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2363 Michael Lechner
Conny Wunsch
Active Labour Market Policy in East Germany: Waiting for the Economy to Take Off
We investigate the effects of the most important East German active labour market programmes on the labour market outcomes of their participants. The analysis is based on a large and informative ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2009, 17 (4), 661-702)
J68
2362 Jeffrey M. Hirsch
Barry Hirsch
The Rise and Fall of Private Sector Unionism: What Next for the NLRA?
In this Article, we ask whether the National Labor Relations Act, enacted over 70 years ago, can remain relevant in a competitive economy where nonunion employer discretion is the dominant form of ...
(published in: Florida State University Law Review, 2007, 34 (4), 1133-1180)
K31, J5, J88
2361 Guy Navon
Ilan Tojerow
The Effects of Rent-Sharing on the Gender Wage Gap in the Israeli Manufacturing Sector
This paper analyzes the impact of workplace characteristics on individual wages based on a unique cross-section matched employer-employee dataset for the Israeli private manufacturing sector in 1995; ...
(published in: Labour, 2013, 27 (3), 331-349)
D31, J16, J31, J70
2360 Leif Danziger
The Elasticity of Labor Demand and the Optimal Minimum Wage
Contrary to widespread belief, we show that low-pay workers might not generally prefer that the minimum wage rate be increased to a level where the labor demand is unitary elastic. Rather, there ...
(Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22, (3), 757-772)
J38
2359 Richard Akresh
Philip Verwimp
Civil War, Crop Failure, and the Health Status of Young Children
Economic shocks at birth have lasting impacts on children’s health several years after the shock. We calculate height for age z-scores for children under age five using data from a Rwandan nationally ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2011, 59(4), 777-810)
I12, J13, O12, O15
2358 Gerard J. van den Berg
Maarten Lindeboom
France Portrait
Conjugal Bereavement Effects on Health and Mortality at Advanced Ages
We specify a model for the lifetimes of spouses and the dynamic evolution of health, allowing spousal death to have causal effects on the health and mortality of the survivor. We estimate the model ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (4), 774-794)
I12, I11, J14, J12, C41
2357 Juanna Schrøter Joensen
Helena Skyt Nielsen
Is there a Causal Effect of High School Math on Labor Market Outcomes?
Outsourcing of jobs to low-wage countries has increased the focus on the accumulation of skills – such as Math skills – in high-wage countries. In this paper, we exploit a high school pilot scheme to ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44 (1), 171-198)
I20, J24
2356 Nicola Coniglio
Giuseppe De Arcangelis
Laura Serlenga
Intentions to Return of Undocumented Migrants: Illegality as a Cause of Skill Waste
In this paper we show that highly skilled undocumented migrants are more likely to return home than migrants with low or no skills when illegality causes “skill waste”, i.e. when illegality reduces ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 13 (4), 2009, 641 - 657)
F22, C25
2355 Michael Lechner
Conny Wunsch
Are Training Programs More Effective When Unemployment Is High?
We estimate short, medium, and long-run individual labor market effects of training programs for unemployed by following program participation on a monthly basis over a ten-year period. Since ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2009, 27 (4), 653-692)
J68
2354 Lennart Flood
N. Anders Klevmarken
Andreea Mitrut
The Income of the Swedish Baby Boomers
This paper studies the income of Swedish households belonging to the baby boom generation, i.e. those born in the 1940-50. An international comparison as well as an historical presentation of income ...
(published in A. Klevmarken and B. Lindgren (eds.), Simulating an Ageing Population. A microsimulation approach to Sweden, Contributions to Economic Analysis No 285, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Bingley, U.K. 2008)
H24, H31, H55
2353 James B. Rebitzer
Lowell J. Taylor
When Knowledge Is an Asset: Explaining the Organizational Structure of Large Law Firms
We study the economics of employment relationships through theoretical and empirical analysis of an unusual set of firms, large law firms. Our point of departure is the “property rights” approach ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2007, 25(2), 201-229)
J4, L2, M5
2352 Marco Manacorda
Alan Manning
Jonathan Wadsworth
The Impact of Immigration on the Structure of Male Wages: Theory and Evidence from Britain
Immigration to the UK has risen over time. Existing studies of the impact of immigration on the wages of native-born workers in the UK have failed to find any significant effect. This is something of ...
(updated version published as 'The Impact of Immigration on the Structure of Wages: Theory and Evidence from Britain' in Journal of the American Economic Association, 2012, 10 (1), 120 - 151)
J6
2351 António Dias da Silva
Bas van der Klaauw
Wage Dynamics and Promotions Inside and Between Firms
We focus on the dynamic relation between wage increases, promotions and job changes. We relate our empirical analyses to the theoretical model of Gibbons and Waldman (1999). In the empirical analyses ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (4), 1513-1548)
M5, J6, L2
2349 Isabel Günther
Andrey Launov
Competitive and Segmented Informal Labor Markets
It has been recently argued that the informal sector of the labor market in a developing economy shows a dual structure with one part of it being competitive to the formal sector and another part ...
(revised version published as 'Informal employment in developing countries: Opportunity or last resort?' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 97 (1), 88-98)
J42, O17
2348 Giorgio Brunello
Daniele Checchi
Does School Tracking Affect Equality of Opportunity? New International Evidence
This paper investigates whether at the interaction between family background and school tracking affects human capital accumulation. Our a priori view is that more tracking should reinforce the role ...
(published in: Economic Policy, 52, 2007, 781-861)
J24
2347 Richard K. Crump
V. Joseph Hotz
Guido W. Imbens
Oscar A. Mitnik
Moving the Goalposts: Addressing Limited Overlap in Estimation of Average Treatment Effects by Changing the Estimand
Estimation of average treatment effects under unconfoundedness or exogenous treatment assignment is often hampered by lack of overlap in the covariate distributions. This lack of overlap can lead to ...
(shorter version published as "Dealing with Limited Overlap in Estimation of Average Treatment Effects" in: Biometrika, 2009, 96 (1), 187-199)
C14, C21, C52
2346 Rainer Winkelmann
Unemployment, Social Capital, and Subjective Well-Being
It has been shown in past research that unemployment has a large negative impact on subjective well-being of individuals. In this paper, I explore whether and to what extent people with more social ...
(published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2009, 10 (4), 421-430)
I31, J64, Z13
2345 Barry R. Chiswick
Yew Liang Lee
Paul W. Miller
Immigrant Selection Systems and Immigrant Health
This paper is an analysis of the determinants of self-reported health status of immigrants, with a particular focus on type of visa used to gain admission. The concept of “health capital” and an ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 26 (4), 555 - 578)
I12, J15, J61, F22
2344 Dwayne Benjamin
Loren Brandt
John T. Giles
Inequality and Growth in Rural China: Does Higher Inequality Impede Growth?
We explore the relationship between the level of village inequality in 1986, and the subsequent growth of household incomes from 1986 to 1999. Using a detailed household-level data set from rural ...
(published as 'Did Higher Inequality Impede Growth in Rural China?' in: Economic Journal, 2011, 121 (557), 1281-1309)
O12, O15, P20
2343 Manfred Antoni
Elke J. Jahn
Do Changes in Regulation Affect Employment Duration in Temporary Work Agencies?
Over the past three decades Germany has repeatedly deregulated the law on temporary agency work by stepwise increasing the maximum period for hiring-out employees and allowing temporary work agencies ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2009, 62 (2), 226-251)
C41, J23, J40, J48, K31
2341 Paola Manzini
Marco Mariotti
Two-Stage Boundedly Rational Choice Procedures: Theory and Experimental Evidence
We study and test a class of boundedly rational models of decision making which rely on sequential eliminative heuristics. We formalize two sequential decision procedures, both inspired by plausible ...
(published as 'Categorize Then Choose: Boundedly Rational Choice and Welfare' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10 (5), 1141-1165)
C91, D9
2340 Shibao Guo
Don J. DeVoretz
Chinese Immigrants in Vancouver: Quo Vadis?
This paper reports findings from a Vancouver study which examines the settlement and adaptation experience of Chinese immigrants in Vancouver. The study reveals that non-economic reasons, such as the ...
(published in: Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2006, 7 (4), 425-447)
J15, J61, J60
2339 Laura Veldkamp
Justin Wolfers
Aggregate Shocks or Aggregate Information? Costly Information and Business Cycle Comovement
When similar patterns of expansion and contraction are observed across sectors, we call this a business cycle. Yet explaining the similarity and synchronization of these cycles across industries ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2007, 54 (s1), 37-55)
E32, D82
2338 Sean Holly
M. Hashem Pesaran
Takashi Yamagata
A Spatio-Temporal Model of House Prices in the US
The purpose of this paper is to apply recent advances in the econometrics of panel data to a problem that has a clear spatial dimension. We model the dynamic adjustment of real house prices using ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2010, 158 (1), 160-173)
C21, C23
2337 Rob Euwals
Evaluation of a Tax Reform: A Model with Measurement Error
Parts of the Dutch tax reform 2001 are directed towards fiscal partners in a household and aim at lowering the marginal tax burden of the partner with the lowest (potential) labour income. An ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2008, 15 (9), 697-700)
C20, H31, J22
2336 Paolo Figini
Holger Görg
Does Foreign Direct Investment Affect Wage Inequality? An Empirical Investigation
We use a panel of more than 100 countries for the period 1980 to 2002 to analyse the relationship between inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and wage inequality. We particularly check whether ...
(published in: World Economy, 2011, 34 (9), 1455-1475)
D63, F23, J31
2335 Ana Rute Cardoso
Shoshana Neuman
Adrian Ziderman
Wage Mobility in Israel: The Effect of Sectoral Concentration
Using a unique eight-year data set, merging population census and national insurance data, the paper examines and compares patterns of wage mobility in Israel. First, the public and the private ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2010, 31 (2), 146-161)
J3, J6, L5
2334 Dave E. Marcotte
The Earnings Effect of Education at Community Colleges
In this paper, I make use of data from the 2000 follow-up of the National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS) post-secondary education transcript files to extend what is known about the value of ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2010, 28(1), 36-51)
I2, J24, J31
2333 John T. Giles
Ren Mu
Elder Parent Health and the Migration Decision of Adult Children: Evidence from Rural China
Recent research has shown that participation in migrant labor markets has led to substantial increases in income for families in rural China. This paper asks how participation is affected by elder ...
(published in: Demography, 2007, 44 (2), 265 - 288)
O12, O15, I12, J14
2332 Michael P. Keane
Robert M. Sauer
Classification Error in Dynamic Discrete Choice Models: Implications for Female Labor Supply Behavior
Two key issues in the literature on female labor supply are: (1) if persistence in employment status is due to unobserved heterogeneity or state dependence, and (2) if fertility is exogenous to labor ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2009, 77(3), 975-991)
J2, J6, C3, D1
2330 Amelie F. Constant
Martin Kahanec
Klaus F. Zimmermann
The Russian-Ukrainian Earnings Divide
Ethnic differences are often considered to be powerful sources of diverse economic behavior. In this paper, we investigate whether and how ethnicity affects Ukrainian labor market outcomes. Using ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2012, 20 (1), 1 - 35)
J15, J70, J82
2329 Nicolai Kristensen
Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen
A Large-Scale Validation Study of Measurement Errors in Longitudinal Survey Data
In this paper, we analyze measurement and classification errors in several key variables, including earnings and educational attainment, in a matched sample of survey and administrative longitudinal ...
(published in: Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 2007, 32 (2-3), 65-92)
J24, J31, I2, J28
2328 Wolfram F. Richter
Taxing Human Capital Efficiently: The Double Dividend of Taxing Non-Qualified Labour More Heavily Than Qualified Labour
Assuming decreasing returns to education and the endogenous supply of qualified and non-qualified labour it is shown to be efficient to supplement a consumption tax with positive incentives for ...
(revised version based on DP 2328 and DP 3451 published as "Taxing education in Ramsey's tradition" in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (11-12), 1254-1260)
H2, I2, J24
2327 Peter T. Gottschalk
Minh Huynh
Are Earnings Inequality and Mobility Overstated? The Impact of Non-Classical Measurement Error
Measures of inequality and mobility based on self-reported earnings reflect attributes of both the joint distribution of earnings across time and the joint distribution of measurement error and ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 92 (2), 302 - 315)
J30
2326 Alan de Brauw
John T. Giles
Migrant Opportunity and the Educational Attainment of Youth in Rural China
In this paper, we investigate how reductions of barriers to migration affect the decision of middle school graduates to attend high school in rural China. Change in the cost of migration is ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52 (1) 274-313)
O12, O15, J22, J24
2325 John T. Addison
Christopher J. Surfield
Does Atypical Work Help the Jobless? Evidence from a CAEAS/CPS Cohort Analysis
Atypical employment, such as temporary, on-call, and contract work, has been found disproportionately to attract the jobless. But there is no consensus in the literature as to the labour market ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2009, 41 (9), 1077 - 1087 )
J40, J64, J20
2324 Laurent Davezies
Xavier D'Haultfoeuille
Denis Fougère
Identification of Peer Effects Using Group Size Variation
This paper considers the semiparametric identification of endogenous and exogenous peer effects based on group size variation. We show that Lee (2006)’s linear-in-means model is generically ...
(published in: Econometrics Journal, 2009, 12 (3), 397-413)
C14, C21, C25
2322 W. Stanley Siebert
Nick Zubanov
Arnaud Chevalier
Tarja Viitanen
Labour Turnover and Labour Productivity in a Retail Organization
We study the impact of labour turnover on labour productivity using a panel dataset of 347 shops belonging to a large UK clothing retailer over1995-1999. For the within-shop link – holding constant ...
(published in: Academy of Management Journal, 2009, 52 (2), 294-313)
J63, J24, L81
2321 Philippe Askenazy
Eve Caroli
Innovative Work Practices, Information Technologies and Working Conditions: Evidence for France
We investigate the impact of new work practices and information and communication technologies (ICT) on working conditions in France. We use a unique French dataset providing information on ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2010, 49(4), 544-565)
J28, L23
2320 James J. Heckman
Sergio Urzua
Edward Vytlacil
Understanding Instrumental Variables in Models with Essential Heterogeneity
This paper examines the properties of instrumental variables (IV) applied to models with essential heterogeneity, that is, models where responses to interventions are heterogeneous and agents adopt ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2006, 88 (3), 389-432)
C31
2319 Laurens Cherchye
Bram De Rock
Frederic Vermeulen
Analyzing Cost Efficient Production Behavior Under Economies of Scope: A Nonparametric Methodology
In designing a production model for firms that generate multiple outputs, we take as a starting point that such multi-output production refers to economies of scope, which in turn originate from ...
(published in: Operations Research, 2008, 56(1), 204-221)
C12, C14, D21, P32, Q12
2318 Luis Diaz-Serrano
Housing Satisfaction, Homeownership and Housing Mobility: A Panel Data Analysis for Twelve EU Countries
We investigate the determinants of housing satisfaction in twelve EU countries. To do so, we use panel data covering the period 1994-2001, which allows us to control for individual heterogeneity. We ...
(published as 'Mobility and housing satisfaction: an empirical analysis for 12 EU countries ' : Journal of Economic Geography, 2010, 10 (5), 661-683 )
D1, R0, J0
2316 Kristiina Huttunen
Jarle Moen
Kjell G. Salvanes
How Destructive Is Creative Destruction? The Costs of Worker Displacement
We analyze short and long-term effects of worker displacement. Our focus is on prime-age male workers displaced from Norwegian manufacturing plants. We find that displacement increases the ...
(published as 'How Destructive is Creative Destruction? Effects of Job Loss on Job Mobility, Withdrawal and Income' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (5), 840 - 870)
J63, J65
2315 Friedrich Schneider
Shadow Economies and Corruption All Over the World: What Do We Really Know?
Estimations of the size and development of the shadow economy for 145 countries, including developing, transition and highly developed OECD economies over the period 1999 to 2003 are presented. The ...
(published in: Economies: The Open-Access, Open-Assesment E-Journal, 2007, 1)
O17, O5, D78, H2, H11, H26
2314 Katarina Richardson
Gerard J. van den Berg
Swedish Labor Market Training and the Duration of Unemployment
The vocational employment training program is the most ambitious and expensive training program in Sweden and a cornerstone of labor market policy. We analyze causal effects on the individual ...
(revised version published as 'Duration dependence versus unobserved heterogeneity in treatment effects: Swedish labor market training and the transition rate to employment' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 28 2013, 325-351)
J64, C14
2313 Nauro F. Campos
Francesco Giovannoni
Lobbying, Corruption and Political Influence
Conventional wisdom suggests that lobbying is the preferred mean for exerting political influence in rich countries and corruption the preferred one in poor countries. Analyses of their joint effects ...
(published in: Public Choice, 2007, 131 (1), 1-21)
E23, D72, H26, O17, P16
2312 Matteo Cervellati
Joan Esteban
Laurence Kranich
The Social Contract with Endogenous Sentiments
In this paper we present a model of rational voting over redistribution where individual self-esteem and relative esteem for others are endogenously determined. Individuals differ in their ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 95 (9-10), 612-627)
D64, D72, Z13, H3, J2
2311 Niclas Berggren
Henrik Jordahl
Panu Poutvaara
The Looks of a Winner: Beauty, Gender and Electoral Success
We study the role of beauty in politics. For the first time, focus is put on differences in how women and men evaluate female and male candidates and how different candidate traits relate to success ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (1-2), 8-15)
D72, J45, J7
2310 Armin Falk
David B. Huffman
Studying Labor Market Institutions in the Lab: Minimum Wages, Employment Protection and Workfare
A central concern in economics is to understand the interplay between institutions and labor markets. In this paper we argue that laboratory experiments are a powerful tool for studying labor market ...
(published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2007, 163 (1), 30-45)
J9, I38, K31, J3
2309 Steffen Habermalz
The Speed of Employer Learning and Job Market Signaling Revisited
This paper discusses the claim made in Altonji and Pierret (1997) and Lange (2005) that a high speed of employer learning indicates a low value of job market signaling. The claim is first discussed ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2011, 18 (7), 607-610)
I20, D8, J41
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