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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
3141 Laszlo Goerke
Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts and Collective Wage Determination
Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts (UISAs) entitle workers to unemployment benefits at the expense of future pension payments. Therefore, such accounts make unemployment less attractive, ...
(published as 'The Effects of Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts in the Presence of Collective Bargaining Contracts' in: W. Franz, H.-J. Ramser, M. Stadler (Hrsg.), Arbeitsverträge – Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Seminar Ottobeuren, Tübingen, 2008, 37, 199-226)
J38, J51, J65, J68
3140 Martin Kahanec
Mehmet S. Tosun
Political Economy of Immigration in Germany: Attitudes and Citizenship Aspirations
This paper examines resident foreigners’ interest in German citizenship. The study focuses on the roles played by attitudes towards foreigners, political interest of foreigners, intergenerational ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2009, 43 (2), 263 - 291)
F22, J15, J22
3139 David G. Blanchflower
Andrew J. Oswald
What Makes a Young Entrepreneur?
This paper documents some of the patterns in modern microeconomic data on young people’s employment, attitudes and entrepreneurial behaviour. Among other sources, the paper uses the Eurobarometer ...
(published in: Andy Furlong (ed.), International Handbook on Youth and Young Adulthood, Routledge: 2009)
J21
3137 James Albrecht
Axel Z. Anderson
Susan Vroman
Search by Committee
We consider the problem of sequential search when the decision to stop searching is made by a committee. We show that a symmetric stationary equilibrium exists and is unique given that the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2010, 145(4), 1386-1407)
D72, D83
3136 Kostas Mavromaras
Seamus McGuinness
Nigel C. O'Leary
Peter J. Sloane
Yin King Fok
The Problem of Overskilling in Australia and Britain
This paper examines the parallel trends in education and labour market developments in Australia and Britain. It uses unique information in the WERS and HILDA surveys on reported overskilling in the ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2010, 78(3), 219-238)
J24, J31
3135 Mayssun El-Attar
Trust, Child Care Technology Choice and Female Labor Force Participation
In this paper we test the effect of trust on the choice of child care technology. We estimate individual-level trust as a latent attribute using survey questions on personal attitudes by applying the ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2013, 11 (4), 507-544)
J13, J22, D10
3134 Joshua Angrist
Daniel W. Lang
Philip Oreopoulos
Incentives and Services for College Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Trial
Many North American college students have trouble satisfying degree requirements in a timely manner. This paper reports on a randomized field experiment involving two strategies designed to improve ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2009, 1(1), 136–63.)
I21, I28, J24
3133 Jocelyn A. Lehrer
Vivian L. Lehrer
Evelyn L. Lehrer
Pamela Oyarzun
Sexual Violence in College Students in Chile
Young women's experiences of sexual victimization can have far-reaching consequences, including unwanted pregnancy and increased risk of psychological, sexual, and reproductive health difficulties; ...
(published in: International Family Planning Perspectives, 2007, 33(4), 168-175)
J4, J16, I12, I18
3132 Arghya Ghosh
Takao Kato
Hodaka Morita
Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement, and Competitive Pressure
Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, prior studies ignored a distinction between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technology and continuous ...
(revised version published as 'Incremental innovation and competitive pressure in the presence of discrete innovation' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 135, 1-14)
L10, L60, M50, O30
3130 David G. Blanchflower
Entrepreneurship in the United States
In this paper I examine changes in self-employment that have occurred since the early 1980s in the United States. It is a companion paper to a recent equivalent paper relating to the UK. Data on ...
(published in: Annals of Finance, 2009, 5 (3-4), 361-396)
J15
3128 Peter Haan
Katharina Wrohlich
Optimal Taxation: The Design of Child Related Cash- and In-Kind-Benefits
This paper contributes to the debate about the optimal design of tax-transfer systems. Based on the theory of optimal taxation, combined with microsimulation and microeconometric techniques we derive ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2010, 11(3), 278-301)
C23, C25, J22, J64
3126 Alessandra Catozzella
Marco Vivarelli
The Catalysing Role of In-House R & D in Fostering the Complementarity of Innovative Inputs
The aim of this study is to test the possible catalysing role of in-house R&D in fostering the complementarity of innovative inputs on a sample of 3045 manufacturing firms drawn from the third ...
(published in: Industry and Innovation, 2014, 21, 179-196 )
O31
3125 John S. Earle
Álmos Telegdy
Ownership and Wages: Estimating Public-Private and Foreign-Domestic Differentials Using LEED from Hungary, 1986–2003
Studies of public-private and foreign-domestic wage differentials face difficulties distinguishing ownership effects from correlated characteristics of workers and firms. This paper estimates these ...
(published in: Analysis of Firms and Employees - Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches (F. Andersson, S. Bender, J. Lane, K. Shaw, and T. von Wachter, eds.), NBER and University of Chicago, 2008.)
D21, G34, J23, J31, L33, P31
3124 Hiroshi Ono
Madeline Zavodny
Immigrants, English Ability and the Digital Divide
This study examines the extent and causes of inequalities in information technology (IT) ownership and use between natives and immigrants in the U.S., focusing on the role of English ability. The ...
(published in: Social Forces, 2008, 86 (4), 1455-1480)
J61, F22, O33
3123 Gerard J. van den Berg
Maarten Lindeboom
France Portrait
Long-Run Longevity Effects of a Nutritional Shock Early in Life: The Dutch Potato Famine of 1846–1847
Background: Nutrition in utero and infancy may causally affect health and mortality at old ages. Until now, very few studies have demonstrated long-run effects on survival of early life nutrition, ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2010, 29 (5), 617-629)
N33, J10, I10
3121 Charles Bellemare
Luc Bissonnette
Sabine Kröger
Flexible Approximation of Subjective Expectations Using Probability Questions: An Application to the Investment Game
We use spline interpolation to approximate the subjective cumulative distribution function of an economic agent over the future realization of a continuous (possibly censored) random variable. The ...
(published separately as ‘Flexible Approximation of Subjective Expectations Using Probability Questions ‘in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2012, 30 (1), 125 - 131 and as ‘Bounding Preference Parameters under Different Assumptions about Beliefs: a Partial Identification Approach’ in: Experimental Economics, 2010, 13, 334 - 345)
C81, C10, D39
3120 Maria Knoth Humlum
Kristin J. Kleinjans
Helena Skyt Nielsen
An Economic Analysis of Identity and Career Choice
Standard economic models which focus on pecuniary payoffs cannot explain why there are highly able individuals who choose careers with low pecuniary returns. Therefore, financial incentives are ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2012, 50 (1), 39-61)
I21
3117 Andreas Roider
Risk, Delegation, and Project Scope
This paper studies a partial-contracting model where an agent may provide effort to increase a project’s scope before some later decisions have to be taken. Consistent with existing empirical ...
(revised version published as 'Delegation, Risk, and Project Scope ' in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2009, 165 (2), 193-209)
D86, D21, D23, G34, L14
3114 Marco Caliendo
Alexander S. Kritikos
Die reformierte Gründungsförderung für Arbeitslose: Chancen und Risiken
Support schemes for unemployed aiming for self-employment have been recently reformed several times. In 2003, the “start-up subsidy” was added to the existing “bridging allowance”. In 2006 both ...
(published in: Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 2009, 10(2), 189-213)
J68, M13
3112 Pedro S. Martins
Dismissals for Cause: The Difference That Just Eight Paragraphs Can Make
This paper provides evidence about the effects of dismissals-for-cause requirements, a specific component of employment protection legislation that has received little attention despite its potential ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 27(2), 257–279, 2009)
E24, J64, J65
3110 Andrea Ichino
Guido Schwerdt
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
Josef Zweimüller
Too Old to Work, Too Young to Retire?
We use firm closure data from social security records for Austria 1978-1998 to investigate the effect of age on employment prospects. We rely on exact matching to compare workers displaced due to ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2017, 9, 14-29)
J14, J65
3109 Robert Pollak
Family Bargaining and Taxes: A Prolegomenon to the Analysis of Joint Taxation
Does joint taxation disadvantage women? To answer that question, this paper begins by reviewing unitary and bargaining models of intrafamily allocation, and then discusses the determinants of ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2011, 57 (2), 216-244)
H21, H24, D13, J22
3107 Thomas J. Kniesner
W. Kip Viscusi
Christopher Woock
James P. Ziliak
Pinning Down the Value of Statistical Life
Our research addresses fundamental long-standing concerns in the compensating wage differentials literature and its public policy implications: the econometric properties of estimates of the value of ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94 (1) , 74-87)
I10, J17, J28, K00
3106 Sara Connolly
Mary Gregory
Moving Down: Women’s Part-time Work and Occupational Change in Britain 1991–2001
The UK’s Equal Opportunities Commission has recently drawn attention to the ‘hidden brain drain’ when women working part-time are employed in occupations below those for which they are qualified. ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118(526), F52-F76)
C23, C25, C33, C35, J16, J22, J62
3105 Takao Kato
Hideo Owan
Market Characteristics, Intra-Firm Coordination, and the Choice of Human Resource Management Systems: Evidence from New Japanese Data
This paper explores theoretically and empirically potentially important yet often-neglected linkage between task coordination within the organization and the structure of organization and bundling of ...
(published as 'Market characteristics, intra-firm coordination, and the choice of human resource management systems: Theory and evidence' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2011, 80 (3), 375-396 )
M5, L2, J53, D2
3104 Josef Fersterer
Jörn-Steffen Pischke
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria: Evidence from Failed Firms
Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. There is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and there ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 104 (4), 733-753)
J24, J31
3103 Giorgio Coricelli
Mateus Joffily
Claude Montmarquette
Marie Claire Villeval
Tax Evasion: Cheating Rationally or Deciding Emotionally?
The economic models of tax compliance predict that individuals should evade taxes when the expected benefit of cheating is greater than its expected cost. When this condition is fulfilled, the high ...
(revised version published as "Cheating, Emotions, and Rationality: An Experiment on Tax Evasion" in: Experimental Economics, 2010, 13(2), 226-247)
C91, C92, D87, H26
3102 Giorgio Brunello
Margherita Fort
Guglielmo Weber
“For One More Year with You”: Changes in Compulsory Schooling, Education and the Distribution of Wages in Europe
Using data from 12 European countries and the variation across countries and over time in the changes of minimum school leaving age, we study the effects of the quantity of education on the ...
(published as 'Changes in Compulsory Schooling, Education and the Distribution of Wages in Europe' in: Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (536), 516 - 539 )
J24
3101 Sara Connolly
Mary Gregory
Part-time Employment Can Be a Life-time Setback for Earnings: A Study of British Women 1975–2001
Two particular features of the position of women in the British labour market are the extensive role of part-time work and the large part-time pay penalty. Part-time work features most prominently ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2009, 61(S1), i76-97)
C23, C25, C33, C35, J16, J22, J62
3099 Francesca Francavilla
Gianna Claudia Giannelli
The Relation between Child Labour and Mothers' Work: The Case of India
The paper deals with child labour in developing countries. We address a problem that has recently drawn much attention at the international level, that is, how to invest in women’s rights to advance ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2010, 31 (2), 232 - 257)
J13, J22, O15, O18
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