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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
3048 Francesca Mazzolari
Giuseppe Ragusa
Spillovers from High-Skill Consumption to Low-Skill Labor Markets
Census data show that since 1980 low-skill workers in the United States have been increasingly employed in the provision of non-tradeable time-intensive services – such as food preparation and ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (1), 74-86)
J21, J22, J23, J31
3047 Ricardo A. López
Jens Suedekum
Vertical Industry Relations, Spillovers and Productivity: Evidence from Chilean Plants
We use disaggregated data on Chilean plants, and the Chilean input-output table to examine the impact of agglomeration spillovers on total factor productivity (TFP). In common with previous studies, ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2009, 49 (4), 721-747)
R11, R15, O18, O54
3046 Ian Gazeley
Andrew T. Newell
Poverty in Britain in 1904: An Early Social Survey Rediscovered
Until now there have been no national estimates of the extent of poverty in Britain at the turn of the 20th century. This paper introduces a newly-discovered household budget data set for the early ...
(published as 'Poverty in Edwardian Britain' in: Economic History Review, 2011, 64 (1), 52 - 71)
N33, O15
3045 Pieter A. Gautier
José L. Moraga-González
Ronald P. Wolthoff
Structural Estimation of Search Intensity: Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?
We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influences the ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 84, 123-139)
J64, J31, J21, E24, C14
3044 Richard Blundell
Mike Brewer
Marco Francesconi
Job Changes and Hours Changes: Understanding the Path of Labour Supply Adjustment
This paper uses British panel data to investigate single women’s labour supply changes in response to three tax and benefit policy reforms that occurred in the 1990s. These reforms changed ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2008, 26 (3), 421 - 453)
C23, H31, I38, J12, J13, J22
3043 Joachim R. Frick
Markus M. Grabka
Item Non-Response and Imputation of Annual Labor Income in Panel Surveys from a Cross-National Perspective
Using data on annual individual labor income from three representative panel datasets (German SOEP, British BHPS, Australian HILDA) we investigate a) the selectivity of item non-response (INR) and b) ...
(published in: Janet A. Harkness et al. (eds): Survey Methods in Multicultural, Multinational, and Multiregional Contexts, Wiley & Sons, 2010)
J31, C81, D33
3042 Paul Frijters
Michael A. Shields
Timothy J. Hatton
Richard M. Martin
Childhood Economic Conditions and Length of Life: Evidence from the UK Boyd Orr Cohort, 1937–2005
We study the importance of childhood socioeconomic conditions in explaining differences in life expectancy using data from a sample of around 5,000 children collected in the UK in 1937-39, who have ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2010, 29 (1), 39-47)
I12
3041 Louis Lévy-Garboua
Claude Montmarquette
Marie Claire Villeval
Individual Responsibility and the Funding of Collective Goods
When a deficit occurs in the funding of collective goods, it is usually covered by raising the amount of taxes or by rationing the supply of the goods. This article compares the efficiency of these ...
(revised and augmented version published as 'Voluntary Contributions to a Mutual Insurance Pool' in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2017, 19 (1), 198-218)
H41, H21, H30, H50, C91
3040 Matthew Rabin
Georg Weizsäcker
Narrow Bracketing and Dominated Choices
An experiment by Tversky and Kahneman (1981) illustrates that people's tendency to evaluate risky decisions separately can lead them to choose combinations of choices that are first-order ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2009, 99 (4), 1508-1543)
B49
3039 Wiji Arulampalam
Mark Stewart
Simplified Implementation of the Heckman Estimator of the Dynamic Probit Model and a Comparison with Alternative Estimators
This paper presents a convenient shortcut method for implementing the Heckman estimator of the dynamic random effects probit model using standard software. It then compares the three estimators ...
(completely revised published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 71 (5), 659-681)
C23, C25, C13, C51
3038 Mariano Bosch
William F. Maloney
Comparative Analysis of Labor Market Dynamics Using Markov Processes: An Application to Informality
This paper discusses a set of statistics for examining and comparing labor market dynamics based on the estimation of continuous time Markov transition processes. It then uses these to establish ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (4), 621-631)
C14, J21, J24, J64, O17
3037 Oddbjørn Raaum
Bernt Bratsberg
Knut Røed
Eva Österbacka
Tor Eriksson
Markus Jäntti
Robin Naylor
Marital Sorting, Household Labor Supply, and Intergenerational Earnings Mobility across Countries
We present comparable evidence on intergenerational earnings mobility for Denmark, Finland, Norway, the UK and the US, with a focus on the role of gender and marital status. We confirm that earnings ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2007, 7 (2), Article 7)
J3, J62
3036 Aslan Zorlu
Clara H. Mulder
Initial and Subsequent Location Choices of Immigrants to the Netherlands
The initial settlement behaviour and the subsequent mobility of immigrants who arrived in the Netherlands in 1999 are examined using rich administrative individual data. The study considers the ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2008, 42 (2), 245-264)
F22, J15, R23
3035 Catia Batista
Aitor Lacuesta
Pedro C. Vicente
Brain Drain or Brain Gain? Micro Evidence from an African Success Story
Does emigration really drain human capital accumulation in origin countries? This paper explores a unique household survey purposely designed and conducted to answer this specific question for the ...
(substantially revised version available as IZA DP No. 5048)
F22, J24, O15, O55
3034 Andrew Grodner
Thomas J. Kniesner
Labor Supply with Social Interactions: Econometric Estimates and Their Tax Policy Implications
Our econometric research allows for a possible response of a person's hours worked to hours typically worked by members of a multidimensional labor market reference group that considers demographics ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 28, 1-23)
J22, Z13
3033 Christian Merkl
Dennis J. Snower
Monetary Persistence, Imperfect Competition, and Staggering Complementarities
This paper explores the influence of wage and price staggering on monetary persistence. We show that, for plausible parameter values, wage and price staggering are complementary in generating ...
(published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2009, 13 (1), 81-106)
E40, E50, E52
3032 M. Hashem Pesaran
Elisa Tosetti
Large Panels with Common Factors and Spatial Correlations
This paper considers the statistical analysis of large panel data sets where even after conditioning on common observed effects the cross section units might remain dependently distributed. This ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2011, 161 (2), 182-202)
C14, D13, D91, L14, O12
3031 Arnaud Chevalier
Stephen Gibbons
Andy Thorpe
Martin Snell
Sherria Hoskins
Students' Academic Self-Perception
Participation rates in higher education differ persistently between some groups in society. Using two British datasets we investigate whether this gap is rooted in students’ misperception of their ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2009, 28 (6), 716-727)
I21, J16, Y80
3029 Peter A. Riach
Judy Rich
An Experimental Investigation of Age Discrimination in the English Labor Market
Carefully-matched pairs of written job applications were made to test for age discrimination in hiring. A twenty-one year-old and a thirty-nine year-old woman applied for jobs where a “new graduate” ...
(published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2010, 99-100, 169-186)
J71, C93
3028 Dario Sciulli
Antonio Menezes
José António Cabral Vieira
Unemployment Duration and Disability: Evidence from Portugal
In this paper we use Portuguese data on individual (multiple) unemployment spells and apply semi-parametric duration models to investigate the effects of different types of disabilities on ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2012, 33 (1), 21-48)
J64, I12, C41
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