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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
3027 Patrick M. Emerson
André Portela Souza
Is Child Labor Harmful? The Impact of Working Earlier in Life on Adult Earnings
This paper explores the question: is working as a child harmful to an individual in terms of adult outcomes in earnings? Though an extremely important question, little is known about the effect of ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2011, 59 (2), 345 - 385)
J31, O12, O54
3026 Peter Berkhout
Joop Hartog
Starting Wages Respond to Employer’s Risk
Firms hiring fresh graduates face uncertainty on the future productivity of workers. Intuitively, one expects starting wages to reflect this. Formal analysis supports the intuition. We use the ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 61 (3), 229-260)
J31
3025 Gil S. Epstein
Nava Kahana
The Effect of Emigration on Child Labor
We present a general model of child labor that incorporates the various components presented in the literature as explanations for its existence. Our proposal is to mitigate the phenomenon by ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 99 (3), 545-548)
D62, F22, I30, J13, J20, J24, O15
3023 Panu Poutvaara
The Expansion of Higher Education and Time-Consistent Taxation
This paper analyzes educational choices and political support for subsidies to higher education in the presence of a time-consistency problem in income redistribution. There may be political support ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 27 (2), 257-267)
H52, I22, D72
3022 Charles Bellemare
Sabine Kröger
Arthur van Soest
Preferences, Intentions, and Expectations: A Large-Scale Experiment with a Representative Subject Pool
We specify and estimate an econometric model which separately identifies distributional preferences and the effects of perceived intentions on responder behavior in the ultimatum game. We allow the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2011, 78 (3), 349-365)
C93, D63, D84
3021 Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Caitlin Knowles Myers
Why Volunteer? Evidence on the Role of Altruism, Reputation, and Incentives
Volunteering plays a prominent role in the charitable provision of goods and services, yet we know relatively little about why people engage in such prosocial acts. The list of possible motivations ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (11-12), 911-920)
C93, D12, J22, D64, D82
3020 Alison L. Booth
Jan C. van Ours
Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness: The Part-time Work Puzzle
Using fixed effects ordered logit estimation, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and working hours satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account for ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (526) , F77–F99 )
J22, I31, J16
3018 Shibao Guo
Don J. DeVoretz
The Changing Face of Chinese Immigrants in Canada
This paper analyzes the changing characteristics of Chinese immigrants to Canada between 1980 and 2001. It reveals that recent Chinese immigrants to Canada constitute a substantially different group ...
(published in: Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2006, 7 (4), 425-447)
J15, J60, J61
3017 Christian Grund
Dirk Sliwka
Individual and Job-Based Determinants of Performance Appraisal: Evidence from Germany
We investigate the use of performance appraisal (PA) in German Firms. First, we derive hypotheses on individual and job based determinants of PA usage. Based on a representative German data set on ...
(published as "The Anatomy of Performance Appraisals in Germany" in: International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2009, 20 (10), 2049-2065)
J33, M52
3016 John T. Addison
Pedro Portugal
How Do Different Entitlements to Unemployment Benefits Affect the Transitions from Unemployment into Employment?
In Portugal duration of benefits is exclusively age determined while replacement rates are to all intents and purposes uniform. We exploit differences in potential maximum duration of benefits for ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 101 (3), 206-209)
J64, J65
3015 Michael Svarer
The Effect of Sanctions on the Job Finding Rate: Evidence from Denmark
This paper investigates the effect of sanctions of unemployment insurance benefits on the exit rate from unemployment for a sample of Danish unemployed. According to the findings are that even ...
(published as 'The Effect of Sanctions on Exit from Unemployment: Evidence from Denmark' in: Economica, 2011, 78 (312), 751 - 778)
J6, C41
3014 Mirjam C. van Praag
Peter H. Versloot
What Is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research
This paper examines to what extent recent empirical evidence can collectively and systematically substantiate the claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2007, 29 (4), 351-382)
D24, D31, E23, E24, J21, J28, J31, L26, M13
3013 Wendelin Schnedler
Radovan Vadovic
Legitimacy of Control
What is the motivational effect of imposing a minimum effort requirement? Agents may no longer exert voluntary effort but merely meet the requirement. Here, we examine how such hidden costs of ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2011, 20 (4), 985-1009)
C7, C9, M5
3011 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereux
Kjell G. Salvanes
Small Family, Smart Family? Family Size and the IQ Scores of Young Men
How do families influence the ability of children? Cognitive skills have been shown to be a strong predictor of educational attainment and future labor market success; as a result, understanding the ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2010, 45 (1), 33-58)
I2, J1
3010 Steffen Altmann
Thomas Dohmen
Matthias Wibral
Do the Reciprocal Trust Less?
We study the intrapersonal relationship between trust and reciprocity in a laboratory experiment. Reciprocal subjects trust significantly more than selfish ones. This finding raises questions about ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 99 (3), 454-457)
C91, D63
3009 Tarja Viitanen
Public versus Private Provision of Daycare: An Experimental Evaluation
This paper provides experimental estimates of the impact of a voucher for private care within the Nordic system of universal provision of public care. The private daycare voucher acted as a ...
(published as 'Child care voucher and labour market behaviour: experimental evidence from Finland' in: Applied Economics, 2011, 43 (23), 3203 - 3212)
H42, J2, J13
3008 Francesca Mazzolari
Dual Citizenship Rights: Do They Make More and Better Citizens?
In the 1990s, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Costa Rica and Brazil passed dual citizenship laws granting their expatriates the right to naturalize in the receiving country without losing ...
(published in: Demography, 46 (1), 2009, 169-191)
F22, J15, J20, J30
3007 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereux
Kjell G. Salvanes
Older and Wiser? Birth Order and IQ of Young Men
While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children’s outcomes such as education and earnings, the evidence on the effects of birth order on IQ is decidedly mixed. This ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2011, 57 (1), 103-120)
I2, J1
3006 Alberto Bisin
Eleonora Patacchini
Thierry Verdier
Yves Zenou
Are Muslim Immigrants Different in Terms of Cultural Integration?
Using the UK Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities, we explore the determinants of religious identity for Muslims and non-Muslims. We find that Muslims integrate less and more slowly than ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2008, 6 (2-3), 445 - 456)
A14, J15
3005 Stefanie Behncke
Markus Frölich
Michael Lechner
Public Employment Services and Employers: How Important Are Networks with Firms?
This paper examines whether contacts between caseworkers in public employment offices and employers impact on the reemployment chances of the unemployed they counsel. This analysis is made possible ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, 2008, 1, 151-178)
J68
3004 Olivier B. Bargain
Herwig Immervoll
Heikki Viitamäki
How Tight Are Safety-Nets in Nordic Countries? Evidence from Finnish Register Data
The non take-up of social assistance benefits due to claim costs may seriously limit the anti-poverty effect of these programs. Yet, available evidence is fragmented and mostly relies on ...
(substantially revised version: IZA DP 5355 / published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2012, 10 (3), 375-395)
D31, H31, H53, I38
3003 Laszlo Goerke
Markus Pannenberg
Heinrich W. Ursprung
A Positive Theory of the Earnings Relationship of Unemployment Benefits
Evidently, the benefit-structure of the unemployment insurance has a significant influence on profits and trade union utility. We show for a wage bargaining model that a stronger earnings ...
(published in: Public Choice, 2010, 145 (1-2), 137-163)
D72, J51, J65
3002 Arnab K. Basu
Nancy H. Chau
Ravi Kanbur
A Theory of Employment Guarantees: Contestability, Credibility and Distributional Concerns
Both raw intuition and past experience suggest that the success of an employment guarantee scheme (EGS) in safeguarding the welfare of the poor depends both on the wage it promises, and the ease with ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (3-4), 482-497)
I38, J21, K31, O12
3001 David M. Blau
Wilbert van der Klaauw
A Demographic Analysis of the Family Structure Experiences of Children in the United States
This paper provides a comprehensive demographic analysis of the family structure experiences of children in the U.S. Childbearing and transitions among co-residential union states defined by single, ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2008, 6 (3), 193-221)
J10
3000 Anders Björklund
Markus Jäntti
Matthew J. Lindquist
Family Background and Income during the Rise of the Welfare State: Brother Correlations in Income for Swedish Men Born 1932-1968
The goal of this study is to examine trends in the importance of family background in determining adult income in Sweden. We investigate whether the association between family background and income ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93(5-6), 671-680)
D1, D3, J62
2999 Amelie F. Constant
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Circular Migration: Counts of Exits and Years Away from the Host Country
The economic literature has largely overlooked the importance of repeat and circular migration. The paper studies this behavior by analyzing the number of exits and the total number of years away ...
(published as 'Circular and Repeat Migration: Counts of Exits and Years Away from the Host Country' in: Population Research and Policy Review, 2011, 30 (4), 495-515 )
F22, J15, J61, C25
2998 Arnab K. Basu
Nancy H. Chau
Ravi Kanbur
Turning a Blind Eye: Costly Enforcement, Credible Commitment and Minimum Wage Laws
In many countries, non-compliance with minimum wage legislation is widespread, and authorities may be seen as having turned a blind eye to a legislation that they have themselves passed. But if ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120 (543), 244 - 269)
D6, E61, J38
2996 David M. Blau
Tetyana Shvydko
Labor Market Rigidities and the Employment Behavior of Older Workers
The labor market is often asserted to be characterized by rigidities that make it difficult for older workers to carry out their desired trajectory from work to retirement. An important source of ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2011, 64 (3), 464-484)
J26, J23
2995 Eswar Prasad
Is the Chinese Growth Miracle Built to Last?
Is the Chinese growth miracle – a remarkably high growth rate sustained for over two decades – likely to persist or are the seeds of its eventual demise contained in the policies that have boosted ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2009, 20 (1), 103-123)
F3, E5, O1
2994 Christian Belzil
Marco Leonardi
Risk Aversion and Schooling Decisions
We develop a non-rational expectation econometric model of sequential schooling decisions. Using unique Italian panel data in which individual differences in attitudes toward risk are measurable ...
(published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 111/112, 35-70)
J24
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