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6103 Magnus Lofstrom
Timothy Bates
Simon C. Parker
Transitions to Entrepreneurship and Industry-Specific Barriers
Drivers of entrepreneurial entry are investigated in this study by examining how entry into small-business ownership is shaped by industry-specific constraints. The human- and financial-capital ...
(published as 'Why Are Some People More Likely to Become Small-Businesses Owners than Others: Entrepreneurship Entry and Industry-specific Barriers' in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2014, 29(2), 232–251)
J24, L26, M13
6102 Olivier B. Bargain
André Decoster
Mathias Dolls
Dirk Neumann
Andreas Peichl
Sebastian Siegloch
Welfare, Labor Supply and Heterogeneous Preferences: Evidence for Europe and the US
Following the report of the Stiglitz Commission, measuring and comparing well-being across countries has gained renewed interest. Yet, analyses that go beyond income and incorporate non-market ...
(revised version published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2013, 41 (4), 789-817)
C35, D63, H24, H31, J22
6100 Annabelle Krause-Pilatus
Ulf Rinne
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Anonymous Job Applications of Fresh Ph.D. Economists
Discrimination in recruitment decisions is well documented. Anonymous job applications may reduce discriminatory behavior in hiring. This paper analyzes the potential of this approach in a randomized ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 117 (2), 441-444 )
J44, J79, J20
6099 Petter Lundborg
Martin Nordin
Dan-Olof Rooth
The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Exploring the Role of Skills and Health Using Data on Adoptees and Twins
In this paper, we focus on possible causal mechanisms behind the intergenerational transmission of human capital. For this purpose, we use both an adoption and a twin design and study the effect of ...
(published as 'The intergenerational transmission of human capital: the role of skills and health' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31 (4), 1035-1065.')
I12, I11, J14, J12, C41
6098 Jinjing Li
Denisa M. Sologon
A Continuous Labour Supply Model in Microsimulation: A Life-Cycle Modelling Approach with Heterogeneity and Uncertainty Extension
This paper advances a structural inter-temporal model of labour supply that is able to simulate the dynamics of labour supply in a continuous setting and to circumvent two main drawbacks of most of ...
(published in: PLoS ONE, 2014, 9 (11), e111903)
C20, D90, J22
6097 Joshua Healy
Kostas Mavromaras
Peter J. Sloane
Adjusting to Skill Shortages: Complexity and Consequences
Skill shortages are often portrayed as a major problem for the economies of many countries including the Australian economy. Yet, there is surprisingly little evidence about their prevalence, causes ...
(published as 'Adjusting to skill shortages in Australian SMEs' in: Applied Economics, 2015, 47(24), 2470-2487)
J0, J20, J23, J24
6096 Guillermo Cruces
Pablo Glüzmann
Luis-Felipe López-Calva
Economic Crises, Maternal and Infant Mortality, Low Birth Weight and Enrollment Rates: Evidence from Argentina's Downturns
This study investigates the impact of recent crises in Argentina (including the severe downturn of 2001-2002) on health and education outcomes. The identification strategy relies on both the ...
(published in: World Development, 2012, 40 (2), 303-314 )
I15, I25
6095 Ernst Fehr
Oliver Hart
Christian Zehnder
How Do Informal Agreements and Renegotiation Shape Contractual Reference Points?
Previous experimental work provides encouraging support for some of the central assumptions underlying Hart and Moore (2008)’s theory of contractual reference points. However, existing studies ignore ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2015, 13 (1), 1-28)
C91, D03, D86, J41
6093 Christoph Kneiding
Alexander S. Kritikos
Funding Self-Employment: The Role of Consumer Credit
This paper investigates whether self-employed households use consumer loans – in particular instalment loans and overdrafts – to finance business activities. Controlling for financial and ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2013, 45 (13), 1741-1749)
G32, D12, D14
6092 Anette Primdal Kvist
Helena Skyt Nielsen
Marianne Simonsen
The Effects of Children's ADHD on Parents' Relationship Dissolution and Labor Supply
This paper uses Danish register-based data for the population of children born in 1990-1997 to investigate the effects on parents of having a child with attention-deficit/hyperactivity-disorder ...
(published as 'The importance of children's ADHD for parents' relationship stability and labor supply' in: Social Science and Medicine, 2013, 88, 30-38)
I12, J12, J13, J22
6091 William Collier
Matloob Piracha
Teresa Randazzo
Remittances and Return Migration
This paper utilises survey data of return migrants to analyse the determinants of remittances sent while the migrants were abroad. We approach our research question from the perspective of three ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2018, 22(1), 174-202)
F22, F24
6089 Matteo Picchio
Lagged Duration Dependence in Mixed Proportional Hazard Models
We study the non-parametric identification of a mixed proportional hazard model with lagged duration dependence when data provide multiple outcomes per individual or stratum. We show that the ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 115 (1), 108-110)
C14, C41
6088 John T. Giles
Dewen Wang
Wei Cai
The Labor Supply and Retirement Behavior of China's Older Workers and Elderly in Comparative Perspective
This paper highlights the employment patterns of China’s over-45 population and, for perspective, places them in the context of work and retirement patterns in Indonesia, Korea, the United States, ...
(published in: M. Majmundar and J. Smith (eds.), Aging in Asia: Findings from New and Emerging Data Initiatives, Washington, DC,The National Academies Press, 2012)
J26, J14, O15, O17, O57
6087 Julian Conrads
Bernd Irlenbusch
Strategic Ignorance in Bargaining
In his classic article "An Essay on Bargaining" Schelling (1956) argues that ignorance might actually be strength rather than weakness. We test and confirm Schelling's conjecture in a simple ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 92, 104-115)
C72, C78, C91, D63, D82, D83
6086 David Card
Francesco Devicienti
Agata Maida
Rent-Sharing, Hold-up, and Wages: Evidence from Matched Panel Data
It is widely believed that rent-sharing reduces the incentives for investment when long term contracts are infeasible because some of the returns to sunk capital are captured by workers. We propose a ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2014, 81 (1), 84–111)
J31
6084 Enno Mammen
Christoph Rothe
Melanie Schienle
Semiparametric Estimation with Generated Covariates
In this paper, we study a general class of semiparametric optimization estimators of a vector-valued parameter. The criterion function depends on two types of infinite-dimensional nuisance ...
(published in: Econometric Theory, 2016, 32 (5), 1140-1177 )
C14, C31
6083 Eric A. Hanushek
Ludger Woessmann
Lei Zhang
General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Life-Cycle
Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52 (1), 48-87)
J24, J64, J31, I20
6082 Anne E. Winkler
Sharon Levin
Paula Stephan
Wolfgang Glänzel
Publishing Trends in Economics across Colleges and Universities, 1991-2007
There is good reason to think that non-elite programs in economics may be producing relatively more research than in the past: Research expectations have been ramped-up at non-PhD institutions and ...
(published in: Eastern Economic Journal, 2014, 40, 560–582)
A14, I23
6081 Lutz Bellmann
Hans-Dieter Gerner
Richard Upward
Job and Worker Turnover in German Establishments
We use a simple regression-based approach to measure the relationship between employment growth, hirings and separations in a large panel of German establishments over the period 1993-2009. Although ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2018, 86 (4), 417-445)
J2, J23, J63, D22
6080 Gaetano Basso
Mathias Dolls
Werner Eichhorst
Thomas Leoni
Andreas Peichl
The Effects of the Recent Economic Crisis on Social Protection and Labour Market Arrangements across Socio-Economic Groups
The Great Recession did not only affect European countries to a varying extent, its impact on national labour markets and on specific socio-economic groups in those markets also varied greatly. ...
(published in: Intereconomics, 2012, 47 (4), 217-223.)
H24, J65, J68
6079 Vasiliki Bozani
Nick Drydakis
Studying the NAIRU and its Implications
The current paper is a means of demonstrating our knowledge about macroeconomic theories, and its key variables, phenomena, and history. Given the key role that the Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of ...
(published in: Amine S. (Ed) Labor Markets: Dynamics, Trends and Economic Impact, Nova, New York, 2011)
E02, E24, E61
6078 Nick Drydakis
Ethnic Identity and Immigrants' Wages in Greece
This study investigates the impact of ethnic identity on Albanian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Georgian, and Russian wages in Greece. Treating ethnic identity as a composite of language, cultural habits, ...
(published in: International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 2012, 36 (3), 389 - 402)
F22, J15, J16, Z10
6077 Carla Haelermans
Lex Borghans
Wage Effects of On-the-Job Training: A Meta-Analysis
A meta-analysis is used to study the average wage effects of on-the-job training. This study shows that the average reported wage effect of on-the-job training, corrected for publication bias, is 2.6 ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2012, 50 (3), 502–528)
J21, J24, M53, I21
6076 Christoph Rothe
Partial Distributional Policy Effects
In this paper, we propose a method to evaluate the effect of a counterfactual change in the unconditional distribution of a single covariate on the unconditional distribution of an outcome variable ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2012, 80 (5), 2269-2301)
C14, C31
6075 Corrado Giulietti
Martin Guzi
Martin Kahanec
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Unemployment Benefits and Immigration: Evidence from the EU
The paper studies the impact of unemployment benefits on immigration. A sample of 19 European countries observed over the period 1993-2008 is used to test the hypothesis that unemployment benefit ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (1), 24-38 )
H53, J61
6072 Miles Corak
Age at Immigration and the Education Outcomes of Children
The successful acquisition of a language is often characterized in terms of critical periods. If this is the case it is likely that children who migrate face different challenges in attaining high ...
(abridged version published in: Ann Masten, Karmela Liebkind and Donald J. Hernandez (editors). Realizing the Potential of Immigrant Youth, Cambridge University Press, 2012, Ch. 4)
I29, J13
6070 Patrick Kampkötter
Dirk Sliwka
Differentiation and Performance: An Empirical Investigation on the Incentive Effects of Bonus Plans
It is often claimed that supervisors do not differentiate enough between high and low performing employees when evaluating performance. The purpose of this paper is to study the incentive effects of ...
(revised version published as 'More Dispersion, Higher Bonuses?-The Role of Differentiation in Subjective Performance Evaluations' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36 (2), 511–549)
M52, D23
6069 Francois Keslair
Eric Maurin
Sandra McNally
Every Child Matters? An Evaluation of "Special Educational Needs" Programmes in England
The need for education to help every child rather than focus on average attainment has become a more central part of the policy agenda in the US and the UK. Remedial programmes are often difficult to ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31(6), 932-948.)
I2
6068 Ive Marx
Pieter Vandenbroucke
Gerlinde Verbist
Can Higher Employment Levels Bring Lower Poverty in the EU? Regression Based Simulations of the Europe 2020 Target
At the European level and in most EU member states, higher employment levels are seen as key to better poverty outcomes. But what can we expect the actual impact to be? Up until now shift-share ...
(revised version published in: Journal of European Social Policy, 2012, 22 (5) 472– 486)
I32, J21, R28, J68
6067 Ive Marx
Josefine Vanhille
Gerlinde Verbist
Combating In-Work Poverty in Continental Europe: An Investigation Using the Belgian Case
Recent studies find in-work poverty to be a pan-European phenomenon. Yet in-work poverty has come to the fore as a policy issue only recently in most continental European countries. Policies ...
(published in: Journal of Social Policy, 2012, 41 (1) 19-41)
I32, J21, R28, J68
6066 Mette Ejrnæs
Astrid Kunze
Work and Wage Dynamics around Childbirth
This study investigates how the first childbirth affects the wage processes of highly attached women. We estimate a flexible fixed effects wage regression model extended with post-birth fixed effects ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2013, 115 (3), 856-877)
C23, J18, J22, J24, J31
6065 German Blanco
Carlos A. Flores
Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
Bounds on Average and Quantile Treatment Effects of Job Corps Training on Wages
We assess the effectiveness of Job Corps (JC), the largest job training program targeting disadvantaged youth in the United States, by constructing nonparametric bounds for the average and quantile ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2013, 48 (3), 659-701)
J24, I38, C21
6064 Chung Choe
Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
Sang-Jun Lee
Do Dropouts Benefit from Training Programs? Korean Evidence Employing Methods for Continuous Treatments
Failure of participants to complete training programs is pervasive in existing active labor market programs both in developed and developing countries. The proportion of dropouts in prototypical ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2015, 48, 849 - 881)
O15, I38, C21
6063 Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir
Mehmet Balcilar
Aysit Tansel
International Labour Force Participation Rates by Gender: Unit Root or Structural Breaks?
This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for ...
(published in: Bulletin of Economic Research, 2013, 65 (S1), s142-s164.)
C22, E24, J16, J21
6062 Darja Reuschke
Maarten van Ham
Testing the 'Residential Rootedness'-Hypothesis of Self-Employment for Germany and the UK
Based on the notion that entrepreneurship is a 'local event', the literature argues that self-employed workers and entrepreneurs are 'rooted' in place. This paper tests the 'residential ...
(published in: Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2013, 45 (5), 1219-1239)
D22, J61, J62, L26
6061 Michael Kosfeld
Ulrich Schüwer
Add-on Pricing, Naive Consumers, and the Hidden Welfare Costs of Education
Previous research shows that firms shroud high add-on prices in competitive markets with naive consumers leading to inefficiency. We analyze the effects of regulatory intervention via educating naive ...
(published as 'Add-on Pricing in Retail Financial Markets and the Fallacies of Consumer Education' in: Review of Finance, 2017, 21 (3), 1189 - 1216)
D40, D80, L50
6060 Isaac Ehrlich
Jong Kook Shin
Yong Yin
Private Information, Human Capital, and Optimal "Home Bias" in Financial Markets
By allowing for imperfectly informed markets and the role of private information, we offer new insights about observed deviations of portfolio concentrations in domestic relative to foreign risky ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2011, 5 (3), 255-301)
D82, F30, G11, G12, G15, J24
6055 Kenneth T. Whelan
Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Kevin F. Hallock
Ronald L. Seeber
Adverse Selection and Incentives in an Early Retirement Program
We evaluate potential determinants of enrollment in an early retirement incentive program for non-tenure-track employees at a large university. Using administrative records on the eligible population ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2012, Vol. 36, 159-190)
I23, J26
6052 Yann Algan
Pierre Cahuc
Andrei Shleifer
Teaching Practices and Social Capital
We use several data sets to consider the effect of teaching practices on student beliefs, as well as on organization of firms and institutions. In cross-country data, we show that teaching practices ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5(3), 189-210)
I2, Z1
6051 Richard Blundell
Antoine Bozio
Guy Laroque
Extensive and Intensive Margins of Labour Supply: Working Hours in the US, UK and France
This paper documents the key stylised facts underlying the evolution of labour supply at the extensive and intensive margins in the last forty years in three countries: United-States, United-Kingdom ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2013, 34 (1), 1-29, )
J21, J22
6049 Martin Fochmann
Joachim Weimann
The Effects of Tax Salience and Tax Experience on Individual Work Efforts in a Framed Field Experiment
We conduct a framed field experiment with 245 employed persons (no students) as subjects and a real tax, which is levied on the subjects' income from working in our real effort task. In our first ...
(published in: FinanzArchiv / Public Finance Analysis, 2013, 69 (4), 511-542)
C91, D14, H24
6048 Anagaw Derseh Mebratie
Arjun S. Bedi
Foreign Direct Investment, Black Economic Empowerment and Labour Productivity in South Africa
The impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestically owned firms in developing countries has been widely debated in the literature. It has been argued that FDI provides access to advanced ...
(published in: Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2013, 22 (1), 94-115)
J24
6047 David Carroll
Massimiliano Tani
Labour Market Under-Utilisation of Recent Higher Education Graduates: New Australian Panel Evidence
Recent research into the Australian labour market has reported that a substantial proportion of the tertiary-educated labour force is under-utilised relative to their level of education, echoing ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 32, 207-218)
I23, J24
6044 Melanie K. Jones
Paul L. Latreille
Peter J. Sloane
Anita Staneva
Work-Related Health in Europe: Are Older Workers More at Risk?
This paper uses the fourth European Working Conditions Survey (2005) to address the impact of age on work-related self-reported health outcomes. More specifically, the paper examines whether older ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2013, 88, 18-29)
I0, J28, J81, J20
6043 Z. Eylem Gevrek
Deniz Gevrek
Sonam Gupta
Culture, Intermarriage, and Differentials in Second-Generation Immigrant Women's Labor Supply
We examine the impact of culture on the work behavior of second-generation immigrant women in Canada. We contribute to the current literature by analyzing the role of intermarriage in ...
(published in: International Migration, 2013, 51 (6), 146-167 )
J12, J16, J22, J61
6042 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Erdal Tekin
Fathers and Youth's Delinquent Behavior
This paper analyzes the relationship between having one or more father figures and the likelihood that young people engage in delinquent criminal behavior. We pay particular attention to ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2014, 12 (2), 327-358)
J12, J13, K42
6041 Sonia R. Bhalotra
Atheendar Venkataramani
The Captain of the Men of Death and His Shadow: Long-Run Impacts of Early Life Pneumonia Exposure
We exploit the introduction of sulfa drugs in 1937 to identify the causal impact of exposure to pneumonia in infancy on later life well-being and productivity in the United States. Using census data ...
(Second R&R Journal of Political Economy )
I18, H41
6038 Anna Laura Mancini
Chiara Monfardini
Silvia Pasqua
On Intergenerational Transmission of Reading Habits in Italy: Is a Good Example the Best Sermon?
The intergenerational transmission of preference and attitudes has been less investigated in the literature than the intergenerational transmission of education and income. Using the Italian Time Use ...
(published as 'Is a Good Example the Best Sermon? Children's Imitation of Parental Reading' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 15 (3), 965 - 993)
J13, J22, J24, C21
6036 John T. Addison
McKinley L. Blackburn
Chad Cotti
Minimum Wage Increases Under Straightened Circumstances
Do apparently large minimum wage increases in an environment of recession produce clearer evidence of disemployment effects than is typically observed in the new minimum wage literature? This paper ...
(revised version published as 'Minimum wage increases in a recessionary environment' in: Labour Economics, 2013, 23, 30-39)
J2, J3, J4, J8
6035 Marco Caliendo
Jens Hogenacker
Steffen Künn
Frank Wießner
Alte Idee, neues Programm: Der Gründungszuschuss als Nachfolger von Überbrückungsgeld und Ich-AG
Die Gründungsförderung der Bundesagentur für Arbeit ist im Rahmen der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik im Rechtskreis SGB III nach wie vor eines der bedeutsamsten Instrumente. Zum 1. August 2006 löste der ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung / Journal for Labour Market Research, 2012, 45 (2), 99-123)
J68, M13, H43
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