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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
1711 Gil S. Epstein
Ira N. Gang
Contests, NGOs and Decentralizing Aid
International donors usually have particular goals they want to achieve with their foreign aid, for example, poverty alleviation. In the international aid story lobbying by potential recipient groups ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2006, 10 (2), 285-296)
F35, D72
1710 Herbert Brücker
Boriss Siliverstovs
On the Estimation and Forecasting of International Migration: How Relevant Is Heterogeneity Across Countries?
This paper performs a comparative analysis of estimation as well as of out-of-sample forecasting results of more than 20 estimators common in the panel data literature using the data on migration to ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2006, 31(3), 735-754)
C23, C53, F22
1709 Lex Borghans
Bas ter Weel
The Division of Labour, Worker Organisation, and Technological Change
The model developed in this paper explains differences in the division of labour across firms as a result of computer technology adoption. We find that changes in the division of labour can result ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (509), F45-F72)
J31, O15, O33
1708 Nina Smith
Valdemar Smith
Mette Verner
Do Women in Top Management Affect Firm Performance? A Panel Study of 2500 Danish Firms
Corporate governance literature argues that board diversity is potentially positively related to firm performance. This study examines the relationship in the case of women in top executive jobs and ...
(published in: International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, 2006, 55 (7), 569 - 593 )
G38, J16, M14
1707 Jaan Masso
Raul Eamets
Kaia Philips
Job Creation and Job Destruction in Estonia: Labour Reallocation and Structural Changes
This article documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Estonia over the years 1995-2001, using a database containing the population of officially registered firms in Estonia ...
(published in: H. Hannula, S. Radoševic and N. von Tunzelmann (eds.) , Estonia, the New EU Economy, Building a Baltic Miracle. Ashgate Publishing, 2006, pp. 105-142)
J6, P2, L11
1706 Pierre-Carl Michaud
Konstantinos Tatsiramos
Employment Dynamics of Married Women in Europe
We use eight waves from the European Community Household Panel (1994-2001) to analyze the intertemporal labor supply behavior of married women in six European countries (Netherlands, France, Spain, ...
(substantially revised paper appeared as DP No. 3853 )
C23, C25, D91, J22
1705 Lucia Foster
John C. Haltiwanger
Chad Syverson
Reallocation, Firm Turnover, and Efficiency: Selection on Productivity or Profitability?
There is considerable evidence that producer-level churning contributes substantially to aggregate (industry) productivity growth, as more productive businesses displace less productive ones. ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2008, 98 (1), 394-425)
L10, J63
1704 Beatrice d'Hombres
Giorgio Brunello
Does Obesity Hurt Your Wages More in Dublin than in Madrid? Evidence from ECHP
We use data from the European Community Household Panel to investigate the impact of obesity on wages in 9 European countries, ranging from Ireland to Spain. We find that the common impact of obesity ...
(published as 'Does body weight affect wages? Evidence from Europe' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2007, 5 (1), 1-19 )
I12, J3
1703 Alexander K. Koch
Hans-Theo Normann
Giving in Dictator Games: Regard for Others or Regard by Others?
Recent bargaining experiments demonstrated an impact of anonymity and incomplete information on subjects' behavior. This has rekindled the question whether "fair" behavior is inspired by regard for ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2008, 75 (1), 223-231. revised working paper version )
A13, C91, D64
1702 Luojia Hu
Christopher Taber
Layoffs, Lemons, Race and Gender
This paper expands on Gibbons and Katz (1991) by looking at how the difference in wage losses across plant closing and layoff varies with race and gender. We find that the differences between white ...
(substantially revised version published as `Displacement, Asymmetric Information and Heterogeneous Human Capita' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2011, 29 (1), 113-152.)
J6, J7
1700 James J. Heckman
Lance John Lochner
Petra E. Todd
Earnings Functions, Rates of Return and Treatment Effects: The Mincer Equation and Beyond
Numerous studies regress log earnings on schooling and report estimated coefficients as "Mincer rates of return". A more recent literature uses instrumental variables. This chapter considers the ...
(published in: E. Hanushek and F. Welch, eds., Handbook of the Economics of Education, North Holland: Amsterdam, 2006, 307-458)
C31
1698 Ken Clark
Stephen Drinkwater
Dynamics and Diversity: Ethnic Employment Differences in England and Wales, 1991-2001
This paper uses microdata from the 1991 and 2001 Population Censuses to examine differences in the employment experiences of ethnic minorities living in England and Wales. It focuses on two main ...
(revised version published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2009, 29, 299-333)
J15, J21, J7
1696 Axel Heitmueller
Kostas Mavromaras
On the Post-Unification Development of Public and Private Pay in Germany
German post-unification in the 1990s is a period that was marked by substantial economic change, part of which was East German wages building towards the much higher West German levels. This paper ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2007, 75 (4), 422–444)
J78, J31
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