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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
1491 Pieter A. Gautier
Michael Svarer
Coen Teulings
Marriage and the City
Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In cities singles can meet more potential partners than in rural areas. Singles are therefore prepared to pay a premium in terms of ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2010, 67 (2), 206-218)
J12, J64
1490 Hilmar Schneider
Holger Bonin
Wohlfahrts- und Verteilungseffekte eines allgemeinen Freibetrags bei den Sozialabgaben
Der Beitrag untersucht die Arbeitsmarktwirkungen einer vom Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbund vorgeschlagenen Subventionierung der Sozialbeiträge über einen allgemeinen Freibetrag. Im Rahmen eines mit ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung / Journal for Labour Market Research, 2005, 38 (4), 475-492)
J68, J38, H24, J22
1489 Andrew E. Clark
Fabien Postel-Vinay
Job Security and Job Protection
We construct indicators of the perception of job security for various types of jobs in 12 European countries using individual data from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). We then consider ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2009, 61 (2), 207-239)
J28, J65, I31
1488 Paul Frijters
John de New
Michael A. Shields
Socio-Economic Status, Health Shocks, Life Satisfaction and Mortality: Evidence from an Increasing Mixed Proportional Hazard Model
The socio-economic gradient in health remains a controversial topic in economics and other social sciences. In this paper we develop a new duration model that allows for unobserved persistent ...
(revised version published as 'The Increasingly Mixed Proportional Hazard Model: An Application to Socioeconomic Status, Health Shocks, and Mortality' in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2011, 29 (2), 271-281)
I1, C23
1487 Johannes Schwarze
Rainer Winkelmann
What Can Happiness Research Tell Us About Altruism? Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel
Much progress has been made in recent years on developing and applying a direct measure of utility using survey questions on subjective well-being. In this paper we explore whether this new type of ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (3), 1033-1051)
D6, D64, C25, J10
1485 Andrew T. Newell
Mieczyslaw Socha
The Distribution of Wages in Poland, 1992-2002
This paper analyses the changes in the size distribution of wages in Poland over a decade of transition. Until about 1998 there were some forces tending to increase wage inequality and other forces ...
(published as Chapter 11 of World Bank, "Poland: Growth, Employment and Living Standards in Pre-Accession Poland", Volume 2, 2004)
J31, P23
1484 Sumon K. Bhaumik
Saul Estrin
How Transition Paths Differ: Enterprise Performance in Russia and China
We use enterprise data to analyse and contrast the determinants of enterprise performance in China and Russia. We find that in China, enterprise growth and efficiency is associated with rapid ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 82(2): 374-392, 2007)
D23, L22, O12, P31
1483 Sara de la Rica
Juan J. Dolado
Vanesa Llorens
Ceiling and Floors: Gender Wage Gaps by Education in Spain
This paper analyses the gender wage gaps by education throughout the wage distribution in Spain using individual data from the ECHP (1999). Quantile regressions are used to estimate the wage returns ...
(published in Journal of Population Economics, 2008, 21 (3), 751-776)
J16, J71
1481 Elizabeth U. Cascio
Ethan Gatewood Lewis
Schooling and the AFQT: Evidence from School Entry Laws
Is the Armed Forces Qualifying Test (AFQT) a measure of achievement or ability? The answer to this question is critical for drawing inferences from studies in which it is employed. In this paper, we ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2006, 41(2), 294-318)
I20, J24, J15
1480 Olivier B. Bargain
Nicolas Moreau
Cooperative Models in Action: Simulation of a Nash-Bargaining Model of Household Labor Supply with Taxation
Several theoretical contributions, starting with McElroy and Horney (1981) and Manser and Brown (1980), have suggested to model household behavior as a Nash-bargaining game. Since then, very few ...
(published as 'The Impact of Tax-Benefit Reforms on Labor Supply in a Simulated Nash-bargaining Framework' in: Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2013, 34(1), 77-86)
C25, C52, C71, D11, D12, H31, J22
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