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4519 Francesc Ortega
Javier G. Polavieja
Labor-Market Exposure as a Determinant of Attitudes toward Immigration
This paper re-examines the role of labor-market competition as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration. We claim two main contributions. First, we use more sophisticated measures of the degree ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (3), 298-311)
F1, F22, J61, J31, R13
4518 Donal O'Neill
A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Early Childhood Intervention: Evidence from a Randomised Evaluation of a Parenting Programme
A number of researchers and policy makers have recently argued that the most effective way of dealing with long-run disadvantage and the intergenerational transmission of poverty is through early ...
(published as 'A cost-effectiveness analysis of the Incredible Years parenting programme in reducing childhood health inequalities' in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 14 (1), 85-94.)
D31
4517 Harminder Battu
Yves Zenou
Oppositional Identities and Employment for Ethnic Minorities: Evidence from England
Where a community or group is socially excluded from a dominant group, some individuals of that group may identify with the dominant culture and others may reject that culture. The aim of this paper ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 524 (120), F52 - F71)
J15
4514 Yann Algan
Christian Dustmann
Albrecht Glitz
Alan Manning
The Economic Situation of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants in France, Germany, and the UK
A central concern about immigration is the integration into the labour market, not only of the first generation, but also of subsequent generations. Little comparative work exists for Europe’s ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120 (542), F4 - F30)
J61, F22
4512 Diane J. Macunovich
Reversals in the Patterns of Women's Labor Supply in the U.S., 1976-2009
Despite strong increases in women's labor force participation – especially among married women with children – in the 1980s, and somewhat less strong increases in the 1990s, the first decade of the ...
(published in: Monthly Labor Review, 2010, 133 (11), 16-36)
J21
4511 Jean-Yves Duclos
Paul Makdissi
Abdelkrim Araar
Pro-Poor Tax Reforms, with an Application to Mexico
This paper proposes a methodology for testing for whether tax reforms are pro-poor. This is done by extending stochastic dominance techniques to help identify tax reforms that will necessarily be ...
(published as 'Pro-Poor Indirect Tax Reforms, with an Application to Mexico' in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2014, 21(1), 87-118)
D12, D63, H21, I32
4510 Peter Rupert
Elena G. F. Stancanelli
Etienne Wasmer
Commuting, Wages and Bargaining Power
A search model of the labor market is augmented to include commuting time to work. The theory posits that wages are positively related to commute distance, by a factor itself depending negatively on ...
(published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistiques, 2009, (95 - 96), 201 - 221)
J3, J6, R2
4509 Patrick Arni
Rafael Lalive
Jan C. van Ours
How Effective Are Unemployment Benefit Sanctions? Looking Beyond Unemployment Exit
This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions, i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits as punishment for noncompliance with eligibility requirements. In addition to ...
(revised version (including technical online appendix) published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2013, 28 (7), 1153–1178)
J64, J65, J68
4508 Thomas J. Kniesner
W. Kip Viscusi
James P. Ziliak
Policy Relevant Heterogeneity in the Value of Statistical Life: New Evidence from Panel Data Quantile Regressions
We examine differences in the value of statistical life (VSL) across potential wage levels in panel data using quantile regressions with intercept heterogeneity. Latent heterogeneity is ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2010, 40 (1), 15-32)
C23, I10, J17, J28, K00
4507 Stephen L. Cheung
Stefan Palan
Two Heads Are Less Bubbly than One: Team Decision-Making in an Experimental Asset Market
We study the effect of team decision-making on bubbles and crashes in experimental asset markets of the kind introduced by Smith, Suchanek and Williams (1988). We find that populating such markets ...
(revised version published in Experimental Economics, 2012, 15 (3), 373-397)
C92, D70, G12
4506 Jean-Yves Duclos
Damien Échevin
Health and Income: A Robust Comparison of Canada and the US
This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income across space and time. It is the first application of which we are aware of methods ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (2), 293 - 302)
I10, I32, I38, D63, D30, H51
4504 Tarjei Havnes
Magne Mogstad
Money for Nothing? Universal Child Care and Maternal Employment
The strong correlation between child care and maternal employment rates has led previous research to conclude that affordable and readily available child care is a driving force both of cross-country ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (11-12), 1455-1465)
J13, H40, J21
4503 Peter Haan
Katharina Wrohlich
Can Child Care Policy Encourage Employment and Fertility? Evidence from a Structural Model
In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (4), 498-512)
C23, C25, J22, J64
4502 John T. Addison
Alex Bryson
Paulino Teixeira
André Pahnke
Lutz Bellmann
The Extent of Collective Bargaining and Workplace Representation: Transitions between States and their Determinants. A Comparative Analysis of Germany and Great Britain
Industrial relations are in flux in many nations, perhaps most notably in Germany and the Britain. That said, comparatively little is known in any detail of the changing pattern of the institutions ...
(revised version published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2013, 60 (2), 182-209.)
J50, J53
4501 Nicolas Dromel
Elie Kolakez
Etienne Lehmann
Credit Constraints and the Persistence of Unemployment
In this paper, we argue that credit market imperfections impact not only the level of unemployment, but also its persistence. For this purpose, we first develop a theoretical model based on the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (5), 823-834)
E24, E44, J08, J64
4500 Jochen Kluve
Marcus Tamm
Now Daddy's Changing Diapers and Mommy's Making Her Career: Evaluating a Generous Parental Leave Regulation Using a Natural Experiment
Over the last decades many OECD countries introduced parental leave regulations in order to counteract low and decreasing birth rates. In general, these regulations aim at making parenthood more ...
(revised version published as 'Parental Leave Regulations, Mothers' Labor Force Attachment and Fathers' Childcare Involvement: Evidence from a Natural Experiment' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (3), 983-1005)
H31, J13, J18
4499 Manuela Angelucci
Giacomo De Giorgi
Marcos A. Rangel
Imran Rasul
Village Economies and the Structure of Extended Family Networks
This paper documents how the structure of extended family networks in rural Mexico relates to the poverty and inequality of the village of residence. Using the Hispanic naming convention, we ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy . 2009, 9 (1))
J12, O12, O17
4498 Manuela Angelucci
Giacomo De Giorgi
Marcos A. Rangel
Imran Rasul
Extended Family Networks in Rural Mexico: A Descriptive Analysis
We provide descriptive evidence on the characteristics of a household’s extended family network using data from the Progresa social assistance program in rural Mexico. We exploit information on the ...
(published in: Institutional Microeconomics of Development, edited by Timothy Besley and Raji Jayaraman, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2010.)
J12, O12
4497 Manuela Angelucci
Giacomo De Giorgi
Marcos A. Rangel
Imran Rasul
Family Networks and School Enrolment: Evidence from a Randomized Social Experiment
We present evidence on whether and how a household's behavior is influenced by the presence and characteristics of its extended family. Using data from the PROGRESA program in Mexico, we exploit ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (3-4), 197-221)
I21, J12, O12
4496 Oriana Bandiera
Valentino Larcinese
Imran Rasul
Heterogeneous Class Size Effects: New Evidence from a Panel of University Students
Over the last decade, many countries have experienced dramatic increases in university enrolment, which, when not matched by compensating increases in other inputs, have resulted in larger class ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120 (549), 1365 - 1398)
A20, D23, I23
4495 Pieter Bevelander
Ravi Pendakur
Citizenship, Co-ethnic Populations and Employment Probabilities of Immigrants in Sweden
Over the last decades, Sweden has liberalized its citizenship policy by reducing the required number of years of residency to five for foreign citizens and only two for Nordic citizens. Dual ...
(published in: Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2012, 13, 203 - 222)
F22, J61, J68
4494 Miguel Fuentes
Pablo Ibarrarán
Firm Dynamics and Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations: Does Trade Openness Matter? Evidence from Mexico’s Manufacturing Sector
In this paper we study the effect of NAFTA on the responsiveness of Mexican economy to real exchange rate shocks. We argue that, by opening the U.S. and Canadian markets to Mexican goods, NAFTA made ...
(published in: Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, 2012, 21 (3), 409 - 469)
F36, F41
4493 Shuming Bao
Örn B. Bodvarsson
Jack W. Hou
Yaohui Zhao
The Regulation of Migration in a Transition Economy: China’s Hukou System
Unlike most countries, China regulates internal migration. Public benefits, access to good quality housing, schools, health care, and attractive employment opportunities are available only to those ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2011, 29 (4), 564 - 579)
J61
4492 René Böheim
Martina Zweimüller
The Employment of Temporary Agency Workers in the UK: With or Against the Trade Unions?
A firm's decision to employ agency workers may be perceived as a replacement of directly employed workers or as way to curb union power, which trade unions would oppose. Alternatively, trade unions ...
(published in: Economica, 2013, 80 (317), 65–95)
D21, J31, J40
4489 Magne Mogstad
Chiara D. Pronzato
Are Lone Mothers Responsive to Policy Changes? Evidence from a Workfare Reform in a Generous Welfare State
There is a heated debate in many European countries about a move towards a welfare system that increases the incentives for lone mothers to move off welfare and into work. We analyze the consequences ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (4), 1129–1159)
C23, I32, I38, J00
4488 Uwe Blien
Wolfgang Dauth
Thorsten Schank
Claus Schnabel
The Institutional Context of an "Empirical Law": The Wage Curve under Different Regimes of Collective Bargaining
The wage curve identified by Blanchflower and Oswald (1994) postulates that the wage level is a decreasing function of the regional unemployment rate. In testing this hypothesis, most empirical ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2013, 51 (1), 59-79)
J50
4487 Kornelius Kraft
Jörg Stank
Ralf Dewenter
Co-determination and Innovation
This paper examines the effect of the German co-determination law of 1976 (MitbestG) on the innovative activity of German firms. Co-determination applies to firms with 2000 employees or more. Data ...
(published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2011, 35 (1), 145 - 172)
J5, L2, O3
4484 Vladimir Gimpelson
Rostislav Kapeliushnikov
Anna Lukiyanova
Employment Protection Legislation in Russia: Regional Enforcement and Labour Market Outcomes
Since formal laws can be observed or ignored to varying degrees, the actual enforcement regime shapes incentives and constraints. Most of the studies exploring EPL effects on labour market ...
(published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2010, 52 (4), 611-636)
J21, J23, J52, K31, R23
4483 Ansgar H. Belke
Ingo Bordon
Inna Melnykovska
Rainer Schweickert
Prospective NATO or EU Membership and Institutional Change in Transition Countries
This paper quantifies the impact of incentives related to potential membership on institutional change as measured by the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2011, 19 (4), 667-692)
F15, F20, F50, P20, P30, O19
4482 Timothy J. Halliday
Hui He
Hao Zhang
Health Investment over the Life-Cycle
We study the evolution of health investment over the life-cycle by calibrating a model of endogenous health accumulation. The model is able to produce the decline in labor supply with age as well as ...
(published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2019, 23 (1), 178-215. )
I12
4481 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Vincent A. Hildebrand
Portfolio Allocation in the Face of a Means-Tested Public Pension
Is there evidence that households adjust their asset portfolios just prior to retirement in response to a means-tested public pension? We address this question by estimating a system of asset ...
(pubished in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2011, 57 (3), 536 - 560)
H30, H31, D31
4480 Francesco Pastore
The Gender Gap in Early Career in Mongolia
Relatively little is known about the youth labour market in general and about gender differences in Mongolia, one of the fifty poorest countries in the world. This paper addresses the issue by taking ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2010, 31 (2), 188-207)
I21, J13, J24, J31, J62, P30, R23
4478 Bruno S. Frey
Simon Luechinger
Alois Stutzer
The Life Satisfaction Approach to Environmental Valuation
In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this ...
(published in: Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2010, 2, 139-160)
Q51, I31, D61, Q53
4477 Salvador Barrios
Holger Görg
Eric Strobl
Spillovers Through Backward Linkages from Multinationals: Measurement Matters!
We argue that the measures of backward linkages used in recent papers on spillovers from multinational companies are potentially problematic, as they depend on a number of restrictive assumptions, ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2011, 55 (6), 862-875)
F23, L22
4476 Helena Holmlund
Olmo Silva
Targeting Non-Cognitive Skills to Improve Cognitive Outcomes: Evidence from a Remedial Education Intervention
A growing body of research highlights the importance of non-cognitive skills as determinants of young people's cognitive outcomes at school. However, little evidence exists about the effects of ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2014, 8 (2), 126-160)
C20, I20, H75
4475 Manuela Angelucci
Orazio Attanasio
Oportunidades: Program Effect on Consumption, Low Participation, and Methodological Issues
In this paper we estimate the effect of the Mexican conditional cash transfer program, Oportunidades, on consumption, and we explore some issues related to participation to the program and to the ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2009, 57 (3), 479-506)
D12, O12
4474 Rita K. Almeida
Openness and Technological Innovation in East Asia: Have They Increased the Demand for Skills?
This paper asks whether the increased openness and technological innovation in East Asia have contributed to an increased demand for skills in the region. We explore a unique firm level data set ...
(published in: Asia-Pacific Development Journal, 2010, 17 (1), 63-96)
J23, J24, J31, O33
4472 Alan Barrett
Adele Bergin
Elish Kelly
Estimating the Impact of Immigration on Wages in Ireland
We estimate the impact of immigration on the wages of natives in Ireland applying the technique proposed by Borjas (2003). Under this method, the labour market is divided into a number of skill ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2011, 42 (1), 1-26)
J11, J21, J61
4471 Alexander K. Koch
Julia Nafziger
Motivational Goal Bracketing
It is a puzzle why people often evaluate consequences of choices separately (narrow bracketing) rather than jointly (broad bracketing). We study the hypothesis that a present-biased individual, who ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2021, 94, 101740)
A12, C70, D91
4470 David J. Bjerk
Thieves, Thugs, and Neighborhood Poverty
This paper develops a model of crime analyzing how such behavior is associated with individual and neighborhood poverty. The model shows that even under relatively minimal assumptions, a connection ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2010, 68 (3), 231 - 246)
K42, I38
4469 Devah Pager
Bruce Western
Bart Bonikowski
Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market: A Field Experiment
Decades of racial progress have led some researchers and policymakers to doubt that discrimination remains an important cause of economic inequality. To study contemporary discrimination we conducted ...
(published in: American Sociological Review, 2009, 74 (5), 77-799 )
J7
4468 Gilles Saint-Paul
Endogenous Indoctrination: Occupational Choice, the Evolution of Beliefs, and the Political Economy of Reform
Much of the political economy analysis of reform focuses on the conflict of interest between groups that stand to gain or lose from the competing policy proposals. In reality, there is also a lot of ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120 (544), 325 - 353)
E02, E24, I21, I28, J22, J23, J24, J45
4467 Hartmut Lehmann
Jonathan Wadsworth
The Impact of Chernobyl on Health and Labour Market Performance in the Ukraine
Using longitudinal data from the Ukraine we examine the extent of any long-lasting effects of radiation exposure from the Chernobyl disaster on the health and labour market performance of the adult ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (5), 843-857)
H00, J00
4466 Philipp C. Bauer
Regina T. Riphahn
Kindergarten Enrollment and the Intergenerational Transmission of Education
We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children enroll in kindergarten. Taking advantage of heterogeneity across cantons we find that ...
(published as 'Institutional Determinants of Intergenerational Education Transmission - Comparing Alternative Mechanisms for Natives and Immigrants' in: Labour Economics, 2013, 25, 110–122)
I2, I21, J24, D30
4465 Karen van der Wiel
Better Protected, Better Paid: Evidence on How Employment Protection Affects Wages
This paper empirically establishes the effect of the employer's term of notice on the wage level of employees. The term of notice is defined as the period an employer has to notify workers in advance ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 16-26)
C23, J31, J38, J63
4464 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Mathias Sinning
Neighborhood Diversity and the Appreciation of Native- and Immigrant-Owned Homes
This paper examines the effect of neighborhood diversity on the nativity gap in home-value appreciation in Australia. Specifically, immigrant homeowners experienced a 41.7 percent increase in median ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2011, 41 (1), 214-226)
F22, D31
4463 David Wildasin
Fiscal Competition for Imperfectly-Mobile Labor and Capital: A Comparative Dynamic Analysis
Interjurisdictional flows of imperfectly-mobile migrants, investment, and other productive resources result in the costly dynamic adjustment of resource stocks. This paper investigates the ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (11-12), 1312-1321)
H22, H71, H87, J61, R58
4462 Raymond Montizaan
Frank Cörvers
Andries de Grip
The Effects of Pension Rights and Retirement Age on Training Participation: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
This paper uses a natural experiment approach to identify the effects of an exogenous change in future pension benefits on workers' training participation. We use unique matched survey and ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 240-247)
J14, J24, J26
4461 Raul Ramos
Juan Carlos Duque
Jordi Surinach
Is the Wage Curve Formal or Informal? Evidence for Colombia
The objective of this paper is to analyse the existence or not of a wage curve in Colombia, paying special attention to the differences between formal and informal workers, an issue that has been ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 109 (2), 63-65)
J30, J60, O17
4460 Samuel Mühlemann
Stefan C. Wolter
Adrian Wüest
Apprenticeship Training and the Business Cycle
Dual apprenticeship training is a market-driven form of education at the upper secondary level, taking place in firms as well as in vocational schools. So far, little is known about the impact of the ...
(published in: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2009, 1(2), 173-186)
E24, I21, J18, J44
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