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721 Harminder Battu
McDonald Mwale
Yves Zenou
Do Oppositional Identities Reduce Employment for Ethnic Minorities?
We develop a model in which non-white individuals are defined with respect to their social environment (family, friends, neighbors) and their attachments to their culture of origin (religion, ...
(published as 'Oppositional identities and the labor market' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (3), 643-667)
J15
720 Tapio K. Palokangas
Labour Market Regulation, Productivity-Improving R&D and Endogenous Growth
We present a growth model in which R&D increases productivity, union-firm bargaining determines the distribution of rents and the government can support unions by labour market regulation. We show ...
(published as "Union-Firm Bargaining, Productivity Improvement and Endogenous Growth" in: Labour, 2004, 18 (2), 191-205)
O40, J50
719 James Albrecht
Pieter A. Gautier
Susan Vroman
Equilibrium Directed Search with Multiple Applications
We analyze a model of directed search in which unemployed job seekers observe all posted wages. We allow for the possibility of multiple applications by workers and ex post competition among ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2006, 73 (4), 869-891)
J64, D83, J41
718 Ekkehart Schlicht
Consistency in Organization
Recent thinking has emphasized the importance of consistency in a firm’s compensation policy. By starting from Williamson’s ideas about idiosyncratic exchange, this view can be supplied with some ...
(final version published in: Journal of Theoretical and Institutional Economics, 2008, 164(4), 612–623)
L22, L25, J33, J53
716 Michael Rosholm
Lars Skipper
Is Labour Market Training a Curse for the Unemployed? Evidence from a Social Experiment
In this paper, we investigate the impact of classroom training programmes on individual unemployment rates in Denmark. In 1994 a social experiment was conducted, where unemployed applicants for ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2009, 24 (2), 338-365. )
J64, J68
715 Ernst Fehr
Urs Fischbacher
Bernhard von Rosenbladt
Jürgen Schupp
Gert G. Wagner
A Nation-Wide Laboratory: Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Surveys
Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and self-selection biases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their ...
(published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften / Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2002, 122 (4), 519-542)
A13, C42, C82, C92, C93, D84, J24
712 Ernst Fehr
Joseph Henrich
Is Strong Reciprocity a Maladaptation? On the Evolutionary Foundations of Human Altruism
In recent years a large number of experimental studies have documented the existence of strong reciprocity among humans. Strong reciprocity means that people willingly repay gifts and punish the ...
(published in: P. Hammerstein (ed.), Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004 )
A13, C70, C91, C92
711 Christopher J. Ruhm
Healthy Living in Hard Times
Using microdata for adults from the 1987-2000 years of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, I show that smoking and height-adjusted weight decline during temporary economic downturns ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2005, 24 (2), 341-363)
E32, I12, J2
710 Zvi Eckstein
Yoram Weiss
On the Wage Growth of Immigrants: Israel, 1990-2000
This paper develops a descriptive methodology for the analysis of wage growth of immigrants, based on human capital theory. The sources of the wage growth are: (i) the rise of the return to ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2004, 2 (4), 665-695)
J24, J31, J6
709 Leif Danziger
Shoshana Neuman
Delays in Renewal of Labor Contracts: Theory and Evidence
In many countries, an expired labor contract is automatically extended during the often protracted delay before the new contract is signed. Our theoretical model focuses on macroeconomic factors in ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2005, 23(2), 341-372)
J52
708 Claus Schnabel
Joachim Wagner
Determinants of Trade Union Membership in Western Germany: Evidence from Micro Data, 1980-2000
An empirical analysis of various waves of the ALLBUS social survey shows that union density fell substantially in West Germany from 1980 to 2000. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and ...
(published in: Socio-Economic Review, 2005, 3 (1), 1-24)
J51
707 Claus Schnabel
Joachim Wagner
Trade Union Membership in Eastern and Western Germany: Convergence or Divergence?
An empirical analysis of various waves of the ALLBUS social survey shows that the level and the structure of unionization has become more and more similar in eastern and western Germany in the ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2003, 49 (3), 213-232 )
J51
706 Sourafel Girma
Holger Görg
Blessing or Curse? Domestic Plants' Survival and Employment Prospects after Foreign Acquisitions
This paper investigates whether the acquisition of a domestic establishment by a foreign owner has any effects on the survival prospects and employment growth of that plant. The analysis uses plant ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2004, 50 (1), 89-110)
L25, F23
705 Giorgio Brunello
Daniele Checchi
School Quality and Family Background in Italy
We study whether the combined significant reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio and increase in parental education observed in Italy between the end of World War II and the end of the 1980s have had ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2005, 24 (5), 563-577)
J24, J31
704 Michael R. Ransom
Ronald L. Oaxaca
Intrafirm Mobility and Sex Differences in Pay
In this paper we analyze eight years of employment data of a regional grocery store chain in the U.S. The data include job titles, wage rates, and earnings for all employees. We examine initial job ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2005, 58 (2), 219-237)
J3, J6
702 M. Ayhan Kose
Eswar Prasad
Marco E. Terrones
How Does Globalization Affect the Synchronization of Business Cycles?
This paper examines the impact of rising trade and financial integration on international business cycle comovement among a large group of industrial and developing countries. The results provide ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2003, 93 (2), 57-62)
E32, F42, F41
701 Laszlo Goerke
Jakob B. Madsen
Earnings-Related Unemployment Benefits in a Unionised Economy
We show that a stronger earnings relationship of unemployment compensation reduces wages and increases employment in an economy in which wages are determined by a trade union that maximises the ...
(published in: Economic Systems, 2003, 27 (1), 41-62)
E24, J51, J65
699 David N. Margolis
Véronique Simonnet
Educational Track, Networks and Labor Market Outcomes
Does the educational track (technical or professional, as opposed to general) provide individuals with networks that are useful in the labor market? And how do these networks help? In this paper, ...
(published in French as "Filières éducatives, réseaux et réussite professionnelle" in Economie et prévision, 2005164-165, 2005.)
J31, J38, J21, J23, I28
698 Torben M. Andersen
Jan Rose Skaksen
Product Market Integration, Comparative Advantages and Labour Market Performance
In a two-country model with trade driven by comparative advantages, it is considered how imperfectly competitive labour markets are affected by lower frictions in international goods trade. Easier ...
(published as "Labour Demand, Wage Mark-ups and Product Market Integration" in: Journal of Economics, 2007, 92 (2), 103-135)
F15, J30, J50
696 Ronald Schettkat
Institutions in the Economic Fitness Landscape: What Impact Do Welfare State Institutions Have on Economic Performance?
This paper uses data from 20 OECD countries to investigate the impact of welfare state institutions (especially employment protection, wage bargaining and work incentives) on the functioning of the ...
(CESifo Dice Report , 2003, 2, 27-33)
E2, J0, P1, P5
695 Sule Alan
Thomas F. Crossley
Paul Grootendorst
Michael R. Veall
Out-of-Pocket Prescription Drug Expenditures and Public Prescription Drug Programs
Canadian household prescription drug expenditures are studied using different years of the Statistics Canada Family Expenditure Survey. Master files are used, expanding the number of available ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2005, 38(1), 128-148)
I18, J42
694 Eswar Prasad
What Determines the Reservation Wages of Unemployed Workers? New Evidence from German Micro Data
This paper provides new empirical evidence on the relationship between reservation wages of unemployed workers and macroeconomic factors – including aggregate and local unemployment rates, ...
(published in: Gabriel Fagan, Francesco Mongelli and Julian Morgan (eds.), Institutions and Wage Formation in the New Europe: Proceedings of the ECB's Annual Labor Market Workshop, London: Edward Elgar, 2004)
J6, J3
693 Laurent Gobillon
Harris Selod
Yves Zenou
Spatial Mismatch: From the Hypothesis to the Theories
Since the 1950s, there has been a steady decentralization of entry-level jobs towards the suburbs of American cities, while racial minorities —and particularly blacks— have remained in city ...
(published as 'The Mechanisms of Spatial Mismatch ' in: Urban Studies, 2007, 44 (12), 2401-2427)
J15, J41, R14
692 Tony E. Smith
Yves Zenou
Spatial Mismatch, Search Effort and Urban Spatial Structure
The aim of this paper is to provide a new mechanism for the spatial mismatch hypothesis. Spatial mismatch can here be the result of optimizing behavior on the part of the labor market participants. ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2003, 54 (1), 129-156)
D83, J64, R14
691 Barbara Petrongolo
Christopher A. Pissarides
Scale Effects in Markets with Search
Reduced-form tests of scale effects in markets with search, run when aggregate matching functions are estimated, may miss important scale effects at the micro level, because of the reactions of job ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (508), 21-44)
J31, J64, D83
689 Almas Heshmati
Ilham Haouas
The Effects of Union Wage-Settings on Firms’ Production Factor Decisions
This study is concerned with the development of a theoretical model and its empirical application to the estimation of the interaction between firms and trade union in determining wages and ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2004, 11 (7), 415-420)
C33, D21, E24, J50, L60
688 Ilham Haouas
Mahmoud Yagoubi
Almas Heshmati
The Impacts of Trade Liberalization on Employment and Wages in Tunisian Industries
This paper investigates short and long-run effects of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Employment and wage equations are estimated using data (1971–96) for importable and exportable ...
(published in: Journal of International Development, 2005, 17 (4), 527-551)
C23, E24, J23, J31, F10, L60
687 Ilham Haouas
Mahmoud Yagoubi
Almas Heshmati
Labour-Use Efficiency in Tunisian Manufacturing Industries
This paper investigates the process of adjustment in employment. A dynamic model is applied to a panel of six Tunisian manufacturing industries observed over the period 1971–96. The adjustment ...
(published in: Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, 2003, 1 (3), 195-214)
C23, E24, J23, L60
686 Adriaan Kalwij
Rob Alessie
Permanent and Transitory Wage Inequality of British Men, 1975-2001: Year, Age and Cohort Effects
We examine the variance-covariance structure of log-wages over time and over the lifecycle of British men from 1975 to 2001, hereby controlling for cohort effects. Wage inequality has risen sharply ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2007, 22 (6), 1063 - 1093)
C23, D31, J31, J60
685 Lex Borghans
Bas ter Weel
Do We Need Computer Skills to Use a Computer? Evidence from Britain
Using data from the 1997 Skills Survey of the Employed British Workforce, we examine the returns to computer skills in Britain. Many researchers, using information on computer use, have concluded ...
(published in: Labour, 2006, 20 (3), 505-532)
J31, O30
684 Patrick A. Puhani
The Rise and Fall of Swiss Unemployment: Relative Demand Shocks, Wage Rigidities, and Temporary Immigrants
Switzerland, traditionally a ‘zero unemployment’ economy, has seen an unprecedented rise in joblessness in the 1990s although unemployment fell again to a rather low level after 1997. This paper ...
(published as 'Relative Demand Shocks and Relative Wage Rigidities During the Rise and Fall of Swiss Unemployment' in: Kyklos, 2003, 56 (4),541-562)
E24, J21, J31, J64
683 Eric Strobl
Is Education Used as a Signaling Device for Productivity in Developing Countries? Evidence from Ghana
This paper investigates whether education is used as a signaling device for worker productivity in developing countries. To do such we employ a simple test of employer learning on Ghana ...
(published as "Do employers use education as a signal for ability in developing countries? Evidence from Ghana" in: Applied Economics Letters, 2004, 11(4), 259-261)
O12, J30
682 Bart Cockx
Vocational Training of Unemployed Workers in Belgium
In this paper we estimate, for the 1989-93 period in Belgium, the effect of vocational classroom training on the rate of transition from unemployment. We propose a “control function” estimator ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2003, 49 (1), 23-48)
C41, J24, J64, J68
681 Marcus Hagedorn
Ashok Kaul
Tim Mennel
An Adverse Selection Model of Optimal Unemployment Insurance
We derive the shape of optimal unemployment insurance (UI) contracts when agents can exert search effort but face different search costs and have private information about their type. We derive a ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2010, 34 (3), 490-502 )
C61, D82, E61, J64, J65
679 Arnd Kölling
Claus Schnabel
Joachim Wagner
Establishment Age and Wages: Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data
Research in wage differentials has a long tradition. Prominent reasons why people make more or less money in the labor market include personal characteristics of the employee (e.g., human capital ...
(published in: Beiträge zur Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, 2005, 294, 81-99)
J3
675 Jozef Konings
Olga Kupets
Hartmut Lehmann
Gross Job Flows in Ukraine: Size, Ownership and Trade Effects
This paper documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Ukraine using a unique data set of more than 2200 Ukrainian firms operating in both the manufacturing and the ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2003, 11 (2), 321-356)
E24, F14, J63, P23
674 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Vincent A. Hildebrand
The Wealth and Asset Holdings of U.S.- Born and Foreign-Born Households: Evidence from SIPP Data
SIPP data are used to analyze the wealth of the U.S. foreign-born population. We find that the median wealth level of U.S.-born couples is 2.3 times the median of foreign-born couples, while the ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2006, 51 (1), 17-42)
J61, G11, J10
673 Alison L. Booth
Marco Francesconi
Jeff Frank
Labour as a Buffer: Do Temporary Workers Suffer?
In this paper, we investigate whether or not there is an equal opportunities dimension to regulating equal pay and conditions for temporary work. We develop a “buffer stock” model of temporary work ...
(published in: Gabriel Fagan, Francesco Paolo Mongelli and Julian Morgan (eds.), Institutions and Wage Formation in the New Europe, Edward Elgar 2003)
J21, J30, J63
672 Amelie F. Constant
Douglas S. Massey
Self-Selection, Earnings, and Out-Migration: A Longitudinal Study of Immigrants to Germany
In this paper we seek to deepen understanding of out-migration as a social and economic process and to investigate whether cross-sectional earnings assimilation results suffer from selection bias. ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 16 (4), 2003, 631-653)
J61, J2, C4
671 Amelie F. Constant
Spyros Konstantopoulos
School Effects and Labor Market Outcomes for Young Adults in the 1980s and 1990s
This study examines high school effects on the labor market success of young adults, above and beyond individual and family characteristics. We employ data from two longitudinal, nationally ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 49 (1), 2003, 5-22)
J1, J3, A2, C1, C3
670 Maristella Botticini
Zvi Eckstein
From Farmers to Merchants: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish Economic History
Since the Middle Ages the Jews have been engaged primarily in urban, skilled occupations, such as crafts, trade, finance, and medicine. This distinctive occupational selection occurred between the ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2007, 5 (5), 885-926,)
N3, O1, J1, J2, Z1
668 Jürgen Meckl
Stefan Zink
Solow and Heterogeneous Labor: A Neoclassical Explanation of Wage Inequality
The paper analyzes the effect of human-capital investments of heterogeneous individuals on the dynamics of the wage structure within a neoclassical growth model. The accumulation of physical capital ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2004, 114 (498), 835-854)
I21, J31, O15
667 Pascal Arnds
Holger Bonin
Arbeitsmarkteffekte und finanzpolitische Folgen der demographischen Alterung in Deutschland
Die deutsche Bevölkerung durchläuft in den nächsten Jahrzehnten einen demographischen Alterungsprozess, der als erstes die Erwerbsbevölkerung erfasst. Dieser Beitrag diskutiert die ökonomischen ...
(published in: M. Herfurth, M. Kohli and K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), Arbeit in einer alternden Gesellschaft (Labor in an Aging Society), Leverkusen: Leske+Budrich, 2003, 131-177)
N30, E66, J00, H55
666 Pascal Arnds
Holger Bonin
Frühverrentung in Deutschland: Ökonomische Anreize und institutionelle Strukturen
Das durchschnittliche Rentenzugangsalter in Deutschland liegt erheblich unter der gesetzlichen Regelaltersgrenze. Dieser Beitrag analysiert die arbeitsmarkt- und rentenpolitischen Ursachen der ...
(published in: M. Herfurth, M. Kohli and K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), Arbeit in einer alternden Gesellschaft (Labor in an Aging Society), Leverkusen: Leske+Budrich, 2003, 65-91)
J26, H55
665 Holger Görg
Fancy a Stay at the 'Hotel California'? Foreign Direct Investment, Taxation and Firing Costs
This paper looks at the trade off between investment incentives and exit costs for the location of foreign direct investment (FDI). This issue does not appear to have been tackled in much detail in ...
(revised version published as 'Fancy a stay at the 'Hotel California'? in: Kyklos, 2005, 58 (4), 519-535)
F23, H25, J65
664 Jan Rose Skaksen
Anders Sorensen
Skill Upgrading and Rigid Relative Wages: The Case of Danish Manufacturing
Relative wages have been remarkably rigid for the last two decades in Danish manufacturing despite large shifts in relative employment from unskilled labor towards skilled and educated labor. ...
(published as 'Skill Upgrading and Rigid Relative Wages' in: B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics: Contributions to Macroeconomics, 2005, 5(1), Art. 7)
J31, J51, E32, F02, O39
663 Alan B. Krueger
Pei Zhu
Another Look at the New York City School Voucher Experiment
This paper reexamines data from the New York City school choice program, the largest and best implemented private school scholarship experiment yet conducted. In the experiment, low-income public ...
(published in: American Behavioral Scientist, 2004, 47 (5), 658-698)
I2
662 Eric Strobl
Frank Walsh
Getting It Right: Employment Subsidy or Minimum Wage?
In monopsony models of the labour market either a minimum wage or an employment subsidy financed by a lump sum tax on profits can achieve the efficient level of employment and output. Incorporating ...
(revised version published as "Dealing with Monopsony Power: the Case for Employment Subsidies" in: Economics Letters, 2007, 94 (1), 83-89 )
J2, J3
661 Eric Strobl
Frank Walsh
Efficiency Wages and Effort: Are Hard Jobs Better?
Efficiency wage theory predicts that the wage per unit of effort will be lower in intensively monitored sectors. This wage differential will increase in effort. Using employer-employee matched data ...
(revised version published as "Estimating the Shirking Model with Variable Effort" in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (3), 623-647)
J41
660 Eric Strobl
Robert Thornton
Do Large Employers Pay More in Developing Countries? The Case of Five African Countries
Using comparable data sets for five African countries we estimate, and evaluate possible explanations for, the employer size wage effect across these. Our results indicate, just as has been ...
(revised version published as "A Comparative Study of the Employer Size Wage Effect in Africa" in: Journal of Economic Development, 2004, 29 (1), 137-161)
J3, O1
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