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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
4171 John Hudson
John G. Sessions
The Impact of Parental Education on Earnings: New Wine in an Old Bottle?
We examine the impact of parental education on the shape of an individual's experience-earnings profile. A number of factors suggest that parental education will affect the ability of an individual ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2011, 113 (2), 112-115)
J30, J31, J33
4170 Thomas Dohmen
Armin Falk
David B. Huffman
Felix Marklein
Uwe Sunde
Biased Probability Judgment: Evidence of Incidence and Relationship to Economic Outcomes from a Representative Sample
Many economic decisions involve a substantial amount of uncertainty, and therefore crucially depend on how individuals process probabilistic information. In this paper, we investigate the capability ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 72 (3), 903-915)
C90, D00, D10, D80, D81, H00
4169 Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
Audrey Light
Interpreting Degree Effects in the Returns to Education
Researchers often identify degree effects by including degree attainment (D) and years of schooling (S) in a wage model, yet the source of independent variation in these measures is not well ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2010, 45 (2), 439-467)
I21, J24, J31
4168 Seamus McGuinness
Peter J. Sloane
Labour Market Mismatch Among UK Graduates: An Analysis Using REFLEX Data
There is much disagreement in the literature over the extent to which graduates are mismatched in the labour market and the reasons for this. In this paper we utilise the Flexible Professional in the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (1), 130-145)
J24, J31
4165 Martin Halla
Mario Lackner
Friedrich Schneider
An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamics of the Welfare State: The Case of Benefit Morale
Does the supply of a welfare state create its own demand? Many economic scholars studying welfare arrangements refer to Say's law and insinuate a self-destructive welfare state. However, little is ...
(revised version published in: Kyklos, 2010, 63 (1), 55-74 )
A13, I30, I38, J65, J68, H20, Z13
4164 Bernhard Michel
François Rycx
Does Offshoring of Materials and Business Services Affect Employment? Evidence from a Small Open Economy
The fear of massive job losses has prompted a fast-growing literature on offshoring and its impact on employment in advanced economies. This paper examines the situation for Belgium. It improves the ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2012, 44 (2), 229 - 251)
F15, J22
4161 Mehmet S. Tosun
Claudia R. Williamson
Pavel Yakovlev
Population Aging, Elderly Migration and Education Spending: Intergenerational Conflict Revisited
Elderly have been increasingly targeted as a group to enhance economic development and the tax base in communities. While recent literature on elderly migration tends to focus on how elderly ...
(published in: Public Budgeting and Finance, 2012, 32 (2), 25-39)
H75, R23
4160 Matteo Cervellati
Uwe Sunde
Life Expectancy and Economic Growth: The Role of the Demographic Transition
In this paper we investigate the causal effect of life expectancy on economic growth by explicitly accounting for the role of the demographic transition. In addition to focusing on issues of ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2011, 16 (2), 99-133)
E10, J10, J13, N30, O10, O40
4159 Todd E. Elder
John H. Goddeeris
Steven J. Haider
Unexplained Gaps and Oaxaca-Blinder Decompositions
We analyze four methods to measure unexplained gaps in mean outcomes: three decompositions based on the seminal work of Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973) and an approach involving a seemingly naïve ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 284-290)
J31, J24, J15, J16
4158 Federico Cingano
Marco Leonardi
Julián Messina
Giovanni Pica
The Effect of Employment Protection Legislation and Financial Market Imperfections on Investment: Evidence from a Firm-Level Panel of EU Countries
This paper analyzes the joint effect of EPL and financial market imperfections on investment, capital-labour substitution, labour productivity and job reallocation in a cross-country framework. In ...
(substantially revised version published in: Economic Policy, 2010, 25 (61). 117 - 163)
J21
4157 Esteban Sanromá
Raul Ramos
Hipólito Simón
Immigrant Wages in the Spanish Labour Market: Does the Origin of Human Capital Matter?
The aim of this paper is to analyse the role played by the different components of human capital in the wage determination of recent immigrants within the Spanish labour market. Using microdata from ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Economics, 2015, 18 (1), 149-172)
J15, J24, J31, J61
4156 Christopher Kilby
Axel Dreher
The Impact of Aid on Growth Revisited: Do Donor Motives Matter?
The typical identification strategy in aid effectiveness studies assumes donor motives do not influence the impact of aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 107 (3), 338-340)
F35, O40
4155 Christoph Wunder
Andrea Wiencierz
Johannes Schwarze
Helmut Küchenhoff
Sara Kleyer
Philipp Bleninger
Well-Being over the Life Span: Semiparametric Evidence from British and German Longitudinal Data
This paper applies semiparametric regression models using penalized splines to investigate the profile of well-being over the life span. Splines have the advantage that they do not require a priori ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (1), 154–167. )
C14, C23, D10, I31
4154 Peter Haan
Michal Myck
Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-Employment
While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a more difficult situation on the labour market, the precise relationship between ...
(revised version published as 'Dynamics of Health and Labour Market Risks' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2009, 28 (6), 1116-1125)
C33, J21, J14
4153 Gil S. Epstein
Ira N. Gang
Why Pay Taxes When No One Else Does?
In this paper we try to understand the phenomena whereby a large proportion of the population evades tax payments. We present a model which incorporates elements from the theory of information ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2010, 14 (2), 374-385)
H26, H31, D82
4152 Thomas C. Buchmueller
John DiNardo
Robert G. Valletta
The Effect of an Employer Health Insurance Mandate on Health Insurance Coverage and the Demand for Labor: Evidence from Hawaii
Over the past few decades, policy makers have considered employer mandates as a strategy for stemming the tide of declining health insurance coverage. In this paper we examine the long term effects ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2011, 3 (4), 25-51)
J32, I18, J23
4151 Denisa M. Sologon
Cathal O'Donoghue
Policy, Institutional Factors and Earnings Mobility
This paper uses ECHP and OECD data for 14 EU countries to explore the role of labour market factors in explaining cross-national differences in the dynamic structure of earnings: in permanent ...
(published in: The European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2011, 8(2), pp. 175-202)
C23, D31, J31, J60, J50, J08
4150 Alberto Alesina
Paola Giuliano
Family Ties and Political Participation
We establish an inverse relationship between family ties, generalized trust and political participation. The more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (5), 817-839)
Z10, Z13
4148 Margaret Maurer-Fazio
James W. Hughes
Dandan Zhang
A Comparison and Decomposition of Reform-Era Labor Force Participation Rates of China's Ethnic Minorities and Han Majority
This paper examines differences in China's ethnic majority and minority patterns of labor force participation and decomposes these differences into treatment and endowment effects using the technique ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2010, 31 (2), 138-162)
J1, J2, J7, O1, O5, P2
4147 Martin Salm
Does Job Loss Cause Ill Health?
This study estimates the effect of job loss on health for near elderly employees based on longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study. Previous studies find a strong negative correlation ...
(revised version published in: Health Economics, 2009, 18(9), 1075-1089)
I12, J63
4146 Molly Dahl
Thomas DeLeire
Jonathan Schwabish
Stepping Stone or Dead End? The Effect of the EITC on Earnings Growth
While many studies have found that the EITC increases the employment rates of single mothers, no study to date has examined whether the jobs taken by single mothers as a result of the EITC incentives ...
(published in: National Tax Journal, 2009, 62 (2), 329–346)
J3, H2
4145 Alessio J. G. Brown
Christian Merkl
Dennis J. Snower
An Incentive Theory of Matching
This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are heterogeneous variations in the characteristics of workers and jobs, and firms ...
(published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2015, 19 (3), 643-668)
E24, E32, J63, J64
4142 Alexander M. Danzer
Barbara Dietz
Temporary Labour Migration and Welfare at the New European Fringe: A Comparison of Five Eastern European Countries
This paper investigates patterns and determinants of temporary labour migration in Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine after EU enlargement in 2004. Migration incidence, destination ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Labour Migration from Eastern Europe and the EU’s Quest for Talents' in: Journal of Common Market Studies, 2014, 52 (2), 183-199)
F22, J61, I31, P23
4140 Gerard J. van den Berg
Petter Lundborg
Paul Nystedt
Dan-Olof Rooth
Critical Periods During Childhood and Adolescence: A Study of Adult Height Among Immigrant Siblings
We identify the ages that constitute critical periods in children's development towards their adult health status. For this we use data on families migrating into Sweden from countries that are ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2014, 12 (6), 1521-1557.)
I10, I12, I18, F22, I20, I30, J10, N30
4139 Fredrik Carlsson
Peter Martinsson
Ping Qin
Matthias Sutter
Household Decision Making and the Influence of Spouses' Income, Education, and Communist Party Membership: A Field Experiment in Rural China
We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then jointly. We ...
(revised version published as 'The Influence of Spouses on Household Decision Making Under Risk: An Experiment in Rural China' in: Experimental Economics, 2013, 16(3), 383-403)
C91, C92, C93, D10
4137 Erling Barth
Bernt Bratsberg
Torbjørn Haegeland
Oddbjørn Raaum
Performance Pay and Within-Firm Wage Inequality
This paper examines the impact of performance-related pay on wage differentials within firms. Our theoretical framework predicts that, compared to a fixed pay system, pay schemes based on individual ...
(published as 'Performance Pay, Union Bargaining and Within-Firm Wage Inequality' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 74 (3), 327 - 362)
J31, J33
4136 Devashish Mitra
Priya Ranjan
Offshoring and Unemployment: The Role of Search Frictions and Labor Mobility
In a two-sector, general-equilibrium model with labor-market search frictions, we find that wage increases and sectoral unemployment decreases upon offshoring in the presence of perfect intersectoral ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2010, 81 (2), 219-229)
F11, F16, J64
4134 Guy Lacroix
Assessing the Impact of a Wage Subsidy for Single Parents on Social Assistance in Canada
In 2002 the Quebec government implemented the "Action Emploi" (AE) program aimed at making work pay for long-term social assistance recipients (SA). AE offered a generous wage subsidy that could last ...
(published - as joint work with Dany Brouillette - in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2011, 44 (4), 1195–1221)
I38, J31, J64
4133 M. Ayhan Kose
Eswar Prasad
Ashley D. Taylor
Thresholds in the Process of International Financial Integration
The financial crisis has re-ignited the fierce debate about the merits of financial globalization and its implications for growth, especially for developing countries. The empirical literature has ...
(published in: Journal of International Money and Finance, 2011, 30(1), 147-179)
F3, F4, O4
4131 Josh Ederington
Jenny Minier
Kenneth Troske
Where the Girls Are: Trade and Labor Market Segregation in Colombia
Gary Becker's theory of discrimination argues that increasing competition will reduce discrimination in the labor market. We use the Colombian trade liberalization episode over the period 1984–91 to ...
(published as 'Trade and labor market segregation in Colombia' in: Review of International Economics, 2024, 32 (4), 645-1670)
J7
4129 Simona Iammarino
Mariacristina Piva
Marco Vivarelli
Nick Von Tunzelmann
Technological Capabilities and Patterns of Cooperation of UK Firms: A Regional Investigation
This paper focuses on the relationship between firms' technological capabilities and different forms of cooperation for innovation by combining the analysis of both micro and meso levels, i.e. the ...
(published as 'Technological Capabilities and Patterns of Innovative Cooperation of Firms in the UK Regions' in: Regional Studies, 2012, 46 (10), 1283-1301)
O30, R12
4128 Stefano Gagliarducci
M. Daniele Paserman
Gender Interactions within Hierarchies: Evidence from the Political Arena
This paper studies gender interactions within hierarchical organizations using a large data set on the duration of Italian municipal governments elected between 1993 and 2003. A municipal government ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2012, 79 (3), 1021-1052)
D74, J16, H72, M54
4127 Magali Beffy
Denis Fougère
Arnaud Maurel
Choosing the Field of Study in Post-Secondary Education: Do Expected Earnings Matter?
This paper examines the determinants of the choice of the major when the length of studies is uncertain, by using a framework in which students entering post-secondary education are assumed to ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94 (1), 334–347)
J24, C35, D84
4126 Boris Hirsch
Thorsten Schank
Claus Schnabel
Works Councils and Separations: Voice, Monopoly, and Insurance Effects
Using a large linked employer-employee data set for Germany, we find that the existence of a works council is associated with a lower separation rate to employment, in particular for men and workers ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2010, 49 (4), 566-592)
J53, J63
4125 Ferdinand von Siemens
Michael Kosfeld
Negative Externalities and Equilibrium Existence in Competitive Markets with Adverse Selection
Rothschild and Stiglitz (1976) show that there need not exist a competitive equilibrium in markets with adverse selection. Building on their framework we demonstrate that externalities between agents ...
(revised version published as 'Team production in competitive labor markets with adverse selection' in: European Economic Review, 2014, 68, 181–198)
D82, D86
4124 Santiago Budría
Luis Diaz-Serrano
Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell
Joop Hartog
Risk Attitude and Wage Growth: Replication and Reconstruction
We replicate Shaw (1996) who found that individual wage growth is higher for individuals with greater preference for risk taking. Expanding her dataset with more American observations and data for ...
(published as "Risk-Aversion and Income Growth: Replicating Shaw (1996)" in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 44 (2), 981-1004)
J24, J30
4123 Ruta Aidis
Saul Estrin
Tomasz Mickiewicz
Entrepreneurial Entry: Which Institutions Matter?
In this paper we explore the relationship between the individual decision to become an entrepreneur and the institutional context. We pinpoint the critical roles of property rights and the size of ...
(published in: Grzegorz Kolodko and Jacek Tomkiewicz (eds.), 20 Years of Transformation: Achievements, Problems and Perspectives, New York: Nova, 2011 )
L26, P14, P51, P37
4122 Coralio Ballester
Antoni Calvó-Armengol
Yves Zenou
Delinquent Networks
Delinquents are embedded in a network of relationships. Social ties among delinquents are modeled by means of a graph where delinquents compete for a booty and benefit from local interactions with ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2010, 8 (1), 34-61)
A14, C72, K42, L14
4121 Kai A. Konrad
Salmai Qari
The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel? Patriotism and Tax Compliance
We study the effects of patriotism on tax compliance. In particular, we assume that individuals feel a (random draw of) warm glow from honestly paying their taxes. A higher expected warm glow reduces ...
(published in: Economica, 2012, 79 (315), 516-53)
H26, K42
4120 Salmai Qari
Kai A. Konrad
Benny Geys
Patriotism, Taxation and International Mobility
For patriotic citizens, living in their native country is intrinsically preferable compared to living in the diaspora. In this paper, we analyze the implications of such a patriotic lock-in in a ...
(published in: Public Choice, 2012, 151 (3-4), 695 - 717)
H20, H73
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