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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
4119 Romero Rocha
Rodrigo R. Soares
Evaluating the Impact of Community-Based Health Interventions: Evidence from Brazil's Family Health Program
This paper analyzes the direct and indirect impacts of Brazil's Family Health Program. We estimate the effects of the program on mortality and on household behavior related to child labor and ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2010, 19 (S1), 126-158)
I12, I18, J10, J13, J24, O54
4117 Adam S. Booij
Bernard M. S. van Praag
Gijs van de Kuilen
A Parametric Analysis of Prospect Theory's Functionals for the General Population
This paper presents the results of an experiment that completely measures the utility function and probability weighting function for different positive and negative monetary outcomes, using a ...
(published in: Theory and Decision, 2010, 68, 115–148 )
D81, C91, C93
4115 Sara de la Rica
Francesc Ortega
Economic and Cultural Gaps among Foreign-born Minorities in Spain
This paper compares the economic and cultural gaps of the largest foreign-born ethnic minorities in Spain: Latinos, Eastern Europeans, Moroccans and individuals from Other Muslim countries. We focus ...
(published as 'Cultural Integration in Spain' in: Algan, Bisin, Manning and Verdier (eds), Cultural Integration of Immigrants in Europe, Oxford University Press, 2012, 148-171)
J15, J61, F22
4114 Véronique Genre
Karsten Kohn
Daphne Momferatou
Understanding Inter-Industry Wage Structures in the Euro Area
This paper focuses on the euro area wage structure and its potential determinants from a sectoral viewpoint. Merging information from the OECD Structural Analysis database with data from the EU ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2011, 43 (11), 1299 - 1313)
J31, J24, J51
4113 Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Enrique G. Mendoza
Linda L. Tesar
The Finnish Great Depression: From Russia with Love
During the period 1991-93, Finland experienced the deepest economic downturn in an industrialized country since the 1930s. We argue that the culprit behind this Great Depression was the collapse of ...
(published in: American Economic Review 2012, 102(4), 1619-1643)
E32, F41, P2
4112 Ernesto Reuben
Jean-Robert Tyran
Everyone is a Winner: Promoting Cooperation through All-Can-Win Intergroup Competition
We test if cooperation is promoted by rank-order competition between groups in which all groups can be ranked first, i.e. when everyone can be a winner. This type of rank-order competition has the ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2010, 26 (1), 25-35)
H41, M52, C92
4110 Douglas S. Noonan
Douglas J. Krupka
Making – or Picking – Winners: Evidence of Internal and External Price Effects in Historic Preservation Policies
Much has been written identifying property price effects of historic preservation policies. Little attention has been paid to the possible policy endogeneity in hedonic price models. This paper ...
(published in: Real Estate Economics, 2011, 39 (2), 379-407)
R21, R31, R52, Z1
4109 Ferran Martínez i Coma
Robert Duval Hernández
Hostility Toward Immigration in Spain
This paper provides new evidence regarding public opinion on immigration by studying the Spanish case, and by analyzing not only respondents' preferences regarding immigration levels, but also ...
(published in: Jorge Durand and Jorge A. Schiavon (eds.), Perspectivas migratorias: Un análisis interdisciplinario de la migración internacional, Mexico: CIDE, 2010.)
F22, J61
4107 Ernesto Reuben
Sigrid Suetens
Revisiting Strategic versus Non-Strategic Cooperation
We use a novel experimental design to disentangle strategically- and non-strategically-motivated cooperation. By using contingent responses in a repeated sequential prisoners' dilemma with a known ...
(published in: Experimental Economics, 2012, 15 (1), 24-43)
C91, D01, D74
4104 Sara de la Rica
The Effect of the 2004 and 2007 EU Enlargement on the Spanish Labour Market
The 2004 and 2007 EU enlargement has led to a significant increase in the immigration flow to Spain. Individuals from the new-EU-12 countries accounted for no more than 10% of the whole Spanish ...
(published as 'The Experience of Spain with the Inflows of New Labor Migration' in: M.Kahanec; Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.): EU Labor Markets after Post-Enlargement Migration, Berlin et al., 2009, 131 - 144)
J61
4103 Daniel J. Henderson
Christopher F. Parmeter
Imposing Economic Constraints in Nonparametric Regression: Survey, Implementation and Extension
Economic conditions such as convexity, homogeneity, homotheticity, and monotonicity are all important assumptions or consequences of assumptions of economic functionals to be estimated. Recent ...
(published in: Advances in Econometrics, 2009, 25, 433-469)
J20, J30, C14
4102 Peter Haan
Victoria L. Prowse
A Structural Approach to Estimating the Effect of Taxation on the Labor Market Dynamics of Older Workers
We estimate a dynamic structural life-cycle model of employment, non-employment and retirement that includes endogenous accumulation of human capital and intertemporal non-separabilities in ...
(published in: Econometrics Journal, 2010, 13 (3), S99 - S125)
C23, C25, J22, J64
4101 Getinet Astatike Haile
Workplace Job Satisfaction in Britain: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
This paper examines the determinants of job satisfaction in Britain using nationally representative linked employer-employee data (WERS2004) and alternative econometric techniques. It uses eight ...
(Published in: Labour, 2015, 29 (3), 225–242 )
J28, I31
4100 Werner Eichhorst
Paul Marx
Reforming German Labor Market Institutions: A Dual Path to Flexibility
Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather passive welfare state, strong employment protection and collective bargaining ...
(revised version published in: Journal of European Social Policy, 2011, 21(1), 73-87)
J38, J51, J41
4099 Maarten Lindeboom
Petter Lundborg
Bas van der Klaauw
Obesity and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the British NCDS
We study the effect of obesity on wages and employment, using data from the British NCDS. The results show a significant negative association between obesity and labor market outcomes even after ...
(published as 'Assessing the Impact of Obesity on Labor Market Outcome' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2010, 8 (3), 309-319)
I10, J10
4098 Nabanita Datta Gupta
Jane Greve
Overweight and Obesity and the Demand for Primary Physician Care
The standard economic model for the demand for health care predicts that unhealthy behaviour such as being overweight or obese should increase the demand for medical care, particularly as clinical ...
(published as 'Overweight and obesity and the utilization of primary care physicians' in: Health Economics, 2011, 20 (S1), 53 - 67)
I12, I18
4097 James Albrecht
Lucas Navarro
Susan Vroman
Efficiency in a Search and Matching Model with Endogenous Participation
We show that in a search/matching model with endogenous participation in which workers are heterogeneous with respect to market productivity, satisfying the Hosios rule leads to excessive vacancy ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 106 (1), 48-50)
D8, J6
4095 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Chris Ryan
Anastasia Sartbayeva
Taking Chances: The Effect of Growing Up on Welfare on the Risky Behavior of Young People
We analyze the effect of growing up on welfare on young people's involvement in a variety of social and health risks. Young people in welfare families are much more likely to take both social and ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (3), 729–755)
J13, I38, J18
4094 Maarten van Ham
David Manley
The Effect of Neighbourhood Housing Tenure Mix on Labour Market Outcomes: A Longitudinal Perspective
This paper investigates the effect of different levels of neighbourhood housing tenure mix on transitions from unemployment to employment and the probability of staying in employment for those with a ...
(published as 'The effect of neighbourhood housing tenure mix on labour market outcomes: a longitudinal investigation of neighbourhood effects' in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2010, 10 (2), 257 - 282)
I30, J60, R23
4093 Emilio Congregado
Antonio A. Golpe
Simon C. Parker
The Dynamics of Entrepreneurship: Hysteresis, Business Cycles and Government Policy
This paper estimates an unobserved components model to explore the macro dynamics of entrepreneurship in Spain and the US. We ask whether entrepreneurship exhibits hysteresis, defined as a macro ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2012, 43, 1239 - 1261)
C32, E32, J24
4091 Tapio K. Palokangas
Economic Growth with Political Lobbying and Wage Bargaining
This paper examines an economy with a large number of industries, each producing a different good. Technological change follows a Poisson process where firms improve their productivity through ...
(revised version published in: IFAC Papers on Control Applications of Optimization 7 (2010))
F15, J50, O40
4090 Martin Huber
Michael Lechner
Conny Wunsch
Thomas Walter
Do German Welfare-to-Work Programmes Reduce Welfare and Increase Work?
Many Western economies have reformed their welfare systems with the aim of activating welfare recipients by increasing welfare-to-work programmes and job search enforcement. We evaluate the three ...
(published as 'Do German Welfare-to-Work Programmes Reduce Welfare Dependency and Increase Employment?' in: German Economic Review, 2011, 12 (2), 182-204)
J68
4089 Stephen Gibbons
Olmo Silva
Faith Primary Schools: Better Schools or Better Pupils?
We provide estimates for the effect of attending a Faith school on educational achievement using a census of primary school pupils in England. We argue that there are no credible instruments for ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2011, 29 (3) , 589-635)
I20, J24, Z12
4088 William E. Even
David A. Macpherson
The Growth of Participant Direction in Defined Contribution Plans
Since 1990, most pension plans have shifted the responsibility for directing pension assets to the employee. This study summarizes some of the possible explanations for this rapid shift toward ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2010, 49(2), 190–208)
J32
4086 Glenn C. Blomquist
Paul A. Coomes
Christopher Jepsen
Brandon C. Koford
Kenneth Troske
Estimating the Social Value of Higher Education: Willingness to Pay for Community and Technical Colleges
Much is known about private returns to education in the form of higher earnings. Less is known about social value, over and above the private, market value. Associations between education and ...
(revision published in: Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2014, 5 (1), 3-42)
I2, H4, H23
4085 Anton Hemerijck
Werner Eichhorst
Whatever Happened to the Bismarckian Welfare State? From Labor Shedding to Employment-Friendly Reforms
The paper challenges the widespread view that Bismarckian countries with a strong role of social insurance and labor market regulation are less successful than other employment regimes and hard to ...
(published in: Bruno Palier (ed.), A long good-bye to Bismarck, Amsterdam: AUP, 2010, 301-332)
J26, J68
4082 William E. Even
David A. Macpherson
Is Bigger Still Better? The Decline of the Wage Premium at Large Firms
This study shows that the wage premium paid by large firms fell over the past 20 years and that the decline in the size premium has been most pronounced among the least educated work force. Empirical ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2012, 78(4), 1181-1201)
J31, J32, J33
4081 Denis Conniffe
Donal O'Neill
Efficient Probit Estimation with Partially Missing Covariates
A common approach to dealing with missing data is to estimate the model on the common subset of data, by necessity throwing away potentially useful data. We derive a new probit type estimator for ...
(published in: D. Drukker (ed.): Advances in Econometrics, Vol. 27A, Missing Data Methods, 2011, 213-249.)
C25, G11
4080 Martin G. Kocher
Ganna Pogrebna
Matthias Sutter
Other-Regarding Preferences and Leadership Styles
We use a laboratory experiment to examine whether and to what extent other-regarding preferences of team leaders influence their leadership style in choice under risk. We find that leaders who prefer ...
(revised and extended version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 88, 109-132)
C91, C92, D70, D81
4079 Brian Krogh Graversen
Jan C. van Ours
How a Mandatory Activation Program Reduces Unemployment Durations: The Effects of Distance
In an experimental setting some Danish unemployed workers were assigned to an activation program while others were not. Unemployed who were assigned to the activation program found a job more ...
(published as 'An Activation Program as a Stick to Job Finding' in: Labour, 2011, 25 (2), 167 - 181)
C41, H55, J64, J65
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