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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
5617 Tiit Tammaru
Maarten van Ham
Kadri Leetmaa
Anneli Kährik
Ethnic Dimensions of Suburbanisation in Estonia
Large scale suburbanisation is a relatively recent phenomenon in East Central Europe and responsible for major socio-spatial changes in metropolitan areas. Little is known about the ethnic dimensions ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2013, 39 (5), 845-862)
J61, R21, R23
5616 Wiji Arulampalam
Peter G. Backus
John Micklewright
Unofficial Development Assistance: A Dynamic Model of Charities' Donation Income
The empirical literature on the determinants of charities donation income, distinguishing the charitable cause, is small. We extend the literature in several ways. First, we focus on overseas ...
(revised version published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 77(2), 191–209)
L3, D1, D6, F3
5615 Resul Cesur
Joseph J. Sabia
Erdal Tekin
The Psychological Costs of War: Military Combat and Mental Health
While descriptive evidence suggests that deployment in the Global War on Terrorism is associated with adverse mental health, the causal effect of combat is not well established. Using data drawn from ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 32 (1), 51-65)
H56, I1
5614 Matteo Cervellati
Uwe Sunde
Simona Valmori
Disease Environment and Civil Conflicts
This paper tests the hypothesis that a high and persistent exposure to infectious diseases increases the likelihood of civil conflicts. Diseases that are difficult to prevent and treat may reduce the ...
(revised version published as 'Pathogens, Weather Shocks and Civil Conflicts' in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (607), 2581 - 2616)
D74, J1
5613 Michele Pellizzari
The Use of Welfare by Migrants in Italy
A large part of the Italian welfare system is designed and implemented at the very local level, leading to a high degree of heterogeneity in the type and the generosity of available programs across ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (2), 155-166)
J61
5612 Rory Coulter
Maarten van Ham
Peteke Feijten
Partner (Dis)agreement on Moving Desires and the Subsequent Moving Behaviour of Couples
Residential mobility decisions are known to be made at the household level. However, most empirical analyses of residential mobility relate moving behaviour to the housing and neighbourhood ...
(published as 'Partner (dis)agreement on moving desires and the subsequent moving behaviour of couples' in: Population, Space and Place, 2012, 18 (1), 16-30)
J61, R21, R23
5611 Marco Stampini
Audrey Verdier-Chouchane
Labor Market Dynamics in Tunisia: The Issue of Youth Unemployment
This paper analyzes the dynamics of the youth labor market in Tunisia using unique labor force survey data from 2005 to 2007 that include a longitudinal component. It first shows that sustained ...
(published in: Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, 2011, 7 (2), 1-35 )
J21, J64, J68, J71
5609 Mathieu Lefèbvre
Pierre Pestieau
Arno Riedl
Marie Claire Villeval
Tax Evasion, Welfare Fraud, and "The Broken Windows" Effect: An Experiment in Belgium, France and the Netherlands
In a series of experiments conducted in Belgium (Wallonia and Flanders), France and the Netherlands, we compare behavior regarding tax evasion and welfare dodging, with and without information about ...
(revised version published as 'Tax Evasion and Social Information: An Experiment in Belgium, France and the Netherlands' in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2014, 22, 401-425.)
H26, H31, I38, C91
5608 Olivier B. Bargain
Olivier Donni
Optimal Commodity Taxation and Redistribution within Households
Using a collective model of consumption, we characterize optimal commodity taxes aimed at targeting specific individuals within the household. The main message is that distortionary indirect taxation ...
(published in: Economica, 2014, 81 (321), 48-62)
D13, D31, D63, H21, H31
5606 Christophe Rault
Anne-Gaël Vaubourg
Labour Market Institutions and Unemployment: Does Finance Matter?
We explore whether finance influences the impact of labour market institutions on unemployment. Using a data set of 18 OECD countries over 1980-2004, we estimate a panel VectorAutoRegressive model. ...
(published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2012, 54 (1), 43 - 64)
E24, J23, P17
5605 Lex Borghans
Bart H.H. Golsteyn
James J. Heckman
John Eric Humphries
Identification Problems in Personality Psychology
This paper discusses and illustrates identification problems in personality psychology. The measures used by psychologists to infer traits are based on behaviors, broadly defined. These behaviors are ...
(published in: Personality and Individual Differences, 2011, 51 (3), 315-320)
D01, D03, D89
5603 Teresa Lloyd-Braga
Leonor Modesto
Thomas Seegmuller
Market Distortions and Local Indeterminacy: A General Approach
We provide a methodology to study the role of market distortions on the emergence of indeterminacy and bifurcations. Most of the specific market imperfections considered in the related literature are ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2014, 151, 216–247)
C62, E32
5602 Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Assessing the Effectiveness of Health Care Cost Containment Measures
Using SOEP panel data and difference-in-differences methods, this study is the first to empirically evaluate the effectiveness of four different health care cost containment measures within an ...
(published in: International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, 2014, 14(1), 41-67 )
H51, I11, I18, J22
5601 Nikos Askitas
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Health and Well-Being in the Crisis
The internet has become an important data source for the Social Sciences because these data are available without lags, can be regarded as involuntary surveys and hence have no observer effect, can ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2015, 36 (1), 26 - 47. )
C81, E32, I1, L86
5600 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Jason Abrevaya
"Beauty Is the Promise of Happiness"?
We measure the impact of individuals' looks on their life satisfaction or happiness. Using five data sets from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 64, 351-368)
I30, J10, C20
5599 Hilmar Schneider
Arne Uhlendorff
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Ökonometrie vs. Projektdesign: Lehren aus der Evaluation eines Modellprojekts zur Umsetzung des Workfare-Konzepts
We evaluate a pilot workfare project of a Berlin city community to integrate young people in social assistance into the labor market. Reference data are generated in collaboration with the German ...
(published as 'Econometrics vs. Project Design: Lessons from the Evaluation of a Workfare Project' in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2013, 233 (1), 65-85)
J22, J64, H43
5597 Philip Du Caju
François Rycx
Ilan Tojerow
Wage Structure Effects of International Trade: Evidence from a Small Open Economy
In the last decades, international trade has increased between industrialised countries and between high- and low-wage countries. This important change has raised questions on how international trade ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2012, 14 (2), 297-331)
F16, J31
5596 Johan Vikström
Michael Rosholm
Michael Svarer
The Relative Efficiency of Active Labour Market Policies: Evidence from a Social Experiment and Non-Parametric Methods
We re-analyze the effects of a Danish active labour market program social experiment that included a range of sub-treatments, including monitoring, job search assistance and training. Previous ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24, 58-67 )
C14, C41, C93
5595 Andrew E. Clark
Claudia Senik
Will GDP Growth Increase Happiness in Developing Countries?
This paper asks what low-income countries can expect from growth in terms of happiness. It interprets the set of available international evidence pertaining to the relationship between income growth ...
(published in: Robert Peccoud (Ed.), Measure For Measure: How Well Do We Measure Development?, Paris: STIN, 2011, 99-176)
D63, I3, O1
5594 Pierre-André Chiappori
Murat Iyigun
Jeanne Lafortune
Yoram Weiss
Are Intra-Household Allocations Policy Neutral? Theory and Empirical Evidence
We develop a collective household model with spousal matching in which there exists marital gains to assortative matching and marriage quality for each couple is revealed ex post. Changes in alimony ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (604), 1874-1905.)
J12, J16, J24
5593 Paul Bingley
Miles Corak
Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen
The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers in Canada and Denmark
The intergenerational transmission of employers between fathers and sons is a common feature of labour markets in Canada and Denmark, with 30 to 40% of young adults having at some point been employed ...
(published in: John Ermisch, Markus Jantti, and Timothy Smeeding (editors). From Parents to Children: The Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage. Russell Sage Foundation, 2012.)
J62, J64, J24
5592 Mateus Joffily
David Masclet
Charles N. Noussair
Marie Claire Villeval
Emotions, Sanctions and Cooperation
We use skin conductance responses and self-reports of hedonic valence to study the emotional basis of cooperation and punishment in a social dilemma. Emotional reaction to free-riding incites ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2014, 80(4), 1002-1027.)
C92, D62, D63, D64, D74
5591 Matteo Picchio
Jan C. van Ours
Retaining through Training: Even for Older Workers
This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 32 (1), 29-48)
C33, C35, J21, J24, M53
5590 Frédéric Docquier
Hillel Rapoport
Globalization, Brain Drain and Development
This paper reviews four decades of economics research on the brain drain, with a focus on recent contributions and on development issues. We first assess the magnitude, intensity and determinants of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2012, 50 (3), 681-730)
F22, O15, J61
5589 Christine Binzel
Ragui Assaad
Egyptian Men Working Abroad: Labor Supply Responses by the Women Left Behind
Female labor force participation has remained low in Egypt. This paper examines whether male international migration provides a leeway for women to enter the labor market and/or to increase their ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (S1), S98-S114)
O15, J22, F22, R23
5588 Vladimir Gimpelson
Rostislav Kapeliushnikov
Labor Market Adjustment: Is Russia Different?
The paper discusses how the Russian labor market has been evolving over two decades of the transition. It starts with tracing key labor market indicators such as employment, unemployment, labor force ...
(published in: The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Economy, Oxford, OUP, 2013)
J8, J21, J31, J62, P20
5587 Samuel Mühlemann
Paul Ryan
Stefan C. Wolter
Monopsony Power, Pay Structure and Training
Although interest in monopsonistic influences on labour market outcomes has revived in recent years, only a few empirical studies provide direct evidence on it. This paper analyses empirically the ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66 (5), 1095-1112)
J24, J31, J42
5586 Raquel Ortega-Argilés
Mariacristina Piva
Marco Vivarelli
The Transatlantic Productivity Gap: Is R&D the Main Culprit?
The literature has pointed to different causes to explain the productivity gap between Europe and United States in the last decades. This paper tests the hypothesis that the lower European ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2014, 47(4), 1342–1371)
O33
5584 Sascha O. Becker
Katrin Boeckh
Christa Hainz
Ludger Woessmann
The Empire Is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy
Do empires affect attitudes towards the state long after their demise? We hypothesize that the Habsburg Empire with its localized and well-respected administration increased citizens' trust in local ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (590), 40-74)
N33, N34, D73, Z10
5583 Mariano Bosch
M. Angeles Carnero
Lídia Farré
Rental Housing Discrimination and the Persistence of Ethnic Enclaves
We conduct a field experiment to show that discrimination in the rental market represents a significant obstacle for the geographical assimilation process by immigrants. We employ the Internet ...
(published in: SERIEs, 2015, 6, 129 - 152)
J15, J61
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