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4717 Elena Cottini
Claudio Lucifora
Mental Health and Working Conditions in European Countries
Increased pressure for labour market flexibility and increasing demand over workers' performance have fostered the idea that working conditions, in most European countries, have progressively ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2013, 66 (4), 958-988)
C25, I10, J81, J28
4716 Leilanie Basilio
Thomas K. Bauer
Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation: An Analysis for Germany
This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using ...
(published in: Labour, 2017, 31 (3), 245 - 264)
J61, J31, J24
4715 Ariel Kalil
Magne Mogstad
Mari Rege
Mark Votruba
Divorced Fathers' Proximity and Children's Long Run Outcomes: Evidence from Norwegian Registry Data
This study examines the link between divorced nonresident fathers' proximity and children's long-run outcomes using high-quality data from Norwegian population registers. We follow (from birth to ...
(published in: Demography, 2011, 48 (3), 1005-1027)
J12, J13
4714 Rolf Aaberge
Magne Mogstad
Vito Peragine
Measuring Long-Term Inequality of Opportunity
In this paper, we introduce and apply a general framework for evaluating long-term income distributions according to the Equality of Opportunity principle. Our framework allows for both an ex-ante ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (3-4), 193-204)
D71, D91, I32
4713 Konstantinos Pouliakas
Pay Enough, Don't Pay Too Much or Don't Pay at All? The Impact of Bonus Intensity on Job Satisfaction
Using ten waves (1998-2007) of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), this paper investigates the ceteris paribus association between the intensity of incentive pay, the dynamic change in bonus ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2010, 63 (4), 597-626)
C23, J28, J33, M52, M54
4712 Laura Hospido
Modelling Heterogeneity and Dynamics in the Volatility of Individual Wages
This paper presents a model for the heterogeneity and dynamics of the conditional mean and the conditional variance of standardized individual wages. In particular, a heteroskedastic autoregressive ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2012, 27 (3), 386-414)
C23, J31
4711 Olivier B. Bargain
Prudence Magejo
Is Informality Bad? Evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa
The informal sector plays an important role in the functioning of labor markets in emerging economies. To characterize better this highly heterogeneous sector, we conduct a distributional analysis of ...
(published as 'Earnings Structure, Informal Employment and Self-Employment: New Evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2011, 57, S100-S122)
J21, J23, J24, J31, O17
4710 Björn Bartling
Ernst Fehr
Klaus M. Schmidt
Screening, Competition, and Job Design: Economic Origins of Good Jobs
In recent decades, many firms offered more discretion to their employees, often increasing the productivity of effort but also leaving more opportunities for shirking. These "high-performance work ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (2), 834-864)
C91, D86
4708 Jesús Fernández-Villaverde
Jeremy Greenwood
Nezih Guner
From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years: An Economic Model of the Rise in Premarital Sex and its De-Stigmatization
Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such as time and effort. Parents weigh the marginal gains from socialization against ...
(published in: Journal of European Economic Association, 2014, 12 (1), 25-61)
D1, J11, J12, J13, E1
4707 Erkki Koskela
Jan König
Profit Sharing, Wage Formation and Flexible Outsourcing under Labor Market Imperfection
We combine profit sharing and outsourcing, if the wage for worker is decided by a labor union to analyze how does the implementation of profit sharing affect individual effort and the bargained wage ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2012, 20 (1), 18-28)
E23, E24, J23, J33, J82
4706 Fernanda Brollo
Tommaso Nannicini
Roberto Perotti
Guido Tabellini
The Political Resource Curse
The paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (5), 1759-1796)
D72, D73, H40, H77
4704 Harley Frazis
Jay Stewart
Why Do BLS Hours Series Tell Different Stories About Trends in Hours Worked?
Hours worked is an important economic indicator. In addition to being a measure of labor utilization, average weekly hours are inputs into measures of productivity and hourly wages, which are two key ...
(published in: Katharine G. Abraham, Michael J. Harper, and James R. Spletzer (eds.), Labor in the New Economy, NBER Studies in Income and Wealth, University of Chicago Press, 2010, 343-372)
C81, J22
4703 Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell
Xavier Ramos
Inequality Aversion and Risk Attitudes
Using self reported measures of life satisfaction and risk attitudes, we empirically test whether there is a relationship between individuals inequality and risk aversion. The empirical analysis uses ...
(substantially revised version published as "Distaste for Inequality? The Role of Risk Aversion" in: M. Rojas (ed.), The Economics of Happiness, Springer, 2019.)
D3, D63, I31
4702 Flavio Cunha
James J. Heckman
Susanne Schennach
Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation
This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills. Skills are determined by parental environments and investments at different ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2010, 78 (3), 883-931)
C31, J13
4701 Susanne Ek Spector
Bertil Holmlund
Family Job Search, Wage Bargaining, and Optimal Unemployment Insurance
The paper develops an equilibrium search and matching model where two-person families as well as singles participate in the labor market. We show that equilibrium entails wage dispersion among ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2010, 10 (1))
J31, J64, J65
4700 Marc Ferracci
Grégory Jolivet
Gerard J. van den Berg
Treatment Evaluation in the Case of Interactions within Markets
We extend the standard evaluation framework to allow for interactions between individuals within segmented markets. An individual's outcome depends not only on the assigned treatment status but also ...
(published as 'Evidence of Treatment Spillovers within Markets', 2014, 96 (5), 812 - 823)
C13, C14, C21, C31, J64
4698 Julie Zissimopoulos
James P. Smith
Unequal Giving: Monetary Gifts to Children Across Countries and Over Time
Money parents give their adult children may be important for the financing of a child's education or a first home, relaxing binding credit constraints or responding to a transitory income shock. ...
(published in: Timothy Smeeding, Robert Erikson, and Markus Jantti (eds.), Persistence, Privilege, Policy and Parenting: The Comparative Study of Intergenerational Mobility. Russell Sage Foundation, 2011)
J10
4696 Alexander Mosthaf
Claus Schnabel
Jens Stephani
Low-Wage Careers: Are There Dead-End Firms and Dead-End Jobs?
Using representative linked employer-employee data of the German Federal Employment Agency, this paper shows that just one out of seven full-time employees who earned low wages (i.e. less than ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung /Journal for Labour Market Research, 2011, 43 (3), 231-249)
J30, J60
4695 Andrew J. Oswald
Stephen Wu
Objective Confirmation of Subjective Measures of Human Well-being: Evidence from the USA
A huge research literature, across the behavioral and social sciences, uses information on individuals' subjective well-being. These are responses to questions – asked by survey interviewers or ...
(published in: Science, 2010, 327 (5965), 576-579)
I31
4694 Sean Holly
M. Hashem Pesaran
Takashi Yamagata
Spatial and Temporal Diffusion of House Prices in the UK
This paper provides a method for the analysis of the spatial and temporal diffusion of shocks in a dynamic system. We use changes in real house prices within the UK economy at the level of regions to ...
(published as 'The spatial and temporal diffusion of house prices in the UK ' in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2011, 69 (1), 2-23)
C21, C23
4693 Luis Diaz-Serrano
Do Legal Immigrants and Natives Compete in the Labour Market? Evidence from Catalonia
The precondition for labour-market competition between immigrants and natives is that both are willing to accept jobs that do not differ in quality. To test this hypothesis, in this paper we compare ...
(published as 'Immigrants, Natives and Job Quality: Evidence from Spain' in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (7), 753-775)
J28, J61, J81
4692 Florencia López Bóo
In School or at Work? Evidence from a Crisis
This paper examines the effect of labor market opportunities on schooling-employment decisions in 12 urban areas in Argentina over 12 years, emphasizing the recession/crisis years 1998-2002. The ...
(published in: Oxford Development Studies, 2012, 40 (3), 381-404)
I21, J31
4691 Jan C. van Ours
Sander Tuit
How Changes in Unemployment Benefit Duration Affect the Inflow into Unemployment
We study how changes in the maximum benefit duration affect the inflow into unemployment in the Netherlands. Until August 2003, workers who became unemployed after age 57.5 were entitled to ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 109 (2), 105-107)
H55, J64, J65
4690 Alison L. Booth
Andrew Leigh
Do Employers Discriminate by Gender? A Field Experiment in Female-Dominated Occupations
We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely to receive a callback, with the difference being largest in occupations that are ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 107 (2), 236-238)
J71, C93
4689 Magne Mogstad
Matthew Wiswall
Instrumental Variables Estimation with Partially Missing Instruments
We examine instrumental variables estimation in situations where the instrument is only observed for a sub-sample, which is fairly common in empirical research. Typically, researchers simply limit ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 114 (2), 186-189)
C31, C34
4688 Catia Batista
Pedro C. Vicente
Do Migrants Improve Governance at Home? Evidence from a Voting Experiment
This paper tests the hypothesis that international migration experiences may promote better institutions at home by raising the demand for political accountability. In order to examine this question, ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2011, 25 (1), 77-104)
F22, O12, O15, O43, P16
4687 Simon Gächter
Christian Thöni
Social Comparison and Performance: Experimental Evidence on the Fair Wage-Effort Hypothesis
We investigate the impact of wage comparisons for worker productivity. We present three studies which all use three-person gift-exchange experiments. Consistent with Akerlof and Yellen's (1990) fair ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2010, 76 (3), 531-543)
J31, J71, C91, C92
4686 Alison L. Booth
Jan C. van Ours
Part-Time Jobs: What Women Want?
Part-time jobs are popular among partnered women in many countries. In the Netherlands the majority of partnered working women have a part-time job. Our paper investigates, from a supply-side ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (1), 263-283)
J22, I31, J16
4685 Andrea Salvatori
Labour Contract Regulations and Workers' Wellbeing: International Longitudinal Evidence
All industrialized countries have Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) for permanent workers and Restrictions on the use of Temporary Employment (RTE). The (ambiguous) effects of these on the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (4), 667-678)
J28
4684 Dan-Olof Rooth
Work Out or Out of Work: The Labor Market Return to Physical Fitness and Leisure Sport Activities
This study is the first to present evidence of the return to leisure sports in the job hiring process by sending fictitious applications to real job openings in the Swedish labor market. In the field ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (3), 399-409)
J21, J64, J71
4683 Catia Batista
Jacques Potin
International Specialization and the Return to Capital
How does factor accumulation affect the pattern of international specialization and returns to capital? We provide a new integrated treatment to this question using a panel of 44 developing and ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (Advances), 2015, 15 (2), 467-508)
F11, F21, O40
4682 Dennis Coates
T. H. Gindling
Are Hispanic Immigrant Families Reviving the Economies of America's Small Towns?
In the 1990s, rural areas and small towns in the United States, which had been losing population, became the destinations for an increasing number of Hispanic immigrants and their families, slowing ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2013, 31 (4), 649-668)
R11, R23, O4
4681 Gonzalo Reyes Hartley
Jan C. van Ours
Milan Vodopivec
Incentive Effects of Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts: Evidence from Chile
This study examines the determinants of job-finding rates of unemployment benefit recipients under the Chilean program. This is a unique, innovative program that combines social insurance through a ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (6), 798-809)
C41, H55, J64, J65
4680 James J. Heckman
Bas Jacobs
Policies to Create and Destroy Human Capital in Europe
Trends in skill bias and greater turbulence in modern labor markets put wages and employment prospects of unskilled workers under pressure. Weak incentives to utilize and maintain skills over the ...
(published in: Hans-Werner Sinn and Edmund Phelps (eds.), Perspectives on the Performance of the Continental Economies, MIT Press, 2011, 253-322)
H2, H5, I2, I3, J2, J3
4679 Danny Cohen-Zada
Mark Gradstein
Ehud Reuven
Class Size and the Regression Discontinuity Design: The Case of Public Schools
Using a rich individual-level dataset on secondary public schools in Israel, we find strong evidence for discontinuities in the relationship between enrollment and household characteristics at cutoff ...
(published as 'Allocation of students in public schools: Theory and new evidence' in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 34, 96-106)
I20
4676 Melanie Khamis
A Note on Informality in the Labor Market
This paper provides a detailed analysis of various dimensions of informality in the Mexican labor market. To understand the nature of informality in terms of regulations and compliance, the ...
(published in: Journal of International Development, 2012, 24 (7), 894-908)
J40, O17
4675 Amelie F. Constant
Olga Nottmeyer
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Cultural Integration in Germany
This chapter investigates the integration processes of immigrants in Germany by comparing certain immigrant groups to natives differentiating by gender and immigrant generation. Indicators which are ...
(published in: Yann Algan, Alberto Bisin, Alan Manning and Thierry Verdier (eds.): Cultural Integration of Immigrants in Europe, Oxford: OUP, 2012, Chapter 3, 69-124)
F22, J15, J61, Z13
4673 Hartmut Lehmann
Alexander Muravyev
How Important Are Labor Market Institutions for Labor Market Performance in Transition Countries?
This paper offers a first comprehensive study of the relationship between labor market institutions and policies and labor market performance in the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Transition, 2012, 20 (2), 235-269 )
E24, J21, P20
4672 Olivier B. Bargain
Olivier Donni
Monnet Benoit Patrick Gbakou
The Measurement of Child Costs: Evidence from Ireland
We apply an extension of the Rothbarth approach to estimate the share of household resources accruing to children (i.e., the cost of children) in Ireland. The method also allows us to identify the ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2010, 41 (1), 1-20)
D11, D12, C30, D36, I31, J12
4671 James Albrecht
Pieter A. Gautier
Susan Vroman
Directed Search in the Housing Market
In this paper, we present a directed search model of the housing market. The pricing mechanism we analyze reflects the way houses are bought and sold in the United States. Our model is consistent ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2016, 19, 218-231)
D83, R31
4670 Marco Caliendo
Konstantinos Tatsiramos
Arne Uhlendorff
Benefit Duration, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality: A Regression-Discontinuity Approach
The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed individuals. Standard search theory predicts that an increase in UI benefit ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2013, 28 (4), 604-627)
C41, J64
4669 Alexander Muravyev
Investor Protection and the Value of Shares: Evidence from Statutory Rules Governing Variations of Shareholders' Class Rights in Russia
This paper uses a quasi-experimental framework provided by recent changes in Russian corporate law to study the effect of investor protection on the value of shares. The legal change analyzed ...
(revised version published as 'Investor Protection and the Value of Shares: Evidence from Statutory Rules Governing Variations of Shareholders’ Class Rights in an Emerging Market ' in: Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2013, 29(6), 1344-1383)
G30, G38, K22
4667 Giorgio Brunello
Daniele Fabbri
Margherita Fort
Years of Schooling, Human Capital and the Body Mass Index of European Females
We use the compulsory school reforms implemented in European countries after the II World War to investigate the causal effect of education on the Body Mass Index (BMI) and the incidence of ...
(published as 'The Causal effect of education on body mass: evidence from Europe' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 31(1), 195-223 )
I12, I21
4666 Charlene M. Kalenkoski
Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia
Time to Work or Time to Play: The Effect of Student Employment on Homework, Sleep, and Screen Time
We use detailed time-diary information on high school students' daily activities from the 2003-2008 American Time Use Surveys (ATUS) to investigate the effects of employment on the time a student ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (2), 211-221)
J13, J22, J24
4665 Marco Caliendo
Income Support Systems, Labor Market Policies and Labor Supply: The German Experience
In view of the demographic trends, most EU countries face the problem of a declining work force in the future. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment ...
(substantially revised and extended version available as IZA DP No. 6810)
J26, J38, J68
4664 Ronald G. Ehrenberg
George H. Jakubson
Mirinda L. Martin
Joyce B. Main
Thomas Eisenberg
Do Trustees and Administrators Matter? Diversifying the Faculty Across Gender Lines
Our paper focuses on the role that the gender composition of the leaders of American colleges and universities- trustees, presidents/chancellors, and provosts/academic vice presidents - plays in ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31 (1), 9-18)
J16, J44, I21
4661 Marco Caliendo
Alexander S. Kritikos
"I Want to, But I Also Need to": Start-Ups Resulting from Opportunity and Necessity
When unemployed persons go into business, they often are characterized as necessity entrepreneurs, because push factors, namely their unemployment, likely prompted their decision. In contrast to ...
(published in: Erik Lehmann and M. Keilbach, M. (eds.), From Industrial Organization to Entrepreneurship: A Tribute to David B. Audretsch, Springer, New York, 2019, 247-265)
D81, J23, M13
4660 Amelie F. Constant
Martin Kahanec
Ulf Rinne
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Ethnicity, Job Search and Labor Market Reintegration of the Unemployed
This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment in Germany. Our data include a large number of migration variables, allowing us ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2011, 32 (7), 753-776 )
F22, J15, J61, J64
4659 Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
Maharouf Oyolola
Welfare Usage in the U.S.: Does Immigrant Birthplace and Immigration Status Matter?
The study of welfare participation in the U.S. prior to the 1996 welfare reform act and even afterward has focused on comparisons between native born and immigrant households. Analyses that have gone ...
(revised version published as 'Do Immigrant Groups Differ in Welfare Usage? Evidence from the U.S.A' in: Atlantic Economic Journal, 2011, 39 (3), 231-247)
J2, J24, J38, I21, O12, O15
4658 Marcos Chamon
Joăo M. P. de Mello
Sergio Firpo
Electoral Rules, Political Competition and Fiscal Expenditures: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities
We exploit a discontinuity in Brazilian municipal election rules to investigate whether political competition has a causal impact on policy choices. In municipalities with less than 200,000 voters ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55 (1),19-38)
H72, D72, C14, P1
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