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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
2523 Emilia Del Bono
Daniela Vuri
Is It the Way She Moves? New Evidence on the Gender Wage Growth Gap in the Early Careers of Men and Women in Italy
This paper explores newly available Italian data derived from a 1:90 sample of social security administrative records (INPS) to investigate gender differences in pay during the initial stages of a ...
(published as "Job mobility and the gender wage gap in Italy" in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (1), 130-142)
J16, J31, C23
2518 David G. Blanchflower
Alex Bryson
John Forth
Workplace Industrial Relations in Britain, 1980-2004
There was a time before the first Workplace Industrial Relations Survey (WIRS80) in 1980 when what we knew of industrial relations was based primarily upon small scale surveys and case studies. ...
(published in: Industrial Relations Journal, 2007, 38(4), 285-302)
J51
2517 John Micklewright
Sylke V. Schnepf
Inequality of Learning in Industrialised Countries
Within-country differences in educational outcomes are compared for a large group of industrialised countries. We investigate where inequality is greatest, the association between inequality in ...
(published in: Stephen P. Jenkins and John Micklewright (eds.), Inequality and Poverty Re-Examined, Oxford: OUP, 2007)
I39,I21,D39
2516 Maarten Lindeboom
Ana Llena-Nozal
Bas van der Klaauw
Parental Education and Child Health: Evidence from a Schooling Reform
This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we explore exogenous variation in parental education induced by a schooling reform in ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics 2009, 28 (1), 109-131)
I12, I28
2515 Ana Rute Cardoso
Dorte Verner
School Drop-Out and Push-Out Factors in Brazil: The Role of Early Parenthood, Child Labor, and Poverty
This paper aims at identifying the major drop-out and push-out factors that lead to school abandonment in an urban surrounding, the shantytowns of Fortaleza, Northeast Brazil. We use an extensive ...
(published as 'Factores de la deserción escolar en Brasil. El papel de la paternidad temprana, la mano de obra infantil y la pobreza' in: El Trimestre Económico, 2011, 69 (2) 310, 347-372)
I21, O15, D1
2514 Werner Eichhorst
Maria Grienberger-Zingerle
Regina Konle-Seidl
Activation Policies in Germany: From Status Protection to Basic Income Support
This paper provides an overview of the sequential shift towards activating labor market and social policy in Germany. It not only shows the changes in the instruments of active and passives labor ...
(published in: Werner Eichhorst, Otto Kaufmann and Regina Konle-Seidl (eds.), Bringing the Jobless into Work? Berlin: Springer 2008; revised version published in: German Policy Studies, 2010, 6 (1), 59-100)
J68
2513 Eric Maurin
Julie Moschion
The Social Multiplier and Labour Market Participation of Mothers
A mother’s decision to participate in the labour market is correlated with those of the other mothers living in the same neighbourhood. This paper studies the extent to which this is causal. An ...
(published in: American Economic Journal : Applied Economics, 2009, 1(1), 251-272)
J22
2512 Lídia Farré
Francis Vella
Macroeconomic Conditions and the Distribution of Income in Spain
This paper analyzes the impact of changes in macroeconomic conditions on the income distribution in Spain. Using household data from the Encuesta Continuada de Presupuestos Familiares (ECPF) from ...
(published in: Labour, 2008, 22 (3), 383-410)
D31, E32, C14
2511 Benoit Dostie
David E. Sahn
Labor Market Dynamics in Romania During a Period of Economic Liberalization
In this paper, we estimate a model of labor market dynamics among individuals in Romania using panel data for three years, 1994 to 1996. Our motivation is to gain insight into the functioning of the ...
(updated version: visit SSRN)
P2, P3
2510 Graziella Bertocchi
Chiara Strozzi
The Evolution of Citizenship: Economic and Institutional Determinants
We investigate the origin and evolution of the legal institution of citizenship from a political economy perspective. We compile a new data set on citizenship laws across countries of the world which ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2010, 53 (1), 95-136)
P16, K40, F22, O15
2509 Stephan Klasen
Poverty, Undernutrition, and Child Mortality: Some Inter-Regional Puzzles and their Implications for Research and Policy
This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition, and child mortality in developing countries. While there is, as expected, a close ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2008, 6(1), 89-115)
I1, I3, O1
2508 Christoph Wunder
Johannes Schwarze
Gerhard Krug
Bodo Herzog
Welfare Effects of the Euro Cash Changeover
Using merged data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper applies a parametric difference-in-differences approach to assess the real ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2008, 24 (3), 571-586)
E31, I31
2507 Ekkehart Schlicht
Selection Wages: An Example
Offering higher wages may enable firms to attract more applicants and screen them more carefully. If firms compete in this way in the labor market, "selection wages" emerge. This note illustrates ...
(substantially enlarged version published as 'Wage Dispersion, Over-Qualification, and Reder Competition' in: Economics e-Journal, 2007, 2007-13)
J31, J41, J62, J63
2506 Holger Görg
Michael Henry
Eric Strobl
Frank Walsh
Multinational Companies, Backward Linkages and Labour Demand Elasticities
This paper investigates the link between nationality of ownership and wage elasticities of labour demand at the level of the plant. In particular, we examine whether labour demand in multinationals ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2009, 42( 1), 332-348)
F23, J23, L23
2505 Bernhard Ebbinghaus
Werner Eichhorst
Employment Regulation and Labor Market Policy in Germany, 1991-2005
The paper provides an overview of institutional provisions and reforms regarding employment protection, active and passive labor market policies in Germany as well as of actors' responsibilities in ...
(published in: Paul de Beer and Trudie Schils (eds.), The Labour Market Triangle Employment Protection, Unemployment Compensation and Activation in Europe, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2009, 119-144)
J60, J68
2504 Brian Krogh Graversen
Jan C. van Ours
How to Help Unemployed Find Jobs Quickly: Experimental Evidence from a Mandatory Activation Program
This paper investigates how a mandatory activation program in Denmark affects the job finding rate of unemployed workers. The activation program was introduced in an experimental setting where about ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (10-11), 2020-2035)
C41, H55, J64, J65
2503 Albert Saiz
Susan M. Wachter
Immigration and the Neighborhood
What impact does immigration have on neighborhood dynamics? Within metropolitan areas, we find that housing values have grown relatively more slowly in neighborhoods of immigrant settlement. We ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2011, 3 (2), 169-188)
J61, R23, R31
2502 John Beirne
Nauro F. Campos
Educational Inputs and Outcomes Before the Transition from Communism
Conventional wisdom suggests that the stocks of human capital were one of the few positive legacies from communism. However, if factories under communism were so inefficient, why would the education ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2007, 15 (1), 57-76)
O11, J24, P27, P39
2500 Johannes Abeler
Steffen Altmann
Sebastian Kube
Matthias Wibral
Reciprocity and Payment Schemes: When Equality Is Unfair
A growing literature stresses the importance of reciprocity, especially for employment relations. In this paper, we study the interaction of different payment modes with reciprocity. In particular, ...
(substantially revised version appeared as DP No. 4262)
C92, J33, J41, M12, M52
2499 Graziella Bertocchi
Chiara Strozzi
The Age of Mass Migration: Economic and Institutional Determinants
We study the determinants of 19th century mass migration with special attention to the role of institutional factors beside standard economic fundamentals. We find that economic forces associated ...
(revised version published as "International Migration and the Role of Institutions" in: Public Choice, 2008, 137(1), 81-102)
F22, P16, N33, O15, K40, F54
2498 John Ermisch
Chiara D. Pronzato
Intra-Household Allocation of Resources: Inferences from Non-Resident Fathers’ Child Support Payments
A large proportion of divorced and separated fathers form new partnerships. The new partner’s preferences are not likely to put much weight on expenditures on the man’s children from his previous ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (527), 347-362)
D12, D13
2497 T. H. Gindling
Katherine Terrell
Minimum Wages, Globalization and Poverty in Honduras
To be competitive in the global economy, some argue that Latin American countries need to reduce or eliminate labor market regulations such as minimum wage legislation because they constrain job ...
(revised version published in: World Development, 2010, 38(6), 908-918)
J23, J31, J38
2496 Benoit Dostie
Wages, Productivity and Aging
In this article, we estimate age based wage and productivity differentials using linked employer-employee Canadian data from the Workplace and Employee Survey 1999-2003. Data on the firm side is used ...
(published in: De Economist, 2011, 159 (2), 139 - 158)
J31
2495 Ken Clark
Stephen Drinkwater
Changing Patterns of Ethnic Minority Self-Employment in Britain: Evidence from Census Microdata
The over-representation of certain ethnic minority and immigrant groups in self-employment is, in common with other developed countries, a notable feature of the UK labour market. Compared to ...
(revised version published as 'Patterns of Ethnic Self-Employment in Time and Space: Evidence from British Census Microdata' in: Small Business Economics, 2010, 34 (3), 323-338)
J23, J7
2494 Richard A. Easterlin
Anke Zimmermann
Life Satisfaction and Economic Outcomes in Germany Pre- and Post-Unification
Throughout Germany real income has trended upward since 1991, but life satisfaction has risen in the East, fallen in the West, and been fairly stable for Germany as a whole. By 1997 the initial ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 68 (3-4), 433-444)
D60, I31, D1, O52
2493 Peter J. Kuhn
Carol McAusland
The International Migration of Knowledge Workers: When Is Brain Drain Beneficial?
We consider the welfare effects of the emigration of workers who produce a public good (knowledge). We distinguish between the knowledge diversion and knowledge creation effects of such emigration, ...
(revised version published as 'Consumers and the brain drain: Product and process design and the gains from emigration' in: Journal of International Economics, 2009, 78 (2), 287–291)
F22, J61
2492 Barbara Hanel
Regina T. Riphahn
Financial Incentives and the Timing of Retirement: Evidence from Switzerland
We use reforms in the Swiss public retirement system to identify the responsiveness of retirement timing to financial incentives. A permanent reduction of retirement benefits by 3.4 percent induces ...
(published as 'The Timing of Retirement - New Evidence from Swiss Female Workers' in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19(5), 718-728)
J26, H55, J14
2491 Juan J. Dolado
Eduardo Morales
Which Factors Determine the Grades of Undergraduate Students in Economics? Some Evidence from Spain
This paper analyses the determinants of grades achieved in three core subjects by first-year Economics undergraduate students at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, over the period 2001-2005. Gender, ...
(published in: Investigaciones Económicas (2009), 23, 179-210.)
I21, I29
2488 Wiji Arulampalam
Sonia R. Bhalotra
Persistence in Infant Mortality: Evidence for the Indian States
This paper investigates the high correlation in infant mortality across siblings using micro-data for each of the fifteen major states of India. The main finding is that, in thirteen of the fifteen ...
(published in: Population Studies, 2008, 62 (2), 171-190.)
J1, C1, I1, O1
2487 William T. Dickens
Lorenz Götte
Erica L. Groshen
Steinar Holden
Julián Messina
Mark E. Schweitzer
Jarkko Turunen
Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger
How Wages Change: Micro Evidence from the International Wage Flexibility Project
How do the complex institutions involved in wage setting affect wage changes? The International Wage Flexibility Project provides new microeconomic evidence on how wages change for continuing ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2007, 21 (2), 195-214)
E3, J3, J5
2486 Björn Anders Gustafsson
Ximing Yue
Rural People’s Perception of Poverty in China
Subjective Poverty Line methodology is applied to rural China 2002 using a sample from 22 provinces. Respondents were asked two questions: one on amount of food necessary and another on amount of ...
(Revised version published as "Rural People's Perception of Income Adequacy in China" in: China Agricultural Economic Review, 2012, 4 (3), 264-280.)
I32, O15, P36
2485 Christina Gathmann
Uta Schönberg
How General Is Specific Human Capital?
Previous studies assume that labor market skills are either fully general or specific to the firm. This paper uses patterns in mobility and wages to analyze how portable specific skills are in the ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2020, 28 (1), 1 - 49)
J24, J41, J62
2484 Robert Drago
Mark Wooden
David Black
Long Work Hours: Volunteers and Conscripts
Panel data from Australia are used to study the prevalence of work hours mismatch among long hours workers and, more importantly, how that mismatch persists and changes over time, and what factors ...
(Published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2009, 47(3), 571-600. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8543.2009.00717.x)
J22
2483 Bas ter Weel
Does Manager Turnover Improve Firm Performance? New Evidence Using Information from Dutch Soccer, 1986-2004
This research examines the impact of manager turnover on firm performance using information from the Dutch soccer league in the period 1986-2004. The advantage of using sports data is that both ...
(published in: De Economist, 2011, 159 (3), 279-303)
J24
2481 Pia M. Orrenius
Madeline Zavodny
Does Immigration Affect Wages? A Look at Occupation-Level Evidence
Previous research has reached mixed conclusions about the effect of higher levels of immigration on the wages of natives. This paper reexamines this question using data from the Current Population ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (5), 757-773)
J61
2480 Marika Karanassou
Hector Sala
Dennis J. Snower
The Macroeconomics of the Labor Market: Three Fundamental Views
We distinguish and assess three fundamental views of the labor market regarding the movements in unemployment: (i) the frictionless equilibrium view; (ii) the chain reaction theory, or prolonged ...
(published in: Portuguese Economic Journal, 2007, 6 (3), 151-180)
E22, E24, J21, J30
2479 Eran Yashiv
The Beveridge Curve
The Beveridge curve depicts a negative relationship between unemployed workers and job vacancies, a robust finding across countries. The position of the economy on the curve gives an idea as to the ...
(published in: L. Blume and S. N. Durlauf (eds), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
E24, E32, J63, J64
2478 Panu Poutvaara
Public Education in an Integrated Europe: Studying to Migrate and Teaching to Stay?
This paper analyzes public provision of internationally applicable and country-specific education, when job opportunities available to those with internationally applicable education are uncertain. ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 110 (3), 591–608)
H52, I28, F22, J24, J61
2477 Iwan Barankay
Ben Lockwood
Decentralization and the Productive Efficiency of Government: Evidence from Swiss Cantons
Advocates of fiscal decentralization argue that amongst other benefits, it can increase the efficiency of delivery of government services. This paper is one of the first to evaluate this claim ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91 (5-6), 1197-1218)
H40, H52, H70, I20
2475 Enrico Santarelli
Marco Vivarelli
Entrepreneurship and the Process of Firms’ Entry, Survival and Growth
This survey paper aims at critically discussing the recent literature on firm formation and survival and the growth of new-born firms. The basic purpose is to single out the microeconomic ...
(published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2007, 16(3), 455-488)
L10, M13
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