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4235 Kaisa Kotakorpi
Panu Poutvaara
Pay for Politicians and Candidate Selection: An Empirical Analysis
In this paper, we estimate the effect of pay for politicians on who wants to be a politician. We take advantage of a considerable 35 percent salary increase of Finnish MPs in the year 2000, intended ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (7-8), 877 - 885)
D72, J3, J45
4233 Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Klara Sabirianova Peter
Dmitriy Stolyarov
Inequality and Volatility Moderation in Russia: Evidence from Micro-Level Panel Data on Consumption and Income
We construct key household and individual economic variables using a panel micro data set from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for 1994-2005. We analyze cross-sectional income and ...
(revised version published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2010, 13 (1), 209 - 237)
E20, J30, I30, O15, P20
4232 Taryn Ann Galloway
Björn Anders Gustafsson
Peder J. Pedersen
Torun Österberg
Immigrant Child Poverty in Scandinavia: A Panel Data Study
Immigrant and native child poverty in Denmark, Norway and Sweden 1993 to 2001 is investigated using large sets of panel data. While native children face yearly poverty risks of less than 10 percent ...
(revised version published in: Thesia I Garner and Kathleen S Short (eds.): Measures of Poverty, Deprivation, and Economic Mobility (Research on Economic Inequality, 23), 2015, 185 - 219)
F22, I32, J15
4231 Boris Hirsch
Marion König
Joachim Möller
Is There a Gap in the Gap? Regional Differences in the Gender Pay Gap
In this paper, we investigate regional differences in the gender pay gap both theoretically and empirically. Within a spatial oligopsony model, we show that more densely populated labour markets are ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2013, 60 (4), 412-439)
J16, J42, J71
4230 Martin Kahanec
Anzelika Zaiceva
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Lessons from Migration after EU Enlargement
The Eastern enlargement of the EU was an institutional impetus to the migration potential in Europe. While the overall numbers of migrants from the new member states in the EU15 increased between ...
(published in: M. Kahanec and K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), EU Labor Markets after Post-Enlargement Migration, Springer: Berlin, et al. 2009, 3-45)
F22, J61
4229 Adriana Barone
Niall O'Higgins
Fat and Out in Salerno and Province: Adolescent Obesity and Early School Leaving in Southern Italy
In this paper, we focus on the causes and consequences of adolescent obesity from an economic perspective. The paper examines the determinants of obesity and its role in influencing early school ...
(revised version published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2010, 8 (1), 44-57)
I12, I21, J13
4228 Klara Sabirianova Peter
Steve Buttrick
Denvil Duncan
Global Reform of Personal Income Taxation, 1981-2005: Evidence from 189 Countries
In this paper we use a panel of 189 countries to describe the salient trends that have emerged in national personal income tax systems spanning the twenty five year period from 1981 to 2005. Using ...
(published in: National Tax Journal, 2010, 63 (3), 447-478)
C8, E62, H2, H87, N10, O1
4227 Sandra Cavaco
Denis Fougère
Julien Pouget
Estimating the Effect of a Retraining Program on the Re-Employment Rate of Displaced Workers
In this paper we estimate by matching techniques the effects of a French retraining program on the reemployment rate of displaced workers. This program, called "Conventions de conversion", was ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 44 (1), 261-287.)
C41, J24, J64, J68
4226 Roger Bandick
Holger Görg
Foreign Acquisition, Plant Survival, and Employment Growth
This paper analyses the effect of foreign acquisition on survival probability and employment growth of target plant using data on Swedish manufacturing plants during the period 1993-2002. An ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2010, 43(2), 547-573)
F23, L23
4225 Alpaslan Akay
Peter Martinsson
Haileselassie Medhin
Stefan T. Trautmann
Attitudes toward Uncertainty among the Poor: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
We looked at risk and ambiguity attitudes among Ethiopian peasants in one of the poorest regions of the world and compared their attitudes to a standard Western university student sample elicited by ...
(revised version published in: Theory and Decision, 2012, 73 (3), 453-464 )
D81, C93, O12
4224 Riccardo Rovelli
Anzelika Zaiceva
Transition Fatigue? Cross-Country Evidence from Micro Data
The transition process has had different distributional impacts across different interest groups and countries. These have led to differences in the support for transition. In this paper, we study ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Did Support for Economic and Political Reforms Increase During the Post-Communist Transition, and If So, Why?' in: The Economics of Transition, 2013, 21 (2), 193-240.)
O57, A13, P26, P36
4222 Stefanie Behncke
How Do Shocks to Non-Cognitive Skills Affect Test Scores?
This paper investigates the extent to which test performance is affected by shocks to non-cognitive skills. 440 students took a low stakes mathematics test. About half of them were exposed to ...
(published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 107/108, 155 - 173)
C15, C21, C93, I20
4221 Susanne Prantl
Alexandra Spitz-Oener
How Does Entry Regulation Influence Entry into Self-Employment and Occupational Mobility?
We analyze how an entry regulation that imposes a mandatory educational standard affects entry into self-employment and occupational mobility. We exploit the German reunification as a natural ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2009, 17 (4), 769-802)
J24, J62, K20, L11, L51, M13
4219 Jay Stewart
The Timing of Maternal Work and Time with Children
I use data from the American Time Use Survey to examine how maternal employment affects when during the day that mothers of pre-school-age children spend doing enriching childcare and whether they ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2010, 64(1), 181-200)
J22, J13
4218 Yuanyuan Chen
Shuaizhang Feng
Parental Education and Wages: Evidence from China
Using nationally representative data in China, we find substantial positive partial correlations of both parents' education with one's wage. In addition, returns to father's education are higher in ...
(published in: Frontiers of Economics in China, 2011, 6 (4), 568-591)
J30, J62
4217 Fernando A. Lozano
The Flexibility of the Workweek in the United States: Evidence from the FIFA World Cup
In this paper I explore the flexibility of the work week in the United States, using the FIFA Soccer World Cup as a natural experiment. My empirical strategy exploits the exogenous variation that ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2011, 49(2), 512-529)
J22, L83
4215 Ken Burdett
Carlos Carrillo-Tudela
Melvyn Coles
Human Capital Accumulation and Labour Market Equilibrium
We analyse an equilibrium labour market with on-the-job search and experience effects (where workers learn-by-doing). The analysis yields a standard Mincer wage equation with worker fixed effects and ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2011, 52 (3), 657 - 677)
J24, J42, J64
4214 Matthias Doepke
Fabrizio Zilibotti
Do International Labor Standards Contribute to the Persistence of the Child Labor Problem?
In recent years, a number of governments and consumer groups in rich countries have tried to discourage the use of child labor in poor countries through measures such as product boycotts and the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2010, 15(1), 1-31)
J20, J88, O10
4213 Bruno Cesar Araújo
Francesco Bogliacino
Marco Vivarelli
The Role of "Skill Enhancing Trade" in Brazil: Some Evidence from Microdata
Brazil was characterised by a marked process of trade liberalisation in the 1990s, resulting in a dramatic increase in the volumes of exports and imports since the year 2000. Over the same period, ...
(published in: CEPAL Review, 2012, 105, 157-171)
O33, O54, F16
4212 Giorgio Di Pietro
Military Conscription and University Enrolment: Evidence from Italy
Given that a growing number of countries have abolished or are considering the abolition of military conscription, understanding the consequences of this measure is of increased importance. In this ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (2), 619-644)
I20, J24
4210 Andrew E. Clark
Andreas Knabe
Steffen Rätzel
Boon or Bane? Others' Unemployment, Well-being and Job Insecurity
The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the well-being of the employed, but has a far smaller effect on the unemployed. We use German panel data to reproduce this ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 52-61)
I31, D84, J60
4209 Ian Gazeley
Andrew T. Newell
No Room to Live: Urban Overcrowding in Edwardian Britain
We study the extent of overcrowding amongst British urban working families in the early 1900s and find major regional differences. In particular, a much greater proportion of households in urban ...
(published as 'Why was urban over-crowding much more severe in Scotland than in the rest of the British Isles? Evidence from the first (1904) official household expenditure survey’ in: European Review of Economic History, 2011, 15 (1), 127-151)
I10, N33, R12
4208 Niall O'Higgins
"It's not that I'm a racist, it's that they are Roma": Roma Discrimination and Returns to Education in South Eastern Europe
This paper uses a unique survey of Roma and non-Roma in South Eastern Europe to evaluate competing explanations for the poor performance of Roma in the labour market. The analysis seeks to identify ...
(revised version published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2010, 31(2) 163-187)
C35, J15, J24, P23
4207 Luca Marchiori
I-Ling Shen
Frédéric Docquier
Brain Drain in Globalization: A General Equilibrium Analysis from the Sending Countries' Perspective
The paper assesses the global effects of brain drain on developing economies and quantifies the relative sizes of various static and dynamic impacts. By constructing a unified generic framework ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2013, 51 (2), 1582–1602)
F22, J24, O15
4206 Naihobe Gonzales
Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
Are Returns to Education on the Decline in Venezuela and Does Mission Sucre Have a Role to Play?
There is anecdotal evidence that the standard of living for the educated has fallen in Venezuela over the last few years. This evidence comes as a surprise because after experiencing an economic ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (6), 1348-1369)
J2, J24, J38, I21, O12, O15
4205 Christine Harbring
Bernd Irlenbusch
Sabotage in Tournaments: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment
Although relative performance schemes are pervasive in organizations reliable empirical data on induced sabotage behavior is almost non-existent. We study sabotage in tournaments in a controlled ...
(revised and extended version published in: Management Science, 2011, 57, 611 - 627)
M52, J33, J41, L23, C72, C91
4204 Margaret Maurer-Fazio
Rachel Connelly
Chen Lan
Lixin Tang
Childcare, Eldercare, and Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Urban China: 1982 - 2000
We employ data from the three most recent Chinese population censuses to consider married, urban women's labor force participation decisions in the context of their families and their residential ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2011, 46 (2), 261 - 294)
J11, J12, J13, J16, J22, O15, P23, R23
4201 Nikos Askitas
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Google Econometrics and Unemployment Forecasting
The current economic crisis requires fast information to predict economic behavior early, which is difficult at times of structural changes. This paper suggests an innovative new method of using data ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2009, 55 (2), 107-120)
C22, C82, E17, E24, E37
4200 Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers
The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness
By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women’s happiness has ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2009, 1(2), 190–225)
D6, I32, J1, J7, K1
4199 Donghyun Oh
Almas Heshmati
A Sequential Malmquist-Luenberger Productivity Index
This study proposes an alternative methodology for measuring environmentally sensitive productivity growth. The rationale of this methodology is to consider the features of technology appropriately ...
(published as 'A sequential Malmquist–Luenberger productivity index: Environmentally sensitive productivity growth considering the progressive nature of technology ' in: Energy Economics, 2011, 32 (6), 1345 - 1355)
D24, D61, D57, C43, Q56
4198 Stephan Meier
Charles Sprenger
Present-Biased Preferences and Credit Card Borrowing
Some individuals borrow extensively on their credit cards. This paper tests whether present-biased time preferences correlate with credit card borrowing. In a field study, we elicit individual time ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2010, 2 (1), 193-210)
D12, D14, D91, C93
4197 Andreas Peichl
Nico Pestel
Hilmar Schneider
Demografie und Ungleichheit: Der Einfluss von Veränderungen der Haushaltsstruktur auf die Einkommensverteilung in Deutschland
In Germany, two observations can be tracked over the past 15 to 20 years: First, income inequality has constantly increased while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. ...
(substantially revised version available as IZA Standpunkt No. 18, published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung / Journal for Labour Market Research, 2011, 43(4), 327-338)
D31, D63, I30, J11
4194 Arnaud Dupuy
Wendy Smits
How Large Is the Compensating Wage Differential for R&D Workers?
The aim of this paper is to measure the extent to which lower wages in R&D functions reflect a preference effect. In contrast to the bulk of the literature on compensating wage differentials that ...
(published in: Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2010, 19 (5), 423-436)
J3
4193 Roger Ham
Pramod N. (Raja) Junankar
Robert Wells
Antagonistic Managers, Careless Workers and Extraverted Salespeople: An Examination of Personality in Occupational Choice
This paper is an econometric investigation of the choice of individuals between a number of occupation groupings utilising an extensive array of conditioning variables measuring a variety of aspects ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2016, 48 (7), 636-651)
J24, J62, C25
4192 Cathal O'Donoghue
David Meredith
Eamon O'Shea
Postponing Maternity in Ireland
As in many other developed countries, Ireland in recent decades has experienced a postponement of maternity. In this paper we consider the main trends in this phenomenon, considering changes in first ...
(published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2011, 35 (1), 59 - 84)
J13
4191 Fernando Alexandre
Pedro Bação
João Cerejeira
Miguel Portela
Employment and Exchange Rates: The Role of Openness and Technology
Real exchange rate movements are important drivers of the reallocation of resources between sectors of the economy. Economic theory suggests that the impact of exchange rates should vary with the ...
(published in: Open Economies Review 2011, ,22 (5), 969 - 984)
J23, F16, F41
4190 Oriana Bandiera
Iwan Barankay
Imran Rasul
Social Incentives in the Workplace
We present evidence on social incentives in the workplace, namely on whether workers’ behavior is affected by the presence of those they are socially tied to, even in settings where there are no ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2010, 77 (2), 417-458)
L2, M5
4189 Patricia Apps
Ray Rees
Relational Contracts, Taxation and the Household
This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to make precise the idea that because households are engaged in a repeated non-cooperative game, Pareto efficient outcomes can be supported by ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2011, 57 (2), 245-258)
D11, D13, H21, H24, H31, J12, J16, K36, N30
4188 Inmaculada García-Mainar
José Alberto Molina
Víctor M. Montuenga
Intra-Household Time Allocation: Gender Differences in Caring for Children
This paper analyses the intra-household allocation of time to show gender differences in childcare. In the framework of a general efficiency approach, hours spent on childcare by each parent are ...
(published as 'Gender Differences in Childcare: Time Allocation in Five European Countries' in: Feminist Economics, 2011, 17 (1), 119-150)
D13, J22, C33
4184 Gabriel Felbermayr
Julien Prat
Hans-Jörg Schmerer
Trade and Unemployment: What Do the Data Say?
This paper documents a robust empirical regularity: in the long-run, higher trade openness is causally associated to a lower structural rate of unemployment. We establish this fact using: (i) panel ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2011, 55 (6), 741-758)
F16, E24, J6
4183 Ken Clark
Nick Kanellopoulos
Low Pay Persistence in European Countries
Using panel data for twelve European countries over the period 1994-2001 we estimate the extent of state dependence in low pay. Controlling for observable and unobservable heterogeneity as well as ...
(revised version published in Labour Economics 2013, 23, 122-134.)
C23, C25, J31, J69
4181 Nava Kahana
Yosef Mealem
Shmuel Nitzan
The Efficient and Fair Approval of "Multiple-Cost - Single-Benefit" Projects under Unilateral Information
This paper focuses on indivisible multiple-cost–single-benefit projects that must be approved by the government. A simple mechanism is proposed that ensures an efficient and fair implementation of ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2009, 11 (6), 947 - 960)
D61, D62, D78
4180 Michael Fertig
Christoph M. Schmidt
Mathias Sinning
The Impact of Demographic Change on Human Capital Accumulation
This paper investigates whether and to what extent demographic change has an impact on human capital accumulation. The effect of the relative cohort size on educational attainment of young adults in ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2009 (6), 16, 659-668)
J11, J24, C25
4179 Alessandro Cigno
Annalisa Luporini
Optimal Family Policy in the Presence of Moral Hazard, When the Quantity and Quality of Children Are Stochastic
We examine the second-best family policy under the assumption that both the number and the future earning capacities of the children born to a couple are random variables with probability ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2011, 57 (2), 349-364)
D13, D78, D82. H31, J13
4178 Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
Willie Belton
Coming to America: Does Immigrant's Home Country Economic Status Impact the Probability of Self-Employment in the U.S.?
This paper examines the impact of home country economic status on immigrant self-employment probability in the U.S. We estimate a probability model and find that, consistent across race, immigrants ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102(3), 538-542)
J21, E24, J61, J40
4177 Falko Juessen
A Distribution Dynamics Approach to Regional GDP Convergence in Unified Germany
This paper uses nonparametric techniques to study GDP convergence across German labor market regions and counties during the period 1992-2004. The main result is that regional convergence in unified ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2009, 37 (3), 627 - 652)
O47, R11, C14
4176 Simon W. Bowmaker
Patrick M. Emerson
Still Waiting for Mister Right? Asymmetric Information, Abortion Laws and the Timing of Marriage
Previous studies have suggested that more liberal abortion laws should lead to a decrease in marriage rates among young women as 'shotgun weddings' are no longer necessary. Empirical evidence from ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2013, 45 (22), 3151-3169)
J12, J13, K0
4174 Anabela Carneiro
Paulo Guimaraes
Pedro Portugal
Real Wages and the Business Cycle: Accounting for Worker and Firm Heterogeneity
Using a longitudinal matched employer-employee data set for Portugal over the 1986-2005 period, this study analyzes the heterogeneity in wages responses to aggregate labor market conditions for newly ...
(published as 'Real Wages and the Business Cycle: Accounting for Worker, Firm and Job-Title Heterogeneity' in American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2012, 4(2))
J31, E24, E32
4173 Leo Kaas
Jun Lu
Equal-Treatment Policy in a Random Search Model with Taste Discrimination
We consider a search model of the labor market with two types of equally productive workers and two types of firms, discriminators and non-discriminators. Without policy intervention, there is wage ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (4), 699-709)
J41, J71, J78
4172 Peter Rupert
Etienne Wasmer
Housing and the Labor Market: Time to Move and Aggregate Unemployment
The Mortensen-Pissarides model with unemployment benefits and taxes has been able to account for the variation in unemployment rates across countries but does not explain why geographical mobility is ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, Carnegie-NYU-Rochester Conference Issue, 2012, 59 (1), 24-36)
J30, J60, R20
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