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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
2662 Sherrilyn M. Billger
Principals as Agents? Investigating Accountability in the Compensation and Performance of School Principals
In this study I examine the relationship between accountability (e.g., state sanctions for poor performance, or the presence of goals required by the district) and public secondary principal pay and ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 61(1), 90-107)
J3, J48, I22
2661 Joachim Wagner
Productivity and Size of the Export Market: Evidence for West and East German Plants, 2004
Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality data at the plant level, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2007, 227 (4), 403-408)
F14, D21
2660 Hans J. Baumgartner
Marco Caliendo
Turning Unemployment into Self-Employment: Effectiveness and Efficiency of Two Start-Up Programmes
Turning unemployment into self-employment has become a major focus of German active labour market policy (ALMP) in recent years. If effective, this would not only reduce Germany’s persistently high ...
(revised version published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2008, 70(3), 347-373)
J68, C14, H43, M13
2656 Joachim Wagner
Why More West than East German Firms Export
Using unique new data and a recently introduced non-linear decomposition technique this paper shows that the huge difference in the propensity to export between West and East German plants is to a ...
(published in: International Economics and Economic Policy, 2008, 5 (4), 363-370)
F14
2655 David A. Jaeger
Holger Bonin
Thomas Dohmen
Armin Falk
David B. Huffman
Uwe Sunde
Direct Evidence on Risk Attitudes and Migration
Geographic mobility is important for the functioning of labor markets because it brings labor resources to where they can be most efficiently used. It has long been hypothesized that individuals' ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 92(3), 684–689)
J61, D81, R23
2654 Peter A. Riach
Judy Rich
An Experimental Investigation of Age Discrimination in the Spanish Labour Market
In a field experiment of age discrimination, pairs of men aged twenty-seven and forty-seven, inquired, by email, about employment as waiters in twenty five Spanish towns. Discrimination against the ...
(published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 99/100, 169-185)
J71, C93
2653 Stephen Machin
Sandra McNally
Costas Meghir
Resources and Standards in Urban Schools
Despite being central to government education policy in many countries, there remains considerable debate about whether resources matter for pupil outcomes. In this paper we look at this question by ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2010, 4 (4), 365-393)
I21, H52, C52
2652 Yann Bramoullé
Habiba Djebbari
Bernard Fortin
Identification of Peer Effects through Social Networks
We provide new results regarding the identification of peer effects. We consider an extended version of the linear-in-means model where each individual has his own specific reference group. ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2009, 150 (1), 41-55)
D85, L14, Z13, C3
2651 Corrado Andini
Pedro T. Pereira
Full-time Schooling, Part-time Schooling, and Wages: Returns and Risks in Portugal
The standard wage equation proposed by Mincer (1974) assumes that individuals start working after leaving school, which is not the actual case for many people. Using longitudinal data on Portuguese ...
(revised version published in: Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2026, 104, 102388)
I21, J31, C23
2650 Christian Belzil
Testing the Specification of the Mincer Wage Equation
I perform the joint estimation of a reduced-form dynamic model of the transition from one grade level to the next, and a Mincer wage equation, using panel data taken from the NLSY. A very high degree ...
(published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2008, 92/92, 427 - 451)
J2, J3
2647 Heather Antecol
Vanessa E. Barcus
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Gender-Biased Behavior at Work: What Can Surveys Tell Us About the Link Between Sexual Harassment and Gender Discrimination?
This paper examines the links between survey-based reports of sexual harassment and gender discrimination. In particular, we are interested in assessing whether these concepts measure similar forms ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2009, 30 (5), 782-792)
J16, J28
2646 Pierre-André Chiappori
Murat Iyigun
Yoram Weiss
Public Goods, Transferable Utility and Divorce Laws
We reconsider the well known Becker-Coase (BC) argument, according to which changes in divorce laws should not affect divorce rates, in the context of households which consume public goods in ...
(published as 'The Becker-Coase Theorem Reconsidered' in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2015, 81 (2), 157-77)
C78, D61, D70
2645 Michael Fertig
Marcus Tamm
Always Poor or Never Poor and Nothing in Between? Duration of Child Poverty in Germany
This paper analyses the duration of child poverty in Germany. In our sample, we observe the entire income history from the individuals' birth to their coming of age at age 18. Therefore we are able ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2010, 11 (2), 150-168)
C41, D31, I32
2644 Andrew T. Newell
Mieczyslaw Socha
The Polish Wage Inequality Explosion
This paper presents and analyses the sharp increase in hourly wage inequality after 1998 in Poland. The increase was similar in magnitude to the much-studied increase in British wage inequality ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2007, 15 (4), 733-758)
J31, P23
2641 Guillermina Jasso
Theoretical Unification in Justice and Beyond
The goal of scientific work is to understand more and more by less and less. In this effort, theoretical unification plays a large part. There are two main types of theoretical unification – ...
(published in: Social Justice Research, 2007, 20(3), 336-371)
C02, D1, D31, D6, D8, I3, J31
2638 Ian Babetskii
Nauro F. Campos
Does Reform Work? An Econometric Examination of the Reform-Growth Puzzle
Why are socially beneficial reforms not implemented? One simple answer to this question (which has received little attention in the literature) is that this may be caused by generalized uncertainty ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2011, 39 (2), 140-158)
O11, P21, C49
2637 Simon Commander
Jan Svejnar
Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance? Evidence from 26 Transition Countries
We analyze a large stratified random sample of firms that provide us with measures of performance and each firm’s top manager’s perception of the severity of business environment constraints faced by ...
(revised version published as 'Business Environment, Exports, Ownership, and Firm Performance' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93 (1), 309 - 337)
D24, L21, O12, O57
2636 Ioannis Cholezas
Panos Tsakloglou
Earnings Inequality in Europe: Structure and Patterns of Inter-Temporal Changes
The paper provides an analysis of the level, the structure and the patterns of inter-temporal change in hourly earnings inequality in Europe. For the purposes of static inequality decomposition ...
(published in: P. Dolton, R. Asplund and E. Barth (eds), Education and Inequality across Europe, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham: 2009, 122-146)
J31
2635 Laszlo Goerke
Markus Pannenberg
Trade Union Membership and Works Councils in West Germany
The fraction of works councillors belonging to a trade union in Germany is much higher than union density among employees. If works councils represent the face of unions, union membership of ...
(published in: Industrielle Beziehungen, 2007, 14 (2), 154-175)
J51, J53
2634 Adrian Pagan
M. Hashem Pesaran
On Econometric Analysis of Structural Systems with Permanent and Transitory Shocks and Exogenous Variables
This paper considers the implications of the permanent/transitory decomposition of shocks for identification of structural models in the general case where the model might contain more than one ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2008, 32 (10), 3376-3395)
C30, C32, E10
2633 David G. Blanchflower
Andrew J. Oswald
Hypertension and Happiness across Nations
A modern statistical literature argues that countries such as Denmark are particularly happy while nations like East Germany are not. Are such claims credible? The paper explores this by building on ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27, 218-233)
I1, I3
2632 Pieter A. Gautier
Michael Svarer
Coen Teulings
Sin City?
Is moving to the countryside a credible commitment device for couples? We investigate whether lowering the arrival rate of potential alternative partners by moving to a less populated area lowers the ...
(published as 'Sin City? Why is the Divorce Rate Higher in Urban Areas' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2009, 111 (3), 439 - 456)
J12, J64
2630 Bernd Fitzenberger
Robert Völter
Long-Run Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed in East Germany
Public sector sponsored training was implemented at a large scale during the transition process in East Germany. Based on new administrative data, we estimate the differential effects of three ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (4), 730-755)
C14, J68, H43
2629 Ying Wang
Dave E. Marcotte
Golden Years? The Labor Market Effects of Caring for Grandchildren
The number of Americans raising grandchildren has been rising steadily. In this paper, we add to what is known about the implications of this trend by focusing on the economic effects of raising a ...
(published in: Journal of Marriage and Family, 2007, 69 (5), 1283-1297)
J13, J14, J22, J26
2628 Erkki Koskela
Rune Stenbacka
Equilibrium Unemployment with Outsourcing under Labour Market Imperfections
We study both the various consequences and the incentives of outsourcing. We argue that the wage elasticity of labour demand is increasing as a function of the share of outsourcing, which is ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (3), 284-290)
E23, E24, J51, J64
2627 Antonio Menezes
Dario Sciulli
José António Cabral Vieira
Wage Persistence and Labour Market Institutions: An Analysis of Young European Workers
This paper investigates the effects of labour market institutions on wage persistence among young European workers at the beginning of their careers. We use ECHP data from 1995 to 2001 for 13 EU ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2011, 18 (9), 823 - 828)
J31, C23, J5
2626 Calin Arcalean
Gerhard Glomm
Ioana Schiopu
Jens Suedekum
Public Budget Composition, Fiscal (De)Centralization and Welfare
We present a dynamic two-region model with overlapping generations. There are two types of public expenditure, education and infrastructure funding, and governments decide optimally on budget size ...
(published in:Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2010, 43 (3), 832-859)
H72, H74, E62
2624 Don J. DeVoretz
Sergiy Pivnenko
The Immigration Triangle: Quebec, Canada and the Rest of the World
Quebec, as many other immigrant destination areas, has experienced difficulty in retaining its original set of newcomers. The paper addresses this issue of retention in terms of a brain circulation ...
(published in: Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2008, 9 (4), 363-382)
J61, J60
2621 Marco Vivarelli
Innovation and Employment: A Survey
According to the "compensation theory", market forces should assure a complete compensation of the initial labour-saving impact of process innovations. In this paper a critique of this approach is ...
(published in: Horst Hanusch and Andreas Pyka (eds.), Elgar Companion to Neo-Schumpeterian Economics, Cheltenham: Elgar, 2007, 719-32)
J64, O33
2618 Conchita D'Ambrosio
Joachim R. Frick
Individual Well-Being in a Dynamic Perspective
This paper explores the determinants of individual well-being as measured by self-reported levels of satisfaction with income. Making full use of the panel data nature of the German Socio-Economic ...
(published in: Economica, 2012, 79 (314), 284-302 )
D63, I31, D31
2617 Nil Demet Güngör
Aysit Tansel
Brain Drain from Turkey: The Case of Professionals Abroad
The paper presents research findings on the return intentions of Turkish professionals residing abroad. The study uses a descriptive framework to establish the validity of several proposed models of ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2008, 29 (4), 323-347)
F22, J61, O15
2614 Ambra Poggi
Xavier Ramos
Empirical Modeling of Deprivation Contagion among Social Exclusion Dimensions (Using MCMC Methods)
Economic theory and empirical evidence clearly show that social exclusion dimensions are inter-related. Notwithstanding that, dimensions are usually assumed independent from one another in the ...
(published in: Jacques Silber (ed.), The Measurement of Individual Well-Being and Group Inequalities: Essays in Memory of Z.M. Berrebi, Routledge, 2010)
C11, C15, I30
2613 Eleonora Patacchini
Yves Zenou
The Racial Test Score Gap and Parental Involvement in Britain
We investigate the racial gap in test scores between black and white students in Britain both in levels and differences across the school years. We find that there is an increasing racial gap in test ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2009, 102, 49-52 )
I21, J15, J24
2612 Melvyn Coles
Marco Francesconi
On the Emergence of Toyboys: Equilibrium Matching with Ageing and Uncertain Careers
Toyboy marriages (where the female partner is at least 5 years older than her male partner) have grown threefold since the 1970s in the United States and Britain. This paper examines this phenomenon ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2011, 52 (3), 825-853 )
J12, J16, J62
2611 Eric V. Edmonds
Nina Pavcnik
Petia Topalova
Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform
Do the short and medium term adjustment costs associated with trade liberalization influence schooling and child labor decisions? We examine this question in the context of India's 1991 tariff ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2010, 2 (4), 42-75)
J24, O15, J22, J13
2609 Bernd Fitzenberger
Ralf Wilke
New Insights on Unemployment Duration and Post Unemployment Earnings in Germany: Censored Box-Cox Quantile Regression at Work
In light of nonstationary search theory (van den Berg, 1990), this paper estimates the effects of benefit entitlement periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations and ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72 (6), 794 - 826)
C13, C14, J64
2608 Eleonora Patacchini
Yves Zenou
Intergenerational Education Transmission: Neighborhood Quality and/or Parents’ Involvement?
We develop a model that analyzes the impact of residential neighborhood and parents’ involvement in education on children’s educational attainment and test it using the UK National Child Development ...
(published as 'Neighborhood Effects and Parental Involvement in the Intergenerational Transmission of Education' in: Journal of Regional Science, 2011, 51 (5), 987 - 1013)
I21, J13, J24
2606 Eric V. Edmonds
Child Labor
In recent years, there has been an astonishing proliferation of empirical work on child labor. An Econlit search of keywords "child lab*r" reveals a total of 6 peer reviewed journal articles between ...
(published in: Handbook of Development Economics Volume 4: T.P. Shultz and J. Strauss, eds., 2008)
J13, J22, O15
2605 Werner Eichhorst
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Dann waren's nur noch vier… Wie viele (und welche) Maßnahmen der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik brauchen wir noch? Eine Bilanz nach der Evaluation der Hartz-Reformen
Die deutsche Arbeitsmarktpolitik ist im Zuge der Hartz-Reformen grundsätzlich neu strukturiert und systematisch evaluiert worden. Die vorliegenden Evaluationsberichte der ersten drei Hartz-Gesetze ...
(published as ,And Then There Were Four… How Many (and Which) Measures of Active Labor Market Policy Do We Still Need?' English version; in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2007, 53 (3), 243-272)
J68, H43, D61
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