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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
1650 Michael L. Bognanno
Lisa Delgado
Job Displacement Penalties in Japan
The costs of job displacement are examined on a sample of Japanese workers successfully provided job placement services from 2000 to 2003, a period of economic stagnation and structural change in ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 28, 225-250)
J31, J41, J63, J65
1649 Alison L. Booth
Melvyn Coles
Education, Matching and the Allocative Value of Romance
Societies are characterized by customs governing the allocation of non-market goods such as marital partnerships. We explore how such customs affect the educational investment decisions of young ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2010, 8(4), 744-775)
I21, J12, J16, J41
1646 Martijn Egas
Arno Riedl
The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation
Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that ...
(published as 'The economics of altruistic punishment and the maintenance of cooperation' in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B -Biological Sciences, 2008, 275 (1637), 871-878)
C72, C91, C93, D01, D70, H41
1645 Jörn-Steffen Pischke
Till von Wachter
Zero Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany: Evidence and Interpretation
We estimate the impact of compulsory schooling on earnings using the changes in compulsory schooling laws for secondary schools in West German states during the period from 1948 to 1970. While our ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008, 90 (2), 592-598)
I21, J24, J31
1644 Wolter Hassink
Pierre Koning
Do Financial Bonuses to Employees Reduce Their Absenteeism? Outcome of a Lottery
This paper investigates the effectiveness of a monthly lottery in reducing sick leave among workers in a manufacturing firm. Conditions of participation are not having reported sick in the previous ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2009, 62 (3), 327 - 342)
J22, J32, M52
1643 Florian Englmaier
Achim Wambach
Optimal Incentive Contracts under Inequity Aversion
We analyze the Moral Hazard problem, assuming that agents are inequity averse. Our results differ from conventional contract theory and are more in line with empirical findings than standard results. ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2010, 69 (2), 312-328)
D23, D63, J31, J33, M12, Z13
1642 Manuela Angelucci
U.S. Border Enforcement and the Net Flow of Mexican Illegal Migration
This paper investigates the effect of U.S. border enforcement on the net flow of Mexican undocumented migration. It shows how this effect is theoretically ambiguous, given that increases in border ...
(revised version published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2012, 60 (2), 311-357)
F22, J61, K42, O15
1641 Ernst Fehr
Urs Fischbacher
Michael Kosfeld
Neuroeconomic Foundations of Trust and Social Preferences
This paper discusses recent neuroeconomic evidence related to other-regarding behaviors and the decision to trust in other people's other-regarding behavior. This evidence supports the view that ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2005, 95 (2), 346-351)
A13, C90
1640 Andrea Bassanini
Alison L. Booth
Giorgio Brunello
Maria De Paola
Edwin Leuven
Workplace Training in Europe
This paper reviews the existing evidence on workplace training in Europe in different data sources - the CVTS, OECD data and the European Community Household Panel. We outline the differences in ...
(published in: Brunello, Garibaldi and Wasmer (eds.), Education and Training in Europe, Oxford University Press, 2007, Ch. 8 - 13)
J24
1638 Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
Arturo Gonzalez
Todd C. Neumann
Learning but Not Earning? The Value of Job Corps Training for Hispanic Youths
The National Job Corps Study (NJCS) was a four-year longitudinal social experiment that randomized over 15,000 Job Corps eligible applicants into treatment and control groups. Experimental estimators ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2010, 48 (3), 651-667)
J15, J31, J41
1637 Fabien Postel-Vinay
Hélčne Turon
The Public Pay Gap in Britain: Small Differences That (Don't?) Matter
The existing literature on inequality between private and public sectors focuses on cross-section differences in earnings levels. A more general way of looking at inequality between sectors is to ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (523), 1460-1503)
J45, J31, J62
1636 Heather Antecol
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Racial Harassment, Job Satisfaction and Intentions to Remain in the Military
Our results indicate that two-thirds of active-duty military personnel report experiencing offensive racial behaviors in the previous 12 months, while approximately one in ten report threatening ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (3), 713-738)
J16, J28
1635 Armin Falk
Ernst Fehr
Urs Fischbacher
Driving Forces Behind Informal Sanctions
This paper investigates the driving forces behind informal sanctions in cooperation games and the extent to which theories of fairness and reciprocity capture these forces. We find that cooperators' ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2005, 7 (6), 2017-2030)
A13, D63, D23, C92, K42
1634 Leslie S. Stratton
Dennis M. O'Toole
James N. Wetzel
A Multinomial Logit Model of College Stopout and Dropout Behavior
Studies of college attrition typically assume that all attrition is permanent. We use data from the 1990/94 Beginning Postsecondary Survey to distinguish between long-term dropout and short-term ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2008, 27 (3), 319-331)
I21
1632 Thomas K. Bauer
Mathias Sinning
The Savings Behavior of Temporary and Permanent Migrants in Germany
This paper examines the relative savings position of migrant households in West Germany, paying particular attention to differences between temporary and permanent migrants. Utilizing household level ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011(2), 24, 421-449)
F22, E21, C24
1630 Christian Belzil
Michael L. Bognanno
Promotions, Demotions, Halo Effects and Earnings Dynamics of American Executives
This paper explores the dynamics of wage growth in corporate hierarchies. Using panel data techniques, we estimate the causal effect of current and past transitions in reporting level and past ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2008, 26 (2), 287-310)
C33, J41, M5, M51
1629 Brian Duncan
Stephen J. Trejo
Ethnic Identification, Intermarriage, and Unmeasured Progress by Mexican Americans
Using Census and CPS data, we show that U.S.-born Mexican Americans who marry non-Mexicans are substantially more educated and English proficient, on average, than are Mexican Americans who marry ...
(published in: George J. Borjas (ed.), Mexican Immigration to the United States, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007, 229-267)
J12, J15, J62
1627 Ian Walker
Yu Zhu
The College Wage Premium, Overeducation, and the Expansion of Higher Education in the UK
This paper provides findings from the UK Labour Force Surveys from 1996 to 2003 on the financial private returns to a degree – the "college premium". The data covers a decade when the university ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 110 (4), 695-709)
I20, J30
1625 Armin Falk
Ernst Fehr
Christian Zehnder
The Behavioral Effects of Minimum Wages
The prevailing labor market models assume that minimum wages do not affect the labor supply schedule. We challenge this view in this paper by showing experimentally that minimum wages have ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2006, 121 (4), 1347-1381)
C91, D63, E64, J38, J42, J58, J68
1624 Robert Breunig
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Xiaodong Gong
Danielle Venn
Disagreement in Partners' Reports of Financial Difficulty
We use unique data in which both partners report about household finances to demonstrate that there is often disagreement about whether the household has experienced financial difficulty in the past ...
(published in: Review of the Economics of the Household, 2007, 5 (1), 59-82)
C42, D14, I31
1622 Fathi Fakhfakh
Felix FitzRoy
Dynamic Monopsony: Evidence from a French Establishment Panel
This paper uses a panel of about 6000 French establishments to test some implications of the modern theory of dynamic monopsony or upward sloping labour supply curves for average firm wages. Panel ...
(published in: Economica, 2006, 73 (291), 533-545)
C23, J30, J31
1620 John T. Addison
The Determinants of Firm Performance: Unions, Works Councils, and Employee Involvement/High Performance Work Practices
Drawing on evidence from the United States and Germany, this paper offers a survey of the effects of worker representation (in unions and works councils) and innovative work practices on firm ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2005, 52 (3), 406-450)
J51, J53, M54
1618 Gilles Saint-Paul
Making Sense of Bolkestein-Bashing: Trade Liberalization under Segmented Labor Markets
Trade liberalization is often met with sharp opposition. Recent examples include the so-called "Bolkestein" directive, which allows service providers from a given EU member to temporarily work in ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2007, 73 (1), 152-174)
F16, F11, F13
1617 John Ekberg
Rickard Eriksson
Guido Friebel
Parental Leave – A Policy Evaluation of the Swedish "Daddy-Month" Reform
Many countries are trying to incentivize fathers to increase their share in parental leave and in household work to improve female labor market opportunities. Our unique data set stems from a natural ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 97, 131-143)
J48, J13, J16, J22
1616 Michael Gerfin
Martin Schellhorn
Nonparametric Bounds on the Effect of Deductibles in Health Care Insurance on Doctor Visits – Swiss Evidence
We evaluate the effect of the size of deductibles in the basic health insurance in Switzerland on the probability of a doctor visit. We employ nonparametric bounding techniques to minimise ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2006, 15 (9), 1011-1020)
C14, I19
1614 Hakan Berument
Nukhet Dogan
Aysit Tansel
Economic Performance and Unemployment: Evidence from an Emerging Economy - Turkey
This article examines whether various macroeconomic policy shocks have different effects on overall unemployment rate and the unemployment rate by different levels of education in Turkey. These ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2006, 27(7), 604-623)
E24, C32
1612 Axel Dreher
Panu Poutvaara
Student Flows and Migration: An Empirical Analysis
Using panel data for 78 countries of origin we examine the impact of student flows to the United States on subsequent migration there over the period 1971-2001. What we find is that the stock of ...
(published as "Foreign Students and Migration to the United States" in: World Development, 2011, 39(8), 1294-1307)
F22, I2, J61, O15
1611 Roberto Alvarez
Holger Görg
Multinationals and Plant Exit: Evidence from Chile
This paper examines the link between multinational enterprises and plant exit in Chile. We investigate three main questions: are affiliates of foreign multinationals more likely to exit than domestic ...
(published in: International Review of Economics and Finance, 2009, 18 (1), 45-51)
F2, L6
1610 Andrew E. Clark
Your Money or Your Life: Changing Job Quality in OECD Countries
Job quality may usefully be thought of as depending on both job values (how much workers care about different job outcomes) and the job outcomes themselves. Here both cross-section and panel data are ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2005, 43 (3), 377-400)
J28, J3, J81
1608 Joachim Wagner
"Der Noth gehorchend, nicht dem eignen Trieb" – Nascent Necessity and Opportunity Entrepreneurs in Germany: Evidence from the Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM)
Using a large recent representative sample of the adult German population this paper demonstrates that nascent necessity and nascent opportunity entrepreneurs are different with respect to some of ...
(published in: RWI-Mitteilungen, 2003/2004, 54/55 (3-4), 287-303)
J23
1606 Holger Görg
Eric Strobl
Do Government Subsidies Stimulate Training Expenditure? Microeconometric Evidence from Plant Level Data
This paper examines whether financial assistance provided by government induces firms to spend more of their own funds on training expenditures, using plant level data for the Republic of Ireland. We ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2006, 72(4), 860-876)
J24, H25
1603 Laurens Cherchye
Bram De Rock
Frederic Vermeulen
Opening the Black Box of Intra-Household Decision-Making: Theory and Non-Parametric Empirical Tests of General Collective Consumption Models
We non-parametrically test a general collective consumption model with public consumption and externalities inside the household. We further propose a novel approach to model special cases of the ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2009, 117 (6), 1074 - 1104)
D11, D12, C14
1602 René Böheim
Alfred M. Stiglbauer
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
When and How to Create a Job: The Survival of New Jobs in Austrian Firms
While the volatility of job creations has been studied extensively, the survival chances of new jobs are less researched. The question when and how to expand a firm is of importance, both from the ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2009, 105 (1), 17-19)
J23, J63, E24, E32
1601 David G. Blanchflower
Andrew J. Oswald
Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia
According to the well-being measure known as the U.N. Human Development Index, Australia now ranks 3rd in the world and higher than all other English-speaking nations. This paper questions that ...
(published in: Australian Economic Review, 2005, 38 (3), 307-319)
E6
1600 Tito Boeri
Herbert Brücker
Migration, Co-ordination Failures and EU Enlargement
European migration policies are characterised by a fundamental paradox: they are getting tighter and tighter just while public opinion is becoming more favourable to migrants and the immobility of ...
(published as 'Why are Europeans so tough on migrants?' in: Economic Policy, 2005, 20 (44), 629-703)
J61, F16, F2
1599 Maurice Schiff
Brain Gain: Claims about Its Size and Impact on Welfare and Growth Are Greatly Exaggerated
Based on static partial equilibrium analysis, the "new brain drain" literature argues that, by raising the return to education, a brain drain generates a brain gain that is, under certain conditions, ...
(published in: Caglar Ozden and Maurice Schiff (eds.), International Migration, Remittances, and the Brain Drain, Palgrave MacMillan: New York, 2006)
D61, D62, F22, H20, H41, I12, J61
1598 Nil Demet Güngör
Aysit Tansel
The Determinants of Return Intentions of Turkish Students and Professionals Residing Abroad: An Empirical Investigation
The study estimates an empirical model of return intentions using a dataset compiled from an internet survey of Turkish professionals and Turkish students residing abroad. In the migration ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Brain Drain from Turkey: Return Intentions of Skilled Migrants' in: International Migration, 2012, 52(5), 208-226)
F20, F22
1597 Lex Borghans
Bart H.H. Golsteyn
Time Discounting and the Body Mass Index
In many Western countries, the relative weight of people - measured by the Body Mass Index (BMI) - has increased substantially in recent years, leading to an increasing incidence of overweight and ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2006, 4(1), 39-61)
I1
1596 Amit Kumar Bhandari
Almas Heshmati
Labour Use and Its Adjustment in Indian Manufacturing Industries
This study provides an empirical investigation of the adjustment process of labour in Indian manufacturing industries, which evolved through structural transformation in the era of globalization. The ...
(published in: Global Economic Review, 2005, 32(3), 261-290)
C23, J23, L60
1595 Thomas Dohmen
Social Pressure Influences Decisions of Individuals: Evidence from the Behavior of Football Referees
Analyzing the neutrality of referees during twelve German premier league (1st Bundesliga) football seasons, this paper documents evidence that social forces influence agents' preferences and ...
(revised version published as 'The Influence of Social Forces: Evidence from the Behavior of Football Referees' in: Economic Inquiry, 2008, 46(3), 411-424)
J00, M50
1594 Craig Gundersen
David C. Ribar
Food Insecurity and Insufficiency at Low Levels of Food Expenditures
This study uses data from the December 2003 Food Security Supplement of the CPS to compare the food insufficiency and insecurity measures with objective measures of food expenditures and objective ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2011, 57 (4), 704-726.)
I3
1591 Nabanita Datta Gupta
Nina Smith
Leslie S. Stratton
Is Marriage Poisonous? Are Relationships Taxing? An Analysis of the Male Marital Wage Differential in Denmark
The word for 'married' in Danish is the same as the word for 'poison'. The word for 'sweetheart' in Danish is the same as the word for 'tax'. In this paper we expand upon the literature documenting a ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2007, 74 (2), 412-433)
J12, J31
1590 Anna Maria Mayda
International Migration: A Panel Data Analysis of Economic and Non-Economic Determinants
In this paper I empirically investigate economic and non-economic determinants of migration inflows into fourteen OECD countries by country of origin, between 1980 and 1995. The annual panel data set ...
(published as "International mirgration: a panel data analysis of the determinants of bilateral flows" in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (4), 1249-1274)
F22
1588 Marco Caliendo
Sabine Kopeinig
Some Practical Guidance for the Implementation of Propensity Score Matching
Propensity Score Matching (PSM) has become a popular approach to estimate causal treatment effects. It is widely applied when evaluating labour market policies, but empirical examples can be found in ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2008, 22(1), 31-72)
C40, H43
1587 Daniele Checchi
Massimo Florio
Jorge Carrera
Privatization Discontent and Its Determinants: Evidence from Latin America
Privatization policy faces increasing popular opposition in Latin America. We test for the determinants of this discontent. We use the results of Latinobarometro (2002), a survey of a representative ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2009, 45(3), 333-350)
H32, G14, L33
1586 Christian Dustmann
Sonia C. Pereira
Wage Growth and Job Mobility in the U.K. and Germany
This paper investigates job mobility and estimates the returns to tenure and experience in the United Kingdom and Germany. We show evidence that job mobility is higher in the UK than in Germany, and ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2008, 61 (3), 374 - 393)
J24, J31
1585 Christian Belzil
Jörgen Hansen
A Structural Analysis of the Correlated Random Coefficient Wage Regression Model with an Application to the OLS-IV Puzzle
We estimate a finite mixture dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the log wage regression function is set within a correlated random coefficient model and we use the structural ...
(Published in: Journal of Econometrics, 140 (2), 2007, 333-948 )
J2, J3
1584 Alicia Adsera
Differences in Desired and Actual Fertility: An Economic Analysis of the Spanish Case
Family size is the outcome of sequential decisions influenced both by preferences and by ongoing changes in the environment where a family lives. During the last two decades the gap between the ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2006, 4 (1), 75-95)
J13, J2, J6, Z13
1583 Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Peter Hans Matthews
Norm Enforcement: Anger, Indignation or Reciprocity?
The enforcement of social norms often requires that unaffected third parties sanction offenders. Given the renewed interest of economists in norms, the literature on third party punishment is ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10 (3), 555-572)
C79, C91, C92, D64, H41
1582 Panos Tsakloglou
Ioannis Cholezas
Education and Inequality in Greece
In the public discourse, education is usually considered as the main vehicle for the promotion of social equality and social mobility. The paper surveys the existing literature and concludes that the ...
(published in: Asplund, R. and E. Barth (eds.), Education and wage inequality in Europe: A literature review, 203-240, ETLA: Helsinki, 2005)
I22, I28, J31
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