Labour Economics

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Volume 18, issue S1, 2011

The price of labour and understanding the causes of poverty pp. S7-S15

Francis Teal

Labor market analysis for developing countries pp. S16-S22

Gary Fields

The returns to formality and informality in urban Africa pp. S23-S31

Paolo Falco, Andrew Kerr, Neil Rankin, Justin Sandefur and Francis Teal

Patterns of business creation, survival and growth: Evidence from Africa pp. S32-S44

Leora Klapper and Christine Richmond

The impact of minimum wages on wages, work and poverty in Nicaragua pp. S45-S59

Enrique Alaniz, Thomas (Tim) Gindling and Katherine Terrell

Trade, technology and skills: Evidence from Turkish microdata pp. S60-S70

Elena Meschi, Erol Taymaz and Marco Vivarelli

On-the-job training and rigidity of employment protection in the developing world: Evidence from differential enforcement pp. S71-S82

Rita Almeida and Reyes Aterido

Left behind to farm? Women's labor re-allocation in rural China pp. S83-S97

Ren Mu and Dominique van de Walle

Egyptian men working abroad: Labour supply responses by the women left behind pp. S98-S114

Christine Binzel and Ragui Assaad

Public–private wage gap in Latin America (1992–2007): A matching approach pp. S115-S131

Alejandra Mizala, Pilar Romaguera and Sebastian Gallegos

Gender and ethnic earnings gaps in seven West African cities pp. S132-S145

Christophe Nordman, Anne-Sophie Robilliard and François Roubaud

Evidence on Caste Based Discrimination pp. S146-S159

Zahra Siddique

Volume 18, issue 6, 2011

Houses and schools: Valuation of school quality through the housing market pp. 723-729

Stephen Machin

Wage inequality, technology and trade: 21st century evidence pp. 730-741

John van Reenen

Earnings volatility in America: Evidence from matched CPS pp. 742-754

James Ziliak, Bradley Hardy and Christopher Bollinger

The phantom of the opera: Cultural amenities, human capital, and regional economic growth pp. 755-766

Oliver Falck, Michael Fritsch and Stephan Heblich

Why is an elite undergraduate education valuable? Evidence from Israel pp. 767-777

Kevin Lang and Erez Siniver

Great expectations: Past wages and unemployment durations pp. 778-785

René Böheim, Gerard Horvath and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

The cyclicality of effective wages within employer–employee matches in a rigid labor market pp. 786-797

Silke Anger

Incentive effects of unemployment insurance savings accounts: Evidence from Chile pp. 798-809

Gonzalo Reyes Hartley, Jan C. van Ours and Milan Vodopivec

Trade union membership and dismissals pp. 810-821

Laszlo Goerke and Markus Pannenberg

On the cyclicality of unemployment: Resurrecting the participation margin pp. 822-836

Monique Ebell

Gender gaps across the earnings distribution for full-time employees in Britain: Allowing for sample selection pp. 837-844

Yekaterina Chzhen and Karen Mumford

Endogenous job destructions and the distribution of wages pp. 845-852

Arnaud Cheron and Bénédicte Rouland

Seniority wages and establishment characteristics pp. 853-861

Thomas Zwick

Two perspectives on multiskilling and product-market volatility pp. 862-871

Jed DeVaro and Martin Farnham

Adverse workplace conditions, high-involvement work practices and labor turnover: Evidence from Danish linked employer–employee data pp. 872-880

Elena Cottini, Takao Kato and Niels Westergaard-Nielsen

Volume 18, issue 5, 2011

Gender wage gap: A semi-parametric approach with sample selection correction pp. 564-578

Matteo Picchio and Chiara Mussida

New results on the effect of maternal work hours on children's overweight status: Does the quality of child care matter? pp. 579-590

Jane Greve

The part-time pay penalty in a segmented labor market pp. 591-606

Daniel Fernández-Kranz and Núria Rodriguez-Planas

Endogenous labor force participation and firing costs pp. 607-623

Weh-Sol Moon

Does employment protection help immigrants? Evidence from European labor markets pp. 624-642

Filipa Sa

Curbing cream-skimming: Evidence on enrolment incentives pp. 643-655

Pascal Courty, Do Han Kim and Gerald Marschke

Ethnic enclaves in the classroom pp. 656-663

Jane Friesen and Brian Krauth

With a little help from abroad: The effect of low-skilled immigration on the female labour supply pp. 664-675

Guglielmo Barone and Sauro Mocetti

Social Security and elderly labor supply: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study pp. 676-686

James P. Vere

Subjective and objective evaluations of teacher effectiveness: Evidence from New York City pp. 687-696

Jonah E. Rockoff and Cecilia Speroni

Complements or substitutes? Task specialization by gender and nativity in Spain pp. 697-707

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Sara De La Rica

The elasticity of derived demand, factor substitution, and product demand: Corrections to Hicks' formula and Marshall's Four Rules pp. 708-711

Bob Chirinko and Debdulal Mallick

Market imperfections and firm-sponsored training pp. 712-722

Matteo Picchio and Jan C. van Ours

Volume 18, issue 4, 2011

Can a workplace have an attitude problem? Workplace effects on employee attitudes and organizational performance pp. 411-423

Ann P. Bartel, Richard Freeman, Casey Ichniowski and Morris M. Kleiner

Do salaries improve worker performance? pp. 424-433

Alex Bryson, Babatunde Buraimo and Rob Simmons

The impact of computer use on earnings in a developing country: Evidence from Ecuador pp. 434-440

Hessel Oosterbeek and Juan Ponce

Deregulation and labour earnings: Three motor carrier industries in Japan pp. 441-452

Akira Kawaguchi and Keizo Mizuno

The impact of education on unemployment incidence and re-employment success: Evidence from the U.S. labour market pp. 453-463

W. Craig Riddell and Xueda Song

The age-productivity gradient: Evidence from a sample of F1 drivers pp. 464-473

Fabrizio Castellucci, Mario Padula and Giovanni Pica

Peer effects and textbooks in African primary education pp. 474-486

Markus Frölich and Katharina Michaelowa

The modern corporation as a safe haven for taste-based discrimination: An agency model of hiring decisions pp. 487-497

Pierre-Guillaume Méon and Ariane Szafarz

Can child care policy encourage employment and fertility?: Evidence from a structural model pp. 498-512

Peter Haan and Katharina Wrohlich

Are contingent jobs dead ends or stepping stones to regular jobs? Evidence from a structural estimation pp. 513-526

Julen Esteban-Pretel, Ryo Nakajima and Ryuichi Tanaka

The efficiency of training and hiring with intrafirm bargaining pp. 527-538

Fabien Tripier

Labor supply responses to the 1990s Japanese tax reforms pp. 539-546

Ken Yamada

Job security and employee well-being: Evidence from matched survey and register data pp. 547-554

Petri Böckerman, Pekka Ilmakunnas and Edvard Johansson

Attitudes towards economic risk and the gender pay gap pp. 555-561

Anh Le, Paul Miller, Wendy S. Slutske and Nicholas G. Martin

Volume 18, issue 3, 2011

Introduction to special issue of labour economics on sports labour markets pp. 273-274

Rob Simmons

Substitution and complementarity between managers and subordinates: Evidence from British football pp. 275-286

Sue Bridgewater, Lawrence Kahn and Amanda Goodall

Impact of importing foreign talent on performance levels of local co-workers pp. 287-296

Jaime Alvarez, D. Forrest, Ismael Sanz and Juan de Dios Tena

The measurement of pay discrimination between job assignments pp. 297-309

Orn B. Bodvarsson and John Sessions

Heterogeneous worker ability and team-based production: Evidence from major league baseball, 1920-2009 pp. 310-319

Kerry Papps, Alex Bryson and Rafael Gomez

New evidence of salary discrimination in major league baseball pp. 320-331

Paul Holmes

Moving on up: The Rooney rule and minority hiring in the NFL pp. 332-337

Benjamin Solow, John Solow and Todd Walker

Learning unethical practices from a co-worker: The peer effect of Jose Canseco pp. 338-348

Eric Gould and Todd Kaplan

Match rigging and the career concerns of referees pp. 349-359

Tito Boeri and Battista Severgnini

Disciplinary sanctions in English Premiership Football: Is there a racial dimension? pp. 360-370

Barry Reilly and Robert Witt

Escalation effects and the player draft in the AFL pp. 371-380

Jeff Borland, Leng Lee and Robert Macdonald

Mixing the princes and the paupers: Pay and performance in the National Basketball Association pp. 381-388

Rob Simmons and David Berri

Gender differences in competitiveness: Empirical evidence from professional distance running pp. 389-398

Bernd Frick

Work out or out of work -- The labor market return to physical fitness and leisure sports activities pp. 399-409

Dan-Olof Rooth

Volume 18, issue 2, 2011

Sexual orientation and household decision making.: Same-sex couples' balance of power and labor supply choices pp. 145-158

Sonia Oreffice

A collective labor supply model with complementarities in leisure: Identification and estimation by means of panel data pp. 159-167

Pierre-Carl Michaud and Frederic Vermeulen

Comparing the effectiveness of employment subsidies pp. 168-179

Alessio Brown, Christian Merkl and Dennis J. Snower

Entrepreneurship: Origins and returns pp. 180-193

Helge Berglann, Espen Moen, Knut Røed and Jens Fredrik Skogstrøm

Above and beyond the call. Long-term real earnings effects of British male military conscription in the post-war years pp. 194-204

Julien Grenet, Robert Hart and J Roberts

The distributive and welfare effects of product and labour market deregulation pp. 205-217

Gabriele Cardullo

The ambiguous effect of minimum wages on hours pp. 218-228

Eric Strobl and Frank Walsh

Performance pay, risk attitudes and job satisfaction pp. 229-239

Thomas Cornelissen, John Heywood and Uwe Jirjahn

Are specific skills an obstacle to labor market adjustment? pp. 240-256

Ana Lamo, Julian Messina and Etienne Wasmer

Occupational downgrading and bumping down: The combined effects of education and experience pp. 257-269

Alexandre Léné

Volume 18, issue 1, 2011

Noncognitive skills, occupational attainment, and relative wages pp. 1-13

Deborah Cobb-Clark and Michelle Tan

Child-custody reform, marital investment in children, and the labor supply of married mothers pp. 14-24

John Nunley and Richard Seals

Parental job loss and the education enrollment of youth pp. 25-35

Michael Coelli

Teen employment, poverty, and the minimum wage: Evidence from Canada pp. 36-47

Anindya Sen, Kate Rybczynski and Corey Van de Waal

Job contact networks and the ethnic minorities pp. 48-56

Harminder Battu, Paul Seaman and Yves Zenou

How do very open economies adjust to large immigration flows? Evidence from Spanish regions pp. 57-70

Libertad Gonzalez and Francesc Ortega

Why are the unemployed in worse health? The causal effect of unemployment on health pp. 71-78

Hendrik Schmitz

Urban agglomeration, wages and selection: Evidence from samples of siblings pp. 79-92

Harry Krashinsky

Labor turnover before plant closure: "Leaving the sinking ship" vs. "Captain throwing ballast overboard" pp. 93-101

Guido Schwerdt

Labor's liquidity service and firing costs pp. 102-110

Herman Z. Bennett

Firms' relative sensitivity to aggregate shocks and the dynamics of gross job flows pp. 111-119

Eugénio Pinto

Unionisation structures, productivity and firm performance: New insights from a heterogeneous firm model pp. 120-129

Sebastian Braun

Job mobility and the gender wage gap in Italy pp. 130-142

Emilia Del Bono and Daniela Vuri