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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
1454 Ricardo Alonso
Niko Matouschek
Relational Delegation
We explore the optimal delegation of decision rights by a principal to a better informed but biased agent. In an infinitely repeated game a long lived principal faces a series of short lived agents. ...
(published in: RAND Journal of Economics, 2007, 38 (4), 1070 - 1089)
D23, D82, L23
1453 Pedro Carneiro
James J. Heckman
Dimitriy V. Masterov
Labor Market Discrimination and Racial Differences in Premarket Factors
We investigate the relative significance of differences in cognitive skills and discrimination in explaining racial/ethnic wage gaps. We show that cognitive test scores taken prior to entering the ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2006, 48(1), 1-39)
J31
1452 Xin Meng
Bob Gregory
Youjuan Wang
Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in Urban China, 1986-2000
Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality, reduction in social welfare provision, deregulation of grain prices, and increases ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2005, 33 (4), 710-729)
I31, D31, O40, O15
1451 Olivier B. Bargain
Nicolas Moreau
Is the Collective Model of Labor Supply Useful for Tax Policy Analysis? A Simulation Exercise
The literature on household behavior contains hardly any empirical research on the within-household distributional effect of tax-benefit policies. We simulate this effect in the framework of a ...
(published in: Research on Economic Inequality, 2007 (14), 317-344)
C71, D11, D12, H31, J22
1450 Matteo Cervellati
Piergiuseppe Fortunato
Uwe Sunde
Hobbes to Rousseau: Inequality, Institutions, and Development
We analyze the endogenous evolution of economic and political institutions and the interdependencies with the process of economic development. Favorable economic institutions ensure the ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118(531), 1354-1384)
H10, O20, N10
1448 Xin Meng
Xiaodong Gong
Youjuan Wang
Impact of Income Growth and Economic Reform on Nutrition Intake in Urban China: 1986-2000
Although urban China has experienced a rapid income growth over the last twenty years, nutrition intake for the low income group declined in the 1990s. Does this imply a zero or negative income ...
(published as 'Impact of Income Growth and Economic Reform on Nutrition Availability in Urban China: 1986–2000' in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2009, 57 (2), 261-295)
I31, D31, O40, O15
1447 Ansgar H. Belke
Andreas Schaal
Venture Capital Investment and Labor Market Performance: New Empirical Evidence for OECD Countries
Anglo-Saxon countries have been successful in the 1990s concerning labor market performance compared to the former role models Germany and Japan. This reversal in relative economic performance might ...
(published in: Keuschnigg, Christian / Kanniainen, Vesa (eds.), Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, CESifo Seminar Series, MIT Press, Cambridge/MA, 2004, 97-126)
E22, E24, E44, G24, G32
1445 Olivier B. Bargain
Kristian Orsini
In-Work Policies in Europe: Killing Two Birds with One Stone?
Earning an income is probably the best way of avoiding poverty and social exclusion, hence the recent trend of promoting employment through in-work transfers in OECD countries. Yet, the relative ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2006, 13 (6), 667-693)
C25, C52, H31, J22
1444 James J. Heckman
Dimitriy V. Masterov
Skill Policies for Scotland
This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful ...
(published in: D. Coyle, W. Alexander and B. Ashcroft, eds., New Wealth for Old Nations: Scotland's Economic Prospects, Princeton University Press: 2005)
J31, I21, I22, I28
1443 Michael Lechner
Ruth Miquel
Conny Wunsch
Long-Run Effects of Public Sector Sponsored Training in West Germany
Between 1991 and 1997 West Germany spent on average about 3.6 bn Euro per year on public sector sponsored training programmes for the unemployed. We base our empirical analysis on a new ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (4), 742-784)
J68
1442 Felix FitzRoy
Kornelius Kraft
Co-Determination, Efficiency, and Productivity
We present the first panel estimates of the productivity effects of the unique German institution of parity, board-level co-determination. Although our data span two severe recessions when labour ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2005, 43 (2), 233-248)
D2, J5, L2
1441 Olivier B. Bargain
Normative Evaluation of Tax Policies: From Households to Individuals
We analyze the impact on French couples of a tax policy change – the introduction of a family tax credit – using jointly a collective model of household labor supply and a tax-benefit microsimulation ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2008, 21 (2), 339-371)
C71, D13, D31, D63, H21, H31, J22
1440 Amelie F. Constant
Klaus F. Zimmermann
The Making of Entrepreneurs in Germany: Are Native Men and Immigrants Alike?
This paper uses a state of the art three-stage technique to identify the characteristics of the self-employed immigrant and native men in Germany and to understand their underlying drive into ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2006, 26 (3), 279-300)
J23, M13, J24, J61, J31
1439 Ansgar H. Belke
Jens M. Heine
Specialisation Patterns and the Synchronicity of Regional Employment Cycles in Europe
This paper examines the degree of correlation of EU regional employment cycles and attempts to show whether these cycles reflect changing patterns of specialisation. By focusing on the regional level ...
(published in: International Economics and Economic Policy, 2006, 3 (2), 91-104)
E32, F15, R23
1438 Andrew E. Clark
Claudia Senik
The (Unexpected) Structure of "Rents" on the French and British Labour Markets
This paper considers the allocation of labour on the French and British markets, using objective wage and subjective satisfaction data. We show that, in some sectors, workers enjoy both higher wages ...
(published in: Journal of Socio-Economics, 2006, 35 (2), 180-196)
C30, J28, J31, J41, M51
1437 Flavio Cunha
James J. Heckman
Salvador Navarro
Separating Uncertainty from Heterogeneity in Life Cycle Earnings
This paper develops and applies a method for decomposing cross section variability of earnings into components that are forecastable at the time students decide to go to college (heterogeneity) and ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2005, 57 (2), 191-261)
C33, D84, I21
1435 Christian Dustmann
Uta Schönberg
Training and Union Wages
This paper tests the hypothesis that unions, through imposing wage floors that lead to wage compression, increase on-the-job training. Our analysis focuses on Germany which provides an interesting ...
(revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 91 (2), 363-376)
J24, J40, J51, I2
1434 Pramod N. (Raja) Junankar
Stephane Mahuteau
Do Migrants Get Good Jobs? New Migrant Settlement in Australia
This paper investigates the ease with which recent immigrants to Australia from different countries and with different visa categories enter employment at an appropriate level to their prior ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2005, 81 (s1), S34-S46)
J61, J68, C25
1433 Javier Ortega
Thomas P. Tangerås
Unilingual Versus Bilingual Education System: A Political Economy Analysis
We consider an economy with two language groups, where only agents who share a language can produce together. Schooling enhances the productivity of students and may modify their language endowment. ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2008, 6(5), 1078-1108)
I2, J15
1432 Alicia Adsera
Barry R. Chiswick
Are There Gender and Country of Origin Differences in Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes across European Destinations?
The paper uses the 1994-2000 waves of the European Community Household Panel to conduct a systematic analysis of the earnings of immigrants as compared to native workers, in particular to test ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (3), 495-526 )
J1, J61, F22
1431 Friedrich Schneider
The Size of the Shadow Economies of 145 Countries all over the World: First Results over the Period 1999 to 2003
Using the DYMIMIC approach, estimates of the shadow economy in 145 developing, transition, developed OECD countries, South Pacific islands and still communist countries are presented. The average ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (3), 495 - 526)
O17, O5, D78, H2, H11, H26
1430 David B. Huffman
Matias Barenstein
Riches to Rags Every Month? The Fall in Consumption Expenditures Between Paydays
This paper finds declining consumption expenditure between paydays, for a typical household in the working population of the UK. The magnitude is inconsistent with exponential time preference, but ...
(revised version: "A Monthly Struggle for Self-Control? Hyperbolic Discounting, Mental Accounting, and the Fall in Consumption Between Paydays")
B49, D11, D12, J33
1429 Santiago Budría
Pedro T. Pereira
On the Returns to Training in Portugal
This paper investigates the earnings effects of training in the Portuguese labour market. We use the Portuguese Labour Force Survey to classify training according to multiple criteria, including ...
(published as "The wage effects of training in Portugal: differences across skill groups, genders, sectors and training types" in: Applied Economics, 2007, 39 (6), 787-807)
J7, J24, J31, I2
1428 David Neumark
Olena Y. Nizalova
Minimum Wage Effects in the Longer Run
Exposure to minimum wages at young ages may lead to longer-run effects. Among the possible adverse longer-run effects are decreased labor market experience and accumulation of tenure, lower current ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2007, 42 (2), 435-452)
J22, J23, J38
1427 Timothy Dunne
Kenneth Troske
Technology Adoption and Workforce Skill in U.S. Manufacturing Plants
This paper examines the relationship between technology adoption and workforce skill in US manufacturing plants. Using information on the use and adoption of seven different information technologies, ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2005, 52 (3), 387-405)
J2, O3
1424 Gaëlle Pierre
Stefano Scarpetta
Employment Regulations through the Eyes of Employers: Do They Matter and How Do Firms Respond to Them?
In this paper, we present evidence on how employers perceive labor regulations and react when these are perceived to constrain the operation of their firm. The paper draws from harmonized surveys of ...
(revised version published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2013, 2:15)
J23, J65, K31
1423 Dirk Sliwka
On the Notion of Responsibility in Organizations
We derive a natural definition of responsibility in a formal model where employees care for their career prospects: A superior holds a subordinate responsible for a task, when she announces her ...
(published in: Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2006, 22(2), 523-547)
D23, M12
1422 Simon Commander
Rupa Chanda
Mari Kangasniemi
L. Alan Winters
Must Skilled Migration Be a Brain Drain? Evidence from the Indian Software Industry
We provide a first empirical attempt at understanding the scale and type of skilled migration from the Indian software sector and the consequences for firms experiencing loss of skilled workers. ...
(published in: World Economy, 2008, 31 (2), 187-211)
J31, J61
1421 David Card
Sara de la Rica
The Effect of Firm-Level Contracts on the Structure of Wages: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
In Spain, as in several other European countries, sectoral bargaining agreements are automatically extended to cover all firms in an industry. Employers and employees can also negotiate ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2006, 59 (4), 573-592)
J31, J51
1420 Hilmar Schneider
Arne Uhlendorff
The Transition from Welfare to Work and the Role of Potential Labor Income
It is often argued that the high level of welfare claims in Germany causes little incentive for workers with low productivity to seek for a job. We examine the influence of the ratio ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Social Sciences Studies, 2005, 125 (1), 51-61)
I38, J64, C41
1419 Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
Language Skills and Immigrant Adjustment: What Immigration Policy Can Do!
This study provides an account of the dynamics of the dominant language adjustment process among immigrants in Australia using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia, which comprises ...
(published in: Deborah Cobb-Clark and Siew-Ean Khoo (eds.), Public Policy and Immigrant Settlement, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006, 121-148)
F22, J61, J15, J24
1418 Michael Rosholm
Michael Svarer
Bo Hammer
A Danish Profiling System
We describe the statistical model used for profiling new unemployed workers in Denmark. When a worker – during his or her first six months in unemployment – enters the employment office for the ...
(published in: Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift (Danish Economic Journal), 2006, 144 (2), 209-229 )
J64, J68
1417 Gary Charness
Peter J. Kuhn
Do Co-Workers’ Wages Matter? Theory and Evidence on Wage Secrecy, Wage Compression and Effort
We study worker and firm behavior in an environment where worker effort could depend on co-workers’ wages. Theoretically, we show that an increase in workers’ ‘concerns’ with coworkers’ wages ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2007, 25 (4), 693-723)
C92, J33, M12, M52
1416 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereux
Kjell G. Salvanes
Fast Times at Ridgemont High? The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Births
Research suggests that teenage childbearing adversely affects both the outcomes of the mothers as well as those of their children. We know that low-educated women are more likely to have a teenage ...
(published as 'Staying in the Classroom and out of the maternity ward? The effect of compulsory schooling laws on teenage births' in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (530), 1025–1054)
I21, J13, J24
1414 Joachim Wagner
John T. Addison
Claus Schnabel
Thorsten Schank
Works Councils, Labor Productivity and Plant Heterogeneity: Evidence from Quantile Regressions
Using quantile regressions and a rich cross section data set for German manufacturing plants, this paper reports that the impact of works councils on labor productivity varies along the conditional ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik , 2006, 226 (5), 505-518)
J50
1413 Panu Poutvaara
Andreas Wagener
Why Is the Public Sector More Labor-Intensive? A Distortionary Tax Argument
Government-run entities are often more labor-intensive than private companies, even with identical production technologies. This need not imply slack in the public sector, but may be a rational ...
(published in: Journal of Economics, 2008, 94 (2), 105–124)
L33, J45, D24, H21
1412 Christiana Stoddard
Peter J. Kuhn
Incentives and Effort in the Public Sector: Have U.S. Education Reforms Increased Teachers’ Work Hours?
Beyond some contracted minimum, salaried workers’ hours are largely chosen at the worker’s discretion and should respond to the strength of contract incentives. Accordingly, we consider the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2008, 27 (1), 1-13)
I21, I28, J22, J44, J45
1411 Melanie K. Jones
Paul L. Latreille
Peter J. Sloane
Crossing the Tracks? More on Trends in the Training of Male and Female Workers in Great Britain
A small number of recent empirical studies for several countries has reported the intriguing finding that the ‘advantage’ previously enjoyed by men in respect of training incidence and reported in ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2008, 46 (2), 268-282.)
J1, J2, J7
1410 Klaus F. Zimmermann
European Labour Mobility: Challenges and Potentials
European Union economies are pressed by (i) a demographic change that induces population ageing and a decline of the workforce, and (ii) a split labour market that is characterized by high levels ...
(published in: De Economist, 2005, 153 (4), 425-450)
J61, J21, J68, J82, F22
1409 Francesco Pastore
Alina Verashchagina
Private Returns to Human Capital over Transition: A Case Study of Belarus
The gradualist approach to economic transition in Belarus would contribute to form the a priori expectation that the rate of return to education is low and the earnings profile by work experience ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2006, 25(1), 91-107)
J31, P52
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