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5828 Giovanni Russo
Wolter Hassink
Multiple Glass Ceilings
Both vertical (between job levels) and horizontal (within job levels) mobility can be sources of wage growth. We find that the glass ceiling operates at both margins. The unexplained part of the wage ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2012, 51 (4), 892–915)
J31, J24, J22
5827 Simonetta Longhi
Mark P. Taylor
Employed and Unemployed Job Seekers: Are They Substitutes?
The job search literature suggests that on-the-job search reduces the probability of unemployed people finding a job. However, there is no evidence that employed and unemployed job seekers are ...
(published as 'Employed and Unemployed Job Seekers and the Business Cycle' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 76 (4), 463-483 )
J29, J60
5825 Brindusa Anghel
Sara de la Rica
Juan J. Dolado
The Effect of Public Sector Employment on Women's Labour Market Outcomes
This paper addresses the role played by Public Sector (PS) employment across different OECD labour markets in explaining: (i) gender differences regarding choices to work in either PS or private ...
(published in: I. Sanchez de Madariaga, S. de la Rica and J. Dolado (Eds.), Libro Blanco sobre la Situación de la Mujer en la Ciencia Espaniola. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Madrid, 2011)
J45, J16, J31
5822 John Cawley
J. Catherine Maclean
Unfit for Service: The Implications of Rising Obesity for U.S. Military Recruitment
This paper contributes to the literature on the labor market consequences of unhealthy behaviors and poor health by examining a previously underappreciated consequence of the rise in obesity in the ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2012, 21 (11), 1348-1366)
I1, H56, J11, J18, J2, J45, N32
5820 Olivier B. Bargain
Kristian Orsini
Andreas Peichl
Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US
Despite numerous studies on labor supply, the size of elasticities is rarely comparable across countries. In this paper, we suggest the first large-scale international comparison of elasticities, ...
(revised version available as IZA Discussion Paper No. 6735; published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49(3), 723-838)
C25, C52, H31, J22
5819 Paul Frijters
David W. Johnston
Michael A. Shields
Destined for (Un)Happiness: Does Childhood Predict Adult Life Satisfaction?
In this paper we address the question of how much of adult life satisfaction is predicted by childhood traits, parental characteristics and family socioeconomic status. Given the current focus of ...
(published as 'Does Childhood Predict Adult Life Satisfaction? Evidence from British Cohort Surveys' in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124 (580), F688-F719)
I1, J1
5818 Stephen V. Burks
Erin L. Krupka
A Multi-Method Approach to Identifying Norms and Normative Expectations within a Corporate Hierarchy: Evidence from the Financial Services Industry
This paper presents the results of a field study at a large financial services firm that combines multiple methods, including two economic experiments, to measure ethical norms and their behavioral ...
(revised version published in: Management Science, 2012, 1 (58), 203-217)
C93, D23, M14
5815 Daniel Fernández-Kranz
Marie Elina Paul
Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Part-Time Work, Fixed-Term Contracts, and the Returns to Experience
Using data from Spanish Social Security records, we investigate the returns to experience in different flexible work arrangements, including part-time and full-time work, and permanent and fixed-term ...
(substantially revised version published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 77 (4), 512 - 541 )
J16, J24, J31, J41, C11, C33
5814 Johan Almenberg
Christer Gerdes
Exponential Growth Bias and Financial Literacy
The tendency to underestimate the future value of a variable growing at a constant rate, an example of exponential growth bias, has been linked to household financial decision making. We show that ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2012, 19 (17), 1693-1696)
D12, D14
5813 William T. Harbaugh
Naci Mocan
Michael S. Visser
Theft and Deterrence
We report results from economic experiments of decisions that are best described as petty larceny, with high school and college students who can anonymously steal real money from each other. Our ...
(published in Journal of Labor Research, 2013, 34(4), 389-407)
K4
5809 Melanie K. Jones
Paul L. Latreille
Peter J. Sloane
Job Anxiety, Work-Related Psychological Illness and Workplace Performance
This paper uses matched employee-employer data from the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) 2004 to examine the determinants of employee job anxiety and work-related psychological ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2016, 54 (4), 742 - 767)
I0, J28, J81, J20
5808 Stephen V. Burks
Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Lorenz Götte
Aldo Rustichini
Which Measures of Time Preference Best Predict Outcomes? Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment
Economists and psychologists have devised numerous instruments to measure time preferences and have generated a rich literature examining the extent to which time preferences predict important ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 84 (1), 308-320)
C93, D90
5807 Daniel Borowczyk-Martins
Grégory Jolivet
Fabien Postel-Vinay
Accounting For Endogenous Search Behavior in Matching Function Estimation
We show that equilibrium matching models imply that standard estimates of the matching function elasticities are exposed to an endogeneity bias, which arises from the search behavior of agents on ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2013, 16, 440–451)
J63, J64
5805 Corrado Giulietti
Guangjie Ning
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Self-Employment of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China
This paper focuses on the determinants of self-employment among rural to urban migrants in China. Two self-selection mechanisms are analysed: the first relates to the manner in which migrants choose ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2012, 33 (1), 96-117.)
J23, J61, O15
5804 Petter Lundborg
Anton Nilsson
Dan-Olof Rooth
Early Life Health and Adult Earnings: Evidence from a Large Sample of Siblings and Twins
We study the relationship between early life health and adult earnings using a unique dataset that covers almost the entire population of Swedish males born between 1950 and 1970. The health ...
(published as 'Adolescent health and adult labor market outcomes' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 37, 25-40)
I1, J24, J31
5803 Petter Lundborg
Anton Nilsson
Dan-Olof Rooth
Does Early Life Health Predict Schooling Within Twin Pairs?
A large number of studies in labor economics estimate the returns to schooling using data on monozygotic twins, under the assumption that educational attainment is random within twin pairs. This ...
(published as 'The health-schooling relationship: evidence from Swedish twins' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29, 1191-1215)
I1, I2
5802 Alexander K. Koch
Julia Nafziger
Goals and Psychological Accounting
We model how people formulate and evaluate goals to overcome self-control problems. People often attempt to regulate their behavior by evaluating goal-related outcomes separately (in narrow ...
(revised version published as 'Goals and Bracketing under Mental Accounting' in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2016, 162, 305–351.)
A12, C70, D81, D91
5800 Michael C. Burda
Jennifer Hunt
What Explains the German Labor Market Miracle in the Great Recession?
Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment loss. Employers' reticence to hire in the preceding expansion, associated in part ...
(published in: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2011, Spring 2011, 273 - 319)
E24, E32, J6
5799 Richard A. Easterlin
Laura Angelescu McVey
Maggie Switek
Onnicha Sawangfa
Jacqueline Smith Zweig
The Happiness-Income Paradox Revisited
The striking thing about the happiness-income paradox is that over the long-term – usually a period of 10 y or more – happiness does not increase as a country's income rises. Heretofore the evidence ...
(published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010, 107 (52), 22463-22468)
I31, O10, O5, D60
5798 Erkki Koskela
Jan König
The Role of Profit Sharing in Dual Labour Markets with Flexible Outsourcing
We combine profit sharing for high-skilled workers and outsourcing of low-skilled tasks in partly imperfect dual domestic labour markets, when the wage rate for low-skilled worker is set by a labor ...
(published in: Labour, 2013, 27 (4), 351-370)
J31, J33, J51
5797 Alexandru Minea
Christophe Rault
External Monetary Shocks and Monetary Integration: Evidence from the Bulgarian Currency Board
Starting July the 1st 1997, Bulgaria adopted a Currency Board (CB) monetary system. This paper aims at investigating if the adoption of the CB monetary system, which involves the cost of loosing ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2011, 28 (5), 2271-2281)
E42, E52
5796 Marika Karanassou
Hector Sala
Inequality and Employment Sensitivities to the Falling Labour Share
This paper aims at identifying the labour share (wage-productivity gap) as a major factor in the evolution of inequality and employment. To this end, we use annual data for the US, UK and Sweden over ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2012, 43 (3), 343-376)
D30, E25, E24
5795 Marco Caliendo
Wang-Sheng Lee
Fat Chance! Obesity and the Transition from Unemployment to Employment
This paper focuses on estimating the magnitude of any potential weight discrimination by examining whether obese job applicants in Germany get treated or behave differently from non-obese applicants. ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2013, 11 (2), 121-133)
I10, I12, J23, J70
5794 Ben Kriechel
Gerard A. Pfann
Workforce Reorganization and the Worker
In this paper we study the joint decision process of changing the structure of jobs and laying off individual workers in a firm that downsizes its workforce. A hierarchical decision model is proposed ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2013, 45 (13), 1719-1729)
J63, J65, L23, L60, L93, M51
5793 Pedro Carneiro
Katrine Vellesen Loken
Kjell G. Salvanes
A Flying Start? Maternity Leave Benefits and Long Run Outcomes of Children
We study the impact on children of increasing maternity leave benefits using a reform that increased paid and unpaid maternity leave in Norway in July 1977. Mothers giving birth before this date were ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2015, 123(2), 365-412)
J13, J18
5792 Rafael Lalive
Analia Schlosser
Andreas Steinhauer
Josef Zweimüller
Parental Leave and Mothers' Careers: The Relative Importance of Job Protection and Cash Benefits
Parental leave regulations in most OECD countries have two key policy instruments: job protection and cash benefits. This paper studies how mothers' return to work behavior and labor market outcomes ...
(published in: Review of Economics Studies, 2014, 81 (1), 219 - 265,)
J13, J18, J22
5791 Benoît Mahy
François Rycx
Mélanie Volral
Does Wage Dispersion Make All Firms Productive?
This article puts the relationship between wage dispersion and firm productivity to an updated test, taking advantage of access to detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data. Controlling ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 58 (4), 455-489)
J31, J24, M5
5790 Marco Caliendo
Alexander S. Kritikos
Searching for the Entrepreneurial Personality: New Evidence and Avenues for Further Research
What makes the entrepreneurial personality is the key question we seek to answer in the special issue of the Journal of Economic Psychology on "Personality and Entrepreneurship". The contributions ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2012, 33 (2), 319-324)
D81, J23, L26, M13
5789 Giulio Bosio
Marco Leonardi
The Impact of Bologna Process on the Graduate Labour Market: Demand and Supply
The Bologna process inspired the Italian 3+2 reform of the university system which constitutes a big increase in the supply of college graduates. This paper is a preliminary attempt to identify the ...
(published as 'The impact of Bologna process on the graduate': in: Giornale degli economisti, 2010, 69 (3), 29-66)
I23, I28, J24
5787 Eleonora Patacchini
Yves Zenou
Social Networks and Parental Behavior in the Intergenerational Transmission of Religion
We analyze the intergenerational transmission of the strength of religion focusing on the interplay between family and peer effects. We develop a theoretical model suggesting that both peer quality ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2016, 7, 969-995.)
A14, D85, Z12
5786 Vianney Dequiedt
Yves Zenou
International Migration, Imperfect Information, and Brain Drain
We consider a model of international migration where skills of workers are imperfectly observed by firms in the host country and where information asymmetries are more severe for immigrants than for ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 102, 62-78.)
D82, J61, F22, O12
5785 David G. Blanchflower
Andrew J. Oswald
Antidepressants and Age
Antidepressants as a commodity have been remarkably little-studied by economists. This study shows in new data for 27 European countries that 8% of people (and 10% of those middle-aged) take ...
(published as 'Antidepressants and age: A new form of evidence for U-shaped well-being through life' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 127, 46-58)
I1, I12, I3, I31
5784 Michael Elsby
Jennifer C. Smith
Jonathan Wadsworth
The Role of Worker Flows in the Dynamics and Distribution of UK Unemployment
Unemployment varies substantially over time and across subgroups of the labour market. Worker flows among labour market states act as key determinants of this. We examine how the structure of ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2011, 27 (2), 338-363)
E24, J6
5783 Matilde P. Machado
Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano
Coverage of Infertility Treatment and Fertility Outcomes: Do Women Catch Up?
The ageing of first-time mothers and the changes in women's labor market conditions have been accompanied by the introduction and subsequent increase in the use of assisted reproductive therapies ...
(published in: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, 2015, 6 (4), 407-439.)
I18, J13
5782 Ruth Ben-Yashar
Leif Danziger
Symmetric and Asymmetric Committees
This paper studies the assignment of decision makers to two committees that make decisions by a simple majority rule. There is an even number of decision makers at each of various skill levels and ...
(published in: Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2011, 47 (5), 440-447)
D70, D71, D72
5781 Daniel I. Rees
Joseph J. Sabia
The Kid's Speech: The Effect of Stuttering on Human Capital Acquisition
A number of studies have shown that childhood speech impairments such as stuttering are associated with lower test scores and educational attainment. However, it is unclear whether this result is ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 38, 76-88)
I1, I2
5780 Karl Brenke
Ulf Rinne
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Short-Time Work: The German Answer to the Great Recession
Short-time work was the "German answer" to the economic crisis. The number of short-time workers strongly increased in the recession and peaked at more than 1.5 million. Without the extensive use of ...
(revised version published in: International Labour Review, 2013, 152 (2), 287-305 / spanish version published as 'Desempleo parcial, la respuesta alemana a la Gran Recesión' in: Revista Internacional del Trabajo, 2013, 132 (2), 325-344 / french version published as 'Le chômage partiel: réponse de l'Allemagne face ŕ la grande récession' in: Revue internationale du Travail, 2013, 152 (2), 311-330 )
J65, J68
5779 John C. Ham
Serkan Ozbeklik
Lara Shore-Sheppard
Estimating Heterogeneous Take-up and Crowd-Out Responses to Marginal and Non-Marginal Medicaid Expansions
We use a linear probability model with interactions and a switching probit model (SPM) to estimate heterogeneous effects of Medicaid expansions on Medicaid take-up, private insurance coverage and ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49 (4), 872-905)
I18, C21
5778 Julián Messina
Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano
Wage Rigidity and Disinflation in Emerging Countries
This paper examines the consequences of rapid disinflation for downward wage rigidities in two emerging countries, Brazil and Uruguay, relying on high quality matched employer-employee administrative ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2014, 6 (1), 102-133)
J30, E24
5777 Christian Dustmann
Albrecht Glitz
Uta Schönberg
Referral-based Job Search Networks
This paper develops a model and derives novel testable implications of referral-based job search networks in which employees provide employers with information about potential job market candidates ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2016, 83 (2), 514-546)
J61, J63, J31
5776 Donald O. Parsons
Mandated Severance Pay and Firing Cost Distortions: A Critical Review of the Evidence
Severance pay mandates are an appealing job displacement insurance strategy in developing countries, which have only modest government administrative capacities, but they carry the threat of adverse ...
(published in: Robert Holzmann and Milan Vodopivec (eds.), Reforming Severance Pay: An International Perspective, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2012, 121-157)
J08, J65, J33
5775 Agnieszka Kanas
Barry R. Chiswick
Tanja van der Lippe
Frank van Tubergen
Social Contacts and the Economic Performance of Immigrants: A Panel Study of Immigrants in Germany
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examined the impact of social contacts on immigrant occupational status and income. In addition to general social contacts, we also analyzed the ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2012, 46 (3), 680-709)
F22, J61, Z13
5774 Simon Gächter
Esther Kessler
Manfred Königstein
The Roles of Incentives and Voluntary Cooperation for Contractual Compliance
Efficiency under contractual incompleteness often requires voluntary cooperation in situations where self-regarding incentives for contractual compliance are present as well. Here we provide a ...
(revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 2025, 28 (1), 75-106 )
C70, C90
5773 Sascha O. Becker
Ludger Woessmann
Knocking on Heaven's Door? Protestantism and Suicide
We model the effect of Protestant vs. Catholic denomination in an economic theory of suicide, accounting for differences in religious-community integration, views about man's impact on God's grace, ...
(published as 'Social Cohesion, Religious Beliefs, and the Effect of Protestantism on Suicide 'in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100(3), 377-391)
Z12, N33
5772 Erik Plug
Dinand Webbink
Nicholas G. Martin
Sexual Orientation, Prejudice and Segregation
This paper examines whether gay and lesbian workers sort into tolerant occupations. With information on sexual orientation, prejudice and occupational choice taken from Australian Twin Registers, we ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 32 (1), 123-159)
J15, J24, J71
5771 Francesca Francavilla
Gianna Claudia Giannelli
Gabriela Grotkowska
Mieczyslaw Socha
Use of Time and Value of Unpaid Family Care Work: A Comparison between Italy and Poland
This study provides a comparison of the size and value of unpaid family care work in two European member States, Italy and Poland. Using the Italian and Polish time use surveys, both the opportunity ...
(published as 'Dressing a ghost: size and value of unpaid family care' in: Applied Economics, 2019, 51 (28), 3015-3030 (authored by Francesca Francavilla and Gianna Gludia Giannelli))
E01, E26, J13, J14, J16, J22
5770 Saul Estrin
Tomasz Mickiewicz
Ute Stephan
For Benevolence and for Self-Interest: Social and Commercial Entrepreneurial Activity across Nations
We conceptualise social entrepreneurship as a source of social capital which, when present in the environment, enhances commercial entrepreneurship. We also argue that social entrepreneurship should ...
(published in: Entrepreneurship and Practice, 2013, 37 (3), 479-504)
L26
5768 Bernhard Michel
François Rycx
Productivity Gains and Spillovers from Offshoring
Offshoring is generally believed to be productivity-enhancing and this belief is underpinned by economic theory. This article contributes to the growing literature that tests empirically whether ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2014, 22(1), 73-85)
F0, O0
5766 Joachim Wagner
Exports, Imports and Profitability: First Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises
This paper documents for the first time the relationship between profitability and three types of international trade activities – exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new ...
(published in: Open Economies Review, 2012, 23 (5), 747-765)
F14
5765 Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga
Hillel Rapoport
Tradable Immigration Quotas
International migration is maybe the single most effective way to alleviate poverty at a global level. When a given host country allows more immigrants in, this creates costs and benefits for that ...
(Published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 115, 94-108)
F22, F5, H87, I3, K33, O19
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