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4592 Mario Centeno
Alvaro A. Novo
When Supply Meets Demand: Wage Inequality in Portugal
Wage inequality in Portugal increased over the last quarter of century. The period from 1982 to 1995 witnessed strong increases in both upper- and lower-tail inequality. A shortage of skills combined ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3 (23) )
J3, D3, O3
4591 Gianna Claudia Giannelli
Ursula Jaenichen
Claudia Villosio
Have Labour Market Reforms at the Turn of the Millennium Changed Job Durations of the New Entrants? A Comparative Study for Germany and Italy
According to the aims of the labour market reforms of the 90s implemented in many European countries, workers may stay at their first job for a shorter time, but should be able to switch jobs easily. ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2012, 33, 143 - 172 )
J62, J64, J68, K31, C41
4590 Barry R. Chiswick
The Economic Progress of American Jewry: From 18th Century Merchants to 21st Century Professionals
This paper tracks the economic status of American Jewry over the past three centuries. It relies on qualitative material in the early period and quantitative data since 1890. The primary focus is on ...
(published in: Aaron Levine (ed.), Judaism and Economics, New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 625-645)
J15, J24, J31, J61, J62, N31, N32, Z12
4589 Sue Bridgewater
Lawrence M. Kahn
Amanda H. Goodall
Substitution between Managers and Subordinates: Evidence from British Football
We use data on British football managers and teams over the 1994-2007 period to study substitution and complementarity between leaders and subordinates. We find for the Premier League (the highest ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18(3), 275-286)
J24, M51
4588 Jay Stewart
Tobit or Not Tobit?
Time-use surveys collect very detailed information about individuals' activities over a short period of time, typically one day. As a result, a large fraction of observations have values of zero for ...
(published in: Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 2013, 38(3), 263-290)
C24, J22
4587 Elena Cottini
Takao Kato
Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen
Adverse Workplace Conditions, High-Involvement Work Practices and Labor Turnover: Evidence from Danish Linked Employer-Employee Data
This paper contributes to the emerging strand of the empirical literature that takes advantage of new data on workplace-specific job attributes and voluntary employee turnover to shed fresh insights ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (6), 872-880)
M5, J63, J81, J28, J5
4585 Petter Lundborg
Anders Stenberg
Nature, Nurture and Egalitarian Policy: What Can We Learn from Molecular Genetics?
This brief paper draws attention to molecular genetic research which may provide a new dimension to our understanding of how socioeconomic outcomes are generated. In particular, we provide an ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2010, 8 (3), 320-330)
J62, H50
4584 Subhayu Bandyopadhyay
Sumon K. Bhaumik
Howard J. Wall
Biofuel Subsidies: An Open-Economy Analysis
We present a general equilibrium analysis of biofuel subsidies in an open-economy context. In the small-country case, when a Pigouvian tax on conventional fuels such as crude is in place, the optimal ...
(published in: Economics and Politics, 2013, 25 (2), 181-199)
F1, H2, O1
4583 Corrado Andini
How Fast Do Wages Adjust to Human-Capital Productivity? Dynamic Panel-Data Evidence from Belgium, Denmark and Finland
The standard human-capital model is based on the assumption that the observed wage of an individual is equal to the monetary value of the individual net human-capital productivity, the so-called net ...
(shortened version published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 118 (3), 482-484)
I21, J31
4581 Alari Paulus
Holly Sutherland
Panos Tsakloglou
The Distributional Impact of In Kind Public Benefits in European Countries
International comparisons of inequality based on measures of disposable income may not be valid if the size and incidence of publicly-provided in kind benefits differ across the countries considered. ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2010, 29(2), 243–266)
I38
4580 Bernhard Boockmann
Stephan L. Thomsen
Thomas Walter
Intensifying the Use of Benefit Sanctions: An Effective Tool to Shorten Welfare Receipt and Speed Up Transitions to Employment?
Benefit sanctions imposed on non-compliant welfare recipients are a new element in the German welfare system. In practice, the sanction policy and the application of sanctions vary considerably ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2014, 3:21, https://doi.org/10.1186/2193-9004-3-21 )
I38, J64, C31
4579 Raul Ramos
Jordi Surinach
Manuel Artís
Human Capital Spillovers, Productivity and Regional Convergence in Spain
This paper analyses the differential impact of human capital, in terms of different levels of schooling, on regional productivity and convergence. The potential existence of geographical spillovers ...
(published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2010, 89 (2), 435-447)
O18, O47, R23
4578 Eric Bartelsman
John C. Haltiwanger
Stefano Scarpetta
Cross-Country Differences in Productivity: The Role of Allocation and Selection
This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm-level) policy distortions on aggregate outcomes. On the one hand, a growing body ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (1), 305-334)
E02, L11, L16, L2, L25, O4, O57
4577 Saul Estrin
Tomasz Mickiewicz
Do Institutions Have a Greater Effect on Female Entrepreneurs?
This paper compares the impact of institutions on individual decisions to become entrepreneurs in the form of new business start ups by males and females across 44 developed and developing economies ...
(published as 'Institutions and female entrepreneurship' in: Small Business Economics, 2011, 37 (4), 397-415)
L26, J16, H11, O16, O17, P43
4576 Eric A. Hanushek
Ludger Woessmann
Schooling, Cognitive Skills, and the Latin American Growth Puzzle
Economic development in Latin America has trailed most other world regions over the past four decades despite its relatively high initial development and school attainment levels. This puzzle can be ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 99 (2), 497-512)
H4, I2, O4, N16
4575 Eric A. Hanushek
Ludger Woessmann
Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation
We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth is appropriate and whether cross-country evidence supports a case for the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2012, 17 (4), 267-321)
H4, I2, J3, J61, O1, O4
4574 George W. Hammond
Mehmet S. Tosun
The Impact of Local Decentralization on Economic Growth: Evidence from U.S. Counties
We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our findings suggest that government organization matters for local economic growth, ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2010, 20 (10), 1-18)
E62, H7, R11
4572 Sarmistha Pal
Public Infrastructure, Location of Private Schools and Primary School Attainment in an Emerging Economy
The paper argues that access to public infrastructure plays a crucial role on the presence of private schools in a community, as it could not only minimise the cost of production, but also ensure a ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (5), 783-794)
I20, I30, O15, P36
4571 Maarten C.M. Vendrik
Christiane Schwieren
Identification, Screening and Stereotyping in Labour Market Discrimination
According to social-psychological research, feelings of uncertainty in decision-making evoke two opposite responses: (i) reduction of uncertainty by information search, leading to less stereotyping ...
(published in Journal of Economics, 2010, 99 (2), 141-171)
J7, M51
4570 Roland Benabou
Jean Tirole
Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility
Society's demands for individual and corporate social responsibility as an alternative response to market and distributive failures are becoming increasingly prominent. We first draw on recent ...
(published in Economica, 2010, 77 (305) , 1-19.)
D64, D78, H41, L31
4569 Carolyn J. Heinrich
Peter R. Mueser
Kenneth Troske
Kyung-Seong Jeon
Daver C. Kahvecioglu
New Estimates of Public Employment and Training Program Net Impacts: A Nonexperimental Evaluation of the Workforce Investment Act Program
This paper presents nonexperimental net impact estimates for the Adult and Dislocated Worker programs under the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), the primary federal job training program in the U.S, ...
(published as "Do Public Employment and Training Programs Work?" in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2013, 2:6 )
J24, J48
4568 Andrea Weber
Christine Zulehner
Female Hires and the Success of Start-up Firms
In this paper we investigate the relationship between females among the first hires of start-up companies and business success. Our results show that firms with female first hires have a higher share ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (2), 358-361)
J16, J71, L25
4567 Nicola Lacetera
Mario Macis
Robert Slonim
Will There Be Blood? Incentives and Substitution Effects in Pro-social Behavior
We examine how economic incentives affect pro-social behavior through the analysis of a unique dataset with information on more than 14,000 American Red Cross blood drives. Our findings are ...
(published as 'Will There be Blood? Incentives and Displacement Effects in Pro-Social Behavior' in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2012, 4 (1), 186-223 )
D12, D64, I18
4566 Spyros Konstantopoulos
How Consistent Are Class Size Effects?
Evidence from Project STAR has suggested that on average small classes increase student achievement. However, thus far researchers have focused on computing mean differences in student achievement ...
(published in: Evaluation Review, 2011, 35 (1), 71 - 92)
I20
4565 Zahra Siddique
Partially Identified Treatment Effects under Imperfect Compliance: The Case of Domestic Violence
During the 1980s a set of randomized experiments were carried out to determine the usefulness of a mandatory arrest policy for domestic assault offenders. The first of these was the Minneapolis ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2013, 108 (502), 504-513)
C9, C14, K42
4564 Fabio Mariani
Agustín Pérez-Barahona
Natacha Raffin
Life Expectancy and the Environment
We present an OLG model in which life expectancy and environmental quality dynamics are jointly determined. Agents may invest in environmental care, depending on how much they expect to live. In ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2010, 34 (4), 798-815)
J24, O11, O40, Q56
4561 Tarjei Havnes
Magne Mogstad
No Child Left Behind: Universal Child Care and Children’s Long-Run Outcomes
There is a heated debate in the US, Canada and many European countries about introducing universally accessible child care. However, studies on universal child care and child development are scarce ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2011, 3 (2), 97-129)
J13, H40, I28
4560 Magnus Lofstrom
Low-Skilled Immigrant Entrepreneurship
More than half of the foreign born workforce in the U.S. have no schooling beyond high school and about 20 percent of the low-skilled workforce are immigrants. More than 10 percent of these ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (1), 25-44)
J15, J16, J31, L26
4559 Alexandre Janiak
Paulo Santos Monteiro
Inflation and Welfare in Long-Run Equilibrium with Firm Dynamics
We analyze the welfare cost of inflation in a model with cash-in-advance constraints and an endogenous distribution of establishments' productivities. Inflation distorts aggregate productivity ...
(published in: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2011, 43 (5), 795 - 834)
E40, E50, L16, O40
4558 Francesco Giavazzi
Fabio Schiantarelli
Michel Serafinelli
Culture, Policies and Labor Market Outcomes
We study whether cultural attitudes towards gender, the young, and leisure are significant determinants of the evolution over time of the employment rates of women and of the young, and of hours ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (6), 1256-1289)
J16, J22, J23, Z1
4557 Sascha O. Becker
Francesco Cinnirella
Ludger Woessmann
The Trade-off between Fertility and Education: Evidence from before the Demographic Transition
The trade-off between child quantity and education is a crucial ingredient of unified growth models that explain the transition from Malthusian stagnation to modern growth. We present first evidence ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2010, 15 (3), 177–204)
I20, J13, N33
4556 Sascha O. Becker
Erik Hornung
Ludger Woessmann
Catch Me If You Can: Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution
Existing evidence, mostly from British textile industries, rejects the importance of formal education for the Industrial Revolution. We provide new evidence from Prussia, a technological follower, ...
(published as 'Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution' in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2011, 3 (3), 92-126)
N13, N33, I20, O14
4553 Diana Kruger
Matias Berthelon
Delaying the Bell: The Effects of Longer School Days on Adolescent Motherhood in Chile
We analyze the effect of a Chilean school reform that lengthened the school day from half to full-day shifts on the likelihood that adolescent girls become mothers. By increasing the number of hours ...
(published as "Risky behavior among youth: Incapacitation effects of school on adolescent motherhood and crime in Chile" in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (1-2), 41-53)
H51, I18, I28, J13, O15
4551 Örn B. Bodvarsson
Brad R. Humphreys
Labor Market Discrimination and Capital Investment: The Effects of Fan Discrimination on Stadium Investment
We investigate the possibility that labor market discrimination affects economic outcomes in the complementary capital market. Previous research contains ample theoretical justification, and ...
(published as 'Labor Market Discrimination and Capital Investment: The Effects of Fan Discrimination on Stadium and Arena Construction' in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2013, 31 (3), 604 - 617)
J15
4550 Zvi Eckstein
Osnat Lifshitz
Dynamic Female Labor Supply
The increase in female employment and participation rates is one of the most dramatic economic changes to have taken place during the last century. However, while the employment rate of married women ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2011, 79 (6), 1675–1726)
E24, J2, J3
4549 Jens Großer
Ernesto Reuben
Redistributive Politics and Market Efficiency: An Experimental Study
We study the interaction between competitive markets that produce large but unequally distributed welfare gains and elections through which the poor majority can redistribute income away from the ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 101, 39-52)
H23, D41, D72, D73
4548 Liam Delaney
Mark E. McGovern
James P. Smith
From Angela's Ashes to the Celtic Tiger: Early Life Conditions and Adult Health in Ireland
We use data from the Irish census and exploit regional and temporal variation in infant mortality rates over the 20th century to examine effects of early life conditions on later life health. Our ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (1), 1-10)
I19, N34
4546 Mathieu Lefèbvre
Ferdinand M. Vieider
Marie Claire Villeval
The Ratio Bias Phenomenon: Fact or Artifact?
The ratio bias – according to which individuals prefer to bet on probabilities expressed as a ratio of large numbers to normatively equivalent or superior probabilities expressed as a ratio of small ...
(published in: Theory and Decision, 2011, 71(4), 615-641)
C91, D03, D81, I19
4545 Mathieu Lefèbvre
Ferdinand M. Vieider
Marie Claire Villeval
Incentive Effects on Risk Attitude in Small Probability Prospects
Most studies on the role of incentives on risk attitude report data obtained from within-subject experimental investigations. This may however raise an issue of sequentiality of effects as later ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 109 (2), 115-120)
C91, D81, D89
4544 Erkki Koskela
Impacts of Labor Taxation with Perfectly and Imperfectly Competitive Domestic Labor Markets under Flexible Outsourcing
What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case of heterogenous domestic labor ...
(published in: Thomas J. Sargent and Jouko Vilmunen (eds.): Macroeconomics at the Service of Public Policy, Oxford University Press, 2012, 186-214)
E24, H22, J21, J31, J51
4543 Govert Bijwaard
Geert Ridder
A Simple GMM Estimator for the Semi-Parametric Mixed Proportional Hazard Model
Ridder and Woutersen (2003) have shown that under a weak condition on the baseline hazard there exist root-N consistent estimators of the parameters in a semiparametric Mixed Proportional Hazard ...
(published in: Journal of Econometric Methods, 2013, 2, 1-23 [PDF])
C41, C14
4541 Jackline Wahba
Yves Zenou
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Migration, Entrepreneurship and Social Capital
The aim of this paper is to investigate whether return migrants are more likely to become entrepreneurs than non-migrants. We develop a theoretical search model that puts forward the trade off faced ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2012, 42 (5), 890–903)
L26, O12, O15
4540 Armin Falk
James J. Heckman
Lab Experiments Are a Major Source of Knowledge in the Social Sciences
Laboratory experiments are a widely used methodology for advancing causal knowledge in the physical and life sciences. With the exception of psychology, the adoption of laboratory experiments has ...
(final version published in: Science, 2009, 326 (5952), 535-538)
C90, C91, C92, C93, D00
4539 Magnus Lofstrom
Does Self-Employment Increase the Economic Well-Being of Low-Skilled Workers?
Low-skilled workers do not fare well in today's skill intensive economy and their opportunities continue to diminish. Given that individuals in this challenging skill segment of the workforce are ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2013, 40 (4), 933-952)
J15, J16, J31, L26
4538 Peder J. Pedersen
Torben Dall Schmidt
Happiness in Europe: Cross-Country Differences in the Determinants of Subjective Well-Being
The purpose in the present paper is to use individual panel data in the European Community Household Panel to analyse the impact on self-reported satisfaction from a number of economic and ...
(published as 'Happiness in Europe: Cross-country differences in the determinants of satisfaction with main activity' in: Journal of Socio Economics, 2011, 40 (5), 480 - 489)
C23, D31, I31, J28
4537 Hadi Salehi Esfahani
Kamiar Mohaddes
M. Hashem Pesaran
Oil Exports and the Iranian Economy
This paper develops a long run growth model for a major oil exporting economy and derives conditions under which oil revenues are likely to have a lasting impact. This approach contrasts with the ...
(published in: Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2013, 53 (3), 221-237)
C32, C53, E17, F43, F47, Q32
4536 David Gill
Victoria L. Prowse
A Structural Analysis of Disappointment Aversion in a Real Effort Competition
We develop a novel computerized real effort task, based on moving sliders across a screen, to test experimentally whether agents are disappointment averse when they compete in a real effort ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (1), 469-503)
C91, D03
4535 Thomas K. Bauer
Stefan Bender
Alfredo R. Paloyo
Christoph M. Schmidt
Evaluating the Labor-Market Effects of Compulsory Military Service
We identify the causal effect of compulsory military service on conscripts’ subsequent labor-market outcomes by exploiting the regression-discontinuity design of the military draft in Germany during ...
(published in European Economic Review 56(4):814–829)
J31
4534 Albert Bollard
David McKenzie
Melanie Morten
Hillel Rapoport
Remittances and the Brain Drain Revisited: The Microdata Show That More Educated Migrants Remit More
Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2011, 25 (1), 132 - 156)
O15, F22, J61
4533 James J. Heckman
Seong Hyeok Moon
Rodrigo Pinto
Peter A. Savelyev
Adam Yavitz
The Rate of Return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program
This paper estimates the rate of return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program, an early intervention program targeted toward disadvantaged African-American youth. Estimates of the rate of return ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (1-2), 114-128)
D62, I22, I28
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