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2139 Natalia Catrinescu
Miguel Leon-Ledesma
Matloob Piracha
Bryce Quillin
Remittances, Institutions and Economic Growth
There is considerable debate regarding the relative contribution of international migrants' remittances to sustainable economic development. While the rates and levels of officially recorded ...
(published in: World Development, 2009, 37(1), 81-92)
F22, O15, O47
2137 Olivier Donni
The Intrahousehold Allocation of Private and Public Consumption: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Data
We adopt the collective approach to consumer behavior with egoistic agents, and assume that the household consumption is either private or public. We then show that (i) household demands have to ...
(published as "A Simple Approach to Investigate Intrahousehold Allocation of Private and Public Goods" in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 91 (3), 617-628 )
D11, D12, H41
2136 Gautam Hazarika
Arjun S. Bedi
Child Work and Schooling Costs in Rural Northern India
It is widely held that work by children obstructs schooling, so that working children in impoverished families will find it difficult to escape poverty. If children’s school attendance and work were ...
(published in: Ravi Kanbur and Jan Svejnar (eds.), Labor Markets and Economic Development, Routledge, 2009)
J22, O12
2134 Badi H. Baltagi
Ingo Geishecker
Rational Alcohol Addiction: Evidence from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey
Alcohol consumption in Russia is legendary and has been reported to be the third leading cause of death in the former Soviet Union after heart disease and cancer. Are Russian alcohol consumers ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2006, 15 (9), 893-914)
C23, D12, I10
2132 Anders Frederiksen
Rikke Ibsen
Michael Rosholm
Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen
Labour Market Signalling and Unemployment Duration: An Empirical Analysis Using Employer-Employee Data
This paper tests the signalling hypothesis using detailed flow-based employer-employee data from Denmark. The primary focus is to explore how the conditions in the pre-displacement firm affect the ...
(published in: Economic Letters, 2013, 118 (1), 84-86)
J64, J65, J68
2131 Marc-Andreas Muendler
Sascha O. Becker
Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution
Multinational labor demand responds to wage differentials at the extensive margin, when a multinational enterprise (MNE) expands into foreign locations, and at the intensive margin, when an MNE ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (5), 1999-2030)
F21, F23, C14, C24, J23
2130 Olivier Donni
On the Identification of Frisch Labor Supplies
This paper examines how Frisch labor supplies, and other structural components of the intertemporal model of labor supply, can be recovered from estimates obtained with the approach developed by ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2007, 95 (1), 1-6)
J22
2129 Paola Manzini
Marco Mariotti
Luigi Mittone
Choosing Monetary Sequences: Theory and Experimental Evidence
In this paper we formulate and investigate experimentally a model of how individuals choose between time sequences of monetary outcomes. The theoretical model assumes that a decision-maker uses, ...
(published in: Theory and Decision, 2010, 65 (3), 327-354)
C91, D9
2128 Pierre-André Chiappori
Olivier Donni
Learning from a Piece of Pie: The Empirical Content of Nash Bargaining
Consider a model of bargaining, in which two players, 1 and 2, share a pie of size y. The bargaining environment is described by a set of parameters ? that may affect agents’ preferences over the ...
(published as 'Learning from a Piece of Pie in: Review of Economic Studies, 2012, 79 (1), 162 - 196 (with Ivana Komunjer) )
C71, C78
2127 Giovanni Facchini
Anna Maria Mayda
Individual Attitudes towards Immigrants: Welfare-State Determinants Across Countries
This paper analyzes welfare-state determinants of individual attitudes towards immigrants - within and across countries - and their interaction with labor-market drivers of preferences. We consider ...
(published as 'Does the Welfare State Affect Individual Attitudes toward Immigrants? Evidence across Countries' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 91 (2), 295 - 314)
F22, F1, J61
2126 Markus Frölich
A Note on Parametric and Nonparametric Regression in the Presence of Endogenous Control Variables
This note argues that nonparametric regression not only relaxes functional form assumptions vis-a-vis parametric regression, but that it also permits endogenous control variables. To control for ...
(published in: International Statistical Review, 2008, 76 (2), 214-227)
C13, C14
2124 Wendelin Schnedler
Task Difficulty, Performance Measure Characteristics, and the Trade-Off between Insurance and Well-Allocated Effort
When designing incentives for a manager, the trade-off between insurance and a “good” allocation of effort across various tasks is often identified with a trade-off between the responsiveness ...
(published as "When is it foolish to reward for A while benefiting from B" in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2008, 26 (4), 595-619)
M41, M52, J33, D82
2123 Christian Belzil
Marco Leonardi
Can Risk Aversion Explain Schooling Attainments? Evidence from Italy
Using unique Italian panel data, in which individual differences in behavior toward risk are measured from answers to a lottery question, we investigate if (and to what extent) risk aversion can ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (6), 657-970)
J24
2121 Bernd Fitzenberger
Aderonke Osikominu
Robert Völter
Get Training or Wait? Long-Run Employment Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed in West Germany
Long-term public sector sponsored training programs often show little or negative short-run employment effects and often it is not possible to assess whether positive long-run effects exist. Based on ...
(revised version published in Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2008, 91-92, 321-355)
C14, J68, H43
2120 Werner Eichhorst
Kombilöhne und Mindestlöhne als Instrumente der Beschäftigungspolitik – Erfahrungen und Handlungsoptionen
Das Papier vergleicht die Wirkung unterschiedlicher Kombinationen von Mindest- und Kombilöhnen auf die Beschäftigung von Geringqualifizierten und Langzeitarbeitslosen in ausgewählten Ländern. Bezogen ...
(published in: Lothar Funk (ed.), Anwendungsorientierte Marktwirtschaftslehre und Neue Politische Ökonomie, Marburg: Metropolis, 2008)
J38, J48, J68
2119 David Masclet
Marie Claire Villeval
Punishment, Inequality and Emotions
Cooperation among people who are not related to each other is sustained by the availability of punishment devices which help enforce social norms (Fehr and Gächter, 2002). However, the rationale for ...
(revised version published as 'Punishment, inequality, and welfare : a public good experiment' in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2008, 31 (3), 475–502.)
A13, C92, D63
2118 Hongbin Li
Pak-Wai Liu
Junsen Zhang
Ning Ma
Economic Returns to Communist Party Membership: Evidence from Urban Chinese Twins
This paper estimates the returns to membership of the Chinese Communist Party using unique twins data we collected from China. Our OLS estimate shows that being a Party member increases earnings by ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (523), 1504 - 1520)
J31, O15, P26
2117 Benno Torgler
Friedrich Schneider
What Shapes Attitudes Toward Paying Taxes? Evidence from Multicultural European Countries
Considerable evidence suggests that enforcement efforts cannot fully explain the high degree of tax compliance. To resolve this puzzle of tax compliance several researchers have argued that citizens’ ...
(published in: Social Science Quarterly, 88(2) 2007, 443–470)
H26, H73
2116 Etienne Lehmann
Wage Rigidity or Fiscal Redistribution? The Unemployment Bias of Time Consistent Redistributive Policies
Because of Time Inconsistency considerations, policymakers underestimate the drawbacks of wage rigidity as a redistributive tool. Consequently, they redistribute inefficiently income from high to low ...
(revised version published as 'Manon Domingues dos santos and Etienne Lehmann, 'Wage Rigidity or Fiscal Redistribution: The credibility Issue' in: Economics Bulletin, 2012, 32 (4), 2801-2807)
D78, H2, J68
2115 Lutz C. Kaiser
Female Labor Market Transitions in Europe
Using micro panel data, labor market transitions are analyzed for the EU-member states by cumulative year-by-year transition probabilities. As female (non-)employment patterns changed more ...
(published German version: Arbeitsmarktflexibilität, Arbeitsmarktübergänge und Familie: Die Europäische Perspektive, in: Szydlik, Marc (Ed.) (2008), Flexibilisierung – Folgen für Arbeit und Familie. Springer VS, pp. 295-313)
J21, J22, J78
2114 Herwig Immervoll
Horacio Levy
José Ricardo Nogueira
Cathal O'Donoghue
Rozane Bezerra de Siqueira
The Impact of Brazil's Tax-Benefit System on Inequality and Poverty
The Brazilian government raises taxes amounting to 35% of GDP and spends more than two thirds of this on social programmes. These shares are in pair with the OECD averages and well in excess of Latin ...
(published in: Klasen, S. and F. Nowak-Lehmann (eds.), Poverty, Inequality, and Policy in Latin America, MIT Press, 2009)
H22, H23, C81
2112 Lorenzo Cappellari
Stephen P. Jenkins
Calculation of Multivariate Normal Probabilities by Simulation, with Applications to Maximum Simulated Likelihood Estimation
We discuss methods for calculating multivariate normal probabilities by simulation and two new Stata programs for this purpose: -mdraws- for deriving draws from the standard uniform density using ...
(published in: Stata Journal, 2006, 6 (2), 156-189)
C15, C51, C87
2111 Jens Ludwig
Douglas L. Miller
Does Head Start Improve Children's Life Chances? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
This paper exploits a new source of variation in Head Start funding to identify the program’s effects on health and schooling. In 1965 the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) provided technical ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007, 122 (1), 159-208)
I18, I20, I38
2110 Jakob R. Munch
Michael Rosholm
Michael Svarer
Home Ownership, Job Duration and Wages
We investigate the impact of home ownership on individual job mobility and wages in Denmark. We find that home ownership has a negative impact on job-to-job mobility both in terms of transition into ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2008, 63(1), 130-145)
J6, R2
2109 Henrik Winterhager
Anja Heinze
Alexander Spermann
Deregulating Job Placement in Europe: A Microeconometric Evaluation of an Innovative Voucher Scheme in Germany
Job placement vouchers can be regarded as a tool to spur competition between public and private job placement activities. The German government launched this instrument in order to end the public ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2006, 13 (4), 505-517)
J68, H25
2106 Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Samuel Bowles
Herbert Gintis
Mutual Monitoring in Teams: Theory and Experimental Evidence on the Importance of Reciprocity
Monitoring by peers is often an effective means of attenuating incentive problems. Most explanations of the efficacy of mutual monitoring rely either on small group size or on a version of the Folk ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 71(2), 221-232)
C92, H41, J41, J54, Z13
2105 Alessio J. G. Brown
Mike Orszag
Dennis J. Snower
Unemployment Accounts and Employment Incentives
We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2008, 24 (3), 587-604)
I38, J22, J32, J38, J64, J65, J68
2104 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Sara de la Rica
Labor Market Assimilation of Recent Immigrants in Spain
This paper provides a preliminary analysis of the employment and occupational assimilation of recent immigrant waves to the Spanish labor market as their residencies lengthen. Using Spanish data from ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2007, 45 (2), 257-285)
J61
2103 Andrew J. Oswald
Nattavudh Powdthavee
Daughters and Left-Wing Voting
This paper provides evidence that daughters make people more left-wing. Having sons, by contrast, makes them more right-wing. Parents, politicians and voters are probably not aware of this phenomenon ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 92 (2), 213-227)
D1, D72, H1, J7
2102 Anabela Carneiro
Pedro Portugal
Market Power, Dismissal Threat and Rent Sharing: The Role of Insider and Outsider Forces in Wage Bargaining
One of the predictions of the insider-outsider theory is that wages will be higher in sectors (firms) with high labor adjustment costs/high turnover costs. This prediction is tested empirically in ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2008, 29 (1), 30-47)
J30, J31
2101 Magnus Lofstrom
Chunbei Wang
Hispanic Self-Employment: A Dynamic Analysis of Business Ownership
This paper analyzes causes of the low self-employment rates among Hispanics, which are nearly half of non-Hispanic white self-employment rates. Relatively little is known of the reason for the lower ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Mexican- American Self-Employment : A Dynamic Analysis of Business Ownership' in: Research in Labor Economics, 2009, 29, 197 - 227)
J15, J23
2100 Lena Jacobi
Jochen Kluve
Before and After the Hartz Reforms: The Performance of Active Labour Market Policy in Germany
Having faced high unemployment rates for more than a decade, the German government implemented a comprehensive set of labour market reforms during the period 2003-2005. This paper describes the ...
(published in: Journal for Labour Market Research / Zeitschrift für Arbeitsmarktforschung, 2007, 40 (1), 45-64)
J0, J68, J88
2099 Reinhold Kosfeld
Christian Dreger
Hans-Friedrich Eckey
On the Stability of the German Beveridge Curve: A Spatial Econometric Perspective
In this paper, the framework of the aggregated Beveridge curve is used to investigate the effectiveness of the job matching process using German regional labour market data. For a fixed matching ...
(published in: Annals of Regional Science, 2008, 42, 967-986)
C21, C23, E24, E32
2097 Amit Kumar Bhandari
Almas Heshmati
Wage Inequality and Job Insecurity among Permanent and Contract Workers in India: Evidence from Organized Manufacturing Industries
Since the early 1990s, the employment structure of organised manufacturing industries in India has undergone substantial changes with the steep rise in the use of contract workers in place of ...
(published in: ICFAI Journal of Applied Economics, 2008, 7(1), 80-111)
J70, J31, J60
2096 Maarten Lindeboom
Ana Llena-Nozal
Bas van der Klaauw
Disability and Work: The Role of Health Shocks and Childhood Circumstances
This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated ...
(revised version published as 'Health Shocks, Disability and Work' in: Labour Economics, 2016, 43, 186-200 )
I12, J28
2095 Dominique Goux
Eric Maurin
Close Neighbours Matter: Neighbourhood Effects on Early Performance at School
Children’s outcomes are strongly correlated with those of their neighbours. The extent to which this is causal is the subject of an extensive literature. An identification problem exists because ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (523), 1193-1215)
I21, J24
2094 Giacomo De Giorgi
Michele Pellizzari
Welfare Migration in Europe and the Cost of a Harmonised Social Assistance
The enlargement of the European Union has increased concerns about the role of generous welfare transfers in attracting migrants. This paper explores the issue of welfare migration across the 15 ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (4), 353-363)
J61
2093 Nauro F. Campos
Roman Horváth
Reform Redux: Measurement, Determinants and Reversals
We construct objective measures of privatization, internal and external liberalization reform efforts, across countries over time, and investigate their determinants, reversals and macroeconomic ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2012, 28 (2), 227-237)
E23, D72, H26, O17
2092 Justin Wolfers
Eric Zitzewitz
Interpreting Prediction Market Prices as Probabilities
While most empirical analysis of prediction markets treats prices of binary options as predictions of the probability of future events, Manski (2004) has recently argued that there is little existing ...
(published in: Robert Hahn and Paul Tetlock (eds), Information Markets: A New Way of Making Decisions in the Public and Private Sectors, AEI-Brookings Press, 2006)
D4, D8, G13
2091 Richard K. Crump
V. Joseph Hotz
Guido W. Imbens
Oscar A. Mitnik
Nonparametric Tests for Treatment Effect Heterogeneity
A large part of the recent literature on program evaluation has focused on estimation of the average effect of the treatment under assumptions of unconfoundedness or ignorability following the ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008, 90 (3), 389-405)
C14, C21, C52
2090 Alfonso Miranda
Massimiliano Bratti
Non-Pecuniary Returns to Higher Education: The Effect on Smoking Intensity in the UK
In this paper we investigate whether higher education (HE) produces non-pecuniary returns via a reduction in the consumption of health-damaging substances. In particular, the paper focuses on ...
(revised version published in: Health Economics, 2010, 19 (8), 906-920 )
C35, I12, I21
2088 Maurice Schiff
Migration's Income and Poverty Impact Has Been Underestimated
This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing studies have typically overlooked a feature of migration that should be taken ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2008, 6 (3), 267-284)
F22, I32, J61, O15, O19, R23
2087 David McKenzie
John Gibson
Steven Stillman
How Important Is Selection? Experimental vs. Non-Experimental Measures of the Income Gains from Migration
Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general population, making it hard to obtain an appropriate comparison group of non-migrants. ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2010, 8(4), 913-945)
J61, F22, C21
2086 Sumon K. Bhaumik
Shubhashis Gangopadhyay
Shagun Krishnan
Reforms, Entry and Productivity: Some Evidence from the Indian Manufacturing Sector
It is now stylized that, while the impact of ownership on firm productivity is unclear, product market competition can be expected to have a positive impact on productivity, thereby making entry (or ...
(published as 'Reforms and Entry: Some Evidence from the Indian Manufacturing Sector' in: Review of Development Economics, 2009, 13 (4), 658-672)
L11, L52, L64, L67, O14, O17
2085 Abdurrahman B. Aydemir
Wen-Hao Chen
Miles Corak
Intergenerational Earnings Mobility among the Children of Canadian Immigrants
We analyze the intergenerational income mobility of Canadians born to immigrants using the 2001 Census. A detailed portrait of the Canadian population is offered as are estimates of the degree of ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 91 (2), 377 - 397)
I30, I32, I38
2084 Christoph Wunder
Johannes Schwarze
Income Inequality and Job Satisfaction of Full-Time Employees in Germany
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP), it is shown that income comparison with persons who are better off has a clear impact on the job satisfaction of West German full-time ...
(published in: Journal of Income Distribution, 2009, 18(2), 70-91)
D63, I31, D31
2083 Claudia Senik
Ambition and Jealousy: Income Interactions in the "Old" Europe versus the "New" Europe and the United States
This paper asks how income distribution affects individual well-being and tries to explore the idea that this relation depends on the degree of mobility and uncertainty in the economy. It mostly ...
(published in: Economica, 2008, 75 (299), 495-513)
C23, D63, O57
2081 Frédéric Docquier
Oliver Paddison
Pierre Pestieau
Optimal Accumulation in an Endogenous Growth Setting with Human Capital
This paper considers a three-overlapping-generations model of endogenous growth wherein human capital is the engine of growth. It first contrasts the laissez-faire and the optimal solutions. Three ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2006, 134 (1), 361-378)
D90, H21, H52
2080 Benoit Dostie
Rajshri Jayaraman
Mathieu Trépanier
The Returns to Computer Use Revisited, Again
Using North American data, we revisit the question first broached by Krueger (1993) and re-examined by DiNardo and Pischke (1997) of whether there exists a real wage differential associated with ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2010, 42 (30), 3903 - 3912)
J30, J31, O30
2078 Jean-Yves Duclos
Abdelkrim Araar
John T. Giles
Chronic and Transient Poverty: Measurement and Estimation, with Evidence from China
The paper contributes to the measurement of poverty and vulnerability in three ways. First, we propose a new approach to separating poverty into chronic and transient components. Second, we provide ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 91 (2), 266-277)
C15, D31, D63, I32
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