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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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351
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J. David
Brown
John
S.
Earle
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Gross Job Flows in Russian Industry Before and After Reforms: Has Destruction Become More Creative?
This paper uses 1985-1999 manufacturing census data for old Russian enterprises to calculate the magnitude and productivity effects of gross job flow rates before and after reforms. Job creation was ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2002, 30 (1), 96-133)
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E24 J63 O47 P23
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350
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John
T.
Addison
Pedro
Portugal
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Unemployment Duration: Competing and Defective Risks
This paper examines the determinants of unemployment duration in a competing risks framework with two destination states, namely, inactivity and employment. The major innovation is our recognition of ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2003, 38 (1), 156-191)
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C41 J64 J65
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349
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John
T.
Addison
Pedro
Portugal
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Job Search Methods and Outcomes
Using Portuguese data, this paper investigates the effects of job search methods on escape rates from unemployment and of job-finding methods on earnings. The effectiveness of the job search process ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2002, 54 (3), 505-533)
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J64
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348
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Shoshana
Neuman
Adrian
Ziderman
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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel
There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2003, 22(4), 421-432)
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I21 J15 J16 J21 J24 J31 J44 J61
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347
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Magnus
Lofstrom
Frank
D.
Bean
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Labor Market Conditions and Post-Reform Declines in Welfare Receipt Among Immigrants
Considerable research attention has been devoted to the question of whether and to what extent changes in welfare policy legislated in the 1990s might have deterred immigrant participation in welfare ...
(published as 'Assessing Immigrant Policy Options: Labor Market Conditions and Postreform Declines in Immigrants' Receipt of Welfare' in: Demography, 2002, 39 (4), 617-637)
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H53, I30, I38, J15, J61
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345
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Johannes
Hampe
Martin
Steininger
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Survival, Growth, and Interfirm Collaboration of Start-Up Companies in High-Technology Industries: A Case Study of Upper Bavaria
Our analysis of the survival of firms leads to the important result that the hypotheses about differences between various industries in the life duration of new firms and about the importance of the ...
(published in: Schätzl L./J.R. Diez (eds.), Technological Change and Regional Development in Europe, Heidelberg (2001), 90-111)
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C41 J2 J60 L10 R30
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344
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Erik
Plug
Peter
Berkhout
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Effects of Sexual Preferences on Earnings in the Netherlands
A small literature suggests that bisexual and homosexual workers earn less than their heterosexual fellow workers and that a discriminating labor market is partly to blame. In this paper we examine ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2004, 17 (1), 117-131, revised version available here)
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J15 J16 J71
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343
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Holger
Bonin
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Will it Last? An Assessment of the 2001 German Pension Reform
In May 2001, Germany adopted a fundamental pension reform cutting back public pensions and introducing personal pension accounts. The paper critically reviews the reform decisions and evaluates their ...
(published in: Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, 2002, 24 (4), 547-564)
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F22 E66
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342
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Wendelin
Schnedler
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The Virtue of Being Underestimated: A Note on Discriminatory Contracts in Hidden Information Models
A standard hidden information model is considered to study the influence of the a priori productivity distribution on the optimal contract. A priori more productive (hazard rate dominant) agents work ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2002, 75 (2), 171-178)
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D82 J71
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340
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Xavier
Wauthy
Yves
Zenou
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How Does Imperfect Competition in the Labor Market Affect Unemployment Policies?
We consider a continuum of workers ranked according to their abilities to acquire education and two firms with different technologies that imperfectly compete in wages to attract these workers. Once ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2002, 4 (3), 417-436)
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H20 J31 L13
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339
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Aomar
Ibourk
Bénédicte
Maillard
Sergio
Perelman
Henri
R.
Sneessens
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The Matching Efficiency of Regional Labour Markets: A Stochastic Production Frontier Estimation, France 1990-1995
We evaluate the determinants of matching efficiency changes through a stochastic Cobb-Douglas production frontier model extended to allow the efficiency coefficient to depend on variables meant to ...
(published as 'Aggregate Matching Efficiency: A Stochastic Production Frontier Approach, France 1990 - 1995' in: Empirica, 2004, 31 (1), 1-25)
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J64 C24
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338
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Clive
Bell
Hans
Gersbach
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Child Labor and the Education of a Society
We examine economic growth, inequality and education when the wellspring of growth is the formation of human capital through a combination of the quality of child-rearing and formal schooling. The ...
(published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2009, 12 (2), 220-249.)
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H2 I2 O1 O41
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337
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Felix
Büchel
Matthias
Pollmann-Schult
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Overeducation and Skill Endowments The Role of School Achievement and Vocational Training Quality
Thurow’s job-competition model implies that overeducation is contingent upon the differing skill endowments of employees. As yet, only rudimentary evidence has been furnished to confirm this ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2004, 25 (2), 150-166)
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I21 J24 J41 J62
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336
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Francisco
Lima
Pedro
T.
Pereira
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Careers and Wage Growth within Large Firms
The relationship between the worker’s career path and wage growth is studied using a longitudinal sample of large firms. The econometric analysis shows that promoted workers receive a positive wage ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2003, 7 (24), 812-835)
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J32 J33 M12
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335
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René
Fahr
Uwe
Sunde
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Disaggregate Matching Functions
This paper deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, ...
(revised version published as 'Occupational Job Creation: Patterns and Implications' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2004, 56 (3), 407-436)
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E24 J21 J41 J42 J62 J63
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333
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Wiji
Arulampalam
Robin
Naylor
Jeremy
Smith
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A Hazard Model of the Probability of Medical School Dropout in the United Kingdom
From individual-level longitudinal data for two entire cohorts of medical students in UK universities, we analyse the probability that an individual student will ‘drop out’ of medical school prior to ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A. (Statistics in Society), 2004, 167 (1), 157-178)
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J24 I2 C41
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331
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Rainer
Winkelmann
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Why Do Firms Recruit Internationally? Results from the IZA International Employer Survey 2000
The paper studies the demand for foreign graduates at the firm level. Using a unique dataset on recruitment policies of firms in four European countries, the determinants of demand for ...
(published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften / Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2002, 122 (2), 155-178)
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F22 J61 L20
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329
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Xiaodong
Gong
Arthur
van Soest
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Wage Differentials and Mobility in the Urban Labor Market: A Panel Data Analysis for Mexico
We analyze wage differentials mobility between the formal and informal sector in urban Mexico, using panel data on five quarters drawn from Mexico's Urban Employment Survey. We develop a dynamic ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2002, 9 (4), 513-529)
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C33, J23, J31, R23
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327
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Hans
Gersbach
Armin
Schmutzler
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A Product Market Theory of Worker Training
We develop a product market theory that explains why firms invest in general training of their workers. We consider a model where firms first decide whether to invest in general human capital, then ...
(published as "Product markets and industry-specific training" in: The RAND Journal of Economics, 2012, 43 (3), 475-491)
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D42 L22 L43 L92
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326
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John
S.
Earle
Álmos
Telegdy
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Privatization and Productivity in Romanian Industry: Evidence from a Comprehensive Enterprise Panel
We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor productivity for the entire surviving population of initially state-owned industrial ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2002, 30 (4), 657-682)
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G32 G34 L32 L33 P20 P31
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325
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Robert
A.
Hart
James
R.
Malley
Ulrich
Woitek
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Real Wages and the Cycle: The View from the Frequency Domain
In the time domain, the observed cyclical behavior of the real wage hides a range of economic influences that give rise to cycles of differing lengths and amplitudes. This may serve to produce a ...
(published as 'Real earnings and business cycles: new evidence' in: Empirical Economics, 2009, 37 (1), 51-71)
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E32, J31
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324
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Michael
P.
Pflüger
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Trade, Technology and Labour Markets: Empirical Controversies in the Light of the Jones Model
The deterioration of the income and employment position of unskilled workers in the OECD area since the 1980s is a well-documented fact. The debate about the causes of this development is dominated ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Integration, 2004, 19 (1), 79-112)
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F16 F21 J31
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323
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Anders
Frederiksen
Ebbe
K.
Graversen
Nina
Smith
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Overtime Work, Dual Job Holding and Taxation
Traditionally, labour supply data do not include much information on hours and wages in secondary job or overtime work. In this paper, we estimate labour supply models based on survey information on ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 28, 25-55)
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C13 C21 C24 H24 J22
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322
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Olaf
Hübler
Uwe
Jirjahn
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Works Councils and Collective Bargaining in Germany: The Impact on Productivity and Wages
This paper investigates the interaction between establishment-level codetermination and industry-level collective bargaining in Germany. Based on a simple bargaining model we derive our main ...
(revised version published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2003, 50 (4), 471-491)
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D23 J24 J31 J51 J53
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321
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Pedro
T.
Pereira
Pedro
S.
Martins
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Is there a Return-Risk Link in Education?
Risk averse investors have to be compensated in higher expected returns when facing investments with higher risk. Education is an important investment therefore we use the results for 16 countries to ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2002, 75 (1), 31-37)
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C29 I21 J24
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320
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René
Fahr
Uwe
Sunde
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Strategic Hiring Behavior in Empirical Matching Functions
This paper makes two contributions to the empirical matching literature. First, a recent study by Anderson and Burgess (2000) testing for endogenous competition among job seekers in a matching ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2005, 12 (6), 773-780)
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J41 J64
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319
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Rob
Euwals
Rainer
Winkelmann
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Why Do Firms Train? Empirical Evidence on the First Labour Market Outcomes of Graduated Apprentices
The apprenticeship system is the most important source of formal post-secondary training in Germany. Our paper contributes to the ongoing debate as to why firms are willing to invest in such training ...
(published as 'Training intensity and first labor market outcomes of apprenticeship graduates' in: International Journal of Manpower, 2004, 25 (5), 447-462)
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C24 C41 J24 J31 J44
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317
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Rainer
Winkelmann
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Health Care Reform and the Number of Doctor Visits - An Econometric Analysis
The paper evaluates the German health care reform of 1997, using the individual number of doctor visits as outcome measure. A new econometric model, the Probit-Poisson-log-normal model with ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2004, 19 (4), 455-472)
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I11 I18 C25
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316
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Manuel
Frondel
Christoph
M.
Schmidt
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Rejecting Capital-Skill Complementarity at all Costs
Any serious empirical study of factor substitutability has to allow the data to display complementarity as well as substitutability. The standard approach reflecting this idea is a translog ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2003, 80 (1), 5-21)
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C3 D2
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313
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Ada
Ferrer-i-Carbonell
Bernard
M. S.
van Praag
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The Subjective Costs of Health Losses due to Chronic Diseases: An Alternative Model Appraisal
This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2002, 11 (8), 709 - 722)
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I10 I12
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312
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Carina
Furnée
Marius
Kemler
Gerard
A.
Pfann
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The Value of Pain Relief
This paper measures the value of functional capacity improvement from electronic pain treatment among a sample of Dutch workers with peripheral nerve injuries. Randomized clinical trial data and ...
(published in: De Economist, 2003, 151 (2), 171-192)
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J32 I10 I12
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310
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Uwe
Sunde
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Human Capital Accumulation, Education and Earnings Inequality
This paper attempts to add to the understanding of the causes for the differing recent developments in inequality in OECD countries. The similarity of shocks and technological changes affecting these ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Human Capital Formation, Education and Earnings Inequality' in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2008, 54(1), 7 - 26)
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E20, J30, J31, O30
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309
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Giorgio
Brunello
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On the Complementarity between Education and Training in Europe
This paper is an empirical investigation of the complementarity between education and training in 13 European countries, based on the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). After confirming the ...
(published in: D. Checchi, C. Lucifora (eds.), Education, Training and Labour Market Outcomes in Europe, MacMillan 2003)
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J24 J31
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308
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Gerard
A.
Pfann
Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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Two-Sided Learning, Labor Turnover and Worker Displacement
We construct a general dynamic structural model of two-sided learning between a firm and its workers. We estimate an empirical version of the model using personnel data from Fokker Aircraft that ...
(published as 'Two-Sided Learning with Applications to Labor Turnover and Worker Displacement' in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2008, 228 (5-6), 423 - 445)
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J33 J63
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307
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Gerard
A.
Pfann
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Downsizing
Optimal layoff rules in closed form are derived for all workers in a firm that downsizes under uncertainty and faces heterogeneous firing costs. The theoretical model predicts that the firm displaces ...
(revised version published as 'Downsizing and Heterogeneous Firing Costs' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2006, 88 (1), 158-170)
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J33 J63
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306
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Holger
Bonin
Gemma
Abio
Eduardo
Berenguer
Joan
Gil
Concepció
Patxot
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Is the Deficit under Control?A Generational Accounting Perspective on Fiscal Policy and Labour Market Trends in Spain
According to the 2001 Spanish budgetary previsions, the government deficit is about to disappear. We analyse this matter within a generational accounting framework. Accounting for the recent ...
(published in: Investigaciones Economicas, 2003, 27 (2), 309-341)
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E62 H55
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305
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Holger
Bonin
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Fiskalische Effekte der Zuwanderung nach Deutschland - Eine Generationenbilanz
Der Beitrag untersucht die Bedeutung von Zuwanderung für die langfristige Entwicklung öffentlicher Haushalte in Deutschland. Mit Hilfe der Generationenbilanzierung werden die Nettosteuerzahlungen von ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly Supplement, 2001, 52, 127-156)
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F22 E66
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304
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Pierre
Cahuc
Etienne
Wasmer
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Labor Market Efficiency, Wages and Employment when Search Frictions Interact with Intrafirm Bargaining
In search of a macroeconomic theory of wage determination, the agnostic reader should be puzzled by the apparent contradiction between two influential theories. On one hand, in the standard ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2008, 48 (3), 943-972)
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J30 J50 J64
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302
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Avi
Weiss
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A Theory of Immigration Amnesties
This paper presents a first attempt at understanding some of the many issues involved in the granting of an amnesty to illegal immigrants. We consider government behavior with respect to allocations ...
(published as "The Why, When and How of Immigration Amnesties" in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (1), 285-316)
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J61 J68 H59
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301
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Joachim
R.
Frick
Gert
G.
Wagner
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Economic and Social Perspectives of Immigrant Children in Germany
Overall, children in Germany live in households with below average incomes; therefore social policies that address the vulnerable position of Germany’s children are necessary. These policies should ...
(published in: E. Currle and T. Wunderlich (eds.), Deutschland – ein Einwanderungsland? Rückblick, Bilanz und neue Fragen - Festschrift für Friedrich Heckmann, Stuttgart 2001)
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J13 I30 I21
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300
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Alois
Stutzer
Rafael
Lalive
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The Role of Social Work Norms in Job Searching and Subjective Well-Being
Social norms are usually neglected in economics because they are to a large extent enforced through non-market interactions and difficult to isolate empirically. In this paper, we offer a direct ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2004, 2 (4), 696-719)
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I31 J64
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299
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Giorgio
Brunello
Claudio
Lucifora
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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The Wage Expectations of European College Students
Expected earnings and expected returns to education are seen by labor economists as a major determinant of educational attainment. In spite of this, the empirical knowledge about expectations and ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2004, 39 (4), 1116-1142)
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J30
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298
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Pedro
T.
Pereira
Pedro
S.
Martins
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Returns to Education and Wage Equations
We show why considering a number of education-dependent covariates in the wage equation decreases coefficient of education in the wage equation. We use a meta-analysis of results for Portugal to ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2004, 36 (6), 525-531)
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C4 I2 J3
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297
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Jan
C.
van Ours
Justus
Veenman
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The Educational Attainment of Second Generation Immigrants in The Netherlands
Since the mid-1960’s the Netherlands has had an immigration surplus, mainly because of manpower recruitment from Turkey and Morocco and immigration from the former Dutch colony of Surinam. Immigrants ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2003, 16 (4), 739-753)
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J15 J61
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296
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Helena
Skyt
Nielsen
Michael
Rosholm
Nina
Smith
Leif
Husted
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Intergenerational Transmissions and the School-to-Work Transition of 2nd Generation Immigrants
We analyse the extent of intergenerational transmission through parental capital, ethnic capital and neighbourhood effects on several aspects of the school-to-work transition of 2 nd generation ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2003, 16 (4), 755-786)
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J61 J71
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294
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Štepán
Jurajda
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Estimating the Effect of Unemployment Insurance Compensation on the Labor Market Histories of Displaced Workers
In this paper, U.S. data on labor market histories of displaced workers are used to quantify the effect of Unemployment Insurance Compensation (UIC) on both unemployment and employment durations. ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2002, 108(2), 227-252)
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C41 J63 J65
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293
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Thomas
F.
Crossley
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Gender, Comparative Advantage and Labor Market Activity in Immigrant Families
The family investment hypothesis predicts that credit-constrained immigrant families adopt a household strategy for financing post-migration human capital investment in which the partner with labor ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2004, 11 (3), 373-393)
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J61 J22 D10
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291
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Regina
T.
Riphahn
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Cohort Effects in the Educational Attainment of Second Generation Immigrants in Germany: An Analysis of Census Data
Even though second generation immigrants make up ever increasing population shares in industrialized countries we know little about their social integration and wellbeing. This study focuses on the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2003, 16 (4), 711-737)
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I21 J24 J61
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290
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Marie D.
Connolly
Christopher
Worswick
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The Job Search and Education Investments of Immigrant Families
This paper examines the post-migration investments in schooling and job search of immigrant families using new longitudinal data for Australia. Higher education levels at time of arrival are ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2005, 18 (4), 663–690)
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J61 J22 J60
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289
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Lisa
A.
Cameron
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
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Old-Age Support in Developing Countries: Labor Supply, Intergenerational Transfers and Living Arrangements
Without broad-based public pension schemes, the majority of the elderly in developing countries are left to rely on their own current and accumulated earnings and support from children as means of ...
(published as 'Do coresidency and financial transfers from the children reduce the need for elderly parents to works in developing countries?' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2008, 21(4), 1007-1033)
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J22 J14
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