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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)
J9
261 Mikael Lindahl
Home versus School Learning: A New Approach to Estimating the Effect of Class Size on Achievement
I estimate the effect of class size on scholastic achievement using that schools are only in session during the school year and out of session during the summer. This seasonal feature of the ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2005, 107 (2), 375-394)
I21 I28 H52
260 Pierre Cahuc
Fabien Postel-Vinay
Temporary Jobs, Employment Protection and Labor Market Performance
Many European labor markets are characterized by heavy employment protection taxes and the widespread use of fixed-duration contracts. The simultaneous use of these two policy instruments seems ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2002, 9 (1), 63-91)
H29 J23 J38 J41 J64
259 Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell
Bernard M. S. van Praag
Poverty in the Russian Federation
This paper is intended to shed light on the extent of poverty in the Russian Federation. We present estimates of poverty lines and poverty ratios derived from subjective questions used in a during ...
(published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2001, 2 (2), 147-172)
C21 D31 D60 I32
258 Michael Rosholm
Kirk Scott
Leif Husted
The Times They are A-Changin': Organizational Change and Immigrant Employment Opportunities in Scandinavia
This article compares and contrasts male immigrant labor market experiences in Sweden and Denmark during the period 1985 - 1995. Using register-based panel data sets from Sweden and Denmark, a ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2006, 40 (2), 318-347)
J61 J71 L23 O30
257 Tito Boeri
Transition with Labour Supply
Ten years after the start of transition, there are many puzzles we still have to live with. Why did all countries experience strong declines in output at the outset of economic transformations and ...
(published in: in Berglöf, E. and Roland, G. (eds.) The Economics of Transition: the Fifth Nobel Symposium in Economics, 2007, Palgrave, 94-143.)
J21 J6 P2
256 Tito Boeri
Herbert Brücker
Eastern Enlargement and EU-Labour-Markets: Perceptions, Challenges and Opportunities
This paper summarises the key findings of a recent study on the impact of Eastern Enlargement of the European Union (EU) on labour markets in the current Member States. The study focuses on three ...
(published in: World Economics, 2001, 2(1), 49-68)
F1 F2 J0
250 Timothy J. Hatton
Jeffrey G. Williamson
Demographic and Economic Pressure on Emigration out of Africa
Two of the main forces driving European emigration in the late nineteenth century were real wage gaps between sending and receiving regions and demographic booms in the low-wage sending regions ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2003, 105 (3), 465-486)
F22, J11, J61, O15
248 Pierre M. Picard
Eric Toulemonde
The Impact of Labor Markets on Emergence and Persistence of Regional Asymmetries
This paper investigates the impact of labor markets and economies of agglomeration on firms location. We show that the existence of a lower bound on wage (e.g. a minimum wage or a reservation wage) ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2004, 55 (3), 458-477)
J23 R30
247 Erik Plug
Wim P. Vijverberg
Schooling, Family Background, and Adoption: Is it Nature or is it Nurture?
When parents are more educated, their children tend to receive more schooling as well. Does this occur because parental ability is passed on genetically or because more educated parents provide a ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2003, 111 (3), 611-641)
I21 J13 J24
246 Erik Plug
Wim P. Vijverberg
Schooling, Family Background, and Adoption: Does Family Income Matter?
One would expect that family income is an important positive factor in the school attainment of children. However, evidence on this relationship is often tainted by the lack of control for parental ...
(published as 'Does Family Income Matter for Schooling Outcomes? Using Adoptees as a Natural Experiment' in: Economic Journal, 2005, 115 (506), 879-906)
D31 I21 J13 J24
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