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No.
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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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987
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Andrea
Ichino
Gerd
Muehlheusser
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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)
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D2, D8, M5
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986
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Herbert
Brücker
Parvati
Trübswetter
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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)
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R23, J61, P23
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985
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Štepán
Jurajda
Heike
Harmgart
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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)
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J16, J21, J71
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984
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Wiji
Arulampalam
Alison
L.
Booth
Mark
L.
Bryan
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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)
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J24, J31, C29
|
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983
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Daniela
Del Boca
Marilena
Locatelli
Daniela
Vuri
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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)
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J2, C3, D1
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982
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Ingo
Geishecker
Holger
Görg
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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)
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F16, L24, J31
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981
|
Hugo
R.
Nopo
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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)
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C14, D31, J16, O54
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980
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Hugo
R.
Nopo
Jaime
Saavedra
Maximo
Torero
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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)
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J15, J31, J71
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979
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Martin
Moreno
Hugo
R.
Nopo
Jaime
Saavedra
Maximo
Torero
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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. )
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C93, D63, J4, J7
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978
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John
T.
Addison
Pedro
Portugal
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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)
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J64, J65
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977
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Miles
Corak
Garth
Lipps
John
Zhao
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Family Income and Participation in Post-Secondary Education
The relationship between family income and post-secondary participation is studied in order
to determine the extent to which higher education in Canada has increasingly become the
domain of ...
(published in: Charles Beach, Robin Boadway and Marvin McInnis (eds.), Higher Education in Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005)
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I2, J62
|
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976
|
Joshua
Angrist
Kevin
Lang
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Does School Integration Generate Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program
Most integration programs transfer students between schools within districts. In this paper,
we study Metco, a long-running desegregation program that sends mostly Black students out
of the Boston ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2004, 94 (5), 1613-1634)
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I21, I28, J24
|
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975
|
Amelie
F.
Constant
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Occupational Choice Across Generations
There are few studies on occupational choices in Germany, and the second generation
occupational choice and mobility is even less investigated. Such research is important
because occupations ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2003, 49 (4), 299-317)
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D90, F22, J24, J61, J62
|
|
974
|
Johannes
Schwarze
Marco
Härpfer
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Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State? A Revised Version
We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre- and post-government income distribution
at the regional level, to estimate the degree of inequality aversion. Three different ...
(published in: Journal of Socio-Economics, 2007, 36 (2), 233-249)
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C23, D31, D63, I31
|
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973
|
Christian
Belzil
Jörgen
Hansen
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Structural Estimates of the Intergenerational Education Correlation
Using a structural dynamic programming model, we investigate the relative importance of
family background variables and individual specific abilities in explaining cross-sectional
differences in ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2003, 18 (6), 679-69)
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J2, J3
|
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971
|
Jan
De Loecker
Jozef
Konings
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Creative Destruction and Productivity Growth in an Emerging Economy: Evidence from Slovenian Manufacturing
In most transition countries the aggregate level evidence suggests that most industries are
just destroying jobs, due to the legacy of communism where over-manning levels of
employment were the ...
(published as 'Job reallocation and productivity growth in a post-socialist economy: Evidence from Slovenian manufacturing' in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2006, 22 (2), 388-408)
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L60, D21, P20
|
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969
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Joerg-Peter
Schraepler
Gert
G.
Wagner
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Identification, Characteristics and Impact of Faked Interviews in Surveys: An Analysis by Means of Genuine Fakes in the Raw Data of SOEP
To the best of our knowledge, most of the few methodological studies which analyze the
impact of faked interviews on survey results are based on "artificial fakes" generated by
project students in ...
(published in: Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv, 2005, 89 (1), 7-20 )
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C8, C4
|
|
968
|
Maite
Blázquez Cuesta
Marcel
Jansen
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Efficiency in a Matching Model with Heterogeneous Agents: Too Many Good or Bad Jobs?
This paper analyses the efficiency of the equilibrium allocation in a matching model with two
types of workers and jobs. The basic assumption is that high-skill workers can perform both
skilled and ...
(revised version published as "Search, mismatch and unemployment" in: European Economic Review, 2008, 52 (3), 498-526)
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C78, D61, J64
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965
|
Monika
Merz
Eran
Yashiv
|
Labor and the Market Value of the Firm
What role does labor play in firms’ market value? We explore this question using a production-based asset pricing model with frictions in the adjustment of both capital and
labor. We posit that ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2007, 97 (4), 1419 - 1431)
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E22, E23, E24, G12
|
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964
|
Ronald
Schettkat
Lara
Yocarini
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The Shift to Services: A Review of the Literature
The present paper provides an overview of literature on the shift to services. It follows the three dimensions of structural change - final demand, the inter-industry division of labor and ...
(published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2006, 17 (2), 127-147)
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E2, J2, J3, L0, L8, O1, O3, O4, N1
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963
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Luis
Diaz-Serrano
Joop
Hartog
Helena
Skyt
Nielsen
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Compensating Wage Differentials for Schooling Risk in Denmark
In this paper we test for risk compensation in wages using Danish panel data. With the conviction that the type of education is as important as the education length, we use a very detailed ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 110(4), 711-731)
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D8, J3
|
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962
|
Laszlo
Goerke
Markus
Pannenberg
|
Norm-Based Trade Union Membership: Evidence for Germany
In the absence of closed-shops and discriminatory wage policies, union membership can be explained by the existence of social norms. We describe a model, incorporating institutional features of the ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2004, 5(4), 481-504)
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D71, J51
|
|
961
|
Coen
Teulings
Casper
G.
de Vries
|
Generational Accounting, Solidarity and Pension Losses
The creeping stock market collapse eroded the wealth of funded pension systems. This led to
political tensions between generations due to the fuzzy definition of property rights on the
pension ...
(published in: De Economist, 2006, 154 (1), 63-83)
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E2, G2, G23, J32, H55
|
|
960
|
Amelie
F.
Constant
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
|
Circular Movements and Time Away from the Host Country
The economic literature has largely overlooked the importance of repeat migration. This
paper studies repeat or circular migration as it is manifested by the frequency of exits of
migrants living ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Circular and Repeat Migration: Counts of Exits and Years Away from the Host Country' in: Population Research and Policy Review, 2011, 30 (4), 495-515)
|
F22, J15, J61
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959
|
Thomas
K.
Bauer
Holger
Bonin
Uwe
Sunde
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Real and Nominal Wage Rigidities and the Rate of Inflation: Evidence from West German Micro Data
The paper examines real and nominal wage rigidities. We estimate a switching regime
model, in which the observed distribution of individual wage changes, computed from West
German register data for ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117, 508-529)
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J31, J51, E52
|
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958
|
Tilman
Brück
John
de New
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Creating Low Skilled Jobs by Subsidizing Market-Contracted Household Work
We analyze the determinants of household work contracted in the German shadow economy.
The German socio-economic household panel, which enumerates casual domestic
employment, is used to estimate ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2006, 38 (8), 899-911)
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D13, H24, J23, K42
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956
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Michael
Fertig
Christoph
M.
Schmidt
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Gerontocracy in Motion? European Cross-Country Evidence on the Labor Market Consequences of Population Ageing
Taking a European cross-country perspective, this paper addresses the most important
issues in the nexus of population ageing and labor markets. We start from a descriptive
overview of the ...
(published in: Wright, Robert E. (ed.), Scotland's Demographic Challenge, Scottish Economic Policy Network, Stirling-Glasgow, 2004)
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J11, J21
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955
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Volker
Grossmann
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Risky Human Capital Investment, Income Distribution, and Macroeconomic Dynamics
This paper analyzes the interaction between intergenerational wealth transmission, human
capital investments under uninsurable labor income risk, and economic growth in a small
open ...
(published in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2008, 30 (1), 19-42)
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I20, O11, O40
|
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954
|
Pedro
Portugal
John
T.
Addison
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Six Ways to Leave Unemployment
This paper uses a unique Portuguese data set to examine the effect of unemployment benefit
receipt and maximum duration of benefits on escape rates from unemployment. The focus is
on the time ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2008, 55 (4), 393 - 419)
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J64, J65
|
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953
|
Oddbjørn
Raaum
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
Erik
Ø.
Sørensen
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The Impact of a Primary School Reform on Educational Stratification: A Norwegian Study of Neighbour and School Mate Correlations
School quality is hard to define and measure. It is influenced by not only school expenditures,
but also characteristics that are hard to measure like norms and peer effects among teachers
and ...
(published in: Swedish Economic Policy Review, 2003, 10 (2), 143-170)
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I21, J13, R23
|
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952
|
Oddbjørn
Raaum
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
Erik
Ø.
Sørensen
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The Neighbourhood Is Not What It Used to Be
Using a variance decomposition framework which provides bounds on the effect of families
and neighbourhoods, we find important effects of family characteristics and residential
location on ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (508), 200-222)
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I21, J13, R23
|
|
951
|
Pietro
Garibaldi
Etienne
Wasmer
|
Raising Female Employment: Reflexions and Policy Tools
While there is consensus on the need to raise the time spent in the market by European
women, it is not clear how these goals should be achieved. Tax wedges, assistance in the
job search process, ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2004, 2 (2-3), 320-330)
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J0, J2
|
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948
|
Adriana
Kugler
Giovanni
Pica
|
Effects of Employment Protection and Product Market Regulations on the Italian Labor Market
Labor market regulations have often been blamed for high and persistent unemployment in
Europe, but evidence on their impact remains mixed. More recently, attention has turned to
the impact of ...
(published in: J. Messina, C. Michelacci, J. Turunen and G. Zoega (eds.), Labour Market Adjustments in Europe, Edward Elgar 2006)
|
E24, J63, J65, L11, L43
|
|
947
|
Uwe
Sunde
|
Potential, Prizes and Performance: Testing Tournament Theory with Professional Tennis Data
This paper tests two hypotheses from the theory of elimination tournaments: (i) that uneven
tournaments, where the contestants are ex ante heterogeneous, entail lower effort exertion;
this is a ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Heterogeneity and Performance in Tournaments: A Test for Incentive Effect using Professional Tennis Data' in: Applied Economics, 2010, 41 (25), 3199-3208)
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J41, J33, M12
|
|
946
|
Marco
Leonardi
|
Earnings Instability of Job Stayers and Job Changers
I use the PSID to decompose the rise in wage inequality into a permanent and a transitory
component. I consider separately job stayers and job changers. I find that earnings instability
(the ...
(revised version published in: Economic Inquiry, 2017, 55(1), 260-280)
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J21, J31
|
|
945
|
Ronnie
Schöb
David
Wildasin
|
Economic Integration and Labor Market Institutions: Worker Mobility, Earnings Risk, and Contract Structure
This paper investigates the effects of labor market integration, in the form of worker mobility,
in a model with long-term labor contracts that lead to wage rigidities and unemployment.
Reflecting ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2007, 37(2), 141-164)
|
R0, J1, J6
|
|
944
|
Holger
Görg
David
Greenaway
|
Much Ado About Nothing? Do Domestic Firms Really Benefit from Foreign Direct Investment?
Governments the world over offer significant inducements to attract inward investment,
motivated by the expectation of spillover benefits to augment the primary benefits of a boost
to national ...
(published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2004, 19(2), 171-197)
|
F21, F23
|
|
943
|
John
T.
Addison
Paulino
Teixeira
|
What Have We Learned About the Employment Effects of Severance Pay? Further Iterations of Lazear et al.
In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and
unemployment development using data on industrialized OECD countries. Our starting point
is Lazear’s (1990) empirical ...
(published in: Empirica, 2005, 32 (3-4), 345-368)
|
E24, J23, J64, J65
|
|
941
|
Richard
V.
Burkhauser
J. S.
Butler
Gulcin
Gumus
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Option Value and Dynamic Programming Model Estimates of Social Security Disability Insurance Application Timing
This paper develops dynamic structural models - an option value model and a dynamic
programming model - of the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) application timing
decision. We estimate ...
(revised version published as 'Dynamic programming model estimates of Social Security Disability Insurance application timing" in Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2004, 19 (6), 671-685)
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H31, H55
|
|
940
|
Amelie
F.
Constant
Yochanan
Shachmurove
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
|
What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does It Pay? Native Men, Turks, and Other Migrants in Germany
This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany.
We pay closer attention to Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong
entrepreneurial ...
(published in: International Migration, 2007, 45 (4), 69-98)
|
J23, M13, J24, J61, J31
|
|
939
|
Eric
Toulemonde
|
Acquisition of Skills, Education Subsidies, and Agglomeration of Firms
An analytically solvable model of new economic geography is developed. Acquisition of skills
is costly for workers but it allows them to earn wages that are larger than those of the
unskilled. ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2006, 59 (3), 420-439)
|
F12, F15, J51, R12
|
|
938
|
Daniela
Del Boca
Alessandra
Venturini
|
Italian Migration
Italy is a country with a long history of emigration and a very short experience of immigration.
The paper first surveys the Italian emigration pattern describing the characteristics of the
Italian ...
(published in: K. F. Zimmermann (ed.), European Migration - What Do We Know?, Oxford University Press, 2005)
|
F22, J61
|
|
937
|
Wolfgang
Eggert
Laszlo
Goerke
|
Fiscal Policy, Economic Integration and Unemployment
In this paper fiscal policy is examined for an open economy characterised by unemployment
due to efficiency wages. We allow for capital and firm mobility in a model where the
government chooses the ...
(published in: Journal of Economics/Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, 2004, 82 (2), 137-167)
|
H21, J41, J65
|
|
936
|
Melanie
K.
Jones
Paul
L.
Latreille
Peter J.
Sloane
|
Disability, Gender and the Labour Market
Using data from the 2002 LFS, we examine the impact of disability on labour market
outcomes by gender. Our results indicate that substantial differences in both the likelihood of
employment and ...
(revised version published as 'Disability, gender, and the British labour market ' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2006, 58 (3), 407-449)
|
I1, J2, J3
|
|
935
|
Thomas
Dohmen
|
Performance, Seniority and Wages: Formal Salary Systems and Individual Earnings Profiles
This paper replicates studies by Medoff and Abraham (1980, 1981) and Flabbi and Ichino (2001) using personnel data from the Dutch national aircraft manufacturer Fokker. It shows how a formal salary ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2004, 11 (6), 741-763)
|
M52, J30, J31
|
|
934
|
Mariacristina
Piva
Enrico
Santarelli
Marco
Vivarelli
|
The Skill Bias Effect of Technological and Organisational Change: Evidence and Policy Implications
Previous empirical literature has shown that technological change can be considered the main cause of the skill bias (increase in the number of highly skilled workers) exhibited by manufacturing ...
(published in: Research Policy, 2005, 34 (2), 141-157)
|
O33, J50
|
|
933
|
Wiji
Arulampalam
Alison
L.
Booth
Mark
L.
Bryan
|
Training in Europe
Using the European Community Household Panel, we investigate gender differences in training participation over the period 1994-1999. We focus on ‘lifelong learning’, fixed-term contracts, part-time ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2004, 2 (2/3), 346-360)
|
J16, J24, J40
|
|
932
|
Naci
Mocan
Erdal
Tekin
|
Guns, Drugs and Juvenile Crime: Evidence from a Panel of Siblings and Twins
Using a nationally-representative panel data set of U.S. high school students (AddHealth data) that contains a relatively large sample of siblings and twins, the paper investigates the impacts of gun ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2006, 49(2), 507-532)
|
H0, K4, I12
|
|
931
|
Peter
Kooreman
|
Time, Money, Peers, and Parents: Some Data and Theories on Teenage Behavior
In the first part of the paper I analyze a data set on teenage behavior. The data is a sample of high school students in the Netherlands, and contains information on teenage time use, income, ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (1), 9-33)
|
D12
|
|
930
|
Maarten
Lindeboom
France
Portrait
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
|
Individual Mortality and Macro-Economic Conditions from Birth to Death
This paper analyzes the effects of macro-economic conditions throughout life on the
individual mortality rate. We estimate flexible duration models where the individual’s mortality
rate depends on ...
(published as: 'Economic Conditions Early in Life and Individual Mortality' in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (1), 290-302)
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N3, J1, C5, I1
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