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2724 Alan B. Krueger
David A. Schkade
The Reliability of Subjective Well-Being Measures
This paper studies the test-retest reliability of a standard self-reported life satisfaction measure and of affect measures collected from a diary method. The sample consists of 229 women who were ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (8-9), 1833-1845)
I31, J0
2723 Stefan Bach
Giacomo Corneo
Viktor Steiner
From Bottom to Top: The Entire Distribution of Market Income in Germany, 1992-2001
We analyze the distribution and concentration of market incomes in Germany in the period 1992 to 2001 on the basis of an integrated data set of individual tax returns and the German Socio-Economic ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2009, 55, 303-330)
D31, D33, H24
2722 Shoshana Grossbard
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Cohort-Level Sex Ratio Effects on Women’s Labor Force Participation
It follows from a number of theoretical models of marriage that the scarcer women are relative to men, i.e. the higher the sex ratio, the less married women are likely to participate in the labor ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2007, 5 (3), 249-278)
J1, J2
2720 Michael Rosholm
Rune Majlund Vejlin
Reducing Income Transfers to Refugee Immigrants: Does Starthelp Help You Start?
In this paper we estimate the causal effect of lowering the public income transfers administered to newly arrived refugee immigrants in Denmark – the so-called starthelp – using a competing risk ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 258-275)
E64, J18, J23, J38, J58, J65, J68
2719 Arnaud Dupuy
Daniel Fernández-Kranz
International Differences in the Family Gap in Pay: The Role of Labor Market Institutions
Using microdata for 35 countries over the period 1985-1994-2002 we find that labor market institutions traditionally associated to more compressed wage structures are associated to a higher family ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2011, 43(13), 413-438)
J31, J60
2718 Etienne Lehmann
Bruno Van der Linden
Search Frictions on Product and Labor Markets: Money in the Matching Function
This paper builds a macroeconomic model of equilibrium unemployment in which firms persistently face difficulties in selling their production and this affects their decisions to create jobs. Due to ...
(published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2010, 10(1), 56-92)
E12, E24, E31, J63
2717 Andrew J. Oswald
Nattavudh Powdthavee
Obesity, Unhappiness, and The Challenge of Affluence: Theory and Evidence
Is affluence a good thing? The book The Challenge of Affluence by Avner Offer (2006) argues that economic prosperity weakens self-control and undermines human well-being. Consistent with a ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (521), F441-F459)
D1, I12, I31
2715 Shelly Lundberg
Robert Pollak
The American Family and Family Economics
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Gary Becker’s path-breaking Treatise on the Family provides an occasion to reexamine both the American family and family economics. We begin by ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2007, 21 (2), 3-26)
J1
2714 David Dorn
Alfonso Sousa-Poza
'Voluntary' and 'Involuntary' Early Retirement: An International Analysis
Recent literature makes a distinction between 'voluntary' and 'involuntary' early retirement, where 'involuntary' early retirement results from employment constraints rather than from a preference ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2010, 42 (4), 427-438)
J14, J21, J22, J26
2713 Erzo F.P. Luttmer
Does the Minimum Wage Cause Inefficient Rationing?
This paper investigates whether the minimum wage leads to inefficient job rationing. By not allowing wages to clear the labor market, the minimum wage could cause workers with low reservation wages ...
(published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2007, 7(1), Article 49)
J30, J21, D61
2712 Atanas Christev
Allen Featherstone
A Note on Allen-Uzawa Partial Elasticities of Substitution: The Case of the Translog Cost Function
This note provides a useful property of the Allen-Uzawa partials for the translog cost function. It also suggests how the main results extend to any functional form with certain properties. The ...
(revised version published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2009, 16 (11), 1165 - 1169)
C13, C52, D20
2711 Sebastián Calónico
Hugo R. Nopo
Returns to Private Education in Peru
The private provision of educational services has been representing an increasing fraction of the Peruvian schooling system, especially in recent last decades. While there have been many claims about ...
(published as 'Where Did You Go to School? Private-Public Differences in Schooling Trajectories and Their Role on Earnings' in: Well-Being and Social Policy, 2007, 3 (1), 25-46)
J31, I2
2710 Panu Poutvaara
Mikael Priks
Unemployment and Gang Crime: Could Prosperity Backfire?
Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that ...
(published as 'Unemployment and gang crime: can prosperity backfire?' in: Economics of Governance, 2011, 12 (3), 259 - 273)
K42, D71, D74
2709 Wang-Sheng Lee
Umut Oguzoglu
Are Youths on Income Support Less Happy? Evidence from Australia
The central research question addressed in this paper is how receipt of income support payments affects the well-being of youths. Using 1997-2004 panel data from a nationally representative survey of ...
(published in: Australian Economic Review, 2007, 40 (4), 369-384)
I31, I38, C33
2708 Arnaud Dupuy
Will the Skill-Premium in the Netherlands Rise in the Next Decades?
While the skill-premium has been rising sharply in the US and the UK for 20 years, the Dutch skill-premium decreased for much of that period and only started to rise in the early 90s. In this paper, ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2007, 39 (21), 2723-31)
D33, J11, J38
2706 Manuela Angelucci
Love on the Rocks: Alcohol Abuse and Domestic Violence in Rural Mexico
What causes alcohol abuse and domestic violence and how can we stop them? These behaviors have multiple determinants, making the effects of changes in wife's and husband's income ambiguous. This ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2008, 8(1), Article 43)
D13, I18, O12
2705 Michael C. Burda
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Philippe Weil
Total Work, Gender and Social Norms
Using time-diary data from 25 countries, we demonstrate that there is a negative relationship between real GDP per capita and the female-male difference in total work time per day – the sum of work ...
(published as 'Total Work and Gender: Facts and Possible Explanations' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (1), 239-261)
J22, J16, D13
2704 Ryan Kellogg
Hendrik Wolff
Does Extending Daylight Saving Time Save Energy? Evidence from an Australian Experiment
Several countries are considering extending Daylight Saving Time (DST) in order to conserve energy, and the U.S. will extend DST by one month beginning in 2007. However, projections that these ...
(published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2008, 56 (3), 207-220)
Q48, C21
2703 Belton M. Fleisher
Haizheng Li
Min Qiang Zhao
Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Regional Inequality in China
We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth patterns can be understood as a function of several interrelated factors, which ...
(substantially revised version published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 92(2), 215-231)
O15, O18, O47, O53
2702 José M. Labeaga
José Alberto Molina
Maria Navarro Paniagua
Income Satisfaction and Deprivation in Spain
The first objective of our paper is to identify the determinants of income satisfaction in Spain, with one of these being relative deprivation, and the second is to measure this relative deprivation, ...
(published as 'Deprivation using satisfaction measures in Spain' in: Journal of Policy Modeling, 2011, 33 (2), 287-310)
D31, D63, I31
2700 Christoph M. Schmidt
Policy Evaluation and Economic Policy Advice
Arguably, one of the most important developments in the field of applied economics during the last decades has been the emergence of systematic policy evaluation, with its distinct focus on the ...
(published in: AStA: Advances in Statistical Analysis, 2007, 91 (4), 379-389)
A11, C01, H50
2699 Uta Schönberg
Johannes Ludsteck
Maternity Leave Legislation, Female Labor Supply, and the Family Wage Gap
This paper analyzes the impact of expansions in leave coverage on mothers’ labor market outcomes after childbirth. The focus is on Germany, a country that underwent several changes in maternity leave ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 32 (3), 469-505)
J16, J18, J24
2698 Hugo R. Nopo
The Gender Wage Gap in Chile 1992-2003 from a Matching Comparisons Perspective
This paper analyzes the evolution of the gender wage gap in Chile during the period 1992 to 2003 using the decomposition approach developed in Ńopo (2004). This approach, which decomposes the wage ...
(published in: 'New Century, Old Disparities. Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean'. World Bank Publications, 2012)
C14, D31, J16, O54
2696 Charles Bellemare
Bruce S. Shearer
Gift Exchange within a Firm: Evidence from a Field Experiment
We present results from a field experiment testing the gift-exchange hypothesis inside a tree-planting firm paying its workforce incentive contracts. Firm managers told a crew of tree planters they ...
(published as "Gift giving and worker productivity: Evidence from a firm-level experiment" in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2009, 67 (1), 233-244)
J33, M52, C93
2695 Yves Zenou
Endogenous Job Destruction and Job Matching in Cities
We propose a spatial search-matching model where both job creation and job destruction are endogenous. Workers are ex ante identical but not ex post since their job can be hit by a technological ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2009, 65 (3), 323-336)
D83, J41, J64, R14
2694 Arnaud Dupuy
Philip S. Marey
Shifts and Twists in the Relative Productivity of Skilled Labor
Skill-biased technical change is usually interpreted in terms of the efficiency parameters of skilled and unskilled labor. This implies that the relative productivity of skilled workers changes ...
(published in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2008, 30 (2), 718-35)
J20, J31, O30, O40
2692 Roberto Alvarez
Holger Görg
Multinationals as Stabilizers? Economic Crisis and Plant Employment Growth
This paper examines the link between multinational enterprises and employment growth at the plant-level. We investigate in detail the comparative response of multinationals and domestic firms to an ...
(published as 'Multinationals as Stabilisers? Economic Crisis, Access to Finance, and Employment Growth' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2012, 48 (7), 847-863)
F2, O1, J2
2691 Daniele Checchi
Jelle Visser
Herman G. van de Werfhorst
Inequality and Union Membership: The Impact of Relative Earnings Position and Inequality Attitudes
In this paper we examine the connection between union membership and economic inequality. Using several surveys from the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) covering the period 1985-2002, we ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2009, 48 (1), 84-108)
J51
2690 Iván Fernández-Val
Francis Vella
Bias Corrections for Two-Step Fixed Effects Panel Data Estimators
This paper introduces bias-corrected estimators for nonlinear panel data models with both time invariant and time varying heterogeneity. These include limited dependent variable models with both ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2011, 163 (2), 144-162)
C23, J31, J51
2689 Carlos Pestana Barros
Antonio Menezes
José António Cabral Vieira
Nicolas Peypoch
Bernardin Solonandrasana
An Analysis of Hospital Efficiency and Productivity Growth Using the Luenberger Productivity Indicator
We analyze the efficiency and productivity growth of a representative sample of Portuguese hospitals from 1997 to 2004, using an innovative approach by employing the directional distance function and ...
(published in: Health Care Management Science, 2008, 11 (4), 373-381)
I11, I18, L5
2687 Marco Caliendo
Alexander S. Kritikos
Is Entrepreneurial Success Predictable? An Ex-Ante Analysis of the Character-Based Approach
This paper empirically analyzes whether the character-based approach, which is based on the personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction of entrepreneurial ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2008, 61(2), 189-214)
M13, J23, C13
2686 Yoram Amiel
Frank A. Cowell
Xavier Ramos
On the Measurement of Polarisation: A Questionnaire Study
Starting from the axiomatisation of polarisation contained in Esteban and Ray (1994) and Chakravarty and Majumdar (2001) we investigate whether people's perceptions of income polarisation is ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2010, 56 (1), 23-46)
D63
2685 Christian Dustmann
Johannes Ludsteck
Uta Schönberg
Revisiting the German Wage Structure
This paper challenges the view that the wage structure in West-Germany has remained stable throughout the 80s and 90s. Based on a 2 % sample of social security records, we show that wage inequality ...
(revised version published in: Quaterly Journal of Economics, 2009, 124 (2), 843-88)
J3, D3, O3
2684 Pieter Bevelander
Sandra Groeneveld
How Many Hours Do You Have to Work to Be Integrated? Full Time and Part Time Employment of Native and Ethnic Minority Women in the Netherlands
Labor market participation is a central factor in the economic integration of migrants in their host country. Labor market integration of ethnic minority women is of special interest, as they may ...
(published as 'How many hours do you have to work to be integrated?' in: International Migration, 2012, 50 (s1), e117 - e131)
F22, J22, J61
2683 Rob Euwals
Jaco Dagevos
Mérove Gijsberts
Hans Roodenburg
The Labour Market Position of Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands: Reason for Migration, Naturalisation and Language Proficiency
On the basis of the German Socio-Economic Panel 2002 and the Dutch Social Position and Use of Provision Survey 2002, we investigate the importance of characteristics related to immigration for the ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2010, 44 (3), 513-538)
C25, F22, J15, J61
2682 Sumon K. Bhaumik
Ira N. Gang
Myeong-Su Yun
Rationality as a Barrier to Peace: Micro-Evidence from Kosovo
Despite a significant expansion of the literature on conflicts and fragility of states, only a few systematic attempts have been made to link the theoretical literature on social conflicts to the ...
(published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 51(2): 242-264, 2009)
I32, O12, J15
2679 Juan J. Dolado
Marcel Jansen
Juan F. Jimeno
A Positive Analysis of Targeted Employment Protection Legislation
In many countries, Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) establishes less strict dismissal procedures for specific groups of workers. This paper builds a simple matching model with heterogeneous ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics: Topics in Macroeconomics, 2007, 7 (1), Article 14)
J64, J63
2678 Nauro F. Campos
Dean Jolliffe
Earnings, Schooling and Economic Reform: Econometric Evidence from Hungary (1986-2004)
How does the relationship between earnings and schooling change with the introduction of comprehensive economic reform? This paper sheds light on this question using a unique data set and procedure ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2007, 21 (3), 509-526)
I20, J20, J24, J31, O15, O52, P20
2676 Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
Earnings and Occupational Attainment: Immigrants and the Native Born
This paper examines the determinants of occupational attainment and the impact of occupation on earnings. Results for both the native born and foreign born are presented, and these provide insights ...
(published as 'Earnings and Occupational Attainment among Immigrants' in: Industrial Relations, 2009, 48 (3), 454 - 465)
J24, J31, J62, F22
2674 Andreas Ammermüller
Claudio Lucifora
Federica Origo
Thomas Zwick
Still Searching for the Wage Curve: Evidence from Germany and Italy
This paper investigates the functioning of regional labour markets in Italy and Germany for different employee groups. In the light of high and persistent differences in unemployment and wage rates ...
(published as 'Wage flexibility in regional labour markets: Evidence from Italy and Germany' in: Regional Studies, 2010, 44 (4), 401 - 421)
J3, J6, R1
2673 Mirjam C. van Praag
Bernard M. S. van Praag
The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z)
Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials ...
(published in: Economica, 2008, 75 (300), 782-796)
A11, A14, J32, J44
2672 Björn Anders Gustafsson
Birgitta Jansson
Top Incomes in Sweden during Three-Quarters of a Century: A Micro Data Approach
This paper aims to throw light on the development of top incomes in Sweden as well as the causes for change. Using household income data we show that since the first half of the 1980s, real income at ...
(published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2008, 32 (6), 963-976)
D31, J31, N34
2671 Arnaud Chéron
François Langot
Eva Moreno-Galbis
The “Dynamic” of Job Competition during the ICT Revolution
Our paper seeks to gain insights on the effect of labor market institutions on the evolution of overeducation (job competition), unemployment inequalities and job instability during the polarization ...
(published in: Economica, 2010, 78 (309), 159-186)
J23, J24, J63, L23, O33
2670 Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
The International Transferability of Immigrants’ Human Capital Skills
This paper uses the approach in the under/over education literature to analyze the extent of matching of educational level to occupational attainment among adult native born and foreign born men in ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2009, 28 (2), 162-169)
J24, J31, J62, F22
2669 Olivier B. Bargain
Olivier Donni
A Theory of Child Targeting
There is a large empirical literature on policy measures targeted at children but surprisingly very little theoretical foundation to ground the debate on the optimality of the different instruments. ...
(published as 'Targeting and Child Poverty' in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2012, 39(4), 783-808)
D13, D31, D63, H21, H31
2668 Martin Salm
The Effect of Pensions on Longevity: Evidence from Union Army Veterans
This study uses changes in pension laws for Union Army veterans as a natural experiment to estimate the causal effect of pensions on longevity, and to examine potential pathways underlying such a ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2011, 212 (552), 595 - 619)
I12, J14, N41
2667 Joachim Wagner
Entry, Exit and Productivity: Empirical Results for German Manufacturing Industries
Using panel data from Spain Farinas and Ruano (IJIO 2005) test three hypotheses from a model by Hopenhayn (Econometrica 1992): (H1) Firms that exit in year t were in t-1 less productive than firms ...
(published in: German Economic Review 2010, 11(1), 78-85)
L11, L60
2666 Panu Poutvaara
Lars Siemers
Smoking and Social Interaction
We study the social interaction of non-smokers and smokers as a sequential game, incorporating insights from social psychology and experimental economics into an economic model. Social norms affect ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27 (6), 1503–1515)
I18, D01, D11
2665 Anders Björklund
Markus Jäntti
Gary Solon
Nature and Nurture in the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status: Evidence from Swedish Children and Their Biological and Rearing Parents
This study uses an extraordinary Swedish data set to explore the sources of the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status. Merging data from administrative sources and censuses, we ...
(published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2007, 7 (2), Article 4)
I20, J30, J62
2664 Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
Occupational Language Requirements and the Value of English in the U.S. Labor Market
This paper is concerned with the English language requirements (both level and importance) of occupations in the United States, as measured by the O*NET database. These scores are linked to microdata ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (1), 353-372)
J24, J31, J62, F22
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