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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
1012 Charles Bellemare
A Life-Cycle Model of Outmigration and Economic Assimilation of Immigrants in Germany
This paper estimates a structural dynamic life-cycle model of outmigration where, in each period, immigrants choose whether to work in the host country, not to work but remain in the host country, ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2007, 51 (3), 553-576)
J61, C61
1010 Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Re-Employment Bonuses in a Signalling Model of Temporary Layoffs
Temporary layoffs are an important feature of the United States labor market. If these employer-employee relationships exist because of valuable job-matches, unemployment among high-productivity ...
(published as 'A signaling model of temporary layoffs' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2009, 61 (3), 566-585 )
J63, J64, J65
1009 Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Signaling in the Labor Market: New Evidence on Layoffs and Plant Closings
In my asymmetric-information model of layoffs, high-productivity workers are more likely to be recalled to their former employer and may choose to remain unemployed rather than to accept a low-wage ...
(published as 'Playing Hard to Get: Theory and Evidence on Layoffs, Recalls, and Unemployment' in: Research in Labor Economics, 2013, 38, 211 - 258)
J60, J30
1008 Luis Diaz-Serrano
Labour Income Uncertainty, Risk Aversion and Home Ownership
In this paper we investigate the effect of labour income uncertainty on the probability of homeownership in Germany and Spain. This study is motivated by two facts. Firstly, theoretical models tend ...
(published as 'Labor income uncertainty, skewness and homeownership: A panel data study for Germany and Spain ' in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2005, 58 (1), 156-176)
D1, R0, J0
1007 Winfried Koeniger
Omar Licandro
Substitutability and Competition in the Dixit-Stiglitz Model
The effects of competition on growth are analyzed in the recent literature by comparing economies with the same market structure but different degrees of substitutability. In this note, we show ...
(revised version published in: B.E. Journal in Macroeconomics: Topics in Macroeconomics, 2006, 6(1), Article 2, )
L16
1006 John S. Earle
Andrew Spicer
Klara Sabirianova Peter
Community Norms and Organizational Practices: The Legitimization of Wage Arrears in Russia, 1992-1999
What role do community norms play in the diffusion and persistence of new organizational practices? We explore this question through an examination of the widespread practice of wage arrears, the ...
(revised version published as 'The Normalization of Deviant Organizational Practices: Wage Arrears in Russia, 1991-98' in: Academy of Management Journal, 2010, 53 (2), 218 - 237 )
A12, A14, B52, J30, L14, O17, P31, P37
1005 Stephen Machin
Sandra McNally
The Literacy Hour
In this paper, we evaluate the effect of the literacy hour in English primary schools on pupil attainment. The National Literacy Project (NLP) was undertaken in about 400 English primary schools in ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (5-6), 1441-1462)
I2
1004 Christina Gathmann
The Effects of Enforcement on Illegal Markets: Evidence from Migrant Smuggling along the Southwestern Border
This paper analyzes how enforcement along the U.S.-Mexican border has affected the market for migrant smugglers. Using a unique dataset that links border crossing histories from illegal Mexican ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (10-11), 1926-1941)
J61, K42
1003 Christian Belzil
Michael L. Bognanno
The Promotion Dynamics of American Executives
We formulate an empirical model of promotion with dynamic self-selection where the current promotion probability depends on the hierarchical level in the firm, individual human capital, unobserved ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2010, 30,189-231)
C33, J41, M5, M51
1002 Ernst Fehr
Lorenz Götte
Do Workers Work More When Wages Are High? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Most previous studies on intertemporal labor supply found very small or insignificant substitution effects. It is not clear, however, whether these results are due to institutional constraints on ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2007, 97 (1), 298-317)
J22, C93, B49
1001 Klaus F. Zimmermann
Advising Policymakers Through the Media
In the information age an exchange with the media is part of the duties the economics profession has to deliver to educate the public and to ensure its position in society. A key issue is the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Education, 2004, 35 (4), 395-405)
A11, A20
1000 Jan Boone
Abdolkarim Sadrieh
Jan C. van Ours
Experiments on Unemployment Benefit Sanctions and Job Search Behavior
This paper presents the results of an experimental study on unemployment benefit sanctions. The experimental set-up allows us to distinguish between the effect of benefit sanctions once they are ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2009, 53 (8), 937-951 )
C91, J64, J65
999 Thomas K. Bauer
Astrid Kunze
The Demand for High-Skilled Workers and Immigration Policy
This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the demand for high-skilled workers using a new firm data set, the IZA International Employer Survey 2000. Our results suggest that while workers from ...
(published in: Brussels Economic Review / Cahiers Economique de Bruxelles, 2004, 47 (1), 1-19)
F22, J61
997 M. Daniele Paserman
Job Search and Hyperbolic Discounting: Structural Estimation and Policy Evaluation
This paper estimates the structural parameters of a job search model with hyperbolic discounting and endogenous search effort. It estimates quantitatively the degree of hyperbolic discounting, and ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (531), 1418–1452)
C11, C41
995 Giorgio Brunello
Massimo Giannini
Kenn Ariga
The Optimal Timing of School Tracking
We develop a simple model which determines the optimal timing of school tracking as the outcome of the trade off between the advantages of specialization, which call for early tracking, and the ...
(published in: L. Woessmann and P. Petersen (eds.), Schools and the Equal Opportunity Problem, MIT 2007, 129-156)
H52, H73
994 Michael Fertig
Robert E. Wright
School Quality, Educational Attainment and Aggregation Bias
Data from 31 countries participating in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is used to estimate education production functions for reading literacy. The analysis suggests that ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2005, 88 (1), 109-114)
I2
992 Axel Heitmueller
Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials in Scotland: An Endogenous Switching Model
The public-private sector wage gap in Scotland in 2000 is analysed using the extension sample of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). Employing an endogenous switching model, and testing for ...
(published as 'Public-private sector pay differentials in a devolved Scotland' in: Journal of Applied Economics, 2006, 9, 295-323)
J71, J31, C24
990 Holger Bonin
Concepció Patxot
Generational Accounting as a Tool to Assess Fiscal Sustainability: An Overview of the Methodology
The paper surveys the methodology of generational accounting, a tool for gauging intertemporal imbalance in government finances facing demographic transition. Starting from the fiscal balance rule ...
(published in: E. Berenguer (ed.), Generational Accounting in Spain, Madrid: IFS, 2005, 27-66)
H61, E62, B41
989 Joachim Wagner
Are Young and Small Firms Hothouses for Nascent Entrepreneurs? Evidence from German Micro Data
Using a large recent representative sample of the German population this paper contributes to the entrepreneurship literature by empirically testing the hypothesis that young and small firms are ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2004, 50 (4), 379-391)
J23, R12
988 Marcel Jansen
Can Job Competition Prevent Hold-Ups?
We consider an economy in which firms need to invest in capital before they can advertise a job, while applicants may have to compete for jobs. Our aim is to investigate how this competition ...
(published as "Job auctions and hold-ups" in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (3), 608-619)
C78, D44, D83
987 Andrea Ichino
Gerd Muehlheusser
How Often Should You Open the Door? Optimal Monitoring to Screen Heterogeneous Agents
This paper shows that monitoring too much a partner in the initial phase of a relationship may not be optimal if the goal is to determine his loyalty to the match and if the cost of ending ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 67 (3-4), 820-831)
D2, D8, M5
986 Herbert Brücker
Parvati Trübswetter
Do the Best Go West? An Analysis of the Self-Selection of Employed East-West Migrants in Germany
Since the inequality of earnings in East Germany has approached West German levels in the late 1990s, the standard Roy model predicts that a positive selection bias of East-West migrants should ...
(published in: Empirica, 2007, 34 (4), 371-395)
R23, J61, P23
985 Štepán Jurajda
Heike Harmgart
When Are ‘Female’ Occupations Paying More?
We compare the importance of occupational gender segregation for the gender wage gap in East and West Germany in 1995 using a sample of social-security wage records of full-time workers. East ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2007, 35 (1), 170-187)
J16, J21, J71
984 Wiji Arulampalam
Alison L. Booth
Mark L. Bryan
Are There Asymmetries in the Effects of Training on the Conditional Male Wage Distribution?
We use a quantile regression framework to investigate the degree to which work-related training affects the location, scale and shape of the conditional wage distribution. Human capital theory ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (1), 251-272)
J24, J31, C29
983 Daniela Del Boca
Marilena Locatelli
Daniela Vuri
Child Care Choices by Italian Households
In spite of relatively generous public subsidies and a reputation for high quality, only a very limited proportion of Italian families use public child care. In this paper we explore ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2005, 3 (4), 453-477)
J2, C3, D1
982 Ingo Geishecker
Holger Görg
Winners and Losers: Fragmentation, Trade and Wages Revisited
Our paper investigates the link between outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and combining it with industry level information on industries’ outsourcing activities from ...
(revised version published as 'Winners and losers: A micro-level analysis of international outsourcing and wages' in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2008, 41(1), 243-270)
F16, L24, J31
981 Hugo R. Nopo
Matching as a Tool to Decompose Wage Gaps
In this paper I present a methodology that uses matching comparisons to explain gender differences in wages. The approach emphasizes gender differences in the supports of the distributions of ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008, 90 (2), 290-299)
C14, D31, J16, O54
980 Hugo R. Nopo
Jaime Saavedra
Maximo Torero
Ethnicity and Earnings in Urban Peru
In this paper we study the relationship between ethnic exclusion and earnings in Urban Peru. Our approach to the concept of ethnicity involves the usage of instruments in many of its several ...
(revised version published as 'Ethnicity and Earnings in a Mixed-Race Labor Market' in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2007, 55 (4), 709–734)
J15, J31, J71
979 Martin Moreno
Hugo R. Nopo
Jaime Saavedra
Maximo Torero
Gender and Racial Discrimination in Hiring: A Pseudo Audit Study for Three Selected Occupations in Metropolitan Lima
In this paper, we adapt the audit studies methodology to analyze gender and racial differences in hiring for a particular segment of the market of three selected occupations in Metropolitan Lima: ...
(published as 'Detecting Gender and Racial Discrimination in Hiring through Monitoring Intermediation Services: The Case of Selected Occupations in Metropolitan Lima, Peru ' in: World Development, 2012, 40 (2), 315-328. )
C93, D63, J4, J7
978 John T. Addison
Pedro Portugal
How Does the Unemployment Insurance System Shape the Time Profile of Jobless Duration?
This paper examines the effects of unemployment insurance on escape rates from unemployment using data from the 1998 Displaced Worker Survey. Transitions from unemployment to employment are modeled ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2004, 85 (2), 229-234)
J64, J65
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