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6000 Ceren Ozgen
Peter Nijkamp
Jacques Poot
The Impact of Cultural Diversity on Innovation: Evidence from Dutch Firm-Level Data
Due to the growth in international migration in recent decades, the workforce of firms in host countries has become considerably more diverse, both demographically and culturally. It is an important ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration 2013, 2:18)
D22, F22, O31
5999 Peter J. Kuhn
Marie Claire Villeval
Do Women Prefer a Co-operative Work Environment?
Are women disproportionately attracted to work environments where cooperation rather than competition is rewarded? This paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants ...
(revised version published as 'Are Women More Attracted to Co-operation Than Men?' in: Economic Journal, 2014, 125, 115-140.)
C91, J16, J24, J31, M5
5998 Alberto Bayo-Moriones
Jose Enrique Galdon-Sanchez
Sara Martinez-de-Morentin
The Process of Wage Adjustment: An Analysis Using Establishment-Level Data
This article presents a study of the influences on the factors that shape wage adjustments. The cost of living, comparability with other firms' wages, the fulfilment of collective agreements at ...
(published in: Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2016, 37(2), 245-268)
J30, J40
5997 Oleg Badunenko
Daniel J. Henderson
Subal C. Kumbhakar
When, Where and How to Perform Efficiency Estimation
In this paper we compare two flexible estimators of technical efficiency in a cross-sectional setting: the nonparametric kernel SFA estimator of Fan, Li and Weersink (1996) to the nonparametric bias ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2012, 175 (4), 863-892)
C14
5995 David J. Bjerk
Re-examining the Impact of Dropping Out on Criminal and Labor Outcomes in Early Adulthood
This paper shows that while high school dropouts fare far worse on average than otherwise similar high school completers in early adulthood outcomes such as success in the labor market and future ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31 (1), 110-122)
J31, K42, I21
5994 Libertad González
The Effects of a Universal Child Benefit
I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated introduction of a new, sizeable, unconditional child benefit in Spain in 2007, granted ...
(published as 'The Effect of a Universal Child Benefit on Conceptions, Abortions, and Early Maternal Labor Supply' in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2013, 5 (3), 160-188)
D1, H5, J1, J2
5993 Roberto González
Hector Sala
The Frisch Elasticity in the Mercosur Countries: A Pseudo-Panel Approach
This paper provides estimates for the Mercosur countries of the Frisch elasticity – i.e., the elasticity of substitution between worked hours and real wages holding constant the marginal utility of ...
(published in: Development Policy Review, 2015, 33 (1), 107-131)
J22, J82, D91
5992 Xavier Raurich
Hector Sala
Valeri Sorolla
Factor Shares, the Price Markup, and the Elasticity of Substitution between Capital and Labor
In a Walrasian labor market, the labor income share is constant under the assumptions of a Cobb-Douglas production function and perfect competition. Given the observed decline of the labor share in ...
(published in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2012, 4 (1), 181-198)
E22, E24, E25
5991 Uwe Sunde
Thomas Vischer
Human Capital and Growth: Specification Matters
This paper suggests that the weak empirical effect of human capital on growth in existing cross-country studies is partly the result of an inappropriate specification that does not account for the ...
(revised version published in: Economica, 2015, 82(326), 368–390)
O47, O11, O15, E24
5989 Örn B. Bodvarsson
John G. Sessions
Cross-Assignment Discrimination in Pay: A Test Case of Major League Baseball
The traditional Becker/Arrow style model of discrimination depicts majority and minority and workers as perfectly substitutable inputs, implying that all workers have the same job assignment. The ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 28. 84-95)
J7
5987 John T. Addison
Paulino Teixeira
Alex Bryson
André Pahnke
The Structure of Collective Bargaining and Worker Representation: Change and Persistence in the German Model
This paper depicts and examines the decline in collective bargaining coverage in Germany. Using repeat cross-section and longitudinal data from the IAB Establishment Panel, we show the overwhelming ...
(revised version published as 'Collective Agreement Status and Survivability: Change and Persistence in the German Model' in: Labour, 2013, 27 (3), 288-309)
J50, J53
5986 Ulrich Kaiser
Johan Moritz Kuhn
Long-Run Effects of Public-Private Research Joint Ventures: The Case of the Danish Innovation Consortia Support Scheme
Subsidized research joint ventures (RJVs) between public research institutions and industry have become increasingly popular in Europe and the US. We study the long-run effects of such a support ...
(published in: Research Policy, 2012, 41 (5), 913–927)
O31, O38
5983 Robert W. Fairlie
Florian Hoffmann
Philip Oreopoulos
A Community College Instructor Like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom
This paper uses detailed administrative data from one of the largest community colleges in the United States to quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2014, 104 (8), 2567-2591)
I23, I24
5982 Zvi Eckstein
Esther Gal-Or
Thorvaldur Gylfason
Jürgen von Hagen
Gerard A. Pfann
A Decade of Editing the European Economic Review
This story describes the circumstances that led to all five of us starting as editors at the same time, the unexpected things we have found, the unanticipated reactions we have encountered, how we ...
(published in: Michael Szenberg and Lall.Ram (eds.): Secrets of Economics Editors, MIT Press, 2014)
A11, A14
5981 Joanne Lindley
Stephen Machin
Rising Wage Inequality and Postgraduate Education
This paper considers what has hitherto been a relatively neglected subject in the wage inequality literature, albeit one that has been becoming more important over time, namely the role played by ...
(published as 'The Rising Postgraduate Wage Premium' in: Economica, 2016, 83, 281-306 )
J24, J31
5980 Stephen Gibbons
Olmo Silva
Felix Weinhardt
Everybody Needs Good Neighbours? Evidence from Students' Outcomes in England
We estimate the effect of neighbours' characteristics and prior achievements on teenage students' educational and behavioural outcomes using census data on several cohorts of secondary school ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (571), 831-874)
C21, I20, H75, R23
5978 Saibal Kar
Sugata Marjit
Firm Heterogeneity, Informal Wage and Good Governance
We provide an analysis of enforcement policies applicable to formal sector in dual labor markets. We use a framework with heterogeneous firms, endogenous determination of informal wage and ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2012, 16 (4), 527-539)
J21, J31, J50
5977 Divya Balasubramaniam
Santanu Chatterjee
David B. Mustard
Got Water? Social Divisions and Access to Public Goods in Rural India
We use data for 436 rural districts from the 2001 Census of India to examine whether different aspects of social divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. ...
(published in: Economica, 2014, 81 (321), 140-160)
H4, O2
5976 Andries de Grip
Jan Sauermann
The Effects of Training on Own and Co-Worker Productivity: Evidence from a Field Experiment
This paper analyses the effects of work-related training on worker productivity. To identify the causal effects from training, we combine a field experiment that randomly assigns workers to treatment ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2012, 122 (559), 376-399)
J24, M53, C93
5975 Raquel Ortega-Argilés
Mariacristina Piva
Marco Vivarelli
Productivity Gains from R&D Investment: Are High-Tech Sectors Still Ahead?
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between a firm's R&D expenditures considered as an investment in knowledge, and its productivity, looking at sectoral peculiarities which ...
(published in: Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2015, 24(3), 204-222)
O33, L25
5974 Spyros Konstantopoulos
Min Sun
Is the Persistence of Teacher Effects in Early Grades Larger for Lower-Performing Students?
We examined the persistence of teacher effects from grade to grade on lower-performing students using high-quality experimental data from Project STAR, where students and teachers were assigned ...
(published in: American Journal of Education, 2012, 118 (3), 309-339)
I20
5972 António M. S. Pimenta
Francisco J. F. Silva
José António Cabral Vieira
Duration of Low Wage Employment: A Study Based on a Survival Model
This paper includes a survival analysis which attempts to explain the duration, as in the number of years a worker remains in a low wage situation. Explanatory variables take into account the ...
(published in: International Journal of Social Economics, 2018, 45 (2), 286-299 )
J31, J42
5971 Eirini Andriopoulou
Panos Tsakloglou
Once Poor, Always Poor? Do Initial Conditions Matter? Evidence from the ECHP
The paper analyzes the effects of individual and household characteristics on current poverty status, while controlling for initial conditions, past poverty status and unobserved heterogeneity in 14 ...
(published in Research on Economic Inequality Vol. 23 "Measurement of Poverty, Deprivation, and Economic Mobility" (eds T.I. Garner and K.S. Short), 2015, pp 23-70 )
I32, I38
5970 David W. Johnston
Wang-Sheng Lee
Climbing the Job Ladder: New Evidence of Gender Inequity
An explanation for the gender wage gap is that women are less able or less willing to 'climb the job ladder.' However, the empirical evidence on gender differences in job mobility has been mixed. ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2012, 51 (1), 128 - 151)
J16, J33, J71
5968 Julian Conrads
Bernd Irlenbusch
Rainer Michael Rilke
Gari Walkowitz
Lying and Team Incentives
We investigate the influence of two widespread compensation schemes, individual piece-rates and team incentives, on participants' inclination to lie, by adapting the experimental setup of Fischbacher ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2013, 34, 1-7)
C91, C92, M52
5966 Andrew E. Clark
Happiness, Habits and High Rank: Comparisons in Economic and Social Life
The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off ...
(published in: Stefano Bartolini, Ennio Bilancini, Luigino Bruni, and Pier-Luigi Porta (Eds.), Policies for Happiness, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, 62-94)
D01, D31, H00, I31, J12, J28
5965 Frederico S. Finan
Laura Schechter
Vote-Buying and Reciprocity
While vote-buying is common, little is known about how politicians determine who to target. We argue that vote-buying can be sustained by an internalized norm of reciprocity. Receiving money ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2012, 80 (2), 863-881)
H0
5964 Brian Duncan
Stephen J. Trejo
Low-Skilled Immigrants and the U.S. Labor Market
Over the last several decades, two of the most significant developments in the U.S. labor market have been: (1) rising inequality, and (2) growth in both the size and the diversity of immigration ...
(published as 'The Employment of Low-Skilled Immigrant Men in the United States' in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (3), 549-554)
J61, J62, J68
5963 Dhritiman Bhattacharya
Nezih Guner
Gustavo Ventura
Distortions, Endogenous Managerial Skills and Productivity Differences
We develop a span-of-control model where managerial skills are endogenous and the outcome of investments over the life cycle of managers. We calibrate this model to U.S plant-size data to quantify ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2103, 16(1), 11-25.)
O40, E23
5962 Nezih Guner
Remzi Kaygusuz
Gustavo Ventura
Taxing Women: A Macroeconomic Analysis
Based on well-known evidence on labor supply elasticities, several authors have concluded that women should be taxed at lower rates than men. We evaluate the quantitative implications of taxing women ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2012, 59 (5), 111–128.)
E62, H31, J12, J22
5961 Nina Smith
Valdemar Smith
Mette Verner
Why Are So Few Females Promoted into CEO and Vice-President Positions? Danish Empirical Evidence 1997-2007
In most OECD countries, only very few women succeed in reaching top executive positions. In this paper, the probability of promotion into VP and CEO positions is estimated based on employer-employee ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66 (2), 380-408)
G34, J16, J24, M51
5960 Delia Furtado
Miriam Marcén
Almudena Sevilla
Does Culture Affect Divorce Decisions? Evidence from European Immigrants in the US
This paper explores the role of culture in determining divorce decisions by examining country of origin differences in divorce rates of immigrants in the United States. Because childhood-arriving ...
(published in: Demography, 2013, 50 (3), 1013-1038)
J12, Z13, J61
5959 Dan A. Black
Natalia Kolesnikova
Seth G. Sanders
Lowell J. Taylor
Are Children “Normal”?
We examine Becker's (1960) contention that children are "normal." For the cross section of non-Hispanic white married couples in the U.S., we show that when we restrict comparisons to ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (1), 21 - 33)
J13, J40
5958 Simone Bertoli
Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga
Multilateral Resistance to Migration
The rate of migration observed between two countries does not depend solely on their relative attractiveness, but also on the one of alternative destinations. Following the trade literature, we term ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 102, 79-100)
F22, O15, J61
5955 Peter J. Kuhn
Hani Mansour
Is Internet Job Search Still Ineffective?
While the Internet has been found to reduce trading frictions in a number of other markets, existing research has failed to detect such an effect in the labor market. In this paper, we replicate Kuhn ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124 (581), 1213–1233)
J64
5953 Aniruddha Mitra
James T. Bang
Phanindra V. Wunnava
Financial Liberalization and the Brain Drain: A Panel Data Analysis
This paper explores the impact of financial liberalization on the migration of high skilled labor from 46 countries to the OECD, taken at five year intervals over the period 1985-2000. Using an ...
(published as 'Financial Liberalization and the Selection of Emigrants: A Cross-national Analysis' in: Empirical Economics, 2014, 47 (1), 199-226)
F22, O15, P48
5952 Daniele Fabbri
Chiara Monfardini
Opt Out or Top Up? Voluntary Healthcare Insurance and the Public vs. Private Substitution
We investigate whether people enrolled into voluntary health insurance (VHI) substitute public consumption with private (opt out) or just enlarge their private consumption, without reducing reliance ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 78 (1), 75-93)
C34, C35, D12, H44, I11
5951 Stephan Kampelmann
François Rycx
Are Occupations Paid What They Are Worth? An Econometric Study of Occupational Wage Inequality and Productivity
Labour economists typically assume that pay differences between occupations can be explained with variations in productivity. The empirical evidence on the validity of this assumption is surprisingly ...
(published in: De Economist, 2012, 160 (3), 257-287)
J24, J31, J44
5949 Naci Mocan
Duha T. Altindag
Is Leisure a Normal Good? Evidence from the European Parliament
Prior to July 2009, salaries of the members of the European Parliament were paid by their home country and there were substantial salary differences between parliamentarians representing different EU ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123, 1130-1167.)
D73, P16, J22, J45
5948 Andrew McGee
Peter McGee
Search, Effort, and Locus of Control
We test the hypothesis that locus of control – one's perception of control over events in life – influences search by affecting beliefs about the efficacy of search effort in a laboratory ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 126 (Part A), 89 - 101)
J64, D83, C91
5947 Alejandra Mizala
Hugo R. Nopo
Teachers' Salaries in Latin America: How Much Are They (Under or Over) Paid?
This paper documents the extent to which teachers are underpaid vis-à-vis workers in other professional and technical occupations in Latin America circa 2007. These labor earnings differences, ...
(published in: International Journal of Educational Development, 2016, 47, 20-32)
J31, J44, J8, O54
5946 Vikesh Amin
Petter Lundborg
Dan-Olof Rooth
Mothers Do Matter: New Evidence on the Effect of Parents' Schooling on Children's Schooling Using Swedish Twin Data
Behrman and Rosenzweig (2002) used data on a small sample of MZ (monozygotic, identical) twin parents and their children to show that father's schooling is more important than mother's schooling for ...
(published as 'The intergenerational transmission of schooling: Are mothers really less important than fathers?' in: Economics of Education Review, 2015, 47, 100–117 )
J0, I0, J1
5945 Jeff E. Biddle
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Cycles of Wage Discrimination
Using CPS data from 1979-2009 we examine how cyclical downturns and industry-specific demand shocks affect wage differentials between white non-Hispanic males and women, Hispanics and ...
(published as 'Wage discrimination over the business cycle' in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2013, 2:7)
E29, J71
5944 Giorgio Brunello
Margherita Fort
Nicole Schneeweis
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?
In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2016, 25 (3), 314-336)
J1, I12, I21
5943 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Stefanie Schurer
The Stability of Big-Five Personality Traits
We use a large, nationally-representative sample of working-age adults to demonstrate that personality (as measured by the Big Five) is stable over a four-year period. Average personality changes are ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 115 (1), 11-15)
J24, C18
5942 Mirco Tonin
Underreporting of Earnings and the Minimum Wage Spike
This paper documents a positive correlation within European labour markets between the proportion of full-time employees with earnings on the minimum wage and the extent of underreporting of earnings ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:2)
J38, H26
5941 Konstantinos Pouliakas
Nikolaos Theodoropoulos
The Effect of Variable Pay Schemes on Workplace Absenteeism
We estimate the effect of variable pay schemes on workplace absenteeism using two cross sections of British establishments. Private sector establishments that explicitly link pay with individual ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2012, 36, 109-157)
J22, J33, C21
5940 Gabriele Doblhammer
Gerard J. van den Berg
Thomas Fritze
Economic Conditions at the Time of Birth and Cognitive Abilities Late in Life: Evidence from Eleven European Countries
With ageing populations and a stronger reliance on individual financial decision-making concerning asset portfolios, retirement schemes, pensions and insurances, it becomes increasingly important to ...
(revised version published as 'Economic Conditions at the Time of Birth and Cognitive Abilities Late in Life: Evidence from Ten European Countries' in: PLoS ONE, 8(9) 2013, e74915)
I12, I18, J14, N14, N34, J26
5938 Alessandra Cataldi
Stephan Kampelmann
François Rycx
Does It Pay to Be Productive? The Case of Age Groups
Using longitudinal matched employer-employee data for the period 1999-2006, we investigate the relationship between age, wage and productivity in the Belgian private sector. More precisely, we ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2012, 33 (3), 264-283)
J14, J24, J31
5937 Bart Cockx
Matteo Picchio
Scarring Effects of Remaining Unemployed for Long-Term Unemployed School-Leavers
This study investigates whether and to what extent further unemployment experience for youths who are already long-term unemployed imposes a penalty on subsequent labor market outcomes. We propose a ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 2013, 176 (4), 951-980 )
C33, C41, J62, J64
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