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1892 Subhayu Bandyopadhyay
Howard J. Wall
Oligopoly and Outsourcing
With outsourcing comes a perceived tension between the competitive pressures faced by domestic firms and the effect that outsourcing has on domestic workers. To address this tension, we present a ...
(published in: Economics and Politics, 2007, 19 (2), 219-234)
F1, F2, J3
1891 Joachim R. Frick
Jan Goebel
Regional Income Stratification in Unified Germany Using a Gini Decomposition Approach
This paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after unification using a new method for detecting social stratification by a ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2008, 42(4), 555-577)
C81, D31, D63
1890 Lorenz Götte
David B. Huffman
Affect as a Source of Motivation in the Workplace: A New Model of Labor Supply, and New Field Evidence on Income Targeting and the Goal Gradient
In this chapter we propose a new, dual-process model of labor supply, which incorporates both cognitive and affective aspects of decision-making. Consistent with evidence from neuroscience, the ...
(published in: Vohs, K.D, Baumeister, R.F; Loewenstein, G. (eds.): Do emotions help or hurt decision making? A Hedgefoxian Perspective, New York, Sage, 2007)
J22, L2, B49
1889 Amihai Glazer
Vesa Kanniainen
Panu Poutvaara
Income Taxes, Property Values and Migration
We consider taxation by a utilitarian government in the presence of heterogeneous locations within a country. We show that a utilitarian government never equalizes after-tax incomes, even when it can ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (3-4), 915-923)
H21, H7, R21, R23
1888 Erling Barth
Harald Dale-Olsen
Employer Size or Skill-Group Size Effect on Wages?
It turns out that the employer-size effect on individual wages dwindles away once one control for the number of workers of the same skill-group (educational type) as the observed individual within ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2011, 64(2), 341-355)
J31
1887 Adriaan Kalwij
Frederic Vermeulen
Labour Force Participation of the Elderly in Europe: The Importance of Being Healthy
In this paper we study labour force participation behaviour of individuals aged 50-64 in 11 European countries. The data are drawn from the new Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe ...
(published as: "Health and labour force participation of older people in Europe: what do objective health indicators add to the analysis?" in: Health Economics, 2008, 17(5), 619-638. )
I10, J22, J26
1884 Alison L. Booth
Jan C. van Ours
Hours of Work and Gender Identity: Does Part-Time Work Make the Family Happier?
Taking into account inter-dependence within the family, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and happiness. We use panel data from the new Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in ...
(published in: Economica, 2009, 76 (301), 176-196)
J22, I31, J16
1883 Eric D. Gould
Victor Lavy
M. Daniele Paserman
Does Immigration Affect the Long-Term Educational Outcomes of Natives? Quasi-Experimental Evidence
This paper uses the mass migration wave to Israel in the 1990s to examine the impact of immigrant concentration during elementary school on the long-term academic outcomes of native students in high ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (540), 1243-1269.)
I20, J24
1882 Daniel J. Henderson
Alexandre Olbrecht
Solomon Polachek
Do Former College Athletes Earn More at Work? A Nonparametric Assessment
This paper investigates how students' collegiate athletic participation affects their subsequent labor market success. It uses newly developed distributional tests to establish that the wage ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2006, 41(3), 558-577)
C14, J10, J30, J40, L83
1880 Maria Saez-Marti
Yves Zenou
Cultural Transmission and Discrimination
Each worker belongs to either the majority or the minority group and, irrespective of the group she belongs to, can have good or bad work habits. These traits are transmitted from one generation to ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2012, 72 (2-3), 137-146)
J15, J71
1879 Christian Grund
Dirk Sliwka
Reference Dependent Preferences and the Impact of Wage Increases on Job Satisfaction: Theory and Evidence
The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction is explored theoretically and empirically. To do this, we apply a utility function that rises with the absolute wage level as well as with wage ...
(published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2007, 163 (2), 313-335)
M54, J28, J30, M12
1877 Zhong Zhao
Analysis of Health and Longevity in Oldest-Old Population: A Health Capital Approach
Using 2002 cross-sectional data and 1998, 2000, 2002 three waves of panel data from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey, we study health in oldest old population. We measure health ...
(published in: Zeng Yi et al. (eds.), Healthy Longevity in China: Demographic, Socioeconomic, and Psychological Dimensions, Berlin et al., 2008 )
I12, J14, I18
1876 Lutz C. Kaiser
Gender-Job Satisfaction Differences across Europe: An Indicator for Labor Market Modernization
In 14 member states of the European Union, women's relative to men's levels of job satisfaction are compared by using data of the European Household Community Panel. The countries under consideration ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2007, 28 (1), 75-94 )
J28
1874 Daniele Checchi
Vito Peragine
Regional Disparities and Inequality of Opportunity: The Case of Italy
In this paper we provide a new methodology to measure opportunity inequality and to decompose overall inequality in an "ethically offensive" and an "ethically acceptable" part. Moreover, we provide ...
(published as 'Inequality of opportunity in Italy' in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2010, 8 (4), 429-450)
D63
1873 Zhong Zhao
Sensitivity of Propensity Score Methods to the Specifications
Propensity score matching estimators have two advantages. One is that they overcome the curse of dimensionality of covariate matching, and the other is that they are nonparametric. However, the ...
(revised version published in: Economics Letters , 2008, 98 (3), 309-319)
C21, C14, C15, C16, C52
1871 Holger Bonin
Tarifpolitik und Entgeltflexibilität in Ostdeutschland
Der Beitrag beschreibt die Lohnpolitik in Ostdeutschland seit der Wiedervereinigung und präsentiert empirische Evidenz für die Hypothese, dass überhöhte Tarifabschlüsse das aus dem Westen übernommene ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung / Journal for Labour Market Research, 2005, 38 (2-3), 147-164)
J31, J51, P52
1870 Michael R. Ransom
Ronald L. Oaxaca
Sex Differences in Pay in a "New Monopsony" Model of the Labor Market
We use a simple framework, adopted from general equilibrium search models, to estimate the extent to which monopsony power (or labor market frictions) can account for gender differences in pay, using ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2010, 28(2), 267-289)
J42, J71
1869 Sascha O. Becker
Samuel Bentolila
Ana Fernandes
Andrea Ichino
Job Insecurity and Youth Emancipation: A Theoretical Approach
In this paper, we propose a theoretical model to study the effect of income insecurity of parents and offspring on the child's residential choice. Parents are partially altruistic toward their ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contribution to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2008, 8 (1), Article 19)
D1, J1, J2
1867 Nauro F. Campos
Francesco Giovannoni
The Determinants of Asset Stripping: Theory and Evidence from the Transition Economies
During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of the stock of socialist physical capital. Despite the obvious importance of this ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2006, 49 (2), 681-706)
H82, K42, O17, P26, P31
1866 John T. Addison
C. R. Barrett
W. Stanley Siebert
Building Blocks in the Economics of Mandates
The paper constructs an asymmetric information model to investigate the efficiency and equity cases for government mandated benefits. A mandate can improve workers' insurance, and may also ...
(published in: Portuguese Economic Journal, 2006, 5 (2), 69 - 87)
D82, J33
1865 Ana Rute Cardoso
Miguel Portela
The Provision of Wage Insurance by the Firm: Evidence from a Longitudinal Matched Employer-Employee Dataset
We evaluate the impact of product market uncertainty on workers wages, addressing the questions: To what extent do firms provide insurance to their workforce, insulating their wages from shocks in ...
(published as 'Micro foundations for wage flexibility: Wage insurance at the firm level' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2009, 111 (1), 29-50)
C33, D21, J33, J41
1864 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereux
Kjell G. Salvanes
From the Cradle to the Labor Market? The Effect of Birth Weight on Adult Outcomes
Lower birth weight babies have worse outcomes, both short-run in terms of one-year mortality rates and longer run in terms of educational attainment and earnings. However, recent research has called ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007, 122 (1), 409-439)
J1, I1
1863 Hartmut Egger
Peter Egger
Josef Falkinger
Volker Grossmann
International Capital Market Integration, Educational Choice and Economic Growth
This paper examines the impact of capital market integration (CMI) on higher education and economic growth. We take into account that participation in higher education is non-compulsory and depends ...
(published as 'The Impact of Capital Market Integration on Educational Choice and the Consequences for Economic Growth' in: World Economy, 2010, 33 (10), 1241-1268)
F20, H52, J24, O10
1862 Michele Pellizzari
Employers' Search and the Efficiency of Matching
Unskilled workers in low productivity jobs typically experience higher labour turnover. This paper shows how this empirical finding is related to variation in the efficiency of the matching process ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2011, 49(1), 25-53)
J63, J64, M51
1861 Yves Zenou
The Todaro Paradox Revisited
The Todaro Paradox states that policies aimed at reducing urban unemployment are bound to backfire: they will raise rather than reduce urban unemployment. The aim of this paper is to reexamine this ...
(revised version published as 'Rural-Urban Migration and Unemployment: Theory and Policy Implications' in: Journal of Regional Science, 2011, 51 (1), 65 - 82)
D83, J41, J64, O15
1860 Dan T. Rosenbaum
Christopher J. Ruhm
The Cost of Caring for Young Children
This study examines the "cost burden" of child care, defined as day care expenses divided by after-tax income. Data are from the wave 10 core and child care topical modules to the 1996 Survey of ...
(published as 'Family Expenditures on Child Care' in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2007, 7(1), Article 34)
J13, J18, J22
1859 Juan J. Dolado
Florentino Felgueroso
Miguel Almunia
Do Men and Women-Economists Choose the Same Research Fields? Evidence from Top-50 Departments
This paper describes the gender distribution of research fields chosen by the faculty members in the top fifty Economics departments, according to the rankings available on the Econphd.net website. ...
(published in: SERIEs, Journal of the Spanish Economic Association (2012), 3, 367-393.)
A11, J16, J70
1857 Sarah Crichton
Steven Stillman
Dean R. Hyslop
Returning to Work from Injury: Longitudinal Evidence on Employment and Earnings
New Zealand has a unique accident insurance system that pays the direct costs of all accidental injuries and compensates workers 80% of their earnings for any time post-injury that they are unable to ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2011, 50 (1), 763-83)
J28, C21, J24
1855 Patricia Apps
Ray Rees
Gender, Time Use and Public Policy over the Life Cycle
In this paper we compare gender differences in the allocation of time to market work, domestic work, child care, and leisure over the life cycle. Time use profiles for these activity categories are ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2005, 21(3), 439-461)
J16, J22, H31, D91
1854 Kenn Ariga
Giorgio Brunello
Roki Iwahashi
Lorenzo Rocco
Why Is the Timing of School Tracking So Heterogeneous?
Secondary schools in the developed world differ in the degree of differentiation and in the first age of selection of pupils into different tracks. In this paper, we account for the heterogeneity of ...
(substantial revision published as 'On the efficiency costs of de-tracking secondary schools in Europe" in: Education Economics, [iFirst])
H52, H73
1853 Stephen Machin
Olivier Marie
Crime and Police Resources: The Street Crime Initiative
In this paper we look at links between police resources and crime in a different way to the existing economics of crime work. To do so we focus on a large-scale policy intervention – the Street Crime ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (4), 678 - 701)
H00, H5, K42
1852 Harminder Battu
McDonald Mwale
Yves Zenou
Oppositional Identities and the Labor Market
We develop a model in which non-white individuals are defined with respect to their social environment (family, friends, neighbors) and their attachments to their culture of origin (religion, ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (3), 643 - 667)
A14, J15
1851 William E. Encinosa III
Martin Gaynor
James B. Rebitzer
The Sociology of Groups and the Economics of Incentives: Theory and Evidence on Compensation Systems
When working together, people engage in non-contractual and informal interactions that constitute the sociology of the group. We use behavioral models and a unique survey of medical groups to analyze ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2007, 62 (2), 187-214)
D21, D22, J40, J41
1850 Denis Fougère
Thierry Kamionka
Econometrics of Individual Labor Market Transitions
This survey is devoted to the modelling and the estimation of reduced-form transition models, which have been extensively used and estimated in labor microeconometrics. The first section contains a ...
(published in: Patrick Sevestre and Lazlo Matyas (eds.), The Econometrics of Panel Data: Handbook of Theory and Applications, 3rd ed., Springer, 2008, 865-905)
C41, C51, J64
1849 Jérôme Adda
Francesca Cornaglia
Taxes, Cigarette Consumption and Smoking Intensity
This paper analyses the compensatory behavior of smokers. Exploiting data on cotinine concentration – a metabolite of nicotine – measured in a large population of smokers over time, we show that ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (4), 1013-1028)
I1
1848 Annette Bergemann
Bernd Fitzenberger
Stefan Speckesser
Evaluating the Dynamic Employment Effects of Training Programs in East Germany Using Conditional Difference-in-Differences
This study analyzes the employment effects of training in East Germany. We propose and apply an extension of the widely used conditional difference-in-differences evaluation method. Focusing on ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2009, 24 (5), 797-823)
C14, C23, H43, J64, J68
1847 John Ermisch
Marco Francesconi
Thomas Siedler
Intergenerational Economic Mobility and Assortative Mating
We use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British Household Panel Survey to estimate the extent of intergenerational economic mobility in a framework that highlights the role played by ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (513), 659-679)
J12, I20, D31, D64
1846 Christopher R. Bollinger
Barry Hirsch
Match Bias from Earnings Imputation in the Current Population Survey: The Case of Imperfect Matching
This paper examines alternative forms of match bias arising from earnings imputation. Wage equation parameters are estimated based on mixed samples of workers who do and do not report earnings, the ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2006, 24 (3), 483-519)
J31, C81, C10
1845 Werner Eichhorst
Ole Wintermann
Generating Legitimacy for Labor Market and Welfare State Reforms: The Role of Policy Advice in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden
Policy advice can help political actors design and implement institutional reforms through the generation of political and substantial legitimacy. This article clarifies the institutional ...
(published in: German Policy Studies, 2006, 3 (2), 268-309; also published as 'De l'expertise aux politiques publiques : l'exemple de l'Allemagne, des Pays-Bas et de la Suède' in: Problèmes Economiques, 2006, No. 2.912 )
H83, J58
1843 Thierry Lallemand
Robert Plasman
François Rycx
Women and Competition in Elimination Tournaments: Evidence from Professional Tennis Data
This paper examines how professional female tennisplayers react to: i) prize incentives and ii) heterogeneity in ex ante players' abilities. It is found that a larger prize spread encourages women to ...
(published in: Journal of Sports Economics, 2008, 9 (1), 3-19)
J33, J41, M12
1842 Helmut Rainer
Thomas Siedler
O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Effects of Having a Sibling on Geographic Mobility and Labor Market Outcomes
In most industrialized countries, more people than ever are having to cope with the burden of caring for elderly parents. This paper formulates a model to explain how parental care responsibilities ...
(published in: Economica, 2009, 76 (303), 528-556)
D19, J14, C13
1841 Alexander K. Koch
Eloic Peyrache
Tournaments, Individualized Contracts and Career Concerns
Young professionals typically do not enter into life-long employment relations with a single firm. Therefore, future employers can learn about individuals' abilities from the observable facts ...
(revised and extended version published as 'Aligning Ambition and Incentives' in: Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization , 2011, 27(1).)
D82, J33, L14, M52
1840 Michael Beenstock
Barry R. Chiswick
Ari Paltiel
Endogenous Assimilation and Immigrant Adjustment in Longitudinal Data
We create a longitudinal data set by matching immigrants in Israel's censuses for 1983 and 1995. These panel data reject the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis (IAH), which predicts that immigrants ...
(revised paper published as "Testing the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis with Longitudinal Data" in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (1), 7-27)
J24, J31, J61, F22
1839 John Micklewright
Gyula Nagy
Job Search Monitoring and Unemployment Duration in Hungary: Evidence from a Randomised Control Trial
The impact of the administration of unemployment benefits on time spent unemployed is a neglected issue in discussion of incentive effects in Central and Eastern Europe. We use Labour Force Survey ...
(revised version published as 'The effect of monitoring unemployment insurance recipients on unemployment duration: Evidence from a field experiment' in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 180-187)
J64, J65, P23
1837 Marco Francesconi
Stephen P. Jenkins
Thomas Siedler
Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany
We analyze the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (3), 1073-1103 )
C23, D13, I21, J12, J13
1836 Sascha O. Becker
Samuel Bentolila
Ana Fernandes
Andrea Ichino
Youth Emancipation and Perceived Job Insecurity of Parents and Children
The age at which children leave the parental home differs considerably across countries. In this paper we argue that lower job insecurity of parents and higher job insecurity of children delay ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (3), 1047-1071)
J1, J2
1835 Zhong Zhao
Health Determinants in Urban China
This paper identifies health determinants in urban China applying Grossman model. Using wave of China Health and Nutrition Survey in 2000, we find that education has important positive effect on ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Health Demand and Health Determinants in China' in:Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 2008, 6 (1), 77-98)
I12, J24, D12
1833 Nabanita Datta Gupta
Anders Poulsen
Marie Claire Villeval
Male and Female Competitive Behavior: Experimental Evidence
Male and female choices differ in many economic situations, e.g., on the labor market. This paper considers whether such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our ...
(revised version published as 'Gender Matching and Competitiveness: Experimental Evidence' in: Economic Inquiry, 2013, 51 (1), 816–835.)
C70, C91, J16, J24, J31, M52
1831 Marko Koethenbuerger
Panu Poutvaara
Paola Profeta
Why Are More Redistributive Social Security Systems Smaller? A Median Voter Approach
We suggest a political economy explanation for the stylized fact that intragenerationally more redistributive social security systems are smaller. We relate the stylized fact to an ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2008, 60 (2), 275-292)
H55, D72
1830 Spyros Konstantopoulos
Amelie F. Constant
The Gender Gap Reloaded: Is School Quality Linked to Labor Market Performance?
This study examines the gender gap in wages of young adults in the late 1970s, mid 1980s, and 2000, in the middle and the tails of the wage distribution using quantile regression. We also examine the ...
(substantially revised version published as 'The gender gap reloaded: Are school characteristics linked to labor market performance?' in: Social Science Research, 2008, 37 (2), 374-385)
J16, J24, J31
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