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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
1408 Panu Poutvaara
On the Political Economy of Social Security and Public Education
This paper analyzes simultaneous voting on the wage tax rate and investment in public education with three overlapping generations and productivity differences inside each cohort. Wage tax revenue ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2006, 19 (2), 345-365)
H52, H55, D72
1407 Paul Frijters
Bas van der Klaauw
Job Search with Nonparticipation
In a non-stationary job search model we allow unemployed workers to have a permanent option to leave the labor force. Transitions into nonparticipation occur when reservation wages drop below the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (508), 45-83)
J41, J64, J68, J24, C15
1405 Alexander K. Koch
Albrecht Morgenstern
Philippe Raab
An Experimental Test of Career Concerns
Holmström’s (1982/99) career concerns model has become an important workhorse for the analysis of agency issues in many fields. The underlying signal jamming argument requires players to use ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 72 (1), 571-588)
C91, D83, L14
1403 Wouter J. den Haan
Christian Haefke
Garey Ramey
Turbulence and Unemployment in a Job Matching Model
According to Ljungqvist and Sargent (1998), high European unemployment since the 1980s can be explained by a rise in economic turbulence, leading to greater numbers of unemployed workers with ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2005, 3 (6), 1360-1385)
E24, J64
1402 Christian Grund
Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen
The Dispersion of Employees’ Wage Increases and Firm Performance
In this contribution we examine the interrelation between intra-firm wage increases and firm performance. Previous studies have focused on the dispersion of wages in order to examine for the ...
(revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2008, 61 (4), 485-501)
M52, J31, L25
1400 James Albrecht
Aico van Vuuren
Susan Vroman
Decomposing the Gender Wage Gap in the Netherlands with Sample Selection Adjustments
In this paper, we use quantile regression decomposition methods to analyze the gender gap between men and women who work full time in the Netherlands. Because the fraction of women working full ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (4), 383-396)
C24, J22, J31, J71
1399 Alicia Adsera
Marital Fertility and Religion: Recent Changes in Spain
Since the onset of democracy in 1975, both total fertility and Mass attendance rates in Spain have dropped dramatically. I use the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys to study whether the ...
(published in: Population Studies, 2006, 60 (2), 205-221)
J1, Z12
1398 Sylke V. Schnepf
How Different Are Immigrants? A Cross-Country and Cross-Survey Analysis of Educational Achievement
This paper examines differences in educational achievement between immigrants and natives in ten countries with a high population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the ...
(published in: C. A. Parsons ; T. M. Smeeding (eds.), Immigration and the Transformation of Europe, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006)
I21, J15, O15
1396 Luis Diaz-Serrano
Income Volatility and Residential Mortgage Delinquency: Evidence from 12 EU Countries
We investigate the socio-economic determinants of mortgage delinquency in 12 EU countries and observe that income volatility significantly increases the mortgage delinquency risk. This pattern even ...
(published as 'Income volatility and residential mortgage delinquency across the EU' in: Journal of Housing Economics, 2005, 14 (3), 153-177)
D1, R0, J0
1395 Don J. DeVoretz
Sergiy Pivnenko
The Economic Causes and Consequences of Canadian Citizenship
Immigrants ascend to citizenship at differential rates in Canada. Why is this so? This paper investigates the economic costs and benefits derived from citizenship to rationalize the differential ...
(published in: Journal of Immigration and Integration, 2006, 6 (3-4), 435-468)
F22, J61, J68
1394 Ingo Lückgen
Dirk Oberschachtsiek
Rolf Sternberg
Joachim Wagner
Nascent Entrepreneurs in German Regions: Evidence from the Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM)
Nascent entrepreneurs are people who are (alone or with others) actively engaged in creating a new venture and who expect to be the owner or part owner of this start-up. Given that newly founded ...
(published in: M. Fritsch and J. Schmude (eds.), Entrepreneurship in the Region, Berlin: Springer 2006)
J23
1393 Daniel Münich
Jan Svejnar
Katherine Terrell
Do Markets Favor Women's Human Capital More than Planners?
Using micro data on women in the Czech Republic, we compare returns to various measures of human capital at the end of communism (1989), in mid-transition (1996) and in late/posttransition (2002). ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2005, 33 (2), 278-298)
J24, J31, P20, P31
1392 Anne Flipo
Denis Fougère
Lucile Olier
Is the Household Demand for In-Home Services Sensitive to Tax Reductions? The French Case
Our paper examines the impact of tax reductions on the demand for services in the home. For that purpose, we estimate a structural model of demand for such services by using household individual ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91 (1-2), 365-385)
D13, J12
1391 Philippe Mahler
Rainer Winkelmann
Single Motherhood and (Un)Equal Educational Opportunities: Evidence for Germany
We examine the effect of single motherhood on children's secondary school track choice using a sample of 14 years old children drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel. In line with previous ...
(published in: Schriften des Vereins für Socialpolitik, 2006, 313, 39-54.)
I21, J12
1390 Evelyn L. Lehrer
Religion as a Determinant of Economic and Demographic Behavior in the United States
This paper critically reviews and synthesizes research on the role of religion on various aspects of the economic and demographic behavior of individuals and families in the United States, ...
(published in: Population and Development Review, 2004, 30 (4), 707-726)
J1, J2
1389 Shelly Lundberg
Richard Startz
Information and Racial Exclusion
This paper presents several economic models that explore the relationships between imperfect information, racial income disparities, and segregation. The use of race as a signal arises here, as in ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (3), 621 - 642)
J7, D83
1386 Amelie F. Constant
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Self-Employment Dynamics Across the Business Cycle: Migrants Versus Natives
Economically active people are either in gainful employment, are unemployed or selfemployed. We are interested in the dynamics of the transitions between these states across the business cycle. It ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Self-employment against employment or unemployment: Markov transitions across the business cycle' in: Eurasian Business Review, 2014, 4 (1), 51-87)
E32, J23, J61, M13
1385 Daniele Checchi
Laura Pagani
The Effects of Unions on Wage Inequality: The Italian Case in the 1990s
In this paper we analyse the contribution of union activity to reducing earnings inequality. Given the specific nature of the system of industrial relations, Italian unions may contribute ...
(published in: Politica Economica, 2005, 1, 41-68)
J31
1384 Maurice Schiff
Yanling Wang
North-South Technology Diffusion, Regional Integration, and the Dynamics of the “Natural Trading Partners” Hypothesis
Based on static analysis, a number of studies argue that forming a RTA is more likely to raise welfare if member countries are “natural trading partners,” while other studies claim the opposite. ...
(published in: Revue d'économie du développement, 2007, 21 (5), 69-84)
F02, F13, F15, F43, O39
1383 Mirko Cardinale
Mike Orszag
Severance Pay and Corporate Finance: Empirical Evidence from a Panel of Austrian and Italian Firms
This paper examines the empirical link between severance pay and corporate finance. Severance pay is an economic debt of the employer and hence should be taken into account by the market in its ...
(published in: Empirica, 2005, 32 (3-4), 309-343)
J65, J32, G39
1382 Pedro S. Martins
Firm-Level Social Returns to Education
Do workers benefit from the education of their co-workers? This question is examined first by introducing a model of on-the-job schooling, which argues that educated workers may transfer part of ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23(2), 539-558)
J24, J31, I20
1381 Armin Falk
Urs Fischbacher
Simon Gächter
Living in Two Neighborhoods: Social Interactions in the Lab
Field evidence suggests that people belonging to the same group often behave similarly, i.e., behaviour exhibits social interaction effects. We conduct an experiment that avoids the identification ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2013, 51 (1), 563–578)
C91, H41, K42, H26
1380 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Selection Policy and the Labour Market Outcomes of New Immigrants
Many countries are placing a greater emphasis on productive skills in the immigrant selection policies as a way of achieving national objectives regarding immigration. These changes stem primarily ...
(published in: D.A. Cobb-Clark and S. Khoo (eds.), Public Policy and Immigrant Settlement, Edward Elgar 2006)
J61, J22, J20
1378 John T. Addison
Christopher J. Surfield
The Use of Alternative Work Arrangements by the Jobless: Evidence from the CAEAS/CPS
Alternative work arrangements (AWAs), such as contracting, consulting, and temporary work, have been criticized as providing only atypical, even precarious, employment. Yet they may also allow ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2006, 27(2), 149-162)
J21, J24, J63, M50
1376 Pedro S. Martins
Rent Sharing Before and After the Wage Bill
Many biases plague the estimation of rent sharing in labour markets. Using a Portuguese matched employer-employee panel, these biases are addressed in this paper in three complementary ways: 1) ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2009, 41(17), 2133-2151)
C33, J31, J41
1375 Simon Gächter
Arno Riedl
Dividing Justly in Bargaining Problems with Claims: Normative Judgments and Actual Negotiations
Theoretical research on claims problems has concentrated on normative properties and axiomatizations of solution concepts. We complement these analyses by empirical evidence on the predictability ...
(published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2006, 27, 571-594)
D63, C78, C92
1373 Wiji Arulampalam
Alison L. Booth
Mark L. Bryan
Is There a Glass Ceiling over Europe? Exploring the Gender Pay Gap across the Wages Distribution
Using harmonised data from the European Union Household Panel, we analyse gender pay gaps by sector across the wages distribution for ten countries. We find that the mean gender pay gap in the raw ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (2), 163-186)
J16, J31, J7
1372 Holger Görg
Aoife Hanley
Does Outsourcing Increase Profitability?
We investigate the relationship between outsourcing and profitability paying particular attention to the endogeneity of outsourcing. The empirical analysis uses unique plant level data for the ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2004, 35(3), 267-288)
L23, L63
1371 Tito Boeri
J. Ignacio Conde-Ruiz
Vincenzo Galasso
Cross-Skill Redistribution and the Tradeoff between Unemployment Benefits and Employment Protection
We document the presence of a trade-off between unemployment benefits (UB) and employment protection legislation (EPL) in the provision of insurance against labor market risk. Different countries' ...
(revised version published as 'The Political Economy Of Flexicurity' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10 (4), 684–715)
J68, J65, D72
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