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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
633 Adriana Kugler
Employee Referrals and Efficiency Wages
Many workers believe that personal contacts are crucial for obtaining jobs in high-wage sectors. On the other hand, firms in high-wage sectors report using employee referrals because they help ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2003, 10 (5), 531-556)
E24, J41, J63, J64, J68
632 Bart Cockx
Muriel Dejemeppe
Duration Dependence in the Exit Rate out of Unemployment in Belgium: Is It True or Spurious?
On the basis of aggregate data for the early nineties, we analyse the determinants of unemployment duration for laid-off male workers in Wallonia (Belgium). Our results demonstrate that if ranking ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2005, 20 (1), 1-23 )
C41, J64
629 Ira N. Gang
Kunal Sen
Myeong-Su Yun
Caste, Ethnicity and Poverty in Rural India
This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC) and Schedule Tribe (ST) households with the non-scheduled population. The ...
(revised version published as 'Poverty in Rural India: Caste and Tribe' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2008, 54 (1), 50-70)
I32, O12, J15
628 Robert Breunig
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Yvonne Dunlop
Marion Terrill
Assisting the Long-Term Unemployed: Results from a Randomized Trial
Welfare reform in Australia centres on the concept of both economic and social participation. The policy concern is that people who fail to participate in economic and social life may become ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2003, 79 (244), 84-102)
H3, I38, J68
627 Jan Boone
Jan C. van Ours
Cyclical Fluctuations in Workplace Accidents
This paper presents a theory and an empirical investigation on cyclical fluctuations in workplace accidents. The theory is based on the idea that reporting an accident dents the reputation of a ...
(revised version published as 'Are recessions good for workplace safety? ' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2006, 25 (6), 1069-1093)
I31, J28
626 Astrid Kunze
Gender Differences in Entry Wages and Early Career Wages
In this paper we investigate the evolution of the gender wage gap over early careers of skilled workers in Germany using administrative longitudinal data. Advantages of the data for this type of ...
(revised version published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2003, 71/72, 245-266)
J16, J3, J7
624 Joachim Wagner
Rolf Sternberg
Personal and Regional Determinants of Entrepreneurial Activities: Empirical Evidence from the REM Germany
This paper contributes to empirical research in entrepreneurship by focusing on the link between two stylized facts that emerged from a number of studies for Germany and other countries: Entry ...
(published in: Jahrbuch für Regionalwissenschaft / Review of Regional Reseach, 2005, 25 (1), 91-105)
J23, R12
623 Ana Rute Cardoso
Priscila Ferreira
The Dynamics of Job Creation and Destruction for University Graduates: Why a Rising Unemployment Rate Can Be Misleading
This study uses a matched employer-employee data set on the Portuguese economy to analyze systematic information on job creation and job destruction for university graduates, compared to other ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2009, 41 (1), 2513-2521)
J21, J60, J63
621 Gilles Saint-Paul
On Market Forces and Human Evolution
This paper studies how an institution such as markets affects the evolution of mankind. My key point is that the forces of natural selection are made weaker because trade allows people to ...
(published in: Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2007, 247, 397- 412, )
J1, J21
620 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Public Policy and the Labor Market Adjustment of New Immigrants to Australia
Two separate cohorts of immigrants to Australia are compared in order to assess the potential role of immigrant selection criteria, labor market conditions, and income-support policy in ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2003, 16 (4), 655-681)
J6, J1
619 Heather Antecol
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
The Changing Nature of Employment-Related Sexual Harassment: Evidence from the U.S. Federal Government (1978-1994)
This paper examines the changing nature of views towards and reports of sexual harassment using unique data drawn from the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (USMSPB) of the U.S. Federal ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2004, 57(3), 443-461)
J16, J28
618 Alison L. Booth
Marco Francesconi
Gylfi Zoega
Oligopsony, Institutions and the Efficiency of General Training
In oligopsonistic labour markets, firms have some market power, and a wedge is created between wages and marginal product. When oligopsonistic firms' production technology requires generally ...
(published in: J. Messina, C. Michelacci, J. Turunen and G. Zoega (eds.), Proceedings of the 2004 ECB/CEPR Labour Market Workshop, Edward Elgar 2006)
E32, J23, J24, J54
616 Reinhard Hujer
Uwe Blien
Marco Caliendo
Christopher Zeiss
Macroeconometric Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policies in Germany – A Dynamic Panel Approach Using Regional Data
Most evaluation studies of active labour market policies (ALMP) focus on the microeconometric evaluation approach using individual data. However, as the microeconometric approach usually ignores ...
(published in: Carloeo, F.E. and Destefanis, S. (eds.): The European Labour Market - Regional Dimensions, Physica Verlag, 2006, 287-310)
C33, E24, H43, J64, J68
615 Winfried Koeniger
The Dynamics of Market Insurance, Insurable Assets, and Wealth Accumulation
We analyze dynamic interactions between market insurance, the stock of insurable assets and liquid wealth accumulation in a model with non-durable and durable consumption. The stock of the durable ...
(revised version joint with Helge Braun published in: Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, 2007, 32(1), 61-90)
D81, E21, G22
614 Markus Pannenberg
Long-Term Effects of Unpaid Overtime: Evidence for West Germany
Why do people work unpaid overtime? We show that remarkable long-term labor earnings gains are associated with unpaid overtime in West Germany. A descriptive analysis suggests that over a 10-year ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2005, 52 (2), 177-193)
J22, J23, J31, J33
613 Peter J. Kuhn
Mikal Skuterud
Internet Job Search and Unemployment Durations
After decades of stability, the technologies used by workers to locate new jobs began to change rapidly with the diffusion of internet access in the late 1990’s. Which types of persons incorporated ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2004, 94 (1), 218-232)
J64
612 Juan J. Dolado
Marcel Jansen
Juan F. Jimeno
A Matching Model of Crowding-Out and On-the-Job Search (with an Application to Spain)
This paper considers a matching model of heterogenous workers and jobs which includes onthe- job search. High-educated workers transitorily accept unskilled jobs and continue to search for skilled ...
(published in: Economic Journal, (2009), 119, 200-228. )
J41, J62
611 Gilles Saint-Paul
Some Thoughts on Macroeconomic Fluctuations and the Timing of Labor Market Reform
In this paper, I analyze the pros and cons of implementing structural reforms of the labor market in booms vs. recessions, in light of considerations of social efficiency, political viability, and ...
(pubished in: Solow, Robert M. (ed.): Structural Reform and Macroeconomic Policy, (International Economic Association), Palgrave MacMillan, 2004)
E32, E52, E61, J6, K31
610 Axel Heitmueller
Unemployment Benefits, Risk Aversion, and Migration Incentives
With reference to the EU enlargement, a framework is derived which allows the study of the effect of unemployment benefits on the migration decision. While benefits simply increase the expected ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2005, 18(1), 93-112)
J60, J61, J65, D81
608 Gilles Saint-Paul
Economic Aspects of Human Cloning and Reprogenetics
This paper analyses the economic issues associated with human cloning and new reproductive technologies. We analyze the incentives for human cloning and its implications for the long run ...
(published in: Economic Policy, 2003, 18 (36), 73-122 )
J1, J2, J3
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