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4398 Helena Holmlund
Helmut Rainer
Thomas Siedler
Meet the Parents? The Causal Effect of Family Size on the Geographic Distance between Adult Children and Older Parents
An emerging question in demographic economics is whether there is a link between family size and the geographic distance between adult children and elderly parents. Given current population trends, ...
(revised version published as 'Meet the Parents? Family Size and the Geographic Proximity Between Adult Children and Older Mothers in Sweden' in: Demography, 2013, 50 (3), 903-931)
J10, C10
4396 Saul Estrin
Julia Korosteleva
Tomasz Mickiewicz
Better Means More: Property Rights and High-Growth Aspiration Entrepreneurship
This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period ...
(substantially revised and rewritten version available as IZA DP No. 5481)
D23, D84, G21, J23, J24, K11, L26, P51
4395 Josse Delfgaauw
Robert Dur
Joeri Sol
Willem Verbeke
Tournament Incentives in the Field: Gender Differences in the Workplace
We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we introduced short-term sales competitions among subsets of stores. We find that sales ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 31 (2) , 305-326)
C93, J16, M52
4394 Miguel Angel Alcobendas
Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Immigrants' Assimilation Process in a Segmented Labor Market
While much of the literature on immigrants' assimilation has focused on countries with a large tradition of receiving immigrants and with flexible labor markets, very little is known on how ...
(substantially revised version published in: A. Artal-Tur, G. Peri, F. Requena-Silvente, The Socio-Economic Impact of Migration Flows: Effects on Trade, Remittances, Output, and the Labour Market (Population Economics Series), Springer, 2014)
J15, J24, J61, J62
4393 Arno Tausch
Almas Heshmati
Re-Orient? MNC Penetration and Contemporary Shifts in the Global Political Economy
This article analyses IMF estimates of economic growth in 180 countries (IMF, 2009), and inks the results to the "Re-orient" approach, put forward by Frank, 1998. With global economic gravitation ...
(published in: Sociológia - Slovak Sociological Review, 2011, 44 (3), 1-20)
F50, O10
4392 Marco Francesconi
Stephen P. Jenkins
Thomas Siedler
The Effect of Lone Motherhood on the Smoking Behaviour of Young Adults
We provide evidence that living with an unmarried mother during childhood raises smoking propensities for young adults in Germany.
(published in: Health Economics, 2010, 19 (11), 1377-1384)
I10, J12, J18
4391 Aimee Chin
Nishith Prakash
The Redistributive Effects of Political Reservation for Minorities: Evidence from India
We examine the impact of political reservation for disadvantaged minority groups on poverty. To address the concern that political reservation is endogenous in the relationship between poverty and ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2011, 96 (2), 265-277)
I38, J15, J78
4389 David Comerford
Liam Delaney
Colm P. Harmon
Experimental Tests of Survey Responses to Expenditure Questions
This paper tests for a number of survey effects in the elicitation of expenditure items. In particular we examine the extent to which individuals use features of the expenditure question to construct ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2009, 30 (3-4), 419-433)
D03, D12, C81, C93
4388 Arie Kapteyn
James P. Smith
Arthur van Soest
Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S.
To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount ...
(published in: David A. Wise (ed.), Explorations in the Economics of Aging, University of Chicago Press, pp. 269-316, 2011)
J28, I12, C81
4387 David J. Bjerk
How Much Can We Trust Causal Interpretations of Fixed-Effects Estimators in the Context of Criminality?
Researchers are often interested in estimating the causal effect of some treatment on individual criminality. For example, two recent relatively prominent papers have attempted to estimate the ...
(published in: Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 2009, 25 (4), 391-417)
C12, K42
4386 Nishith Prakash
Improving the Labor Market Outcomes of Minorities: The Role of Employment Quota
The world's biggest and arguably most aggressive form of employment based affirmative action policy for minorities exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 180, 494-509)
H40, J21, J31, J45, O10
4385 Joshua J. Lewer
Gail Pacheco
Stephanié Rossouw
Do Non-Economic Quality of Life Factors Drive Immigration?
This paper contributes to the immigration literature by generating two unique non-economic quality of life (QOL) indices and testing their role on recent migration patterns. Applying the generated ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2013, 110 (1), 1-15)
F22, C51, D63
4384 Michael P. Pflüger
Jens Suedekum
Subsidizing Firm Entry in Open Economies
Entrepreneurs who decide to enter an industry are faced with different levels of effective entry costs in different countries. These costs are heavily influenced by economic policy. What is not well ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 97 (1), 258-271)
F12, F13, H25, L11
4383 Gadi Barlevy
Derek Neal
Pay for Percentile
We propose an incentive pay scheme for educators that links educator compensation to the ranks of their students within appropriately defined comparison sets, and we show that under certain ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (5), 1805-31)
J33, I20
4382 Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
Does the Choice of Reference Levels of Education Matter in the ORU Earnings Equation?
This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation/under-education (ORU) literature are sensitive to whether the usual or reference ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (6), 1076-1085)
I21, J24, J31, J61, F22
4380 Pedro Portugal
José Varejão
Why Do Firms Use Fixed-Term Contracts?
Temporary forms of employment account for a variable but never trivial share of total employment in both the U.S. and in Europe. In this article we look at how one specific form of temporary ...
(published in: Portuguese Economic Journal, 2022, 21, 401 - 421)
J23, J41
4378 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Grazing, Goods and Girth: Determinants and Effects
Using the 2006-07 American Time Use Survey and its Eating and Health Module, I show that over half of adult Americans report grazing (secondary eating/drinking) on a typical day, with grazing time ...
(published as "Incentives, time use and BMI: The roles of eating, grazing and goods" in: Economics and Human Biology, 2010, 8 (1), 2-15)
J10
4377 Daniela Del Boca
Christopher Flinn
Endogeneous Household Interaction
Most econometric models of intrahousehold behavior assume that household decision-making is efficient, i.e., utility realizations lie on the Pareto frontier. In this paper we investigate this claim ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2012, 166 (1), 49-65)
C79, D19, J22
4376 Krisztina Kis-Katos
Robert Sparrow
Child Labor and Trade Liberalization in Indonesia
We examine the effects of trade liberalization on child work in Indonesia. Our estimation strategy identifies geographical differences in the effects of trade policy through district level exposure ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2011, 46 (4), 722-749)
J13, O24, O15
4375 John Gibson
David McKenzie
Steven Stillman
The Impacts of International Migration on Remaining Household Members: Omnibus Results from a Migration Lottery Program
The impacts of international migration on development in the sending countries, and especially the effects on remaining household members, are increasingly studied. However, comparisons of households ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93 (4), 1297-1318)
J61, F22, C21
4374 Charlene M. Kalenkoski
David C. Ribar
Leslie S. Stratton
How Do Adolescents Spell Time Use?
We investigate how household disadvantage affects the time use of 15-18 year-olds using 2003-2006 data from the American Time Use Survey. Applying competing-risk hazard models, we distinguish between ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2011, 33, 1-44)
J22 , J13
4373 Steven Y. Wu
Producer Protection Legislation and Termination Damages in the Presence of Contracting Frictions
This study models producer protection legislation that would grant growers the right to claim damages (PPLD) if their contracts are prematurely terminated. In the absence of contracting frictions ...
(published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2010, 91 (1), 28 - 41)
Q12, Q18, K12, D82, D86
4372 Alexander Muravyev
Oleksandr Talavera
Olga Bilyk
Bogdana Grechaniuk
Firm Performance and Managerial Turnover: The Case of Ukraine
The paper studies whether and how CEO turnover in Ukrainian firms is related to their performance. Based on a novel dataset covering Ukrainian joint stock companies in 2002-2006, the paper finds ...
(published in: Eastern European Economics, 2010, 48(2), 5-24)
G34, J40, L29
4371 Robert Duval Hernández
Pedro Orraca Romano
A Cohort Analysis of Labor Participation in Mexico, 1987-2009
This paper conducts a cohort analysis of labor participation in urban Mexico in recent decades. The rates analyzed are the labor force participation, the unemployment rate, and the employment shares ...
(published in: El Trimestre Económico, 2011, 78 (2), 343-375)
J21, O17, O54
4370 Martin Huber
Michael Lechner
Conny Wunsch
Does Leaving Welfare Improve Health? Evidence for Germany
Using exceptionally rich linked administrative and survey information on German welfare recipients we investigate the health effects of transitions from welfare to employment and of assignments to ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2011, 20 (4), 484-504)
I38, J68, I10
4369 Timothy J. Halliday
Health Inequality over the Life-Cycle
We investigate the evolution of health inequality over the life-course. Health is modeled as a latent variable that is determined by three factors: endowments, and permanent and transitory shocks. We ...
(published in: BE Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2011, 11(3), Article 5)
I1, C5
4368 Timothy J. Halliday
Melinda Podor
Health Status and the Allocation of Time
In this paper, we quantify the effects of health on time allocation. We estimate that improvements in health status have large and positive effects on time allocated to home and market production and ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2012, 21(5), 514-527)
I1, J2
4367 Pierre-Carl Michaud
Dana P. Goldman
Darius N. Lakdawalla
Yuhui Zheng
Adam H. Gailey
International Differences in Longevity and Health and Their Economic Consequences
In 1975, 50 year-old Americans could expect to live slightly longer than their European counterparts. By 2005, American life expectancy at that age has diverged substantially compared to Europe. We ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2011, 73 (2), 254-63)
I10, I38, J26
4366 Pierre-Carl Michaud
Dana P. Goldman
Darius N. Lakdawalla
Yuhui Zheng
Adam H. Gailey
Understanding the Economic Consequences of Shifting Trends in Population Health
The public economic burden of shifting trends in population health remains uncertain. Sustained increases in obesity, diabetes, and other diseases could reduce life expectancy ? with a concomitant ...
(published as 'The Fiscal Effects of Trends in Public Health' in: National Tax Journal, 2010, 63 (2), 307-324,)
I10, I38, J26
4365 Paola Giuliano
Antonio Spilimbergo
Growing Up in a Recession: Beliefs and the Macroeconomy
Do generations growing up during recessions have different socio-economic beliefs than generations growing up in good times? We study the relationship between recessions and beliefs by matching ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2014, 81 (2), 787-817 (Note: Article has been retracted by the authors because the original findings cannot be replicated, likely as a result of an inadvertent coding error))
P16, E60, Z13
4364 Joachim Wagner
The Research Potential of New Types of Enterprise Data Based on Surveys from Official Statistics in Germany
A new generation of data sets became available recently in the research data centres of the German statistical offices. These new data combine information for firms gathered in different surveys (or ...
(published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften / Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2010, 130 (1), 133-142)
C8
4363 Nancy H. Chau
Sweatshop Equilibrium
This paper presents a capability-augmented model of on the job search, in which sweatshop conditions stifle the capability of the working poor to search for a job while on the job. The augmented ...
(revised version published as 'On Sweatshop Jobs and Decent Work' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 121, 120 134)
J64, J88, O15
4362 Glen R. Waddell
Larry D. Singell
Do No-Loan Policies Change the Matriculation Patterns of Low-Income Students?
We empirically examine whether there is discernable variation in the matriculation patterns of low-income students at public flagship institutions in the United States around changes in institutional ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (2), 203-214)
I23, I21, J24
4361 Manasi Bhattacharya
Arjun S. Bedi
Amrita Chhachhi
Marital Violence and Women's Employment and Property Status: Evidence from North Indian Villages
Dominant development policy approaches recommend women's employment on the grounds that it facilitates their empowerment, which in turn is believed to be instrumental in enhancing women's well-being. ...
(published in: World Development, 2011, 39 (9), 1676–1689)
J12, J15, J16
4360 Andreas Kuhn
In the Eye of the Beholder: Subjective Inequality Measures and the Demand for Redistribution
This paper presents a simple conceptual framework intended for describing individuals' subjective evaluations of occupational wage inequality and their demand for redistribution. Most importantly, ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 27(4), 625-641)
D3, D63, H1
4359 Sher Verick
Who Is Hit Hardest during a Financial Crisis? The Vulnerability of Young Men and Women to Unemployment in an Economic Downturn
The current financial and economic crisis has resulted in the worst global recession since World War II. The subsequent destruction of jobs and increased duration of joblessness will ensure that ...
(published in: Iyanatul Islam and Sher Verick (eds.), From the Great Recession to Labour Market Recovery: Issues, Evidence and Policy Options, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK; ILO/Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
G01, J21, J64, J68
4357 Pierre M. Picard
David Wildasin
Labor Market Pooling, Outsourcing and Labor Contracts
Economic regions, such as urban agglomerations, face external demand and price shocks that produce income risk. Workers in large and diversified agglomerations may benefit from reduced wage ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2011, 70 (1), 47-60.)
R12, R23, J31, J65
4356 Deepti Goel
Perceptions and Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrants in Australia after 9/11
I examine whether after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 Muslim immigrants and immigrants who fit the Muslim Arab stereotype in Australia perceive a greater increase in religious and ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2010, 86(275), 596-608)
J61, J71
4355 Andreas Kuhn
Rafael Lalive
Josef Zweimüller
The Public Health Costs of Job Loss
We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2009, 28(6), 1099-1115)
I12, I19, J28, J65
4354 Alpaslan Akay
Peter Martinsson
Haileselassie Medhin
Does Positional Concern Matter in Poor Societies? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Rural Ethiopia
We investigated attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in Northern Ethiopia, using a tailored survey experiment. On average, we found positional concerns neither in income per se nor in ...
(revised version published in: World Development, 2012, 40 (2), 428 - 435)
C90, D63
4353 Sonia R. Bhalotra
Samantha Rawlings
Gradients of the Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Developing Countries
This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (2), 660 - 672)
O12, I12
4352 Joachim Wagner
One-third Codetermination at Company Supervisory Boards and Firm Performance in German Manufacturing Industries: First Direct Evidence from a New Type of Enterprise Data
This paper contributes to the empirical literature on the co-determination – firm performance nexus by using a new type of data that combines information on the co-determination status of enterprises ...
(published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften /Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2011, 131 (1), 91-106)
J50
4350 Dimitris Georgarakos
Konstantinos Tatsiramos
Immigrant Self-Employment: Does Intermarriage Matter?
This paper investigates the effect of a native spouse on the transitions into and out of entrepreneurship of male immigrants in the U.S. We find that those married to a native are less likely to ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2009, 29, 253-271)
J12, J15, J61
4348 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Sara de la Rica
Complements or Substitutes? Task Specialization by Gender and Nativity in Spain
Learning about the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives is a topic of major concern for immigrant-receiving countries. There exists an extensive literature evaluating the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (5), 697-707)
F22, J61, J31, R13
4347 Eric D. Gould
Guy Stecklov
Terror and the Costs of Crime
This paper argues that terrorism, beyond its immediate impact on innocent victims, also raises the costs of crime, and therefore, imposes a negative externality on potential criminals. Terrorism ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (11-12), 1175-1188)
K4
4346 Pedro S. Martins
Andy Snell
Jonathan P. Thomas
Real and Nominal Wage Rigidity in a Model of Equal-Treatment Contracting
Following insights by Bewley (1999a), this paper analyses a model with downward rigidities in which firms cannot pay discriminate based on a year of entry to a firm, and develops an equilibrium model ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 112(4), 841-863, 2010)
E32, J41
4345 Douglas A. Webber
Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Do Expenditures Other Than Instructional Expenditures Affect Graduation and Persistence Rates in American Higher Education?
Median instructional spending per full-time equivalent (FTE) student at American colleges and universities has grown at a slower rate the median spending per FTE in a number of other expenditure ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (6), 947-958)
I2
4344 James Costain
Marcel Jansen
Employment Fluctuations with Downward Wage Rigidity: The Role of Moral Hazard
This paper studies the cyclical dynamics of Mortensen and Pissarides' (1994) model of job creation and destruction when workers' effort is not perfectly observable, as in Shapiro and Stiglitz (1984). ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, special issue: "Price and Wage Dynamics", 2010, 112(4), 782-811)
C78, E24, E32, J64
4343 Karla Hoff
Mayuresh Kshetramade
Ernst Fehr
Caste and Punishment: The Legacy of Caste Culture in Norm Enforcement
Well-functioning groups enforce social norms that restrain opportunism, but the social structure of a society may encourage or inhibit norm enforcement. Here we study how the exogenous assignment to ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2011, 121 (556), 449-475)
D02, D64
4342 Daniel Fernández-Kranz
Núria Rodríguez-Planas
The Part-Time Pay Penalty in a Segmented Labor Market
While much of the literature that investigates the part-time (PT) / full-time (FT) hourly wage differential and its causes focuses on average effects, very few studies analyze the heterogeneous ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (5), 591-606)
J13, J16, J21, J22, J31, J62, C23
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