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2898 Romain Aeberhardt
Denis Fougère
Julien Pouget
Roland Rathelot
Wages and Employment of French Workers with African Origin
Our study proposes an econometric decomposition of the wage gap and of the difference in employment probabilities between French workers whose both parents had French citizenship at birth and French ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (3), 881-905)
C24, J31, J71
2897 Corrado Andini
A Dynamic Mincer Equation with an Application to Portuguese Data
This paper argues in favor of a dynamic specification of the Mincer equation, where past observed earnings play the role of additional explanatory variable for current observed earnings. A dynamic ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2010, 42 (16), 2091-2098)
I21, J31, C23
2896 Govert Bijwaard
Instrumental Variable Estimation of Treatment Effects for Duration Outcomes
In this article we propose and implement an instrumental variable estimation procedure to obtain treatment effects on duration outcomes. The method can handle the typical complications that arise ...
(published in: H. Engelhardt, H.-P. Kohler and A. Fürnkranz-Prskawetz (eds.), Causal Analysis in Population Studies: Concepts, Methods, Applications, Springer-Verlag: 2009, 111-148)
C21, C41, J64
2895 Espen Bratberg
Øivind Anti Nilsen
Kjell Vaage
Job Losses and Child Outcomes
Based on matched employer-employee data from Norway, we analyze the effects of worker displacement in 1986-1987 on their children’s earnings in 1999-2001. Using displacement of fathers to indicate an ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15(4), 591–603)
J62, C23
2894 Rachel Connelly
Jean Kimmel
Spousal Influences on Parents' Non-Market Time Choices
This paper considers the effect of spouse’s characteristics on three aggregated non-paid time uses, active leisure time; child caregiving time; and home production time, using the American Time Use ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2009, 7 (4), 361-394)
J13, J22
2893 Spyros Konstantopoulos
How Long Do Teacher Effects Persist?
Previous findings from experimental and non-experimental studies have demonstrated that teachers differ in their effectiveness. In addition, evidence from non-experimental studies has indicated that ...
(published in: Teachers College Record, 2011, 113 (7), 1541-1565)
I2
2892 T. H. Gindling
Katherine Terrell
Minimum Wages and the Welfare of Workers in Honduras
Taking advantage of a complex minimum wage structure in Honduras, this paper examines how changes in minimum wages over the 1990-2004 period affect unemployment as well as the employment and average ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (3), 291-303)
J23, J31, J38
2891 Govert Bijwaard
Modeling Migration Dynamics of Immigrants: The Case of The Netherlands
In this paper we analyze the demographic factors that influence the migration dynamics of recent immigrants to The Netherlands. We show how we can allow for both permanent and temporary migrants. ...
(revision published as "Immigrant migration dynamics model for The Netherlands" in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (4), 1213-1247)
F22, J10, C41
2890 David A. Jaeger
M. Daniele Paserman
The Shape of Things to Come? Assessing the Effectiveness of Suicide Attacks and Targeted Killings
In this paper we assess the effectiveness of suicide attacks and targeted killings in the Second Intifada. We find evidence that the targeted killings of Palestinian leaders by Israel reduce realized ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 2009, 4(4), 315–342)
C32, D71, D74, H56
2889 Pauline Grosjean
Claudia Senik
Should Market Liberalization Precede Democracy? Causal Relations between Political Preferences and Development
This paper is dedicated to the relation between market development and democracy. We distinguish contexts and preferences and ask whether it is true that the demand for democracy only emerges after a ...
(published as "Democracy, Market Liberalization and Political Preferences" in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93(1), 365-381 )
H1, H5, P2, P3, P5, O1, O12, O57
2888 Peter Haan
Arne Uhlendorff
Intertemporal Labor Supply and Involuntary Unemployment
In this paper we develop a model to consistently estimate the intertemporal labor supply behavior on the extensive margin (participation decision) and the intensive margin (working hours decision). ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 44, 661-683)
C23, C25, J22, J64
2887 Imed Drine
Christophe Rault
Purchasing Power Parity for Developing and Developed Countries: What Can We Learn from Non-Stationary Panel Data Models?
The aim of this paper is to apply recently developed panel cointegration techniques proposed by Pedroni (1999, 2004) and generalized by Banerjee and Carrion-i-Silvestre (2006) to examine the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2008, 22 (4), 752-773)
E31, F0, F31, C15
2886 Sascha O. Becker
Ludger Woessmann
Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History
Max Weber attributed the higher economic prosperity of Protestant regions to a Protestant work ethic. We provide an alternative theory, where Protestant economies prospered because instruction in ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2009, 124(2), 531-596)
N33, Z12, I20
2885 Martin Biewen
Bernd Fitzenberger
Aderonke Osikominu
Marie Waller
Which Program for Whom? Evidence on the Comparative Effectiveness of Public Sponsored Training Programs in Germany
We use a new and exceptionally rich administrative data set for Germany to evaluate the employment effects of a variety of public sponsored training programs in the early 2000s. Building on the work ...
(substantially revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 32 (4), 837-897)
C14, J68, H43
2884 José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto Molina
Almudena Sevilla
Household Division of Labor, Partnerships and Children: Evidence from Europe
This paper complements conventional economic analysis and presents a social norms interpretation to explain cross-country differences in partnership formation rates, and the dramatic decrease in ...
(published as 'Social Norms, Partnerships and Children' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2012, 10 (2), 215-236)
E21, I29
2883 Liam Delaney
Colm P. Harmon
Patrick G. Wall
Behavioural Economics and Drinking Behaviour: Preliminary Results from an Irish College Study
This paper examines the results of single-equation regression models of the determinants of alcohol consumption patterns among college students modelling a rich variety of covariates including ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2008, 46 (1), 29-36)
I12
2882 Friedhelm Pfeiffer
Karsten Reuss
Age-Dependent Skill Formation and Returns to Education: Simulation Based Evidence
This study integrates findings from neurobiology and psychology on early childhood development and self-regulation to assess returns to education. Our framework for evaluating the distribution of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (4), 631-646)
J21, J24, J31
2881 Ali T. Akarca
Aysit Tansel
Social and Economic Determinants of Turkish Voter Choice in the 1995 Parliamentary Election
1995 Turkish parliamentary election was held almost under the conditions of a controlled experiment. The unique cross-section data pertaining to this election is utilized to study the voter behavior ...
(published in: Electoral Studies, 2007, 26: 633-647)
D72
2880 Ludger Woessmann
Fundamental Determinants of School Efficiency and Equity: German States as a Microcosm for OECD Countries
Cross-country evidence on student achievement might be hampered by omitted country characteristics such as language or legal differences. This paper uses cross-state variation in Germany, whose ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik , 2010, 230 (2), 234-270)
I28, L38, L33, H52, D02, D63, J24
2878 Pushkar Maitra
Sarmistha Pal
Birth Spacing, Fertility Selection and Child Survival: Analysis Using a Correlated Hazard Model
If fertility reflects the choice of households, results of their choice (duration between successive births and health of the children) cannot be considered to be randomly determined. While most ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27 (3), 690-705)
J13, O10, C41, C24
2877 Knut Røed
Lars Westlie
Unemployment Insurance in Welfare States: Soft Constraints and Mild Sanctions
Based on a sequence of reforms in the Norwegian unemployment insurance (UI) system, we show that activity-oriented UI regimes – i.e., regimes with a high likelihood of required participation in ...
(published as 'Unemployment Insurance in Welfare States: The Impacts of Soft Duration Constraints' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10 (3), 518-554)
C14, C15, C41, J64, J65, J68
2876 Daniele Checchi
Luca Flabbi
Intergenerational Mobility and Schooling Decisions in Germany and Italy: The Impact of Secondary School Tracks
Intergenerational mobility in income and education is affected by the influence of parents on children’s school choices. Our focus is on the role played by different school systems in reducing or ...
(published in: Rivista di Politica Economica ,2013, 3, 7 - 57)
I2, J1
2875 James J. Heckman
The Economics, Technology and Neuroscience of Human Capability Formation
This paper begins the synthesis of two currently unrelated literatures: the human capital approach to health economics and the economics of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation. A lifecycle ...
(published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2007, 104 (33), 13250-13255)
I12, I21
2874 Raquel Fonseca
Pierre-Carl Michaud
Thepthida Sopraseuth
Entrepreneurship, Wealth, Liquidity Constraints and Start-up Costs
We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model ...
(published in: Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, 2007, 28 (4), 637-674)
E20, D31, J62
2873 Frédéric Docquier
Hillel Rapoport
Skilled Migration: The Perspective of Developing Countries
This chapter focuses on the effects of skilled migration on developing countries. We first present new evidence on the magnitude of the “brain drain” at the international level. Using a stylized ...
(published in: J. Baghwati and G. Hanson (eds.), Skilled Immigration Today: Prospects, Problems and Policies, Oxford University Press, 2009)
F22, J61
2872 Bernt Bratsberg
Oddbjørn Raaum
Knut Røed
When Minority Labor Migrants Meet the Welfare State
We find that the lifecycle employment profiles of nonwestern male labor migrants who came to Norway in the early 1970s diverge significantly from those of native comparison persons. During the first ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2010, 28 (3), 633-676)
F22, H55, J21, J61
2870 Supriya Sarnikar
Todd A. Sorensen
Ronald L. Oaxaca
Do You Receive a Lighter Prison Sentence Because You Are a Woman? An Economic Analysis of Federal Criminal Sentencing Guidelines
The Federal criminal sentencing guidelines struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2005 required that males and females who commit the same crime and have the same prior criminal record be sentenced ...
(research from this working paper published separately as 'Race and Gender Differences under Federal Sentencing Guidelines' in: American Economic Review , 2012, 102 (3), 256–260 and as 'Do you receive a lighter prison sentence because you are a woman or a white? An economic analysis of the federal criminal sentencing guidelines' in: BE Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2014, 14 (1), 1-54)
J78, K14, K42
2869 Ana C. Dammert
Child Labor and Schooling Response to Changes in Coca Production in Rural Peru
Coca eradication and interdiction are the most common policies aimed at reducing the production and distribution of cocaine in the Andes, but little is known about their impact on households. This ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2008, 86 (1), 164-180)
J13, J22, O15, R23
2868 Pierre-Carl Michaud
Arthur van Soest
How Did the Elimination of the Earnings Test above the Normal Retirement Age Affect Retirement Expectations?
We look at the effect of the 2000 repeal of the earnings test above the normal retirement age (NRA) on retirement expectations of male workers in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Using ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2008, 29 (2), 197-231)
H55, J22
2867 Umut Oguzoglu
Dynamics of Work Limitation and Work in Australia
This paper examines the impact of self-reported work limitation on the labour force participation of the Australian working age population. Five consecutive waves of the Household, Income and Labour ...
(revised version published in: Health Economics, 2010, 19 (6), 656-669)
J28, I12, C81
2866 Gulcin Gumus
Tracy L. Regan
Tax Incentives as a Solution to the Uninsured: Evidence from the Self-Employed
Between the years 1996 and 2003, a series of amendments were made to the Tax Reform Act of 1986 (TRA86) that gradually increased the tax credit for health insurance purchases by the self-employed ...
(revised version published in: Inquiry, 2013, 50 (4), 275-295.)
J32, J48, I11
2865 Lex Borghans
Ben Kriechel
Wage Structure and Labor Mobility in the Netherlands 1999-2003
In this paper we document the wage structure and labor mobility in the Netherlands in the period 1999-2003. We explain the importance of wage-setting institutions in the Netherlands and the main ...
(published in: Edward Lazear and Katryn Shaw (eds.), The Structure of Wages: An International Comparisons, NBER and University of Chicago Press, 2008)
J31, J50, J62, J63, M52
2863 Joseph Price
Justin Wolfers
Racial Discrimination Among NBA Referees
The NBA provides an intriguing place to test for taste-based discrimination: referees and players are involved in repeated interactions in a high-pressure setting with referees making the type of ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2010, 125(4), 1859-1887)
K42, J15, J71
2862 Rainald Borck
Michael P. Pflüger
Matthias Wrede
A Simple Theory of Industry Location and Residence Choice
This paper provides a simple theory of geographical mobility which simultaneously explains people’s choice of residences in space and the location of industry. Residences are chosen on the basis of ...
(published in revised form in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2010, 10 (6), 913 - 940)
F12, F21, F22, R12, R23
2861 Erkki Koskela
Ronnie Schöb
How Tax Progression Affects Effort and Employment
Within an efficiency wage framework, we study the effects of two revenue-neutral tax reforms that change the progressivity of the labour tax system. A revenue-neutral increase in both the wage tax ...
(published as 'Is Tax Progression Good for Employment? Efficiency Wages and the Role of the Prereform Tax Structure' in: FinanzArchiv, 2009, 65 (1), 51 - 72 )
H22, J41, J48
2860 Arthur van Soest
Liam Delaney
Colm P. Harmon
Arie Kapteyn
James P. Smith
Validating the Use of Vignettes for Subjective Threshold Scales
Comparing self-assessed indicators of subjective outcomes such as health, work disability, political efficacy, job satisfaction, etc. across countries or socio-economic groups is often hampered by ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2011, 174 (3), 575-595)
C81, I12
2859 Vesa Kanniainen
Panu Poutvaara
Imperfect Transmission of Tacit Knowledge and Other Barriers to Entrepreneurship
This paper identifies several distortions which create barriers to entrepreneurship. First, in addition to the innate entry cost, there are entry costs caused by regulation. Second, union wage ...
(published in: Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal, 2007, 28 (4), 675-694)
J24, H25
2858 Santanu Chatterjee
Paola Giuliano
Ilker Kaya
Where Has All the Money Gone? Foreign Aid and the Quest for Growth
This paper examines fungibility as a possible explanation for the "missing link" between foreign aid and economic growth. The composition of aid plays a crucial role in determining the composition of ...
(published as 'Where Has All the Money Gone? Foreign Aid and the Composition of Government Spending' in: B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, 2012, 12 (1), Article 26)
E6, F3, F4, O1
2857 Robert J. Oxoby
The Effect of Incentive Structure on Heuristic Decision Making: The Proportion Heuristic
When making judgments, individuals often utilize heuristics to interpret information. We report on a series of experiments designed to test the ways in which incentive mechanisms influence the use of ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Social Psychology. 2009, 39 (1), 120 - 133)
C9, M5
2856 Giovanna Aguilar
Silvio Rendon
Employment and Deadweight Loss Effects of Observed Non-Wage Labor Costs
To assess the employment effects of labor costs it is crucial to have reliable estimates of the labor cost elasticity of labor demand. Using a matched firm-worker dataset, we estimate a long run ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2010, 48 (3), 793 - 809)
J23, J32
2855 Anna Maria Mayda
Why Are People More Pro-Trade than Pro-Migration?
I analyze individual attitudes towards trade and immigration in comparative terms. I find that individuals are on average more pro-trade than pro-immigration across several countries. I identify a ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 101 (3), 160-163)
F22, F1, J61
2852 Sarmistha Pal
Sugata Ghosh
Elite Dominance and Under-Investment in Mass Education: Disparity in the Social Development of the Indian States, 1960-92
Inter- and intra-state disparities in levels of literacy rates in India are striking, especially for the marginalized groups of women and low caste population. The present paper offers an explanation ...
(published as 'Poverty, Elite Heterogeneity and the Allocation of Public Spending: Panel Evidence from the Indian States' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2012, 58 (1), 51-78)
I28, J15, O15, P48
2851 Christophe Rault
Robert Sova
Anamaria Sova
Modeling International Trade Flows Between Eastern European Countries and OECD Countries
Our paper deals with econometric developments for the estimation of the gravity model which lead to convergent parameter estimates even when a correlation exists between the explanatory variables and ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2009, 16(15), 1547-1554)
F13, F15, C23
2850 Thomas Lemieux
W. Bentley MacLeod
Daniel Parent
Performance Pay and Wage Inequality
We document that an increasing fraction of jobs in the U.S. labor market explicitly pay workers for their performance using bonuses, commissions, or piece-rates. We find that compensation in ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2009, 124 (1), 1-49)
J31, J33
2849 Karsten Kohn
Alexander C. Lembcke
Wage Distributions by Bargaining Regime: Linked Employer-Employee Data Evidence from Germany
Using linked employer-employee data from the German Structure of Earnings Survey 2001, this paper provides a comprehensive picture of the wage structure in three wage-setting regimes prevalent in the ...
(published in: Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv/Journal of the German Statistical Society, 2007, 1 (3-4), 247-261)
J31, J51, J52
2848 Laurent Gobillon
Thierry Magnac
Harris Selod
The Effect of Location on Finding a Job in the Greater Paris Area
There are large spatial disparities in unemployment durations across the 1,300 municipalities in the Ile-de-France region (Paris Greater Area). In order to characterize these imbalances, we estimate ...
(published as 'The effect of location on finding a job in the Paris region' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2011, 26 (7), 1079 - 1112)
C41, J64, R23
2846 Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
Arturo Gonzalez
Todd C. Neumann
Estimating the Effects of Length of Exposure to a Training Program: The Case of Job Corps
Most of the literature on the evaluation of training programs focuses on the effect of participation on a particular outcome (e.g. earnings). The “treatment” is generally represented by a binary ...
(published as 'Estimating the Effects of Length of Exposure to Instruction in a Training Program: The Case of Job Corps ' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94 (1), 153–171)
C21, J24, I38
2845 Helene Dearing
Helmut Hofer
Christine Lietz
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
Katharina Wrohlich
Why Are Mothers Working Longer Hours in Austria than in Germany? A Comparative Micro Simulation Analysis
Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are much higher among Austrian mothers. In order to find out to what extent these ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2007, 28 (4), 463-495)
J22, H31, H24
2844 Jean Bourdon
Markus Frölich
Katharina Michaelowa
Teacher Shortages, Teacher Contracts and their Impact on Education in Africa
Primary school enrolment rates are very low in francophone Africa. In order to enhance education supply, many countries have launched large teacher recruitment programmes in recent years, whereby ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2010, 73, 93-116)
O15, I 21, C14
2843 Claudio Ferraz
Frederico S. Finan
Electoral Accountability and Corruption in Local Governments: Evidence from Audit Reports
Political corruption is a concern of many modern democracies. It weakens democratic institutions, restricts public services, and lowers productivity undermining economic development. Yet despite its ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (4), 1274-1311)
D72, D78, H41, O17
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