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5403 Daniel Fernández-Kranz
Aitor Lacuesta
Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Chutes and Ladders: Dual Tracks and the Motherhood Dip
Using rich panel data recently available from Spanish Social Security records, we find that a negative motherhood earnings differential of 2.3 log points remains even after controlling for both ...
(published as 'The Motherhood Earnings Dip: Evidence from Administrative Records' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2013, 48 (1), 169-197 )
J13, J16, J21, J22, J31, J62, C23
5402 Timo Boppart
Josef Falkinger
Volker Grossmann
Protestantism and Education: Reading (the Bible) and Other Skills
During industrialization, Protestants were more literate than Catholics. This paper investigates whether this fact may be led back to the intrinsic motivation of Protestants to read the bible and ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2014, 52 (2), 874-895)
I20
5401 Eric A. Hanushek
Ludger Woessmann
How Much Do Educational Outcomes Matter in OECD Countries?
Existing growth research provides little explanation for the very large differences in long-run growth performance across OECD countries. We show that cognitive skills can account for growth ...
(published in: Economic Policy, 2011, 26 (67), 427-491)
I2, O4
5400 Marco Caliendo
Armin Falk
Lutz C. Kaiser
Hilmar Schneider
Arne Uhlendorff
Gerard J. van den Berg
Klaus F. Zimmermann
The IZA Evaluation Dataset: Towards Evidence-Based Labor Policy-Making
The evaluation of labor market policies has become an important issue in many European countries. In recent years, a number of them have opened their administrative databases for evaluation studies. ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2011, 32 (7), 731-752)
J68, H43, C81
5399 Martin Kahanec
Klaus F. Zimmermann
High-Skilled Immigration Policy in Europe
Whether Europe will be able to stand up to its internal and external challenges crucially depends on its ability to manage its internal mobility and inflows of international migrants. Using a unique ...
(published in: Barry R. Chiswick (ed.), High Skilled Immigration in a Global Labor Market, Washington DC, The AEI Press, 2011. 264-314)
F22, J61
5398 Amelie F. Constant
Martin Kahanec
Klaus F. Zimmermann
An Expert Stakeholder's View on European Integration Challenges
The standard approach of analyzing gaps in social and labor market outcomes of different ethnic groups relies on analysis of statistical data about the affected groups. In this paper we go beyond ...
(published in: M. Kahanec and K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), Ethnic Diversity in European Labor Markets. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011, 31-54)
J15, J71, J78
5397 Martin Kahanec
Anzelika Zaiceva
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Ethnic Minorities in the European Union: An Overview
This paper sheds light on the labor market situation of ethnic minorities in the European Union. Facing a serious measurement challenge and lacking adequate data, we apply several measures of ...
(published in: M. Kahanec and K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), Ethnic Diversity in European Labor Markets. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011, 1-30)
F22, J15, J61, J71
5396 Amelie F. Constant
Annabelle Krause-Pilatus
Ulf Rinne
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Reservation Wages of First and Second Generation Migrants
This paper analyzes the reservation wages of first and second generation migrants. Based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we ...
(revised version published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2017, 24 (13), 945-949 )
F22, J15, J61, J64
5395 Simone Bertoli
Herbert Brücker
Selective Immigration Policies, Migrants' Education and Welfare at Origin
Destination countries are progressively shifting towards selective immigration policies. These can effectively increase migrants' average education even if one allows for endogenous schooling ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2011, 113 (1), 19-22)
F22, J24, H52, O15
5393 Anh T. Le
Paul W. Miller
Wendy S. Slutske
Nicholas G. Martin
Attitudes towards Economic Risk and the Gender Pay Gap
This paper examines the links between gender differences in attitudes towards economic risk and the gender pay gap. Consistent with the literature on the socio-economic determinants of attitudes ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (4), 555-561)
J31, J71
5392 Pierre-André Chiappori
Sonia Oreffice
Climent Quintana-Domeque
Matching with a Handicap: The Case of Smoking in the Marriage Market
We develop a matching model on the marriage market, where individuals have preferences over the smoking status of potential mates, and over their socioeconomic quality. Spousal smoking is bad for ...
(revised version published as 'Bidimensional Matching with Heterogeneous Preferences: Education and Smoking in the Marriage Market' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2018, 16(1), 161-198.)
D1, J1
5391 Bertrand Candelon
Arnaud Dupuy
Hierarchical Organization and Inequality in an Economy with an Implicit Market for Productive Time
This paper proposes an equilibrium theory of the organization of work in an economy with an implicit market for productive time. In this economy, agents have limited productive time and can choose to ...
(revised version published as 'Hierarchical Organization and Performance Inequality: Evidence from Professional Cycling' in: International Economic Review, 2015, 56 (4), 1207-1236)
D2, D3, L22
5390 Andrew J. Oswald
Emotional Prosperity and the Stiglitz Commission
This paper argues – in line with the proposals of the recent Stiglitz Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress – that we should now be measuring a nation's emotional ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2010, 48 (4), 651-669)
I1, I3
5389 Jon E. Anderson
Stephen V. Burks
Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Lorenz Götte
Karsten Maurer
Daniele Nosenzo
Ruth Potter
Kim Rocha
Aldo Rustichini
Self Selection Does Not Increase Other-Regarding Preferences among Adult Laboratory Subjects, but Student Subjects May Be More Self-Regarding than Adults
We use a sequential prisoner's dilemma game to measure the other-regarding behavior in samples from three related populations in the upper Midwest of the United States: 100 college students, 94 ...
(revised version published as 'Self-Selection and Variations in the Laboratory Measurement of Other-Regarding Preferences Across Subject Pools: Evidence From One College Student and Two Adult Samples' in: Experimental Economics, 2013, 16 (2), 170-189)
C90, D03
5388 Erwin Ooghe
Andreas Peichl
Fair and Efficient Taxation under Partial Control: Theory and Evidence
There is clear evidence that fairness plays a role in redistribution. Individuals want to compensate others for their misfortune, while they allow them to enjoy the fruits of their effort. Such ...
(revised version published as 'Fair and Efficient Taxation under Partial Control' in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (589), 2024 - 2051)
D6, H2, I3
5387 Michael P. Pflüger
Stephan Russek
Trade and Industrial Policies with Heterogeneous Firms: The Role of Country Asymmetries
This paper explores the role of country asymmetries for trade and industrial policies with heterogeneous firms. Our analysis delivers a number of novel results. First, trade policies, infrastructure ...
(published in revised form in: Review of International Economics, 2014, 22 (1), 170-188)
F12, F13, F15, L25
5386 Lex Borghans
Bart H.H. Golsteyn
Job Mobility in Europe, Japan and the U.S.
Evidence about job mobility outside the U.S. is scarce and difficult to compare cross-nationally because of non-uniform data. We document job mobility patterns of college graduates in their first ...
(published as 'Job Mobility in Europe, Japan and the United States' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2012, 50 (3), 436-456)
J24, J31, I2
5385 Michael P. Pflüger
Uwe Blien
Joachim Möller
Michael Moritz
Labor Market Effects of Trade and FDI: Recent Advances and Research Gaps
This paper pursues three aims. First, we provide a review of current theoretical advances which pertain to the relationship between trade, FDI and labor markets. We do so under the following (not ...
(published in revised form in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2013, 233 (1), 86-116)
F16, F23, R12, J60
5384 Bernard Fortin
Guy Lacroix
Dominique Pinard
Evaluation of the Underground Economy in Quebec: A Microeconomic Approach
The main purpose of this paper is to estimate the size and the growth of Quebec’s underground economy, and the corresponding loss of taxes for the government. Our approach is based on a method ...
(published in: International Economic Journal, 2010, 24 (4), 463-479)
D12, E26, H26
5383 Björn Anders Gustafsson
Shi Li
Ludmila Nivorozhkina
Why Are Household Incomes More Unequally Distributed in China than in Russia?
Harmonised microdata show a Gini coefficient for per capita total income of 45.3 percent in China 2002 and 33.6 percent in Russia 2003. A much larger urban to rural income gap in combination with a ...
(published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2011, 35 (5), 897-920)
D31, P25, P52
5382 Alain de Janvry
Frederico S. Finan
Elisabeth Sadoulet
Local Electoral Incentives and Decentralized Program Performance
This paper analyzes how electoral incentives affected the performance of a major decentralized conditional cash transfer program intended on reducing school dropout rates among children of poor ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94 (3), 672 - 685 )
D78, H43, I28, O15
5380 Amelie F. Constant
Annabelle Krause-Pilatus
Ulf Rinne
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Economic Preferences and Attitudes of the Unemployed: Are Natives and Second Generation Migrants Alike?
In this paper we study the economic effects of risk attitudes, time preferences, trust and reciprocity while we compare natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2011, 32 (7), 825-851)
F22, J15, J61, J64
5379 Marco Caliendo
Arne Uhlendorff
Determinanten des Suchverhaltens von Arbeitslosen: Ausgewählte Erkenntnisse basierend auf dem IZA Evaluationsdatensatz
The transition process from unemployment to employment is determined by the reservation wage and the search effort of the unemployed worker. The optimal search strategy depends on labour market ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung / Journal for Labour Market Research, 2011, 44 (1-2), 119-125)
J64, J65, J68, D84
5378 Philipp Doerrenberg
Andreas Peichl
Progressive Taxation and Tax Morale
As the link between tax compliance and tax morale is found to be robust, finding the determinants of tax morale can help to understand and fight tax evasion. In this paper we analyze the effect of ...
(revised version published in: Public Choice, 2013, 155 (3), 293-316)
H26, H24, D7, D31
5377 Suqin Ge
Dennis T. Yang
Labor Market Developments in China: A Neoclassical View
This paper assesses the applicability of two alternative theories in understanding labor market developments in China: the classical view featuring a Lewis turning point in wage growth versus a ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2011, 22 (4), 611-625)
J31, J21, O11
5376 Aysit Tansel
P?nar Ya?ar
Macroeconomic Impact of Remittances on Output Growth: Evidence from Turkey
This study estimates a Keynesian simultaneous, dynamic macroeconometric model to investigate the impact of remittances on key macro variables such as consumption, investment, imports and income in ...
(published in: Migration Letters, 2010, 7 (2), 132-143)
F22, F21, C52
5375 Lina Dunnzlaff
Dirk Neumann
Judith Niehues
Andreas Peichl
Equality of Opportunity and Redistribution in Europe
The concept of equality of opportunity (EOp) goes back to Roemer (1993, 1998) who argues that a society shall guarantee its members equal access to advantage regardless of their circumstances, while ...
(revised version published in: Inequality of Opportunity: Theory and Measurement (Research on Economic Inequality, 19), Bingley, 2011, 99-129)
D31, H24, I38
5374 Joël van der Weele
Julija Kulisa
Michael Kosfeld
Guido Friebel
Resisting Moral Wiggle Room: How Robust is Reciprocity?
Several studies have shown that dictator-game giving declines substantially if the dictator can exploit situational "excuses" for not being generous. In this experimental study we investigate if this ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2014, 6 (3), 256-264)
C72, C9
5373 Knut Røed
Jens Fredrik Skogstrøm
Creative Unemployment
We examine the impact of job loss on entrepreneurship behavior in Norway. Our identification strategy relies on the use of mass layoffs caused by bankruptcies as indicators of exogenous displacement. ...
(revised version published as 'Job loss and Entrepreneurship' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 76 (5), 727-744)
L26, J65, M13
5372 Massimiliano Bratti
Alfonso Miranda
Endogenous Treatment Effects for Count Data Models with Sample Selection or Endogenous Participation
In this paper we propose an estimator for models in which an endogenous dichotomous treatment affects a count outcome in the presence of either sample selection or endogenous participation using ...
(revised version published in: Health Economics, 2011, 20 (9), 1090-1109)
C35, I12, I21
5371 Sonia R. Bhalotra
Samantha Rawlings
Intergenerational Persistence in Health in Developing Countries: The Penalty of Gender Inequality?
This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in terms of next generation outcomes. This paper investigates the intergenerational ...
(Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (3-4), 286-299)
I10, J11, O57
5370 Marco Caliendo
Frank M. Fossen
Alexander S. Kritikos
Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity: Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?
Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively reciprocal ways. So far it is rarely analyzed whether these variables of social ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2012, 33 (2), 394-409)
D81, J23, M13, L26
5368 Clair Brown
Julia Lane
Timothy Sturgeon
Workers' Views of the Impact of Trade on Jobs
Although public policy is influenced by the perception that workers worry about the impact of trade on their jobs, there is little empirical evidence on what shapes such views. This paper uses new ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2013, 52 (1), 1 - 21)
J21, J08
5367 Barry R. Chiswick
Nicholas Larsen
Paul Pieper
The Production of PhDs in the United States and Canada
This paper is concerned with the production of PhDs in the United States and Canada in the post-WW II period, overall and by gender and major discipline. The effects of the explanatory variables ...
(published as 'The Awarding of PhDs in the United States and Canada: War, the Draft, and Other Economic Determinants' in: Applied Economics, 2015, 47 (28), 2939 - 2958)
I21, J24
5366 Dean Jolliffe
Overweight and Poor? On the Relationship between Income and the Body Mass Index
Contrary to conventional wisdom, NHANES data indicate that the poor have never had a statistically significant higher prevalence of overweight status at any time in the last 35 years. Despite this ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2011, 9 (3), 342-355)
I1, I18, I32
5365 Alexander Muravyev
Evolution of Employment Protection Legislation in the USSR, CIS and Baltic States, 1985-2009
This paper presents and discusses new data on employment protection legislation (EPL) in the successor states of the former USSR – the CIS and Baltic states – over 25 years from 1985 to 2009. We use ...
(revised version published in: Europe-Asia Studies, 2014, 66 (8), 1270-1294)
J68, K31, P20
5363 Sonia R. Bhalotra
Poverty and Survival
A recent literature highlights the uncertainty concerning whether economic growth has any causal protective effect on health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2012, 48 (2), 145-167)
I12, J10, O49
5362 Pedro Carneiro
Katrine Vellesen Loken
Kjell G. Salvanes
A Flying Start? Long Term Consequences of Maternal Time Investments in Children During Their First Year of Life
We study the impact on children of increasing the time that the mother spends with her child in the first year by exploiting a reform that increased paid and unpaid maternity leave in Norway. The ...
(substantially revised and extended version available as IZA DP No. 5793)
J13
5360 Beatrice Brunner
Andreas Kuhn
The Impact of Labor Market Entry Conditions on Initial Job Assignment, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wages
We estimate the effects of labor market entry conditions on wages for male individuals first entering the Austrian labor market between 1978 and 2000. We find a large negative effect of unfavorable ...
(revised version published as `The impact of labor market entry conditions on initial job assignment and wages' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27(3), 705-738)
E3, J2, J3, J6, M5
5359 Magne Krogstad Asphjell
Wilko Letterie
Øivind Anti Nilsen
Gerard A. Pfann
Sequentiality versus Simultaneity: Interrelated Factor Demand
A structural model is developed and estimated by a maximum likelihood routine to investigate interrelated factor demand subject to nonconvex adjustment costs. The dataset concerns Norwegian plants ...
(revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 96 (5), 986-998)
D92, E22, E24, J23, L60
5358 Ronald Bachmann
Peggy David
The Importance of Two-Sided Heterogeneity for the Cyclicality of Labour Market Dynamics
Using administrative data on individual workers' employment history and firms, we investigate the cyclicality of worker flows on the German labour market. Focusing on heterogeneities on both sides of ...
(published in: The Manchester School, 2019, 87(6), 794-820)
J63, J64, J21, E24
5357 W. Bentley MacLeod
Great Expectations: Law, Employment Contracts, and Labor Market Performance
This chapter reviews the literature on employment and labor law. The goal of the review is to understand why every jurisdiction in the world has extensive employment law, particularly employment ...
(published in: O. Ashenfelter and D. Card (eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 4B, Chapter 18, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011)
J08, J33, J41, J5, K31
5355 Olivier B. Bargain
Herwig Immervoll
Heikki Viitamäki
No Claim, No Pain: Measuring the Non-Take-up of Social Assistance Using Register Data
The main objectives of social assistance benefits, including poverty alleviation and labor-market or social reintegration, can be seriously compromised if support is difficult to access. While recent ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2012, 10 (3), 375-395)
D31, H31, H53, I38
5352 Lewis A. Kornhauser
W. Bentley MacLeod
Contracts between Legal Persons
Contract law and the economics of contract have, for the most part, developed independently of each other. In this essay, we briefly review the notion of a contract from the perspective of lawyer, ...
(published in: Robert Gibbons and John Roberts (eds.) Handbook of Organizational Economics, Princeton University Press, 2012)
K12, J33
5351 Tilman Brück
Fernanda Llussá
José Tavares
Perceptions, Expectations, and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Extreme Events
We provide, for the first time, comparative evidence of the impact of various types of extreme events – natural disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts – on the perceptions of entrepreneurs ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 27 (S1), S78-S88)
F0
5350 Andreas Peichl
Sebastian Siegloch
Accounting for Labor Demand Effects in Structural Labor Supply Models
When assessing the effects of policy reforms on the labor market, most studies only focus on labor supply. The interaction of supply and demand side is not explicitly modeled, which might lead to ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (1), 129-138)
J22, J23, J68
5347 Christopher R. Bollinger
Barry Hirsch
Is Earnings Nonresponse Ignorable?
Earnings nonresponse in the Current Population Survey is roughly 30% in the monthly surveys and 20% in the annual March survey. Even if nonresponse is random, severe bias attaches to wage equation ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (2), 407-416)
J31, C81
5346 Marco Gonzalez-Navarro
Climent Quintana-Domeque
Urban Infrastructure and Economic Development: Experimental Evidence from Street Pavement
We design an infrastructure experiment in Mexico to evaluate the impact of street pavement on housing values and household outcomes. We find that the provision of street pavement raises housing ...
(revised version published as 'Paving the Streets for the Poor: Experimental Analysis of Infrastructure Effects' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 98 (2), 254-267.)
C92, C93, H41, O12, O15
5345 Shoshana Grossbard
José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto Molina
Racial Discrimination and Household Chores
We make the novel argument that time spent on household chores can possibly reflect racial discrimination based on color. Our model, based on Becker's theory of allocation of time and his theory of ...
(published as 'Racial intermarriage and household production' in: Review of Behavioral Economics, 2014, 1 (4), 295-347)
D13, I21, J12, J22
5343 Simen Markussen
Arnstein Mykletun
Knut Røed
The Case for Presenteeism
Can activation requirements control moral hazard problems in public sickness absence insurance and accelerate recovery? Based on empirical analysis of Norwegian data, we show that it can. Activation ...
(revised version published as 'The Case for Presenteeism - Evidence from Norway's Sickness Insurance Program' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2012, 96 (11-12), 959-972)
C26, I18, I38, J48
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