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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
5296 Robert Holzmann
Alain Jousten
Addressing the Legacy Costs in an NDC Reform: Conceptualization, Measurement, Financing
The paper provides a framework for the conceptualization, definition and estimation of legacy costs that need to be addressed in a reform that transforms an unfunded defined contribution (NDB) scheme ...
(published in: Edward Palmer, Robert Holzmann and David Robalino, Nonfinancial Defined Contribution Pension Schemes in a Changing Pension World: Volume 2, Gender, Politics, and Financial Stability, World Bank, 2013, 277-304)
H55, H68, J21, J26
5295 Pedro Carneiro
Sokbae Lee
Trends in Quality-Adjusted Skill Premia in the United States, 1960-2000
This paper presents new evidence that increases in college enrollment lead to a decline in the average quality of college graduates between 1960 and 2000, resulting in a decrease of 6 percentage ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 110 (6), 2309-2349)
J0
5294 Carlos Bozzoli
Climent Quintana-Domeque
The Weight of the Crisis: Evidence from Newborns in Argentina
Argentina hit headlines around the world in 2002 on account of the largest debt default in history and a sudden economic collapse that generated statistics reminiscent of those from the Great ...
(revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 96 (3), 550-562.)
I1, J1
5293 Wiji Arulampalam
Michael P. Devereux
Giorgia Maffini
The Direct Incidence of Corporate Income Tax on Wages
We examine the extent to which taxes on corporate income are directly shifted onto the workforce. We use data on 55,082 companies located in nine European countries over the period 1996-2003. We ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56 (6), 1038-1054)
H22, H25, J50
5290 Federica Origo
Claudio Lucifora
The Effect of Comprehensive Smoking Bans in European Workplaces
In recent years many countries of the European Union (EU) have implemented comprehensive smoking bans to reduce exposure to tobacco smoke in public places and all indoor workplaces. Despite the ...
(published in: Forum for Health Economics and Policy, BE Press, 2013, 16(1), 1-27)
I18, J28
5289 Rémi Piatek
Pia Pinger
Maintaining (Locus of) Control? Assessing the Impact of Locus of Control on Education Decisions and Wages
This paper demonstrates that locus of control, i.e. whether individuals believe that reinforcement in life comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, is an important ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Maintaining (Locus of) Control? Data Combination for the Identification and Inference of Factor Structure Models' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2016, 31(3), 734-755)
C31, J24, J31
5285 Werner Eichhorst
Regina Konle-Seidl
Alison Koslowski
Paul Marx
Quantity over Quality? A European Comparison of the Changing Nature of Transitions between Non-Employment and Employment
This paper explores the empirical evidence for the claim that non-employed men and women in post-industrial labour markets are more likely to make the transition into employment than has previously ...
(published in: Jochen Clasen and Daniel Clegg (eds.), Regulating the Risk of Unemployment. National Adaptations to Post-Industrial Labour Markets in Europe, Oxford: OUP, 2011, 281-296)
J41, J62
5284 Christian Grund
Matthias Kräkel
Bonus Payments, Hierarchy Levels and Tenure: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence
Using data on executive compensation for the German chemical industry, we investigate the relevance of two theoretical approaches that focus on bonuses as part of a long term wage policy of a firm. ...
(revised version published in: Schmalenbach Business Review, 2012, 64, 101-124)
M52, J33
5283 Pedro S. Martins
Yong Yang
Globalised Labour Markets? International Rent Sharing across 47 Countries
We present evidence about the role of rent sharing in fostering the interdependence of labour markets around the world. Our results draw on a firm-level panel of more than 2,000 multinationals and ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2015, 53(4), 664–691)
J31, J41, J50
5282 Helen Baker-Henningham
Florencia López Bóo
Early Childhood Stimulation Interventions in Developing Countries: A Comprehensive Literature Review
This report reviews the effectiveness of early childhood stimulation interventions in developing countries. The report aims to answer the questions: What works in terms of early stimulation for young ...
(published as 'Intervenciones de estimulación infantil temprana en los países en vías de desarrollo: lo que funciona, por qué y para quién' in: Económica, 2014, 60, 120-186)
J13, J18, J24
5280 Decio Coviello
Andrea Ichino
Nicola Persico
Don't Spread Yourself Too Thin: The Impact of Task Juggling on Workers' Speed of Job Completion
We show that task juggling, i.e., the spreading of effort across too many active projects, decreases the performance of workers, raising the chances of low throughput, long duration of projects and ...
(published as 'Time Allocation and Task Juggling' in: American Economic Review, 2014, 104 (2), 609-623 (theoretical model), and as 'The Inefficiency of Worker Time Use' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2015, 5 (19), 906 - 947 (empirical part))
J0, K0, M5
5278 Peter Dolton
Chiara Rosazza-Bondibene
Jonathan Wadsworth
Employment, Inequality and the UK National Minimum Wage over the Medium-Term
This paper assesses the impact of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on employment and inequality in the UK over the decade since its introduction in 1999. Identification is facilitated by using ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 74 (1), 78-106)
J0, J2, J3
5277 Rory Coulter
Maarten van Ham
Peteke Feijten
A Longitudinal Analysis of Moving Desires, Expectations and Actual Moving Behaviour
Many theories of residential mobility contend that individuals express a sequence of moving desires, intentions and expectations prior to moving. Much research has investigated how individuals form ...
(published in: Environment and Planning A, 2011, 43 (11), 2742-2760)
J61, R21, R23
5276 David de la Croix
Olivier Pierrard
Henri R. Sneessens
Aging and Pensions in General Equilibrium: Labor Market Imperfections Matter
This paper re-examines the effects of population aging and pension reforms in an OLG model with labor market frictions. The most important feature brought about by labor market frictions is the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2013, 37 (1), 104-124)
E24, H55, J26, J64
5275 Pedro Carneiro
James J. Heckman
Edward Vytlacil
Estimating Marginal Returns to Education
This paper estimates the marginal returns to college for individuals induced to enroll in college by different marginal policy changes. The recent instrumental variables literature seeks to estimate ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 110 (6), 2754-2781)
J31
5273 Gustavo J. Canavire Bacarreza
Fernando Rios-Avila
Domestic Violence and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Mixed-Race Developing Country
This study investigates the heterogeneous effects of domestic violence over labor markets in an ethnically fragmented country such as Bolivia. Among developing countries, Bolivia “excels” in having ...
(published as 'The effect of intimate partner violence on labor market decisions: Evidence from a multi-ethnic country' in: International Journal of Social Economics, 2017, 44 (1), 75 - 92 )
J15, J71
5272 Kristin J. Kleinjans
Arthur van Soest
Nonresponse and Focal Point Answers to Subjective Probability Questions
We develop and estimate a panel data model explaining the answers to questions about subjective probabilities, using data from the US Health and Retirement Study. We explicitly account for ...
(published as 'Rounding, Focal Point Answers and Nonresponse to Subjective Probability Questions' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2014, 29 (4), 567 - 585)
C81, D84
5271 David Manley
Maarten van Ham
Neighbourhood Effects, Housing Tenure, and Individual Employment Outcomes
This paper investigates whether individuals living in neighbourhoods with high concentrations of unemployment are less likely to enter work if they are unemployed and more likely to lose their job if ...
(published in: Van Ham M., Manley D., Bailey N., Simpson L., Maclennan D. (eds.), Neighbourhood Effects Research: New Perspectives, Springer Dordrecht, 2012, 147-173 )
I30, J60, R23
5270 Rodrigo R. Soares
Igor Viveiros
Organization and Information in the Fight against Crime: An Evaluation of the Integration of Police Forces in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil
This paper explores the experience of information sharing, coordination, and integration of actions of the Civil and Military Polices in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in the context of the IGESP ...
(published in: Economía: Journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, 2017, 17 (2), 29-63)
H11, K00, K42
5268 Martin Huber
Michael Lechner
Conny Wunsch
How to Control for Many Covariates? Reliable Estimators Based on the Propensity Score
We investigate the finite sample properties of a large number of estimators for the average treatment effect on the treated that are suitable when adjustment for observable covariates is required, ...
(published as 'The Performance of Estimators Based on the Propensity Score' in: Journal of Econometrics, 2013, 175 (1), 1-21)
C21
5267 Steffen Huck
Imran Rasul
Matched Fundraising: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
We present evidence from a natural field experiment designed to shed light on the efficacy of fundraising schemes in which donations are matched by a lead donor. In conjunction with the Bavarian ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (5-6), 351-362)
C93, D12, D64
5264 Steffen Huck
Dorothea Kübler
Jörgen W. Weibull
Social Norms and Economic Incentives in Firms
This paper studies the interplay between economic incentives and social norms in firms. We introduce a general framework to model social norms arguing that norms stem from agents’ desire for, or peer ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2012, 83 (2), 173-185)
D23
5263 David Neumark
Detecting Discrimination in Audit and Correspondence Studies
Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear identical to employers. Correspondence studies address this criticism by using ...
(published in: JHR Journal of Human Resources, 2012, 47 (4), 1128 - 1157)
J7
5261 Jens Arnold
Andrea Bassanini
Stefano Scarpetta
Solow or Lucas? Testing Speed of Convergence on a Panel of OECD Countries
We test whether the growth experience of a sample of 21 OECD countries over the past three decades is more consistent with the augmented Solow model or the Uzawa-Lucas model, by exploiting the ...
(published in: Research in Economics, 2011, 65 (2), 110-123)
O11, O15, O41
5260 Sherrilyn M. Billger
Carlos Lamarche
Immigrant Heterogeneity and the Earnings Distribution in the United Kingdom and United States: New Evidence from a Panel Data Quantile Regression Analysis
In this paper we use a relatively new panel data quantile regression technique to examine native-immigrant earnings differentials 1) throughout the conditional wage distribution, and 2) controlling ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2015, 49, 705-750.)
J31, J61, C21, C23
5259 Alexander Hijzen
Pedro S. Martins
Thorsten Schank
Richard Upward
Do Foreign-Owned Firms Provide Better Working Conditions Than Their Domestic Counterparts? A Comparative Analysis
This paper analyses to what extent working conditions in foreign-owned firms differ from those in their domestic counterparts. It makes three main contributions. First, we replicate the consensus in ...
(published as 'Foreign-owned firms around the world: A comparative analysis of wages and employment at the micro-level' in: European Economic Review, 2013, 60, 170-188)
F14, F16, F23
5258 Benoit Dostie
Estimating the Returns to Firm-Sponsored On-the-Job and Classroom Training
In this paper, we estimate returns to classroom and on-the-job firm-sponsored training in terms of value-added per worker using longitudinal linked employee-employer Canadian data from 1999 to 2006. ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2013, 7 (2), 161-189)
C23, D24, J31, J63
5257 Lutz Bellmann
Christian Hohendanner
Reinhard Hujer
Determinants of Employer-Provided Further Training: A Multi-Level Approach
We analyse the influence of regional determinants on the decision of employers to provide within-firm further training. We estimate the effects of the regional population density, the unemployment ...
(published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch, 2011, 131 (4), 581-598)
J24, I21, C33, R12
5256 William E. Even
David A. Macpherson
What Do Unions Do to Pension Performance?
This study argues that the promotion of union goals could have positive, negative, or neutral effects on risk adjusted return performance. Moreover, the union's ability and incentive to use pension ...
(revised version published in: Economic Inquiry, 2014, 52 (3), 1173-1189)
J32, J51
5255 Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Mentoring, Educational Services, and Incentives to Learn: What Do We Know About Them?
This paper reviews recent studies on the effectiveness of services and incentives offered to disadvantaged youth. We focus our analysis on three types of interventions: mentoring, educational ...
(substantially revised version published in: Evaluation and Program Planning, 2012, 35 (4), 481-490)
C93, I21, I22, I28, J24
5254 Ian Walker
Yu Zhu
Differences by Degree: Evidence of the Net Financial Rates of Return to Undergraduate Study for England and Wales
This paper provides estimates of the impact of higher education qualifications on the earnings of graduates in the UK by subject studied. We use data from the recent UK Labour Force Surveys which ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (6), 1177-1186)
I23, I28
5253 Elena G. F. Stancanelli
Leslie S. Stratton
Her Time, His Time, or the Maid's Time: An Analysis of the Demand for Domestic Work
This paper analyzes households' demand for time inputs to domestic services, modeling simultaneously the decision to purchase services in the market and the time spent on weekend and weekday days by ...
(published as 'Maids, Appliances and Couples' Housework: The Demand for Inputs to Domestic Production' in: Economica, 2014, 81 (323), 445-467)
J22, J16
5252 Roger Bandick
Holger Görg
Patrik Karpaty
Foreign Acquisitions, Domestic Multinationals, and R&D
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the causal effect of foreign acquisition on R&D intensity in targeted domestic firms. We are able to distinguish domestic multinationals and non-multinationals, ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2014, 116 (4), 1091-1115)
F23
5251 Fernando Alexandre
Pedro Bação
João Cerejeira
Miguel Portela
Manufacturing Employment and Exchange Rates in the Portuguese Economy: The Role of Openness, Technology and Labour Market Rigidity
In this paper, we explore empirically the role of openness, technology and labour market rigidity in the determination of the effect of the exchange rate on employment in Portugal. We develop an ...
(published in: Open Economies Review, 2011, 22 (5), 969-984)
J23, F16, F41
5250 Ana Lamo
Julián Messina
Etienne Wasmer
Are Specific Skills an Obstacle to Labor Market Adjustment?
This paper shows that specialized education reduces workers' mobility and hence their ability to cope with economic changes. We illustrate this point using labor force data from two countries having ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (2), 240-256)
J4, J24
5248 Dayanand Manoli
Andrea Weber
Intertemporal Substitution in Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Policy Discontinuities
This paper presents new empirical evidence on intertemporal labor supply elasticities. We use administrative data on the census of private sector employees in Austria and variation from mandated ...
(published as "Nonparametric Evidence on the Effects of Financial Incentives on Retirement Decisions" in: American Economic Journal Economic Policy, 2016)
J22, J26, E24
5247 Simon Commander
Zlatko Nikoloski
Institutions and Economic Performance: What Can Be Explained?
Institutions are now widely believed to be important in explaining performance. In this paper, we analyze whether commonly used measures of institutions have any significant, measurable impact on ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Institutions, 2012, 2 (2), Article 3)
D24, L21, O12, P48
5246 Mayssun El-Attar
Markus Poschke
Trust and the Choice Between Housing and Financial Assets: Evidence from Spanish Households
Trusting behavior has been shown to affect households' portfolio choice between risky and risk-free financial assets. We extend the analysis of the effect of trust on portfolio choice to include the ...
(published in: Review of Finance, 2011, 15 (4), 727-756)
D1, D8, Z1
5245 Jan Stuhler
Empirical Strategies to Eliminate Life-Cycle Bias in the Intergenerational Elasticity of Earnings Literature
I argue that the empirical strategies for estimation of the intergenerational elasticity of lifetime earnings that are currently employed in the literature might not eliminate bias arising from ...
(substantially revised version appeared as IZA DP No. 5697)
J62, C23
5244 Joachim Wagner
Exports and Firm Characteristics in German Manufacturing Industries
Reliable information on the characteristics of exporting and non-exporting firms is important to guide theorists and policy makers in an evidence based way. This holds true especially for Germany, a ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2011, 57 (2), 107-143 and 145-160)
F14
5242 Stephen P. Jenkins
The British Household Panel Survey and its Income Data
This paper provides a self-contained introduction to the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), concentrating on aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS ...
(published as: Chapter 4 , in: S.P. Jenkins: Changing Fortunes: Income Mobility and Poverty Dynamics in Britain, Oxford University Press, 2011)
C81, D31, I32
5240 Lorenzo Cappellari
Konstantinos Tatsiramos
Friends' Networks and Job Finding Rates
We investigate the effect of social interactions on labor market outcomes using a direct measure of social contacts based on information about individuals’ three best friends and their ...
(substantially revised version published as 'With a Little Help from My Friend? Quality of Social Networks, Job Finding and Job Match Quality' in: European Economic Review, 2015, 78, 55-75)
J64
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