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2007 Catherine Weinberger
Peter J. Kuhn
The Narrowing of the U.S. Gender Earnings Gap, 1959-1999: A Cohort-Based Analysis
Using Census and Current Population Survey data spanning 1959 through 1999, we assess the relative contributions of two factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2010, 63 (3), 384-406)
J7
2006 Fabien Postel-Vinay
Hélène Turon
On-the-Job Search, Productivity Shocks and the Individual Earnings Process
Individual labor earnings observed in worker panel data have complex, highly persistent dynamics. We investigate the capacity of a structural job search model with i.i.d. productivity shocks to ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2010, 51 (3), 599 - 629)
J41, J31
2005 Daniela Del Boca
Christopher Flinn
Modes of Spousal Interaction and the Labor Market Environment
We formulate a model of household behavior in which cooperation is costly and in which these costs vary across households. Some households rationally decide to behave noncooperatively, which in our ...
(published as "Household Behavior and the Marriage Market" in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2014, 150, 137-155)
C79, D19, J22
2004 Laurens Cherchye
Frederic Vermeulen
Nonparametric Analysis of Household Labor Supply: Goodness-of-Fit and Power of the Unitary and the Collective Model
We compare the empirical performance of unitary and collective labor supply models, using representative data from the Dutch DNB Household Survey. We conduct a nonparametric analysis that avoids the ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008, 90 (2), 267-274)
C14, D12, J22
2003 Niny Khor
John H. Pencavel
Income Mobility of Individuals in China and the United States
Though much has been written about annual income inequality in China, little research has been conducted on longer run measures of income inequality and on income mobility. This paper compares income ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2006, 14 (3), 417-458 )
D31, D63, O15
2001 Thomas Dohmen
Armin Falk
Performance Pay and Multi-dimensional Sorting: Productivity, Preferences and Gender
This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first step we elicit subjects' productivity levels. Subjects then face the choice ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (2), 556-590)
M52, M55, J00, J3, J33, J31, J16, J22, J24 C91, D81
2000 John T. Addison
Claus Schnabel
Joachim Wagner
The (Parlous) State of German Unions
This paper traces the profound decline in German unionism over the course of the last three decades. Today just one in five workers is a union member, and it is now moot whether this degree of ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2007, 28 (1), 3-18)
J51
1999 Holger Bonin
Amelie F. Constant
Konstantinos Tatsiramos
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes
This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2009, 16 (15), 1581-1586)
D1, D81, F22, J15, J16, J31, J62, J82
1998 Subhayu Bandyopadhyay
Cletus C. Coughlin
Howard J. Wall
Ethnic Networks and U.S. Exports
This paper provides new estimates of the effects of ethnic network on U.S. exports. In line with recent research, our dataset is a panel of exports from U.S. states to 29 foreign countries. Our ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2008, 16 (1), 199-213)
F10, R10
1997 Ioan-Sebastian Buhai
Coen Teulings
Tenure Profiles and Efficient Separation in a Stochastic Productivity Model
This paper provides a new way of analyzing tenure profiles in wages, by modelling simultaneously the evolution of wages and the distribution of tenures. We develop a theoretical model based on ...
(published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2014, 32 (2), 245-258)
C51, C52, J63
1996 Erik Snowberg
Justin Wolfers
Eric Zitzewitz
Partisan Impacts on the Economy: Evidence from Prediction Markets and Close Elections
Political economists interested in discerning the effects of election outcomes on the economy have been hampered by the problem that economic outcomes also influence elections. We sidestep these ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007, 122 (2), 807-829)
D72, E3, E6, G13, G14, H6
1995 Bruno Amable
Donatella Gatti
Jan Schumacher
Welfare State Retrenchment: The Partisan Effect Revisited
This paper aims to shed light on the role of the 'ideology' of political parties in shaping the evolution of the welfare state in 18 developed democracies, by providing empirical findings on the ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2006, 22 (3), 426-444)
H5, I1, J8
1993 Miles Corak
Do Poor Children Become Poor Adults? Lessons from a Cross Country Comparison of Generational Earnings Mobility
A cross country comparison of generational earnings mobility is offered, and the reasons for the degree to which the long run labour market success of children is related to that of their parents is ...
(published in: Research on Economic Inequality, 2006, 13 (1), 143-188)
D31, I32, J62
1992 Rob Euwals
Daniel van Vuuren
Ronald P. Wolthoff
Early Retirement Behaviour in the Netherlands: Evidence from a Policy Reform
In the early 1990s, the Dutch social partners agreed upon transforming the generous and actuarially unfair PAYG early retirement schemes into less generous and actuarially fair capital funded ...
(published in: De Economist, 2010, 158(3), 209-236)
C41, D91, J26
1991 Justin Wolfers
Eric Zitzewitz
Prediction Markets in Theory and Practice
Prediction Markets, sometimes referred to as "information markets", "idea futures" or "event futures", are markets where participants trade contracts whose payoffs are tied to a future event, thereby ...
(published in: Larry Blume and Steven Durlauf (eds), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd ed (London: Palgrave), 2007)
C53, D8, G14
1990 Robert Plasman
Michael Rusinek
François Rycx
Wages and the Bargaining Regime under Multi-level Bargaining: Belgium, Denmark and Spain
Using a unique harmonized matched employer-employee dataset (European Structure of Earnings Survey, 1995), we study the impact of the regime of collective bargaining on wages in the manufacturing ...
(published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2007, 13 (2), 161-180)
J31, J51, J52
1989 Delia Furtado
Human Capital and Interethnic Marriage Decisions
Despite a longstanding belief that education importantly affects the process of immigrant assimilation, little is known about the relative importance of different mechanisms linking these two ...
(pubished in: Economic Inquiry, 2010, [Early View])
J12, I21, J15
1988 John Robst
Solomon Polachek
Yuan-Ching Chang
Geographic Proximity, Trade and International Conflict/Cooperation
This paper examines the interactive effect of distance and trade on international conflict and cooperation. The effect of geographic distance depends on trade, while the effect of trade varies with ...
(published in: Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2007, 24 (1), 1-24)
A12, A13, F1, O57
1987 Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Klara Sabirianova Peter
Public Sector Pay and Corruption: Measuring Bribery from Micro Data
This study is the first to provide a systematic measure of bribery using micro-level data on reported earnings, household spending and asset holdings. We use the compensating differential framework ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91 (5-6), 963-991)
J3, J4, O1, P2
1986 Rolf Aaberge
Ugo Colombino
Tom Wennemo
Evaluating Alternative Representations of the Choice Sets in Models of Labour Supply
During the last two decades, the discrete-choice modelling of labour supply decisions has become increasingly popular, starting with Aaberge et al. (1995) and van Soest (1995). Within the literature ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2009, 23 (3), 586-612)
C51, C52, H31, J22
1985 Werner Eichhorst
Beschäftigung Älterer in Deutschland: Der unvollständige Paradigmenwechsel
Die Arbeitsmarktintegration älterer Erwerbspersonen ist in Deutschland nach wie vor unbefriedigend. Die vorliegende Analyse erklärt diesen Befund mit institutionellen Einflussgrößen wie ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für Sozialreform/Journal of Social Policy Research, 2006, 52 (1), 101-123)
J26, J48, J68
1984 Jean-Olivier Hairault
François Langot
Thepthida Sopraseuth
The Interaction between Retirement and Job Search: A Global Approach to Older Workers Employment
This paper presents a theoretical foundation and empirical evidence in favor of the view that the tax on continued activity not only decreases the participation rate by inducing early retirement, but ...
(published in: Journal of European Economic Association, 2010, 8(5), 1034-1076)
J22, J26, H31
1983 Tor Eriksson
Sabrina Teyssier
Marie Claire Villeval
Self-Selection and the Efficiency of Tournaments
When exogenously imposed, rank-order tournaments have incentive properties but their overall efficiency is reduced by a high variance in performance (Bull, Schotter, and Weigelt 1987). However, since ...
(revised version published in: Economic Inquiry, 2009, 47(3), 530-548.)
M52, J33, J31, C81, C91
1982 Mariacristina Piva
Marco Vivarelli
Is Demand-Pulled Innovation Equally Important in Different Groups of Firms?
Previous empirical literature - mainly cross-sectional - has tested the demand-pull hypothesis and found that overall, evidence does not conflict with the idea that innovation may be driven by ...
(published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2007, 31(5), 691-710)
O31
1981 Philip de Jong
Maarten Lindeboom
Bas van der Klaauw
Screening Disability Insurance Applications
This paper investigates the effects of intensified screening of disability insurance benefit applications. A large-scale experiment was setup where in 2 of the 26 Dutch regions case workers of the ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9(1), 106-129)
J28, J65
1980 David H. Blackaby
Paul L. Latreille
Philip D. Murphy
Nigel C. O'Leary
Peter J. Sloane
An Analysis of Reservation Wages for the Economically Inactive
This paper uses unique data for the economically inactive to calculate elasticity estimates of the reservation wage and exit probability with respect to state benefits and the arrival rate of job ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2007, 97 (1), 1-5)
J21, J22, J31
1978 W. Bentley MacLeod
Reputations, Relationships and the Enforcement of Incomplete Contracts
This paper discusses the literature on the enforcement of incomplete contracts. It compares legal enforcement to enforcement via relationships and reputations. A number of mechanisms, such as the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2007, 45(3), 595-628)
D86, K12, C7, O17
1977 Erte Xiao
Daniel Houser
Public Implementation Eliminates Detrimental Effects of Punishment on Human Cooperation
Development of human societies requires cooperation among unrelated individuals and obedience to social norms. Although punishment is widely agreed to be potentially useful in fostering cooperation, ...
(revised version published as "Punish in Public" in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (7-8), 1006-1017)
C92, D71, H41
1974 Jungmin Lee
American Idol: Evidence of Same-Race Preferences?
This study examines whether viewers of the popular television show, American Idol, are racially biased. I find strong evidence for same-race preferences, in particular among black viewers. Featuring ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Analysis and Policy, 2009, 9 (1), Article 28, 2009.)
J15, L82
1973 Murat Iyigun
Ottoman Conquests and European Ecclesiastical Pluralism
This paper emphasizes that the evolution of religious institutions in Europe was influenced by the expansionary threat posed by the Ottoman Empire five centuries ago. This threat intensified in the ...
(published as 'Luther & Suleyman' in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008,123 (4), 1465-1494.)
C72, D74, N33, N43, O10
1972 Andrew Leigh
Justin Wolfers
Competing Approaches to Forecasting Elections: Economic Models, Opinion Polling and Prediction Markets
We review the efficacy of three approaches to forecasting elections: econometric models that project outcomes on the basis of the state of the economy; public opinion polls; and election betting ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2006, 82 (258), 325-340)
D72, D84
1971 Pernilla Andersson Joona
Eskil Wadensjö
Employees Who Become Self-Employed: Do Labour Income and Wages Have an Impact?
This paper analyzes the self-employment decision among Swedish-born male employees. The main objective of the paper is to investigate the impact of the relation between the actual and the predicted ...
(revised version published as 'The Best and the Brightest or the Least Successful? Self-Employment Entry among Male Wage-Earners in Sweden' in: Small Business Economics, 2013, 40(1), 155-172)
J23, J24, J30, J62
1970 W. Bentley MacLeod
Voraprapa Nakavachara
Legal Default Rules: The Case of Wrongful Discharge Laws
One of the most vexing public policy issues is the extent to which governments should intervene into private contractual relationships. The purpose of this paper is to explore both theoretically and ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (521), F218-F278)
J11, J21, J31, J61, K12, K31
1969 Jens Suedekum
Human Capital Externalities and Growth of High- and Low-Skilled Jobs
In this paper I analyze the impact of human capital on local employment growth for the case of West Germany (1977-2002). I find robust evidence that skilled cities grow faster than unskilled ones, ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik (Journal of Economics and Statistics), 2010, 230 (1), 92-114)
R11, O40
1968 John T. Addison
Paulino Teixeira
Does the Quality of Industrial Relations Matter for the Macro Economy? A Cross-Country Analysis Using Strikes Data
Using international data, we investigate whether the quality of industrial relations matters for the macro economy. We measure industrial relations inversely by strikes – which proxy we cross-check ...
(published as 'Are Good Industrial Relations Good for the Economy?' in: German Economic Review, 2009, 10 (3), 253 - 269)
E24, J52, J53, J64, J65
1967 Alessandro Cigno
Is There a Social Security Tax Wedge?
A Beveridgean pension scheme invariably introduces a wedge between the wage rate and the marginal take-home pay. A Bismarckian one can do so only if it is not actuarially fair, or in the presence of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (1), 68-77)
H31, H55, J38
1966 Marcel Fafchamps
Jackline Wahba
Child Labor, Urban Proximity and Household Composition
Using detailed survey data from Nepal, this paper examines the determinants of child labor with a special emphasis on urban proximity. We find that children residing in or near urban centers attend ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2006, 79 (2), 374-397)
J10, J22, J24, J40, N35
1965 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Time to Eat: Household Production under Increasing Income Inequality
Eating requires the food materials that make up meals and also time devoted to buying food, preparing meals and eating them, and cleaning up afterwards. Using time-diary and expenditure data for the ...
(published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2007, 89 (4), 852-863; excerpts also publishd in Economics Letters, 2008, 98 (1), 31-34)
J22, Q11
1964 Simon Luechinger
Stephan Meier
Alois Stutzer
Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction
The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe ...
(published in: Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2008, 24 (2), 476-488)
D72, D73, I31, J30, J45, K42, H11, H83
1963 René Böheim
Ulrike Muehlberger
Dependent Forms of Self-employment in the UK: Identifying Workers on the Border between Employment and Self-employment
We analyse the characteristics of workers who provide work on the basis of a civil or commercial contract, but who are dependent on or integrated into the firm for which they work. We argue that ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung/Journal for Labour Market Research, 2009, 42 (2), 182-95)
K31, J21, L22
1962 Charlotte Christiansen
Juanna Schrøter Joensen
Helena Skyt Nielsen
The Risk-Return Trade-Off in Human Capital Investment
In this paper we analyze investments in human capital assets in a way which is standard for financial assets, but not (yet) for human capital assets. We study mean-variance plots of human capital ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (6), 971-986)
I21, J24
1961 J. David Brown
John S. Earle
Vladimir Gimpelson
Rostislav Kapeliushnikov
Hartmut Lehmann
Álmos Telegdy
Irina Vantu
Ruxandra Visan
Alexandru Voicu
Nonstandard Forms and Measures of Employment and Unemployment in Transition: A Comparative Study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia
Studies of transition economy labor markets have typically relied on standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics. This paper analyzes microdata on detailed labor force survey ...
(published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2006, 48 (3), 435-457)
C81, J21, J64, P23
1960 Winfried Koeniger
Julien Prat
Employment Protection, Product Market Regulation and Firm Selection
This paper analyzes the effect of labor and product market regulation in a dynamic stochastic equilibrium with search frictions. Modeling multiple-worker firms allows us to distinguish between the ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (521), F302 - F332)
E24, J63, J64, J65
1959 Stephen P. Jenkins
John Micklewright
Sylke V. Schnepf
Social Segregation in Secondary Schools: How Does England Compare with Other Countries?
We provide new evidence about the degree of social segregation in England’s secondary schools, employing a cross-national perspective. Analysis is based on data for 27 rich industrialised countries ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Education, 2008, 34(1), 21-38)
D39, I21, I39
1958 Elizabeth Brainerd
Reassessing the Standard of Living in the Soviet Union: An Analysis Using Archival and Anthropometric Data
Both Western and Soviet estimates of GNP growth in the USSR indicate that GNP per capita grew in every decade – sometimes rapidly – from 1928 to 1985. While this measure suggests that the standard of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic History, 2010, 70 (1), 83 - 117)
P23, P36, N34
1957 Abigail Wozniak
Product Markets and Paychecks: Deregulation's Effect on the Compensation Structure in Banking
This paper asks how deregulation intended to promote competition in the commercial banking industry affected the compensation structure for banking employees. Using establishment-based data from the ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (2), 246-267)
J31, L11
1955 Manuela Angelucci
Giacomo De Giorgi
Indirect Effects of an Aid Program: The Case of Progresa and Consumption
Aid programs in developing countries are likely to affect all households living in the treated areas, both eligible and non-eligible ones. Studies that focus on the treatment effect on the treated ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2009, 99(1), 486-508)
E21, H43, I38, O12, O17
1954 Abigail Wozniak
Educational Differences in the Migration Responses of Young Workers to Local Labor Market Conditions
It is unclear whether educational disparities in internal migration levels reflect important economic differences or simply different consumption choices. I answer this question empirically by ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2010, 45 (4), 944-970)
J6
1952 Alois Stutzer
Bruno S. Frey
What Happiness Research Can Tell Us About Self-Control Problems and Utility Misprediction
Neoclassical economic theory rules out systematic errors in consumption choice. According to the basic view, individuals know what they choose. They are able to predict how much utility an activity ...
(published in: Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer (eds.), Economics and Psychology. A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007, 169-195)
D00, D11, D12, D84, D91, I12, I31
1951 Leslie S. Stratton
Dennis M. O'Toole
James N. Wetzel
Are the Factors Affecting Dropout Behavior Related to Initial Enrollment Intensity for College Undergraduates?
We use data from the 1990/94 Beginning Post-Secondary Survey to determine whether the factors associated with long-term attrition from higher education differ for students who initially enrolled ...
(published in: Research in Higher Education, 2007, 48 (4), 453-486. )
I21
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