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4782 Robert Dur
Arjan Non
Hein Roelfsema
Reciprocity and Incentive Pay in the Workplace
We study optimal incentive contracts for workers who are reciprocal to management attention. When neither worker's effort nor manager's attention can be contracted, a double moral-hazard problem ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2010, 31 (4), 676-686)
D86, J41, M51, M52, M54, M55
4781 Ugo Colombino
Marilena Locatelli
Edlira Narazani
Cathal O'Donoghue
Alternative Basic Income Mechanisms: An Evaluation Exercise with a Microeconometric Model
We develop and estimate a microeconometric model of household labour supply in four European countries representative of different economies and welfare policy regimes: Denmark, Italy, Portugal and ...
(published in: Basic Income Studies, 2010, 5 (1))
C25, H24, H31, I38
4780 Gerard J. van den Berg
Dorly J. H. Deeg
Maarten Lindeboom
France Portrait
The Role of Early-Life Conditions in the Cognitive Decline due to Adverse Events Later in Life
Cognitive functioning of elderly individuals may be affected by events such as the loss of a (grand)child or partner or the onset of a serious chronic condition, and by negative economic shocks such ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120 (548), F411-F428)
I12, I10, J14, E32
4779 Arno Tausch
Almas Heshmati
Learning from Latin America's Experience: Europe's Failure in the "Lisbon Process"
The current paper investigates the cross-national relevance of Latin American "dependencia theory" for five dimensions of development (democracy and human rights, environment, human development and ...
(published in: Alternatives, Turkish Journal of International Relations, 2010, 9(4), 3-90.)
J01, O52, O54, P50
4777 Simonetta Longhi
Job Competition and the Wage Curve
The wage curve literature consistently finds a negative relationship between regional unemployment rates and regional wages; the most widely accepted theoretical explanations interpret the ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2012, 46 (5), 611-620)
J31, R23
4775 Petter Lundborg
Paul Nystedt
Dan-Olof Rooth
No Country for Fat Men? Obesity, Earnings, Skills, and Health among 450,000 Swedish Men
The negative association between obesity and labor market outcomes has been widely documented, yet little is known about the mechanisms through which the association arises. Using rich and unique ...
(published as 'Body Size, Skills, and Income: Evidence From 150,000 Teenage Siblings' in: Demography, 2014, 51, 1573-1596)
I10, J10, J70
4774 David W. Johnston
Michael E. R. Nicholls
Manisha Shah
Michael A. Shields
Handedness, Health and Cognitive Development: Evidence from Children in the NLSY
Using data from the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, and fitting family fixed-effects models of child health and cognitive development, we test if left-handed children do significantly worse ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2013, 176 (4), 841-860)
I12, J10
4773 Conny Wunsch
Optimal Use of Labor Market Policies: The Role of Job Search Assistance
This paper studies the role of job search assistance programs in optimal welfare-to-work programs. The analysis is based on a framework, that allows for endogenous choice of benefit types and levels, ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (3), 1030-1045)
J64, J65, J68, D82, D86
4772 Jonathan Haskel
Gavin Wallis
Public Support for Innovation, Intangible Investment and Productivity Growth in the UK Market Sector
Pressure on public finances has increased scrutiny of public support for innovation. We examine two particular issues. First, there have been many recent calls for the (relatively new) UK R&D subsidy ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 119 (2), 195-198)
O47, E22
4771 Olaf Hübler
Lukas Menkhoff
Do Women Manage Smaller Funds?
Based on a sample of 467 asset managers from four countries we robustly find that women manage smaller funds than men, despite tough competition in this industry. Interestingly, the gender gap exists ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 58 (1), 107-126)
J16, J44, G23
4770 Andreas Peichl
Nico Pestel
Hilmar Schneider
Does Size Matter? The Impact of Changes in Household Structure on Income Distribution in Germany
In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly increasing while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The ...
(revised version published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2012, 58 (1), 118-141)
D31, D63, J11
4769 Rolf Aaberge
Magne Mogstad
Robust Inequality Comparisons
This paper is concerned with the problem of ranking Lorenz curves in situations where the Lorenz curves intersect and no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker ranking ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, 9 (3), 353-371)
D31, D63
4768 Anh T. Le
Paul W. Miller
The Effect of Children on Specialization and Coordination of Partners' Activities
This paper first documents the extent of the specialization in time use in couple families, and the impact of children on this specialization. It then examines the links between the time allocations ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 108 (2), 237-241)
J13, J16, J22
4767 Andrea Ichino
Loukas Karabarbounis
Enrico Moretti
The Political Economy of Intergenerational Income Mobility
The intergenerational elasticity of income is considered one of the best measures of the degree to which a society gives equal opportunity to its members. While much research has been devoted to ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2011, 49 (1), 47-69)
E24, J62, J68, P16
4766 Josse Delfgaauw
Robert Dur
Managerial Talent, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Public Management
The quality of public management is a recurrent concern in many countries. Calls to attract the economy’s best and brightest managers to the public sector abound. This paper studies self-selection ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (9-10), 654-660)
H83, J24, J3, J45
4765 Jan C. van Ours
Lenny Stoeldraijer
Age, Wage and Productivity
Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and ...
(published as 'Age, Wage and Productivity in Dutch Manufacturing' in: De Economist, 2011, 159 (2) , 113-137)
J23, J31
4762 Solomon Polachek
Daria Sevastianova
Does Conflict Disrupt Growth? Evidence of the Relationship between Political Instability and National Economic Performance
Current empirical growth models limit the determinants of country growth to geographic, economic, and institutional variables. This study draws on conflict variables from the Correlates of War (COW) ...
(published in: Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2012, 21 (3), 361 - 388)
C2, O1, O47, O57, P47, P52
4761 Gulcin Gumus
Jungmin Lee
The ART of Life: IVF or Child Adoption?
This paper analyzes the effects of child adoption on the utilization of assisted reproductive technology (ART) in the US. Using state-level longitudinal data for 1999-2006, we show that ART use is ...
(revised version published as 'Alternative Paths to Parenthood: IVF or Child Adoption?' in: Economic Inquiry, 2012, 50 (3), 802-820)
I11, J13, J18
4760 John T. Addison
Alex Bryson
Paulino Teixeira
André Pahnke
Slip Sliding Away: Further Union Decline in Germany and Britain
This paper presents the first comparative analysis of the decline in collective bargaining in two European countries where that decline has been most pronounced. Using workplace-level data and a ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 58 (4), 490-518)
J50, J51
4757 Pedro S. Martins
Gary Solon
Jonathan P. Thomas
Measuring What Employers Really Do about Entry Wages over the Business Cycle
In models recently published by several influential macroeconomic theorists, rigidity in the real wages that firms pay newly hired workers plays a crucial role in generating realistically large ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2012, 4 (4), 36-55)
E24, J31, E32
4756 Stephan Meier
Charles Sprenger
Stability of Time Preferences
Individuals frequently face intertemporal decisions. For the purposes of economic analysis, the preference parameters assumed to govern these decisions are generally considered to be stable economic ...
(revised version published as 'Temporal Stability of Time Preferences' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97(2), 273-286)
C93, D01, D03, D11, D91
4755 Eugenio Proto
Daniel Sgroi
Andrew J. Oswald
Are Happiness and Productivity Lower among University Students with Newly-Divorced Parents? An Experimental Approach
We live in a high-divorce age. It is now common for university faculty to have students who are touched by a recent divorce. It is likely that parents themselves worry about effects on their ...
(published in: Experimental Economics, 2012, 15 (1), 1-23)
D03, J24, C91
4754 Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Longer-Term Impacts of Mentoring, Educational Services, and Incentives to Learn: Evidence from a Randomized Trial
This paper is the first to use a randomized trial in the US to analyze the short- and long-term educational and employment impacts of an after-school program, the Quantum Opportunity Program, that ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Longer-Term Impacts of Mentoring, Educational Services, and Learning Incentives: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in the United States' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2012, 4 (4), 121-139)
C93, I21, I22, I28, J24
4752 Emmanuel Saez
Manos Matsaganis
Panos Tsakloglou
Earnings Determination and Taxes: Evidence from a Cohort Based Payroll Tax Reform in Greece
This paper analyzes the response of earnings to payroll tax rates using a cohort-based reform in Greece. All individuals who started working on or after 1993 face permanently a much higher earnings ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2012, 127 (1), 493-533)
J31, J22, H22
4751 Achim Schmillen
Joachim Möller
Determinants of Lifetime Unemployment: A Micro Data Analysis with Censored Quantile Regressions
The empirical literature on unemployment almost exclusively focuses on the duration of distinct unemployment spells. In contrast, we use a large German administrative micro data set for the time span ...
(published as "Distribution and determinants of lifetime unemployment" in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (1), 33-47)
J64, J24
4750 Marco Caliendo
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Arne Uhlendorff
Locus of Control and Job Search Strategies
Standard job search theory assumes that unemployed individuals have perfect information about the effect of their search effort on the job offer arrival rate. In this paper, we present an alternative ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97(1), 88-103, Supplementary Appendix available)
J64
4749 Elliott Fan
Xin Meng
Zhichao Wei
Guochang Zhao
Rates of Return to University Education: The Regression Discontinuity Design
Estimating the rate of return to a university degree has always been difficult due to the problem of omitted variable biases. Benefiting from a special feature of the University Admission system in ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics 2018, 120 (4), 1011-1042.)
I21, I28, J24
4748 Wang-Sheng Lee
Sandy Suardi
Minimum Wages and Employment: Reconsidering the Use of a Time-Series Approach as an Evaluation Tool
The time-series approach used in the minimum wage literature essentially aims to estimate a treatment effect of increasing the minimum wage. In this paper, we employ a novel approach based on ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2011, 49, s376 - s401)
C22, J3
4747 Alberto Alesina
Yann Algan
Pierre Cahuc
Paola Giuliano
Family Values and the Regulation of Labor
Flexible labor markets require geographically mobile workers to be efficient. Otherwise, firms can take advantage of the immobility of workers and extract monopsony rents. In cultures with strong ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2015, 13 (4), 599-630)
E0, P16, Z10, Z13
4746 Danila Serra
Pieter Serneels
Abigail Barr
Intrinsic Motivations and the Non-Profit Health Sector: Evidence from Ethiopia
Economists have traditionally assumed that individual behavior is motivated exclusively by extrinsic incentives. Social psychologists, in contrast, stress that intrinsic motivations are also ...
(published in: Personality and Individual Differences, 2011, 51 (3), 309-314)
C93, I11, J24
4745 Jennifer Hunt
Which Immigrants Are Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial? Distinctions by Entry Visa
Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2011, 29 (3), 417-457)
J61, J24
4743 Oliver Falck
Stephan Heblich
Alfred Lameli
Jens Suedekum
Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange
We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2012, 72 (2-3), 225-239)
R23, Z10, J61
4742 Alexander M. Danzer
Firat Yaman
Ethnic Concentration and Language Fluency of Immigrants in Germany
Studies that investigate the effect of the regional ethnic composition on immigrant outcomes have been complicated by the self-selection of ethnic minorities into specific neighbourhoods. We analyse ...
(revised version published as 'Ethnic concentration and language fluency of immigrants: Evidence from the guest-worker placement in Germany' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 131(A), 151-165)
J61, R23, F22
4741 Leo Kaas
Christian Manger
Ethnic Discrimination in Germany's Labour Market: A Field Experiment
This paper studies ethnic discrimination in Germany's labour market with a correspondence test. To each of 528 advertisements for student internships we send two similar applications, one with a ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2012, 13 (1), 1-20)
C93, J71
4738 Peter Arcidiacono
V. Joseph Hotz
Songman Kang
Modeling College Major Choices Using Elicited Measures of Expectations and Counterfactuals
The choice of a college major plays a critical role in determining the future earnings of college graduates. Students make their college major decisions in part due to the future earnings streams ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2012, 166 (1), 3-16)
I2, C81
4737 Simone Bertoli
Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga
Francesc Ortega
Immigration Policies and the Ecuadorian Exodus
Ecuador experienced an unprecedented wave of international migration since the late 1990s, triggered by a severe economic and financial crisis. This paper gathers individual-level data from Ecuador ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2011, 25 (1), 57-76)
O15, J61, D31
4736 Alan Barrett
Jean Goggin
Returning to the Question of a Wage Premium for Returning Migrants
Using data from a large-scale survey of employees in Ireland, we estimate the extent to which people who have emigrated from Ireland and returned earn more relative to comparable people who have ...
(published in: National Institute Economic Review, 2010, 213 (1), R43-R51)
J61, O15
4735 Martin Kahanec
Michael P. Shields
The Working Hours of Immigrants in Germany: Temporary versus Permanent
Migration is often viewed as an investment decision. Temporary migrants can be expected to invest less in accumulating human capital specific to the host country. Instead, they work more hours in ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2013, 2:14)
J22, J61, F22
4734 Konstantinos Pouliakas
Ioannis Theodossiou
An Inquiry into the Theory, Causes and Consequences of Monitoring Indicators of Health and Safety at Work
This paper engages in an interdisciplinary survey of the current state of knowledge related to the theory, determinants and consequences of occupational safety and health (OSH). First, it synthesizes ...
(revised version published as 'The Economics of Health and Safety at Work: An Interdisciplinary Review of the Theory and Policy' in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2013, 27 (1), 167 - 208)
J17, J28, J81, K32
4733 Elena Bardasi
Kathleen Beegle
Andrew Dillon
Pieter Serneels
Do Labor Statistics Depend on How and to Whom the Questions Are Asked? Results from a Survey Experiment in Tanzania
Labor market statistics are critical for assessing and understanding economic development. In practice, widespread variation exists in how labor statistics are measured in household surveys in ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2012, 25 (3), 418-447)
J21, C83, C93
4732 Matthias Sutter
Simon Czermak
Francesco Feri
Strategic Sophistication of Individuals and Teams in Experimental Normal-Form Games
We present an experiment on strategic thinking and behavior of individuals and teams in one-shot normal-form games. Besides making choices, decision makers have to state their first- and second-order ...
(revised version published as 'Strategic sophistication of individuals and teams. Experimental evidence' in: European Economic Review, 2013, 64, 395-410)
C72, C91, C92
4731 Jozef Konings
Stijn Vanormelingen
The Impact of Training on Productivity and Wages: Firm Level Evidence
This paper uses firm level panel data of firm provided training to estimate its impact on productivity and wages. To this end the strategy proposed by Ackerberg, Caves and Frazer (2006) for ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97 (3), 485-497 )
J24, J31, L22
4730 Bénédicte Apouey
Andrew E. Clark
Winning Big but Feeling No Better? The Effect of Lottery Prizes on Physical and Mental Health
We use British panel data to determine the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes: general health status, mental health, physical health problems, and health behaviors ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2015, 24 (5), 516-538)
D1, I1, I3
4729 Peter Debaere
Holger Görg
Horst Raff
Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce: How Services Facilitate Firms' International Sourcing
We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empirical analysis we ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2013, 46 (1), 78-102)
F12, L23
4728 Francesco Bogliacino
Marco Vivarelli
The Job Creation Effect of R&D Expenditures
In this study we use a unique database covering 25 manufacturing and service sectors for 16 European countries over the period 1996-2005, for a total of 2,295 observations, and apply GMM-SYS panel ...
(published in: Australian Economic Papers, 2012, 51 (2), 96-113)
O33
4727 Bernard M. S. van Praag
Well-being Inequality and Reference Groups: An Agenda for New Research
In this paper it is argued that subjective well-being of the individual depends on two types of variables. The first type consists of characteristics of the individual himself, such as age, health, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, 9 (1), 111-127)
D31, D62, D63, I31
4726 Alexander M. Danzer
Retirement Responses to a Generous Pension Reform: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Eastern Europe
The retirement decision is under researched in developing and emerging countries, despite the topic's close relation to many development issues such as poverty reduction and social security, and ...
(revised version published as 'Benefit Generosity and the Income Effect on Labour Supply: Quasi-Experimental Evidence' in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (571), 1059-1084)
J26, I38, O15
4725 Martin Schlotter
Guido Schwerdt
Ludger Woessmann
Econometric Methods for Causal Evaluation of Education Policies and Practices: A Non-Technical Guide
Education policy-makers and practitioners want to know which policies and practices can best achieve their goals. But research that can inform evidence-based policy often requires complex methods to ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2011, 19 (2), 109-137)
I20, C01
4723 Vincent Boucher
Yann Bramoullé
Habiba Djebbari
Bernard Fortin
Do Peers Affect Student Achievement? Evidence from Canada Using Group Size Variation
We provide the first empirical application of a new approach proposed by Lee (2007) to estimate peer effects in a linear-in-means model. This approach allows to control for group-level unobservables ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2014, 29 (1), 91-109)
C31, I20, Z13
4719 Stephen Machin
Kjell G. Salvanes
Valuing School Quality via a School Choice Reform
Among policymakers, educators and economists there remains a strong, sometimes heated, debate on the extent to which good schools matter. This is seen, for instance, in the strong trend towards ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2016, 118, 3-24)
I2
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