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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
659 Eric Strobl
David Byrne
Defining Unemployment in Developing Countries: Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) argues for relaxing the standard definition of unemployment in developing countries by eliminating the requirement that a person be actively searching for ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2004, 73 (1), 465-476)
J6, O1
658 Giorgio Brunello
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
Why Do Students Expect to Stay Longer in College? Evidence from Europe
We investigate the expected college completion time of European college students by using data from a survey of more than 3000 students in 10 countries. We explain observed excess time to ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2003, 80 (2), 247-253.)
I20, I22
655 Wiji Arulampalam
Robin Naylor
Jeremy Smith
Effects of In-Class Variation and Student Rank on the Probability of Withdrawal: Cross-Section and Time-Series Analysis for UK University Students
From individual-level data for nine entire cohorts of undergraduate students in UK universities, we estimate the probability that an individual will drop out of university during their first-year. ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2005, 24 (3), 251-262)
J24, I2
654 Ulf-G. Gerdtham
Christopher J. Ruhm
Deaths Rise in Good Economic Times: Evidence From the OECD
This study uses aggregate data for 23 OECD countries over the 1960-1997 period to examine the relationship between macroeconomic conditions and fatalities. The main finding is that total mortality ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2006, 4 (3), 298-316.)
E32, J2, I12
653 Wim Groot
Henriette Maassen van den Brink
Erik Plug
Money for Health: The Compensating Variation of Cardiovascular Diseases
This paper introduces a new method to calculate the extent to which individuals are willing to trade money for improvements in their health status. An individual welfare function of income (WFI) is ...
(published a 'Money for health: the equivalent variation of cardiovascular diseases' in: Health Economics, 2004, 13 (9), 859-872)
I10, I12
652 Erik Plug
How Do Parents Raise the Educational Attainment of Future Generations?
The problem with most intergenerational mobility estimates is that unmeasured and inherited abilities prevent us from drawing inferences. In this paper we estimate the intergenerational mobility of ...
(published as 'Estimating the Effect of Mother's Schooling on Children's Schooling Using a Sample of Adoptees' in: American Economic Review, 2004, 94 (1), 358-368)
I21, J13, J24
651 Ekkehart Schlicht
Social Evolution, Corporate Culture, and Exploitation
It has been claimed that the market fosters selfishness and thereby undermines the moral basis of society. This thesis has been developed with an emphasis on market exchange. Everyday life is, ...
(final version published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2004, 160 (2), 232-42)
A13, A14, B52, D21, D23, L14, L22
650 Harminder Battu
Peter J. Sloane
Overeducation and Ethnic Minorities in Britain
This study examines the utilisation of education across ethnic minorities in the UK. In particular, we examine the incidence of mismatch between educational qualifications and occupational ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2004, 72 (4), 535-559)
I2, J3, J7
649 Jan C. van Ours
Justus Veenman
From Parent to Child: Early Labor Market Experiences of Second-Generation Immigrants in the Netherlands
This paper is on the early labor market experiences of second-generation immigrants in the Netherlands. We find that only for employment rates there are some differences across ethnic groups. ...
(published in: De Economist, 2004, 152 (4), 473-490)
J15, J61
648 Thorsten Schank
Claus Schnabel
Joachim Wagner
Works Councils – Sand or Grease in the Operation of German Firms?
Using a large panel data set we investigate whether works councils act as sand or grease in the operation of German firms. Stochastic production frontier analysis indicates that establishments with ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2004, 11 (3), 159–161)
J50
647 Christian Grund
Dirk Sliwka
Envy and Compassion in Tournaments
Many experiments indicate that most individuals are not purely motivated by material self interest, but also care about the well being of others. In this paper we examine tournaments among inequity ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2005, 14 (1), 187-207)
M51, M52, D23, D63
645 Marika Karanassou
Hector Sala
Dennis J. Snower
Long-Run Inflation-Unemployment Dynamics: The Spanish Phillips Curve and Economic Policy
This paper takes a new look at the long-run dynamics of inflation and unemployment in response to permanent changes in the growth rate of the money supply. We examine the Phillips curve from the ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Modeling, 2008, 30 (2), 279-300)
E2, E3, E4, E5, J3
643 Anders Björklund
Marianne Sundström
Parental Separation and Children's Educational Attainment: A Siblings Approach
This article analyzes whether the commonly found negative relationship between parental separation in childhood and educational outcomes is causal or mainly due to selection. We use data on about ...
(published as 'Parental Separation and Children's Educational Attainment: A Siblings Analysis on Swedish Register Data' in: Economica, 2006, 73 (292), 605-624)
J12, I20, I30
642 Joop Hartog
Aslan Zorlu
The Effect of Immigration on Wages in Three European Countries
We extend the Altonji and Card (1991) framework for analysing the impact of immigrants on natives’ wages from two to three labour types and estimate reduced form wage equations for The Netherlands, ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2005, 18 (1), 113-151)
J15, J31
641 Joop Hartog
Luis Diaz-Serrano
Earnings Risk and Demand for Higher Education: A Cross-Section Test for Spain
We develop a simple human capital model for optimum schooling length when earnings are stochastic, and highlight the pivotal role of risk attitudes and the schooling gradient of earnings risk. We use ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Economics, 2007, 10 (1) , 1-28)
I21
640 Joop Hartog
Nicole Jonker
Hans van Ophem
Dual Track or Academic Route for Auditors: Does It Matter?
In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students combine working and studying or in a full-time educational track. The former training is relatively ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2006, 38, (9), 1019-1035)
C35, C41, J24, J31, J63
639 Gilles Saint-Paul
Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?
If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledgeintensive activities and depends positively on intellectual property, a social planner which cares about ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2004, 11 (1), 129-144)
D3, H23, I3, J24, J31, O34
637 Holger Bonin
Wolfram Kempe
Hilmar Schneider
Household Labor Supply Effects of Low-Wage Subsidies in Germany
This research evaluates the impact on German household labor supply of various subsidy schemes proposed to foster low-wage employment. Using data from the German Socio- Economic Panel, we estimate ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Social Sciences Studies, 2003, 123 (1), 199-208)
J68, J38, H24, J22
636 Marika Karanassou
Hector Sala
Dennis J. Snower
A Reappraisal of the Inflation-Unemployment Tradeoff
This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on "frictional growth" describing the interplay between nominal frictions and money growth. When the money supply grows ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2005, 21 (1), 1-32)
E2, E3, E4, E5, J3
634 Adriana Kugler
Robert M. Sauer
Doctors Without Borders: The Returns to an Occupational License for Soviet Immigrant Physicians in Israel
Re-licensing requirements for professionals that move across borders are widespread. In this paper, we measure the returns to an occupational license using novel data on Soviet trained physicians ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2005, 23 (3), 437-466)
D45, J17, J24, J31, J61, J62, L15, L51
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