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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
3907 Massimiliano Bratti
Konstantinos Tatsiramos
Explaining How Delayed Motherhood Affects Fertility Dynamics in Europe
This paper analyzes the effect of delayed motherhood on fertility dynamics for women living in several European countries, which differ in terms of their institutional environments. We show that the ...
(revised version published as 'The Effect of Delaying Motherhood on the Second Childbirth in Europe' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 25 (1), 291-321)
C41, J13
3906 Niels-Hugo Blunch
Multidimensional Human Capital, Wages and Endogenous Employment Status in Ghana
Previous studies of labor market outcomes such as employment and wages have mostly been limited to investigating the impact of formal schooling only and, as a consequence, have seldom considered ...
(published in: Ravi Kanbur and Jan Svejnar (eds.), Labor Markets and Economic Development, London and New York: Routledge, 2009)
I31, J24, O15
3904 Juan D. Barón
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Nisvan Erkal
Cultural Transmission of Work-Welfare Attitudes and the Intergenerational Correlation in Welfare Receipt
This paper considers the potential for the cultural transmission of attitudes toward work, welfare, and individual responsibility to explain the intergenerational correlation in welfare receipt. ...
(published as 'Welfare Receipt and the Intergenerational Transmission of Work-Welfare Norms' in: Southern Economics Journal, 2015, 82 (1), 208–234)
I38, H31, Z1
3902 Johannes Becker
Andreas Peichl
Johannes Rincke
Politicians' Outside Earnings and Political Competition
This paper deals with the impact of electoral competition on politicians' outside earnings. In our framework, politicians face a tradeoff between allocating their time to political effort or to an ...
(published in: Public Choice, 2009, 140 (3-4), 379 - 394)
D72, J45
3901 Ernst Fehr
Lorenz Götte
Christian Zehnder
A Behavioral Account of the Labor Market: The Role of Fairness Concerns
In this paper, we argue that important labor market phenomena can be better understood if one takes (i) the inherent incompleteness and relational nature of most employment contracts and (ii) the ...
(published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2009, 1, 355 - 384)
C7, D00, D2, D8, J2, L2
3899 Christopher A. Parsons
Johan Sulaeman
Michael C. Yates
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Strike Three: Umpires' Demand for Discrimination
We explore how umpires' racial/ethnic preferences are expressed in their evaluation of Major League Baseball pitchers. Controlling for umpire, pitcher, batter and catcher fixed effects and many other ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (4), 1410-1435)
J44, J71
3898 Ana Rute Cardoso
Paulo Guimaraes
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Comparing the Early Research Performance of PhD Graduates in Labor Economics in Europe and the USA
This paper analyzes the early research performance of PhD graduates in labor economics, addressing the following questions: Are there major productivity differences between graduates from American ...
(published in: Scientometrics, 2010, 84 (3), 621-637)
A23, J44, A11, A14, A10
3896 Timothy J. Halliday
Mismeasured Household Size and Its Implications for the Identification of Economies of Scale
We consider the possibility that demographic variables are measured with errors which arise because household surveys measure demographic structures at a point-in-time, whereas household composition ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72 (2), 246-262)
J12, C14
3895 Ernst Fehr
On the Economics and Biology of Trust
In recent years, many social scientists have claimed that trust plays an important role in economic and social transactions. Despite its proposed importance, the measurement and the definition of ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 235-266)
C7, D00, D2, D7, D8
3894 Christopher J. Boyce
Andrew J. Oswald
Do People Become Healthier after Being Promoted?
This paper uses longitudinal data to explore whether greater job status makes a person healthier. Taking the evidence as a whole, promotees do not exhibit a health improvement after promotion. ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2012, 21, 580-596)
I1
3893 Alexander K. Koch
Julia Nafziger
Self-Regulation through Goal Setting
Goals are an important source of motivation. But little is known about why and how people set them. We address these questions in a model based on two stylized facts from psychology and behavioral ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2011, 113 (1), 212-227;)
A12, C70, D91
3891 Marco Francesconi
Helmut Rainer
Wilbert van der Klaauw
Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform: The Case of Divorced Parents
This paper formulates a model to examine the effects of changes in tax-benefit policy on the behavior of divorced parents and the well-being of children in single-parent households. Noncustodial ...
(published as 'Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform for Children with Single Parents: A Theoretical Analysis' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2015, 13(3), 709-733)
D13, H31, J22
3890 Martin Kahanec
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Migration and Globalization: Challenges and Perspectives for the Research Infrastructure
International migration of people is a momentous and complex phenomenon. Research on its causes and consequences, requires sufficient data. While some datasets are available, the nature of migration ...
(published in: German Data Forum (RatSWD): Buildung on Progress: Expanding the Research Infrastructure for the Social, Economic, and Behavioral Sciencs, Vol. 2, Opladen and Farmington Hills, MI, 2010, 689 - 701)
J15, J18, J61, J68
3889 Ernst Fehr
Oliver Hart
Christian Zehnder
Contracts as Reference Points: Experimental Evidence
In a recent paper, Hart and Moore (2008) introduce new behavioral assumptions that can explain long term contracts and important aspects of the employment relation. However, so far there exists no ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (2), 493-525)
C7, D00, D2, D8, K00
3888 David Neumark
Brandon Wall
Junfu Zhang
Do Small Businesses Create More Jobs? New Evidence for the United States from the National Establishment Time Series
We use a new database, the National Establishment Time Series (NETS), to revisit the debate about the role of small businesses in job creation. Birch (e.g., 1987) argued that small firms are the most ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93(1), 16-29)
J20, L25, L53
3887 Elena Meschi
Erol Taymaz
Marco Vivarelli
Trade Openness and the Demand for Skills: Evidence from Turkish Microdata
In this paper we report evidence on the relationship between trade openness, technology adoption and relative demand for skilled labour in the Turkish manufacturing sector, using firm-level data over ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (S1), S60-S70)
F16, O15, O33
3886 Nauro F. Campos
Aurelijus Dabušinskas
So Many Rocket Scientists, So Few Marketing Clerks: Estimating the Effects of Economic Reform on Occupational Mobility in Estonia
Why do workers change occupations? This paper investigates occupational mobility and its determinants following a large unexpected shock (communism's collapse in 1989.) Our calculations show that ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2009, 25 (2), 261-275)
J62, J63, J64, J23, C41, H53
3885 Ana Rute Cardoso
Daniel S. Hamermesh
José Varejão
The Timing of Labor Demand
We examine the timing of firms' operations in a formal model of labor demand. Merging a variety of data sets from Portugal from 1995-2004, we describe temporal patterns of firms' demand for labor and ...
(published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 105/106, 15-34)
J23, J78
3884 Julián Messina
Chiara Strozzi
Jarkko Turunen
Real Wages over the Business Cycle: OECD Evidence from the Time and Frequency Domains
We study differences in the adjustment of aggregate real wages in the manufacturing sector over the business cycle across OECD countries, combining results from different data and dynamic methods. ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2009, 33(6), 1183-1200)
E32, J30, C10
3883 Solomon Polachek
Jun Xiang
How Opportunity Costs Decrease the Probability of War in an Incomplete Information Game
This paper shows that the opportunity costs resulting from economic interdependence decrease the equilibrium probability of war in an incomplete information game. This result is strongly consistent ...
(published in: International Organization, 2010, 64 (1), 133-144)
F10, C7, P16
3881 Michael Kosfeld
Ferdinand von Siemens
Worker Self-Selection and the Profits from Cooperation
We investigate a competitive labor market with team production. Workers differ in their motivation to exert team effort and types are private information. We show that there can exist a separating ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 573 - 582)
D82, D86, M50
3880 Marco Caliendo
Steffen Künn
Frank Wießner
Die Nachhaltigkeit von geförderten Existenzgründungen aus Arbeitslosigkeit: Eine Bilanz nach fünf Jahren
Die Ich-AG (Existenzgründungszuschuss) war eines der zentralen Instrumente, das im Rahmen der "Hartz-Reformen" in den arbeitsmarktpolitischen Kanon aufgenommen wurde. Zusammen mit dem bereits seit ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung / Journal for Labour Market Research, 2010, 42(4), 269-291)
J68, M13, H43, C14
3877 Christian Belzil
François Poinas
Education and Early Career Outcomes of Second-Generation Immigrants in France
We estimate a flexible dynamic model of education choices and early career employment outcomes of the French population. Individuals are allowed to choose between 4 options: continue to the next ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 101-110)
I2, J15, J24, J41
3875 Thomas K. Bauer
Jochen Kluve
Sandra Schaffner
Christoph M. Schmidt
Fiscal Effects of Minimum Wages: An Analysis for Germany
Against the background of the current discussion on the introduction of statutory minimum wages in Germany, this paper analyzes the potential employment and fiscal effects of such a policy. Based on ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2009, 10(2), 224-242)
H60, J31, J88
3874 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Steven Stillman
Emigration and the Age Profile of Retirement among Immigrants
This paper analyzes the relationship between immigrants' retirement status and the prevalence of return migration from the host country to their country of origin. We develop a simple theoretical ...
(published as "Return migration and the age profile of retirement among immigrants" in: IZA Journal of Migration 2013, 2:20)
J26, J01, J08
3873 Jens Agerström
Dan-Olof Rooth
Implicit Prejudice and Ethnic Minorities: Arab-Muslims in Sweden
This paper examines whether Swedish employers implicitly/automatically hold i) negative attitudes toward Arab-Muslims, an ethnic minority group subjected to substantial labor market discrimination in ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1-2), 43-55)
J70
3872 Tony Atkinson
Peter G. Backus
John Micklewright
Cathy Pharoah
Sylke V. Schnepf
Charitable Giving for Overseas Development: UK Trends over a Quarter Century
Charitable giving for overseas development and emergency relief is important in the UK, being about a quarter of the size of government development aid. There has been a strong growth over time, ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2012, 175 (1), 167-190)
D12, D64, F35, L31
3871 Pascal Bressoux
Francis Kramarz
Corinne Prost
Teachers' Training, Class Size and Students' Outcomes: Learning from Administrative Forecasting Mistakes
This paper studies the impact of different teacher and class characteristics on third graders' outcomes. It uses a feature of the French system in which some novice teachers start their jobs before ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (536), 540 - 561)
I21
3870 Werner Eichhorst
Anton Hemerijck
Welfare and Employment: A European Dilemma?
The majority of the Member States of the European Union have undertaken remarkably comprehensive welfare and labor market reforms in the years since the 1990s. Many of these reforms, however, have ...
(published in: Jens Alber and Neil Gilbert (eds.), United in Diversity? Comparing Social Models in Europe and America, Oxford: OUP, 2010, 201-236)
J21, J58
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