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526 Edwin Leuven
Hessel Oosterbeek
A New Approach to Estimate the Wage Returns to Work-Related Training
This paper proposes a new approach to identify the wage effects of training. The idea is to narrow down the comparison group by only taking into consideration the workers who wanted to participate ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2008, 23, 423-434)
C21, J24, J31
525 James J. Heckman
Carolyn J. Heinrich
Jeffrey A. Smith
The Performance of Performance Standards
This paper examines the performance of the JTPA performance system, a widely emulated model for inducing efficiency in government organizations. We present a model of how performance incentives may ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2002, 37(4), 778-811)
C31
524 Juan J. Dolado
Florentino Felgueroso
Juan F. Jimeno
Recent Trends in Occupational Segregation by Gender: A Look Across the Atlantic
In this paper, we analyse the recent patterns of occupational segregation by gender in the EU countries vis-à-vis the US. Given the lack of long time-series data on homogeneous LFS data about ...
(revised version published in: Annales D'Économie et De Statistique, 2004, 71-72, 293-315)
J16, J71
523 Josef Falkinger
Volker Grossmann
Workplaces in the Primary Economy and Wage Pressure in the Secondary Labor Market
This paper develops a two-sector general equilibrium model in which firms in the primary economy have to create workplaces prior to production and product market competition. For this, we introduce ...
(published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2003, 159 (3), 523-544)
J26, C23, C25
522 Svenn-Åge Dahl
Øivind Anti Nilsen
Kjell Vaage
Gender Differences in Early Retirement Behaviour
In this paper we analyse early retirement for men and women focusing on family characteristics such as marital status, spouse income and wealth, and spouses' labour market status. The female ...
(published in: European Sociological Review, 2003, 19 (2), 179-198)
J26, C23, C25
521 René Fahr
Uwe Sunde
Employment Status, Endogenous Regional Mobility, and Spatial Dependencies in Labor Markets
This paper investigates spatial correlation in the matching process of vacant jobs and job seekers. The importance of the interactions of regional labor markets in West Germany is highlighted in ...
(revised version published as 'Spatial mobility and competition for jobs: Some theory and evidence for Western Germany' in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2006, 36 (6), 802 - 825)
J61, J64, J21, R12
520 Uwe Sunde
Unobserved Bilateral Search on the Labor Market: A Theory-Based Correction for a Common Flaw in Empirical Matching Studies
This paper develops a model of equilibrium unemployment with (unobservable) endogenous on-the-job search and (partly unobservable) endogenous search behavior by firms. The model allows to analyze ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Empirical Matching Functions: Searchers, Vacancies, and (Un-)biased Elasticities' in: Economica, 2007, 74 (295), 537-560)
J41, J60, J63, J64, C23
519 Sarit Cohen Goldner
Zvi Eckstein
Labor Mobility of Immigrants: Training, Experience, Language and Opportunities
This paper analyzes the labor mobility and human capital accumulation of male immigrants who moved from the former Soviet Union to Israel. We formulate an estimable dynamic choice model for ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2008, 49 (3), 837-872)
J31, J68
518 Pedro Carneiro
James J. Heckman
The Evidence on Credit Constraints in Post-Secondary Schooling
This paper examines the family income—college enrollment relationship and the evidence on credit constraints in post-secondary schooling. We distinguish short-run liquidity constraints from the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2002, 112 (482), 705-734)
I28, D33, H43
517 Erdal Tekin
Child Care Subsidies, Wages, and Employment of Single Mothers
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of employment and child care payment decisions of single mothers in the early post-welfare reform environment, using data from the National Survey of ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 42 (2), 2007, 453-487)
J13, C14, J23
516 Holger Bonin
Eine fiskalische Gesamtbilanz der Zuwanderung nach Deutschland
Dieser Beitrag analysiert die fiskalischen Gesamtwirkungen der Zuwanderung nach Deutschland mit Hilfe der demographisch basierten langfristigen Budgetmethode der Generationenbilanzierung. Für den ...
(published in: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly Journal of Economic Research, 2002, 71 (2), 215-229)
F22, E66
513 Christian Belzil
Jörgen Hansen
Earnings Dispersion, Risk Aversion and Education
We estimate a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the degree of risk aversion can be inferred from schooling decisions. In our model, individuals are heterogeneous with ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2004, 23, 335-358)
J2, J3
512 Christian Belzil
Jörgen Hansen
A Structural Analysis of the Correlated Random Coefficient Wage Regression Model
We estimate a finite mixture dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the log wage regression function is set in a random coefficient framework. The model allows for absolute and ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2007, 140 (2), 333-948 )
J2, J3
511 Felix Büchel
Harminder Battu
The Theory of Differential Overqualification: Does it Work?
The theory of differential overqualification, developed by Robert Frank (1978), claims that married women in smaller labor markets have a higher risk of working in jobs for which they are ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2003, 50 (1), 1-16)
I21, J16, J24, J61
510 Eswar Prasad
Wage Inequality in the United Kingdom, 1975-99
This paper uses micro data from the New Earnings Survey to document that cross-sectional wage inequality in the U.K., which rose sharply in the 1980s and continued to rise moderately through the ...
(published in: IMF Staff Papers, 2002, 49 (3), 339-362)
J31, E24
509 Astrid Kunze
The Timing of Careers and Human Capital Depreciation
This paper explores the short and long run effects of career interruptions on wages for young skilled workers in West Germany. The analysis distinguishes four types of career interruptions: ...
(published as 'Types of absence from work and wages of young German workers with apprenticeship training' in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2017, 51 (5), 1-24)
J16, J3, J7
508 Christian Belzil
Jörgen Hansen
Unobserved Ability and the Return to Schooling
We estimate a structural dynamic programming model of schooling decisions with unobserved heterogeneity in school ability and market ability on a sample taken from the National Longitudinal Survey ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2002, 70 (2), 2078-2091)
J2, J3
507 Ernst Fehr
Armin Falk
Psychological Foundations of Incentives
During the last two decades economists have made much progress in understanding incentives, contracts and organisations. Yet, they constrained their attention to a very narrow and empirically ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2002, 46 (4-5), 687-724)
J41, C91, D64
506 Pilar Diaz-Vazquez
Dennis J. Snower
Can Insider Power Affect Employment?
Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2003, 4 (2), 139-150)
E24, J23, J31, J42, J64
505 Thomas K. Bauer
Migration, Sozialstaat und Zuwanderungspolitik
Im Rahmen dieses Beitrags wird die Frage analysiert, ob ein großzügig ausgestalteter Sozialstaat zusätzliche Wanderungsanreize generieren kann, die eine nennenswerte Zuwanderung in das ...
(published in: Vierteljahreshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly Journal of Economic Research, 2002, 71(2), 249-271)
H53, I38, J61
504 Lorenzo Cappellari
Stephen P. Jenkins
Modelling Low Income Transitions
We examine the determinants of low income transitions using first-order Markov models that control for initial conditions effects (those found to be poor in the base year may be a nonrandom sample) ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2004, 19 (5), 593-610)
D31, I32, C23, C35
502 Barry R. Chiswick
Yew Liang Lee
Paul W. Miller
Immigrants' Language Skills: The Australian Experience in a Longitudinal Survey
This paper is concerned with the determinants of English language proficiency (speaking, reading and writing) among immigrants. It presents a model of immigrant destination language acquisition ...
(published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2004, 71-72, 97-139)
J15, J61, I29
501 Christian Dustmann
Najma Rajah
Arthur van Soest
Class Size, Education, and Wages
This paper examines the effects of class size on the decision to stay on in full time schooling at the age of 16 and on wages at later stages in life. Little research exists on the effect of school ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2003, 113 (485), F99-F120)
C35, I20, J24
500 David A. Jaeger
Estimating the Returns to Education Using the Newest Current Population Survey Education Questions
This paper examines the 1997 additions to the Current Population Survey education question. These new questions allow researchers to come closer to the “highest grade completed” measure available ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2003, 78 (3), 385-394)
J3, I2
499 Gerard A. Pfann
Hans van Kranenburg
Tax Policy, Location Choices, and Market Structure
A structural model of entry and fiscal policy is presented. It shows that taxation of variable production costs can increase product prices, lower competition, and reduce the availability of new ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2003, 46 (1), 61-84)
C41, D43, L13, L16, L82
498 Paul Frijters
John de New
Michael A. Shields
Individual Rationality and Learning: Welfare Expectations in East Germany Post-Reunification
In this paper we test the Rational Expectations hypothesis using longitudinal data on expectations and realizations of individual welfare for East Germans in the years following reunification. ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2009, 42 (4), 1326 - 1346)
C23, C25, I31, Z1
496 Michael P. Keane
Eswar Prasad
Changes in the Structure of Earnings During the Polish Transition
We document changes in the structure of earnings during the economic transition in Poland. We find that inequality in labor earnings increased substantially from 1988 to 1996. A common view is that ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2006, 80 (2), 389-427)
J31, O33, P20
495 John T. Addison
Lutz Bellmann
Claus Schnabel
Joachim Wagner
German Works Councils Old and New: Incidence, Coverage and Determinants
Although works councils are a core element of the German system of industrial relations, there is little reliable information on their incidence and coverage. This paper uses data from the ...
(published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften / Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 123 (3), 2003, 339-358)
J50
494 Joachim Wagner
Rolf Sternberg
The Role of the Regional Milieu for the Decision to Start a New Firm: Empirical Evidence for Germany
Although comprehensive data from official statistics on new firm formation and entrepreneurs starting a new business are lacking in Germany, we know from empirical studies that entry rates differ ...
(published in: Annals of Regional Science, 2004, 38 (2), 219-240)
J23, R12
492 Rafael Lalive
Josef Zweimüller
Benefit Entitlement and Unemployment Duration: The Role of Policy Endogeneity
The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This paper evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged entitlement to regular ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2004, 88 (12), 2587-2616)
C41, J64, J65
491 Ralph Rotte
Christoph M. Schmidt
On the Production of Victory: Empirical Determinants of Battlefield Success in Modern War
Using a data set of historical battles from 1600 to 1973, this paper analyzes the empirical determinants of tactical success in modern war. Based on a reduced form approach we consider key elements ...
(published in: Defence and Peace Economics, 2003, 14 (3), 175-192)
C25, D29, H56, N40, O39
490 Wolfram F. Richter
Social Security and Taxation of Labour Subject to Subsidiarity and Freedom of Movement
In Europe, the competence for social security and the right to levy income tax lie with the country of employment in cross-border matters. This has two disadvantages. First, the Employment ...
(published in: Swedish Economic Policy Review, 2002 (9), 47-74)
H21, H70, J61
489 Daniela Del Boca
Silvia Pasqua
Employment Patterns of Husbands and Wives and Family Income Distribution in Italy (1977-1998)
The pattern of employment among men and women has changed remarkably over the past decades. While the employment rate of women has risen, that of men has continued to decline. Disproportionate ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2003, 49 (2), 221-245)
D31, J22
488 Antonio Ciccone
Giovanni Peri
Identifying Human Capital Externalities: Theory with an Application to US Cities
Identification of the strength of human capital externalities at the aggregate level is still not fully understood. The existing method may yield positive or negative externalities even if wages ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 73 (2), 2006, 381-412)
O0, O4, R0, J3
487 Robin L. Lumsdaine
Eswar Prasad
Identifying the Common Component of International Economic Fluctuations: A New Approach
In this paper, we develop an aggregation procedure using time-varying weights for constructing the common component of international economic fluctuations. The methodology for deriving time-varying ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2003, 113 (484), 101-127)
E32, C51, E37
486 Alison L. Booth
Mark L. Bryan
Who Pays for General Training? New Evidence for British Men and Women
We use important new training information from waves 8-10 of the British Household Panel Survey to document the various forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period ...
(revised version published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 26, 85-123)
J24, J31, I2
485 Ludger Woessmann
Martin R. West
Class-Size Effects in School Systems Around the World: Evidence from Between-Grade Variation in TIMSS
We estimate the effect of class size on student performance in 18 countries, combining school fixed effects and instrumental variables to identify random class-size variation between two adjacent ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2006, 50 (3), 695-736)
I2
484 John H. Bishop
Ludger Woessmann
Institutional Effects in a Simple Model of Educational Production
The paper presents a model of educational production which tries to make sense of recent evidence on effects of institutional arrangements on student performance. In a simple principal-agent ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2004, 12 (1), 17-38)
I20, L32, H52
483 Hillel Rapoport
Avi Weiss
In-Group Cooperation in a Hostile Environment: An Economic Perspective on Some Aspects of Jewish Life in (Pre-Modern) Diaspora
The demographic history of the Jews in the Middle Ages may be characterized by two main phenomena: i) a sharp drop in the number of Jews until the beginning of the modern period, due mainly to ...
(published in: C. Chiswick, T. Lecker and N. Kahana (eds.): Jewish Society and Culture: An Economic Perspective, Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2007, 103-28.)
D64, J15, J61
482 Peter J. Kuhn
Catherine Weinberger
Leadership Skills and Wages
American business seems to be infatuated with its workers’ “leadership” skills. Is there such a thing, and is it rewarded in labor markets? Using the Project Talent, NLS72 and High School and ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2005, 23 (3), 395-436)
I21, J24, J31
481 Ekkehart Schlicht
Hiring Standards and Market Clearing
Consider a labour market with heterogeneous workers. Firms recruit workers by fixing a hiring standard and a wage offer simultaneously. A more demanding hiring standard necessitates a better wage ...
(final version published as 'Hiring Standards and Labor Market Clearing' in: Metroeconomica, 2005, 56(2), 263-279 )
J31, J41
479 John T. Addison
Clive R. Belfield
Unions and Employment Growth: The One Constant?
Sequential analyses of the major workplace data sets available to British researchers – the Workplace Industrial/Employee Relations Surveys (WIRS/WERS) – have revealed shifts in some previously ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2004, 43 (2), 305-323)
J53
477 Melissa A. Clark
David A. Jaeger
Natives, the Foreign-Born and High School Equivalents: New Evidence on the Returns to the GED
In this paper we explore the labor market returns to the General Education Development exam, or GED. Using new data from the Current Population Survey, we examine how the return to the GED varies ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2006, 19 (4), 769-793)
J31, J61, I2
476 Wayne A. Cornelius
Takeyuki Tsuda
Zulema Valdez
Human Capital versus Social Capital: A Comparative Analysis of Immigrant Wages and Labor Market Incorporation in Japan and the United States
The most commonly used model of labor market incorporation among immigrants in the United States analyzes their earnings largely as a function of human capital variables such as education, language ...
(published in: Migraciones Internacionales, 2004, 2 (1), 5-35)
J15, J24, J31, J61, D63
474 John T. Addison
Lutz Bellmann
Arnd Kölling
Unions, Works Councils and Plant Closings in Germany
This paper present paper provides the first results for Germany on the impact of works councils and collective agreements on plant closings, using data from the IAB establishment panel. We find ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2004, 42 (1), 125-148)
J51, J53, J58, J65
473 Jan C. van Ours
A pint a day raises a man's pay; but smoking blows that gain away
This paper studies the wage effects of the use of alcohol and tobacco. The analysis based on a recent survey in the Netherlands shows that for males the use of tobacco has a negative wage effect of ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2004, 23 (5), 863-886)
C41, D12, I19
472 Reto Foellmi
Josef Zweimüller
Structural Change and the Kaldor Facts of Economic Growth
We present a model in which two of the most important features of the long-run growth process are reconciled: the massive changes in the structure of production and employment; and the Kaldor facts ...
(published as 'Structural change, Engel's consumption cycles and Kaldor's facts of economic growth' in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2008, 55 (7), 1317-1328)
O40, O11, O31, L16, D91
471 Barry R. Chiswick
Yew Liang Lee
Paul W. Miller
Immigrants' Language Skills and Visa Category
This paper is concerned with the determinants of English language proficiency among immigrants in a longitudinal survey for Australia. It focuses on both visa category and variables derived from an ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2006, 40 (2), 419-450)
J61, J24, J18
470 Alessandro Cigno
Furio C. Rosati
Lorenzo Guarcello
Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?
There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade ...
(published in: World Development, 2002, 30 (9), 1579-1589)
D13, F12, I20, J13, J24, O15
469 Rafael Lalive
Jan C. van Ours
Josef Zweimüller
The Effect of Benefit Sanctions on the Duration of Unemployment
This paper investigates the effectiveness of benefit sanctions in reducing unemployment duration. Data from the Swiss labor market allow making a distinction between the effect of a warning that a ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2005, 3 (6), 1386-1417)
J64, J65, J68
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