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325 Robert A. Hart
James R. Malley
Ulrich Woitek
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)
E32, J31
324 Michael P. Pflüger
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)
F16 F21 J31
323 Anders Frederiksen
Ebbe K. Graversen
Nina Smith
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)
C13 C21 C24 H24 J22
322 Olaf Hübler
Uwe Jirjahn
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)
D23 J24 J31 J51 J53
321 Pedro T. Pereira
Pedro S. Martins
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)
C29 I21 J24
320 René Fahr
Uwe Sunde
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)
J41 J64
319 Rob Euwals
Rainer Winkelmann
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)
C24 C41 J24 J31 J44
317 Rainer Winkelmann
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)
I11 I18 C25
316 Manuel Frondel
Christoph M. Schmidt
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)
C3 D2
313 Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell
Bernard M. S. van Praag
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)
I10 I12
312 Carina Furnée
Marius Kemler
Gerard A. Pfann
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)
J32 I10 I12
310 Uwe Sunde
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)
E20, J30, J31, O30
309 Giorgio Brunello
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)
J24 J31
308 Gerard A. Pfann
Daniel S. Hamermesh
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)
J33 J63
307 Gerard A. Pfann
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)
J33 J63
306 Holger Bonin
Gemma Abio
Eduardo Berenguer
Joan Gil
Concepció Patxot
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)
E62 H55
305 Holger Bonin
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)
F22 E66
304 Pierre Cahuc
Etienne Wasmer
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)
J30 J50 J64
302 Gil S. Epstein
Avi Weiss
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)
J61 J68 H59
301 Joachim R. Frick
Gert G. Wagner
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)
J13 I30 I21
300 Alois Stutzer
Rafael Lalive
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)
I31 J64
299 Giorgio Brunello
Claudio Lucifora
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
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)
J30
298 Pedro T. Pereira
Pedro S. Martins
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)
C4 I2 J3
297 Jan C. van Ours
Justus Veenman
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)
J15 J61
296 Helena Skyt Nielsen
Michael Rosholm
Nina Smith
Leif Husted
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)
J61 J71
294 Štepán Jurajda
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)
C41 J63 J65
293 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Thomas F. Crossley
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)
J61 J22 D10
291 Regina T. Riphahn
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)
I21 J24 J61
290 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Marie D. Connolly
Christopher Worswick
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)
J61 J22 J60
289 Lisa A. Cameron
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
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)
J22 J14
288 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Getting Ahead: The Determinants of and Payoffs to Internal Promotion for Young U.S. Men and Women
Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this paper examines the role of gender in the promotion process and the importance of promotions in the relative labor market outcomes of ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2001, 20, 339-372)
J16 J24 J62
287 Patrik Guggenberger
Ashok Kaul
Martin Kolmar
Efficiency Properties of Labor Taxation in a Spatial Model of Restricted Labor Mobility
We examine the efficiency properties of labor taxation. A spatial model of an economy is introduced whose key feature is a new approach to restricted labor mobility. We characterize the efficient ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2002, 32 (4), 447-473)
H7 R5 J61
286 Michael Fertig
Christoph M. Schmidt
First- and Second-Generation Migrants in Germany - What Do We Know and What Do People Think
This paper provides a snapshot of the stock of immigrants in Germany using the 1995 wave of the Mikrozensus with a particular emphasis on distinguishing first- and second-generation migrants. On the ...
(published in: Ralph Rotte / Peter Stein (eds.), Migration Policy and the Economy: International Perspectives, Munich 2001)
J61 J15 I30
285 Jürgen Jerger
Christian Pohnke
Alexander Spermann
Gut betreut in den Arbeitsmarkt? Eine mikroökonometrische Evaluation der Mannheimer Arbeitsvermittlungsagentur
In diesem Beitrag wird ein vom Bundesministerium für Arbeit bezuschusstes Modellprojekt - die Mannheimer Arbeitsvermittlungsagentur (MAVA) - mit Hilfe von Matching-Methoden untersucht. In der MAVA ...
(published in: Mitteilungen aus der Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, 2001, 34 (4), 567-576)
H43 J68
284 Hillel Rapoport
Avi Weiss
The Optimal Size for a Minority
We investigate a setting in which members of a population, bifurcated into a majority and a minority, transact with randomly matched partners. All members are uniformly altruistic, and each ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2003, 52 (1), 27-45 )
D64 J15 J61
283 Marcus Hagedorn
Ashok Kaul
Volker Reinthaler
Welfare Analysis in a Schumpeterian Growth Model with Capital
In this note we compare the laissez-faire steady-state solution in the Howitt and Aghion (1998) model to the social optimum. The analysis offers several new insights in comparison to the welfare ...
(published in: Economics Bulletin, 2007, 15(7), 1-8.)
O41 E22 O32
282 James Albrecht
Anders Björklund
Susan Vroman
Is There a Glass Ceiling in Sweden?
Using data from 1998, we show that the gender log wage gap in Sweden increases throughout the wage distribution and accelerates in the upper tail of the distribution, which we interpret as a glass ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2003, 21 (1), 145-177)
J16 J71
281 Gilles Saint-Paul
Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites
I study a model where Information Technology, while typically increasing overall inequality, is likely to harm some people at intermediate and high levels of the distribution of income but to benefit ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2007, 137 (1), 104-126)
J3 I2 O3 O4
279 Torben M. Andersen
Product Market Integration, Wage Dispersion and Unemployment
Even when international product market integration is taking place between fairly similar countries with low labour mobility, it may have important effects for labour markets by increasing the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2005, 12 (3), 379-406)
F15 J30 J50
278 Torben M. Andersen
Welfare Policies, Labour Taxation and International Integration
How will international integration affect welfare policies? This paper considers the possibilities of financing public sector activities (public consumption and social security expenses) by general ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2003, 10 (1), 43-62)
F10 J30 H20 H30
277 Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
Evaluating an Innovative Redundancy-Retraining Project: The Austrian Steel Foundation
This paper evaluates an Austrian manpower training program, which is highly innovative in its content and financing - and could therefore serve as a role model for other programs. In the late 1980s ...
(published as 'Coping with a structural crisis: evaluating an innovative redundancy-retraining project' in: International Journal of Manpower, 2006, 27 (8), 700 - 721)
H43 I21 J53 J65 J58
276 Bruno Amable
Donatella Gatti
The Impact of Product Market Competition on Employment and Wages
Standard economic wisdom generally stresses the benefits of increased competition on the product market. This paper proposes a model of monopolistic competition with an endogenous determination of ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2004, 56 (4), 667-686)
E24 J41 J63 L13
275 Gil S. Epstein
Tikva Lecker
Multi-Generation Model of Immigrant Earnings: Theory and Application
The literature, starting with Chiswick (1977, 1978) to Gang and Zimmermann (2000), more recently, focuses on the economic achievements and performance of first- and second-generation migrants. This ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2006, 24, 217-234)
F22
274 Peder J. Pedersen
Nina Smith
Unemployment Traps: Do Financial Disincentives Matter?
This paper analyses the importance of financial dis-incentives for workers in Denmark. Based on a panel survey which is merged to a number of administrative registers it is possible to calculate ...
(published in: European Sociological Review, 2002, 18 (3), 271-288)
I38 J32 J64
273 Gilles Saint-Paul
Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs
This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (511), 382-407)
D3 D42 E11 E24 E25 F12 F15 J31 L12 O14 O15 O3 O41
268 Andrew T. Newell
Barry Reilly
The Gender Pay Gap in the Transition from Communism: Some Empirical Evidence
This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender ...
(published in: Economic Systems, 2001, 25 (4), 287-304)
J16 J31 P23
266 Christian Dustmann
Oliver Kirchkamp
The Optimal Migration Duration and Activity Choice after Re-migration
If migrants return to their origin countries, two questions arise which are of immediate economic interest for both immigration and emigration country: What determines their optimal migration ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2002, 67 (2), 351-372)
D9 F22 C35
265 Michael Rosholm
Michael Svarer
Structurally Dependent Competing Risks
In this paper, we specify and estimate a structurally dependent competing risks model for the transitions out of unemployment into either new job or recall. The recall probability is allowed to ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2001, 73 (2), 169-173)
C41 J64
264 Christian Dustmann
Return Migration, Wage Differentials, and the Optimal Migration Duration
In simple static models, migration increases with the wage differential between host and home country. In a dynamic framework, and if migrations are temporary, the size of the migrant population in ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 47 (2), 2003, 353-369)
D9 F22
263 Nabanita Datta Gupta
Nina Smith
Children and Career Interruptions: The Family Gap in Denmark
The effect of children and career interruptions on the family gap is analysed based on Danish longitudinal data covering the years 1980-1995. The estimated model controls for unobserved time-constant ...
(published in: Economica, 2002, 69 (276), 609-629)
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