for this study ...
(updated version published as 'Acculturation Identity and Higher Education. Is There a Trade-off Between Ethnic Identity and Education? in: International Migration Review, 2009, 43 (4), 938 - 973)
J15, J16, J21, Z13
3170 Andrew E. Clark
Born To Be Mild? Cohort Effects Don’t (Fully) Explain Why Well-Being Is U-Shaped in Age
The statistical analysis of cross-section data very often reveals a U-shaped relationship between subjective well-being and age. This paper uses fourteen waves of British panel data to distinguish ...
(published in: Mariano Rojas (ed.), The Economics of Happiness: How the Easterlin Paradox Transformed our Understanding of Well-being and Progress, New York: Springer, 2019)
C23, I3, J11
3169 Erin L. Krupka
Roberto A. Weber
The Focusing and Informational Effects of Norms on Pro-Social Behavior
This paper reports an experiment examining the effect of social norms on pro-social behavior. We test two predictions derived from work in psychology regarding the influence of norms. The first is a ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2009, 30 (3), 307-320)
D63, C91
3168 Sourafel Girma
Holger Görg
Eric Strobl
Frank Walsh
Creating Jobs Through Public Subsidies: An Empirical Analysis
This paper analyses the impact of government grants on labour demand using plant level data for manufacturing industry in Ireland. Our data consists of a large sample of plants and their complete ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15(6), 1179-1199)
H25, J23
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