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1137 Truman Bewley
Fairness, Reciprocity, and Wage Rigidity
This paper contains a review of empirical work related to wage rigidity, where researchers have collected their own data. The work includes field studies, economic experiments, and psychological ...
(published in: H. Gintis et al. (eds), Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life, Cambridge: MIT Press 2005; P. Diamond & H. Vartianen (eds), Behavioral Economics and Its Applications, Princeton University Press, 2007 )
E32, J31
1136 Sara Lemos
Political Variables as Instruments for the Minimum Wage
Following the early 1980s apparent consensus, there has been a controversial debate in the literature over the direction of the minimum wage employment effect. Explanations to nonnegative effects ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2005, 4 (1), Art.16)
J38
1135 Sara Lemos
The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Wages, Employment and Prices
This paper puts together evidence for the wages, employment and price effects of the minimum wage. This overall picture will help to understand the small employment effects prevalent in the ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 26, 397-413)
J38
1134 Joachim Wagner
What a Difference a Y Makes: Female and Male Nascent Entrepreneurs in Germany
In western industrialized countries men are on average more than twice as active in entrepreneurship as women. Based on data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2007, 28 (1), 1-21)
J23
1133 Tito Boeri
Michael C. Burda
Preferences for Rigid versus Individualized Wage Setting in Search Economies with Frictions
Firing frictions and renegotiation costs affect worker and firm preferences for rigid wages versus individualized Nash bargaining in a standard model of equilibrium unemployment, in which workers ...
(revised version published as 'Preferences for Collective Versus Individualised Wage Setting' in: Economic Journal, 2008, 119 (540), 1440-1463)
J5, J6, D7
1132 Sher Verick
Wilko Letterie
Gerard A. Pfann
Non-Linearities in the Expansion of Capital Stock
The empirical identification of non-linearities in investment relies on how investment is assumed to be separated into various regimes. Using German establishment-level panel data, we estimate a ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72 (3), 263-280)
E22, C23, C24
1128 Jens Suedekum
Uwe Blien
Wages and Employment Growth: Disaggregated Evidence for West Germany
We address the effects of wages on employment growth on the basis of a theoretical model from which cost and demand effects can be derived. In the empirical analysis we take a highly disaggregated ...
(published as 'Stimulating employment growth with higher wages? A new approach to address an old controversy' in: Kyklos, 2007, 60 (3), 441-467)
J23, E24, R11
1127 Xavier Raurich
Hector Sala
Valeri Sorolla
Unemployment, Growth and Fiscal Policy: New Insights on the Hysteresis Hypothesis
We develop a growth model with unemployment due to imperfections in the labor market. In this model, wage inertia and balanced budget rules cause a complementarity between capital and employment ...
(published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2006, 10 (3), 285-316)
E24, E62, O41
1126 Ansgar H. Belke
Matthias Göcke
Real Options Effects on Employment: Does Exchange Rate Uncertainty Matter for Aggregation?
In a baseline micro model a band of inaction due to hiring- and firing-costs is widened by option value effects of exchange rate uncertainty. Based on this micro foundation an aggregation approach ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2005, 6 (2), 185-203)
J23, F41, D81
1125 Tomer Blumkin
Yoram Margalioth
Efraim Sadka
On Vertically Challenged and Horizontal Equity – Reassessing Anti-Discrimination Rules
We consider a model of prejudice-driven discrimination, where the advantaged 'tall' discriminate against the disadvantaged 'short'. We employ an egalitarian social welfare function to compare ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91 (5-6), 1167-1176)
H2, D6
1124 Rob Euwals
Maurice Hogerbrugge
Explaining the Growth of Part-Time Employment: Factors of Supply and Demand
Using the Dutch Labour Force Survey 1991-2001, the authors investigate the incidence of part-time employment in the country with the highest part-time employment rate of the OECD countries. Women ...
(published in: Labour, 2006, 20 (3), 533-557)
C33, J21, J23
1123 Vicente Cuñat
Maria Guadalupe
Executive Compensation and Competition in the Banking and Financial Sectors
This paper studies the effect of product market competition on the compensation packages that firms offer to their executives and in particular its impact on the sensitivity of pay to performance. ...
(published in: Journal of Banking and Finance, 2009, 33 (3), 495-504)
M52, L1, J31
1122 Edwin Leuven
Mikael Lindahl
Hessel Oosterbeek
Dinand Webbink
The Effect of Extra Funding for Disadvantaged Pupils on Achievement
This paper evaluates the effects of two subsidies targeted at disadvantaged pupils in the Netherlands. The first scheme gives primary schools with at least 70 percent minority pupils extra funding ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2007, 89 (4), 721-736)
I21, I28, J24
1121 Erdal Tekin
Child Care Subsidy Receipt, Employment, and Child Care Choices of Single Mothers
This paper examines the impact of actual subsidy receipt of single mothers on their joint employment and child care mode decisions in the post-welfare reform environment, which places a high ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2005, 89 (1), 1-6)
J13, I38
1120 Lawrence M. Kahn
Race, Performance, Pay and Retention among National Basketball Association Head Coaches
This paper estimates racial differences in the retention probability, pay and performance of NBA coaches over the 1996-2003 period. Using a hazard function approach, I find small and statistically ...
(published in: Journal of Sports Economics, 2006, 7 (2), 119-149)
J71, J44, J15, J63
1119 David Card
Is the New Immigration Really So Bad?
This paper reviews the recent evidence on U.S. immigration, focusing on two key questions: (1) Does immigration reduce the labor market opportunities of less-skilled natives? (2) Have immigrants ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2005, 115 (507), F300-F323)
J61
1118 James Banks
Arie Kapteyn
James P. Smith
Arthur van Soest
International Comparisons of Work Disability
Self-reported work disability is analyzed in the US, the UK and the Netherlands. Different wordings of the questions lead to different work disability rates. But even if identical questions are ...
(published in: David Cutler and David Wise (eds.), Health at Older Ages: The Causes and Consequences of Declining Disability Among the Elderly, University of Chicago Press, 2008, 251-294)
J28, I12, C81
1117 Reinhard Hujer
Stephan L. Thomsen
Christopher Zeiss
The Effects of Vocational Training Programmes on the Duration of Unemployment in Eastern Germany
This paper focuses on the effects of vocational training programmes on the duration of unemployment in Eastern Germany. We use information from administrative data of the Federal Employment Office. ...
(published in: Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv / Journal of the German Statistical Society, 2006, 90 (2), 299-321)
J64, J24, I28, J68
1116 Alessandro Cigno
Gianna Claudia Giannelli
Furio C. Rosati
Daniela Vuri
Is There Such a Thing as a Family Constitution? A Test Based on Credit Rationing
The paper aims to ascertain whether voluntary money transfers may be explained by the existence of self-enforcing family constitutions. We identify a circumstance in which an agent will behave ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2006, 4, 183 - 204)
D13, J13, J14
1115 Anna Maria Mayda
Who Is Against Immigration? A Cross-Country Investigation of Individual Attitudes toward Immigrants
This paper empirically analyzes both economic and non-economic determinants of attitudes toward immigrants, within and across countries. The two individual-level survey data sets used, covering a ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2006, 88 (3), 510-530)
F22, F1, J61
1114 Alessandro Cigno
The Supply of Child Labour
The paper develops a theoretical framework, and a diagrammatic apparatus, for explaining the supply of child labour. It examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than ...
(edited version published as Chapter 2 of: A. Cigno and F. C. Rosati (eds.), The Economics of Child Labour, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005)
D13, I12, J13, J22, J24, J82, O12
1111 Massimiliano Bratti
Emilia Del Bono
Daniela Vuri
New Mothers' Labour Force Participation in Italy: The Role of Job Characteristics
In this paper we use newly available individual-level data from the Longitudinal Survey of Italian Households to investigate the factors affecting female labour force participation after the birth ...
(revised version published in: Labour, 2005, 19 (s1), 79–121)
J13, J21, J23, O17, C3
1110 Gueorgui Kambourov
Iourii Manovskii
Rising Occupational and Industry Mobility in the United States: 1968-1993
We analyze the dynamics of worker mobility in the United States over the 1968-1993 period at various levels of occupational and industry aggregation. We find a substantial overall increase in ...
(revised version published as 'Rising Occupational and Industry Mobility in the United States, 1968 - 97' in: International Economic Review, 2008, 49 (1), 41-79)
E20, J21, J24, J44, J45, J62, J63
1109 Karen A. Mumford
Peter N. Smith
The Gender Earnings Gap in Britain
The earnings gap between male and female employees is substantial and persistent. Using new data for Britain, this paper shows that an important contribution to this gap is made by the workplace in ...
(revised version published as 'The Gender Earnings Gap in Britain: Including the Workplace' in: Manchester School, 2007, 75 (6), 653-672)
J3, J7
1108 M. Hashem Pesaran
Allan Timmermann
Real Time Econometrics
This paper considers the problems facing decision makers using econometric models in real time. It identifies the key stages involved and highlights the role of automated systems in reducing the ...
(published in: Econometric Theory, 2005, 21 (1), 212-231)
C51, C52, C53
1107 Lex Borghans
Bas ter Weel
The Diffusion of Computers and the Distribution of Wages
When workers adopt technology at the point where the costs equal the increased productivity, output per worker increases immediately, while the productivity benefits increase only gradually if the ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2007, 51 (3), 715-748)
J31, O15, O33
1106 Holger Bonin
Lockerung des Kündigungsschutzes: Ein Weg zu mehr Beschäftigung?
Die Lockerung des Kündigungsschutzes ist ein wesentliches Element der im Januar 2004 in Deutschland in Kraft gesetzten Arbeitsmarktreformen. Dieser Beitrag diskutiert die hiervon zu erwartenden ...
(published in: R. Zwengel (ed.), Gesellschaftliche Perspektiven: Jahrbuch der Hessischen Gesellschaft für Demokratie und Ökologie, 2004, 5, 55-71)
J23, J38, K31
1105 Thomas K. Bauer
Stefan Bender
Holger Bonin
Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments
Based on a large employer-employee matched data set, the paper investigates the effects of variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small ...
(published in: Economica, 2007, 74 (296), 804-821)
J21, J23, J58
1104 Peder J. Pedersen
Mariola Pytlikova
Nina Smith
Selection or Network Effects? Migration Flows into 27 OECD Countries, 1990-2000
Recent migration patterns show growing migration pressure and changing composition of immigrants in many Western countries. During the latest decade, an increasing proportion of the OECD immigrants ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2008, 52 (7), 1160-1186)
J61, F22, O15
1103 Janet Currie
The Take-Up of Social Benefits
This paper offers a review of recent literature regarding the take up of social programs in the U.S. and U.K. A few general conclusions are drawn: First, take up is enhanced by automatic or default ...
(published in: A.J. Auerbach et al. (eds), Public policy and the income distribution, New York: Russel Sage, 2006)
I38
1102 Solomon Polachek
How the Human Capital Model Explains Why the Gender Wage Gap Narrowed
This paper explores secular changes in women’s pay relative to men’s pay. It shows how the human capital model predicts a smaller gender wage gap as male-female lifetime work expectations become ...
(published in: F. Blau, M. Brinton, and D. Grusky, (eds.) The Declining Significance of Gender?, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006)
J1, J2, J3, J7
1101 Arnaud Chevalier
Motivation, Expectations and the Gender Pay Gap for UK Graduates
Focussing on recent UK graduates, a wage gap of 12% is found. The unexplained component of the gap is small and a large fraction of the gap can be explained by subject choice, job characteristics, ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2007, 69 (6), 819-842)
J16, J13, J29, J70
1100 Armin Falk
Rafael Lalive
Josef Zweimüller
The Success of Job Applications: A New Approach to Program Evaluation
In this paper, we suggest a novel approach to program evaluation that allows identification of the causal effect of a training program on the likelihood of being invited to a job interview under ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2005, 12 (6), 739-748)
I38, C93
1099 Michael Fertig
Jochen Kluve
A Conceptual Framework for the Evaluation of Comprehensive Labor Market Policy Reforms in Germany
Over the last year the German government has introduced a comprehensive set of labor market policy reforms, the so-called Hartz reforms, which aim at a significant reduction of unemployment. To ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly Supplement, 2004, 55, 83-112)
J0
1098 Libertad González
Nonparametric Bounds on the Returns to Language Skills
This paper applies the theoretical literature on nonparametric bounds on treatment effects to the estimation of how limited English proficiency (LEP) affects wages and employment opportunities for ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2005, 20 (6), 771-795)
C14, J24, J31
1097 Libertad González
Single Mothers and Work
Western countries differ greatly in the extent to which single mothers participate in the labor market. Using LIS data for 15 countries, I propose and estimate a simple structural model of labor ...
(published in: Socio-Economic Review, 2004, 2 (2), 285-313)
J52, J12, I38
1096 Bernard M. S. van Praag
Barbara E. Baarsma
Using Happiness Surveys to Value Intangibles: The Case of Airport Noise
Inhabitants of houses near Amsterdam Airport are complaining of noise nuisance, caused by aircraft traffic. The usual assumption is that the effect of the externality will be perfectly reflected by ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2005, 115 (500), 224-246)
D62, D61, H23, L93, C25
1095 Markus Frölich
Michael Lechner
Regional Treatment Intensity as an Instrument for the Evaluation of Labour Market Policies
The effects of active labour market policies (ALMP) on individual employment chances and earnings are evaluated by nonparametric instrumental variables based on Swiss administrative data with ...
(substantially revised version published as IZA DP 2144)
C14, J68
1093 Christopher R. Bollinger
Amitabh Chandra
Iatrogenic Specification Error: A Cautionary Tale of Cleaning Data
In empirical research it is common practice to use sensible rules of thumb for cleaning data. Measurement error is often the justification for removing (trimming) or recoding ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2005, 23 (2), 235-257)
C1, J1
1092 Steven Stillman
Duncan Thomas
The Effect of Economic Crises on Nutritional Status: Evidence from Russia
This paper uses data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) to examine the relationship between nutritional status and both longer-run household resources and short-run fluctuations ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (531), 1385–1417)
D12, I12, O12, P36
1091 Dean R. Hyslop
Steven Stillman
Youth Minimum Wage Reform and the Labour Market
This paper analyses the effects of a large reform in the minimum wages affecting youth workers in New Zealand since 2001. Prior to this reform, a youth minimum wage, applying to 16-19 year-olds, ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (2), 201-230)
J38, J22, J23, J24
1089 Sara Lemos
The Effects of the Minimum Wage in the Formal and Informal Sectors in Brazil
The minimum wage literature is very limited on empirical evidence for developing countries. This already limited literature is even more limited on the effects of the minimum wage in the informal ...
(published as: 'Minimum Wage Effects in a Developing Country' in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16(2), 224-237.)
J38
1088 Don J. DeVoretz
Sergiy Pivnenko
Morton Beiser
The Economic Experiences of Refugees in Canada
Canada admits refugees on the basis of compassion and not economic criteria. It is however, important to document the economic successes or failures among Canada’s refugee population in order to ...
(published in: P. Waxman and V. Colic-Peisker (eds.), Homeland Wanted: Interdisciplinary Perspective on Refugee Settlement in the West, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2004)
J61
1087 Mark Gradstein
Maurice Schiff
The Political Economy of Social Exclusion with Implications for Immigration Policy
Minorities, such as ethnic and immigration groups, have often been subject to exclusion through labor market discrimination, residential and employment segregation policies, business ownership ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2006, 19 (2), 327-344)
D74, H41, I20, J61
1086 Ana Rute Cardoso
Wage Mobility: Do Institutions Make a Difference? A Replication Study Comparing Portugal and the UK
This study compares wage mobility in Portugal and the UK, replicating the work by Dickens (2000) and progressing to discuss the impact of differences in the institutional framework, which is more ...
(fully revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2006, 13 (3), 387-404)
J31, J60
1085 Karen A. Mumford
Peter N. Smith
Job Tenure in Britain: Employee Characteristics Versus Workplace Effects
We consider differences in current job tenure of individuals using linked employee and workplace data. This enables us to distinguish between variation in tenure associated with the characteristics ...
(revised version published in: Economica, 2004, 71 (282), 275-298)
J2
1084 Ilham Haouas
Mahmoud Yagoubi
Trade Liberalization and Labor-Demand Elasticities: Empirical Evidence from Tunisia
This paper investigates the effects of trade liberalization on labor demand elasticities. Employment demand equation is estimated by using data (1971-1996) for manufacturing industries in Tunisia. ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2008, 15 (4), 277-286)
F10, F12, J23, L60
1080 Anders Björklund
Bernt Bratsberg
Tor Eriksson
Markus Jäntti
Oddbjørn Raaum
Inter-Industry Wage Differentials and Unobserved Ability: Siblings Evidence from Five Countries
This paper examines the role of unobserved ability in explaining inter-industry wage differentials, drawing on data on brothers. Such data allow us to account for unmeasured abilities due to common ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2007, 46 (1), 171-202)
J31, J62
1079 Maia Güell
Luojia Hu
Estimating the Probability of Leaving Unemployment Using Uncompleted Spells from Repeated Cross-Section Data
This paper proposes a new econometric estimation method for analyzing the probability of leaving unemployment using uncompleted spells from repeated cross-section data, which can be especially ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2006, 133 (1), 307-341)
C41, J64
1074 Fabian Bornhorst
Simon Commander
Regional Unemployment and its Persistence in Transition Countries
We look at the differences in regional unemployment rates in six major transition countries and their persistence over time. We analyse the role various adjustment mechanisms play. While movement ...
(published in: Economics of Tranistion and Institutional Change, 2006, 14 (2), 269-288)
J61, P2
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