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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
1564 Juan J. Dolado
Marcel Jansen
Juan F. Jimeno
Dual Employment Protection Legislation: A Framework for Analysis
In many countries, Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) establishes different regulations for certain groups of workers who face more disadvantages in the labor market (young workers, women, ...
(published in: Volume VIII of Series on Central Banking, Analysis and Economic Policies: Labour Markets and Institutions, Jorge E. Restrepo and Andrea Tokman (eds.), Central Bank of Chile, 2005)
J64, J63
1563 Brenda Gannon
Robert Plasman
François Rycx
Ilan Tojerow
Inter-Industry Wage Differentials and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from European Countries
This study analyses the interaction between inter-industry wage differentials and the gender wage gap in six European countries using a unique harmonised matched employer-employee data set, the 1995 ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2007, 38 (1), 135-155)
J16, J31, J71
1562 Giorgio Brunello
Lorenzo Cappellari
The Labour Market Effects of Alma Mater: Evidence from Italy
We use data from a nationally representative survey of Italian graduates to study whether Alma Mater matters for employment and earnings three years after graduation. We find that the attended ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2008, 27 (5), 564-574)
J24
1561 Sylvain Dessy
Habiba Djebbari
Career Choice, Marriage-Timing, and the Attraction of Unequals
Both men and women wish to have a family and a rewarding career. In this paper, we show that the under-representation of women in high-powered professions may reflect a coordination failure in young ...
(published as 'High-powered careers and marriage: can women have it all?' in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2010, 10 (1), Article 42)
J12, J16, J24
1560 Keith A. Bender
Steffen Habermalz
Are There Differences in the Health-Socioeconomic Status Relationship over the Life Cycle? Evidence from Germany
Most research on the relationship between health and socioeconomic status (SES) controls for changing age or investigates the relationship for a particular age range. This paper, however, examines ...
(published in: Labour, 2008, 22 (1), 107-125)
I0, I12, J0, J60, C13
1559 Panu Poutvaara
Andreas Wagener
To Draft or Not to Draft? Efficiency, Generational Incidence, and Political Economy of Military Conscription
We study the efficiency and distributional consequences of establishing and abolishing the draft in a dynamic model with overlapping generations, taking into account endogenous human capital ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2007, 23 (4), 975-987)
H20, H57, I21, D63
1557 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Sara de la Rica
Immigrants' Responsiveness to Labor Market Conditions and Its Implications on Regional Disparities: Evidence from Spain
Using data from the Spanish Labor Force Survey (Encuesta de Población Activa) from 1999 through 2004, we explore the role of regional employment opportunities in explaining the increasing immigrant ...
(published in: SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, 2010, 1 (1), 387-407)
J61
1556 Maria Guadalupe
Product Market Competition, Returns to Skill and Wage Inequality
This paper shows that increasing product market competition can have a direct impact on the employment relationship and on wage inequality. I develop a simple model in which an increase in product ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2007, 25 (3), 439-474)
J31, J33, L22, D21
1555 Judith K. Hellerstein
David Neumark
Using Matched Employer-Employee Data to Study Labor Market Discrimination
Wage gaps between individuals of difference races, sexes, and ethnicities have been documented and replicated extensively, and have generated a long history in labor economics research of empirical ...
(published in: William Rodgers (ed.), Handbook on the Economics of Discrimination, Edgar Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham. 2006, 29-60)
J71
1554 René Böheim
Helmut Hofer
Christine Zulehner
Wage Differences Between Men and Women in Austria: Evidence from 1983 and 1997
In most OECD countries the wage gap between men and women has declined during the past two decades. Developments of the last 20 years, e.g. increased labour market attachment of women, changes in the ...
(published as 'Wage differences between Austrian men and women: semper idem?' in: Empirica, 2007, 34 (3), 213-29)
J31, J71
1553 Alan Barrett
Adele Bergin
David Duffy
The Labour Market Characteristics and Labour Market Impacts of Immigrants in Ireland
The purpose of this paper is two-fold. We firstly produce a labour market profile of non-Irish immigrants who arrived in Ireland in the ten years to 2003. We then go on to use the labour market ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2006, 37 (1), 1-26)
J24, J31, J61
1552 Frank F. Furstenberg Jr.
David Neumark
School-to-Career and Post-Secondary Education: Evidence from the Philadelphia Educational Longitudinal Study
We study a set of programs implemented in Philadelphia high schools that focus on boosting post-secondary enrollment. These programs are less career oriented than traditional school-to-work programs, ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2007, 15(2), 135-157)
I28, J24
1551 Kræn Blume Jensen
Björn Anders Gustafsson
Peder J. Pedersen
Mette Verner
At the Lower End of the Table: Determinants of Poverty among Immigrants to Denmark and Sweden
In this paper we study determinants of relative poverty among immigrants and natives in Denmark and Sweden during the 1980s and 1990s. Denmark and Sweden share the same properties in a range of ...
(published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2007, 33 (3), 373-396)
F22, I32, J15
1549 Nigel C. O'Leary
Peter J. Sloane
The Changing Wage Return to an Undergraduate Education
Between 1990/91 and 2000/01 the number of male undergraduates in Britain increased by over one-third while the number of female undergraduates has increased nearly twofold. Given this substantial ...
(published as 'The Wage Premium for University Education in Great Britain During a Decade of Change' in: Manchester School, 2011, 79 (4), 740 - 764 )
I2, J0, J3
1548 Lawrence M. Kahn
The Impact of Employment Protection Mandates on Demographic Temporary Employment Patterns: International Microeconomic Evidence
Using 1994-98 International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) microdata, this paper investigates the impact of employment protection laws on the incidence of temporary employment by demographic group. ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117(521), F333-F356)
J21, J23
1547 Erdal Tekin
Sara Markowitz
Suicidal Behavior and the Labor Market Productivity of Young Adults
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the link between suicidal behaviors and labor market productivity of young adults in the United States. Using data from the National Survey of ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2008, 75(2), 300-331)
I1, J24
1546 Barbara L. Wolfe
Thomas Kaplan
Robert Haveman
Yoon Y. Cho
Extending Health Care Coverage to the Low-Income Population: The Influence of the Wisconsin BadgerCare Program on Labor Market Outcomes
The Wisconsin BadgerCare program, which became operational in July 1999, expanded public health insurance eligibility to families with incomes below 185 percent of the U.S poverty line (200 percent ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2006, 25 (6), 1170-1192)
I18, J21
1545 Sebastian G. Kessing
Kai A. Konrad
Union Strategy and Optimal Income Taxation
Restrictions on work hours are more important in countries with a large welfare state. We show that this empirical observation is consistent with the strategic effects of such restrictions in a ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2006, 90(1-2), 393-402)
H21, H23
1543 Salvatore Barbaro
Jens Suedekum
The Interaction of Tax Exemptions and Individual Tax Reform Preferences
The individual voting behavior on the abolishment of single income-tax exemptions crucially depends on how strongly agents are affected by other deduction possibilities that are not at stake in the ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Voting on income tax exemptions' in: Public Choice, 2009, 138 (1-2), 239-253)
D72, D74
1540 Armin Falk
Josef Zweimüller
Unemployment and Right-Wing Extremist Crime
Right-wing extremism is a serious problem in many societies. A prominent hypothesis states that unemployment plays a crucial role for the occurrence of right-wing extremist crime. In this paper we ...
(published (with Andreas Kuhn) in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics. 2011, 113 (2), 260 - 285)
K14, J60, J15
1539 Michael Gibbs
Returns to Skills and Personnel Management: U.S. DoD Scientists and Engineers
Personnel records are used to examine compensation, recruitment, and retention of a group of very highly skilled workers: civilian scientists and engineers in U.S. Department of Defense laboratories. ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2006, 44(2), 199-214)
J24, J31, J44, J45
1538 Josef Falkinger
Limited Attention as the Scarce Resource in an Information-Rich Economy
This paper uses basic empirical facts from attention and perception psychology for a behavioral approach to equilibrium analysis at the industry and the macroeconomic level. The paper endogenously ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118, 1596-1620)
D50, D80, L10
1537 Daniela Mantovani
Fotis Papadopoulos
Holly Sutherland
Panos Tsakloglou
Pension Incomes in the European Union: Policy Reform Strategies in Comparative Perspective
This paper considers the effects on current pensioner incomes of reforms designed to improve the long-term sustainability of public pension systems in the European Union. We use EUROMOD to simulate a ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2006, 25, 27-71)
C81, I30, H55
1536 Olof Aslund
Peter Fredriksson
Ethnic Enclaves and Welfare Cultures: Quasi-Experimental Evidence
We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy. We distinguish between the quantity of contacts – the number of individuals of ...
(published as: 'Peer Effects in Welfare Dependence: Quasi-experimental Evidence" in: Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44(3), 799–825)
I38, J15
1535 Peter Kooreman
The Persistent Segregation of Girls into Lower-Paying Jobs while in School
This paper analyzes gender differences in jobs while in high school. The availability of school class based samples with detailed information on teenage jobs allows for a comparison of the behavior ...
(published as "The early inception of labor market gender differences" in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (2), 135-139 )
J16, J22
1534 Alison L. Booth
Nick Carroll
The Health Status of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians
We use unique survey data to examine the determinants of self-assessed health of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. We explore the degree to which differences in health are due to differences ...
(shortened version published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 99 (3), 604-606)
I1, I12
1533 Gil S. Epstein
Shmuel Nitzan
The Struggle over Migration Policy
In this paper we analyze the endogenous determination of migration quota viewing it as an outcome of a two-stage political struggle between two interest groups: those in favor and those against the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2006, 19 (4), 703-723)
J61, J81
1532 Bernard van den Berg
Wolter Hassink
Moral Hazard and Cash Benefits in Long-Term Home Care
This paper tests empirically for ex-post moral hazard in a system based on demand-side subsidies. In the Netherlands, demand-side subsidies were introduced in 1996. Clients receive a cash benefit to ...
(published as "Cash benefits in long-term home care" in: Health Policy, 2008, 88 (2-3), 209-221)
I10
1531 Hillel Rapoport
Frédéric Docquier
The Economics of Migrants’ Remittances
This chapter reviews the recent theoretical and empirical economic literature on migrants' remittances. It is divided between a microeconomic section on the determinants of remittances and a ...
(published in: S. Kolm and J. Mercier Ythier (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Giving, Altruism and Reciprocity Vol. 2, North Holland 2006)
J61, D31, O15
1530 Tito Boeri
Andrea Brandolini
The Age of Discontent: Italian Households at the Beginning of the Decade
In the Italian public debate growing attention has been recently paid to “household impoverishment”. Subjective indicators of economic condition show that this concern reflects a common sentiment of ...
(published in: Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, 2004, 63 (3-4), 449-487)
D31, I3
1529 Cindy Zoghi
Alec R. Levenson
Michael Gibbs
Why Are Jobs Designed the Way They Are?
In this paper we study job design. Will an organization plan precisely how the job is to be done ex ante, or ask workers to determine the process as they go? We first model this decision and predict ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2010, 30, 107-154)
M5, M50, J2, J24, L23
1528 Miles Corak
Michael Fertig
Marcus Tamm
A Portrait of Child Poverty in Germany
This paper offers a descriptive portrait of income poverty among children in Germany between the early 1980s and 2001, with a focus on developments since unification in 1991. Data from the German ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2008, 54 (4), 547-571)
I32, I38, J13
1527 Alexander K. Koch
Eloic Peyrache
Aligning Ambition and Incentives
In many economic situations several principals contract with the same agents sequentially. Asymmetric learning about agents' abilities provides the first principal with an informational advantage and ...
(revised and extended version published in: Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2011, 27 (3): 655-688.)
D82, J33, L14
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