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5676 Ceren Ozgen
Peter Nijkamp
Jacques Poot
Immigration and Innovation in European Regions
The concentration of people with diverse socio-cultural backgrounds in particular geographic areas may boost the creation of new ideas, knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship, and economic growth. In ...
(published in: P. Nijkamp, J. Poot J and M. Sahin (eds.) Migration Impact Assessment: New Horizons, Edward Elgar, 2012)
J61, O31, R23
5675 Manudeep Bhuller
Tarjei Havnes
Edwin Leuven
Magne Mogstad
Broadband Internet: An Information Superhighway to Sex Crime?
Does internet use trigger sex crime? We use unique Norwegian data on crime and internet adoption to shed light on this question. A public program with limited funding rolled out broadband access ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2013, 80 (4), 1237-1266)
J13, H40, I28, D31
5674 David N.F. Bell
David G. Blanchflower
Young People and the Great Recession
This article reviews the effects of the Great Recession on youth labour markets. We argue that young people aged 16-24 have suffered disproportionately during the recession. Using the USA and UK as ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2011, 27 (2), 241 - 267)
J01, J11, J21, J23, J38, J64
5673 David N.F. Bell
David G. Blanchflower
Youth Unemployment in Europe and the United States
This paper focuses particularly on youth unemployment, why we should be concerned about it, why it is increasing again, how the present difficulties of young people entering the labour market differ ...
(published in: Nordic Economic Policy Review, 2011, 1, 11-37)
J31, J64
5672 Christian Pfeifer
The Heterogeneous Economic Consequences of Works Council Relations
I use a question about works council relations from the 2006 wave of the IAB Establishment panel to analyze the heterogeneous effects of works councils on productivity, wages, and profits. The ...
(published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch, 2011, 131 (1), 59-71)
J53, M54
5671 Christian Pfeifer
Simon Janssen
Philip Yang
Uschi Backes-Gellner
Effects of Training on Employee Suggestions and Promotions in an Internal Labor Market
We evaluate the effects of employer-provided formal training on employee suggestions for productivity improvements and on promotions among male blue-collar workers. More than twenty years of ...
(published as 'Effects of training on employee suggestions and promotions' in: Schmalenbach Business Review, 65(3), 270-287.)
J24, M53
5670 Horst Entorf
Crime, Prosecutors, and the Certainty of Conviction
This paper tests predictions of a structural, augmented supply-of-offenders model regarding the relative effects of police, public prosecution and courts, respectively, on crime. Using detailed data ...
(published in: European Journal of Law and Economics, 2015, 39 (1), 167–201 (jointly with Hannes Spengler))
K14, K41, C23
5669 Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll
The Effect of Product Market Competition on Job Instability
This paper assesses the impact of product market competition on job instability as proxied by the use of fixed-term labor contracts. Using both worker data from the Spanish Labor Force Survey and ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 35, 145 - 159)
J24, M51, C41, C33, C35, J6, L1
5668 Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
Maharouf Oyolola
The Role of Race and Birth Place in Welfare Usage among Comparable Women: Evidence from the U.S.
There is evidence that women are more likely to live in poverty than men. Given the fact that the poor are more likely to use welfare, it becomes useful to consider welfare usage among women. ...
(published in: The Review of Black Political Economy, 2012, 39 (3), 285-297)
J2, J10, J24, J38, I21, O12, O15
5666 I. Semih Akçomak
Lex Borghans
Bas ter Weel
Measuring and Interpreting Trends in the Division of Labour in the Netherlands
This paper introduces indicators about the division of labour to measure and interpret recent trends in the structure of employment in the Netherlands. Changes in the division of labour occur at ...
(published in: De Economist, 2011, 159 (4), 435-482)
J23, J24, O33
5665 René Böheim
Mario Lackner
Returns to Education in Professional Football
After three years in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), collegiate football players face a trade-off between spending more time in the NCAA and pursuing a career in the National ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 114 (3), 326-328)
J31
5664 Christian Pfeifer
Physical Attractiveness, Employment, and Earnings
Survey data is used to estimate the impact of physical attractiveness rated by the interviewer as well as by the respondent on employment probability and labor income of men and women. In addition to ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2012, 19 (6), 505-510)
J31, J71, J10
5663 Alessandro Cigno
How to Deal with Covert Child Labour, and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country
As credit and insurance markets are imperfect, and given that intra-family transfers, and the way a child uses her time outside school hours, are private information, the second-best policy makes ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2012, 26 (1), 61-67)
D82, H21, H31, I28, J24
5662 Daniel J. Henderson
Solomon Polachek
Le Wang
Heterogeneity in Schooling Rates of Return
This paper relaxes the assumption of homogeneous rates of return to schooling by employing nonparametric kernel regression. This approach allows us to examine the differences in rates of return to ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (6), 1202-1214)
C14, J24
5661 M. Hashem Pesaran
Ron P. Smith
Beyond the DSGE Straitjacket
Academic macroeconomics and the research department of central banks have come to be dominated by Dynamic, Stochastic, General Equilibrium (DSGE) models based on micro-foundations of optimising ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2011, 79 (s2), 5 - 16)
C1, E1
5660 Mirco Tonin
Minimum Wage and Tax Evasion: Theory and Evidence
This paper examines the interaction between minimum wage legislation and tax evasion by employed labor. I develop a model in which firms and workers may agree to report less than the true amount of ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (11-12), 1635-1651)
J38, H24, H26, H32
5658 Gil S. Epstein
Alessandra Venturini
The Impact of Worker Effort on Public Sentiment Towards Temporary Migrants
Temporary and circular migration programs have been devised by many destination countries and supported by the European Commission as a policy to reduce welfare and social costs of immigration in ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2011, 33, 239-261)
J0, H0
5657 Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll
Network Effects on Migrants' Remittances
This paper explores the existence of network effects in migrants’ remittance behavior. In this study, networks are defined as groups of immigrants from the same country that live in the same ...
(published as 'Immigrant Networks and Remittances: Cheaper Together?' in: World Development, 2018 111 (C), 225-245)
J61, F22, O15, A14, E21
5656 Alexander M. Danzer
Peter Dolton
Total Reward in the UK in the Public and Private Sectors
Recent controversy has surrounded the relative value of public and private sector remuneration. We define a comprehensive measure of Total Reward (TR) which includes not just pay, but pensions and ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (4), 584-594)
J33, J45, H55, J31
5655 Elisabeth Fevang
Simen Markussen
Knut Røed
The Sick Pay Trap
In most countries, employers are financially responsible for sick pay during an initial period of a worker's absence spell, after which the public insurance system covers the bill. Based on a ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 32 (2), 305-336)
C14, C41, H55, I18, J23
5654 Ulrich Kaiser
Hans Christian Kongsted
Thomas Rønde
Labor Mobility, Social Network Effects, and Innovative Activity
We study the mapping between labor mobility and industrial innovative activity for the population of R&D active Danish firms observed between 1999 and 2004. Our study documents a positive ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2015, 110, 91–105 )
O33, O34, C23
5653 Thomas Hintermaier
Winfried Koeniger
Debt Portfolios
We provide a model with endogenous portfolios of secured and unsecured household debt. Secured debt is collateralized by owner-occupied housing whereas unsecured debt can be discharged according to ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2016, 8 (4), 103-141)
E21, D91
5652 Arnaud Chevalier
Subject Choice and Earnings of UK Graduates
Using a survey of a cohort of UK graduates, linked to administrative data on higher education participation, this paper investigates the labour market attainment of recent graduates by subject of ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (6), 1187-1201)
I22, J31
5650 Amelie F. Constant
Bienvenue N. Tien
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Jingzhou Meng
China's Latent Human Capital Investment: Achieving Milestones and Competing for the Top
In this paper we provide an overview of China’s human capital strategy and educational achievements over the last two decades. While every one acknowledges China as an economic superpower, very few ...
(published in: Journal of Contemporary China, 2013, 22 (79), 109-130.)
F22, J24, N35, O15, O24, O53
5649 Andrea Ichino
Elly-Ann Lindström
Eliana Viviano
Hidden Consequences of a First-Born Boy for Mothers
We show that in the US, the UK, Italy and Sweden women whose first child is a boy are less likely to work in a typical week and work fewer hours than women with first-born girls. The puzzle is why ...
(published in: Economic Letters, 2014, 123 (3), 274–278)
E24, J13, J22, J23
5647 Luis Diaz-Serrano
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
Decentralization, Happiness and the Perception of Institutions
This paper analyses whether the different powers and resources at the disposal of local and regional governments across Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to ...
(published as 'Decentralization, Subjective Well-Being and the Perception of Institutions' in: Kyklos, 2012, 65 (2), 179-193)
H11, H77
5646 Liam Delaney
Colm P. Harmon
Cathy Redmond
Parental Education, Grade Attainment and Earnings Expectations among University Students
While there is an extensive literature on intergenerational transmission of economic outcomes (education, health and income for example), many of the pathways through which these outcomes are ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (6), 1136-1152)
I21, J62, C81
5645 Pablo Casas-Arce
Albert Saiz
Women and Power: Unwilling, Ineffective, or Held Back?
We develop a model that nests previous explanations for women under-representation in positions of power. Focusing on democratic electoral dynamics, our framework delineates the three types of ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2015, 123 (3), 641–669)
J16, J71
5644 Ekkehart Schlicht
Consistency in Organization (updated)
Internal organization relies heavily on psychological consistency requirements. This thought has been emphasized in modern compensation theory, but has not been extended to organization theory. The ...
(earlier version published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2004, 160 (2), 232-42)
B52, D02, L2
5643 Matteo Cervellati
Uwe Sunde
Democratization, Violent Social Conflicts, and Growth
This paper investigates the empirical role of violent conflicts for the causal effect of democracy on economic growth. Exploiting within-country variation to identify the effect of democratization ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Civil Conflict, Democratization, and Growth: Violent Democratization as Critical Juncture' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2014, 116 (2), 482-505)
O43, N10, N40
5642 Laurence Jacquet
Etienne Lehmann
Bruno Van der Linden
Optimal Redistributive Taxation with Both Labor Supply and Labor Demand Responses
This paper characterizes the optimal redistributive tax schedule in a matching unemployment framework with endogenous (voluntary) nonparticipation and (involuntary) unemployment. The optimal ...
(revised version published as 'Optimal Income Taxation with Kalai Wage Bargaining and Endogenous Participation' in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2014, 42(2), 381-402)
D82, H21, J64
5641 Ralitza Dimova
Gil S. Epstein
Ira N. Gang
Migration, Transfers and Child Labor
We examine agricultural child labor in the context of emigration, transfers, and the ability to hire outside labor. We start by developing a theoretical background based on Basu and Van, (1998), ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2015, 19 (3), 735-747. )
D62, F22, I30, J13, J20, J24, O15
5640 Erik Snowberg
Justin Wolfers
Eric Zitzewitz
How Prediction Markets Can Save Event Studies
This review paper articulates the relationship between prediction market data and event studies, with a special focus on applications in political economy. Event studies have been used to address a ...
(published in: Leighton Vaughn Williams (ed), Prediction Markets, Routledge, 2011.)
A2, C58, D72, H50, G14
5639 Dominique Goux
Eric Maurin
Barbara Petrongolo
Worktime Regulations and Spousal Labour Supply
We investigate spillovers in spousal labour supply exploiting independent variation in hours worked generated by the introduction of the shorter workweek in France in the late 1990s. We find that ...
(published in American Economic Review, 2014,104, 252-276.)
J22
5638 Gary Koop
M. Hashem Pesaran
Ron P. Smith
On Identification of Bayesian DSGE Models
In recent years there has been increasing concern about the identification of parameters in dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models. Given the structure of DSGE models it may be ...
(published in: Journal of Business & Economic Studies, 2013, 31 (3), 300 - 314)
C11, C15, E17
5636 Chris van Klaveren
Henriette Maassen van den Brink
Bernard M. S. van Praag
Intra-Household Work Timing: The Effect on Joint Activities and the Demand for Child Care
This study examines if couples time their work hours and how this work timing influences child care demand and the time that spouses jointly spend on leisure, household chores and child care. By ...
(published in: European Sociological Review, 2013, 29 (1), 1 - 18)
D13, I31, J12, J22
5635 Tito Boeri
Herbert Brücker
Short-Time Work Benefits Revisited: Some Lessons from the Great Recession
The Great Recession triggered a resurgence of short-time work (STW) throughout the OECD. Several countries introduced from scratch STW or significantly expanded the scope of the programmes already in ...
(published in: Economic Policy, 2011, 26 (68), 697-766.)
J63, J65
5634 David Manley
Maarten van Ham
Joe Doherty
Social Mixing as a Cure for Negative Neighbourhood Effects: Evidence Based Policy or Urban Myth?
In this paper, we review the evidence base for social mixing in neighbourhoods, which is used as a strategy to tackle assumed negative neighbourhood effects. We discuss in detail the theoretical ...
(published in: Bridge, G., Butler, T. & Lees, L. (eds.), Mixed Communities: Gentrification by Stealth, Policy Press, Bristol, 2011)
I30, J60, R23
5633 Badi H. Baltagi
Yusuf Soner Baskaya
Timur Hulagu
The Turkish Wage Curve: Evidence from the Household Labor Force Survey
This paper examines the Turkish wage curve using individual data from the Household Labor Force Survey (HLFS) including 26 NUTS-2 regions over the period 2005-2008. When the local unemployment rate ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 114 (1), 128-131.)
C26, J30, J60
5632 Eskil Heinesen
Leif Husted
Michael Rosholm
The Effects of Active Labour Market Policies for Immigrants Receiving Social Assistance in Denmark
We estimate the effect of active labour market programmes on the exit rate to regular employment for non-western immigrants in Denmark who receive social assistance. We use the timing-of-events ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration 2013, 2:15)
J64, J24, J68, J61, C41
5630 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Stefanie Schurer
Two Economists’ Musings on the Stability of Locus of Control
Empirical studies of the role of non-cognitive skills in driving economic behavior often rely heavily on the assumption that these skills are stable over the relevant time frame. We analyze the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (570), F358-F400)
J24, C18
5629 Dominik Hanglberger
Joachim Merz
Are Self-Employed Really Happier Than Employees? An Approach Modelling Adaptation and Anticipation Effects to Self-Employment and General Job Changes
Empirical analyses using cross-sectional and panel data found significantly higher levels of job satisfaction for self-employed than for employees. We argue that those estimates in previous studies ...
(published as 'Does self-employment really raise job satisfaction? Adaptation and anticipation effects on self-employment and general job changes' in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2015, 48, 287 - 303)
J23, J28, J81
5628 Peteke Feijten
Maarten van Ham
The Impact of Union Dissolution on Moving Distances and Destinations in the UK
The number of people who have ever experienced a divorce, or a split up of a non-marital union, is rising every year. It is well known that union dissolution has a disruptive effect on the housing ...
(published as 'The Consequences of Divorce and Splitting up for Spatial Mobility in the UK' in: Comparative Population Studies, 2013, 38 (2), 405-432)
J12, J61, R21, R23
5627 Darragh Flannery
Cathal O'Donoghue
Utilising Microsimulation to Estimate New Marginal Returns to Education: Ireland 1987-2005
In this paper we utilise microsimulation techniques in the form of an income generation model and a tax/benefit model to estimate both the fiscal and net private return to education at a marginal ...
(updated version published as 'Utilizing Microsimulation to Estimate the Private and Fiscal Returns to Education: Ireland 1987–2011' in: Manchester School, 2016, 84 (1), 55 - 80)
I22, I28
5626 Darragh Flannery
Cathal O'Donoghue
Lifecycle Impact of Alternative Higher Education Finance Systems in Ireland
With increasing numbers of young people participating in higher education in Ireland and a heavy reliance of higher education institutions on state funding, the introduction of an alternative finance ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2011, 42(3), 237–270)
I22, I28
5624 Giacomo De Giorgi
Michele Pellizzari
Understanding Social Interactions: Evidence from the Classroom
There is a large literature on social interactions and still little is known about the economic mechanisms leading to the high level of clustering in behavior that is so commonly observed in the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124(579), 917–953)
J0, I21
5623 Alberto Bayo-Moriones
Jose Enrique Galdon-Sanchez
Sara Martinez-de-Morentin
Performance Appraisal: Dimensions and Determinants
The determinants of the dimensions that shape a formal system of performance appraisal are studied in relation to a sample of Spanish manufacturing establishments. In particular, the factors that ...
(published in: The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2020, 31(15), 1984-2015.)
M12, M5
5622 Magnus Strömgren
Tiit Tammaru
Maarten van Ham
Szymon Marcinczak
Olof Stjernström
Urban Lindgren
Pre-Hire Factors and Workplace Ethnic Segregation
In addition to neighbourhoods of residence, family and places of work play important roles in producing and reproducing ethnic segregation. Therefore, recent research on ethnic segregation and ...
(published as 'Factors Shaping Workplace Segregation Between Natives and Immigrants' in: Demography, 2014, 51(2), 645-671)
J15, J61, R23
5621 Sarah Brown
Jolian McHardy
Karl Taylor
Intergenerational Analysis of Social Interaction
We explore the relationship between the social interaction of parents and their offspring from a theoretical and an empirical perspective. Our theoretical framework establishes possible explanations ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 40, 43-54)
D19, H24, H41, H31
5620 Michela Braga
Marco Paccagnella
Michele Pellizzari
Evaluating Students' Evaluations of Professors
This paper contrasts measures of teacher effectiveness with the students' evaluations for the same teachers using administrative data from Bocconi University (Italy). The effectiveness measures are ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 41, 71-88)
I20
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