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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
5043 Patrick Emmenegger
Paul Marx
Employer Preferences and Social Policy: Business and the Development of Job Security Regulations in Germany since World War I
This article examines the role of business in the historical development of job security regulations in Germany from their creation in the inter-war period to the dawn of the crisis of the 'German ...
(revised version published as 'Business and the Development of Job Security Regulations: The Case of Germany' in: Socio-Economic Review, 2011, 9 (4), 729-756)
K31, N34, N44
5042 Douglas Gollin
Christian Zimmermann
Global Climate Change and the Resurgence of Tropical Disease: An Economic Approach
We study the impact of global climate change on the prevalence of tropical diseases using a heterogeneous agent dynamic general equilibrium model. In our framework, households can take actions (e.g., ...
(published in: Mathematical Population Studies, 2012, 19 (1), 51-62)
I1, O11, E13, E21, Q54
5041 Guglielmo Maria Caporale
Christophe Rault
Robert Sova
Anamaria Sova
Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure in Romania: A Multilevel Analysis
The transition process in Central and Eastern Europe was associated with growing environmental awareness. This paper analyses the determinants of Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure (PACE) at ...
(published as 'Improving Environmental Performance: A Challenge for Romania' in: Environmental and Resource Economics, 2014, 57 (3), 431-452)
Q52, C29, C40
5040 Michael Kosfeld
Susanne Neckermann
Getting More Work for Nothing? Symbolic Awards and Worker Performance
We study the impact of status and social recognition on worker performance in a field experiment. In collaboration with an international non-governmental organization we hired students to work on a ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2011, 3 (3), 86-99)
C93, M52
5039 Alessandro Barattieri
Susanto Basu
Peter T. Gottschalk
Some Evidence on the Importance of Sticky Wages
Nominal wage stickiness is an important component of recent medium-scale structural macroeconomic models, but to date there has been little microeconomic evidence supporting the assumption of ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2014, 6 (1), 70-101)
E24, E32, J30
5038 Arthur van Soest
Elena G. F. Stancanelli
Does Income Taxation Affect Partners' Household Chores?
We study the impact of income taxation on both partners' allocation of time to market work and unpaid house work in households with two adults. We estimate a structural household utility model in ...
(revised version published as 'Income taxation, labour supply and housework: A discrete choice model for French couples' in: Labour Economics, 2014, 27, 30-43)
J22, H31, C35
5037 M. Hashem Pesaran
Predictability of Asset Returns and the Efficient Market Hypothesis
This paper is concerned with empirical and theoretical basis of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH). The paper begins with an overview of the statistical properties of asset returns at different ...
(published in: Aman Ullah and David E. Giles (eds.), Handbook of Empirical Economics and Finance, Taylor & Francis. 2010)
G12, G14
5036 Clive Bell
Hans Gersbach
Maik T. Schneider
Raising Juveniles
This paper investigates how families make decisions about the education of juveniles. The decision problem is analyzed in three variations: a 'decentralized' scheme, in which the parents control the ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2012, 74 (1), 32-51)
D13, J13, J22, J24
5035 Werner Eichhorst
Paul Marx
Whatever Works: Dualisation and the Service Economy in Bismarckian Welfare States
The paper compares employment structures in five Continental welfare states. These countries feature broad similarities in their reliance on a more dualised model of labour market flexibility, ...
(published in: P.Emmenegger et al. (eds.): The Age of Dualization, Oxford: 2012, 73-99)
J38, J41, J21, J58
5034 Gary Charness
David Masclet
Marie Claire Villeval
Competitive Preferences and Status as an Incentive: Experimental Evidence
In this paper, we investigate individuals' investment in status in an environment where no monetary return can possibly be derived from reaching a better relative position. We use a real-effort ...
(revised version published as 'The dark side of competition for status' in: Management Science, 2014, 60 (1), 38–55)
C91, C92, M54, D63, J28, J31
5032 Sara de la Rica
Juan J. Dolado
Raquel Vegas
Performance Pay and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Spain
This paper uses detailed information from a large wage survey in 2006 to analyze the gender wage gap in the performance-pay (PP) component of total hourly wages and its contribution to the overall ...
(revised version published as 'Gender Gaps in Performance Pay: New Evidence from Spain' in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 117-118, 41-59)
J31, J33, J42, J71
5031 Kalena E. Cortes
Jesse Bricker
Chris Rohlfs
The Role of Specific Subjects in Education Production Functions: Evidence from Morning Classes in Chicago Public High Schools
Absences in Chicago Public High Schools are 3-7 days per year higher in first period than at other times of the day. This study exploits this empirical regularity and the essentially random variation ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy (Contributions), 2012, 12(1): 1935-1682)
I20, I21, J13
5029 Guglielmo Maria Caporale
Christophe Rault
Robert Sova
Anamaria Sova
Environmental Regulation and Competitiveness: Evidence from Romania
According to the pollution haven hypotheses differences in environmental regulation affect trade flows and plant location. Specifically, environmental stringency should decrease exports and increase ...
(published in: Ecological Economics, 2012, 81, 130-139)
F14, Q28
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