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3981 Sarah Brown
Karl Taylor
Reservation Wages, Expected Wages and the Duration of Unemployment: Evidence from British Panel Data
In this paper we analyse the role of wage expectations in an empirical model of incomplete spells of unemployment and reservation wages. To be specific, we model the duration of unemployment, ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 119 (3), 276-279)
J13, J24, J64
3980 James J. Heckman
Sergio Urzua
Comparing IV with Structural Models: What Simple IV Can and Cannot Identify
This paper compares the economic questions addressed by instrumental variables estimators with those addressed by structural approaches. We discuss Marschak's Maxim: estimators should be selected on ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2010, 156 (1), 27-37)
C31
3977 Philipp C. Bauer
Regina T. Riphahn
Age at School Entry and Intergenerational Educational Mobility
We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children first enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2009, 103 (2), 87-90)
I2, I21, J24, D30
3976 Horst Entorf
Crime and the Labour Market: Evidence from a Survey of Inmates
In this paper data from a survey of 1,771 inmates conducted in 31 German prisons provide microeconometric evidence on the relationship between individual anticipated labour market opportunities and ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2009, 229 (2+3), 254-269)
C83, J38, J68, K42
3975 Graziella Bertocchi
Marianna Brunetti
Costanza Torricelli
Marriage and Other Risky Assets: A Portfolio Approach
We study the joint impact of gender and marital status on financial decisions. First, we test the hypothesis that marriage represents - in a portfolio framework - a sort of safe asset, and that this ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Banking and Finance, 2011, 24 (11), 2902 - 2915)
G11, E21, J12, J21
3974 Christopher Dawson
Andrew Henley
Paul L. Latreille
Why Do Individuals Choose Self-Employment?
This paper undertakes an analysis of the motivating factors cited by the self-employed in the UK as reasons for choosing self-employment. Very limited previous research has addressed the question of ...
(published as 'Individual Motives for Choosing Self-employment in the UK: Does Region Matter?' in: Regional Studies, 2014, 48(5), 804-822)
L26, J24
3973 Mehtabul Azam
A Distributional Analysis of Social Group Inequality in Rural India
This paper examines the differences in welfare, as measured by per capita expenditure (PCE), between social groups in rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that ...
(revised version published in: Journal of International Development, 2012, 24 (4), 415–432)
C15, D63, O53
3972 Magnus Carlsson
Dan-Olof Rooth
The Impact of Being Monitored on Discriminatory Behavior among Employers: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Today there is a variation within the EU to what extent nations allow for situation test results to constitute mass of evidence in court in order to prevent ethnic discrimination. In the UK The ...
(published as 'The Power of Media and Changes in Discriminatory Behavior Among Employers' in: Journal of Media Economics, 2012, 25 (2), 98-108)
J64, J71
3971 Daniel A. Powers
Myeong-Su Yun
Multivariate Decomposition for Hazard Rate Models
We develop a regression decomposition technique for hazard rate models, where the difference in observed rates is decomposed into components attributable to group differences in characteristics and ...
(published in: Sociological Methodology, 2009, 39(1), 233-263)
C20, C41, J13
3970 David Autor
David Dorn
This Job Is 'Getting Old:' Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age Structure
High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E.U. We study the reallocation of workers from middle-skill occupations towards the ...
(published in: American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings, 2009, 99 (2), 45-51)
E24, J11, J21, J24
3968 Mehtabul Azam
India's Increasing Skill Premium: Role of Demand and Supply
The tertiary-secondary (college-high school) wage premium has been increasing in India over the past decade, but the increase differs across age groups. The increase in wage premium has been driven ...
(revised version published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy. Volume 10, Issue 1, ISSN (Online) 1935-1682, October 2010)
J20, J23, J31
3967 Lídia Farré
Roger Klein
Francis Vella
Does Increasing Parents' Schooling Raise the Schooling of the Next Generation? Evidence Based on Conditional Second Moments
This paper investigates the degree of intergenerational transmission of education for individuals from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Rather than identifying the causal effect of ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 74 (5), 676–690)
C31, J62
3966 Xavier de Luna
Per Johansson
Non-Parametric Inference for the Effect of a Treatment on Survival Times with Application in the Health and Social Sciences
In this paper we perform inference on the effect of a treatment on survival times in studies where the treatment assignment is not randomized and the assignment time is not known in advance. Two such ...
(published in: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 2010, 140 (7), 2122-2137)
C12, C13, C14
3965 Herwig Immervoll
Henrik Jacobsen Kleven
Claus Thustrup Kreiner
Nicolaj Verdelin
An Evaluation of the Tax-Transfer Treatment of Married Couples in European Countries
This paper presents an evaluation of the tax-transfer treatment of married couples in 15 EU countries using the EUROMOD microsimulation model. First, we show that many tax-transfer schemes in Europe ...
(completely different version published as 'Optimal tax and transfer programs for couples with extensive labor supply responses' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (11-12), 1485-1500)
H20
3964 Fabrice Murtin
Martina Viarengo
American Education in the Age of Mass Migrations 1870-1930
This paper derives original series of average years of schooling in the United States 1870-1930, which take into account the impact of mass migrations on the US educational level. We reconstruct the ...
(published in: Cliometrica, 2010, 4(2), 113-139)
I2, J24, N70, O1
3963 Mehtabul Azam
Changes in Wage Structure in Urban India 1983-2004: A Quantile Regression Decomposition
This paper examines changes in the wage structure in urban India during the past two decades (1983-2004) across the entire wage distribution using the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition approach. ...
(revised version published in: World Development, 2012, 40 (6), 1135-1150)
J30, J31, C15
3960 Patrik Hesselius
Per Johansson
Peter Nilsson
Sick of Your Colleagues' Absence?
We utilize a large-scale randomized social experiment to identify how coworkers affect each other's effort as measured by work absence. The experiment altered the work absence incentives for half of ...
(published in: Journal of European Economic Association, 2009, 7 (2–3), 1–12)
J24
3959 Sebastian J. Goerg
Sebastian Kube
Ro'i Zultan
Treating Equals Unequally: Incentives in Teams, Workers' Motivation and Production Technology
The importance of fair and equal treatment of workers is at the heart of the debate in organizational management. In this regard, we study how reward mechanisms and production technologies affect ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2010, 28 (4), 747 - 772)
C92, D23, D63, J31, J33, J41, M12, M52
3958 J. David Brown
John S. Earle
Scott Gehlbach
Helping Hand or Grabbing Hand? State Bureaucracy and Privatization Effectiveness
Why have economic reforms aimed at reducing the role of the state been successful in some cases but not others? Are reform failures the consequence of leviathan states that hinder private economic ...
(published in: American Political Science Review, 2009, 103(2), 264-283)
H11, L33, P23, P26, P37, P48
3957 Marie Drolet
Karen A. Mumford
The Gender Pay Gap for Private Sector Employees in Canada and Britain
This paper uses British and Canadian linked employer-employee data to investigate the importance of the workplace for the gender wage gap. Implementing a novel decomposition approach, we find high ...
(revised version published in British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2012, 50 (3), 529-553)
J16, J0
3956 William Breit
Barry Hirsch
Lessons from the Laureates
This paper uses as source material twenty-three autobiographical essays by Nobel economists presented since 1984 at Trinity University (San Antonio, Texas) and published in Lives of the Laureates ...
(published in: William Breit and Barry T. Hirsch (eds.), Lives of the Laureates: Twenty-three Nobel Economists, 5th ed., Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009)
B3, B2, A1
3955 Michael C. Burda
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Unemployment, Market Work and Household Production
Using time-diary data from four countries we show that the unemployed spend most of the time not working for pay in additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 107 (2), 131-133)
E24, J22, D13
3954 Tim Callan
Claire Keane
Non-Cash Benefits and the Distribution of Economic Welfare
Non-cash benefits can have substantial effects on the distribution of economic welfare. Standard approaches to the inclusion of non-cash benefits in broader measures of resources have failed to take ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2009, 40 (1), 49-72)
D31, H23, I31, I32
3952 Gulcin Gumus
Tracy L. Regan
Self-Employment and the Role of Health Insurance
We investigate the effect of health insurance on labor market transitions in and out of self-employment as well as on the likelihood of being self-employed. We consider the role of individual health ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2015, 30 (3), 357-374)
J32, J48, I11
3951 Delia Furtado
Nikolaos Theodoropoulos
I'll Marry You If You Get Me a Job: Marital Assimilation and Immigrant Employment Rates
Marriage to a native has a theoretically ambiguous impact on immigrant employment rates. Utilizing 2000 U.S. Census data, this paper empirically tests whether and how marriage choice affects the ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1+2), 116-126)
J12, J61
3950 Guillermina Jasso
Ethnicity and the Immigration of Highly Skilled Workers to the United States
This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic components of ethnicity – country of birth, race, skin color, language, and ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1+2), 26-42)
F22, F24, J15, J24, J61, J68, K42, O15
3948 Charles Bellemare
Patrick Lepage
Bruce S. Shearer
Peer Pressure, Incentives, and Gender: An Experimental Analysis of Motivation in the Workplace
We present results from a real-effort experiment, simulating actual work-place conditions, comparing the productivity of workers under fixed wages and piece rates. Workers, who were paid to enter ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 276-283)
M52, C91
3945 Raquel Ortega-Argilés
Mariacristina Piva
Lesley Potters
Marco Vivarelli
Is Corporate R&D Investment in High-Tech Sectors More Effective? Some Guidelines for European Research Policy
This paper discusses the link between R&D and productivity across the European industrial and service sectors. The empirical analysis is based on both the European sectoral OECD data and on a unique ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2010, 28 (3), 353-365)
O33
3943 Alpaslan Akay
The Wooldridge Method for the Initial Values Problem Is Simple: What About Performance?
The Wooldridge method is based on a simple and novel strategy to deal with the initial values problem in the nonlinear dynamic random-effects panel data models. This characteristic of the method ...
(revised version published as 'Finite-sample comparison of alternative methods for estimating dynamic panel data models' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2011, 27 (7), 1189-1204 )
C23, C25
3940 Andrew E. Clark
Work, Jobs and Well-Being across the Millennium
This paper uses repeated cross-section data ISSP data from 1989, 1997 and 2005 to consider movements in job quality. It is first underlined that not having a job when you want one is a major source ...
(published in: Ed Diener, John Helliwell, and Danny Kahneman (eds.), International Differences in Well-Being. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)
J21, J28, J3, J6, J81, L26
3939 Johannes Abeler
Armin Falk
Lorenz Götte
David B. Huffman
Reference Points and Effort Provision
A key open question for theories of reference-dependent preferences is what determines the reference point. One candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (2), 470-492)
C91, D01, D84, J22
3938 Thierry Lallemand
François Rycx
Are Young and Old Workers Harmful for Firm Productivity?
This paper investigates the effects of the workforce age structure on the productivity of large Belgian firms. More precisely, it examines different scenarios of changes in the proportion of young ...
(published in: De Economist, 2009, 157 (3), 273-292)
J21, J31, L25
3937 Han Wen-Jui
Christopher J. Ruhm
Jane Waldfogel
Elizabeth Washbrook
Public Policies and Women's Employment after Childbearing
This paper examines how the public policy environment in the United States affects work by new mothers following childbirth. We examine four types of policies that vary across states and affect the ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2011, 11(1), 1 - 48)
J13, J18, J22
3936 J. David Brown
Julie L. Hotchkiss
Myriam Quispe-Agnoli
Undocumented Worker Employment and Firm Survival
Do firms employing undocumented workers have a competitive advantage? Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, this paper investigates the incidence of undocumented worker employment ...
(published as 'Does Employing Undocumented Workers Give Firms a Competitive Advantage?' in: Journal of Regional Science, 2013, 53 (1), 158-170)
L1, J23, J61
3935 Paulo Guimaraes
Pedro Portugal
A Simple Feasible Alternative Procedure to Estimate Models with High-Dimensional Fixed Effects
In this paper we describe an alternative iterative approach for the estimation of linear regression models with high-dimensional fixed-effects such as large employer-employee data sets. This approach ...
(published as 'A Simple Feasible Alternative Procedure to Fit Models with High-Dimensional Fixed Effects' in: Stata Journal, 2010, 10 (4), 628-649)
C01, C81
3934 Vladimir Gimpelson
Rostislav Kapeliushnikov
Anna Lukiyanova
Stuck Between Surplus and Shortage: Demand for Skills in the Russian Industry
In order to remain competitive, firms need to keep the quantity and composition of jobs close to the optimal for their given output. Since the beginning of the transition period, Russian industrial ...
(published in: Labour, 2010, 24(3), 311–332)
J23, J24
3933 David A. Benson
Aaron Lies
Albert A. Okunade
Phanindra V. Wunnava
Small Business Economics of the Lakota Fund on the Native American Indian Reservation
Poverty rates on Native American Indian reservations are triple the US average. Small business incubation programs, available elsewhere in the US, are sparse on the reservations. Small businesses are ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2011, 36 (2), 157-168)
L26, M21, O16
3932 Maurice Kugler
Eric Verhoogen
The Quality-Complementarity Hypothesis: Theory and Evidence from Colombia
This paper presents a tractable formalization and an empirical investigation of the quality-complementarity hypothesis, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in ...
(revised version published as 'Prices, Plant Size, and Product Quality' in: Review of Economic Studies, 2012, 79 (1), 307-339)
O1, F1, L1
3931 Delia Furtado
Cross-Nativity Marriages and Human Capital Levels of Children
A common perception about immigrant assimilation is that association with natives necessarily speeds the process by which immigrants become indistinguishable from natives. Using 2000 Census data, ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2009, 29, 273 - 296)
J12, J61, Z13
3930 Erling Barth
Harald Dale-Olsen
Monopsonistic Discrimination, Worker Turnover, and the Gender Wage Gap
Motivated by models of worker flows, we argue in this paper that monopsonistic discrimination may be a substantial factor behind the overall gender wage gap. On matched employer-employee data from ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (5), 589-597)
J16, J31, J42, J63, J71
3928 Kristian Giesen
Jens Suedekum
Zipf's Law for Cities in the Regions and the Country
The salient rank-size rule known as Zipf's law is not only satisfied for Germany's national urban hierarchy, but also for the city size distributions in single German regions. To analyze this ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2011, 11 (4), 667-686)
R11, O4
3927 Eswar Prasad
India's Approach to Capital Account Liberalization
In this paper, I analyze India's approach to capital account liberalization through the lens of the new literature on financial globalization. India's authorities have taken a cautious and calibrated ...
(published in: Brookings India Policy Forum, August 2009)
F3, F4, O2
3926 John Gibson
David McKenzie
The Microeconomic Determinants of Emigration and Return Migration of the Best and Brightest: Evidence from the Pacific
A unique survey which tracks worldwide the best and brightest academic performers from three Pacific countries is used to assess the extent of emigration and return migration among the very highly ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2011, 95 (1), 18-29)
O15, F22, J61
3925 Amy Finkelstein
Erzo F.P. Luttmer
Matthew J. Notowidigdo
Approaches to Estimating the Health State Dependence of the Utility Function
If the marginal utility of consumption depends on health status, this will affect the economic analysis of a number of central problems in public finance, including the optimal structure of health ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2009, 99(2), 116–121)
D12, I1
3924 Marika Karanassou
Hector Sala
Labour Market Dynamics in Australia: What Drives Unemployment?
The debate in Australia on the (constant-output) elasticity of labour demand with respect to wages has wrongly sidelined the role of capital stock as a determinant of employment (Webster, 2003). As ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2010, 86 (273), 185-209)
E22, E24, J21
3923 Daniel Radowski
Holger Bonin
Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity in Services: Direct Evidence from a Firm Survey
The paper uses a new German employer survey on wage setting practices to analyze incidence and sources of nominal wage rigidity in services vs. manufacturing. We observe that wage freezes are ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 106 (3), 227-229)
J31
3922 Matloob Piracha
Florin Vadean
Return Migration and Occupational Choice
This paper explores the impact of return migration on the Albanian economy by analysing the occupational choice of return migrants while explicitly differentiating between self-employment as either ...
(published in: World Development, 2010, 38(8), 1141-1155)
C35, F22, J24
3921 Jennifer Hunt
Marjolaine Gauthier-Loiselle
How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?
We measure the extent to which skilled immigrants increase innovation in the United States by exploring individual patenting behavior as well as state-level determinants of patenting. The 2003 ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2010, 2 (2), 31-56)
J61, D24, O32
3920 Tomi Kyyrä
Pierpaolo Parrotta
Michael Rosholm
The Effect of Receiving Supplementary UI Benefits on Unemployment Duration
We consider the consequences of working part-time on supplementary unemployment insurance benefits in the Danish labour market. Following the "timing-of-events" approach we estimate causal effects of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 21, 122-133)
C41, J65
3918 John T. Addison
Claus Schnabel
Worker Directors: A German Product that Didn't Export?
Despite its lack of attractiveness to other countries, the German system of quasi-parity codetermination at company level has held up remarkably well. We recount the theoretical arguments for and ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2011, 50 (2), 354-374)
J50
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