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1771 Jackline Wahba
The Influence of Market Wages and Parental History on Child Labour and Schooling in Egypt
This paper examines the influence of adult market wages and having parents who were child labourers on child labour, when this decision is jointly determined with child schooling, using data from ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2006, 19 (4), 823-852)
J13, J20, O15
1770 Hartmut Lehmann
Norberto Pignatti
Jonathan Wadsworth
The Incidence and Cost of Job Loss in the Ukrainian Labor Market
We examine the effects of economic transition on the pattern and costs of worker displacement in Ukraine, using the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) for the years 1992 to 2002. ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2006, 34 (2), 248-271)
J64, J65, P50
1769 Jordi Brandts
Arno Riedl
Frans van Winden
Competition and Well-Being
This paper experimentally studies the effects of competition in an environment where people's actions can not be contractually fixed. We find that, in comparison with no competition, the presence of ...
(published as "Competitive Rivalry, Social Disposition, and Subjective Well-Being: An Experiment" in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (11-12), 1158-1167)
A13, C92, D30, J50, M50
1767 Takao Kato
Cheryl Long
Executive Compensation, Firm Performance, and Corporate Governance in China: Evidence from Firms Listed in the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges
This paper provides evidence on how executive compensation relates to firm performance in listed firms in China. Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 to ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2006, 54 (4), 945-983)
M52, M12, J33, P31, P34, O16, G30, O53, G15
1766 Bernd Fitzenberger
Astrid Kunze
Vocational Training and Gender: Wages and Occupational Mobility among Young Workers
This paper investigates the relationship between the gender wage gap, the choice of training occupation, and occupational mobility. We use longitudinal data for young workers with apprenticeship ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2005, 21(3), 392-415)
C21, J16, J24, J31, J62, J7
1765 Dale T. Mortensen
Éva Nagypál
More on Unemployment and Vacancy Fluctuations
Shimer (2005a) argues that the Mortensen-Pissarides equilibrium search model of unemployment explains only about 10% of the response in the job-finding rate to an aggregate productivity shock. Some ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics 2007, 10 (3), 327-347)
E24, E32, J41, J63, J64
1764 Luca Flabbi
Gender Discrimination Estimation in a Search Model with Matching and Bargaining
Gender wage differentials, conditional on observed productivity characteristics, have been considered a possible indication of prejudice against women in the labor market. However, there is no ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2010, 51(3), 745-783)
C51, J7, J64
1763 Santiago Budría
Pedro T. Pereira
Educational Qualifications and Wage Inequality: Evidence for Europe
This paper explores the connection between education and wage inequality in nine European countries. We exploit the quantile regression technique to calculate returns to lower secondary, upper ...
(published in: Revista de Economía Aplicada, 2011, 56 (19), 5-34)
C29, D31, I21
1762 Manfred Königstein
Marie Claire Villeval
The Choice of the Agenda in Labor Negotiations: Efficiency and Behavioral Considerations
The labor economics literature has shown that the "efficient bargaining" model, in which wage and employment are negotiated simultaneously, is less frequently used on unionized markets than the ...
(revised version published as 'Efficiency and Behavioral Considerations in Labor Negotiations' in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2010, 31 (4), 599-611.)
C72, C78, C91, J51, J53
1761 Hyung-Jai Choi
Jutta M. Joesch
Shelly Lundberg
Work and Family: Marriage, Children, Child Gender and the Work Hours and Earnings of West German Men
We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in the German Socio-Economic Panel. Living with a partner and living with a child ...
(published as 'Sons, daughters, wives, and the labour market outcomes of West German men' in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (5), 795-811)
J22, J12, J13, J16
1759 Rita K. Almeida
Pedro Carneiro
Enforcement of Regulation, Informal Labor and Firm Performance
This paper investigates how enforcement of labor regulation affects the firm's use of informal employment and its impact on firm performance. Using firm level data on informal employment and firm ...
(published as 'Enforcement of labor regulation and firm size' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2009, 37 (1), 28-46)
J3, J6, O17
1757 Joachim Wagner
German Works Councils and Productivity: First Evidence from a Nonparametric Test
This paper presents the first nonparametric test whether German works councils go hand in hand with higher labor productivity or not. It distinguishes between establishments that are covered by ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2008, 15 (9), 727-730)
J50
1756 Josef Falkinger
Volker Grossmann
Distribution of Natural Resources, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development: Growth Dynamics with Two Elites
This paper develops a model in which the interaction of entrepreneurial investments and power of the owners of land or other natural resources determines structural change and economic development. A ...
(published as 'Oligarchic Land Ownership, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 101 (1), 206-215.)
O10, H50
1755 Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
Computer Skills, Destination Language Proficiency and the Earnings of Natives and Immigrants
Using data from the 2001 Census of Population and Housing in Australia, this paper investigates the determinants, and consequences for earnings, of computer use by both the native born and the ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2007, 5 (2), 129-157)
F22, D13, J15, J24, J31, J61
1754 Jacob K. Goeree
Arno Riedl
Aljaz Ule
In Search of Stars: Network Formation among Heterogeneous Agents
This paper reports the results of a laboratory experiment on network formation among heterogeneous agents. The experimental design extends the basic Bala-Goyal (2000) model of network formation with ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2009, 67 (2), 445-466)
C72, C91, C92, D01, D85
1753 Joop Hartog
Aslan Zorlu
How Important Is Homeland Education for Refugees' Economic Position in The Netherlands?
We use data on refugees admitted to the Netherlands that include registration of education in their homeland by immigration officers. Such data are seldom available. We investigate the quality and ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (1), 219-246)
I21, J31, J61
1752 Murat Iyigun
Randall P. Walsh
Building the Family Nest: Pre-Marital Investments, Marriage Markets and Spousal Allocations
We develop a model of the household in which spousal incomes are determined by pre-marital investments, the marriage market is characterized by assortative matching, and endogenously-determined ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2007, 74 (2), 507-532)
C78, D61, D70
1751 Marcela Eslava
John C. Haltiwanger
Adriana Kugler
Maurice Kugler
Factor Adjustments after Deregulation: Panel Evidence from Colombian Plants
In this paper, we analyze employment and capital adjustments using a panel of plants from Colombia. We allow for nonlinear adjustment of employment to reflect not only adjustment costs of labor but ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 92 (2), 378-391:)
E22, E24, O11, C14, J63
1750 Barry R. Chiswick
Yew Liang Lee
Paul W. Miller
Immigrant Earnings: A Longitudinal Analysis
This paper uses the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia to analyze the determinants of the level and growth in earnings of adult male immigrants in their first 3.5 years in Australia. The ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2005, 51 (4), 485-503)
F22, J31, J61
1749 Spyros Konstantopoulos
Trends of School Effects on Student Achievement: Evidence from NLS:72, HSB:82, and NELS:92
The impact of schools on student achievement has been of great interest for the last four decades. This study examines trends of school effects on student achievement employing three national ...
(published in: Teachers College Record, 2006, 108, 2550-2581)
I2
1748 Xavier Ramos
Using Efficiency Analysis to Measure Individual Well-Being with an Illustration for Catalonia
This paper shows how distance functions, a tool typically employed in production economics to measure the distance between a set of inputs and a set of outputs, can be employed to approximate a ...
(published in: Nanak Kakwani and Jacques Silver (eds.): Quantitative Approaches to Multidimensional Poverty Measure, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
D31, D63, I31, I32
1746 Sumon K. Bhaumik
Jeffrey B. Nugent
Does Economic Uncertainty Affect the Decision to Bear Children? Evidence from East and West Germany
Although economic agents routinely face various types of economic uncertainty, their effects are often unclear and hard to assess, in part due to the absence of suitable measures of uncertainty. ...
(published as 'Real Options and Demographic Decisions: Evidence from East and West Germany' in: Applied Economics, 2011, 43 (21), 2739 - 2749)
J13, J22, D81
1745 William M. Rodgers III
Leslie S. Stratton
The Male Marital Wage Differential: Race, Training, and Fixed Effects
Married white men have higher wages and faster wage growth than unmarried white men. Using the NLSY, we examine whether racial differences in intrahousehold specialization and formal training explain ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2010, 48(3), 722-742)
J31, J12
1743 Adriana Kugler
Giovanni Pica
Effects of Employment Protection on Worker and Job Flows: Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform
This paper uses the Italian Social Security employer-employee panel to study the effects of the Italian reform of 1990 on worker and job flows. We exploit the fact that this reform increased unjust ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (1), 78-95)
E24, J63, J65
1742 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Sara de la Rica
The Impact of Gender Segregation on Male-Female Wage Differentials: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data for Spain
This paper presents new evidence on the role of gender segregation within industry, occupation, establishment, and occupation-establishment cells in explaining gender wage differentials of full-time ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policyy, 2006, 5 (1), Article 10)
J16, J7
1741 Ansgar H. Belke
Frank Baumgärtner
Friedrich Schneider
Ralph Setzer
The Different Extent of Privatisation Proceeds in EU Countries: A Preliminary Explanation Using a Public Choice Approach
This paper empirically investigates the differences in the motives of raising privatisation proceeds for a panel of EU countries from 1990 to 2000. More specifically, we test whether privatisations ...
(published in: Finanzarchiv, 2007, 63 (2), 211-243)
H42, E62, L33
1740 David Neumark
Donna Rothstein
Do School-to-Work Programs Help the "Forgotten Half"?
This paper tests whether school-to-work (STW) programs are particularly beneficial for those less likely to go to college in their absence – often termed the "forgotten half" in the STW literature. ...
(published in: David Neumark (ed.), Improving School-to-Work Transitions. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2007, pp. 87-133)
I28, J15, J24
1739 Anders Björklund
Mikael Lindahl
Erik Plug
The Origins of Intergenerational Associations: Lessons from Swedish Adoption Data
We use unique Swedish data to estimate intergenerational associations between adoptees and their biological and adoptive parents. We argue that the impact from biological parents captures broad ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2006, 121 (3), 999-1028)
I20, J30 J62
1736 Barry R. Chiswick
The Occupational Attainment of American Jewry: 1990 to 2000
This paper compares the occupational distributions in 1990 and 2000 of adult white men and women for American Jews and non-Jews, after adjusting for the changes in occupational classifications. The ...
(published in: Contemporary Jewry, 2007, 27 (1), 80-111)
J15, J16, J22, Z1
1735 Solomon Polachek
Jun Xiang
The Effects of Incomplete Employee Wage Information: A Cross-Country Analysis
In this paper, we define a tractable procedure to measure worker incomplete information in the labor market. The procedure, which makes use of earnings distribution skewness, is based on econometric ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2006, 24, 35-75)
J3, J6
1734 Almas Heshmati
Jong-Eun Oh
Alternative Composite Lisbon Development Strategy Indices
This study addresses the measurement of two composite Lisbon strategy indices that quantifies the level and patterns of development for ranking countries. The first index is nonparametric labelled as ...
(published in: European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2006, 3(2), 133-170)
O10, C43, F15, O57
1732 Herbert Buscher
Christian Dreger
Raul Ramos
Jordi Surinach
The Impact of Institutions on the Employment Performance in European Labour Markets
This paper investigates the role of institutions for labour market performance across European countries. As participation rates have been rather stable over the past, the unemployment problem is ...
(published in: Economic Issues, 2009, 14 (1), 17-34)
E24, J23, J51
1731 Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
Why Is the Payoff to Schooling Smaller for Immigrants?
This paper is concerned with why immigrants appear to have consistently lower partial effects of schooling on earnings than the native born, both across destinations and in different time periods ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (6),1317-1340)
F22, I21, J24, J31, J61
1730 Thomas Dohmen
Armin Falk
David B. Huffman
Uwe Sunde
Jürgen Schupp
Gert G. Wagner
Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey
This paper presents new evidence on the distribution of risk attitudes in the population, using a novel set of survey questions and a representative sample of roughly 22,000 individuals living in ...
(revised version published as 'Individual Risk Attitudes: Measurement, Determinants, and Behavioral Consequences' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (3), 522–550)
D0, D1 D80, D81, C91, C93
1729 Panu Poutvaara
Social Security Incentives, Human Capital Investment and Mobility of Labor
Migration between countries with earnings-related and flat-rate pay-as-you-go social security systems may change human capital investments in both countries. The possibility of emigration boosts ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91 (7-8), 1299-1325)
H55, I2, F22
1728 Marianne P. Bitler
Jonah B. Gelbach
Hilary W. Hoynes
What Mean Impacts Miss: Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform Experiments
Labor supply theory predicts systematic heterogeneity in the impact of recent welfare reforms on earnings, transfers, and income. Yet most welfare reform research focuses on mean impacts. We ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (4), 988–1012.)
J2, I38, H53
1727 Esfandiar Maasoumi
Almas Heshmati
Evaluating Dominance Ranking of PSID Incomes by Various Household Attributes
We examine the dynamic evolution of incomes, both disposable and gross, for several groups in the PSID panel data at several points from 1968 to 1997. We employ the extended Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests ...
(published in: Betti and Lemmi (eds.), Advances in Income Inequality and Concentration Measures, Routledge: London, 2008)
C14, D33, D63, H24
1726 Barry R. Chiswick
Michael Wenz
The Linguistic and Economic Adjustment of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in the United States, 1980 to 2000
This paper is an analysis of the English-language proficiency and labor market earnings of adult male Soviet Jewish immigrants to the United States from 1965 to 2000, using the 2000 Census of ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2006, 24, 179-216)
F22, J6, J31, J24
1725 Evelyn L. Lehrer
Religious Affiliation and Participation as Determinants of Women's Educational Attainment and Wages
Using a human capital model, this paper develops hypotheses about how religious affiliation and participation during childhood influence years of schooling completed and subsequent performance in the ...
(published in: Christopher Ellison and Robert Hummer (eds.) , Religion, Families and Health: Population Based Research in the United States, Rutgers University Press, 2010)
J24, J31
1724 Ina Ganguli
Katherine Terrell
Institutions, Markets and Men's and Women's Wage Inequality: Evidence from Ukraine
Ukraine, the second largest country in the former Soviet bloc, is facing the challenge of rallying popular support for major structural reforms. As in most developing economies, the "Orange ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2006, 34 (2), 200-227)
C14, I2, J16
1723 Uwe Blien
Jens Suedekum
Katja Wolf
Local Employment Growth in West Germany: A Dynamic Panel Approach
In this paper we study the dynamics of local employment growth in West Germany from 1980 to 2001. Using dynamic panel techniques, we analyse the timing of the impact of diversity and specialisation, ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2006, 13 (4), 445-458)
R11, O40
1722 Stéphane Auray
Samuel Danthine
Bargaining Frictions and Hours Worked
A matching model with labor/leisure choice and bargaining frictions is used to explain (i) differences in GDP per hour and GDP per capita, (ii) differences in employment, (iii) differences in the ...
(revised published as "Bargaining Frictions, Labor Income Taxation and Economic Performance" in: European Economic Review, 2010, 54 (6), 778-802)
E24, J22, J30, J41, J50, J64
1721 Timothy J. Hatton
European Asylum Policy
Policy towards asylum seekers has been a controversial topic for more than a decade. Rising numbers of asylum applications have been met with ever-tougher policies to deter them. Following a period ...
(published in: National Institute Economic Review, 2005, 194 (1), 106-119)
F22, H41, H77, H87, J61, K42
1719 Orla Doyle
Patrick Paul Walsh
Did Political Constraints Bind During Transition? Evidence from Czech Elections 1990-2002
Many theoretical models of transition are driven by the assumption that economic decision making is subject to political constraints. In this paper we empirically test whether the winners and losers ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2007, 15 (3), 575–601)
D72, E24, E61
1718 Werner Eichhorst
Regina Konle-Seidl
The Interaction of Labor Market Regulation and Labor Market Policies in Welfare State Reform
Employment protection legislation, unemployment benefits and active labor market policy are Janus-faced institutions. On the one hand they are devices of insurance against labor market risk that ...
(published in: Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, 2006, 28 (1), 1- 41; also available in Chinese)
J58, J68, J65
1717 Jeremy Lise
Shannon Seitz
Jeffrey A. Smith
Evaluating Search and Matching Models Using Experimental Data
This paper introduces an innovative test of search and matching models using the exogenous variation available in experimental data. We take an off-the-shelf Pissarides matching model and calibrate ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 4:16)
J2, I38, J6
1716 Christian Bjørnskov
Nabanita Datta Gupta
Peder J. Pedersen
What Buys Happiness? Analyzing Trends in Subjective Well-Being in 15 European Countries, 1973-2002
Trends in life satisfaction are examined across 15 European countries employing a modified version of Kendall's Tau. Analyses show that GDP growth relative to growth in the preceding period is a ...
(published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2008, 9 (2), 317-330)
I31
1715 Amelie F. Constant
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Immigrant Performance and Selective Immigration Policy: A European Perspective
The European Union aims at a stronger participation by its population in work to foster growth and welfare. There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labour force, and discussions ...
(published in: National Institute Economic Review, 2005, 194 (1), 94-105)
F22, J15, J31, J61, J68, J82
1713 Alison L. Booth
Hiau Joo Kee
Birth Order Matters: The Effect of Family Size and Birth Order on Educational Attainment
We use unique retrospective family background data from the 2003 British Household Panel Survey to explore the degree to which family size and birth order affect a child's subsequent educational ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (2), 367-397)
I2, J1
1712 Simon C. Parker
Entrepreneurship Among Married Couples in the United States: A Simultaneous Probit Approach
This article proposes a simultaneous probit equation framework to analyse the business ownership patterns of married couples in the United States. A structural model of knowledge spillovers within ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (3), 515-537)
J23, J24, M13
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