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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
1478 Kai A. Konrad
Amedeo Spadaro
Education, Redistributive Taxation and Confidence
We consider redistributional taxation between people with and without human capital if education is endogenous and if individuals differ in their perceptions about own ability. Those who see their ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2006, 90(1-2), 171-188)
D78, H23, I21
1477 John T. Addison
Christopher J. Surfield
‘Atypical Work’ and Compensation
Atypical work, or alternative work arrangements in U.S. parlance, has long been criticized for providing poorly-compensated employment. Although one group of atypical workers (contractors) seems to ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2007, 73(4), 1038–1065)
J31, J33, J4
1476 David N.F. Bell
Axel Heitmueller
The Disability Discrimination Act in the UK: Helping or Hindering Employment Amongst the Disabled?
The enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990 triggered a substantial academic debate about its consequences on employment rates of disabled people. In contrast, the employment ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2009, 28, 465-480)
J2, I18, J71, J78
1475 Giorgio Brunello
Daniele Checchi
School Vouchers Italian Style
School vouchers introduced recently in some Italian regions have lowered the cost of private schools. On one side, we provide evidence that Italian private schools may be selected for different ...
(published in: Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, 2005, 357-399)
I22
1474 Massimiliano Bratti
Stefano Staffolani
Effort-Based Career Opportunities and Working Time
In this paper we describe the hypothesis of effort-based career opportunities as a situation in which profit maximizing firms create incentives for employees to work longer hours than the bargained ...
(revised version published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2007, 28 (6), 489-512)
J22, J23, J50, M12
1473 John T. Addison
Thorsten Schank
Claus Schnabel
Joachim Wagner
Do Works Councils Inhibit Investment?
Theory suggests that firms confront a hold-up problem in dealing with workplace unionism: unions will appropriate a portion of the quasi rents stemming from long-lived capital. As a result, firms may ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (2), 187-203)
J50
1472 Elizabeth Brainerd
David M. Cutler
Autopsy on an Empire: Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union
Male life expectancy at birth fell by over six years in Russia between 1989 and 1994. Many other countries of the former Soviet Union saw similar declines, and female life expectancy fell as well. ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2005, 19 (1), 107 - 130)
I12, J10, P36
1471 Richard Akresh
Risk, Network Quality, and Family Structure: Child Fostering Decisions in Burkina Faso
Researchers often assume household structure is exogenous, but child fostering, the institution in which parents send their biological children to live with another family, is widespread in ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44(4), 976-997)
O15, J12, D10
1470 Avner Ahituv
Robert I. Lerman
Job Turnover, Wage Rates, and Marital Stability: How Are They Related?
This study examines the interplay between job stability, wage rates, and marital instability. We use a Dynamic Selection Control model in which young men make sequential choices about work and ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (2), 221-249)
C15, C33, J12, J31, J63
1469 Christian Dreger
Hans-Eggert Reimers
Health Care Expenditures in OECD Countries: A Panel Unit Root and Cointegration Analysis
This paper investigates the link between health care expenditures and GDP for a sample of 21 OECD countries using recent developed panel cointegration techniques. In contrast to previous studies, the ...
(published in: International Journal of Applied Econometrics and Quantitative Studies, 2005, 2(2), 5-20 )
C23, I10
1468 Giovanni Russo
Wolter Hassink
The Part-Time Wage Penalty: A Career Perspective
Part-time employment has become an extremely popular work arrangement in the Netherlands because it renders employment compatible with non-work activities. We posit that there may be a downside to ...
(published as "The Part-Time Wage Gap: a Career Perspective" in: De Economist, 2008, 156 (2), 145-174)
J31, J24, J22
1467 Marc Gurgand
David N. Margolis
Does Work Pay in France? Monetary Incentives and the Guaranteed Minimum Income
Most welfare programs generate high marginal tax rates on labor income. This paper uses a representative sample of individuals on France's main welfare program (the Revenu Minimum d'Insertion, or ...
(published as 'Does work pay in France? Monetary incentives, hours constraints, and the guaranteed minimum' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (7), 1669-1697)
I38, J31, C34
1466 Sabien Dobbelaere
Joint Estimation of Price-Cost Margins and Union Bargaining Power for Belgian Manufacturing
This paper extends Hall's (1988) methodology to analyse imperfections in both the product and the labour market for firms in the Belgian manufacturing industry over the period 1988-1995. We ...
(published in: International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2004, 22(10), 1381-1398)
C23, D21, J50, L13
1465 Etienne Wasmer
Yves Zenou
Equilibrium Search Unemployment with Explicit Spatial Frictions
Assuming that job search efficiency decreases with distance to jobs, workers’ location in a city depends on spatial elements such as commuting costs and land prices and on labour elements such as ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2006, 13 (2), 143-165)
E24, J41, R14
1464 Claus Schnabel
Joachim Wagner
Determinants of Union Membership in 18 EU Countries: Evidence from Micro Data, 2002/03
Using representative individual-level data from the first round of the European Social Survey fielded in 2002/03, this paper provides an empirical analysis of unionization in 18 countries of the ...
(published in: Industrial Relations Journal, 2007, 38 (1), 5-32)
J51
1463 Don J. DeVoretz
Sergiy Pivnenko
Self-Selection, Immigrant Public Finance Performance and Canadian Citizenship
This paper consists of two parts focusing on the immigrant’s decision to acquire Canadian citizenship, and her subsequent performance as a taxpayer and recipient of public finance transfers. Our ...
(published in: P. Bevelander and D. DeVoretz (eds.), The Economics of Citizenship, IMER Press, Malmo Sweden, 2008)
J61, J68, F22
1462 Jens Suedekum
The Home Market Shadow
The home market effect (HME) is a distinguishing feature of the “new” theory of international trade, but it is uncertain whether this effect survives if one moves beyond the simplifying setup with ...
(published in: Journal of Economics, 2007, 92 (3), 208-229)
F12, F14, R12
1460 Mathias Hungerbühler
Etienne Lehmann
Alexis Parmentier
Bruno Van der Linden
Optimal Redistributive Taxation in a Search Equilibrium Model
This paper characterizes optimal non-linear income taxation in an economy with a continuum of unobservable productivity levels and endogenous involuntary unemployment due to frictions in the labor ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2006, 73(3), 743-767)
D82, H21, H24, J64
1457 Klara Sabirianova Peter
Jan Svejnar
Katherine Terrell
Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?
Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94 (4), 981-999)
C33, D20, G32, L20
1456 Carmel U. Chiswick
An Economic Perspective on Religious Education: Complements and Substitutes in a Human Capital Portfolio
This paper models the tradeoffs between education in secular subjects, formal and informal, and the formation of religion-specific human capital. It explores some implications of negative ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2006, 24, 449-467)
Z12, J20, J15
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