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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
2077 Andreas Ammermüller
Jörn-Steffen Pischke
Peer Effects in European Primary Schools: Evidence from PIRLS
We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2009, 27 (3), 315-348)
I21, J24
2076 Zvi Eckstein
Suqin Ge
Barbara Petrongolo
Job and Wage Mobility in a Search Model with Non-Compliance (Exemptions) with the Minimum Wage
How well does a simple search on-the-job model fit the eighteen years of job and wage mobility of high school graduates? To answer this question we are confronted from the data with a prevalent ...
(published as 'Job and wage mobility with minimum wages and imperfect compliance' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2011, 26 (4), 580-612)
J42, J63, J64
2075 Joshua Angrist
Victor Lavy
Analia Schlosser
New Evidence on the Causal Link between the Quantity and Quality of Children
A longstanding question in the economics of the family is the relationship between sibship size and subsequent human capital formation and economic welfare. If there is a causal "quantity-quality ...
(revised version published as 'Multiple Experiments for the Causal Link between the Quantity and Quality of Children' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2010, 28 (4), 773 - 824)
J13, J24, O12
2074 Peter Berkhout
Joop Hartog
Dinand Webbink
Compensation for Earnings Risk under Worker Heterogeneity
We use two large Dutch datasets to estimate the Risk Augmented Mincer equation and test for risk compensation in expected earnings. We replicate earlier findings of a positive premium for risk and a ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2010, 76 (3), 762–790 )
J31
2073 Gabriele Cardullo
Bruno Van der Linden
Employment Subsidies and Substitutable Skills: An Equilibrium Matching Approach
The search-matching model is well suited for an equilibrium evaluation of labor market policies. When those policies are targeted on some groups, the usual juxtaposition of labor markets is however a ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2007, 53 (4), 375-404)
E24, J3, J41, J64, J65, J68
2070 Andrew J. Oswald
An Examination of the Reliability of Prestigious Scholarly Journals: Evidence and Implications for Decision-makers
In universities all over the world, hiring and promotion committees regularly hear the argument: “this is important work because it is about to appear in prestigious journal X”. Moreover, those who ...
(published in: Economica, 2007, 74 (293), 21-31)
A11, O3
2069 Holger Bonin
Hilmar Schneider
Wirksamkeit der Förderung der beruflichen Weiterbildung vor und nach den Hartz-Reformen
Dieser Beitrag analysiert die Wirksamkeit der Förderung beruflicher Weiterbildung im Rah-men der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik vor und nach den Hartz-Reformen. Ergebnisse der bei flächendeckenden ...
(published in: Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter, 2006, 53 (2), 155-165)
J68, H43, D61
2068 Paul Frijters
Bob Gregory
From Golden Age to Golden Age: Australia's "Great Leap Forward"?
The twenty-five years after WW 2 witnessed strong labour market institutions and beneficial labour market outcomes – high wage growth and integration of low-skilled immigrants. Then came the macro ...
(published in: The Economic Record, 82 (257) 2006, 207-224)
J0, D6, E6, L5, O3
2066 Dennis J. Snower
Christian Merkl
The Caring Hand that Cripples: The East German Labor Market After Reunification (Detailed Version)
The East German labor market has hardly made any progress since German reunification, despite massive migration flows and support from the West. We argue that East Germany is in trouble precisely ...
(short version published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (2), 375-382)
E24, J3, P2
2065 Winfried Koeniger
Marco Leonardi
Capital Deepening and Wage Differentials: Germany vs. US
Capital deepening may affect the evolution of the wage differential between skilled and unskilled workers differently in countries with different labor market institutions. If labor market ...
(revised version published in: Economic Policy, 2007, 22 (49), 71-116)
E22, E24, J31, J64
2064 Alois Stutzer
Lorenz Götte
Michael Zehnder
Active Decisions and Pro-social Behavior: A Field Experiment on Blood Donation
In this paper, we propose a decision framework where people are individually asked to either actively consent or dissent to some pro-social behavior. We hypothesize that confronting individuals with ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2011, 121 (556), 476-493)
C93, D64, I18
2063 Janet Currie
Erdal Tekin
Does Child Abuse Cause Crime?
Child maltreatment, which includes both child abuse and child neglect, is a major social problem. This paper focuses on measuring the effects of child maltreatment on crime using data from the ...
(revised version published as 'Understanding the Cycle: Childhood Maltreatment and Future Crime?' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2012, 47 (2), 509-549)
I1, K4
2062 Oriana Bandiera
Iwan Barankay
Imran Rasul
Incentives for Managers and Inequality Among Workers: Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment
We present evidence from a firm level experiment in which we engineered an exogenous change in managerial compensation from fixed wages to performance pay based on the average productivity of ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007, 122 (2), 729-773)
J33, M52
2061 Gadi Barlevy
H. N. Nagaraja
Identification of Search Models with Initial Condition Problems
This paper extends previous work on the identification of search models in which observed worker productivity is imperfectly observed. In particular, it establishes that these models remain ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2010, 13(4), 780-99)
J64, C14
2060 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Caitlin Knowles Myers
Mark L. Pocock
Cues for Coordination: Light, Longitude and Letterman
Market productivity is often greater, and leisure and other household activities more enjoyable, when people perform them simultaneously. Beyond pointing out the positive externalities of ...
(published as 'Cues for Timing and Coordination: Latitude, Letterman and Longitude' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2008, 26 (2), 223-246)
J22, E61
2059 Matthias Kräkel
Doping and Cheating in Contest-Like Situations
Individuals who compete in a contest-like situation (for example, in sports, in promotion tournaments, or in an appointment contest) may have an incentive to illegally utilize resources in order to ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2007, 23 (4), 988-1006)
J3, K42, M5
2058 Jean Kimmel
Rachel Connelly
Is Mothers' Time With Their Children Home Production or Leisure?
As mothers have increased their paid work efforts, conflicts between employment and family responsibilities have grown. This evolution has led researchers to explore more fully the role that ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2007, 42(3), 643-81)
J13, J22
2057 Arie Kapteyn
James P. Smith
Arthur van Soest
Dynamics of Work Disability and Pain
This paper investigates the role of pain in affecting self-reported work disability and employment of elderly workers in the US. We investigate pain and its relationship to work disability and work ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27(2), 496-509)
J28, I12, C81
2056 Pieter A. Gautier
Ronald P. Wolthoff
Simultaneous Search with Heterogeneous Firms and Ex Post Competition
We study a search model where workers can send multiple applications to high and low productivity firms. Firms that compete for the same candidate can increase their wage offers as often as they ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (3), 311-319)
D83, E24, J23, J24, J64
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