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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
1523 Thomas Cornelissen
Olaf Hübler
Downward Wage Rigidity and Labour Mobility
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) effects of being individually affected by downward wage rigidity on layoffs, quits and intra-firm mobility are investigated. We measure the ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2008, 34(2), 205-230 )
J31, J63
1522 Joachim Wagner
Nascent and Infant Entrepreneurs in Germany: Evidence from the Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM)
Based on data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper documents that the patterns of variables influencing nascent and infant entrepreneurship are quite ...
(published in: Joachim Merz and Reihard Schulte (Hrsg.), Neue Ansätze der MittelstandsForschung, Berlin etc.: Lit-Verlag 2008)
J23
1521 Moshe Buchinsky
Denis Fougère
Francis Kramarz
Rusty Tchernis
Interfirm Mobility, Wages, and the Returns to Seniority and Experience in the U.S.
Much of the research in labor economics during the 1980s and the early 1990s was devoted to the analysis of changes in the wage structure across many of the world’s economies. Only recently, has ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2010, 77 (3), 972-1001)
C11, C15, J31, J63
1519 Markus Frölich
Katharina Michaelowa
Peer Effects and Textbooks in Primary Education: Evidence from Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa
As opposed to many other school inputs, textbooks have frequently been demonstrated to significantly foster student achievement. Using the rich data set provided by the 'Program on the Analysis of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (4), 474-486)
C14, C21, O15
1517 Espen Bratberg
Øivind Anti Nilsen
Kjell Vaage
Intergenerational Mobility: Trends Across the Earnings Distribution
The analysis, based on register data for Norwegian cohorts born 1950, 1955, and 1960, shows that the intergenerational earnings mobility is high. Using quantile regression, mobility is found to be ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2007, 46 (1), 112-129)
J62, C23
1516 Adama Konseiga
Regionalism in West Africa: Do Polar Countries Reap the Benefits? A Role for Migration
In the present globalization era an increasing attention is paid to the ambiguous relationship between international migration, brain drain, and economic growth, but few papers analyzed the growth ...
(published in: Natalia Dinello and Ernest Aryeetey (eds.), Testing Global Interdependence: Issues on Trade, Aid, Migration and Development, Edward Elgar, 2007, Ch. 8)
E13, F22, J24, C23, O15, C82
1515 Katharina Wrohlich
The Excess Demand for Subsidized Child Care in Germany
The extension of subsidized child care is currently on top of the political agenda in Germany. In this paper the excess demand for subsidized child care slots is estimated using a partial ...
(revised version published in: Applied Economics, 2008, 40 (10), 1217-1228)
J13, C35, D12
1514 Subhayu Bandyopadhyay
Sudeshna C. Bandyopadhyay
Trade and Child Labor: A General Equilibrium Analysis
This paper augments the existing literature on trade and child labor by exploring the effects of terms of trade changes in the context of a three good general equilibrium model, where one of the ...
(published in: Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2009, 45(1), 5-18)
F1, O19
1513 Sandra Cavaco
Denis Fougère
Julien Pouget
Estimating the Effect of a Retraining Program for Displaced Workers on Their Transition to Permanent Jobs
In this paper we estimate the short-term effects of a French retraining program that was intended to improve reemployment prospects of displaced workers. Our empirical analysis uses non-experimental ...
(published in French under the title: "Conventions de conversion et retour à l'emploi", Economie et Prévision, 2004 (164-165), 93-111)
C41, J24, J64, J68
1512 Marco Caliendo
Reinhard Hujer
Stephan L. Thomsen
The Employment Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany: A Microeconometric Evaluation
In this paper we evaluate the employment effects of job creation schemes on the participating individuals in Germany. Job creation schemes are a major element of active labour market policy in ...
(published in: Millimet, D., Smith, J. and Vytlacil, E. (eds.), Advances in Econometrics, Volume 21: Estimating and Evaluating Treatment Effects in Econometrics, 2008, 383-430, )
J68, H43, C13
1511 Olivier Donni
Labor Supply, Home Production and Welfare Comparisons
We consider the collective model of labor supply with marketable domestic production. We first show that, if domestic production is mistakenly ignored, the “collective” indirect utilities that are ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 92 (7), 1720-1737)
D13, J22
1510 Luca Nunziata
Christopher Bowdler
Inflation Adjustment and Labour Market Structures: Evidence from a Multi-Country Study
An empirical analysis of the impact of labour market structures on the response of inflation to macroeconomic shocks is presented. Results based on a 20 country panel show that if labour market ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2007, 109 (3), 619-642)
E31, J51
1509 Manos Matsaganis
Cathal O'Donoghue
Horacio Levy
Manuela Coromaldi
Magda Mercader-Prats
Carlos Farinha Rodrigues
Stefano Toso
Panos Tsakloglou
Child Poverty and Family Transfers in Southern Europe
The drive to reduce child poverty is of particular interest in southern Europe, where the subsidiary role of the State in matters of family policy has implied that programmes of public assistance to ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2006, 25, 101-124)
C81, D31, I38
1508 Thierry Kamionka
Guy Lacroix
Assessing the External Validity of an Experimental Wage Subsidy
In Canada, a policy aiming at helping single parents on social assistance become self-reliant was implemented on an experimental basis. The Self-Sufficiency Entry Effects Demonstration randomly ...
(published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2008, 91-92)
I38, C41, C93
1506 Olivier Donni
Collective Female Labour Supply: Theory and Application
In this paper, we deal with female labour supply in the collective framework. We study married couples and start from the empirical observation that the husband’s labour supply is generally fixed at ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (516), 94-119)
D12, J22
1505 Gordon D. A. Brown
Jonathan Gardner
Andrew J. Oswald
Jing Qian
Does Wage Rank Affect Employees' Wellbeing?
What makes workers happy? Here we argue that pure ‘rank’ matters. It is currently believed that wellbeing is determined partly by an individual’s absolute wage (say, 30,000 dollars a year) and partly ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2008, 47 (3), 355-389)
J28, J30
1504 Eric Maurin
Sandra McNally
Vive la Révolution! Long Term Returns of 1968 to the Angry Students
The famous events of May 1968, starting with student riots, threw France into a state of turmoil. The period of ‘revolution’ coincided with the time in which important examinations are undertaken. ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2008, 26 (1), 1-33)
I2
1502 Hans Gersbach
Hans Haller
Beware of Workaholics: Household Preferences and Individual Equilibrium Utility
This paper analyzes the effects of sociological changes in the form of a shift of influence within two-member households participating in labor and product markets. The most striking effects occur ...
(updated version published as ' "Hard Workers" and Labor Restrictions' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2012, 25 (2), 469 - 494)
D10, D50, J22
1500 Joshua Angrist
Jonathan Guryan
Does Teacher Testing Raise Teacher Quality? Evidence from State Certification Requirements
The education reform movement includes efforts to raise teacher quality through stricter certification and licensing provisions. Most US states now require public school teachers to pass a ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2008, 27 (5), 483-503)
I28, J44, J45
1499 Jean-Olivier Hairault
François Langot
Thepthida Sopraseuth
A Quantitative Investigation of the Laffer Curve on the Continued Work Tax: The French Case
It is often argued that the tax on continued work should be removed by implementing actuarially fair schemes. However, these schemes cannot help fund the expected Social Security deficit. This paper ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2008, 49(3), 755-797)
H31, H55, J26
1498 Alex Bryson
Lorenzo Cappellari
Claudio Lucifora
Why So Unhappy? The Effects of Unionisation on Job Satisfaction
We use linked employer-employee data to investigate the job satisfaction effect of unionisation in Britain. We depart from previous studies by developing a model that simultaneously controls for the ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72 (3), 357-380)
J28, J51
1497 Paul J. Devereux
Robert A. Hart
The Spot Market Matters: Evidence on Implicit Contracts from Britain
Based on the methodology of Beaudry and DiNardo (1991), this paper investigates the relative importance of the spot market and implicit contracts in the determination of British real wages. Empirical ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2007, 54 (5), 661-683 (Special Issue on Labour Contracts and Wages over the Cycle))
E24, E32, J31
1496 Arnaud Chevalier
Colm P. Harmon
Vincent O'Sullivan
Ian Walker
The Impact of Parental Income and Education on the Schooling of Their Children
This paper addresses the intergeneration transmission of education and investigates the extent to which early school leaving (at age 16) may be due to variations in permanent income, parental ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 2:8)
I20, J62
1495 Julian di Giovanni
Justin McCrary
Till von Wachter
Following Germany's Lead: Using International Monetary Linkages to Identify the Effect of Monetary Policy on the Economy
Forward-looking behavior on the part of the monetary authority leads least squares estimates to understate the true growth consequences of monetary policy interventions. We present instrumental ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 91 (2), 315 - 331)
E52, J60
1494 Lex Borghans
Bas ter Weel
Bruce A. Weinberg
People People: Social Capital and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups
Despite indications that interpersonal interactions are important for understanding individual labor-market outcomes and have become more important over the last decades, there is little analysis by ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2014, 67 (2), 287-334)
J16, J21, J24, J31
1493 Lihui Tian
Saul Estrin
Retained State Shareholding in Chinese PLCs: Does Government Ownership Reduce Corporate Value?
The role of government shareholding in corporate performance is central to an understanding of China’s newly privatized large firms. In this paper, we analyze shareholders as agents that can both ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2008, 36 (1), 74-89)
G32, G34, G15, L33
1492 Christoph Knoppik
Thomas Beissinger
Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity in Europe: An Analysis of European Micro Data from the ECHP 1994-2001
This paper substantially extends the limited available evidence on existence and extent of downward nominal wage rigidity in the European Union and the Euro Area. For this purpose we develop an ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2009, 36 (2), 321 - 338)
J30, E24
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