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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
3167 Martin Kahanec
Ethnic Competition and Specialization
Are ethnic specialization and thus a downward sloping labor demand curve fundamental features of labor market competition between ethnic groups? In a general equilibrium model, this paper argues that ...
(published in: Gil Epstein and Ira Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 205-229)
J15, J24, J70, O15
3166 Philippe Aghion
Philippe Askenazy
Renaud Bourlès
Gilbert Cette
Nicolas Dromel
Education, Market Rigidities and Growth
This note investigates the effects of the education level, product market rigidities and employment protection legislation on growth. It exploits macro-panel data for OECD countries. For countries ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2009, 102 (1), 62-65)
O47, J24, J68, L40, O57
3165 Jonas Staghøj
Michael Svarer
Michael Rosholm
A Statistical Programme Assignment Model
When treatment effects of active labour market programmes are heterogeneous in an observable way across the population, the allocation of the unemployed into different programmes becomes a ...
(revised version published as "Choosing the Best Training Programme: Is there a Case for Statistical Treatment Rules?" in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72 (2), 172-201)
J64, J68
3164 Markus Poschke
Employment Protection, Firm Selection, and Growth
This paper analyzes the effect of firing costs on aggregate productivity growth. For this purpose, a model of endogenous growth through selection and imitation is developed. It is consistent with ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2009, 56(8), 1074-1085)
E24, J63, J65, L11, L16, O40
3161 Riccardo Rovelli
Randolph Luca Bruno
Labor Market Policies and Outcomes: Cross Country Evidence for the EU-27
We conduct a comparative analysis of Labor Market Policies and outcomes for the EU member states, for the period 2000-2005. We document the main differences in Labor Market Policies across EU ...
(substantially revised and rewritten version available as IZA DP No. 3502)
J08, J38, J68
3160 Thomas Cornelissen
Christian Pfeifer
The Impact of Participation in Sports on Educational Attainment: New Evidence from Germany
We analyze the impact of exercising sports during childhood and adolescence on educational attainment. The theoretical framework is based on models of allocation of time and educational productivity. ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (1), 94-103)
I21, J13, J22, J24
3159 Andrew J. Oswald
Nattavudh Powdthavee
Death, Happiness, and the Calculation of Compensatory Damages
This paper studies the mental distress caused by bereavement. The largest emotional losses are from the death of a spouse; the second-worst in severity are the losses from the death of a child; the ...
(published in: Journal of Legal Studies, 2008, 37(S2), S217-S252)
D1, I3, I31, K0
3158 Monojit Chatterji
Karen A. Mumford
Peter N. Smith
The Public-Private Sector Gender Wage Differential: Evidence from Matched Employee-Workplace Data
Using new linked employee-workplace data for Britain in 2004, we find that the nature of the public private pay gap differs between genders and that of the gender pay gap differs between sectors. The ...
(published as 'The public-private sector gender wage differential in Britain: evidence from matched employee-workplace data ' in: Applied Economics, 2011, 43 (26), 3819 - 3833)
J3, J7
3157 Peter Haan
Michal Myck
Safety Net Still in Transition: Labour Market Incentive Effects of Extending Social Support in Poland
Many aspects of the economic transition which started in 1989 in Poland are by now complete. However, the route Polish governments have so far taken concerning the system of support for low-income ...
(revised version published as 'Safety net still in transition: labour market incentive effects of social support in Poland and Germany' in: Bank i Kredyt, 2010, 41 (3), 5-34)
J21, I38, D13
3156 Magnus Lofstrom
Timothy Bates
African Americans' Pursuit of Self-Employment
This study examines causes of black/white gaps in business ownership and self-employment rates by analyzing small-business entry and exit patterns. We proceed by recognizing heterogeneity in business ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2013, 40 (1), 73-86)
J15, L26
3155 Aslan Zorlu
Jan Latten
Ethnic Sorting in the Netherlands
This paper examines the residential mobility behaviour of migrants and natives in the Netherlands using a rich administrative individual data file. The inclination to move and the choice of ...
(published in: Urban Studies, 2009, 46 (9), 1899-1923)
J1, J6, R3
3153 John de New
Mathias Sinning
Social Deprivation and Exclusion of Immigrants in Germany
This paper aims at providing empirical evidence on social exclusion of immigrants in Germany. We demonstrate that when using a conventional definition of the social inclusion index typically applied ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2010, 56 (4), 715-733)
F22, I31, Z13
3151 Eliane El Badaoui
Eric Strobl
Frank Walsh
Is There an Informal Employment Wage Penalty? Evidence from South Africa
We estimate the wage penalty associated with working in the South African informal sector. To this end we use a rich data set on non-self employed males that allows one to accurately distinguish ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2008, 56 (3), 683–710)
J31, O17
3150 Leif Danziger
The Elasticity of Labor Demand and the Minimum Wage
We show that, contrary to widespread belief, low-pay workers do not generally prefer that the minimum wage rate be increased until the labor demand is unitary elastic. Rather, there exists a critical ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (3), 757-772)
J38
3149 Stefanie Behncke
Markus Frölich
Michael Lechner
Unemployed and Their Caseworkers: Should They Be Friends or Foes?
In many countries, caseworkers in a public employment office have the dual roles of counselling and monitoring unemployed persons. These roles often conflict with each other leading to important ...
(published in: Journal of Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2010, 173 (1), 67-92)
J68, C31
3147 Pernilla Andersson Joona
Eskil Wadensjö
The Employees of Native and Immigrant Self-Employed
Using unique register data for Sweden we can match self-employed persons to their employees. We analyze the national composition of the employees and ask if self-employed immigrants mainly employ ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2009, 29, 229 - 250)
J15, J61
3146 Martin Kahanec
Mariapia Mendola
Social Determinants of Labor Market Status of Ethnic Minorities in Britain
The labor market outcomes of ethnic minorities in advanced societies and their dependence on social relationships and membership in social networks are important empirical issues with significant ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2009, 29, 167-195 )
J7, J15, J21
3144 René Böheim
Ana Rute Cardoso
Temporary Agency Work in Portugal, 1995–2000
There is widespread belief that workers in temporary agency work (TAW) are subject to poorer working conditions, in particular pay, than comparable workers in the rest of the economy. The first aim ...
(published as 'Temporary help services employment in Portugal, 1995-2000' in: David H. Autor (ed.), Studies of Labor Market Intermediation. Chicago: Chicago Univ. Press and NBER, 2009, 520-560)
D21, J31, J40
3143 Guido Friebel
Wendelin Schnedler
Team Governance: Empowerment or Hierarchical Control
We investigate a team setting in which workers have different degrees of commitment to the outcome of their work. We show that if there are complementarities in production and if the team manager has ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2011, 78 (1-2), 1-13)
M54, D86
3142 Clemens Fuest
Andreas Peichl
Thilo Schaefer
Is a Flat Tax Feasible in a Grown-up Welfare State?
The success of the flat rate tax in Eastern Europe suggests that this concept could also be a model for the welfare states of Western Europe. The present paper uses a simulation model to analyse the ...
(revised version published as "Is a flat tax reform feasible in a grown-up democracy of Western Europe? A simulation study for Germany" in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2008, 15 (5), 620-636)
D31, D60, H20
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