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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
3097 Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
Africa’s Education Enigma? The Nigerian Story
In the last two decades, the social and economic benefits of formal education in Sub-Saharan Africa have been debated. Anecdotal evidence points to low returns to education in Africa. Unfortunately, ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 91 (1), 128-139 )
J24, I21, I29, O12
3096 Eric D. Gould
Eyal Winter
Interactions Between Workers and the Technology of Production: Evidence from Professional Baseball
This paper examines how the effort choices of workers within the same firm interact with each other. In contrast to the existing literature, we show that workers can affect the productivity of their ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, February 2009, 91(1), 188–200)
J2
3095 Jose C. Galdo
Jeffrey A. Smith
Dan A. Black
Bandwidth Selection and the Estimation of Treatment Effects with Unbalanced Data
This paper addresses the selection of smoothing parameters for estimating the average treatment effect on the treated using matching methods. Because precise estimation of the expected counterfactual ...
(published in: Annales d'Economie et Statistique, 2008, 91-92, 189-216)
C13, C14
3094 Rita K. Almeida
Pedro Carneiro
Inequality and Employment in a Dual Economy: Enforcement of Labor Regulation in Brazil
This paper studies the impact of an increase in the enforcement of labor regulations on unemployment and inequality, using city level data from Brazil. We find that stricter enforcement (affecting ...
(substantially revised and extended version available as IZA DP No. 5902)
J23, J30, K31, D63
3093 Rachel Connelly
Jean Kimmel
The Role of Nonstandard Work Hours in Maternal Caregiving for Young Children
This paper examines the effect of the timing of mothers’ daily work schedules on the amount of maternal caregiving she engages in on that same day. We look at total caregiving time on weekdays, early ...
(published as 'The Role of Non-standard Work Status in Parental Caregiving for Young Children ' in Eastern Economic Journal, 2011, 37 (2), 248-269 )
J13, J22
3090 Tim Callan
Arthur van Soest
John R. Walsh
Tax Structure and Female Labour Market Participation: Evidence from Ireland
How great an effect does the structure of income taxes have on women’s labour market participation? This issue is investigated using a discrete choice static labour supply model for married couples ...
(published in: Labour, 2009, 23(1), 1-35)
H31, J22
3088 Bertil Holmlund
Martin Söderström
Estimating Income Responses to Tax Changes: A Dynamic Panel Data Approach
Recent research on the behavioral effects of income taxes has to a large extent focused on the elasticity of taxable income with respect to the net-of-tax rate, i.e., one minus the marginal tax rate. ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2011, 11 (1))
H24, H31, J22
3087 Nauro F. Campos
Menelaos G. Karanasos
Growth, Volatility and Political Instability: Non-Linear Time-Series Evidence for Argentina, 1896–2000
What is the relationship between economic growth and its volatility? Does political instability affect growth directly or indirectly, through volatility? This paper tries to answer such questions ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 100 (1), 135-137)
C14, O40, E23, D72
3086 Sonia R. Bhalotra
Fatal Fluctuations? Cyclicality in Infant Mortality in India
This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India and investigates likely mechanisms. A recent OECD-dominated literature shows that mortality at most ages is ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 93 (1), 7-19)
I12, J10, O49
3085 Stefanie Behncke
Markus Frölich
Michael Lechner
Targeting Labour Market Programmes: Results from a Randomized Experiment
We evaluate a randomized experiment of a statistical support system developed to assist caseworkers in Swiss employment offices in choosing appropriate active labour market programmes for their ...
(published in: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik / Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 145 (3), 221-268)
J68
3084 Jaan Masso
Raul Eamets
Hanna Kanep
Estimating the Need for PhDs n the Academic Sector via a Survey of Employers
The aim of the current paper is to estimate the need for new PhDs in the Estonian academic sector for the 5-year period 2007-2012 using a survey of employers, such as universities, institutions of ...
(revised version is published in: Baltic Journal of Economics, 2009, 9 (1), 5-29)
I2, J4, O3
3082 Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
Disparities in Labor Market Outcomes across Geopolitical Regions in Nigeria: Fact or Fantasy?
Differences in geopolitical regions of Nigeria are not debatable. However, there is no clear consensus on the dimension of these disparities. In this paper, claims of geopolitical region disparities ...
(published in: Journal of African Development, 2008, 10 (1), 11-31)
O5, I0, J70, O18
3080 Christian Dustmann
Return Migration, Investment in Children, and Intergenerational Mobility: Comparing Sons of Foreign and Native Born Fathers
This paper studies parental investment in education and intergenerational earnings mobility for father-son pairs with native and foreign born fathers. We illustrate within a simple model that for ...
(Published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2008, 43(2), 299 - 324)
J15, J24, J62
3079 Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Jan Svejnar
Katherine Terrell
When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Emerging Market Economies
We use firm-level data and national input-output tables from 17 countries over the 2002-2005 period to test new and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the ...
(published in: Klaus Liebscher, Josef Christl, Peter Mooslechner (eds.), Foreign Direct Investment in Europe: A Changing Landscape, 2007)
F23, M16, O16, P23
3078 Olivier B. Bargain
Tim Callan
Analysing the Effects of Tax-Benefit Reforms on Income Distribution: A Decomposition Approach
To assess the impact of tax-benefit policy changes on income distribution over time, we suggest a methodology based on counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposing changes in ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2010, 8 (1), 1 -21)
H23, H53, I32
3077 Wendelin Schnedler
You Don't Always Get What You Pay For
Consider a principal-agent relationship in which more effort by the agent raises the likelihood of success. Does rewarding success, i.e., paying a bonus, increase effort in this case? I find that ...
(published as ' You Don't Always Get What You Pay For: Bonuses, Perceived Income and Effort ' in: German Economic Review, 2011, 12 (1), 1 - 10)
D8, J3, M5
3076 Giovanna Aguilar
Silvio Rendon
Matching Bias in Labor Demand Estimation
Using a matched firm-worker dataset, we show both theoretically and empirically that positive assortative matching between firms and workers leads to an underestimation of the absolute value of wage ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 100 (2), 297-299)
J23, J32
3075 David G. Blanchflower
Andrew J. Oswald
Is Well-Being U-Shaped over the Life Cycle?
We explore the idea that happiness and psychological well-being are U-shaped in age. The main difficulty with this argument is that there are likely to be omitted cohort effects (earlier generations ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2008, 66 (8), 1733-49)
D1, I3
3074 Teresa Casey
Christian Dustmann
Intergenerational Transmission of Language Capital and Economic Outcomes
This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of language capital amongst immigrants, and the effect of language deficiencies on the economic performance of second generation immigrants. ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2008, 43 (3), 660 - 687)
J15, J24, J62
3073 Andrew E. Clark
Nicolai Kristensen
Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen
Job Satisfaction and Co-worker Wages: Status or Signal?
This paper uses matched employer-employee panel data to show that individual job satisfaction is higher when other workers in the same establishment are better-paid. This runs contrary to a large ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (536), 430–447)
C23, C25, D84, J28, J31, J33
3072 Pedro Carneiro
Costas Meghir
Matthias Parey
Maternal Education, Home Environments and the Development of Children and Adolescents
We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioral problems, grade repetition and obesity. We address endogeneity of maternal schooling by ...
(revised version published in: Journal of European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (S1), 123–160)
J31
3071 Katrin Assenmacher-Wesche
M. Hashem Pesaran
Assessing Forecast Uncertainties in a VECX Model for Switzerland: An Exercise in Forecast Combination across Models and Observation Windows
We investigate the effect of forecast uncertainty in a cointegrating vector error correction model for Switzerland. Forecast uncertainty is evaluated in three different dimensions. First, we ...
(published in: National Institute Economic Review, 2008, 203 (1), 91–108)
C53, C32
3070 Anzelika Zaiceva
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Children, Kitchen, Church: Does Ethnicity Matter?
Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labor supply. This paper examines the strength of those attitudes using time diaries on childcare, food management and religious activities ...
(substantially revised version published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2014, 12 (1): 83-103. [Open Access])
J22, J15, J16
3069 Konstantinos Tatsiramos
The Effect of Job Displacement on the Transitions to Employment and Early Retirement for Older Workers in Four European Countries
Despite the increased frequency of job loss for older workers in Europe, little is known on its effect on the work-retirement decision. Employing individual data from the European Community Household ...
(revised version published as "Job displacement and the transitions to re-employment and early retirement for non-employed older workers" in: European Economic Review, 2010, 54 (4), 517-535)
J14, J26, J63, J64
3067 Christina Gathmann
Uta Schönberg
How General Is Human Capital? A Task-Based Approach
This paper studies how portable skill accumulated in the labor market are. Using rich data on tasks performed in occupations, we propose the concept of task-specific human capital to measure the ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2010, 28 (1), 1 - 49)
J24, J31
3066 Marika Karanassou
Hector Sala
Pablo F. Salvador
Capital Accumulation and Unemployment: New Insights on the Nordic Experience
This paper takes a fresh look at the analysis of labour market dynamics and argues that capital accumulation plays a fundamental role in shaping unemployment movements. This role has generally been ...
(published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2008, 32 (6), 977-1001)
E22, E24, J21
3065 John T. Addison
Clive R. Belfield
The Determinants of Performance Appraisal Systems: A Note (Do Brown and Heywood’s Results for Australia Hold Up for Britain?)
This paper offers a replication for Britain of Brown and Heywood’s analysis of the determinants of performance appraisal in Australia. Although there are some important limiting differences between ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2008, 46 (3), 521 - 531)
J5, L23, M5
3064 Randolph Sloof
Mirjam C. van Praag
Performance Measurement, Expectancy and Agency Theory: An Experimental Study
Theoretical analyses of (optimal) performance measures are typically performed within the realm of the linear agency model. This model implies that, for a given compensation scheme, the agent’s ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 67 (3-4), 794 - 809)
C91, J33
3063 Amelie F. Constant
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Measuring Ethnic Identity and Its Impact on Economic Behavior
The paper advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models its determinants and explores its explanatory power for various types of their economic performance. The ethnosizer, a ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2008, 6 (2-3), 424-433)
F22, J15, J16, Z10
3062 Laurens Cherchye
Bram De Rock
Frederic Vermeulen
The Revealed Preference Approach to Collective Consumption Behavior: Testing, Recovery and Welfare Analysis
We extend the nonparametric ‘revealed preference’ methodology for analyzing collective consumption behavior (with consumption externalities and public consumption), to render it useful for empirical ...
(published as 'The revealed preference approach to collective consumption behavior: testing and sharing rule recovery' in: Review of Economic Studies, 2011, 78 (1), 175 - 198)
D11, D12, D13, C14
3061 Maite Blázquez Cuesta
Silvio Rendon
Over-Education in Multilingual Economies: Evidence from Catalonia
Catalonia’s economy is characterized by linguistic diversity and provides a unique opportunity to measure the incidence of language proficiency on over-education, particularly, whether individuals ...
(published online in: International Migration, 2012, [Early View))
J24, J41, I20, J61, J70
3057 John Micklewright
Sylke V. Schnepf
Who Gives for Overseas Development?
Individuals’ donations to overseas charities are an important source of funding for development assistance from rich industrialised countries. But little is known about the nature of these charitable ...
(published in: Journal of Social Policy, 2009, 38(2), 317-341)
D12, D64, F35, L31
3056 Klaus F. Zimmermann
Migrant Ethnic Identity: Concept and Policy Implications
With globalization, the size of migration and the value of ethnicity is rising. Also Cyprus undergoes a strong process of change while experiencing large inflows of migration. The paper investigates ...
(published in: Ekonomia, 2007, 10 (1), 1-17)
F22, J15, J16, Z10
3055 David G. Blanchflower
Alex Bryson
The Wage Impact of Trade Unions in the UK Public and Private Sectors
This paper draws attention to an increase in the size of the union membership wage premium in the UK public sector relative to the private sector. We find the public sector membership wage premium is ...
(published in: Economica, 2010, 77 (305), 92-209)
J31
3054 Kees Cools
Mirjam C. van Praag
The Value Relevance of Top Executive Departures: Evidence from the Netherlands
On theoretical grounds, monitoring of top executives by the (supervisory) board is expected to be value relevant. The empirical evidence is ambiguous and we analyze three non-competing explanations ...
(published in: Journal of Corporate Finance 13(5), 721-742)
J32, J33, M12, M51, G3
3053 Rute Mendes
Gerard J. van den Berg
Maarten Lindeboom
An Empirical Assessment of Assortative Matching in the Labor Market
In labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, the matching between firms and workers may be assortative, meaning that the most productive workers and firms team up. We investigate this with ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (6), 919-929)
J21, J24, D24, J63
3052 Astrid Kunze
Kenneth Troske
Comparative Advantage or Discrimination? Studying Male-Female Wage Differentials Using Displaced Workers
In this paper we empirically examine differences in search behavior between men and women. We assess hypotheses regarding duration of search, wages and tenure. The hypotheses are derived from two ...
(revised version published as 'Gender Differences in Job Search Among Young Workers: A Study using Displaced Workers in the United States', Southern Economic Journal, 2015, 82(1), 185-207. )
J0, J7
3051 Núria Rodríguez-Planas
What Works Best for Getting the Unemployed Back to Work: Employment Services or Small-Business Assistance Programmes? Evidence from Romania
Recent empirical evidence has found that employment services and small-business assistance programmes are often successful at getting the unemployed back to work. One important concern of policy ...
(published as 'Channels Through Which Public Employment Services and Small-Business Assistance Programs Work' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72 (4), 458-485)
J21, J23, J31, J64, J65, J68
3050 Amelie F. Constant
Rowan Roberts
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Ethnic Identity and Immigrant Homeownership
Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper ...
(published in: Urban Studies, 2009, 46 (9), 1879-1898)
R21, F22, J15, Z10
3049 Guido Ascari
Christian Merkl
Real Wage Rigidities and the Cost of Disinflations
This paper analyzes the cost of disinflations under real wage rigidities in a micro-founded New Keynesian model. The consensus is that real wage rigidities can be a useful mechanism to induce the ...
(published in: Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 2009, 41 (2-3), 417-435)
E31, E50
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