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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
5105 Boris Maciejovsky
Matthias Sutter
David V. Budescu
Patrick Bernau
Teams Make You Smarter: Learning and Knowledge Transfer in Auctions and Markets by Teams and Individuals
We study the impact of team decision making on market behavior and its consequences for subsequent individual performance in the Wason selection task, the single-most studied reasoning task. We ...
(revised version published as 'Teams make you smarter: How exposure to teams improves individual decisions in probability and reasoning tasks' in: Management Science, 2013, 59 (6), 1255-1270)
C91, C92, D03
5103 Robin M. Hogarth
Marie Claire Villeval
Intermittent Reinforcement and the Persistence of Behavior: Experimental Evidence
Whereas economists have made extensive studies of the impact of levels of incentives on behavior, they have paid little attention to the effects of regularity and frequency of incentives. We ...
(revised version published as 'Ambiguous Incentives and the Persistence of Effort: Experimental Evidence' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 100, 1-19)
C92, M54, J28, J31
5102 Chris M. Herbst
Erdal Tekin
The Impact of Child Care Subsidies on Child Well-Being: Evidence from Geographic Variation in the Distance to Social Service Agencies
In recent years, child care subsidies have become an integral part of federal and state efforts to move economically disadvantaged parents from welfare to work. Although previous empirical studies ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2016, 35 (1), 94 - 116)
I18, I2, J13
5101 Ludger Woessmann
Cross-Country Evidence on Teacher Performance Pay
The general-equilibrium effects of performance-related teacher pay include long-term incentive and teacher-sorting mechanisms that usually elude experimental studies but are captured in cross-country ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (3), 404-418)
I20, J33
5100 Lawrence M. Kahn
Labor Market Policy: A Comparative View on the Costs and Benefits of Labor Market Flexibility
I review theories and evidence on wage-setting institutions and labor market policies in an international comparative context. These include collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2012, 31 (1), 94-110)
J68
5099 Jordi Galí
Thijs van Rens
The Vanishing Procyclicality of Labor Productivity
We document three changes in postwar US macroeconomic dynamics: (i) the procyclicality of labor productivity has vanished, (ii) the relative volatility of employment has risen, and (iii) the relative ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (633), 302 - 326)
E24, E32
5098 Sabrina Di Addario
Daniela Vuri
Entrepreneurship and Market Size: The Case of Young College Graduates in Italy
We analyze empirically the effects of urban agglomeration on Italian college graduates’ work possibilities as entrepreneurs three years after graduation. We find that each 100,000 inhabitant-increase ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (5), 848-858)
R12, J24, J21
5096 Javier Ordóńez
Hector Sala
José I. Silva
Oil Price Shocks and Labor Market Fluctuations
We examine the impact of real oil price shocks on labor market flows in the U.S. We first use smooth transition regression (STR) models to investigate to what extent oil prices can be considered as a ...
(published in: Energy Journal, 2011, 32 (3), 89-118)
E22, E32, J63, J64
5095 James J. Heckman
Seong Hyeok Moon
Rodrigo Pinto
Peter A. Savelyev
Adam Yavitz
Analyzing Social Experiments as Implemented: A Reexamination of the Evidence from the HighScope Perry Preschool Program
Social experiments are powerful sources of information about the effectiveness of interventions. In practice, initial randomization plans are almost always compromised. Multiple hypotheses are ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2010, 1 (1), 1-46)
I21, C93, J15, V16
5093 Heather Antecol
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Do Non-Cognitive Skills Help Explain the Occupational Segregation of Young People?
This paper investigates the role of non-cognitive skills in the occupational segregation of young workers entering the U.S. labor market. We find entry into male-dominated fields of study and ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 21, 59-73)
J24, J16, J31
5092 Marika Karanassou
Hector Sala
The Wage-Productivity Gap Revisited: Is the Labour Share Neutral to Employment?
This paper challenges the prevailing view of the neutrality of the labour income share to labour demand, and investigates its impact on the evolution of employment. Whilst maintaining the assumption ...
(published as 'The Role of the Wage-Productivity Gap in Economic Activity' in: International Review of Applied Economics, 2014, 28 (4), 436-459)
E24, E25, O47
5091 Erik Biorn
Simen Gaure
Simen Markussen
Knut Rřed
The Rise in Absenteeism: Disentangling the Impacts of Cohort, Age and Time
We examine the remarkable rise in absenteeism among Norwegian employees since the early 1990's, with particular emphasis on disentangling the roles of cohort, age, and time. Based on a fixed effects ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (4), 1585-1608)
C23, C25, I38, J22
5089 Heather Antecol
The Opt-Out Revolution: A Descriptive Analysis
Using data from the 1980, 1990, and 2000 U.S. Census, I find little support for the opt-out revolution – highly educated women, relative to their less educated counterparts, are exiting the labor ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2011, 33, 45-83)
J13, J15, J16, J22
5088 Laura Hospido
Job Changes and Individual-Job Specific Wage Dynamics
This paper develops an error components model that is used to examine the impact of job changes on the dynamics and variance of individual log earnings. I use data on work histories drawn from the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 33, 81-93 )
C23, J31
5086 Hugo R. Nopo
Alejandro Hoyos
Evolution of Gender Wage Gaps in Latin America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: An Addendum to
This paper complements the findings of Atal, Ńopo and Winder (2010) on gender and ethnic wage gaps for 18 Latin American countries circa 2005 by analyzing gender wage gaps for the same countries ...
(published in: 'New Century, Old Disparities. Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean', Latin American Development Forum;. © Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank, 2012 )
C14, D31, J16, O54
5085 Hugo R. Nopo
Juan Pablo Atal
Natalia Winder
New Century, Old Disparities: Gender and Ethnic Wage Gaps in Latin America
This paper surveys gender and ethnic wage gaps in 18 Latin American countries, decomposing differences using matching comparisons as a non-parametric alternative to the Blinder-Oaxaca (BO) ...
(published also as 'New Century, Old Disparities. Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean', Latin American Development Forum;. © Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank, 2012)
C14, D31, J16, O54
5083 Kostas Mavromaras
Seamus McGuinness
Nigel C. O'Leary
Peter J. Sloane
Zhang Wei
Job Mismatches and Labour Market Outcomes: Panel Evidence on Australian University Graduates
The interpretation of graduate mismatch manifested either as overeducation or as overskilling remains problematical. This paper uses annual panel information on both educational and skills mismatches ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2013, Vol 89, No 286, 382-395)
J24, J31
5082 Francesco Pastore
Assessing the Impact of Incomes Policy: The Italian Experience
The Saint Valentine's decree (1984) and the ensuing hard fought referendum (1985), which reduced the automatisms of scala mobile, started a process of redefinition of wage fixing in Italy, which ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2010, 31 (7), 793-817)
C22, E12, E25, E64, E65
5081 Toshie Ikenaga
Daiji Kawaguchi
Labor-Market Attachment and Training Participation
This paper examines how expected attachment to the labor market and expected tenure at a specific firm affect training participation. The results, based on cross-sectional data from Japan, indicate ...
(published in: Japanese Economic Review, 2013, 64 (1), 73–97)
J16, J24, J61, J63
5080 Delia Furtado
Nikolaos Theodoropoulos
Why Does Intermarriage Increase Immigrant Employment? The Role of Networks
Social networks are commonly understood to play a large role in the labor market success of immigrants. Using 2000 U.S. Census data, this paper examines whether access to native networks, as measured ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2010, 10 (1), Article 101)
J61, J12, J21
5079 Emin Karagozoglu
Arno Riedl
Information, Uncertainty, and Subjective Entitlements in Bargaining
More often than not production processes are the joint endeavor of people having different abilities and productivities. Such production processes and the associated surplus production are often not ...
(pubished as: 'Performance Information, Production Uncertainty, and Subjective Entitlements in Bargaining' in: Management Science, 2015, 61 (11), 2611 - 2626)
C79, C92, D01, D29, D63, D89, M59
5078 Gesine Stephan
Wages, Employment and Tenure of Temporarily Subsidized Workers: Does the Industry Matter?
This paper explores whether wage, employment and tenure outcomes of workers taking up a job subsidized by the German Federal Employment Agency differ by industry. The analysis utilizes administrative ...
(revised version published as 'Hétérogénéité sectorielle des effets d'un dispositif de subvention salariale sur les salaires et l'emploi en Allemagne' in: Travail et Emploi, 2014, 139, 61-74)
J31, J38, J58
5077 John T. Addison
José Machado
Pedro Portugal
The Reservation Wage Unemployment Duration Nexus
A thorny problem in identifying the determinants of reservation wages and particularly the role of continued joblessness in their evolution is the simultaneity issue. We deploy a natural control ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 75 (6), 980-987)
J64, J65
5076 Thomas J. Kniesner
John D. Leeth
Hedonic Wage Equilibrium: Theory, Evidence and Policy
We examine theoretically and empirically the properties of the equilibrium wage function and its implications for policy. Our emphasis is on how the researcher approaches economic and policy ...
(published in: Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2010, 5 (4), 229-299)
J2, J3
5075 Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
The Effects of School Quality in the Origin on the Payoff to Schooling for Immigrants
The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the ...
(published in: Gil Epstein and Ira Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 67-103)
I21, J24, J31, J61, F22
5073 Alejandro Hoyos
Hugo R. Nopo
Ximena Peńa
The Persistent Gender Earnings Gap in Colombia, 1994-2006
This paper surveys gender earnings gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent to which individuals with similar human capital characteristics earn different ...
(published in: 'New Century, Old Disparities. Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean', World Bank Publications, 2012)
C14, D31, J16, O54
5071 Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
Willie Belton
Black-White Gap in Self-Employment in the U.S.: Do Cohort and Within Race Differences Exist?
In this paper we ask three questions: First, is there evidence of a Black-White gap in self-employment between 1994-2002 and could the inclusion of the White immigrant population be driving this ...
(revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2013, 41 (1), 25-39)
J10, J11, J15, L26
5070 Örn B. Bodvarsson
Jack W. Hou
The Effects of Aging on Migration in a Transition Economy: The Case of China
China has been experiencing two major demographic sea changes since the late 1970s: (i) Internal migration, primarily rural-to-urban, on a scale that dwarfs all other countries at any time in ...
(substantially revised version available as IZA DP No. 8351)
J61, J11
5068 Carmel U. Chiswick
How Economics Helped Shape American Judaism
This chapter discusses the strong impact of economic forces, and changes in the economic environment, on American Jewish observance and American Jewish religious institutions in the 20th century. ...
(published in: Aaron Levine (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Judaism and Economics, New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 646-662)
Z12, N32, J12
5067 Tilman Brück
Patricia Justino
Philip Verwimp
Alexandra Avdeenko
Identifying Conflict and Violence in Micro-Level Surveys
The overall goal of the report is to increase the capacity of researchers and policy makers to identify comparatively, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by ...
(revised version published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2015, 31 (1), 29-58.)
C81, D74, F52, O12
5065 Oliver Falck
Michael Fritsch
Stephan Heblich
The Phantom of the Opera: Cultural Amenities, Human Capital, and Regional Economic Growth
We analyze the extent to which endogenous cultural amenities affect the spatial equilibrium share of high-human-capital employees. To overcome endogeneity, we draw on a quasi-natural experiment in ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (6), 755-766)
H41, R11, J24
5064 Raj Arunachalam
Manisha Shah
The Prostitute's Allure: Examining Returns to Beauty, Productivity and Discrimination
We estimate the earnings premium for beauty in an occupation where returns to physical attractiveness are likely to be important: commercial sex work. In the commercial sex market, perhaps more so ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2012, 12 (1))
J01, J71
5062 Martin Biewen
Andos Juhasz
Understanding Rising Income Inequality in Germany
We examine the causes for rising income inequality in Europe’s most populous economy. From 2000 to 2006, Germany experienced an unprecedented rise in net equivalized income inequality and poverty. At ...
(revised version published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2012, 58 (4), 622-647)
D31, C14, I30
5061 Deniz Gevrek
Migration and Loving
This paper explores the relationship between anti-miscegenation laws, interracial marriage and black males' geographical distribution in the U.S. during and after the Great Migration. The U.S. ...
(revised version published as 'Interracial Marriage, Migration and Loving' in: Review of Black Political Economy, 2014, 41 (1), 25-60)
J12, J15
5059 Gil S. Epstein
Ira N. Gang
A Political Economy of the Immigrant Assimilation: Internal Dynamics
Within immigrant society different groups wish to help the migrants in different ways – immigrant societies are multi-layered and multi-dimensional. We examine the situation where there exists a ...
(published in: Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 325-339)
F22, J0
5058 James B. Rebitzer
Lowell J. Taylor
Extrinsic Rewards and Intrinsic Motives: Standard and Behavioral Approaches to Agency and Labor Markets
Employers structure pay and employment relationships to mitigate agency problems. A large literature in economics documents how the resolution of these problems shapes personnel policies and labor ...
(published in: O. Ashenfelter and D. Card (eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 4A, Chapter 8, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011)
D2, J0, M5
5057 Shuaizhang Feng
Yingyao Hu
Misclassification Errors and the Underestimation of U.S. Unemployment Rates
Using recent results in the measurement error literature, we show that the official U.S. unemployment rates substantially underestimate the true levels of unemployment, due to misclassification ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (2), 1054-70)
J21, J64, C14
5056 Odelia Heizler (Cohen)
Ayal Kimhi
Who Will Be Idol? The Importance of Social Networks for Winning on Reality Shows
This paper examines, both theoretically and empirically, the effect of social networks and belonging to minority groups (or race) on the probability of winning in reality television shows. We develop ...
(published in: Journal of Socio-Economics, 2012, 41 (1), 18-25)
J15, D71, P16
5055 Bas van der Klaauw
Jan C. van Ours
Carrot and Stick: How Reemployment Bonuses and Benefit Sanctions Affect Job Finding Rates
To increase their transition from welfare to work, benefit recipients in the municipality of Rotterdam were exposed to various financial incentives, including both carrots to sticks. Once their ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2013, 28 (2), 275–296)
J64, C21, C41
5054 Lisa B. Kahn
Fabian Lange
Employer Learning, Productivity and the Earnings Distribution: Evidence from Performance Measures
Two ubiquitous empirical regularities in pay distributions are that the variance of wages increases with experience, and innovations in wage residuals have a large, unpredictable component. The ...
(Published in Review of Economic Studies, 2014, 81 (4), 1575-1613.)
D21, D83, J24, J33
5053 Saul Estrin
Tomasz Mickiewicz
Shadow Economy and Entrepreneurial Entry
We analyze theoretically and empirically the impact of the shadow economy on entrepreneurial entry, utilising 1998-2005 individual-level Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data merged with macro level ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2012, 16 (4), 559-578)
O17, D2, L26, P14
5052 Ruta Aidis
Saul Estrin
Tomasz Mickiewicz
Size Matters: Entrepreneurial Entry and Government
We explore the country-specific institutional characteristics likely to influence an individual's decision to become an entrepreneur. We focus on the size of the government, on freedom from ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2012, 39 (1), 119-139)
L26, P14, P51, P37
5051 Gil S. Epstein
Yosef Mealem
Interactions between Local and Migrant Workers at the Workplace
In this paper we consider the interaction between local workers and migrants in the production process of a firm. Both local workers and migrants can invest effort in assimilation activities in order ...
(published in: Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 193-203)
D74, F23, I20, J61, L14
5050 Flavio Cunha
James J. Heckman
Investing in Our Young People
This paper reviews the recent literature on the production of skills of young persons. The literature features the multiplicity of skills that explain success in a variety of life outcomes. ...
(published in: Arthur Reynolds, Arthur Rolnick, Michelle M. Englund, and Judy A. Temple (eds.), Cost-Effective Programs in Children's First Decade: A Human Capital Integration, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 381-414)
J13, J24, D91
5049 Simon Czermak
Francesco Feri
Daniela Glätzle-Rützler
Matthias Sutter
Strategic Sophistication of Adolescents: Evidence from Experimental Normal-Form Games
We examine the strategic sophistication of adolescents, aged 10 to 17 years, in experimental normal-form games. Besides making choices, subjects have to state their first- and second-order beliefs. ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 128, 265-285.)
C72, C91
5048 Catia Batista
Aitor Lacuesta
Pedro C. Vicente
Testing the 'Brain Gain' Hypothesis: Micro Evidence from Cape Verde
Does emigration really drain human capital accumulation in origin countries? This paper explores a unique household survey purposely designed and conducted to answer this research question. We ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 97 (1), 32-45)
F22, J24, O12, O15
5047 Glen R. Waddell
Adolescent Drug Use and the Deterrent Effect of School-Imposed Penalties
Simple OLS estimates of the effect of school-imposed penalties for drug use on a student's consumption of marijuana are biased if both are determined by unobservable school or individual attributes. ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31, 961- 969)
I2, K42
5046 Gianna Claudia Giannelli
Lucia Mangiavacchi
Luca Piccoli
GDP and the Value of Family Caretaking: How Much Does Europe Care?
This study estimates the size and value of unpaid family caretaking activities at a European level. While at a country level several studies are available, a comprehensive evaluation for Europe as a ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2012, 44 (16), 2111 - 2131)
D19, J16, R20
5045 Werner Eichhorst
Michael Feil
Paul Marx
Crisis, What Crisis? Patterns of Adaptation in European Labor Markets
The current crisis, while of a global nature, has affected national labor markets to a varying extent. While some countries have experienced a steep increase in unemployment, employment in other ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly Supplement, 2010, 56 (61), 29-64)
J23, J21, J58
5044 Louis N. Christofides
Alexandros Polycarpou
Konstantinos Vrachimis
The Gender Wage Gaps, 'Sticky Floors' and 'Glass Ceilings' of the European Union
We consider and attempt to understand the gender wage gap across 24 EU member states, all of which share the objective of gender equality, using 2007 data from the European Union Statistics on Income ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 21, 86-102)
J16, J31, J50, C21
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