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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
2993 Paola Manzini
Marco Mariotti
Choice Over Time
In the last twenty years a growing body of experimental evidence has posed a challenge to the standard Exponential Discounting Model of choice over time. Attention has focused on some specific ...
(published in: P. Anand, P. Pattanaik and C. Puppe (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Rational and Social Choice, Oxford: OUP, 2009)
C91, D9
2992 Junfu Zhang
A Study of Academic Entrepreneurs Using Venture Capital Data
Academic entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important channel through which universities contribute to economic development. This paper studies academic entrepreneurs using a comprehensive ...
(published under the title 'Why Do Some U.S. Universities Generate More Venture-Backed Academic Entrepreneurs than Others?' in: Venture Capital, 2009, 11(2), 133-162)
M13
2991 David M. Blau
Ryan Goodstein
What Explains Trends in Labor Force Participation of Older Men in the United States?
After nearly a full century of decline, the Labor Force Participation Rate (LFPR) of older men in the United States leveled off in the 1980s, and began to increase in the late 1990s. We use a time ...
(revised version published as 'Can Social Security Explain Trends in Labor Force Participation of older Men in the United States?' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2010, 45 (2), 328 - 363)
J26, J21
2990 Alan Barrett
Yvonne McCarthy
The Earnings of Immigrants in Ireland: Results from the 2005 EU Survey of Income and Living Conditions
This paper has three objectives. First, a review of the developing body of work on the economics of immigration in Ireland is provided. Second, the analysis undertaken by Barrett and McCarthy ...
(published in: Quarterly Economic Commentary, 2007, 43 - 62)
J61
2989 Leilanie Basilio
Thomas K. Bauer
Mathias Sinning
Analyzing the Labor Market Activity of Immigrant Families in Germany
This paper analyzes whether immigrant families facing credit constraints adopt a family investment strategy wherein, upon arrival, an immigrant spouse invests in host country-specific human capital ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (5), 510-520)
D10, F22, J22
2987 Douglas J. Krupka
Location-Specific Human Capital, Location Choice and Amenity Demand
The role of amenities in the flow of migrants has been debated for some years. This paper advances an original model of amenities that work through household production instead of directly through ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2009, 49 (5), 833 - 854)
R23, J61
2986 David M. Blau
Retirement and Consumption in a Life Cycle Model
Consumption expenditure declines sharply at the time of retirement for many households, but the majority maintain a smooth consumption path. A simple life cycle model with uncertainty about the time ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2008, 26 (1), 35-71)
J26, H55
2985 Guido Heineck
Regina T. Riphahn
Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment in Germany: The Last Five Decades
Over the last decades the German education system underwent numerous reforms in order to improve "equality of opportunity", i.e. to guarantee all pupils equal access to higher education. At the same ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2009, 229 (1), 36-60)
I21, I28, J11
2984 Uwe Sunde
Matteo Cervellati
Piergiuseppe Fortunato
Are All Democracies Equally Good? The Role of Interactions between Political Environment and Inequality for Rule of Law
Using cross-country data, we find evidence for a significant negative interaction effect between democracy and inequality in determining the quality of growth-promoting institutions like rule of law. ...
(slightly revised version published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 99 (3), 552-556)
O43, P48, P14
2983 Michal Myck
Wages and Ageing: Is There Evidence for the "Inverse-U" Profile?
How individual wages change with time, and how they are expected to change as individuals grow older, is one of crucial determinants of their behaviour on the labour market including their decision ...
(revised version published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72 (3), 282-306)
J14, J21, J31, C14
2982 David Bishai
Shoshana Grossbard
Far Above Rubies: The Association Between Bride Price and Extramarital Sexual Relations in Uganda
The custom of bride price involves the payment of goods or cash from the groom’s family to the bride’s family at the time of marriage. We present a theory that views bride price as a payment in ...
(published as 'Far above rubies: Bride price and extramarital sexual relations in Uganda' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (4), 1177 - 1187)
D13, I12, J13, O15
2981 Karen A. Mumford
Peter N. Smith
Assessing the Importance of Male and Female Part-Time Work for the Gender Earnings Gap in Britain
This study examines the role of individual characteristics, occupation, industry, region, and workplace characteristics in accounting for differences in hourly earnings between men and women in full ...
(revised version published as "What Determines the Part-Time and Gender Earnings Gaps in Britain: Evidence from the Workplace" in: Oxford Economics Papers, 2009, 61(1), 56-75)
J3, J7
2980 Marco Francesconi
Helmut Rainer
Wilbert van der Klaauw
The Effects of In-Work Benefit Reform in Britain on Couples: Theory and Evidence
This paper examines the effects of the Working Families’ Tax Credit (WFTC) on couples in Britain. We develop a simple model of household decisions which explicitly accounts for the role played by the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 119 (535), 2009, F66 - F100)
C23, H31, I38, J12, J13, J22
2977 Pieter Bevelander
Jonas Otterbeck
Young People’s Attitudes towards Muslims in Sweden
Since the 1950’s, the Muslim population in Sweden has grown from just a few individuals to approximately 350,000 of which one third is of school age or younger. With the use of multiple regression ...
(published in: Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2010, 33 (3), 404 - 425 )
Z12, F22
2976 Ariel R. Belasen
Solomon Polachek
How Disasters Affect Local Labor Markets: The Effects of Hurricanes in Florida
Exogenous shocks often impact a local labor market more than at the national level. This study improves upon the standard Difference in Difference (DD) approach by examining exogenous shocks using a ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44 (1), 251 - 276)
J23, J49, Q54, R11
2975 Richard W. Evans
Yingyao Hu
Zhong Zhao
The Fertility Effect of Catastrophe: U.S. Hurricane Births
For years, anecdotal evidence has suggested increased fertility rates resulting from catastrophic events in an area. In this paper, we measure this fertility effect using storm advisory data and ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (1), 1 - 36)
J13, C23
2974 Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
Modeling Immigrants' Language Skills
One in nine people between the ages of 18 and 64 in the US, and every second foreign-born person in this age bracket, speaks Spanish at home. And whereas around 80 percent of adult immigrants in the ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 27, 75-128)
F22, J15, J24, J40
2973 Alexander K. Koch
Julia Nafziger
Job Assignments under Moral Hazard: The Peter Principle Revisited
The Peter Principle captures two stylized facts about hierarchies: first, promotions often place employees into jobs for which they are less well suited than for that previously held. Second, ...
(published in: Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2012, 21 (4), 1029-1059)
D82, J31, J33, M12
2972 Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Peter Hans Matthews
John Schirm
Tournaments and Office Politics: Evidence from a Real Effort Experiment
In many environments, tournaments can elicit more effort from workers, except perhaps when workers can sabotage each other. Because it is hard to separate effort, ability and output in many real ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (1), 504-517)
C92, J33, J41
2971 Jean-Pierre Florens
Denis Fougère
Michel Mouchart
Duration Models and Point Processes
This survey is devoted to the statistical analysis of duration models and point processes. The first section introduces specific concepts and definitions for single-spell duration models. Section two ...
(published in: Patrick Sevestre and Lazlo Matyas (eds.), The Econometrics of Panel Data: Handbook of Theory and Applications, 3rd edition, Springer, 2008, 547-601)
C41, C33, C44, C51
2969 Barry R. Chiswick
Sarinda Taengnoi
Occupational Choice of High Skilled Immigrants in the United States
This paper explores the impact of English language proficiency and country of origin on the occupational choice of high-skilled immigrants in the U.S. using the 2000 Census. The findings reveal that ...
(published in: International Migration, 2007, 45 (5), 3 - 34)
J15, J24, J61
2968 Dan Ariely
Anat Bracha
Stephan Meier
Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially
This paper experimentally examines image motivation – the desire to be liked and well-regarded by others – as a driver in prosocial behavior (doing good), and asks whether extrinsic monetary ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2009, 99 (1), 544–555)
D64, C90, H41
2967 David de la Croix
Matthias Doepke
To Segregate or to Integrate: Education Politics and Democracy
The governments of nearly all countries are major providers of primary and secondary education to their citizens. In some countries, however, public schools coexist with private schools, while in ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2009, 76(2), 597-628)
D72, I21, H42, O10
2966 Mathias Sinning
Determinants of Savings and Remittances: Empirical Evidence from Immigrants to Germany
This paper investigates the determinants of migrants' financial transfers to their home country using German data. A double-hurdle model is applied to analyze the determinants of the propensity to ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (1), 45-67)
F22, C34, D12, D91
2965 Patrick A. Puhani
Andrea M. Weber
Persistence of the School Entry Age Effect in a System of Flexible Tracking
In Germany, the streaming of students into an academic or nonacademic track at age 10 can be revised at later stages of secondary education. To investigate the importance of such revisions, we use ...
(published under revised title in: Journal of Human Resources, 2010, 45 (2), 407-438)
I21, I28, J24
2964 Junfu Zhang
The Advantage of Experienced Start-Up Founders in Venture Capital Acquisition: Evidence from Serial Entrepreneurs
Existing literature suggests that entrepreneurs with prior firm-founding experience have more skills and social connections than novice entrepreneurs. Such skills and social connections could give ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2011, 36(2), 187-208)
M13, G24
2963 Miguel Urquiola
Eric Verhoogen
Class Size and Sorting in Market Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence
This paper examines how schools choose class size and how households sort in response to those choices. Focusing on the highly liberalized Chilean education market, we develop a model in which ...
(revised version published as "Class-Size Caps, Sorting, and the Regression Discontinuity Design" in: American Economic Review, 2009, 99 (1), 179–215)
I2, O1, C2, L1
2961 Simon Gächter
Eric J. Johnson
Andreas Herrmann
Individual-Level Loss Aversion in Riskless and Risky Choices
Loss aversion can occur in riskless and risky choices. Yet, there is no evidence whether people who are loss averse in riskless choices are also loss averse in risky choices. We measure ...
(revised verson published in: Theory and Decision, 2022, 92, 599–624. [Online])
C91, C93, D81
2960 Jens Suedekum
National Champion versus Foreign Takeover
We analyze an oligopolistic market where a domestic and a foreign firm are engaged in a takeover battle for a domestic competitor. Any merger or acquisition (M&A) must be approved by a welfare ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2010, 43 (1), 204-231)
F12, F23, L13, L52
2958 Elena Meschi
Marco Vivarelli
Globalization and Income Inequality
This paper discusses the distributive consequences of trade flows in developing countries (DCs). On the theoretical side, we argue that the interplays between international openness and technology ...
(published in: World Development, 2009, 37 (2), 287-302)
F16, O15, O33
2957 Mathias Hungerbühler
Etienne Lehmann
On the Optimality of a Minimum Wage: New Insights from Optimal Tax Theory
We build a theoretical model to study whether a minimum wage can be welfare-improving if it is implemented in conjunction with an optimized nonlinear income tax. We consider this issue in a framework ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (3-4), 464-481)
D86, H21, H23, J64, J68
2956 Andries de Grip
Hans Bosma
Dick Willems
Martin van Boxtel
Job-Worker Mismatch and Cognitive Decline
We have used longitudinal test data on various aspects of people’s cognitive abilities to analyze whether overeducated workers are more vulnerable to a decline in their cognitive abilities, and ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2008, 60 (2), 237-253 )
J24, I19, I29
2955 Pierre Cahuc
Guy Laroque
Optimal Taxation and Monopsonistic Labor Market: Does Monopsony Justify the Minimum Wage?
We analyze optimal taxation in an economy with monopsonistic labor markets. The individuals, whose only decisions are whether to work, or not, have heterogeneous productivities and opportunity costs ...
(pubished in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2014, 16 (2), 259–273.)
H31, J30, J42
2954 Michael L. Bognanno
Ryo Kambayashi
Trends in Worker Displacement Penalties in Japan: 1991-2005
We examine the period from 1991 to 2005 to document the effects of a changing Japanese labor market on trends in the cost of job change. During this period, job change penalties and the extent to ...
(published in: Japan and the World Economy, 2013, 27 (C), 41-57)
J31, J41, J63, J6
2953 Magnus Lofstrom
John Tyler
Modeling the Signaling Value of the GED with an Application to an Exogenous Passing Standard Increase in Texas
In this paper we develop a simple model of the signaling value of the GED credential. The model illustrates necessary assumptions for a difference-in-difference estimator, which uses a change in the ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 28, 305-352)
I2, J31
2952 Shelly Lundberg
Jennifer Romich
Kwok P. Tsang
Decision-Making by Children
In this paper, we examine the determinants of decision-making power by children and young adolescents. Moving beyond previous economic models that treat children as goods consumed by adults rather ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2009, 7 (1), 1-30)
D1, J13
2951 Tom Bundervoet
Philip Verwimp
Richard Akresh
Health and Civil War in Rural Burundi
We combine household survey data with event data on the timing and location of armed conflicts to examine the impact of Burundi’s civil war on children’s health status. The identification strategy ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44(2), 536-563)
I12, J13, O12
2950 John Bennett
Saul Estrin
Informality as a Stepping Stone: Entrepreneurial Entry in a Developing Economy
We model decisions with respect to formality or informality for entrepreneurs in a new industry for a developing economy. We show that informality allows a leader to explore, without significant sunk ...
(published as 'Informal firms in developing countries: entrepreneurial stepping stone or consolation prize?' in Small Business Economics, 2010, 34 (1), 53-63 )
O17, L10
2949 Matthias Doepke
Fabrizio Zilibotti
Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism
The British Industrial Revolution triggered a reversal in the social order whereby the landed elite was replaced by industrial capitalists rising from the middle classes as the economically dominant ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008, 123 (2), 747-793)
J24, N2, N3, O11, O15, O40
2948 David McKenzie
A Profile of the World's Young Developing Country Migrants
Individual level census and household survey data are used to present a rich profile of the young developing migrants around the world. Youth are found to comprise a large share of all migrants, ...
(published as 'A Profile of the World's Young Developing Country International Migrants' in: Population and Development Review, 2008, 34 (1), 115 - 135)
O12, O15
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