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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
4633 Nils Braakmann
Joachim Wagner
Labor Market Adjustments after a Large Import Shock: Evidence from the German Clothing Industry and the Multi-Fibre Arrangement
This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement. Using the German shoe industry ...
(published in: Dierk Hirschel, Peter Paic und Markus Zwick (Hrsg.), Daten in der wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Forschung, Wiesbaden, Springer Gabler 2013, 201-224)
F13, F14, F16
4630 Pierre Cahuc
Edouard Challe
Produce or Speculate? Asset Bubbles, Occupational Choice and Efficiency
We study the macroeconomic effects of rational asset bubbles in an overlapping-generations economy where asset trading requires specialized intermediaries and where agents freely choose between ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2012, 53 (4), 1005-1035.)
E22, E44, G21
4627 Herwig Immervoll
Minimum-Income Benefits in OECD Countries: Policy Design, Effectiveness and Challenges
Almost all OECD countries operate comprehensive minimum-income programmes for working-age individuals, either as last-resort safety nets alongside primary income replacement benefits, or as the ...
(published in: D. J. Besharov and K. A. Couch (eds.), 2012, Counting the Poor, Oxford University Press, 171-209. Also available as OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper)
I38, H53, D31, H31
4626 Krishna Pendakur
Simon D. Woodcock
Glass Ceilings or Glass Doors? Wage Disparity Within and Between Firms
We investigate whether immigrant and minority workers’ poor access to high-wage jobs – that is, glass ceilings – is attributable to poor access to jobs in high-wage firms, a phenomenon we call glass ...
(published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2010, 28(1), 181-189)
J15, J71, J31
4624 Mariana Blanco
Dirk Engelmann
Alexander K. Koch
Hans-Theo Normann
Preferences and Beliefs in a Sequential Social Dilemma: A Within-Subjects Analysis
Within-subject data from sequential social dilemma experiments reveal a correlation of first-and second-mover decisions for which two channels may be responsible, that our experiment allows to ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2014, 87, 122–135. )
C72, C90
4623 Admasu Shiferaw
Arjun S. Bedi
The Dynamics of Job Creation and Job Destruction: Is Sub-Saharan Africa Different?
This paper analyzes the creation, destruction and reallocation of jobs in order to understand the micro-dynamics of aggregate employment change in African manufacturing. The nature and magnitude of ...
(published as 'The Dynamics of Job Creation and Job Destruction in an African Economy: Evidence from Ethiopia' in: Journal of African Economies, 2013, 22(5), 651-692)
J20, J23, J49
4622 Raquel Fonseca
Pierre-Carl Michaud
Titus Galama
Arie Kapteyn
On The Rise of Health Spending and Longevity
We use a calibrated stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement to investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and life expectancy ...
(published as 'Accounting for the Rise of Health Spending and Longevity' in: Journal of the European Economics Association, 2021, 19 (1), 536 - 579)
I10, I38, J26
4621 Joan de Martí
Yves Zenou
Social Networks
We survey the literature on social networks by putting together the economics, sociological and physics/applied mathematics approaches, showing their similarities and differences. We expose, in ...
(published in: Ian Jarvie and Jesus Zamora-Bonilla (eds.), The SAGE Handbook of the Philosophy of Social Science, London: Sage Publications, 2011.)
A14, C72, D85, Z13
4620 Amelie F. Constant
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Integration
This chapter deals with the economic and ethnic diversity caused by international labor migration, and their economic integration possibilities. It brings together three strands of literature dealing ...
(published in: M. N. Jovanovic (ed.), International Handbook on the Economics of Integration, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, 2011, 145 - 168. Revised version published in: A. F. Constant, K. F. Zimmermann, International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, pp. 13-36.)
F22, J15, J16, Z10
4619 Jens Suedekum
Katja Wolf
Uwe Blien
Cultural Diversity and Local Labour Markets
During the last decade there have been marked changes in the composition of the non-native workforce in the German labour market. In particular there has been a notable increase in the diversity of ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2014, 48 (1), 173-191)
R23, J21, J31
4618 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
David C. Ribar
Financial Stress, Family Conflict, and Youths' Successful Transition to Adult Roles
We analyze the effect of mothers' and youths' reports of family financial stress and conflict on youths' transitions into adult roles. We find that mothers’ reports of financial stresses and ...
(published as 'Financial Stress, Family Conflict, and Australian Youths’ Transitions from Home and School' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2012, 11 (4), 469 - 490.)
D13, J13
4617 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Susan Pozo
New Evidence on the Role of Remittances on Health Care Expenditures by Mexican Households
Using Mexico's 2002 wave of the Encuesta Nacional de Ingresos y Gastos de los Hogares (ENIGH), we find that international remittances raise health care expenditures. Approximately 6 pesos of every ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (1), 69-98.)
F24, I1
4616 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Thitima Puttitanun
Gender Differences in Native Preferences towards Undocumented and Legal Immigration: Evidence from San Diego
The literature has noted that native views about legal as opposed to undocumented immigration in the U.S. differ. Furthermore, native views about immigration are known to vary by gender. Yet, most ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2011, 29 (1), 31-45)
J61, F22
4614 Melanie Khamis
Is Informal Sector Work an Alternative to Workfare Benefits? The Case of Pre-Program Expansion and Economic Crisis
Limited availability of workfare programs and unemployment insurance and a large informal sector are features of the Argentine labor market at the outset of the 2001 economic crisis. This paper tests ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2012, 16 (4), 579–593)
J42, J48, O17
4613 Massimiliano Bratti
Roberto Leombruni
Local Human Capital Externalities and Wages at the Firm Level: The Case of Italian Manufacturing
We use a unique firm-level data set merging administrative information on average wages paid by firms by skill level (blue collars and white collars), Population Census information on the local stock ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 41, 161-175)
J24, J31, I20
4611 Alexander Mosthaf
Thorsten Schank
Claus Schnabel
Low-Wage Employment versus Unemployment: Which One Provides Better Prospects for Women?
This study analyzes state dependence in low-wage employment of western German women using GSOEP data, 2000-2006. We estimate dynamic multinomial logit models with random effects and find that having ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3:21)
J30, J60, C33
4610 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Gerard A. Pfann
Markets for Reputation: Evidence on Quality and Quantity in Academe
We develop a theory of the market for individual reputation, an indicator of regard by one’s peers and others. The central questions are: 1) Does the quantity of exposures raise reputation ...
(published as 'Reputation and Earnings: The Roles of Quality and Quantity in Academe' in: Economic Inquiry, 2012, 50 (1), 1 - 16)
L14, J31
4608 Ron Leung
Marco Stampini
Désiré Vencatachellum
Does Human Capital Protect Workers against Exogenous Shocks? South Africa in the 2008-2009 Crisis
The financial and economic crisis of 2008 and 2009 has taken its toll on the South African economy. The economy contracted for the first time since 1998, and entered recession during the fourth ...
(substantially revised version published in: South African Journal of Economics, 2014, 82(1), 99-116)
J2, E3
4607 Patrick A. Puhani
Katja Sonderhof
The Effects of a Sick Pay Reform on Absence and on Health-Related Outcomes
We evaluate the effects of a reduction in sick pay from 100 to 80% of the wage. Unlike previous literature, apart from absence from work, we also consider effects on doctor/hospital visits and ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2010, 29 (2), 285-302)
I18, J58, J83
4606 Xavier D'Haultfoeuille
Arnaud Maurel
Inference on a Generalized Roy Model, with an Application to Schooling Decisions in France
This paper considers the identification and estimation of an extension of Roy's model (1951) of occupational choice, which includes a non-pecuniary component in the decision equation and allows for ...
(published as 'Inference on an Extended Roy Model, with an Application to Schooling Decisions in France' in: Journal of Econometrics, 2013, 174 (2), 95–106)
C14, C25, J24
4605 Joachim Wagner
Offshoring and Firm Performance: Self-Selection, Effects on Performance, or Both?
This paper uses unique new data for German manufacturing enterprises from matched regular surveys and a special purpose survey to investigate the causal effect of relocation of activities to a ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2011, 147 (2), 217-247)
F23
4604 Spiros Bougheas
Indraneel Dasgupta
Oliver Morrissey
Repayment versus Investment Conditions and Exclusivity in Lending Contracts
Lenders condition future loans on some index of past performance. Typically, banks condition future loans on repayments of earlier obligations whilst international organizations (official lenders) ...
(published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2011, 167 (2), 247-265.)
G21, F34
4603 Pierre-André Chiappori
Olivier Donni
Non-unitary Models of Household Behavior: A Survey of the Literature
This article considers non-unitary models of household behavior. These models suppose explicitly that households consist of a number of different members with preferences that are different from each ...
(published in: Alberto Molina (ed.), Household Economic Behaviors, Berlin: Springer, 2011, 1 - 40.)
D11, D13, J22
4601 Beatrice Brunner
Andreas Kuhn
To Shape the Future: How Labor Market Entry Conditions Affect Individuals' Long-Run Wage Profiles
We study the long-run effects of initial labor market conditions on wages for a large sample of male individuals entering the Austrian labor market between 1978 and 2000. We find a robust negative ...
(completely revised version published as IZA DP No. 5360)
E3, J2, J3, J6, M5
4600 Andrew J. Oswald
Stephen Wu
Well-being across America
This paper uses new Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data to provide the first estimates of well-being across the states of America. From this sample of 1.3 million US citizens, we analyze ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93 (4), 1118-1134)
D1, I3
4599 Cahit Guven
Claudia Senik
Holger Stichnoth
You Can't Be Happier than Your Wife: Happiness Gaps and Divorce
This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2012, 82 (1), 110-130)
J12, D13, D63, D64, H31, I31, Z13
4598 Rolf Aaberge
Ugo Colombino
Accounting for Family Background when Designing Optimal Income Taxes: A Microeconometric Simulation Analysis
The purpose of this paper is to introduce and adopt a generalised version of Roemer's (1998) Equality of Opportunity (EOp) framework, which we call extended EOp, for analysing second-best optimal ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2012, 25 (2), 741-761)
D19, D63, H21, H24, H31
4597 Nauro F. Campos
Ahmad Saleh
Vitaliy S. Kuzeyev
Dynamic Ethnic Fractionalization and Economic Growth in the Transition Economies from 1989 to 2007
In their survey of the literature on ethnic fractionalization and economic performance, Alesina and La Ferrara (JEL 2005) identify two main directions for future research. One is to improve the ...
(published in: Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2011, 20 (2),129-152 )
O11, Z12, O55, H1
4596 Indraneel Dasgupta
Contraction Consistent Stochastic Choice Correspondence
We model a general choice environment via probabilistic choice correspondences, with (possibly) incomplete domain and infinite universal set of alternatives. We offer a consistency restriction ...
(published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2011, 37 (4), 643-658)
D11, D71
4594 Pierre-André Chiappori
Sonia Oreffice
Climent Quintana-Domeque
Fatter Attraction: Anthropometric and Socioeconomic Characteristics in the Marriage Market
We construct a matching model on the marriage market along more than one characteristic, where individuals have preferences over physical attractiveness (proxied by anthropometric characteristics) ...
(revised version published as 'Fatter Attraction: Anthropometric and Socioeconomic Matching on the Marriage Market' in: Journal of Political Economy, 2012, 120 (4), 659-695. )
D1, J1
4593 Olena Y. Nizalova
Maria Vyshnya
Evaluation of the Impact of the Mother and Infant Health Project in Ukraine
This paper exploits a unique opportunity to evaluate the impact of the quality change in the labor and delivery services on maternal and infant health. Since basic medical care has been universally ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2010, Volume 19 (Supplement 1), 107–125)
I12, I18
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