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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
2589 Rosa Duarte
José-Julián Escario
José Alberto Molina
Peer Effects, Unobserved Factors and Risk Behaviours: An Analysis of Alcohol Abuse and Truancy among Adolescents
The objective of this paper is to examine the factors which affect alcohol abuse and truancy among adolescents. We propose a new theoretical specification in which alcohol abuse and truancy appear as ...
(published as 'Peer Effects, Unobserved Factors and Risk Behaviours in Adolescence' in: Revista de Economía Aplicada, 2011, 29 (55), 125-152)
I10, I12, I20, I21
2587 Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
Matching Language Proficiency to Occupation: The Effect on Immigrants’ Earnings
This paper analyzes the effect on earnings of the matching of English language skills to occupational requirements. It uses data from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) database and a ...
(published as 'The impact of surplus skills on earnings: Extending the over-education model to language proficiency' in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 36, 263-275)
J24, J31, F22
2584 Richard A. Easterlin
Onnicha Sawangfa
Happiness and Domain Satisfaction: Theory and Evidence
In the United States happiness, on average, varies positively with socio-economic status; is fairly constant over time; rises to midlife and then declines; and is lower among younger than older birth ...
(published in: A.K. Dutt and B. Radcliff (eds.), Happiness, Economics, and Politics: Towards a Multi-Disciplinary Approach, 2009, Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar)
I3, D60, D1, O51
2581 Miquel Clar
Christian Dreger
Raul Ramos
Wage Flexibility and Labour Market Institutions: A Meta-Analysis
Evidence during the nineties about the response of real wages to shocks highlights that this response is substantially lower in European countries than in the United States and that there are ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2007, 60(2), 145-163)
J30, J50
2580 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Fun with Matched Firm-Employee Data: Progress and Road Maps
With the beginnings of a worldwide burgeoning development of matched firm-employee data, it is worthwhile to examine the possibilities for using these data. This essay discusses a variety of areas in ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (4), 663-673)
J2, J3
2579 Pieter A. Gautier
Arjen Siegmann
Aico van Vuuren
The Effect of the Theo van Gogh Murder on House Prices in Amsterdam
This paper estimates the impact of the murder of film maker Theo van Gogh on November 2, 2004, on listed house prices in Amsterdam with a unique dataset. We use an hedonic-market approach to show ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2009, 65(2), 113-126.)
C31, C41, R21, R23, R31
2578 Graziella Bertocchi
The Vanishing Bequest Tax: The Comparative Evolution of Bequest Taxation in Historical Perspective
Several countries have recently abolished or significantly reduced their taxes on bequests. Bequest taxes, on the other hand, were among the first to be introduced when modern systems of taxation ...
(revised version published in: Economics and Politics, 2011, 23 (1), 107 - 131)
H20, P16, N40, O40
2576 Kenneth D. Boyer
Stephen V. Burks
Stuck in the Slow Lane: Traffic Composition and the Measurement of Labor Productivity in the U.S. Trucking Industry
Mirroring the railroad industry of the 1940’s and 1950’s, the trucking industry today appears to be achieving impressive productivity gains. But it is easy to confuse true productivity advances in ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 75 (4), 2009, 1220-1237)
L92, D24, C43
2575 Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
The Critical Period Hypothesis for Language Learning: What the 2000 US Census Says
A critical period for language learning is often defined as a sharp decline in learning outcomes with age. This study examines the relevance of the critical period to English proficiency among ...
(published as "A Test of the Critical Period Hypothesis for Language Learning" in: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2008, 29 (1), 16-29)
F22, J15
2574 Gary Charness
Marie Claire Villeval
Cooperation, Competition, and Risk Attitudes: An Intergenerational Field and Laboratory Experiment
The population of most developed societies is ‘graying’. As life expectancy increases and the large baby-boom generation approaches retirement age, this has critical consequences for maintaining a ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2009, 99 (3), 956–978)
A13, B49, C91, C93, J14, J18, J38, J70
2573 Thomas Siedler
Schooling and Citizenship: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms
This paper examines whether schooling has a positive impact on individual's political interest, voting turnout, democratic values, political involvement and political group membership, using the ...
(revised version published as 'Schooling and Citizenship in a Young Democracy: Evidence from Postwar Germany' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2010, 112 (2), 315-338)
I2, H4, H23
2571 David Autor
William Kerr
Adriana Kugler
Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States
Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity by distorting production choices. Firms facing (non-Coasean) worker dismissal costs will curtail hiring below efficient ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (521), F189 - F217)
J11, J21, J31, J61
2570 David Neumark
William Wascher
Minimum Wages and Employment
We review the burgeoning literature on the employment effects of minimum wages – in the United States and other countries – that was spurred by the new minimum wage research beginning in the early ...
(published in: Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2007, 3 (1+2), 1-182)
J23, J38
2569 Veneta Andonova
Luis Diaz-Serrano
Political Institutions and the Development of Telecommunications
It has traditionally been argued that the development of telecommunications infrastructure is dependent on the quality of countries’ political institutions. We estimate the effect of political ...
(published as 'Political Institutions and the Development of Telecommunications', Journal of Development Economics, 2009, 89, 77-83)
O1, O3
2568 Bernard M. S. van Praag
Perspectives from the Happiness Literature and the Role of New Instruments for Policy Analysis
After having been ignored for a long time by economists, happiness is becoming an object of serious research in 21st century economics. In Section 2 we sketch the present status of happiness ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2007, 53, 42-68)
B21, B41, D63, I31, I38
2567 Robert J. Oxoby
Skill Uncertainty and Social Inference
Research in psychology indicates that individuals often make inferences regarding unknown individual qualities based on potentially irrelevant (but socially observable) information. This paper ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (3), 422-427)
D63, D83, J64, J70
2566 Alicia Robb
Robert W. Fairlie
Determinants of Business Success: An Examination of Asian-Owned Businesses in the United States
Using confidential and restricted-access microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we find that Asian-owned businesses are 16.9 percent less likely to close, 20.6 percent more likely to have profits of ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (4), 827-858)
J15, L26
2565 Flavio Cunha
James J. Heckman
A New Framework for the Analysis of Inequality
This paper presents a new framework for analyzing inequality that moves beyond the anonymity postulate. We estimate the determinants of sectoral choice and the joint distributions of outcomes across ...
(published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2008, 12 (Supplement 2), 315-354)
I30, D80
2564 Robert M. Hutchens
Worker Characteristics, Job Characteristics, and Opportunities for Phased Retirement
This paper uses a telephone survey of 950 employers to examine employer-side restrictions on phased retirement. Not only did the survey collect information on establishment level policies, it also ...
(substantially revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (6), 1010-1021)
J26, J23, J14
2562 Mariacristina Piva
Marco Vivarelli
Corporate Skills as an Ex-Ante Incentive to R&D Investment
Using a balanced panel of 215 Italian manufacturing firms over the 1995-2000 period, this paper investigates the determinants of R&D investment at the level of the firm. While finding further support ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (8), 835-852)
O31
2560 Matthew D. Rablen
Andrew J. Oswald
Mortality and Immortality
It has been known for centuries that the rich and famous have longer lives than the poor and ordinary. Causality, however, remains trenchantly debated. The ideal experiment would be one in which ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27 (6), 1462-1471)
I12
2559 Marko Koethenbuerger
Panu Poutvaara
Rent Taxation in a Small Open Economy: The Effect on Transitional Generations
We show that taxation of rents may yield an intergenerational Pareto-improvement in a small open economy provided tax revenues are earmarked to reduce wage taxes. Previous literature has shown that ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2009, 16 (5), 697-709)
H22, E62, F02
2558 Volker Grossmann
Thomas M. Steger
Growth, Development, and Technological Change
The theory of endogenous technical change has deeply contributed to our understanding of the fundamental sources of economic growth and development. In this chapter we survey important contributions ...
(published in: Wei-Bin Zhang (ed.), UNESCO Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (Mathematical Models in Economics), Eolss Publishers, Oxford, UK: 2007)
O10, O30, O40
2557 Xin Meng
Jim Ryan
Does a Food for Education Program Affect School Outcomes? The Bangladesh Case
The Food for Education (FFE) program was introduced to Bangladesh in 1993. This paper evaluates the effect of this program on school participation and duration of schooling using a household survey ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (2), 415-447)
J38, I28
2556 Torben M. Andersen
Allan Sørensen
Product Market Integration and Labour Markets: Aggregate Gains at the Cost of More Inequality?
Important labour market consequences of globalization may arise via product market integration which affects the room for wage negotiations and generates job creation and destruction through ...
(published as 'Product Market Integration, Rents and Wage Inequality' in: Review of International Economics, 2011, 19 (4), 595 - 608)
F15, F16, J39, J50, J63
2555 Herwig Immervoll
Minimum Wages, Minimum Labour Costs and the Tax Treatment of Low-Wage Employment
International comparisons of minimum-wage levels have largely focused on the gross value of minimum wages, ignoring the effects of taxation on both labour costs and the net income of employees. This ...
(corrected and updated version published in OECD (2007), Taxing Wages 2005/2006)
J2, J3, H2, H3
2554 Jo Blanden
Paul Gregg
Lindsey Macmillan
Accounting for Intergenerational Income Persistence: Noncognitive Skills, Ability and Education
We analyse in detail the factors that lead to intergenerational persistence among sons, where this is measured as the association between childhood family income and later adult earnings. We seek to ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (519), C43-C60)
J62, J13, J31
2553 Xin Meng
Wealth Accumulation and Distribution in Urban China
Under socialism it was neither possible nor necessary to accumulate significant levels of personal wealth. The acceleration of economic reform in the last decade, however, has brought dramatic ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2007, 55 (4), 761-791)
D31, I30
2550 Flavio Cunha
James J. Heckman
The Technology of Skill Formation
This paper develops a model of skill formation that explains a variety of findings established in the child development and child intervention literatures. At its core is a technology that is ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2007, 97 (2), 31-47)
J13, J24, I38
2549 Philippe Askenazy
Eva Moreno-Galbis
Technological and Organizational Changes, and Labor Flows: Evidence on French Establishments
This paper investigates the effects of organizational and technological changes on job stability of different occupational categories in France. We conduct an empirical analysis in which we make ...
(published in: LABOUR, 2007, 21 (2), 265–301)
J23, J41, J63, L23, O33
2547 Ansgar H. Belke
Daniel Gros
Instability of the Eurozone? On Monetary Policy, House Prices and Labor Market Reforms
This paper deals with potential instabilities in the Eurozone stemming from an insufficient interplay between monetary policy and reform effort on the one hand and the emergence of intra-Euro area ...
(published in: in: Heise, Michael, Tilly, Richard, Welfens, Paul J.J. (eds.), Integration, Financial Markets and Innovations – 50 Years of EU Dynamics, 2007, 75-108.)
D78, E52, E61
2546 Steffen Habermalz
Kristen Monaco
A Post-Deregulation Analysis of Wages in U.S. Freight Transportation
After a period of regulatory changes in the early 1980s we are faced with “new” freight transportation labor markets in the U.S. Using data from the 1984-1999 Current Population Survey, we examine ...
(published in: International Journal of Transport Economics, 34 (1), 2007)
J31, L92
2545 David Neumark
Junfu Zhang
Stephen Ciccarella
The Effects of Wal-Mart on Local Labor Markets
We estimate the effects of Wal-Mart stores on county-level retail employment and earnings, accounting for endogeneity of the location and timing of Wal-Mart openings that most likely biases the ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2008, 63(2), 405-430)
J21, R12
2543 Tue Gorgens
Xin Meng
Rhema Vaithianathan
Stunting and Selection Effects of Famine: A Case Study of the Great Chinese Famine
The Great Chinese Famine of 1959-1961 is puzzling, since despite the high death rates, there is no discernable diminution in height amongst the majority of cohorts who were exposed to the famine in ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 97 (1), 99 - 111)
C33, I12, N95, O15
2542 Sascha O. Becker
Marco Caliendo
mhbounds - Sensitivity Analysis for Average Treatment Effects
Matching has become a popular approach to estimate average treatment effects. It is based on the conditional independence or unconfoundedness assumption. Checking the sensitivity of the estimated ...
(published in: Stata Journal, 2007, 7(1), 71-83)
C40
2541 Benno Torgler
Friedrich Schneider
The Impact of Tax Morale and Institutional Quality on the Shadow Economy
This paper analyses how tax morale and countries’ institutional quality affect the shadow economy, controlling in a multivariate analysis for a variety of potential factors. The literature strongly ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2009, 30 (2), 228-245)
D73, D78, H2, H26, O17, O5
2540 L. Rachel Ngai
Christopher A. Pissarides
Trends in Hours and Economic Growth
We study long-run trends in market hours of work and employment shifts across economic sectors driven by uneven TFP growth in market and home production. We focus on the substitutions between market ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2008, 11 (2), 239-256)
J21, J22, O14, O41
2539 James Banks
Michael Marmot
Zoë Oldfield
James P. Smith
The SES Health Gradient on Both Sides of the Atlantic
Looking across many diseases, average health among mature men is much worse in America compared to England. Second, there exists a steep negative health gradient for men in both countries where men ...
(published in: David Wise (ed.), Developments in the Economics of Aging, University of Chicago Press, pp. 359-406, 2009)
I10
2538 Timothy J. Hatton
Andrew Leigh
Immigrants Assimilate as Communities, Not Just as Individuals
There is a large econometric literature that examines the economic assimilation of immigrants in the United States and elsewhere. On the whole immigrants are seen as atomistic individuals ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (2), 389-419)
F2, J3, J6
2537 Holger Bonin
Amelie F. Constant
Konstantinos Tatsiramos
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity
The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We ...
(substantially revised version published in: IZA Journal of Migration , 2012, 1, Article 5 )
D1, D81, F22, J15, J16, J31, J62, J82
2535 Laura V Zimmermann
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Amelie F. Constant
Ethnic Self-Identification of First-Generation Immigrants
This paper uses the concept of ethnic self-identification of immigrants in a two-dimensional framework. It acknowledges the fact that attachments to the home and the host country are not necessarily ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2007, 41 (3), 769-781)
F22, J15, J16, Z10
2533 Holger Bonin
Ulf Rinne
Beautiful Serbia
The paper studies the causal impact of participation in an active labor market program – the ‘Beautiful Serbia’ program providing training and temporary work in the construction sector in Serbia and ...
(revised version published as 'Beautiful Serbia’ - objective and subjective outcomes of active labour market policy in a transition economy" in: Economics of Transition, 2014, 22(1), 43-67 )
J68, H43, P27
2532 Ana Rute Cardoso
Miguel Portela
Carla Sá
Fernando Alexandre
Demand for Higher Education Programs: The Impact of the Bologna Process
The Bologna process aims at creating a European Higher Education Area where inter-country mobility of students and staff, as well as workers holding a degree, is facilitated. While several aspects of ...
(published in: CESIfo Economic Studies, 2008, 54 (2), 229-247)
I28, I21, F15
2530 Amelie F. Constant
Martin Kahanec
Klaus F. Zimmermann
The Russian-Ukrainian Political Divide
The Orange Revolution unveiled significant political and economic tensions between ethnic Russians and Ukrainians in Ukraine. Whether this divide was caused by purely ethnic differences or by ...
(published in: Eastern European Economics, 2011, 49 (6), 103-115 )
D72, J15
2529 Wim Groot
Henriette Maassen van den Brink
Bernard M. S. van Praag
The Compensating Income Variation of Social Capital
There is a small but growing literature on the determinants of social capital. Most of these studies use a measure of trust to define social capital empirically. In this paper we use three different ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2007, 82 (2), 189-207)
D1, D6
2527 Lorenzo Cappellari
Marco Leonardi
Earnings Instability and Tenure
This paper develops a tractable empirical approach to estimate the effect of on-the-job tenure on the permanent and the transitory variance of earnings. The model is also used to evaluate earnings ...
(revised version published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2016, 118 (2), 202 - 234)
C23, J21, J31
2526 Andrew E. Clark
Ed Diener
Yannis Georgellis
Richard E. Lucas
Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction: A Test of the Baseline Hypothesis
We look for evidence of habituation in twenty waves of German panel data: do individuals, after life and labour market events, tend to return to some baseline level of wellbeing? Although the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (529), F222–F243)
I31, J12, J13, J63, J64
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