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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 Rřed
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
5342 Barry Hirsch
Unions, Dynamism, and Economic Performance
This paper explores the relationship between economic performance and US unionism, focusing first on what we do and do not know based on empirical research handicapped by limited data on ...
(published in: Cynthia Estlund and Michael Wachter (eds.), Research Handbook on the Economics of Labor and Employment Law, Edward Elgar, 2012, pp. 107-145)
J50, J20, J30
5341 Pia M. Orrenius
Madeline Zavodny
The Minimum Wage and Latino Workers
Latinos comprise a large and growing share of the low-skilled labor force in the U.S. and may be disproportionately affected by minimum wage laws as a result. We compare the effects of minimum wage ...
(published in: David Leal and Stephen Trejo (eds)., Latinos and the Economy: Integration and Impact in Schools, Labor Markets, and Beyond, New York: Springer, 2011, 169-191)
J23, J38, J15
5340 Samuel Bentolila
Pierre Cahuc
Juan J. Dolado
Thomas Le Barbanchon
Two-Tier Labor Markets in the Great Recession: France vs. Spain
This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2012, 122, 155-187)
H29, J23, J38, J41, J64
5338 Meritxell Solé
Luis Diaz-Serrano
Marisol Rodriguez Martinez
Work, Risk and Health: Differences between Immigrants and Natives in Spain
We analyze the impact of working and contractual conditions, particularly exposure to job risks, on the probability of acquiring a disability. We postulate a model in which this impact is mediated by ...
(published as 'Disparities in Work, Risk, and Health between Immigrants and Native-Born' in: Social Science and Medicine, 179-187)
J28, J61, J81
5337 Bart Cockx
Muriel Dejemeppe
The Threat of Monitoring Job Search: A Discontinuity Design
Since July 2004 the job search effort of long-term unemployed benefit claimants is monitored in Belgium. We exploit the discontinuity in the treatment assignment at the age of 30 to evaluate the ...
(revised version published in :Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (5), 729-737 )
J64, J65, J68, H43
5336 Mariana Blanco
Florencia López Bóo
ICT Skills and Employment: A Randomized Experiment
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the impact that the acquisition of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) skills has on the labor market of two Latin-American cities: Buenos Aires and ...
(published in: Chong Alberto(ed.), Measuring the Impact of Information Technologies in Latin America, World Bank, 2016)
J23, J24
5335 Marco Leonardi
Giovanni Pica
Who Pays for It? The Heterogeneous Wage Effects of Employment Protection Legislation
Theory predicts that the wage effects of government-mandated severance payments depend on workers' and firms' relative bargaining power. This paper estimates the effect of employment protection ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123, 1236-1278. )
E24, J3, J65
5334 Nauro F. Campos
Ralitza Dimova
Ahmad Saleh
Whither Corruption? A Quantitative Survey of the Literature on Corruption and Growth
Does corruption grease or sand the wheels of economic growth? This paper uses meta-analysis techniques to systematically evaluate the evidence addressing this question. It uses a data set comprising ...
(published as 'Corruption and Economic Growth: An Econometric Survey of the Evidence' in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2016, 172 (3), 521-543)
O1
5333 Elke J. Jahn
Jan Bentzen
What Drives the Demand for Temporary Agency Workers?
Temporary agency employment has grown steadily in most European countries over the past three decades as part of the general trend towards increased employment flexibility. Yet to this day, it ...
(published in: LABOUR, 2012, 26 (3), 341-355)
C41, J23, J40, J48, K31
5332 Jens Großer
Ernesto Reuben
Agnieszka Tymula
Tacit Lobbying Agreements: An Experimental Study
We experimentally study the common wisdom that money buys political influence. In the game, one lobbyist has the opportunity to influence redistributive tax policies in her favor by transferring ...
(published in: American Journal of Political Science, 2013, 57 (3), 582-597)
D72, H10, K42
5331 Marcos Chamon
Kai Liu
Eswar Prasad
Income Uncertainty and Household Savings in China
China's household saving rate has increased markedly since the mid-1990s and the age-saving profile has become U-shaped. Using a panel of urban Chinese households covering 1989-2006, we document a ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 105, 164-177)
D91, J3, E21
5330 Tom McKenzie
Dirk Sliwka
Universities as Stakeholders in their Students' Careers: On the Benefits of Graduate Taxes to Finance Higher Education
We examine ways of funding higher education, comparing upfront tuition fees with graduate taxes. The tax dominates, as volatility in future income is transferred from risk-averse students to the ...
(published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2011, 167 (4), 726-742)
H42, H52, I22, M52
5329 Graziella Bertocchi
Arcangelo Dimico
Slavery, Education, and Inequality
We investigate the impact of slavery on the current performances of the US economy. Over a cross section of counties, we find that the legacy of slavery does not affect current income per capita, but ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 70, 197-209)
E02, D02, H52, J15, O11
5328 Fernando A. Lozano
Michael D. Steinberger
Empirical Methods in the Economics of International Immigration
In this chapter we provide a brief overview of the main empirical tools used by economists to study international migration. We begin by exploring the three broad research areas that economists ...
(published in: Carlos Vargas-Silva et al. (eds.) Handbook on Research Methods on Migration, Edward Elgar, 2012)
F22
5327 Pedro Maia Gomes
Labour Market Flows: Facts from the United Kingdom
This paper documents a number of facts about worker gross flows in the United Kingdom for the period between 1993 and 2010. Using Labour Force Survey data, I examine the size and cyclicality of the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (2), 165-175.)
E24, J60
5326 Richard Akresh
Emilie Bagby
Damien de Walque
Harounan Kazianga
Child Ability and Household Human Capital Investment Decisions in Burkina Faso
Using data we collected in rural Burkina Faso, we examine how children's cognitive abilities influence resource constrained households' decisions to invest in their education. We use a direct measure ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2012, 61 (1), 157-186)
O15, J12, I21, J13
5325 Wendelin Schnedler
Hidden Action, Identification, and Organization Design
Incentives often fail in inducing economic agents to engage in a desirable activity; implementability is restricted. What restricts implementability? When does re-organization help to overcome this ...
(improved version is available here)
D86, M52, J33, D82, M41
5324 Tsunao Okumura
Emiko Usui
Do Parents' Social Skills Influence Their Children's Sociability?
This paper examines the effect of parents' social skills on children's sociability, using the U.S. National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79). This survey, like some other national surveys, ...
(published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2014, 14 (3), 1081-1116)
J24, J62
5323 Julien Prat
Boyan Jovanovic
Dynamic Incentive Contracts under Parameter Uncertainty
We analyze a long-term contracting problem involving common uncertainty about a parameter capturing the productivity of the relationship, and featuring a hidden action for the agent. We develop an ...
(revised version published as 'Dynamic Contracts When the Agent's Quality is Unknown' in: Theoretical Economics, 2014, 9 (3), 865-914)
D82, D83, E24, J41
5322 António Afonso
Pedro Maia Gomes
Interactions between Private and Public Sector Wages
We examine the interactions between public and private sector wages per employee in OECD countries. The growth of public sector wages and of public sector employment positively affects the growth of ...
(published in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2014, 39, 97-112.)
E24, E62, H50
5321 Pedro Maia Gomes
Fiscal Policy and the Labour Market: The Effects of Public Sector Employment and Wages
I build a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with search and matching frictions and two sectors in order to study the labour market effects of public sector employment and wages. Public ...
(published as 'Optimal public sector wages' in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (587), 1425-1451.)
E24, E32, E62, J31, J45
5320 Werner Eichhorst
Veronica Escudero
Paul Marx
Steven Tobin
The Impact of the Crisis on Employment and the Role of Labour Market Institutions
The paper takes a comparative perspective on the labour market impact on G20 and EU countries of the financial and economic crisis that began in 2008. It starts from the observation that the decline ...
(also available as: International Institute for Labour Studies Discussion Paper 202. Geneva.)
J58, J65, J21
5319 Andreas Kuhn
The Public Perception and Normative Valuation of Executive Compensation: An International Comparison
This paper describes individuals' perceptions and normative valuations of executive compensation using comparable survey data for fifteen OECD member countries. An overwhelming majority of ...
(revised version, using updated and expanded data, published as `International Evidence on the Perception and Normative Valuation of Executive Compensation' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 55(1), 112-136)
D31, D63, J31
5318 James P. Smith
Yan Shen
John Strauss
Yang Zhe
Yaohui Zhao
The Effects of Childhood Health on Adult Health and SES in China
In this paper, we model the consequences of childhood health on adult health and socio-economic status outcomes in China using a new sample of middle aged and older Chinese respondents. Modeled after ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2012, 61(1), 127-156)
H00
5316 Manan Roy
Daniel L. Millimet
Rusty Tchernis
Federal Nutrition Programs and Childhood Obesity: Inside the Black Box
In response to the dramatic rise in childhood obesity, particularly among low income individuals, federal nutrition assistance programs have come under scrutiny. However, the vast majority of this ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2012, 10 (1), 1-38)
C31, H51, I18, I28
5315 Christian Grund
Johannes Martin
Determinants of Further Training: Evidence for Germany
Based on a German representative sample of employees we explore the relevance and development of further training in private sector firms. We focus on formal training and explore possible individual ...
(revised version published in: International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2012, 23 (17), 3536-3558)
M53
5314 Anna Dreber Almenberg
Christer Gerdes
Patrik Gränsmark
Beauty Queens and Battling Knights: Risk Taking and Attractiveness in Chess
We explore the relationship between attractiveness and risk taking in chess. We use a large international panel dataset on chess competitions which includes a control for the players' skill in chess. ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 90, 1-18)
D03, J16
5312 Yves Zenou
Search, Migration, and Urban Land Use: The Case of Transportation Policies
We develop a search-matching model with rural-urban migration and an explicit land market. Wages, job creation, urban housing prices are endogenous and we characterize the steady-state equilibrium. ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2011, 96 (2), 174 - 187)
D83, J61, O18, R14
5311 Steffen Habermalz
Rational Inattention and Employer Learning
Research on employer learning has provided important insights into the dynamic process that determines individual wages, especially during the early part of a worker's career. However, the recent ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2014, 66 (2), 605-626)
D21, D22, J21, J24
5310 Luc Behaghel
David M. Blau
Framing Social Security Reform: Behavioral Responses to Changes in the Full Retirement Age
We use a US Social Security reform as a quasi-experiment to provide evidence on framing effects in retirement behavior. The reform increased the full retirement age (FRA) from 65 to 66 in two month ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2012, 4 (4), 41-67)
J26
5309 Tor Eriksson
Nicolai Kristensen
Wages or Fringes? Some Evidence on Trade-offs and Sorting
The two key predictions of hedonic wage theory are that there is a trade-off between wages and nonmonetary rewards and that the latter can be used as a sorting device by firms to attract and retain ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 32 (4), 899-928)
J32, J33, M52
5307 Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Shachar Kariv
Andrew Schotter
Network Architecture and Mutual Monitoring in Public Goods Experiments
Recent experiments show that public goods can be provided at high levels when mutual monitoring and costly punishment are allowed. All these experiments, however, study monitoring and punishment in a ...
(published in: Review of Economic Design, 2012, 16, 93 - 118)
D82, D83, C92
5306 Harley Frazis
Jay Stewart
How to Think About Time-Use Data: What Inferences Can We Make About Long- and Short-Run Time Use from Time Diaries?
Time-use researchers are typically interested in the time use of individuals, but time use data are samples of person-days. Given day-to-day variation in how people spend their time, this distinction ...
(published in: Annales d’Economie et Statistique, 2012, 105/106, 231-246)
C81, D13, C83
5305 Christian Schwarz
Jens Suedekum
Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes
We develop a theory of a firm in an environment with incomplete contracts. The firm’s headquarter decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. ...
(revised version published in: Journal of International Economics, 2014, 93 (1), 123-139)
F12, D23, L23
5304 Eunho Choi
Almas Heshmati
Yongsung Cho
An Empirical Study of the Relationships between CO2 Emissions, Economic Growth and Openness
This paper investigates the existence of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and its causal relationships with economic growth and openness by using time series ...
(published in: Korean Journal of Environmental Policy 2011, 10(4), 3-37.)
C32, F18, F43, N55, O13, Q56
5303 Sonja C. de New
Mathias Sinning
Distributional Changes in the Gender Wage Gap
This paper analyzes changes in wage differentials between white men and white women over the period 1993-2006 across the entire wage distribution using Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) data. We ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2014, 67 (2), 335-361)
C21, J16, J31
5302 Matloob Piracha
Massimiliano Tani
Florin Vadean
Immigrant Over- and Under-education: The Role of Home Country Labour Market Experience
The cause of immigrant education mismatch in the host country labour market might not necessarily be discrimination or imperfect transferability of human capital, as argued in previous studies. ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2012, 1, Article 3)
C34, J24, J61
5300 Ernesto Reuben
Pedro Rey-Biel
Paola Sapienza
Luigi Zingales
The Emergence of Male Leadership in Competitive Environments
We present evidence from an experiment in which groups select a leader to compete against the leaders of other groups in a real-effort task that they have all performed in the past. We find that ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 83 (1), 111-117)
J71, D03, C92
5299 Sebastian Fehrler
Charity as a Signal of Trustworthiness
Being perceived as trustworthy comes with substantial economic benefits in many situations. Making other people think you are a trustworthy person may, therefore, be an important motive for charity ...
(preliminary study that led to IZA DP No. 7148)
C72, C92, H41
5297 Ian Gazeley
Andrew T. Newell
The First World War and Working-Class Food Consumption in Britain
In this paper we reassess the food consumption and dietary impact of the regimes of food and food price control and eventually, food rationing, that were introduced in Britain during the First World ...
(published in: European Review of Economic History, 2013, 17 (1), 71-94)
N34, N44
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