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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
3917 Oriana Bandiera
Iwan Barankay
Imran Rasul
Social Connections and Incentives in the Workplace: Evidence from Personnel Data
We present evidence on the effect of social connections between workers and managers on productivity in the workplace. To evaluate whether the existence of social connections is beneficial to the ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2009, 77 (4), 1047-1094)
J33, M52, M54
3915 Bruce Headey
Jürgen Schupp
Ingrid Tucci
Gert G. Wagner
Authentic Happiness Theory Supported by Impact of Religion on Life Satisfaction: A Longitudinal Analysis with Data for Germany
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey (SOEP), this paper assesses the relationship between life satisfaction and religious practice. The main new result here is longitudinal. It is ...
(published in: Journal of Positive Psychology, 2010, 5 (1), 73-82)
A12, A13, Y80, Z12
3914 Simon Gächter
Daniele Nosenzo
Elke Renner
Martin Sefton
Who Makes a Good Leader? Social Preferences and Leading-by-Example
We examine the effects of social preferences and beliefs about the social preferences of others in a simple leader-follower voluntary contributions game. We find that groups perform best when led by ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2012, 50 (4), 867–879; 10.1111/j.1465-7295.2010.00295.x)
A13, C92, D03
3913 Martin Kahanec
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Migration in an Enlarged EU: A Challenging Solution?
The 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the European Union were unprecedented in a number of economic and policy aspects. This essay provides a broad and in-depth account of the effects of the ...
(published by the European Commission as Economic Paper 363, 2009; and in: Filip Keereman and Istvan Szekely (eds.), Five years of an enlarged EU - a positive-sum game, Springer, Berlin et al., 2010, 63-94)
F22, J15, J61
3912 Michel Beine
Frédéric Docquier
Maurice Schiff
International Migration, Transfers of Norms and Home Country Fertility
This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2013, 46 (4))
J13, J61, O11
3911 Melanie Khamis
Does the Minimum Wage Have a Higher Impact on the Informal than on the Formal Labor Market? Evidence from Quasi-Experiments
This paper investigates a puzzle in the literature on labor markets in developing countries: labor legislations not only have an impact on the formal labor market but also an impact on the informal ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2013, 45 (5), 477-495)
J31, J42
3910 Ulf Rinne
Arne Uhlendorff
Zhong Zhao
Vouchers and Caseworkers in Public Training Programs: Evidence from the Hartz Reform in Germany
This paper studies the role of training vouchers and caseworkers in public training programs. Using a rich administrative data set, we apply matching and regression methods to measure the effect of ...
(revised version published as 'Vouchers and Caseworkers in Training Programs for the Unemployed' in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 45 (3), 1089-1127 )
J64, J68, H43
3909 Pascal Courty
Do Han Kim
Gerald Marschke
Curbing Cream-Skimming: Evidence on Enrolment Incentives
Can enrolment incentives reduce the incidence of cream-skimming in the delivery of public sector services (e.g. education, health, job training)? In the context of a large government job training ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (5), 643-655)
H72, J33, L14
3908 Francesca Bassi
Alessandra Padoan
Ugo Trivellato
Inconsistencies in Reported Employment Characteristics among Employed Stayers
The paper deals with measurement error, and its potentially distorting role, in information on industry and professional status collected by labour force surveys. The focus of our analyses is on ...
(published in: Statistica, 2012, 72 (1), 103-109)
C12, C13, C83, J21
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