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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
4891 Fernando Alexandre
Pedro Bação
João Cerejeira
Miguel Portela
Employment, Exchange Rates and Labour Market Rigidity
There is increasing evidence that the interaction between shocks and labour market institutions is crucial to understanding the dynamics of employment. In this paper, we show that the inclusion of ...
(published in: World Economy, 2017, 40 (5), 993 - 1011)
J23, F16, F41
4890 Tito Boeri
Pietro Garibaldi
Marta Ribeiro
Behind the Lighthouse Effect
A large body of empirical literature indicates that, contrary to predictions from economic theory, wages in the informal sector increase after any minimum wage hike. This phenomenon was so far ...
(revised version published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2011, 57 (s1), 54-78)
J30
4889 Victoria L. Prowse
Modeling Employment Dynamics with State Dependence and Unobserved Heterogeneity
This paper extends existing work on labor force participation dynamics by distinguishing between full-time and part-time employment and allowing unobserved heterogeneity in the effects of previous ...
(published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2012, 30 (2), 411-431)
C15, C25, J6, J22
4888 Gianna Claudia Giannelli
Lucia Mangiavacchi
Children's Schooling and Parental Migration: Empirical Evidence on the
This article investigates the long-term effects of parental migration abroad on the schooling of children left behind in Albania. Although parents' migration usually benefits children economically, ...
(published in: Labour, 2010, 24 (s1), 76 - 92)
J13, J18, O15, P36
4887 T. H. Gindling
Sara Z. Poggio
The Effect of Family Separation and Reunification on the Educational Success of Immigrant Children in the United States
For many immigrants, especially those from Central America and Mexico, it is common for a mother or father (or both) to migrate to the United States and leave their children behind. Then, after the ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2012, 38 (7),1155-1173)
I2, J13, J61
4885 Christian Dustmann
Francesca Fabbri
Ian Preston
Racial Harassment, Ethnic Concentration and Economic Conditions
In this paper, we analyse the association between spatial concentration of ethnic minorities, and racial harassment. Ethnic concentration relates to racial harassment through at least three channels: ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2011, 113 (3), 689-711)
J15, R23
4884 Erik Snowberg
Justin Wolfers
Explaining the Favorite-Longshot Bias: Is it Risk-Love or Misperceptions?
The favorite-longshot bias describes the longstanding empirical regularity that betting odds provide biased estimates of the probability of a horse winning – longshots are overbet, while favorites ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2010, 118 (4), 723-746)
D03, D49, G12, L83
4882 María Cervini-Plá
Xavier Ramos
José I. Silva
Wage Effects of Non-Wage Labour Costs
We study short- and long-term wage effects of two important elements of non-wage labour costs: firing costs and payroll taxes. We exploit a reform that introduced substantial reduction in these two ...
(substantially revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 72, 113-137. Winner of the 2015 Spanish Association for Labour Economics Best Paper Award.)
C23, D31, J31
4881 Björn Anders Gustafsson
Torun Österberg
Neighbourhood Child Poverty in Sweden
This paper takes a fresh look at child poverty at the neighbourhood level in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden using unique data for 1990, 1996 and 2002. We find that the number of ...
(published in: Peter Saunders and Roy Sainsbury (eds.), Social Security, Poverty and Social Exclusion in Rich and Poorer Countries. International Studies on Social Security volume 16, Intersentia Publishing, 2010 )
I32, J13, R23
4880 Glen R. Waddell
Gender and the Influence of Peer Alcohol Consumption on Adolescent Sexual Activity
I consider the alcohol consumption of opposite-gender peers as explanatory to adolescent sexual intercourse and demonstrate that female sexual activity is higher where there is higher alcohol ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2011, 50 (1), 248-263)
J13, I12
4879 Sonia R. Bhalotra
Marcela Umana-Aponte
The Dynamics of Women's Labour Supply in Developing Countries
This paper investigates cyclicality in women's labour supply motivated by the hypothesis that it contributes to smoothing household consumption in environments characterized by income volatility. We ...
(revised version available)
J22, J13
4878 Helmut Rainer
Thomas Siedler
Family Location and Caregiving Patterns from an International Perspective
This paper conducts a cross-national econometric analysis of intra-family location and caregiving patterns. First, we assess, from an international perspective, the relationship between family ...
(revised version published in: Population and Development Review, 2012, 38 (2), 337-351)
D19, J14
4877 Albert Park
Dewen Wang
Migration and Urban Poverty and Inequality in China
Using data from recent surveys of migrants and local residents in 10 cities in 2005, this paper examines how migration influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also ...
(published in: China Economic Journal, 2010, 3 (1), 40 - 67)
J61, O15
4876 Miles Corak
Patrizio Piraino
Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and the Inheritance of Employers
Our analysis of intergenerational earnings mobility modifies the Becker-Tomes model to incorporate the intergenerational transmission of employers, which is predicted to increase the ...
(revised version published as: 'The Inheritance of Employers and Nonlinearities in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility.' in: Kaushik Basu and Joseph Stiglitz (editors). Inequality and Growth: Patterns and Policy. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2016, 1 - 34)
J62, J64, J24
4875 Fabio Mariani
The Economic Value of Virtue
Virtue is modeled as an asset that women can use in the marriage market: since men value virginity in prospective mates, preserving her virtue increases a woman's chances of marrying a high-status ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2012, 17 (4), 323-356)
D1, J12, Z13
4874 Stephane Mahuteau
Matloob Piracha
Massimiliano Tani
Selection Policy and Immigrants' Remittance Behaviour
This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants' remittance behaviour. More precisely, we compare the remittance behaviour of ...
(revised as DP 10927)
F22, F24, J61
4873 Silke Anger
Michael Kvasnicka
Thomas Siedler
One Last Puff? Public Smoking Bans and Smoking Behavior
This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's sixteen ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (3), 591-601)
I12, K32, I18, C33
4870 Lex Borghans
Margo Romans
Jan Sauermann
What Makes a Good Conference? Analysing the Preferences of Labor Economists
Conferences are an important element in the work of researchers, requiring substantial investments in fees, travel expenses and the time spent by the participants. The aim of this paper is to ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (5), 868-874)
A11, J44, C25
4869 David Card
Gordon B. Dahl
Family Violence and Football: The Effect of Unexpected Emotional Cues on Violent Behavior
We study the link between family violence and the emotional cues associated with wins and losses by local professional football teams. We hypothesize that the risk of violence is affected by the ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2011, 126 (1), 103-143)
D03, J12
4868 Carmel U. Chiswick
Economics and Religion
This paper provides an overview of the relationship between economics and religion. It first considers the effects of economic incentives in the religious marketplace on consumers’ demand for ...
(published in: Rhona C. Free (ed.), 21st Century Economics: A Reference Handbook, Sage Publications: 2010)
Z12
4867 Maria Concetta Chiuri
Daniela Del Boca
Home-Leaving Decisions of Daughters and Sons
In spite of relevant differences between countries, a common international pattern emerges: daughters leave parental homes earlier than sons. Drawing upon the European Community Household Panel, we ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (3), 393-408)
J2, C3, D1
4866 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereux
Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility
Economists and social scientists have long been interested in intergenerational mobility, and documenting the persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an active area of research. ...
(published in: O. Ashenfelter and D. Card (eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 4B, Chapter 16, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011)
J62
4865 Andreas Peichl
Hilmar Schneider
Sebastian Siegloch
Documentation IZA?MOD: The IZA Policy SImulation MODel
This paper describes IZA?MOD, the policy microsimulation model of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). The model uses household microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and firm ...
(see also IZA?MOD for more information)
D58, H20, J22, J23
4863 Anders Frederiksen
Earnings Progression, Human Capital and Incentives: Theory and Evidence
The career prospects of newly recruited employees differ substantially within an organization. The stars experience a considerable growth in earnings; others can hardly maintain their entry salaries. ...
(published as 'Incentives and Earnings Growth' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 85 (1), 97-107)
J30, J41, M50
4862 Jasmin Kantarevic
Boris Kralj
Darrel Weinkauf
Enhanced Fee-for-Service Model and Access to Physician Services: Evidence from Family Health Groups in Ontario
We study an enhanced fee-for-service model for primary care physicians in the Family Health Groups (FHG) in Ontario, Canada. In contrast to the traditional fee-for-service (FFS) model, the FHG model ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (1), 99-111)
I10, I12, I18
4861 Giorgio Brunello
Simona Lorena Comi
Daniela Sonedda
Training Subsidies and the Wage Returns to Continuing Vocational Training: Evidence from Italian Regions
We use the variation of training policy over time and across Italian regions to identify the relationship between individual training and earnings. Using longitudinal data for the period 1999 to ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (3), 361-372)
J24
4859 Anh T. Le
Paul W. Miller
Wendy S. Slutske
Nicholas G. Martin
Are Attitudes Towards Economic Risk Heritable? Analyses Using the Australian Twin Study of Gambling
This study employs multiple regression models based on DeFries and Fulker (1985), and a large sample of twins, to assess heritability in attitudes towards economic risk, and the extent to which this ...
(published in: Twin Research and Human Genetics, 2010, 13 (4), 330-339)
G00, J01
4857 Björn Anders Gustafsson
Birgitta Jansson
If Seebohm Rowntree Had Studied Sweden: How Poverty Changed in the City of Göteborg from 1925 to 2003
This paper investigates the development of poverty in Sweden using micro data derived from tax files for the city of Göteborg for the years 1925, 1936, 1947, 1958 as well as more recent (1983, 1994 ...
(published in: Scandinavian Economic History Review, 2010, 58 (3), 239-260)
I32, N34, N94
4856 David B. Mustard
How Do Labor Markets Affect Crime? New Evidence on an Old Puzzle
For nearly 50 years academics have been studying how labor markets affect crime. The initial interesting and important theoretical and empirical work generated substantial interest in studying crime ...
(published in: Handbook on the Economics of Crime, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010)
J2, K14, K42
4855 Friedhelm Pfeiffer
Ruben R. Seiberlich
A Socio-economic Analysis of Youth Disconnectedness
Disconnectedness among youth can have several dimensions. From a socio-economic viewpoint, failure in school, unemployment and the lack of an intimate relationship are among the most important ones. ...
(published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch - Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2011, 131 (2), 253-262)
D87, I12, I21, J13
4854 Robert J. Oxoby
William G. Morrison
Loss Aversion and Intertemporal Choice: A Laboratory Investigation
We present results from a laboratory study of loss aversion in the context of intertemporal choice. We investigate whether the provision of (windfall) endowments results in different elicited ...
(published as 'The endowment effect and intertemporal choice: a laboratory investigation' in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2013, 46 (2), 689 - 704)
C91, D91
4853 John R. Bowblis
Myeong-Su Yun
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Use of Drug Therapy
The purpose of this research is to explain the variation in the utilization of drug therapy for the medical conditions of depression, high cholesterol, and hypertension between Hispanics, ...
(published in: Social Science Research, 2010, 39 (4), 674-684)
I11, I12
4851 Badi H. Baltagi
Francesco Moscone
Health Care Expenditure and Income in the OECD Reconsidered: Evidence from Panel Data
This paper reconsiders the long-run economic relationship between health care expenditure and income using a panel of 20 OECD countries observed over the period 1971-2004. In particular, the paper ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2010, 27 (4), 804-811)
C31, C33, H51
4850 Alois Stutzer
Bruno S. Frey
Recent Advances in the Economics of Individual Subjective Well-Being
Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the social sciences has provided a major new stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also ...
(published in: Social Research, 2010, 77 (2), 679-714)
A10, D60, H41, I31
4849 Ester Faia
Wolfgang Lechthaler
Christian Merkl
Fiscal Multipliers and the Labour Market in the Open Economy
Several contributions have recently assessed the size of fiscal multipliers both in RBC models and New Keynesian models. None of the studies considers a model with frictional labour markets which is ...
(revised version published as 'Fiscal Stimulus and the Labor Market Policies in Europe' in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2013, 37 (3), 483–499)
E62, H30, J20, H20
4848 Nina Smith
Valdemar Smith
Mette Verner
The Gender Pay Gap in Top Corporate Jobs in Denmark: Glass Ceilings, Sticky Floors or Both?
This paper analyses the gender gap in compensation for CEOs, Vice-Directors, and potential top executives in the 2000 largest Danish private companies based on a panel data set of employer-employees ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2011, 32 (2), 156-177)
J33, M52, J16
4847 Nattavudh Powdthavee
Does Education Reduce the Risk of Hypertension? Estimating the Biomarker Effect of Compulsory Schooling in England
This paper estimates the exogenous effect of schooling on reduced incidence of hypertension. Using the changes in the minimum school-leaving age law in the United Kingdom from age 14 to 15 in 1947, ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2010, 4 (2), 173-202)
H1, I1, I2
4846 Martin G. Kocher
Marc V. Lenz
Matthias Sutter
Psychological Pressure in Competitive Environments: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment: Comment
Apesteguia and Palacios-Huerta (forthcoming) report for a sample of 129 shootouts from various seasons in ten different competitions that teams kicking first in soccer penalty shootouts win ...
(substantially extended version published as: 'Psychological Pressure in Competitive Environments: New Evidence from Randomized Natural Experiments' in: Management Science, 2012, 58 (8), 1585-1591)
C93
4845 Charlene M. Kalenkoski
Gigi Foster
The Multitasking of Household Production
The standard household production model does not incorporate multitasking, although time-diary data reveal that individuals regularly multitask. We formulate a model where time spent in child care ...
(published in: C. Kalenkoski and G. Foster (eds): The Economics of Multitasking, Palgrave MacMillan, 2015)
D13, J13
4844 Aysit Tansel
H. Mehmet Tasci
Hazard Analysis of Unemployment Duration by Gender in a Developing Country: The Case of Turkey
There is little evidence on unemployment duration and its determinants in developing countries. This study is on the duration aspect of unemployment in a developing country, Turkey. We analyze the ...
(published in: Labour, 2010, 24 (4), 501-530)
J64, C41, J16
4843 Martin Halla
The Link between the Intrinsic Motivation to Comply and Compliance Behavior: A Critical Appraisal of Existing Evidence
Recent economic literature emphasizes the importance of moral considerations to explain compliance behavior with respect to underground activities such as tax evasion. A considerable amount of ...
(published in: Friedrich Schneider (ed.), The Handbook on the Shadow Economy, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011, 375-408)
O17, H26, A13, Z13, C81
4842 Dirk Antonczyk
Thomas DeLeire
Bernd Fitzenberger
Polarization and Rising Wage Inequality: Comparing the U.S. and Germany
This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz (1995) to separate age, time, and cohort effects. Between 1979 and 2004, wage ...
(published in: Econometrics, 2018, 6 (2), 1-33)
J30, J31
4841 Sergio Firpo
Identification and Estimation of Distributional Impacts of Interventions Using Changes in Inequality Measures
This paper presents semiparametric estimators of distributional impacts of interventions (treatment) when selection to the program is based on observable characteristics. Distributional impacts of a ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2016, 31(3), 457-486)
C1, C3
4840 Stephen V. Burks
Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Lorenz Götte
Aldo Rustichini
Overconfidence is a Social Signaling Bias
Evidence from psychology and economics indicates that many individuals overestimate their ability, both absolutely and relatively. We test three different theories about observed relative ...
(revised version published as 'Overconfidence and Social Signalling' in: Review of Economic Studies, 2013, 80 (3), 949-983)
D03, D83, C93
4839 Alberto Bayo-Moriones
Jose Enrique Galdon-Sanchez
Sara Martinez-de-Morentin
The Diffusion of Pay for Performance across Occupations
In this paper the differences in the incidence of pay for performance plans between occupations in a sample of Spanish manufacturing establishments are analyzed. Our results show that there are ...
(published in: Industrial & Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66 (5), 1115-1148)
M52
4838 Arnaud Dupuy
An Economic Model of the Evolution of the Gender Performance Ratio in Individual Sports
This paper shows that the gender world record ratio in four disciplines, i.e. marathon, triple jump, pole vault and 800 meters, follows an S-shape over time. It is argued that this pattern is ...
(published in: International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, 2012, 12 (1), 222-245)
J16, J7, N32
4837 Laurence Jacquet
Etienne Lehmann
Bruno Van der Linden
Optimal Redistributive Taxation with Both Extensive and Intensive Responses
This paper characterizes optimal income taxation when individuals respond along both the intensive and extensive margins. Individuals are heterogeneous across two dimensions: specifically, their ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2013, 148 (5), 1770-1805)
H21, H23
4834 Fabrizio Coricelli
Nigel Driffield
Sarmistha Pal
Isabelle Roland
Excess Leverage and Productivity Growth in Emerging Economies: Is There A Threshold Effect?
The paper examines the relationship between leverage and growth in a group of emerging central and eastern European countries, who are at different levels of financial market development. We ...
(revised version published as 'When does leverage hurt productivity growth? A firm-level analysis' in: Journal of International Money and Finance, 2012, 31 (6), 1674-1694)
G32, O16
4832 Mathias Hungerbühler
Etienne Lehmann
Alexis Parmentier
Bruno Van der Linden
A Simple Theory of Optimal Redistributive Taxation with Equilibrium Unemployment
We propose a canonical model of optimal nonlinear redistributive taxation with matching unemployment. In our model, agents are endowed with different skill levels and labor markets are perfectly ...
(published in: Economie Publique/Public Economics, 2012, 22-23 (1-2), 203-218)
H21 H23, J64
4831 Pieter Serneels
Jose G. Montalvo
Gunilla Pettersson
Tomas Lievens
Jean Damascene Butera
Aklilu Kidanu
Who Wants to Work in a Rural Health Post? The Role of Intrinsic Motivation, Rural Background and Faith-Based Institutions in Rwanda and Ethiopia
Most developing countries face shortages of health workers in rural areas. This has profound consequences for health service delivery, and ultimately for health outcomes. To design policies that ...
(published in: Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2010, 88, 342-349)
J22, I11
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