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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
João 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
4657 Subal C. Kumbhakar
Raquel Ortega-Argilés
Lesley Potters
Marco Vivarelli
Peter Voigt
Corporate R&D and Firm Efficiency: Evidence from Europe’s Top R&D Investors
The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities on firms' performance, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is ...
(published in: Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2012, 37, 125-140)
L2, O3
4656 Astrid Kunze
Kenneth Troske
Life-Cycle Patterns in Male/Female Differences in Job Search
We investigate whether women search longer for a job than men and whether these differences change over the life cycle. Our empirical analysis exploits German register data on highly attached ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (2), 176-185)
J31, J63, J64, J71
4655 Alpaslan Akay
Dynamics of the Employment Assimilation of First-Generation Immigrant Men in Sweden: Comparing Dynamic and Static Assimilation Models with Longitudinal Data
We analyse the dynamics of employment assimilation of first-generation immigrant men in Sweden using a high-quality, register-based panel data set. It is discussed that when there are significant ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Dynamics of Employment Assimilation' in IZA Journal of Migration, 2016, 15:3)
C33, J15, J61
4654 Olivier B. Bargain
Olivier Donni
The Measurement of Child Costs: A Rothbarth-Type Method Consistent with Scale Economies
We propose a new methodology to estimate the share of household income accruing to children (i.e., the cost of children). Following the principle of the Rothbarth approach, the identification of the ...
(published as 'Expenditure on Children: A Rothbarth-Type Method Consistent with Scale Economies and Parents' Bargaining' in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56 (4), 792-813)
D11, D12, C30, D36, I31, J12
4652 Diane J. Macunovich
Older Men: Pushed into Retirement by the Baby Boomers?
The United States has experienced over the past forty years an apparent correspondence between the pattern of retirement among men aged 55-69, and the proportion of workers aged 25-34 working ...
(published in: Monthly Labor Review, 2012, 135 (5), 3-18.)
J14, J21, J22, J26
4650 Marianne Simonsen
Lars Skipper
The Family Gap in Wages: What Wombmates Reveal
We shed new light on the effects of having children on hourly wages by exploiting access to data on the entire population of employed same-sex twins in Denmark. Our second contribution is the use of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (1), 102-112)
J13, J24, J31, J71
4648 Konstantinos Pouliakas
Deborah Roberts
Eudokia Balamou
Demetrios Psaltopoulos
Modelling the Effects of Immigration on Regional Economic Performance and the Wage Distribution: A CGE Analysis of Three EU Regions
The paper uses a regional Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to analyse the effects of immigration on three small remote EU regions located within Scotland, Greece and Latvia. Two migration ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2014, 48(2), 318-338)
D33, D58, R13, R23
4647 Rudolf Kerschbamer
Matthias Sutter
Uwe Dulleck
The Impact of Distributional Preferences on (Experimental) Markets for Expert Services
Credence goods markets suffer from inefficiencies arising from informational asymmetries between expert sellers and customers. While standard theory predicts that inefficiencies disappear if ...
(published with new title "How social preferences shape incentives in (experimental) markets for credence goods" in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127, 393-416.)
C72, C91, D82
4645 Andrew J. Oswald
Eugenio Proto
Daniel Sgroi
Happiness and Productivity
The paper provides evidence that happiness raises productivity. In Experiment 1, a randomized trial is designed. Some subjects have their happiness levels increased, while those in a control group do ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33 (4), 789-822)
D03, J24, C91
4644 Olivier B. Bargain
Karina Doorley
In-Work Transfers in Good Times and Bad: Simulations for Ireland
In-work transfers are often seen as a good trade-off between redistribution and efficiency, as they alleviate poverty among low-wage households while increasing financial incentives to work. The ...
(published in: Solomon W. Polachek, Konstantinos Tatsiramos (eds.), 2011, Research in Labor Economics (Research in Labor Economics, Volume 33), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 307-339)
C25, C52, H31, J22
4643 Özgür Gürerk
Bernd Irlenbusch
Bettina Rockenbach
Voting with Feet: Community Choice in Social Dilemmas
Economic and social interactions often take place in open communities but the dynamics of the community choice process and its impact on cooperation of its members are yet not well understood. We ...
(completely revised version published as 'On Cooperation in Open Communities' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 120, 220–230)
C72, C92, H41
4642 Denisa M. Sologon
Cathal O'Donoghue
Equalizing or Disequalizing Lifetime Earnings Differentials? Earnings Mobility in the EU: 1994-2001
Do EU citizens have an increased opportunity to improve their position in the distribution of lifetime earnings? To what extent does earnings mobility work to equalize/disequalize longer-term ...
(published in: John A. Bishop and Rafael Salas (eds.), Inequality, Mobility, and Segregation: Essays in Honor of Jacques Silber (Research in Economic Inequality, Vol 20), 2012, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 237-283)
C23, D31, J31, J60
4641 Sherrilyn M. Billger
Frank D. Beck
The Determinants of High School Closures: Lessons from Longitudinal Data throughout Illinois
Facing substantial financial pressure, many districts close schools in order to preserve solvency and improve student outcomes. Using a new longitudinal data set on all non-Cook County Illinois ...
(published in: Journal of Education Finance, 2012, 38 (2), 83-101)
I22, I21, J24
4640 Olof Aslund
Lena Hensvik
Oskar Nordström Skans
Seeking Similarity: How Immigrants and Natives Manage at the Labor Market
We show that immigrant managers are substantially more likely to hire immigrants than are native managers. The finding holds when comparing establishments in the same 5-digit industry and location, ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 32(3), 405–442)
J15, J21, J62, M51
4639 Riccardo Faini
Steinar Strom
Alessandra Venturini
Claudia Villosio
Are Foreign Migrants More Assimilated Than Native Ones?
The paper compares the pattern of wage assimilation of foreigners with both native immigrants and local natives in Italy, a country with large internal and international migration. This comparison, ...
(published as 'Wage assimilation of immigrants and internal migrants: the role of linguistic distance' in: Regional Studies, 2018, 52, 1423-1434 )
J31, J61, C23
4638 Aderonke Osikominu
Quick Job Entry or Long-Term Human Capital Development? The Dynamic Effects of Alternative Training Schemes
This study evaluates and compares the effectiveness of two alternative training schemes for the unemployed: short, job-search oriented training and long, human capital oriented training. We ...
(revised version published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2013, 80 (1), 313-342)
J64, C41, J68, I28
4637 Marco Francesconi
Christian Ghiglino
Motty Perry
On the Origin of the Family
This paper presents an overlapping generations model to explain why humans live in families rather than in other pair groupings. Since most non-human species are not familial, something special must ...
(revised version published as 'An Evolutionary Theory of Monogamy' in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2016, 166, 605-628)
C72, D01, D10, J12, Z13
4636 Ilias Livanos
Konstantinos Pouliakas
The Gender Wage Gap as a Function of Educational Degree Choices in an Occupationally Segregated EU Country
This study investigates the extent to which differences in the subject of degree studied by male and female university graduates contributes to the gender pay gap, and the reasons underlying their ...
(published as 'Educational segregation and the gender wage gap in Greece' in: Journal of Economic Studies, 2012, 39 (5), 554-575)
J16, J24, J31, J71
4635 Alessandro Cigno
What's the Use of Marriage?
We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and ...
(published as 'Marriage as a commitment device' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2012, 10 (2), 171-192)
D13, J12, J13, J16, J24, K30
4634 Joachim R. Frick
Markus M. Grabka
Accounting for Imputed and Capital Income Flows in Income Inequality Analyses
Using representative and consistent microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) from 1985-2007, we illustrate that capital income (CI = return on financial investments) and imputed ...
(published in: Douglas J. Besharov and Kenneth Couch (eds.), Counting the Poor: New Thinking About European Poverty Measures and Lessons for the United States, Oxford 2012, 117-142)
D31, D33, I31
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