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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
4458 Nicola Lacetera
Mario Macis
Do All Material Incentives for Prosocial Activities Backfire? The Response to Cash and Non-Cash Incentives for Blood Donations
Experimental studies document that financial rewards discourage the performance of altruistic activities, because they destroy intrinsic altruistic motivations. We set up a randomized-controlled ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2010, 31 (4), 738-748)
D12, D64, I18
4457 Lorenzo Cappellari
Stephen P. Jenkins
The Dynamics of Social Assistance Benefit Receipt in Britain
We analyze the dynamics of social assistance benefit (SA) receipt among working-age adults in Britain between 1991 and 2005. The decline in the annual SA receipt rate was driven by a decline in the ...
(revised version published in Research in Labor Economics, Volume 39: Safety Nets and Benefit Dependence, 2014, 39 - 77)
I38, C33, C35
4456 Gilles Saint-Paul
Genes, Legitimacy and Hypergamy: Another Look at the Economics of Marriage
In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2015, 81 (4), 331-377)
D1, D13, D3, E24, I2, J12, J13, J16, K36, O15, O43
4455 David N.F. Bell
David G. Blanchflower
What Should Be Done About Rising Unemployment in the OECD?
There is a growing belief that the recession has run its course and that the goods market has started a period of slow, but sustainable, recovery. Improvement in the labor market may take some time, ...
(published as 'Recession and unemployment in the OECD' in: CESifo Forum, 2010, 1, 14 - 22)
J64
4453 Raul Ramos
Jordi Surinach
Manuel Artís
Regional Economic Growth and Human Capital: The Role of Overeducation
The paper analyses the link between human capital and regional economic growth in the European Union. Using various indicators of human capital calculated from census microdata, we conclude that the ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2012, 46 (10), 1389-1400)
O18, O47, R23
4452 Andrea Bassanini
Pascal Marianna
Looking Inside the Perpetual-Motion Machine: Job and Worker Flows in OECD Countries
There is an increasing interest in the process of job creation and destruction as well of hirings and separations. Many studies suggest that idiosyncratic firm-level characteristics shape both job ...
(reduced version published as 'Inside the Perpetual-motion Machine: Cross-country Comparable Evidence on Job and Worker Flows at the Industry and Firm Level"' in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2010, 19 (6), 2097-2134)
J23, J24, J63
4451 Carlos A. Flores
Oscar A. Mitnik
Evaluating Nonexperimental Estimators for Multiple Treatments: Evidence from Experimental Data
This paper assesses the effectiveness of unconfoundedness-based estimators of mean effects for multiple or multivalued treatments in eliminating biases arising from nonrandom treatment assignment. We ...
(revised version published as 'Comparing Treatments across Labor Markets: An Assessment of Nonexperimental Multiple-Treatment Strategies' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95(5), 1691-1707)
C13, C14, C21
4449 Andreas Kuhn
Demand for Redistribution, Support for the Welfare State, and Party Identification in Austria
This paper describes subjective wage inequality and the demand for redistribution in Austria using individuals' estimates of occupational wages from the International Social Survey Program. Although ...
(revised version published in: Empirica, 2010, 37(2), 215-236)
D31, D63, H50
4448 Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
An Explanation for the Lower Payoff to Schooling for Immigrants in the Canadian Labour Market
This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using 2001 Census data. Analyses are presented for males and females. Comparisons are ...
(published in: Ted McDonald et al. (eds.): Canadian Immigration - Economic Evidence for a Dynamic Policy Environment, McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal and Kingston, 2010, 41-75)
I21, J24, J31, J61, F22
4446 Wolfgang Frimmel
Martin Halla
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
Assortative Mating and Divorce: Evidence from Austrian Register Data
This paper documents that changes in assortative mating patterns over the last four decades along the dimensions of age, ethnicity and religion are not responsible for the increasing marital ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 2013, 176(4), 907–929)
J12, J11, J15, Z12, D1, R2
4445 Lex Borghans
Frank Cörvers
The Americanization of European Higher Education and Research
Over the past two decades there has been a substantial increase in the mobility of students in Europe, while also research has become much more internationally oriented. In this paper we document ...
(published in: Charles T. Clotfelter (ed.), American Universities in a Global Market, NBER, 2010)
O31, I23
4444 John T. Addison
Chad Cotti
Christopher J. Surfield
Atypical Work: Who Gets It, and Where Does It Lead? Some U.S. Evidence Using the NLSY79
Atypical work arrangements have long been criticized as offering more precarious and lower paid work than regular open-ended employment. In an important paper, Booth et al. (2002) were among the ...
(revised version published as 'Atypical Jobs: Stepping Stones or Dead Ends? Evidence from the NLSY79' in: The Manchester School, 2015, 83(1), 17–55)
J30, J40, J63
4443 Giacomo De Giorgi
Michele Pellizzari
William Gui Woolston
Class Size and Class Heterogeneity
We study how class size and composition affect the academic and labor market performances of college students, two crucial policy questions given the secular increase in college enrollment. We rely ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10 (4), 795 - 830)
A22, I23, J30
4442 Ilias Livanos
Konstantinos Pouliakas
Wage Returns to University Disciplines in Greece: Are Greek Higher Education Degrees Trojan Horses?
This paper examines the wage returns to qualifications and academic disciplines in the Greek labour market. Exploring wage responsiveness across various degree subjects in Greece is interesting, as ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2011, 19 (4), 411 - 445)
J24, J31, J38
4441 Helmut Fryges
Sandra Gottschalk
Karsten Kohn
The KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel: Design and Research Potential
So far, there has been no data set which observes firm formations in Germany not only on a cross-sectional basis using one-time surveys, but continuously over a number of years. Therefore, the Centre ...
(published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften / Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2010, 130 (1), 117-131)
C80, L20, J20, G30
4439 Joop Hartog
A Risk Augmented Mincer Earnings Equation? Taking Stock
We survey the literature on the Risk Augmented Mincer equation that seeks to estimate the compensation for uncertainty in the future wage to be earned after completing an education. There is wide ...
(Research in Labor Economics, 2011, 33, 129-173)
J31, D8
4438 Herbert Brücker
Stefano Fachin
Alessandra Venturini
Do Foreigners Replace Native Immigrants? Evidence from a Panel Cointegration Analysis
This paper examines the impact of the immigration of foreigners on domestic labour mobility. Since David Card's seminal study on the regional labour market impact of the Mariel Boatlift it is ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2010, 2011, 28 (3), 1078 - 1089)
F22
4437 Georgios A. Panos
Konstantinos Pouliakas
Alexandros Zangelidis
The Inter-Related Dynamics of Dual Job Holding, Human Capital and Occupational Choice
The inter-related dynamics of dual job-holding, human capital and occupational choice between primary and secondary jobs are investigated, using a panel sample (1991-2005) of UK employees from the ...
(published as 'Multiple jobholding, Skill diversification and Mobility' in: Industrial Relations, 2014, 53 (2), 223-272)
J22, J24, J62
4436 Diane J. Macunovich
The Role of Demographics in Precipitating Crises in Financial Institutions
There are significant effects of changing demographics on economic indicators: growth in GDP especially, but also the current account balance and gross capital formation. The 15-24 age group appears ...
(published as 'The role of demographics in precipitating economic downturns' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2012, 25 (3), 783-807)
J1, E3, F3, F4
4434 Horst Raff
Joachim Wagner
Intra-Industry Adjustment to Import Competition: Theory and Application to the German Clothing Industry
This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the ...
(published in: World Economy, 2010, 33 (8), 1006-1022)
F12, F15
4433 Jonathan Wadsworth
Did the National Minimum Wage Affect UK Prices?
One potential channel through which the effects of the minimum wage could be directed is that firms who employ minimum wage workers could pass on any resulting higher labour costs in the form of ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2010, 31 (1), 81-120)
J6
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