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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
2461 Xin Meng
Dominique Meurs
Intermarriage, Language, and Economic Assimilation Process: A Case Study of France
Lack of economic assimilation of immigrants often results in social and political unrest of a society. The increased desire to understand better the nature of the assimilation process of immigrants ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1-2), 127-144)
J61, J12
2459 Marcello Estevăo
Filipa Sa
Are the French Happy with the 35-Hour Workweek?
Legally mandated reductions in the workweek can be either a constraint on individuals’ choice or a tool to coordinate individuals’ preferences for lower work hours. We confront these two hypotheses ...
(revised version published as 'The 35-hour workweek in France: Straightjacket or welfare improvement? ' in: Economic Policy, 2008, 23 (55), 417-463)
E24, J22, C21
2458 John F. Geweke
Joel L. Horowitz
M. Hashem Pesaran
Econometrics: A Bird's Eye View
As a unified discipline, econometrics is still relatively young and has been transforming and expanding very rapidly over the past few decades. Major advances have taken place in the analysis of ...
(published in: Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume (eds.), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition, Palgrave MacMillan: 2008, 609-642)
C1, C2, C3, C4, C5
2457 Alan Barrett
Yvonne McCarthy
Immigrants in a Booming Economy: Analysing their Earnings and Welfare Dependence
Ireland’s exceptional economic growth in recent years has led to an influx of immigrants. Given the favourable economic climate into which these immigrants are arriving, it is interesting to ask how ...
(published in: Labour, 2007, 21(4), 789-808)
J61
2456 Michal Myck
Leszek Morawski
Jerzy Mycielski
Employment Fluctuations and Dynamics of the Aggregate Average Wage in Poland 1996-2003
The aggregate average wage is often used as an indicator of economic performance and welfare, and as such often serves as a benchmark for changes in the generosity of public transfers and for wage ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2007, 15(4), 759-799)
E24, J21, J31
2455 Eran Yashiv
U.S. Labor Market Dynamics Revisited
The picture of U.S. labor market dynamics is opaque. Empirical studies of U.S. gross worker flows have yielded contradictory findings, and it is not easy to get a sense of the key moments of the ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2007, 109 (4), 779 - 806)
E24, J63, J64
2454 Pierre-André Chiappori
Murat Iyigun
Yoram Weiss
Investment in Schooling and the Marriage Market
We present a model with pre-marital schooling investment, endogenous marital matching and spousal specialization in homework and market production. Investment in schooling raises ages and generates ...
(published in American Economic Review, 2009, 99 (5), 1689-1713)
C78, D61, D70
2453 Yundan Gong
Holger Görg
Sara Maioli
Employment Effects of Privatisation and Foreign Acquisition of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
This paper investigates the effects of domestic privatisation or foreign acquisition of Chinese State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) on employment growth, using firm level data for China and a combination ...
(published in: International Journal of the Economics of Business, 2007, 14(2), 197-214)
P2, F2
2451 Kelly Shue
Erzo F.P. Luttmer
Who Misvotes? The Effect of Differential Cognition Costs on Election Outcomes
If voters are fully rational and have negligible cognition costs, ballot layout should not affect election outcomes. In this paper, we explore deviations from rational voting using quasi-random ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2009, 1(1), 229-257)
D01, D72, D83, J10
2450 John C. Haltiwanger
Stefano Scarpetta
Helena Schweiger
Assessing Job Flows across Countries: The Role of Industry, Firm Size and Regulations
This paper reviews the process of job creation and destruction across a sample of 16 industrial and emerging economies over the past decade. It exploits a harmonized firm-level data-set drawn from ...
(published as 'Cross country differences in job reallocation: The role of industry, firm size and regulations' in: Labour Economics, 2014, 26, 11-25)
J23, J53, K31
2449 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Steven Stillman
The Retirement Expectations of Middle-Aged Individuals
We use the first three waves of the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey to examine the retirement plans of middle-aged workers (aged 45–55). Our results indicate that ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2009, 85(269), 146-163)
J26, J10, J80
2448 Leslie S. Stratton
James N. Wetzel
Reported Progress under the Student Right-to-Know Act: How Reliable Is It?
The Student Right-to-Know Act requires colleges to provide institution-specific information on graduation rates for students initially enrolling full-time in the fall term. Not all students, however, ...
(published in: IR Applications, 2009, 19, 1 - 10)
I28
2447 Anders Frederiksen
Elöd Takáts
Layoffs as Part of an Optimal Incentive Mix: Theory and Evidence
Firms offer highly complex contracts to their employees. These contracts contain a mix of incentives, such as fixed wages, bonus payments, promotion options, and layoff threats. In general, ...
(published as 'Promotions, Dismissals and Employee Selection: Theory and Evidence' in: Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2011, 27(1), 159-179)
J30, J41, M50
2446 Vincenzo Caponi
Heterogeneous Human Capital and Migration: Who Migrates from Mexico to the US?
In this paper I document the fact that the relationship between human capital, as measured by education, and migration choices among Mexicans is U-shaped: the highest and lowest educated tend to ...
(revised version published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2010, 97/98, 207 - 234)
F22, J61, O15
2445 Helen Robinson
Jonathan Wadsworth
The Impact of the Minimum Wage on the Incidence of Second Job Holding in Britain
The advent of any earnings boost, such as provided by the introduction of a minimum wage, might be expected to reduce the supply of low paid individuals wanting to hold a second job. This paper uses ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2007, 54 (4), 553-574)
J23, J31
2443 Boris Hirsch
Thorsten Schank
Claus Schnabel
Gender Differences in Labor Supply to Monopsonistic Firms: An Empirical Analysis Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany
This paper investigates women's and men's labor supply to the firm within a structural approach based on a dynamic model of new monopsony. Using methods of survival analysis and a linked ...
(substantially revised version published as "Differences in Labor Supply to Monopsonistic Firms and the Gender Pay Gap: An Empirical Analysis Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany" in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2010, 28 (2), 291-330)
J42, J60, J71
2442 Arnaud Chevalier
Joanne Lindley
Over-Education and the Skills of UK Graduates
During the early Nineties the proportion of UK graduates doubled over a very short period of time. This paper investigates the effect of the expansion on early labour market attainment, focusing on ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 2009, 172(2), 307-337)
J24, J31, I2
2441 Charlene M. Kalenkoski
David C. Ribar
Leslie S. Stratton
The Effect of Family Structure on Parents' Child Care Time in the United States and the United Kingdom
We use time-diary data from the 2003 and 2004 American Time Use Surveys and the 2000 United Kingdom Time Use Study to estimate the effect of family structure on the time mothers and fathers spend on ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2007, 5 (4), 353-384)
J1, J2
2440 Frédéric Docquier
Brain Drain and Inequality Across Nations
Is the brain drain a curse or a boon for developing countries? This paper reviews what is known to date about the magnitude of the brain drain from developing to developed countries, its determinants ...
(published as 'Fuite des cerveaux et inégalités entre pays' in: Revue d'Economie du Développement, 2007, 21 (2), 49-88)
F22, J61
2439 Domenico de Palo
Riccardo Faini
Alessandra Venturini
The Social Assimilation of Immigrants
Policy makers in migrant-receiving countries must often strike a delicate balance between economic needs, that would dictate a substantial increase in the number of foreign workers, and political and ...
(published in: Intereconomics, 2017, 52, 285-292)
F22, J15
2438 Randall K. Q. Akee
Checkerboards and Coase: Transactions Costs and Efficiency in Land Markets
The Coase theorem emphasizes the role transactions costs play in efficient market outcomes. We document inefficient outcomes, in the presence of a transactions cost, in southern California land ...
(revised version published as 'Checkerboards and Coase: The Effect of Property Institutions on Efficiency in Housing Markets' in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2009, 52 (2), 395-410 )
R14, O12
2437 Alison L. Booth
Hiau Joo Kee
Intergenerational Transmission of Fertility Patterns in Britain
Recent studies by economists exploring the nexus between culture and fertility have focused on cultural transmission from the origin country rather than the origin family. Our paper extends this ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 71 (2), 183–208)
F22, J15, J16, Z10
2436 Charlene M. Kalenkoski
David C. Ribar
Leslie S. Stratton
The Influence of Wages on Parents’ Allocations of Time to Child Care and Market Work in the United Kingdom
We use time-diary data on couples with children from the 2000 United Kingdom Time Use Survey to examine the impacts of own and partner’s wages on parents’ provision of child care and market work on ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (2), 399-419)
J1, J2
2434 Edwin Leuven
Mikael Lindahl
Hessel Oosterbeek
Dinand Webbink
Expanding Schooling Opportunities for 4-Year-Olds
This study presents quasi-experimental estimates of the effect of expanding early schooling enrollment possibilities on early achievement. It exploits two features of the school system in Holland. ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (3), 319-328, revised version available here)
I21, I28, J24
2432 Bart Cockx
Stéphane R. Robin
Christian Goebel
Income Support Policies for Part-Time Workers: A Stepping-Stone to Regular Jobs? An Application to Young Long-Term Unemployed Women in Belgium
We verify whether an income support policy for part-time workers in Belgium increases the transition from unemployment to non-subsidised, “regular” employment. Using a sample of 8630 long-term ...
(revised version published in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 44 (1), 189 - 229 )
J64, J68, C41
2431 Vincenzo Caponi
Intergenerational Transmission of Abilities and Self Selection of Mexican Immigrants
Building on Borjas (1993) I develop an intergenerational model of self-selection of migration and education that allows for a complex selection mechanism. In particular, it allows for the possibility ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2011, 52 (2), 523 - 547)
F22, J24, J61
2430 W. Stanley Siebert
Labour Market Regulation in the EU-15: Causes and Consequences – A Survey
Why should floors be set under wages and working conditions by labour market regulations? This paper finds that efficiency arguments are questionable, because of the disemployment effects of strict ...
(published in: R. Vaubel and P. Bernholz (eds.), Political Competition and Economic Regulation, London: Routledge 2007)
J38, J41, J58, J68, J83, K31
2429 Lex Borghans
Huub Meijers
Bas ter Weel
The Role of Noncognitive Skills in Explaining Cognitive Test Scores
This paper examines whether noncognitive skills – measured both by personality traits and economic preference parameters – influence cognitive tests performance. The basic idea is that noncognitive ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2008, 46 (1), 2-12)
J20, J24
2428 Rainald Borck
Marco Caliendo
Viktor Steiner
Fiscal Competition and the Composition of Public Spending: Theory and Evidence
In this paper, we consider fiscal competition between jurisdictions. Capital taxes are used to finance a public input and two public goods, one which benefits mobile skilled workers and one which ...
(published in: FinanzArchiv, 2007, 63 (2), 264-277)
H77, J24, J61
2427 Myeong-Su Yun
Revisiting Inter-Industry Wage Differentials and the Gender Wage Gap: An Identification Problem
We propose a measure of the industrial gender wage gap which is free from an identification problem by using inter-industry wage differentials, or industrial wage premia. We draw on a recent ...
(see DP9381 for extended and revised version published in: Pacific Economic Review, 2015, 20(4), 569-587)
C20, J70
2426 Valerie Smeets
Kathryn Ierulli
Michael Gibbs
Mergers of Equals and Unequals
We examine the dynamics of post-merger organizational integration. Our basic question is whether there is evidence of conflict between employees from the two merging firms. Such conflict can arise ...
(published as 'An Empirical Analysis of Post-Merger Organizational Integration' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2016, 118 (3), 463-493)
M5, G34, J63, M14
2425 Gerard J. van den Berg
Maarten Lindeboom
Marta López
Inequality in Individual Mortality and Economic Conditions Earlier in Life
We analyze the effect of being born in a recession on the mortality rate later in life in conjunction with social class. We use individual data records from Dutch registers of birth, marriage, and ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2009, 69 (9), 1360–1367)
I12, J14, E32, N33, N13, C41
2423 Bernd Irlenbusch
Gabriele K. Ruchala
Relative Rewards within Team-Based Compensation
How to design compensation schemes to motivate team members appears to be one of the most challenging problems in the economic analysis of labour provision. We shed light on this issue by ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (2), 141-167)
C72, C91, H41, J33, L23, M52
2422 Magnus Lofstrom
Chunbei Wang
Mexican-Hispanic Self-Employment Entry: The Role of Business Start-Up Constraints
This paper examines causes of the low self-employment rates among Mexican-Hispanics by studying self-employment entry utilizing the 1996 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation ...
(published in: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2007, 613 (1), 32-46)
J15, J23
2421 Leo Kaas
Does Equal Pay Legislation Reduce Labour Market Inequality?
This paper considers a labour market model of monopsonistic competition with taste-based discrimination against minority workers to study the effect of equal pay legislation on labour market ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2009, 111(1), 51 - 71)
D43, J71, J78
2419 Alan Manning
Barbara Petrongolo
The Part-Time Pay Penalty for Women in Britain
Women in Britain who work part-time have, on average, hourly earnings about 25% less than that of women working full-time. This gap has widened greatly over the past 30 years. This paper tries to ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (526), F28-F51)
J24, J31, J62
2418 Björn Anders Gustafsson
Ding Sai
Villages where China's Ethnic Minorities Live
This paper investigates how ethnic minorities in rural China are faring compared with the ethnic majority. The village is the unit of analysis and large surveys for 2002 are used. Minority villages ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2009, 20 (2), 193-207)
J15, O12, P32
2416 Monique de Haan
Erik Plug
Estimates of the Effect of Parents’ Schooling on Children’s Schooling Using Censored and Uncensored Samples
In this paper we estimate the impact of parental schooling on child schooling, focus on the problem that children who are still in school constitute censored observations, and evaluate three ...
(published as 'Estimating intergenerational schooling mobility on censored samples: consequences and remedies' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2011, 26 (1), 151–166,)
I2, J62, C34
2414 Daniela Del Boca
Marilena Locatelli
The Determinants of Motherhood and Work Status: A Survey
In this paper we present important empirical evidence regarding recent trends in women’s participation and fertility in European countries, and provide several interpretations of the differences ...
(published as 'Motherhood and participation' in: D. Del Boca and C. Wetzels (eds.), Social Policies, Labor Markets and Motherhood, Cambridge University Press, 2008, 155-180)
J2, C3, D1, H31
2413 John S. Heywood
W. Stanley Siebert
Xiangdong Wei
Examining the Determinants of Agency Work: Do Family Friendly Practices Play a Role?
This paper uses establishment data to estimate the determinants of using agency workers. It contends that those employers with less ability to direct effort of core workers are more likely to use ...
(published as 'Estimating the Use of Agency Workers: Can Family-Friendly Practices Reduce Their Use?' in: Industrial Relations, 2011, 50 (3), 535 - 564)
J13, J81, M52
2412 Spyros Konstantopoulos
The Power of the Test in Three-Level Designs
Field experiments that involve nested structures may assign treatment conditions either to entire groups (such as classrooms or schools), or individuals within groups (such as students). Since field ...
(published in: Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2008, 1(1), 1-23)
C9
2411 Thomas Siedler
Family and Politics: Does Parental Unemployment Cause Right-Wing Extremism?
Recent years have witnessed a rise in right-wing extremism among German youth and young adults. This paper investigates the extent to which the experience of parental unemployment during childhood ...
(revised version published as 'Parental unemployment and young people's extreme right-wing party affinity: evidence from panel data' in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 2011, 174 (3), 737-758)
C23, D72, J6, P16
2410 Stephen Drinkwater
John Eade
Michal Garapich
Poles Apart? EU Enlargement and the Labour Market Outcomes of Immigrants in the UK
The UK was one of only three countries to allow migrants from accession countries to enter their labour markets more or less without restriction following EU enlargement in May 2004. Therefore, it is ...
(published in: International Migration, 2009, 47 (1), 161-190)
J61, F22
2409 Jakob R. Munch
Jan Rose Skaksen
Human Capital and Wages in Exporting Firms
This paper studies the link between a firm’s education level, export performance and wages of its workers. We argue that firms may escape intense competition in international markets by using high ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2008, 75 (2), 363-372)
J30, F10, I20
2408 Vicente Cuńat
Maria Guadalupe
Globalization and the Provision of Incentives Inside the Firm: The Effect of Foreign Competition
This paper studies the effect of changes in foreign competition on the incentives faced by U.S. managers in the form of wage structures, promotion profiles, and job turnover. We use a panel of ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2009, 27 (2), 179-212 )
M52, L1, J31
2407 Roger Klein
Francis Vella
Estimating the Return to Endogenous Schooling Decisions for Australian Workers via Conditional Second Moments
This paper employs conditional second moments to identify the impact of education in wage regressions where education is treated as endogenous. This approach avoids the use of instrumental variables ...
(published as 'Estimating the Return to Endogenous Schooling Decisions via Conditional Second Moments' in : Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44 (4), 1047 - 1065)
J2, C31
2406 Andrew E. Clark
A Note on Unhappiness and Unemployment Duration
Although it is now widely-accepted that unemployment is associated with sharply lower levels of individual well-being, relatively little is known about how this effect depends on unemployment ...
(published in Applied Economics Quarterly, 2006, 52 (4), 291-308)
C30, J28, J31
2405 Barry R. Chiswick
Anh T. Le
Paul W. Miller
How Immigrants Fare Across the Earnings Distribution: International Analyses
This paper applies the quantile regression methodology to the study of the determinants of the distribution of earnings among the native born and immigrants in the United States and Australia. The ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2008, 61 (3), 353-373)
J15, J24, J31, F22
2404 Robert Drago
Mark Wooden
David Black
Who Wants Flexibility? Changing Work Hours Preferences and Life Events
We consider desires for flexibility in weekly hours by analyzing changes in work hours preferences using four years of data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. ...
(Published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2009, 62(3), 394-414. doi:10.1177/001979390906200308)
J22
2402 Pernilla Andersson Joona
Eskil Wadensjö
Do the Unemployed Become Successful Entrepreneurs? A Comparison between the Unemployed, Inactive and Wage-Earners
In many countries unemployed people are helped to become self-employed. Self-employment, however, does not necessarily lead to success. Many leave self-employment after a short period and the ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2007, 28 (7), 604-626)
J23, J24, J30, J60, J62, J68
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