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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
2603 Massimiliano Bratti
Daniele Checchi
Antonio Filippin
Territorial Differences in Italian Students’ Mathematical Competencies: Evidence from PISA 2003
In this paper we investigate the existence and the size of territorial differences in Italian students’ mathematical competencies. Our analysis benefits from a new data set that merges the 2003 wave ...
(revised version published as "Geographical Differences in Italian Students' Mathematical Competencies: Evidence from PISA 2003" in: Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, 2007, 66(3), 299-333)
J21, J24, H52
2602 Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers
Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces
We document key facts about marriage and divorce, comparing trends through the past 150 years and outcomes across demographic groups and countries. While divorce rates have risen over the past 150 ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2007, 21(2), 27-52)
D1, H31, I3, J1, K36, N3
2601 Stephen L. Ross
Yves Zenou
Are Shirking and Leisure Substitutable? An Empirical Test of Efficiency Wages Based on Urban Economic Theory
Recent theoretical work has examined the spatial distribution of unemployment using the efficiency wage model as the mechanism by which unemployment arises in the urban economy. This paper extends ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2008, 38, 498-517)
J41, R14
2599 Marco Caliendo
Ludovica Gambaro
Peter Haan
The Impact of Income Taxation on the Ratio between Reservation and Market Wages and the Incentives for Labour Supply
This paper extends previous research about the determinants of reservation wages by analysing the effect of progressive income taxation on the ratio between reservation and net market wages. Based on ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2009, 16 (9), 877-883)
J22, H24, H31
2598 Guillermina Jasso
Samuel Kotz
A New Continuous Distribution and Two New Families of Distributions Based on the Exponential
Recent work on social status led to derivation of a new continuous distribution based on the exponential. The new variate, termed the ring(2)-exponential, in turn leads to derivation of two ...
(published in: Statistica Neerlandica, 2007, 61(3), 305-328)
C02, C16, D31, D6, I3
2596 Eric Maurin
Sandra McNally
Educational Effects of Widening Access to the Academic Track: A Natural Experiment
It is difficult to know whether widening access to schools which provide a more academically oriented general education makes a difference to average educational achievement. We make use of reforms ...
(published as 'The Effect of Tracking Students by Ability into Different Schools: A Natural Experiment' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2012, 47 (3), 684-721)
I2
2594 Juan Carlos Candeal
Esteban Induráin
José Alberto Molina
Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility: An Algebraic Characterization of Projective Preorders and Some Welfare Consequences
It is shown that any completely preordered topological real algebra admits a continuous utility representation which is an algebra-homomorphism (i.e., it is linear and multiplicative). As an ...
(published as 'Numerical representability or ordered topological spaces with compatible algebraic structure' in: Order, 2012, 29, 131-146 )
C60, C65, D60, D63
2593 Roberto Bande
Marika Karanassou
Labour Market Flexibility and Regional Unemployment Rate Dynamics: Spain 1980-1995
This paper aims to shed light in the dynamics of Spanish regional unemployment rates and determine the driving forces of their disparities. The Spanish economy has one of the highest unemployment ...
(published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2009, 88(1), 181-207)
R23, J64
2592 Guillermina Jasso
Studying Justice: Measurement, Estimation, and Analysis of the Actual Reward and the Just Reward
This paper describes procedures for measuring and estimating the fundamental quantities in the study of distributive justice. We examine a variety of methods for measuring the actual reward and the ...
(published in: Kjell Törnblom and Riel Vermunt (eds.), Distributive and Procedural Justice: Research and Social Applications. London, UK: Ashgate, 2007)
D1, D31, D6, D8, I3, J31
2591 Síle O'Dorchai
Robert Plasman
François Rycx
The Part-Time Wage Penalty in European Countries: How Large Is It for Men?
Economic theory advances a number of reasons for the existence of a wage gap between part-time and full-time workers. Empirical work has concentrated on the wage effects of part-time work for women. ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2007, 28 (7), 571-603)
C13, C31, J24, J31, J71
2590 David Card
Raj Chetty
Andrea Weber
The Spike at Benefit Exhaustion: Leaving the Unemployment System or Starting a New Job?
In this paper, we review the literature on the “spike” in unemployment exit rates around benefit exhaustion, and present new evidence based on administrative data for a large sample of job losers in ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2007, 97 (2), 113-118)
J64, J65
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