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1323 Jungmin Lee
Sibling Size and Investment in Children's Education: An Asian Instrument
This study consistently estimates the trade-off between child quantity and quality by exploiting exogenous variation in fertility due to son preferences. Under son preferences, childbearing and ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2008, 21 (4), 855 - 875)
D13, J13, O12
1322 Helen Connolly
Peter T. Gottschalk
Do Earnings Subsidies Affect Job Choice?
It is widely acknowledged that tax and transfer policies can affect employment. This paper explores a different potential impact of transfer policy by asking whether subsidies also affect job ...
(published as 'Do earnings subsidies affect job choice? The impact of SSP subsidies on job turnover and wage growth' in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2009, 42 (4), 1276 - 1304)
J23, J38
1321 Alberto Bayo-Moriones
Jose Enrique Galdon-Sanchez
Maia Güell
Is Seniority-Based Pay Used as a Motivation Device? Evidence from Plant Level Data
In this paper we use data from industrial plants to investigate if seniority-based pay is used as a motivational device for production workers. Alternatively, seniority-based pay could simply be a ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2010, 30, 155-187)
M52, M12, J30
1319 Sarit Cohen Goldner
M. Daniele Paserman
Mass Migration to Israel and Natives' Transitions from Employment
This paper studies the impact of mass migration from the Former Soviet Union to Israel on natives’ probability of moving from employment to non-employment in a segmented labor market that is ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2006, 59 (4), 630-652)
J00, J30, J61, J21, F22
1318 Peter Kooreman
Riemer Faber
Heleen Hofmans
Charity Donations and the Euro Introduction: Some Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Money Illusion
We compare the revenues of a house-to-house collection for a charity before and after the introduction of the euro in a ceteris paribus setting. We find strong evidence of money illusion, ...
(published in: Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 2004, 36 (6), 1121-1124)
D12
1317 Sylke V. Schnepf
Gender Equality in Educational Achievement: An East-West Comparison
Data on educational access show gender parity of pupils attending primary and secondary schools in transition countries. The first aim of this analysis is to examine whether the gender balance in ...
(revised version published in : Schnepf (ed.): Women in Central and Eastern Europe: Measuring Gender Inequality Differently. Saarbruecken, Germany: Verlag Mueller, 2007)
I21, J16, J24
1316 Robert E. Leu
Martin Schellhorn
The Evolution of Income-Related Inequalities in Health Care Utilization in Switzerland over Time
This study investigates equity in access to health care in Switzerland over time, using nationwide representative survey data from 1982, 1992, 1997 and 2002. Both simple quintile distributions and ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2006, 52 (4), 666-690)
D32, I10, I12
1315 Sarit Cohen Goldner
M. Daniele Paserman
The Dynamic Impact of Immigration on Natives' Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Israel
This paper studies the dynamic impact of mass migration from the Former Soviet Union to Israel on natives’ labor market outcomes. Specifically, we attempt to distinguish between the short-run and ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2011, 55 (8), 1027-1045)
J00, J30, J61, J21, F22
1314 John T. Addison
Mario Centeno
Pedro Portugal
Key Elasticities in Job Search Theory: International Evidence
This paper exploits the informational value of search theory, after Lancaster and Chesher (1983), in conjunction with survey data on the unemployed to calculate key reservation wage and duration ...
(published as 'Unemployment Benefits and Reservation Wages: Key Elasticities from a Stripped-Down Job Search Approach' in Economica, 2010, 77 (305), 46-59.)
J64, J65
1313 M. Hashem Pesaran
A Pair-Wise Approach to Testing for Output and Growth Convergence
This paper proposes a pair-wise approach to testing for output convergence that considers all N(N-1)/2 possible pairs of log per capita output gaps across N economies. A general probabilistic ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2007, 138 (1), 312-355)
C32, C33, D90, O47
1312 Pierre-Carl Michaud
Arthur van Soest
Health and Wealth of Elderly Couples: Causality Tests Using Dynamic Panel Data Models
A positive relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and health, the so-called "health-wealth gradient", is repeatedly found in most industrialized countries with similar levels of health ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27 (5), 1312-1325)
C33, D31, I12, J14
1311 Ana Rute Cardoso
Jobs for Young University Graduates: Is It Worth Having a Degree?
This study addresses the question: Are workers who hold a university degree increasingly filling job openings meant for people with lower levels of schooling? It focuses on Portugal, where the ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2007, 94 (2), 271-277)
J21, J31, J24, I20
1309 Joyce P. Jacobsen
Peter Kooreman
Timing Constraints and the Allocation of Time: The Effects of Changing Shopping Hours Regulations in the Netherlands
A 1996 change in shopping hours regulations in the Netherlands provides an opportunity to study the effects of timing constraints on total time spent in shopping, working, and other activities as ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2005, 49 (1), 9-27)
D12, J22
1308 Robert Drago
David Black
Mark Wooden
Female Breadwinner Families: Their Existence, Persistence and Sources
We develop a typology for understanding couple households where the female is the major earner – what we term female breadwinner households – and test it using data from the first two waves of the ...
(published in: Journal of Sociology, 2005, 41 (4), 343-362)
J12, J16
1307 Almas Heshmati
Regional Income Inequality in Selected Large Countries
Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at the national level but the ...
(published in: A. Heshmati (ed.), Global Trends in Income Inequality, Hauppauge and New York, 2007, 121-155)
C10, D31, D63, I30, N30
1306 Magnus Lofstrom
John Tyler
Measuring the Returns to the GED: Using an Exogenous Change in GED Passing Standards as a Natural Experiment
In this paper, we exploit an exogenous change in the passing standard required to obtain a General Educational Development (GED) credential to identify the impact of the GED on the quarterly earnings ...
(published as 'Modeling the signaling value of the GED with an application to an exogenous passing standard increase in Texas' in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 28, 305-352.)
I2, J31
1305 Menzie D. Chinn
Robert W. Fairlie
The Determinants of the Global Digital Divide: A Cross-Country Analysis of Computer and Internet Penetration
To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a panel of 161 countries over the 1999-2001 period. Our candidate variables include ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2007, 59 (1), 16-44)
O30, L96
1304 Timothy J. Hatton
Jeffrey G. Williamson
International Migration in the Long-Run: Positive Selection, Negative Selection and Policy
Most labor scarce overseas countries moved decisively to restrict their immigration during the first third of the 20th century. This autarchic retreat from unrestricted and even publicly-subsidized ...
(published in: D. Snower (ed.) Labour Mobility and the World Economy, Kiel: Kiel Institute for World Economics, 2005)
F22, J1, O1
1303 Gerard J. van den Berg
Maarten Lindeboom
Peter Dolton
Survey Non-Response and Unemployment Duration
Social surveys are often used to estimate unemployment duration distributions. Survey non-response may then cause a bias. We study this using a unique dataset that combines survey information of ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 2006, 169 (3), 585-604)
J64, C41, C81, C23, C14, C42
1302 Craig A. Gallet
John A. List
Peter F. Orazem
Cyclicality and the Labor Market
Using a unique sample of new Ph.D. economists in 1987 and 1997, we examine how job seekers and their employers alter their search strategies in strong versus weak markets. The 1987 academic market ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2005, 72 (2), 284-304)
J44, J60
1301 Boris Augurzky
Jochen Kluve
Assessing the Performance of Matching Algorithms When Selection into Treatment Is Strong
This paper investigates the method of matching regarding two crucial implementation choices, the distance measure and the type of algorithm. We implement optimal full matching – a fully efficient ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2006, 22 (3), 533-557)
C14, C61
1300 Michael Rosholm
Michael Svarer
Estimating the Threat Effect of Active Labour Market Programmes
We combine two techniques to consistently estimate the effect of active labour market programmes and, in particular, active labour market policy regimes. Our aim is to explicitly estimate the threat ...
(Published as: 'The Threat Effect of Active Labour Market Programmes' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 110 (2), 385 - 401)
C41, J64
1299 Giorgio Brunello
Charlotte Lauer
Are Wages in Southern Europe More Flexible? The Effects of Cohort Size on European Earnings
We exploit the cross-country and time variation in the demographics and education structure in 11 European countries to study how cohort size has affected real earnings in Europe. When we pool the ...
(published as "The Effects of Cohort Size on European Earnings" in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (1), 273 - 290)
J11, J31
1298 Andreas Roider
Delegation of Authority as an Optimal (In)complete Contract
The present paper aims to contribute to the literature on the foundations of incomplete contracts by providing conditions under which simple delegation of authority is the solution to the ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2006, 162(3), 391-411)
D82, D23, L14, L22
1297 Peter F. Orazem
Milan Vodopivec
Ruth Wu
Worker Displacement during the Transition: Experience from Slovenia
The transition to market in Slovenia created labor displacements that were on par or greater than that experienced in North America in the 1980s. A simple theoretical model suggests that factors ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2005, 13 (2), 311-340)
J63, P2
1296 Robert W. Fairlie
Alicia Robb
Families, Human Capital, and Small Business: Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey
An important finding in the rapidly growing literature on self-employment is that the probability of self-employment is substantially higher among the children of business owners than among the ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (2), 225-245)
J23
1295 Regina T. Riphahn
The Enrollment Effect of Secondary School Fees in Post-War Germany
This study utilizes the heterogeneity of the fee abolition for West German secondary schools to identify its effect on enrollment and to obtain an estimate of the price elasticity of demand for ...
(published as 'Effect of Secondary School Fees on Educational Attainment' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (1), 147 - 176)
I20, H52, H71, C21
1294 Pierre-Carl Michaud
Frederic Vermeulen
A Collective Retirement Model: Identification and Estimation in the Presence of Externalities
We study the labor supply dynamics of elderly couples by means of a structural collective model. The model allows for general externalities with respect to spouses' leisure. Preferences and the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (2), 159-167)
D13, H31, J22, J26
1293 Joachim Wagner
Nascent Entrepreneurs
Nascent entrepreneurs are people who are engaged in creating new ventures. This chapter reviews the international evidence on how many of them are there around the world, what they are doing, who ...
(published in: Simon C. Parker (ed.), The Life Cycle of Entrepreneurial Ventures (International Handbook Series on Entrepreneurship, Vol. 3), New York: Springer 2006, 15-37)
J23
1292 Robert W. Fairlie
Alicia Robb
Why Are Black-Owned Businesses Less Successful than White-Owned Businesses? The Role of Families, Inheritances, and Business Human Capital
Four decades ago, Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan made the argument that the black family "was not strong enough to create those extended clans that elsewhere were most helpful for ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2007, 25 (2), 289-323)
J15, J23
1291 Winfried Koeniger
Marco Leonardi
Luca Nunziata
Labour Market Institutions and Wage Inequality
In this paper we investigate the importance of labor market institutions such as unemployment insurance, unions, firing regulation and minimum wages for the evolution of wage inequality across ...
(revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (3), 340-356)
E24, J31, J51, J65
1290 Kirsten Daniel
W. Stanley Siebert
Does Employment Protection Reduce the Demand for Unskilled Labor?
Perhaps it does. We propose a model in which workers with little education or in the tails of the age distribution – the inexperienced and the old – have more chance of job failure (mismatch). ...
(published in: International Economic Journal, 2005, 19 (2), 197-222)
J21, J83
1288 Monika Merz
Women's Hours of Market Work in Germany: The Role of Parental Leave
This paper investigates trends and changes in the structural composition of women’s weekly market hours worked in former West-Germany using aggregate time-series data from the German micro census ...
(published in: R. Goméz-Salvador et al. (eds.), Labour Supply and Incentive to Work in Europe, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005)
J13, J22
1287 Thomas Fuchs
Ludger Woessmann
What Accounts for International Differences in Student Performance? A Re-Examination Using PISA Data
We use the PISA student-level achievement database to estimate international education production functions. Student characteristics, family backgrounds, home inputs, resources, teachers and ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2007, 32 (2-3), 433-464)
I28, J24, H52, L33
1286 Maarten Lindeboom
Eddy van Doorslaer
Cut-Point Shift and Index Shift in Self-Reported Health
There is a concern that ordered responses on health questions may differ across populations or even across subgroups of a population. This reporting heterogeneity may invalidate group comparisons and ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2004, 23 (6), 1083-1099)
D30, D31, I10, I12
1284 Ludger Woessmann
How Equal Are Educational Opportunities? Family Background and Student Achievement in Europe and the United States
This paper estimates the effects of family-background characteristics on student performance in the US and 17 Western European school systems. Family background has strong effects both in Europe and ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, 2008, 78 (1), 45-70)
I21, J62, H52
1282 Francois Fontaine
Do Workers Really Benefit From Their Social Networks?
This paper provides a simple matching model in which unemployed workers and employers in large firms can be matched together through social networks or through more "formal" methods of search. We ...
(published in: Recherches Économique de Louvain / Louvan Economic Reivew, 2008, 74 (1), 5-31)
E24, J64, J68, Z13
1281 Doreen Au
Thomas F. Crossley
Martin Schellhorn
The Effect of Health Changes and Long-Term Health on the Work Activity of Older Canadians
Using longitudinal data from the Canadian National Population Health Survey (NPHS), we study the relationship between health and employment among older Canadians. We focus on two issues: (1) the ...
(revised version published in: Health Economics, 2005, 14 (10), 999-1018)
I12, J26
1280 Pernilla Andersson Joona
Eskil Wadensjö
Why Do Self-Employed Immigrants in Denmark and Sweden Have Such Low Incomes?
When studying income differences and income distribution, the self-employed are often excluded from the population studied. There are several good reasons for this, for example that incomes from ...
(published in: Brussels Economic Review / Cahiers Economique de Bruxelles, 2006, 48 (1-2), 43-71)
J15, J23, J61
1279 Vlad Manole
Maurice Schiff
Migration and Diversity: Human versus Social Capital
This paper examines the welfare implications associated with different degrees of diversity or similarity between migrants and natives under both migration and trade. We use a general equilibrium ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2013, 21 (2), 281–294 )
F11, F16, F22, J61
1278 Alois Stutzer
Bruno S. Frey
Stress That Doesn't Pay: The Commuting Paradox
People spend a lot of time commuting and often find it a burden. According to economics, the burden of commuting is chosen when compensated either on the labor or on the housing market so that ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2007, 110 (2), 339 - 366)
D12, D61, R41
1277 Almas Heshmati
The Relationship between Income Inequality, Poverty and Globalisation
This paper introduces two composite indices of globalisation. The first is based on the Kearney/Foreign Policy magazine and the second is obtained from principal component analysis. They indicate the ...
(published in: Nissanke and Thorbecke (eds.), The Impact of Globalization on the Worlds Poor, Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2006)
C23, D63, F15, O57
1274 Daniela Del Boca
Silvia Pasqua
Chiara D. Pronzato
Why Are Fertility and Women's Employment Rates So Low in Italy? Lessons from France and the U.K.
According to the agenda for employment set by the EU in 2000 for the following ten years, the target for female employment was set at 60 per cent for the year 2010. While Northern and most ...
(published in: Labour, 2005, 19 (s1), 51-79)
J2, C3, D1
1273 Axel Heitmueller
Kirsty Inglis
Carefree? Participation and Pay Differentials for Informal Carers in Britain
A substantial proportion of working age individuals in Britain are looking after sick, disabled, and elderly people and combine work and caring responsibilities. Using the British Household Panel ...
(published as "The earnings of informal carers: Wage differentials and opportunity costs" in: Journal of Health Economics, 2007, 26 (4), 821-841)
J70, J31, J40, C23
1272 Sumon K. Bhaumik
Saul Estrin
Klaus Meyer
Determinants of Employment Growth at MNEs: Evidence from Egypt, India, South Africa and Vietnam
Foreign investors are expected to contribute to economic development through a variety of channels. However, many foreign investment operations are small, and almost insignificant in their impact on ...
(published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2007, 49 (1), 61-80)
O13, O33, J21, F23
1271 Almas Heshmati
Continental and Sub-Continental Income Inequality
Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at regions defined as ...
(published in: ICFAI Journal of Applied Economics, 2005, 5 (1), 7-52 )
C10, D31, D63, I30, N30
1270 Matthias Kräkel
Emotions and Incentives
We introduce a concept of emotions that emerge when workers compare their own performance with a given standard or with the performances of co-workers. Assuming heterogeneity among the workers the ...
(published as 'Emotions in tournaments' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 67 (1), 204 - 214)
J3, M5
1269 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereux
Kjell G. Salvanes
The More the Merrier? The Effect of Family Composition on Children's Education
Among the perceived inputs in the “production” of child quality is family size; there is an extensive theoretical literature that postulates a tradeoff between child quantity and quality within a ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2005, 120 (2), 669-700)
I2, J1
1268 Jörn-Steffen Pischke
Labor Market Institutions, Wages, and Investment
Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investment decisions of firms in labor markets with frictions. This observation helps explain rising wage inequality in ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2005, 51 (1), 47-75)
E22, E24, J23, J24, J31
1267 Almas Heshmati
The World Distribution of Income and Income Inequality
This review covers a range of measures and methods frequently employed in empirical analysis of global income inequality and global income distribution. Different determinant factors along with ...
(published as "The World Distribution of Income and Income Inequality: A Review of the Economic Literature" in: Journal of World-Systems Research, 2006, 12 (1), 61-107)
C10, D31, D63, I30, N30
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