Labour Economics

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Volume 23, issue C, 2013

Structural unemployment and the costs of firm entry and exit pp. 1-19

Alexandre Janiak

Unemployment benefits, job protection, and the nature of educational investment pp. 20-29

Bruno Decreuse and Pierre Granier

Minimum wage increases in a recessionary environment pp. 30-39

John Addison, McKinley Blackburn and Chad Cotti

Wage rigidity and employment adjustment at the firm level: Evidence from survey data pp. 40-49

Daniel Dias, Carlos Marques and Fernando Martins

Nash bargaining and the wage consequences of educational mismatches pp. 50-56

Michael Sattinger and Joop Hartog

The surprising effect of larger class sizes: Evidence using two identification strategies pp. 57-65

Kevin Denny and Veruska Oppedisano

Work practices, incentives for skills, and training pp. 66-76

Suraj Prasad and Hien Tran

Employment protection and fertility: Evidence from the 1990 Italian reform pp. 77-88

Ervin Prifti and Daniela Vuri

Employment sector and pay gaps: Genetic and environmental influences pp. 89-96

Terhi Maczulskij

Post-compulsory education and imprisonment pp. 97-106

Kaja Høiseth Brugård and Torberg Falch

Social welfare and wage inequality in search equilibrium with personal contacts pp. 107-121

Anna Zaharieva

Low pay persistence in Europe pp. 122-134

Ken Clark and Nikolaos Kanellopoulos

Volume 22, issue C, 2013

Ageing, productivity and wages in Austria pp. 5-15

Bernhard Mahlberg, Inga Freund, Jesus Crespo Cuaresma and Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz

Ageing and literacy skills: Evidence from Canada, Norway and the United States pp. 16-29

David Green and W. Craig Riddell

Are firms willing to employ a greying and feminizing workforce? pp. 30-46

Vincent Vandenberghe

Vintage effects, aging and productivity pp. 47-60

Anna Lovasz and Mariann Rigó

Skill demand and the comparative advantage of age: Jobs tasks and earnings from the 1980s to the 2000s in Germany pp. 61-69

Laura Romeu Gordo and Vegard Skirbekk

Declining fertility and economic well-being: Do education and health ride to the rescue? pp. 70-79

Klaus Prettner, David Bloom and Holger Strulik

Are personnel measures effective in increasing productivity of old workers? pp. 80-93

Christian Göbel and Thomas Zwick

Quantifying the role of alternative pension reforms on the Austrian economy pp. 94-114

Miguel Sánchez-Romero, Jože Sambt and Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz

Volume 21, issue C, 2013

When drains and gains coincide: Migration and international football performance pp. 1-14

Ruxanda Berlinschi, Jeroen Schokkaert and Johan Swinnen

Undocumented migrants in debt pp. 15-24

Slobodan Djajić and Alexandra Vinogradova

Dismissal protection and worker flows in OECD countries: Evidence from cross-country/cross-industry data pp. 25-41

Andrea Bassanini and Andrea Garnero

Does bargaining matter in the small firms matching model? pp. 42-58

Olivier L'Haridon, Franck Malherbet and Sebastien Perez-Duarte

Do psychosocial traits help explain gender segregation in young people's occupations? pp. 59-73

Heather Antecol and Deborah Cobb-Clark

Estimating returns to education when the IV sample is selective pp. 74-85

Le Wang

Gender wage gaps, ‘sticky floors’ and ‘glass ceilings’ in Europe pp. 86-102

Louis Christofides, Alexandros Polycarpou and Konstantinos Vrachimis

Trade cost reduction, subcontracting and unionised wage pp. 103-110

Dibyendu Maiti and Arijit Mukherjee

Sensitivity of matching-based program evaluations to the availability of control variables pp. 111-121

Michael Lechner and Conny Wunsch

The effect of receiving supplementary UI benefits on unemployment duration pp. 122-133

Tomi Kyyrä, Pierpaolo Parrotta and Michael Rosholm

Volume 20, issue C, 2013

Education and employment protection pp. 3-23

Olivier Charlot and Franck Malherbet

Do reductions of standard hours affect employment transitions?: Evidence from Chile pp. 24-37

Rafael Sanchez

Intergenerational links in female labor force participation pp. 38-47

Melinda Morrill and Thayer Morrill

Effects of eligibility screening in the sickness insurance: Evidence from a field experiment pp. 48-56

Laura Hartman, Patrik Hesselius and Per Johansson

The return-to-entrepreneurship puzzle pp. 57-67

Ari Hyytinen, Pekka Ilmakunnas and Otto Toivanen

The origins of intergenerational associations in crime: Lessons from Swedish adoption data pp. 68-81

Randi Hjalmarsson and Matthew Lindquist

Revisiting ‘mothers and sons’ preference formation and the female labor force in Switzerland pp. 82-91

Aline Bütikofer

Estimating the returns to schooling: Implications from a dynamic discrete choice model pp. 92-105

Suqin Ge

Retirement incentives, individual heterogeneity and labor transitions of employed and unemployed workers pp. 106-120

J. Ignacio García-Pérez, Sergi Jimenez-Martin and Alfonso R. Sánchez-Martín

Volume 19, issue 6, 2012

Does citizenship matter? The economic impact of naturalizations in Germany pp. 813-823

Max Steinhardt

Indiscriminate discrimination: A correspondence test for ethnic homophily in the Chicago labor market pp. 824-832

Nicolas Jacquemet and Constantine Yannelis

Labor market rigidities and economic efficiency: Evidence from Spain pp. 833-845

Xulia González and Daniel Miles-Touya

Self-employment, educational attainment and employment protection legislation pp. 846-859

Florian Baumann and Tobias Brändle

Sectoral labour market effects of the 2006 FIFA World Cup pp. 860-869

Arne Feddersen and Wolfgang Maennig

Migration and gender differences in the home labour market: Evidence from Albania pp. 870-880

Mariapia Mendola and Calogero Carletto

Public infrastructure provision and skilled–unskilled wage inequality in developing countries pp. 881-887

Jiancai Pi and Yu Zhou

Unemployment compensation under partial program coverage pp. 888-897

Tali Regev

Wages, implicit contracts, and the business cycle: Evidence from a European panel pp. 898-907

Andriana Bellou and Baris Kaymak

Violence in European schools: A widespread phenomenon that matters for educational production pp. 908-922

Andreas Ammermueller

Wage bargaining, productivity growth and long-run industry structure pp. 923-930

Helmut Bester, Chrysovalantou Milliou and Emmanuel Petrakis

The effect of international firm mobility on wages and unemployment pp. 931-943

Rory O'Farrell

Union threat and non-union employment: A natural experiment on the use of temporary employment in British firms pp. 944-956

Andrea Salvatori

Imported inputs and skill upgrading pp. 957-969

Rosario Crino

Does the quality of public-sponsored training programs matter? Evidence from bidding processes data pp. 970-986

Jose Galdo and Alberto Chong

Volume 19, issue 5, 2012

Employment effects of extended geographic scope in job search pp. 643-652

Anders Boman

Trade liberalization, labor reforms and formal–informal employment dynamics pp. 653-667

Mariano Bosch, Edwin Goñi-Pacchioni and William Maloney

A model of child support and the underground economy pp. 668-681

Jennifer Roff and Julieta Lugo-Gil

The role of the elasticity of substitution in economic growth: A cross-country investigation pp. 682-694

Debdulal Mallick

Are self-employment training programs effective? Evidence from Project GATE pp. 695-705

Marios Michaelides and Jacob Benus

Stay in school or start working? — The human capital investment decision under uncertainty and irreversibility pp. 706-717

N. Bilkic, Thomas Gries and M. Pilichowski

The timing of retirement — New evidence from Swiss female workers pp. 718-728

Barbara Hanel and Regina Riphahn

Monitoring job search effort: An evaluation based on a regression discontinuity design pp. 729-737

Bart Cockx and Muriel Dejemeppe

Offshoring and job loss fears: An econometric analysis of individual perceptions pp. 738-747

Ingo Geishecker, Maximilian Riedl and Paul Frijters

The effect of the minimum wage for tipped workers on firm strategy, employees and social welfare pp. 748-755

Ofer Azar

The correlation of spouses' permanent and transitory earnings and family earnings inequality in Canada pp. 756-768

Yuri Ostrovsky

An introduction to the special feature section: Price, wage and employment adjustments in 2007–2008 and some inference for the current European crisis pp. 769-771

Etienne Wasmer

Firms' price and wage adjustment in Europe: Survey evidence on nominal stickiness pp. 772-782

Martine Druant, Silvia Fabiani, Gabor Kezdi, Ana Lamo, Fernando Martins and Roberto Sabbatini

Price, wage and employment response to shocks: evidence from the WDN survey pp. 783-791

Giuseppe Bertola, Aurelijus Dabusinskas, Marco Hoeberichts, Mario Izquierdo, Claudia Kwapil, Jérémi Montornes and Daniel Radowski

How do European firms adjust their labour costs when nominal wages are rigid? pp. 792-801

Jan Babecký, Philip Du Caju, Theodora Kosma, Martina Lawless, Julian Messina and Tairi Room

The determination of wages of newly hired employees: Survey evidence on internal versus external factors pp. 802-812

Kamil Galuscak, Mary Keeney, Daphne Nicolitsas, Frank Smets, Paweł Strzelecki and Matija Vodopivec

Volume 19, issue 4, 2012

Hard evidence on soft skills pp. 451-464

James Heckman and Tim Kautz

How important is family background for labor-economic outcomes? pp. 465-474

Anders Bjorklund and Markus Jantti

From infant to mother: Early disease environment and future maternal health pp. 475-483

Douglas Almond, Janet Currie and Mariesa Herrmann

Early interventions and infant health: Evidence from the Danish home visiting program pp. 484-495

Miriam Wüst

The effect of breastfeeding on children's cognitive and noncognitive development pp. 496-515

Cristina Borra, Maria Iacovou and Almudena Sevilla

The gender dimension of technical change and the role of task inputs pp. 516-526

Joanne Lindley

Does immigration increase labour market flexibility? pp. 527-540

Marianne Røed and Pål Schøne

Immigrant wage profiles within and between establishments pp. 541-556

Erling Barth, Bernt Bratsberg and Oddbjørn Raaum

Discrimination, technology and unemployment pp. 557-567

Luca Merlino

Business cycles and wage rigidity pp. 568-583

Cristian Bartolucci

Total Reward and pensions in the UK in the public and private sectors pp. 584-594

Alexander Danzer and Peter Dolton

The effect of disability pension incentives on early retirement decisions pp. 595-607

Barbara Hanel

Occupational choice: Teacher quality versus teacher quantity pp. 608-623

Limor Hatsor

Quit behavior and the role of job protection pp. 624-632

Anne Gielen and Konstantinos Tatsiramos

On the optimality of joint taxation for noncooperative couples pp. 633-641

Volker Meier and Helmut Rainer

Volume 19, issue 3, 2012

Analyzing female labor supply — Evidence from a Dutch tax reform pp. 271-280

Nicole Bosch and Bas van der Klaauw

Setting the minimum wage pp. 281-290

Tito Boeri

The relationship between product market competition and unemployment with profit sharing pp. 291-297

Erkki Koskela and Rune Stenbacka

Labor-market exposure as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration pp. 298-311

Francesc Ortega and Javier Polavieja

The bargaining position of low-skilled and high-skilled workers in a globalising world pp. 312-319

Michel Dumont, Glenn Rayp and Peter Willemé

Excess worker turnover and fixed-term contracts: Causal evidence in a two-tier system pp. 320-328

Mário Centeno and Álvaro A. Novo

Unhappy working with men? Workplace gender diversity and job-related well-being in Britain pp. 329-350

Getinet Haile

Certified and uncertified skills and productivity growth performance: Cross-country evidence at industry level pp. 351-360

Geoff Mason, Brigid O'Leary and Michela Vecchi

Training subsidies and the wage returns to continuing vocational training pp. 361-372

Giorgio Brunello, Simona Comi and Daniela Sonedda

Trends in occupational mobility in France: 1982–2009 pp. 373-387

Etienne Lalé

Labor force participation and pair-wise efficient contracts with search and bargaining pp. 388-402

Bryan Engelhardt and David Fuller

Unemployment insurance and job turnover in Spain pp. 403-426

Yolanda F. Rebollo-Sanz

Labor supply, income, and welfare of the farm household pp. 427-437

Yang-Ming Chang, Biing-Wen Huang and Yun-Ju Chen

Job search incentives and job match quality pp. 438-450

Simen Gaure, Knut Røed and Lars Westlie

Volume 19, issue 2, 2012

Informal adult care and caregivers' employment in Europe pp. 155-164

Emanuele Ciani

Labour market flows: Facts from the United Kingdom pp. 165-175

Pedro Gomes

Life-cycle patterns in male/female differences in job search pp. 176-185

Astrid Kunze and Kenneth Troske

A search interpretation of the family gap pp. 186-197

Yahong Zhang

Fears and realisations of employment insecurity pp. 198-210

Andrew Dickerson and Francis Green

Time to work or time to play: The effect of student employment on homework, sleep, and screen time pp. 211-221

Charlene Kalenkoski and Sabrina Pabilonia

Optimum organization of the labor market in a small open economy pp. 222-231

Niels Blomgren-Hansen

Worker mobility, employer-provided general training, and the choice of graduate education pp. 232-240

Dora Gicheva

Immigrant earnings profiles in the presence of human capital investment: Measuring cohort and macro effects pp. 241-259

David Green and Christopher Worswick

Strategic investment and international outsourcing in unionised oligopoly pp. 260-269

Dermot Leahy and Catia Montagna

Volume 19, issue 1, 2012

More than ‘Mutual Information’: Educational and sectoral gender segregation and their interaction on the Flemish labor market pp. 1-8

Tom Van Puyenbroeck, Karolien De Bruyne and Luc Sels

On the evasion of employment protection legislation pp. 9-17

Florian Baumann and Tim Friehe

The effect of activation on the post-activation civilian earnings of reservists pp. 18-26

David S. Loughran and Jacob A. Klerman

The value of life: Real risks and safety-related productivity in the Himalaya pp. 27-32

Jeremy Goucher and William Horrace

Distribution and determinants of lifetime unemployment pp. 33-47

Achim Schmillen and Joachim Möller

Co-employment of permanently and temporarily employed agents pp. 48-58

Vera Angelova, Werner Güth and Martin Kocher

The motherhood wage gap: What about job amenities? pp. 59-67

Christina Felfe

Towards a theory of the labor market with a public sector pp. 68-75

Ken Burdett

Incentives, learning, task difficulty, and the Peter Principle: Interpreting individual output changes in an Organisational Hierarchy pp. 76-81

Tim Barmby, Barbara Eberth and Ada Ma

Promoting employment of disabled women in Spain; Evaluating a policy pp. 82-91

Judit Vall Castello

Leadership: A personnel economics approach pp. 92-101

Edward P. Lazear

The family gap in wages: What wombmates reveal pp. 102-112

Marianne Simonsen and Lars Skipper

Temporary jobs and job search effort in Europe pp. 113-128

Lawrence Kahn

Accounting for labor demand effects in structural labor supply models pp. 129-138

Andreas Peichl and Sebastian Siegloch

Heterogeneous effects of child disability on maternal labor supply: Evidence from the 2000 US Census pp. 139-154

Nada Wasi, Bernard van den Berg and Thomas Buchmueller