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2264 Olmo Silva
The Jack-of-All-Trades Entrepreneur: Innate Talent or Acquired Skill?
Cross-sectional tests of the Jack-of-All-Trades theory of entrepreneurship invariably conclude that accumulation of balanced skill-mix across different fields of expertise stimulates ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2007, 97 (2), 118-123)
M13, J23, J24
2261 Jörgen Hansen
Magnus Lofstrom
Immigrant-Native Differences in Welfare Participation: The Role of Entry and Exit Rates
This paper analyzes differences in welfare transitions between natives and immigrants in Sweden using a large representative panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1991 to 2001. The data contains ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2011, 50 (3), 412 - 442)
I30, I38, J15, J18, J61
2259 Thomas K. Bauer
Silja Göhlmann
Mathias Sinning
Gender Differences in Smoking Behavior
This paper investigates gender differences in smoking behavior using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP). We develop a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method for count data models which ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2007, 16 (9), 895-909)
C25, I12
2258 Sumon K. Bhaumik
Ralitza Dimova
Jeffrey B. Nugent
Pulls, Pushes and Entitlement Failures in Labor Markets: Does the State of Development Matter?
This study adapts a relatively novel model of off-farm labor supply to the changing conditions of Bulgaria during the 1990s. The model’s parameters are estimated separately for each of the three ...
(published as 'Off-farm Labour Supply and Labour Markets in Rapidly Changing Circumstances: Bulgaria during Transition' in: Economic Systems, 2011, 35 (3), 378 - 389)
J2, P23, P36, O13, Q12
2256 Michael P. Pflüger
Jens Suedekum
Towards a Unifying Approach of the 'New Economic Geography'
Models of the new economic geography share a number of common conclusions, but also exhibit notable differences, in particular with respect to the shape of the location pattern and the efficiency of ...
(published in revised form as 'A synthesis of footloose-entrepreneur new economic geography models: when is agglomeration smooth and easily reversible?' in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2008, 8 (1), 39-54)
R12, R50, F12, F15, F22
2255 Hilmar Schneider
Arne Uhlendorff
Die Wirkung der Hartz-Reform im Bereich der beruflichen Weiterbildung
Mit der Hartz-Reform wurden auch im Bereich der beruflichen Weiterbildung grundlegende Neuerungen eingeführt. Dazu gehören vor allem die Einführung von Bildungsgutscheinen als neuem ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung/Journal for Labour Market Research, 2006, 39 (3-4), 477-490)
J64, J68, H43
2254 Michele Mosca
Marco Musella
Francesco Pastore
Relational Goods, Monitoring and Non-Pecuniary Compensations in the Nonprofit Sector: The Case of the Italian Social Services
This paper investigates the nonprofit wage gap suggesting a theoretical framework where, like in Akerlof (1984), effort correlates not only with wages, but also with non-monetary compensations. These ...
(published in: Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2007, 78 (1), 57-86)
I00, J31, L31, L84
2253 Tuomas Pekkarinen
Chris Riddell
Performance Pay and Earnings: Evidence from Personnel Records
This paper examines the effects of performance pay on earnings using linked employee-employer panel data from Finland. These payroll data contain information on the exact share of earnings obtained ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2008, 61 (3), 287 - 319)
J33, J41
2252 M. Ayhan Kose
Eswar Prasad
Marco E. Terrones
How Do Trade and Financial Integration Affect the Relationship between Growth and Volatility?
The influential work of Ramey and Ramey (1995) highlighted an empirical relationship that has now come to be regarded as conventional wisdom – that output volatility and growth are negatively ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2006, 69 (1), 176-202)
F41, F36, F15
2251 Wiji Arulampalam
Sonia R. Bhalotra
Sibling Death Clustering in India: State Dependence vs. Unobserved Heterogeneity
Data from a range of different environments indicate that the incidence of death is not randomly distributed across families but, rather, that there is a clustering of death amongst siblings. A ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 2006, 169 (4), 829-848)
J1, C1, I1, O1
2250 Rafael Lalive
Maria Alejandra Cattaneo
Social Interactions and Schooling Decisions
The aim of this paper is to study whether schooling choices are affected by social interactions. Such social interactions may be important because children enjoy spending time with other children or ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 91(3), 457 - 477)
C93, I21, I28
2249 Guido Friebel
Michael Raith
Resource Allocation and Firm Scope
We develop a theory of firm scope in which integrating two firms into one facilitates the allocation of resources, but leads to weaker incentives for effort, compared with non-integration. Our theory ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2010, 2 (2), 1-33)
D23, D82, L22, M52
2248 Eswar Prasad
Raghuram G. Rajan
Modernizing China's Growth Paradigm
China has achieved tremendous economic progress in the last three decades, but there is much work to be done to make the economy resilient to large shocks, ensure the sustainability of its growth, ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (2), 331-336)
P2, F3
2247 Hans Bloemen
The Impact of Wealth on Job Exit Rates of Elderly Workers
In the literature theoretical models have appeared that predict a positive impact of the level of individual wealth on the job exit probability. Empirically this prediction is most likely to be ...
(published as 'The effect of private wealth on the retirement rate: an empirical analysis' in: Economica, 2011, 78 (312), 637 - 655)
J26, D91
2246 Arie Kapteyn
Pierre-Carl Michaud
James P. Smith
Arthur van Soest
Effects of Attrition and Non-Response in the Health and Retirement Study
We study the effect of attrition and other forms of non-response on the representativity over time of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) sample born 1931-1941; the sample was initially drawn in ...
(published as 'Temporary and permanent unit non-response in follow-up interviews of the Health and Retirement Study' in: Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, 2011, 2 (2), 145 - 169)
C42, C80, I10, J26
2245 Viktor Steiner
Katharina Wrohlich
Introducing Family Tax Splitting in Germany: How Would It Affect the Income Distribution and Work Incentives?
We analyze the effects of three alternative proposals to reform the taxation of families relative to the current German system of joint taxation of couples and child allowances: a French-type family ...
(revised version published as 'Introducing Family Tax Splitting in Germany: How Would It Affect the Income Distribution, Work Incentives, and Household Welfare? ' in: FinanzArchiv, 2008, 64 (1), 115-142)
H24, H31, J22
2244 Uwe Sunde
Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung und Demokratie: Ist Demokratie ein Wohlstandsmotor oder ein Wohlstandsprodukt?
Praktisch alle wirtschaftlich entwickelten Länder der Welt sind demokratisch. Sind demokratische Strukturen also kausal für wirtschaftlichen Wohlstand und Wachstum? Oder ist es vielmehr der ...
(published in: Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 2006, 7(4), 471-499)
H10, N10, O10, E60
2243 George Kapetanios
M. Hashem Pesaran
Takashi Yamagata
Panels with Nonstationary Multifactor Error Structures
The presence of cross-sectionally correlated error terms invalidates much inferential theory of panel data models. Recently work by Pesaran (2006) has suggested a method which makes use of ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2011, 160 (2), 326-348)
C12, C13, C33
2242 Emilia Del Bono
Andrea Weber
Do Wages Compensate for Anticipated Working Time Restrictions? Evidence from Seasonal Employment in Austria
In this paper we investigate the existence of compensating wage differentials across seasonal and non seasonal jobs, which arise due to anticipated working time restrictions. We build on a ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2008, 26(1), 181-221)
J22, J3, C23
2241 Dominik Hübler
Olaf Hübler
Is There a Trade-off Between Job Security and Wages in Germany and the UK?
This paper looks at the wage effects of perceived and objective insecurity in Germany and the UK using the GSOEP and BHPS panels. The distinction between perceived worry about job loss and economic ...
(published in: Schmalenbach Business Review, 2010, 62(1), 45-67)
J28, J31, J63, J81
2239 Laszlo Goerke
Corporate and Personal Income Tax Declarations
Decisions by firms and individuals on the extent of their tax payments have generally been treated as separate choices. Empirically, a positive relationship between corporate and personal income tax ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2007, 14(3), 281-292)
H24, H25, H26
2237 Claudia Senik
Is Man Doomed to Progress?
This paper is dedicated to the empirical exploration of the welfare effect of expectations and progress per se. Using ten waves of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, a panel household survey ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 68 (1), 140-152)
D31, D9, I31, Z13
2236 Simon Gächter
Benedikt Herrmann
The Limits of Self-Governance in the Presence of Spite: Experimental Evidence from Urban and Rural Russia
We report evidence from public goods experiments with and without punishment which we conducted in Russia with 566 urban and rural participants of young and mature age cohorts. Russia is interesting ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2011, 55 (2), 193-210)
H41, C91, D23, C72
2235 John H. Pencavel
Earnings Inequality and Market Work in Husband-Wife Families
Constructing pseudo-panel data from successive Current Population Surveys, this paper analyzes earnings inequality in husband and wife families over the life cycle and over time. Particular attention ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 26, 1-37)
J31, J22, D63
2234 Stephen Machin
Sandra McNally
Olmo Silva
New Technology in Schools: Is There a Payoff?
Despite its high relevance to current policy debates, estimating the causal effect of Information Communication Technology (ICT) investment on educational standards remains fraught with difficulties. ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (522), 1145-1167)
H52, I20, I28, J24
2233 Jonathan Gardner
Andrew J. Oswald
Money and Mental Wellbeing: A Longitudinal Study of Medium-Sized Lottery Wins
One of the famous questions in social science is whether money makes people happy. We offer new evidence by using longitudinal data on a random sample of Britons who receive medium-sized lottery wins ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2007, 26 (1), 49-60)
D1, I3
2232 Laszlo Goerke
Earnings-Related Severance Pay
In an efficiency wage economy, lump-sum severance pay from which shirkers can be excluded raises employment. However, severance payments are usually related to wages. It is shown that ...
(published in: Labour, 2006, 20 (4), 651-672)
J32, J41, J65
2230 Brian Krogh Graversen
Peter Jensen
A Reappraisal of the Virtues of Private Sector Employment Programmes
In this paper, we evaluate the employment effects of Danish active labour market programmes aimed at welfare benefit recipients. We estimate an econometric model with treatment effects and discrete ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2010, 112 (3), 546-569)
I38, J64, J68
2229 Paola Giuliano
Antonio Spilimbergo
Giovanni Tonon
Genetic, Cultural and Geographical Distances
This paper investigates how the measures of genetic distance between populations, which have been used in anthropology and historical linguistics, can be used in economics. What does the correlation ...
(published as 'Genetic Distance, Transportation Costs, and Trade' in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2014, 14 (1), 179-198)
Z10, F10
2228 Ken Clark
Joanne Lindley
Immigrant Labour Market Assimilation and Arrival Effects: Evidence from the UK Labour Force Survey
We estimate models of earnings and employment outcomes for a sample of white and non-white male immigrants drawn from the Labour Force Survey between 1993 and 2002. Immigrants who arrived to enter ...
(revised version published as 'Immigrant assimilation pre and post labour market entry: evidence from the UK Labour Force Survey' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (1), 175-198)
J23, J7
2227 Charles Bellemare
Bruce S. Shearer
Sorting, Incentives and Risk Preferences: Evidence from a Field Experiment
The, often observed, positive correlation between incentive intensity and risk has been explained in two ways: the presence of transaction costs as determinants of contracts and the sorting of ...
( published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 108 (3), 345-348)
J33, M52, C93
2226 José Ramón García
Hector Sala
The Tax System Incidence on Unemployment: A Country-Specific Analysis for the OECD Economies
This paper provides a detailed analysis on the incidence of the tax structure on the labor market. To do so it goes beyond the traditional examination of the ‘level’ effect of the fiscal wedge and ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2008, 25 (6), 1232-1245)
E24, E62
2225 Matteo Cervellati
Piergiuseppe Fortunato
Uwe Sunde
Consensual and Conflictual Democratization
We study the process of endogenous democratization from inefficient oligarchic systems in an economy where heterogeneous individuals can get involved in predation activities. The features of ...
(revised version published in: B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2012, 12 (1), Article 33)
H10, O20, N10
2224 Augustin de Coulon
François-Charles Wolff
The Location of Immigrants at Retirement: Stay/Return or ‘Va-et-Vient’?
In this paper, we investigate the location choice of immigrants when retiring. In a context where labour considerations no longer matter, the location decisions are expected to depend not only on a ...
(published as: "Location intentions of immigrants at retirement: stay/return or go "back and forth?", in: Applied Economics, 2010, 42 (26), 3319-33)
J26, O15, R23
2223 Marcel Neutel
Almas Heshmati
Globalisation, Inequality and Poverty Relationships: A Cross Country Evidence
In this research, the relationship between globalisation and poverty and income inequality is determined. A whole new globalisation index has been constructed based on data covering a large sample of ...
(published in: Vandana Sjajan (ed.), Globalization and Income Inequality, The ICFAI University Press: Hyderabad, 2010)
C43, F15, O57
2221 René Böheim
Andrea Weber
The Effects of Marginal Employment on Subsequent Labour Market Outcomes
We analyse the consequences of starting a wage subsidised job, “marginal employment”, for unemployed workers. Marginal employment is a type of wage subsidy paid to unemployed workers and they do not ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2011, 12 (2), 165 - 181)
J22, J64
2220 Jens Suedekum
Cross-Border Mergers and National Champions in an Integrating Economy
We introduce a simple oligopolistic trade model with international transportation costs, and analyze the profitability and the social desirability of national vs. international mergers in relation to ...
(published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2008, 164 (3), 477-508)
F12, F23, L13, L52
2219 Paul Frijters
Michael A. Shields
Stephen Wheatley Price
Jenny Williams
Quantifying the Cost of Passive Smoking on Child Health: Evidence from Children’s Cotinine Samples
Passive smoking is a major public health issue. This paper documents the main risk factors that determine children’s exposure to passive smoke, and then uses econometric techniques to provide a new ...
(revised version published in: Journal of The Royal Statistical Society Series A-Statistics In Society, 174 (1) 2011, 195-212)
D1, I1
2218 Maarten C.M. Vendrik
Geert Woltjer
Happiness and Loss Aversion: When Social Participation Dominates Comparison
A central finding in happiness research is that a person’s income relative to the average income in her social reference group is more important for her life satisfaction than the absolute level of ...
(published as 'Happiness and loss aversion: Is utility concave or convex in relative income?' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91 (7-8), 1423-1448)
I31, D6
2217 Nauro F. Campos
Cheng Hsiao
Jeffrey B. Nugent
Crises, What Crises?
Recent research convincingly shows that crises beget reform. Although the consensus is that economic crises foster macroeconomic stabilization, it is silent on which types of crises cause which types ...
(published as 'Crises, What Crises? New Evidence on the Relative Roles of Political and Economic Crises in Begetting Reforms' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2010, 46 (10), 1670-1691)
H11, K20, E32, O40
2214 Stephen Gibbons
Stephen Machin
Olmo Silva
Choice, Competition and Pupil Achievement
Choice and competition in education have found growing support from both policy makers and academics in the recent past. Yet, evidence on the actual benefits of market-oriented reforms is at best ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2008, 6 (4), 912-947)
I20, H70, R5
2213 Jens Ludwig
Jeffrey R. Kling
Is Crime Contagious?
Understanding whether criminal behavior is “contagious” is important for law enforcement and for policies that affect how people are sorted across social settings. We test the hypothesis that ...
(published in: Journal of Law & Economics, 2007, 50 (3), 491-518 )
H43, I18, J23
2212 Carmel U. Chiswick
The Economic Determinants of Ethnic Assimilation
Expanding on the concept of ethnic human capital, the paper distinguishes between cultural assimilation compatible with persistent ethnic groups and assimilation through intermarriage and other ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (4), 859 - 880)
J11, J15, J24, Z13
2211 Anne C. Gielen
Marcel Kerkhofs
Jan C. van Ours
Performance Related Pay and Labor Productivity
This paper uses information from a panel of Dutch firms to investigate the labor productivity effects of performance related pay (PRP). We find that PRP increases labor productivity at the firm level ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (1), 291-301)
C41, H55, J64, J65
2210 Robert A. Hart
Piece Work Pay and Hourly Pay over the Cycle
This paper investigates the relative cyclical behavior of the pay of piece workers and hourly paid workers. It uses a unique data set of blue-collar workers in British engineering between 1926 and ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15(5), 1006-1022)
E32, J31, J33
2209 Michèle Belot
John Ermisch
Friendship Ties and Geographical Mobility: Evidence from the BHPS
A common finding in analyses of geographic mobility is a strong association between past movement and current mobility, a phenomenon that has given rise to the so called ‘mover-stayer model’. We ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society), 2009, 172 (2), 427-442)
J61, Z13
2208 Andrew J. Oswald
Nattavudh Powdthavee
Does Happiness Adapt? A Longitudinal Study of Disability with Implications for Economists and Judges
Economics ignores the possibility of hedonic adaptation (the idea that people bounce back from utility shocks). This paper argues that economists are wrong to do so. It provides longitudinal evidence ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (5-6), 1061-1077)
D1, I3, I31, K0
2207 Andrea Ichino
Enrico Moretti
Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism and the Earning Gap
In most Western countries illness-related absenteeism is higher among female workers than among male workers. Using the personnel dataset of a large Italian bank, we show that the probability of an ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2009, 1(1), 183-218)
J7, M5
2206 Menzie D. Chinn
Robert W. Fairlie
ICT Use in the Developing World: An Analysis of Differences in Computer and Internet Penetration
Computer and Internet use, especially in developing countries, has expanded rapidly in recent years. Even in light of this expansion in technology adoption rates, penetration rates differ markedly ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2010, 18 (1), 153 - 167)
O30, L96
2205 Thomas Dohmen
Armin Falk
David B. Huffman
Uwe Sunde
Homo Reciprocans: Survey Evidence on Prevalence, Behavior and Success
Experimental evidence has convincingly shown the existence of reciprocal inclinations, i.e., a tendency for people to respond in-kind to hostile or kind actions. Little is known, however, about: (i) ...
(published in: The Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (536), 592 - 612)
D63, J3, J6
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