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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
3869 Stéphane Pallage
Lyle Scruggs
Christian Zimmermann
Unemployment Insurance Generosity: A Trans-Atlantic Comparison
The goal of this paper is to establish if unemployment insurance policies are more generous in Europe than in the United States, and by how much. We take the examples of France and one particular ...
(published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2009, 95-96, 15-23)
E24, J65
3868 Stéphane Pallage
Lyle Scruggs
Christian Zimmermann
Measuring Unemployment Insurance Generosity
In this paper, we develop a methodology to summarize the various policy parameters of an unemployment insurance scheme into a single generosity parameter. Unemployment insurance policies are ...
(published in: Political Analysis, 2013, 21(4), 524-549)
E24, J65
3866 Francis Kramarz
Stephen Machin
Amine Ouazad
What Makes a Test Score? The Respective Contributions of Pupils, Schools, and Peers in Achievement in English Primary Education
This study develops an analytical framework for evaluating the respective contributions of pupils, peers, and school quality in affecting educational achievement. We implement this framework using ...
(published as 'Using Compulsory Mobility to Identify School Quality and Peer Effects' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 77(4), 566–587)
I21
3865 Daniel J. Henderson
A Nonparametric Examination of Capital-Skill Complementarity
This paper uses nonparametric kernel methods to construct observation-specific elasticities of substitution for a balanced panel of 73 developed and developing countries to examine the capital-skill ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 71 (4), 519 - 538)
C14, C23, D2
3864 Robert Plasman
Michael Rusinek
Ilan Tojerow
The Regional Dimension of Collective Wage Bargaining: The Case of Belgium
The potential failure of national industry agreements to take into account productivity levels of least productive regions has been considered as one of the causes of regional unemployment in ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2014, 48 (2), 301-317)
D31, J31, J41
3863 Pradeep Mitra
Alexander Muravyev
Mark E Schaffer
Convergence in Institutions and Market Outcomes: Cross-Country and Time-Series Evidence from the BEEPS Surveys in Transition Economies
This paper uses the BEEPS firm-level data to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The primary focus of the study is on competition and market ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Labor reallocation and firm growth: benchmarking transition countries against mature market economies' in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2014, 3:13)
G32, L11, O12, P31
3861 Robert Orlowski
Regina T. Riphahn
The East German Wage Structure after Transition
We extend the literature on transition economies' wage structures by investigating the returns to tenure and experience. This study applies recent panel data and estimation approaches that control ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2009, 17 (4), 629-659)
J31, J24
3860 Erin L. Krupka
Roberto A. Weber
Identifying Social Norms Using Coordination Games: Why Does Dictator Game Sharing Vary?
We explore the influence of social norms on behavior. To do so, we introduce a method for identifying norms, based on the property that social norms reflect social consensus regarding the ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (3), 495–524)
C91, C72, D34
3859 Antoni Calvó-Armengol
Eleonora Patacchini
Yves Zenou
Peer Effects and Social Networks in Education
This paper studies whether structural properties of friendship networks affect individual outcomes in education. We first develop a model that shows that, at the Nash equilibrium, the outcome of each ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2009, 76, 1239-1267)
A14, C31, C72, I21
3856 Barbara Petrongolo
The Long-Term Effects of Job Search Requirements: Evidence from the UK JSA Reform
This paper investigates long-term returns from unemployment compensation, exploiting variation from the UK JSA reform of 1996, which implied a major increase in job search requirements for ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (11-12), 1234-1253 )
J31, J64, J65
3855 Thomas K. Bauer
Christoph M. Schmidt
WTP vs. WTA: Christmas Presents and the Endowment Effect
Using data on the valuation of Christmas gifts received by students in different fields at a German university, we investigate whether the endowment effect differs between students of economics and ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2012, 232 (1), 4 - 11)
D01, D49, D61
3854 Alexander Vogel
Joachim Wagner
Higher Productivity in Importing German Manufacturing Firms: Self-Selection, Learning from Importing, or Both?
This paper uses a newly available comprehensive panel data set for manufacturing enterprises from 2001 to 2005 to document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2009, 145 (4), 641-665)
F14, D21
3853 Pierre-Carl Michaud
Konstantinos Tatsiramos
Fertility and Female Employment Dynamics in Europe: The Effect of Using Alternative Econometric Modeling Assumptions
We investigate the direct and long-run effects of fertility on employment in Europe estimating dynamic models of labor supply under different assumptions regarding the exogeneity of fertility and ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2011, 26 (4), 641 - 668)
C23, C25, D91, J22
3852 Rolf Aaberge
Ranking Intersecting Lorenz Curves
This paper is concerned with the problem of ranking Lorenz curves in situations where the Lorenz curves intersect and no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker ranking ...
(published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2009, 33 (2), 235-259)
D31, D63
3851 Arnaud Chéron
Jean-Olivier Hairault
François Langot
Age-Dependent Employment Protection
This paper examines the age-related design of firing taxes by extending the theory of job creation and job destruction to account for a finite working life-time. We first argue that the potential ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2011, 121 (557), 1477-1504)
J22, J26, H55
3850 Guillermina Jasso
A New Model of Wage Determination and Wage Inequality
This paper proposes a new model of wage determination and wage inequality. In this model, wage-setters set workers' wages; they do so either directly, as when individuals vote in a salary committee, ...
(published in: Rationality and Society, 2009, 21 (1), 113-168)
C02, C16, D31, D6, J31
3849 Jens Clausen
Eskil Heinesen
Hans Hummelgaard
Leif Husted
Michael Rosholm
The Effect of Integration Policies on the Time until Regular Employment of Newly Arrived Immigrants: Evidence from Denmark
We analyse the effect of active labour-market programmes on the hazard rate into regular employment for newly arrived immigrants using the timing-of-events duration model. We take account of language ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (4), 409-417)
J64, J24, J68, J61, C41
3848 Bruno Crépon
Marc Ferracci
Grégory Jolivet
Gerard J. van den Berg
Active Labor Market Policy Effects in a Dynamic Setting
This paper implements a method to identify and estimate treatment effects in a dynamic setting where treatments may occur at any point in time. By relating the standard matching approach to the ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7, (2-3), 595 - 605)
J64, C21, C31, C41, C14
3847 Margaretha Buurman
Robert Dur
Incentives and the Sorting of Altruistic Agents into Street-Level Bureaucracies
Many street-level bureaucrats (such as caseworkers) have the dual task of helping some clients, while sanctioning others. We develop a model of such a street-level bureaucracy and study the ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (4), 1318-1345)
J3, J4, L3, M5
3846 François Langot
Coralia Quintero Rojas
European vs. American Hours Worked: Assessing the Role of the Extensive and Intensive Margins
Europeans have worked less than Americans since the 1970s. In this paper, we quantify the relative importance of the extensive and intensive margins of aggregate hours of market work on the observed ...
(published in: Economic Bulletin, 2009, 29, 530-542)
E2, J2
3845 Stephen Machin
Panu Pelkonen
Kjell G. Salvanes
Education and Mobility
We show that the length of compulsory education has a causal impact on regional labour mobility. The analysis is based on a quasi-exogenous staged Norwegian school reform, and register data on the ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 10 (2), 417-50.)
I28, J24, J61
3844 Philip Du Caju
François Rycx
Ilan Tojerow
Rent-Sharing and the Cyclicality of Wage Differentials
This paper investigates inter-industry wage differentials in Belgium, taking advantage of access to a unique matched employer-employee data set covering all the years from 1999 to 2005. Findings show ...
(published as 'Inter-Industry Wage Differentials: How Much Does Rent Sharing Matter?' in: Manchester School, 2011, 79 (4), 691-717)
D31, J31, J41
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