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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
1581 John S. Heywood
W. Stanley Siebert
Xiangdong Wei
The Implicit Costs and Benefits of Family Friendly Work Practices
This paper posits that the provision of family friendly practices is, on balance, costly to firms and valuable to workers. As a consequence, we anticipate the emergence of a hedonic equilibrium in ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2007, 59 (2), 275-300)
J31, J32
1580 Daniel S. Hamermesh
The Value of Peripatetic Economists: A Sesqui-Difference Evaluation of Bob Gregory
I ask generally whether a country can benefit from the temporary importation of human capital, and specifically whether a program that attracts large groups of academic visitors to a distant country ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2006, 82 (257), 138-149)
A14, C21, J24
1579 Miles Corak
Principles and Practicalities for Measuring Child Poverty in the Rich Countries
This paper has three objectives. The first is to discuss the major issues involved in defining and measuring child poverty. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to ...
(published in: International Social Security Review, 2006, 59 (2), 3-36)
I30, I32, I38
1578 Amit Kumar Bhandari
Almas Heshmati
Measurement of Globalization and Its Variations Among Countries, Regions and Over Time
The process of globalization is an international economic order which has led to the progressive integration of the world economy through the pulling the barrier of trade and greater mobility of ...
(published in: Arno Tausch and Almas Heshmati (eds.), Roadmap to Bangalore? Globalization, the EU's Lisbon Process, the Structures of Global Inequality, Nova Science Publishers, USA, 2007)
C43, F15, L60, O50
1577 Cathy J. Bradley
David Neumark
Zhehui Luo
Heather L. Bednarek
Employment-Contingent Health Insurance, Illness, and Labor Supply of Women: Evidence from Married Women with Breast Cancer
We examine the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on married women’s labor supply following a health shock. First, we develop a theoretical model that examines the effects of ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2007, 16 (7), 719-737)
I12, J2
1576 Alicia Adsera
Where Are the Babies? Labor Market Conditions and Fertility in Europe
Cross-country differences in both the age at first birth and fertility are substantial in Europe. The paper uses the European Community Household Panel 1994-2000 to investigate the relationship ...
(published in: European Journal of Population, 2011, 27 (1), 1 - 32)
J13, J2, J6, H3
1575 Mona Larsen
Peder J. Pedersen
Pathways to Early Retirement in Denmark, 1984-2000
This paper describes and analyses the pathways to early retirement in Denmark. The analyses are based on a 10 per cent panel sample of the population 45-66 years old followed from 1984 onwards. We ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2008, 29(5), 384-409)
J14, J26
1574 Wen-Hao Chen
Miles Corak
Child Poverty and Changes in Child Poverty in Rich Countries Since 1990
This paper documents levels and changes in child poverty rates in 12 OECD countries using data from the Luxembourg Income Study project, and focusing upon an analysis of the reasons for changes over ...
(revised version published in: Demography, 2008, 45 (3), 537-553)
I30, I32, I38
1573 Andrew E. Clark
Youenn Lohéac
"It Wasn't Me, It Was Them!" - Social Influence in Risky Behavior by Adolescents
Many years of concerted policy effort in Western countries has not prevented young people from experimenting with cigarettes, alcohol and marijuana. One potential explanation is that social ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2007, 26 (4), 763-784)
C23, D12, Z13
1570 Maya Bacache-Beauvallet
Etienne Lehmann
Minimum Wage or Negative Income Tax: Why Skilled Workers May Favor Wage Rigidities
This article studies the political choice over the extent and the means of income redistribution between high and low skilled workers. Redistributive tools encompass fiscal transfers with negative ...
(published as 'Minimum wage or negative income tax: why skilled workers may favor wage rigidities' in: Spanish Economic Review, 2008, 10 (1), 63-81)
D78, E24, H23, J38
1569 Thierry Lallemand
Robert Plasman
François Rycx
The Establishment-Size Wage Premium: Evidence from European Countries
This study examines the magnitude and determinants of the establishment-size wage premium in five European countries using a unique harmonised matched employer-employee data set. Findings show the ...
(published in: Empirica, 2007, 34 (5), 427-451)
J31
1568 Subhayu Bandyopadhyay
Ryo Takashima
Trade Policy and Illegal Immigration
We use a version of the Meade model to consider the effects of interdependent import tariffs in the presence illegal immigration. First, we consider the small union case and derive the Nash tariff ...
(published in: International Economics and Finance Journal, 2007, 2(1-2), 51-66)
F11, F22
1567 Gautam Hazarika
Sudipta Sarangi
Household Access to Microcredit and Child Work in Rural Malawi
This paper examines the effect of household access to microcredit upon work by seven to eleven year old children in rural Malawi. Given that microcredit organizations foster household enterprises ...
(published in: World Development, 2008, 36 (5), 843-859)
J22
1566 Scott Adams
David Neumark
The Effects of Living Wage Laws: Evidence from Failed and Derailed Living Wage Campaigns
Living wage campaigns have succeeded in about 100 jurisdictions in the United States but have also been unsuccessful in numerous cities. These unsuccessful campaigns provide a better control group or ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2005, 78 (2), 177-202)
J28, J38
1565 Anna Maria Ferragina
Francesco Pastore
Mind the Gap: Unemployment in the New EU Regions
The paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on regional unemployment during transition in Central and Eastern Europe. The focus is on Optimal Speed of Transition (OST) models and on ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2008, 22 (1), 73-113)
J6, P2, R1, R23
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