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1073 Simon Commander
János Köllő
The Changing Demand for Skills: Evidence from the Transition
Transition has involved major job destruction and creation. This paper examines the skill content of these changes using a detailed three country firm survey. It shows that transition has exerted a ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2008, 16 (2), 199-221. )
J21, J23, J63, P31
1072 Sara Lemos
The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Prices
It is well established in the international literature that minimum wage increases compress the wages distribution. Firms respond to these higher labour costs by reducing employment, reducing ...
(published as: 'A Survey of the Effects of the Minimum Wage on Prices' in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2008, 22(1), 187-212.)
J38
1071 Sara Lemos
The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Prices in Brazil
There is very little empirical evidence on the effects of the minimum wage on prices in the international literature and none whatsoever for developing countries. This paper estimates the minimum ...
(published as: 'Anticipated Effects of the Minimum Wage on Prices' in: Applied Economics, 2006, 38(3), 325-337.)
J38
1070 Sara Lemos
Are Wage and Employment Effects Robust to Alternative Minimum Wage Variables?
A national minimum wage cannot explain variation in wages or employment across regions. Identification of the effect of the minimum wage separately from the effect of other variables on wages or ...
(published as: 'Comparing Employment Estimates Using Different Minimum Wage Variables: the case of Brazil' in: International Review of Applied Economic, 2009, 23(4), 405-425.)
J38
1069 Sara Lemos
A Menu of Minimum Wage Variables for Evaluating Wages and Employment Effects: Evidence from Brazil
The international literature on minimum wage greatly lacks empirical evidence from developing countries. Brazil’s minimum wage policy is a distinctive and central feature of the Brazilian economy. ...
(published as 'Minimum Wage Policy and Employment Effects: Evidence from Brazil' in: Economía: Journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, 2004, 5 (1), 219-266)
J38
1068 Lorenzo Cappellari
Earnings Mobility Among Italian Low Paid Workers
This paper uses Italian panel data to analyse transition probabilities at the bottom of the earnings distribution during the 1990s. The analytical framework is characterised by the ability to ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (3), 465-482)
C23, C35, D31, J31
1067 Gilles Saint-Paul
Did European Labor Markets Become More Competitive in the 1990s? Evidence from Estimated Worker Rents
This paper analyses the evolution of quantitative measures of employee rents in Europe during the nineties, using the European Household Panel Survey. One looks at two class of measures: wage ...
(published in: Labor Markets and Institutions, Santiago: Central Bank of Chile 2005; 281-300)
D3, E24, J3
1066 Gilles Saint-Paul
Why Are European Countries Diverging in Their Unemployment Experience?
During the nineties, unemployment has fallen in a number of European countries while it has remained high in others. The paper discusses potential causes for that evolution in light of recent ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2004, 18 (4), 49-68)
D7, E24, J6
1063 Kalena E. Cortes
Are Refugees Different from Economic Immigrants? Some Empirical Evidence on the Heterogeneity of Immigrant Groups in the United States
This paper analyzes how the implicit difference in time horizons between refugees and economic immigrants affects subsequent human capital investments and wage assimilation. The analysis uses the ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2004, 86(2), 465-480)
C81, F22, J24, J31
1062 Peter Fredriksson
Per Johansson
Dynamic Treatment Assignment – The Consequences for Evaluations Using Observational Data
This paper discusses the evaluation problem using observational data when the timing of treatment is an outcome of a stochastic process. We show that the duration framework in discrete time ...
(published in: Journal of Business and Economics Statistics, 2008, 26 (4), 435–445)
C14, C41
1061 Pierre-Philippe Combes
Thierry Magnac
Jean-Marc Robin
The Dynamics of Local Employment in France
We study the impact of local economic structure on employment dynamics. Local employment is decomposed into the product of the average plant size and the number of plants in the area and industry. ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2004, 56 (2), 217-43)
J21, C33, R23, J23
1059 Irwin Collier
Can Gerhard Schröder Do It? Prospects for Fundamental Reform of the German Economy and a Return to High Employment
The year 2003 has witnessed several major reform policy initiatives in Germany intended to contribute to a solution to Germany's high unemployment problem and to improve the longrun sustainability ...
(published in: David P. Conradt et al., A Precarious Victory: Schroeder and the German Elections of 2002, New York, Berghahn Books, 2005)
J68, E65, O52
1057 Claude Montmarquette
Jean-Louis Rulličre
Marie Claire Villeval
Romain Zeiliger
Redesigning Teams and Incentives in a Merger: An Experiment with Managers and Students
After a merger, company officials face the challenge of making compensation schemes uniform and of redesigning teams with managers from companies with different incentives, work habits and ...
(revised version published in: Management Science, 2004, 50 (10), 1379-1389.)
C81, C92, J33, M52
1056 Janet Currie
Matthew Neidell
Air Pollution and Infant Health: What Can We Learn From California's Recent Experience?
We examine the impact of air pollution on infant death in California over the 1990s. Our work offers several innovations: First, many previous studies examine populations subject to far greater ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2004, 120 (3), 1003-1030)
Q53, I12, I18
1055 Giorgio Brunello
Francesca Gambarotto
Agglomeration Effects on Employer-Provided Training: Evidence from the UK
Recent empirical evidence suggests that the density of local economic activity – measured as the number of employees per squared kilometer – positively affects local average productivity. In this ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2007, 37 (1), 1-22)
J24, R12
1054 Ekkehart Schlicht
Estimating the Smoothing Parameter in the So-Called Hodrick-Prescott Filter
This note gives a fairly complete statistical description of the Hodrick-Prescott Filter (1997) which has been proposed in the context of my seasonal adjustment method (Schlicht 1981, 1984). A ...
(published in: Journal of the Japan Statistical Society, 2005, 35 (1), 99-119)
C22
1053 Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Randy A. Ehrenberg
Christopher L. Smith
Liang Zhang
Why Do School District Budget Referenda Fail?
Our paper analyzes historical data for New York State on the percentage of school board budget proposals that are defeated each year and panel data that we collected for individual school districts ...
(published in: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2004, 26 (1), 111-125)
I22, H71
1052 Giuseppe Bertola
Winfried Koeniger
Consumption Smoothing and the Structure of Labor and Credit Markets
Smoother labor incomes alleviate credit constraints by reducing workers' desire to borrow, and prospects of upward income mobility have smaller beneficial effects for currently poor workers when ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2007, 51 (8), 1941-1958)
E21, E24, E61
1049 Joachim R. Frick
Jan Goebel
Edna Schechtman
Gert G. Wagner
Shlomo Yitzhaki
Using Analysis of Gini (ANoGi) for Detecting Whether Two Sub-Samples Represent the Same Universe: The SOEP Experience
A particular shortcoming of panel surveys is potential bias arising from selective attrition. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) we analyze potential artifacts (level, ...
(published in: Sociological Methods and Research, 2006, 34 (4), 427-468)
C81, D31, D63
1046 Sascha O. Becker
Samuel Bentolila
Ana Fernandes
Andrea Ichino
Job Insecurity and Children’s Emancipation
The age at which children leave the parental home differs considerably across countries. We present a theoretical model predicting that higher job security of parents and lower job security of ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (3), 1047-1071)
J1, J2
1045 Stephan Meier
Alois Stutzer
Is Volunteering Rewarding in Itself?
Volunteering constitutes one of the most important pro-social activities. Following Adam Smith, helping others is the way to higher individual well-being. This view contrasts with the selfish ...
(published in: Economica, 2008, 75 (297), 39-59)
D64, I31, J22, Z13
1043 Friedrich Schneider
Robert Klinglmair
Shadow Economies around the World: What Do We Know?
Using various statistical procedures, estimates about the size of the shadow economy in 110 developing, transition and OECD countries are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (in ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2005, 21 (3), 598-642)
O17, O5, D78, H2, H11, H26
1041 Claudio Lucifora
Dominique Meurs
The Public Sector Pay Gap in France, Great Britain and Italy
We investigate public-private pay determination using French, British and Italian microdata. While traditional methods focus on parametric methods to estimate the public sector pay gap, in this ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2003, 52(1), 43-59)
J31, J45, C14
1040 Xavier Chojnicki
Frédéric Docquier
Fiscal Policy and Educational Attainment in the United States – A Generational Accounting Perspective
In this paper, we investigate the consequences of the rise in educational attainment on the US generational accounts. We build on the 1995 accounts of Gokhale et al. (1999) and disaggregate them ...
(published in: Economica, 2007, 47 (294), 329-350)
E62, H6, J24
1039 Ansgar H. Belke
Matthias Göcke
Martin Hebler
Institutional Uncertainty and European Social Union: Impacts on Job Creation and Destruction in the CEECs
With the extension of its competence for social policy legislation in the Maastricht and Amsterdam treaties, the EU has adopted a significantly new social dimension in the past ten years. According ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Modeling, 2005, 27 (3), 345-354)
D81, J23, P26
1038 Ansgar H. Belke
Ralph Setzer
Exchange Rate Volatility and Employment Growth: Empirical Evidence from the CEE Economies
According to the traditional 'optimum currency area' approach, not much will be lost from a very hard peg to a currency union if there has been little reason for variations in the exchange rate. ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2003, 34 (3), 267-292)
F36, J32, P27
1037 Orley Ashenfelter
Michael Greenstone
Estimating the Value of a Statistical Life: The Importance of Omitted Variables and Publication Bias
In this paper we show that omitted variables and publication bias lead to severely biased estimates of the value of a statistical life. Although our empirical results are obtained in the context of ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2004, 94 (2), 454-460)
J17, C8, H43, I18, R4
1036 Patricia Apps
Ray Rees
Life Cycle Time Allocation and Saving in an Imperfect Capital Market
This paper combines income and expenditure with time use data to provide a unique picture of the time paths of labour supplies, saving and full consumption for two-adult households over the life ...
(revised version published as "Family labor supply, taxation and saving in an imperfect capital market" in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (3), 297-323)
D13, D91, H31, J2
1035 N. Anders Klevmarken
Estimates of a Labour Supply Function Using Alternative Measures of Hours of Work
Depending on data source, estimates of hours of work give widely different results both as to level and change. In this paper three alternative measures of hours worked are used to estimate a ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2005, 49 (1), 55-73)
J22, C81, C39
1034 Maarten van Ham
Felix Büchel
Unwilling or Unable? Spatial, Institutional and Socio-Economic Restrictions on Females' Labor Market Access
We analyze the effects of regional structures on both females’ willingness to work and the probability of being employed for those willing to work. Special permission was granted to link regional ...
(published in: [Regional Studies], 2006, 40(3), 1-12)
R23, J13, J21, J64
1033 Rainald Borck
Michael P. Pflüger
Agglomeration and Tax Competition
Tax competition for a mobile factor is different in 'new economic geography settings' compared to standard tax competition models. The agglomeration rent which accrues to the mobile factor in the ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2006, 50 (3), 647-668)
F15, F22, H73, R12
1032 Bruce Headey
Mark Wooden
The Effects of Wealth and Income on Subjective Well-Being and Ill-Being
The accepted view among psychologists and economists alike is that household income has statistically significant but only small effects on measures of subjective well-being. Income, however, is ...
(Published in: Economic Record, 2004, 80 (S1), S24-S33. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4932.2004.00181.x)
D19
1031 Dina Abu-Ghaida
Stephan Klasen
The Costs of Missing the Millennium Development Goal on Gender Equity
At the Millennium Summit, the world community pledged to promote gender equality and chose as a specific target the achievement of gender equity in primary and secondary education by the year 2005 ...
(published in: World Development, 2004, 32 (7), 1075-1107)
I2, J7, J13, J16
1030 Ingrid Woolard
Stephan Klasen
Determinants of Income Mobility and Household Poverty Dynamics in South Africa
In this paper we analyse household income mobility dynamics among Africans in South Africa’s most populous province, Kwazulu-Natal, between 1993 and 1998. Compared to industrialized and most ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2005, 41 (5), 865-897)
D63, J12, J15, J6
1029 Maurice Schiff
Trade Policy and Labor Services: Final Status Options for the West Bank and Gaza
This paper considers the policy options of the West Bank and Gaza (WBG) with respect to trade and the exports of labor services. It concludes that i) a non-discriminatory trade policy (NDTP) is ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Integration, 2003, 18 (1), 60 - 104)
F10, F15, F16, J30, J61
1028 Maurice Schiff
Yanling Wang
Education, Governance and Trade-Related Technology Diffusion in Latin America
This paper examines the impact on TFP of North-South trade-related technology diffusion in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). North-South R&D flows are constructed based on industry-specific ...
(published in: El Trimestre Economico, 2010, 302 (2))
F10, I20, O30, O38, O54
1027 Maurice Schiff
Labor Mobility, Trade and Social Capital
Labor market integration raises welfare in the absence of distortions. This paper examines labor and goods market integration in a general equilibrium model with social capital. The findings are: ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2004, 12 (4), 630-642)
F16, F22, J61, Z13
1026 Nicolai Kristensen
Niels C. Westergĺrd-Nielsen
Does Low Job Satisfaction Lead to Job Mobility?
This paper seeks to analyse the role of job satisfaction and actual job change behaviour. The analysis is based on the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) data for Danish families 1994-2000. ...
(published as 'Job satisfaction and quits – Which job characteristics matters most?' in: Nationalřkonomisk Tidsskrift / Danish Economic Journal, 2006, 144 (2), 230-248)
J28, J30, J60, M50
1025 Guido Friebel
Sergei Guriev
Smuggling Humans: A Theory of Debt-Financed Migration
We introduce financial constraints in a theoretical analysis of illegal immigration. Intermediaries finance the migration costs of wealth-constrained migrants, who enter temporary servitude ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2006, 4 (6), 1085-1111)
O15, O17, J61, N21
1024 Hartmut Egger
Volker Grossmann
Noncognitive Abilities and Within-Group Wage Inequality
This paper argues that endogenous restructuring processes within firms towards productivityenhancing human resource activities, triggered by advances in information and communication technologies ...
(published as "Non-Routine Tasks, Restructuring of Firms, and Wage Inequality Within and Between Skill-Groups" in: Journal of Economics, 2005, 86 (3), 197-225)
D20, J31
1022 Philippe Cattoir
Frédéric Docquier
Population Prospects and the Determination of a Debt-Sharing Rule between Seceding Regions
This paper investigates one of the most important financial issues arising from a secession or a country partitioning namely the sharing of the national public debt. Extending Drčze's distributive ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2004, 38 (3), 293-303)
H60, H77
1021 Horst Entorf
Nicoleta Minoiu
PISA Results: What a Difference Immigration Law Makes
The purpose of this article is to evaluate the importance of social class, migration background and command of national languages for the PISA school performance of teenagers living in European ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2005, 6(3), 355-376)
I20, J15, J18, O15, Z13
1020 Erkki Koskela
Rune Stenbacka
Profit Sharing, Credit Market Imperfections and Equilibrium Unemployment
We investigate the interaction between labour and credit market imperfections for equilibrium unemployment in the presence of profit sharing. In a partial equilibrium with exogenous outside options ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2004, 106 (4), 677-701)
J51, J41, G32
1019 Feng-Cheng Fu
Chu-Ping C. Vijverberg
Wim P. Vijverberg
Public Infrastructure as a Determinant of Intertemporal and Interregional Productive Performance in China
This paper focuses on the question whether public infrastructure capital matters for labor productivity in China, both over time and across regions. It finds that public infrastructure is a ...
(revised version published as 'Public infrastructure as a determinant of productive performance in China' in: Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2011. 36 (1), 91 - 111)
H54, O47, R11
1018 T. H. Gindling
Katherine Terrell
Legal Minimum Wages and the Wages of Formal and Informal Sector Workers in Costa Rica
The dual economy development models hold minimum wages (among other institutions) accountable for persistent dualism. We use 12 years of micro data on thousands workers in Costa Rica to test whether ...
(published in: World Development, 2005, 33 (11), 1905-1921 )
J23, J31, J38
1017 Louis Jacobson
Robert J. LaLonde
Daniel G. Sullivan
Estimating the Returns to Community College Schooling for Displaced Workers
Studies show that high-tenure displaced workers typically incur substantial long-term earnings losses. As these losses have become increasingly apparent, policy makers have significantly expanded ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2005, 125 (1), 271-304)
J31
1016 Rainer Winkelmann
Subjective Well-Being and the Family: Results from an Ordered Probit Model with Multiple Random Effects
The previous literature on the determinants of individual well-being has failed to fully account for the interdependencies in well-being at the family level. This paper develops an ordered probit ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2005, 30 (3), 749-761)
C23, C25, I31, J19
1015 Holger Bonin
Hilmar Schneider
Analytical Prediction of Transitions Probabilities in the Conditional Logit Model
The paper derives analytical transitions probabilities following an exogenous shock to the deterministic component in the conditional logit model. The solution draws on the ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2006, 90 (1), 102-107)
C35, C15, J22
1014 Erdal Tekin
Single Mothers Working at Night: Standard Work, Child Care Subsidies, and Implications for Welfare Reform
Using a data set from the post welfare reform environment (the 1999 National Survey of America’s Families), this paper investigates the impact of child care subsidies on the standard work (i.e., ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2007, 45 (2), 233-250)
J13, I38
1013 Ernst Fehr
Jean-Robert Tyran
Money Illusion and Coordination Failure
Economists long considered money illusion to be largely irrelevant. Here we show, however, that money illusion has powerful effects on equilibrium selection. If we represent payoffs in nominal ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2007, 59 (2), 246-268)
C9, E32, E52
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