Research classified by Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) codes

2008

• Matteo Richiardi & Dalit Contini, 2008, "Active and Passive Policies Against Poverty with Decreasing Employability," Rivista italiana degli economisti, Società editrice il Mulino, issue 2, pages 245-272.
• Michael Zimmer, 2008, "Returns to Human Capital and Hourly Earnings of Men with Disabilities: Evidence Across the Distribution of Wages, 1988 - 2005," Journal of Economic Insight, Missouri Valley Economic Association, volume 34, issue 2, pages 43-64.
• Ph. Delhez & P. Heuse & Y. Saks & H. Zimmer, 2008, "The social balance sheet 2007," Economic Review, National Bank of Belgium, issue iv, pages 101-140, December.
• Stefan Bender & Julia Lane & Kathryn Shaw & Fredrik Andersson & Till von Wachter, 2008, "The Analysis of Firms and Employees: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches," NBER Books, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number bend08-1, January.
• Paul Oyer, 2008, "Ability and Employer Learning: Evidence from the Economist Labor Market," NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, "Organizational Innovation and Firm Performance".
• Till von Wachter & Stefan Bender, 2008, "Do Initial Conditions Persist between Firms? An Analysis of Firm-Entry Cohort Effects and Job Losers Using Matched Employer-Employee Data," NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, "The Analysis of Firms and Employees: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches".
• Judith Hellerstein & David Neumark & Melissa McInerney, 2008, "Changes in Workplace Segregation in the United States between 1990 and 2000: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data," NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, "The Analysis of Firms and Employees: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches".
• Colleen Flaherty Manchester, 2008, "The Effect of Tuition Reimbursement on Turnover: A Case Study Analysis," NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, "The Analysis of Firms and Employees: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches".
• Kaivan Munshi & Nicholas Wilson, 2008, "Identity, Parochial Institutions, and Occupational Choice: Linking the Past to the Present in the American Midwest," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 13717, Jan.
• Anna Aizer, 2008, "Neighborhood Violence and Urban Youth," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 13773, Feb.
• Lex Borghans & Angela Lee Duckworth & James J. Heckman & Bas ter Weel, 2008, "The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 13810, Feb.
• Jason M. Fletcher & Barbara L. Wolfe, 2008, "Education and Labor Market Consequences of Teenage Childbearing: Evidence Using the Timing of Pregnancy Outcomes and Community Fixed Effects," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 13847, Mar.
• Jonah E. Rockoff, 2008, "Does Mentoring Reduce Turnover and Improve Skills of New Employees? Evidence from Teachers in New York City," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 13868, Mar.
• Muriel Niederle & Alexandra H. Yestrumskas, 2008, "Gender Differences in Seeking Challenges: The Role of Institutions," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 13922, Apr.
• Muriel Niederle & Carmit Segal & Lise Vesterlund, 2008, "How Costly is Diversity? Affirmative Action in Light of Gender Differences in Competitiveness," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 13923, Apr.
• Orazio Attanasio & Adriana Kugler & Costas Meghir, 2008, "Training Disadvantaged Youth in Latin America: Evidence from a Randomized Trial," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 13931, Apr.
• Patrick Bayer & Shakeeb Khan & Christopher Timmins, 2008, "Nonparametric Identification and Estimation in a Generalized Roy Model," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 13949, Apr.
• Peter Arcidiacono & Patrick Bayer & Aurel Hizmo, 2008, "Beyond Signaling and Human Capital: Education and the Revelation of Ability," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 13951, Apr.
• Robert J. Gordon & Ian Dew-Becker, 2008, "Controversies about the Rise of American Inequality: A Survey," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 13982, May.
• Janet Currie, 2008, "Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Socioeconomic Status, Poor Health in Childhood, and Human Capital Development," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 13987, May.
• John Cawley & C. Katharina Spiess, 2008, "Obesity and Skill Attainment in Early Childhood," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 13997, May.
• Anders Bjorklund & Richard Freeman, 2008, "Searching for Optimal Inequality/Incentives," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 14014, May.
• Donald Boyd & Hamilton Lankford & Susanna Loeb & Jonah Rockoff & James Wyckoff, 2008, "The Narrowing Gap in New York City Teacher Qualifications and its Implications for Student Achievement in High-Poverty Schools," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 14021, Jun.
• Donald Boyd & Pam Grossman & Hamilton Lankford & Susanna Loeb & James Wyckoff, 2008, "Who Leaves? Teacher Attrition and Student Achievement," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 14022, May.
• Brian A. Jacob & Lars Lefgren & David Sims, 2008, "The Persistence of Teacher-Induced Learning Gains," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 14065, Jun.
• Benjamin F. Jones, 2008, "The Knowledge Trap: Human Capital and Development Reconsidered," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 14138, Jun.
• Ofer Malamud & Cristian Pop-Eleches, 2008, "General Education vs. Vocational Training: Evidence from an Economy in Transition," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 14155, Jul.
• Joseph J. Doyle, Jr. & Steven M. Ewer & Todd H. Wagner, 2008, "Returns to Physician Human Capital: Analyzing Patients Randomized to Physician Teams," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 14174, Jul.
• Juan Carlos Calcagno & Bridget Terry Long, 2008, "The Impact of Postsecondary Remediation Using a Regression Discontinuity Approach: Addressing Endogenous Sorting and Noncompliance," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 14194, Jul.
• Lauren Cohen & Andrea Frazzini & Christopher Malloy, 2008, "Hiring Cheerleaders: Board Appointments of "Independent" Directors," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 14232, Aug.
• Scott E. Carrell & Mark L. Hoekstra, 2008, "Externalities in the Classroom: How Children Exposed to Domestic Violence Affect Everyone's Kids," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 14246, Aug.
• Melissa Clark & Jesse Rothstein & Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, 2008, "Selection Bias in College Admissions Test Scores," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 14265, Aug.
• Donald Boyd & Pamela Grossman & Hamilton Lankford & Susanna Loeb & James Wyckoff, 2008, "Teacher Preparation and Student Achievement," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 14314, Sep.
• Isaac Ehrlich & William A. Hamlen Jr. & Yong Yin, 2008, "Asset Management, Human Capital, and the Market for Risky Assets," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 14340, Sep.
• Bridget Terry Long & Michal Kurlaender, 2008, "Do Community Colleges provide a Viable Pathway to a Baccalaureate Degree?," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 14367, Sep.
• Bruce Sacerdote, 2008, "When The Saints Come Marching In: Effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on Student Evacuees," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 14385, Oct.
• Francine D. Blau & Lawrence M. Kahn & Kerry L. Papps, 2008, "Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants: 1980-2000," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 14387, Oct.
• Francine D. Blau & Lawrence M. Kahn & Albert Yung-Hsu Liu & Kerry L. Papps, 2008, "The Transmission of Women's Fertility, Human Capital and Work Orientation Across Immigrant Generations," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 14388, Oct.
• Victor Lavy & M. Daniele Paserman & Analia Schlosser, 2008, "Inside the Black of Box of Ability Peer Effects: Evidence from Variation in the Proportion of Low Achievers in the Classroom," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 14415, Oct.
• Jesse Rothstein, 2008, "Teacher Quality in Educational Production: Tracking, Decay, and Student Achievement," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 14442, Oct.
• Matteo Bugamelli & Fabiano Schivardi & Roberta Zizza, 2008, "The Euro and Firm Restructuring," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 14454, Oct.
• Dhaval M. Dave & Nancy E. Reichman & Hope Corman, 2008, "Effects of Welfare Reform on Educational Acquisition of Young Adult Women," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 14466, Nov.
• Kevin H. O'Rourke & Ahmed S. Rahman & Alan M. Taylor, 2008, "Luddites and the Demographic Transition," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 14484, Nov.
• Sherry A. Glied & Ashwin Prabhu & Norman H. Edelman, 2008, "The Cost of Primary Care Doctors," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 14568, Dec.
• Colin. C. Williams, 2008, "Illegitimate wage practices in Eastern Europe: - The case of 'envelope wages'," Journal of East European Management Studies, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, volume 13, issue 3, pages 253-270.
• Katharina Bluhm & Vera Trappmann, 2008, "Economic Elites in enlarged Europe," Journal of East European Management Studies, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, volume 13, issue 4, pages 282-290.
• Jan Drahokoupil, 2008, "Who won the contest for a new property class? Structural transformation of elites in the Visegrád Four region," Journal of East European Management Studies, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, volume 13, issue 4, pages 360-377.
• Krzysztof Jasiecki, 2008, "The changing roles of the post-transitional economic elite in Poland," Journal of East European Management Studies, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, volume 13, issue 4, pages 327-359.
• Gyoergy Lengyel, 2008, "Multipositional and transnational members of the Hungarian economic elite at the end of the 1990s: Their social characteristics and income chances," Journal of East European Management Studies, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, volume 13, issue 4, pages 291-304.
• Bernd Martens, 2008, "East German economic elites and their companies two decades after the transformation ('Wende'): Still following the patterns of the 1990s," Journal of East European Management Studies, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, volume 13, issue 4, pages 305-326.
• Alberto Behar, 2008, "Does training benefit those who do not get any? Elasticities of complementarity and factor price in South Africa," ERSA Working Paper Series, Economic Research Southern Africa, number 073, May.
• Ssekabira Ntege & Steven F. Koch, 2008, "Returns to Schooling: Skills Accumulation or Information Revelation?," ERSA Working Paper Series, Economic Research Southern Africa, number 087, Jun.
• Per-Anders Edin & Magnus Gustavsson, 2008, "Time Out of Work and Skill Depreciation," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, volume 61, issue 2, pages 163-180, January, DOI: 10.1177/001979390806100202.
• Shane Niall O'Higgins & Marcello D'Amato & Floro Ernesto Caroleo & Adriana Barone, 2008, "Gone for Good? Determinants of School Dropout in Southern Italy," CELPE Discussion Papers, CELPE - CEnter for Labor and Political Economics, University of Salerno, Italy, number 106, Jan.
• Emanuela Ghignoni, 2008, "Temporary contracts, employees' effort and labour productivity: the evidence for Italy," Working Papers in Public Economics, Department of Economics and Law, Sapienza University of Rome, number 111, Feb.
• Carlo Azzarri & Calogero Carletto & Benjamin Davis & Alberto Zazza, 2008, "Migration and Labour Choice in Albania," South-Eastern Europe Journal of Economics, Association of Economic Universities of South and Eastern Europe and the Black Sea Region, volume 6, issue 2, pages 169-196.
• Magdalena Rokicka, 2008, "Gender Gap in the CIS Region," CASE Network Studies and Analyses, CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research, number 0376.
• Sarah Brown & Jenny Roberts & Karl Taylor, 2008, "Reservation Wages, Labour Market Participation And Health," Working Papers, The University of Sheffield, Department of Economics, number 2008002, Feb, revised Feb 2008.
• Sarah Brown & Karl Taylor, 2008, "Expectations, Reservation Wages And Employment: Evidence From British Panel Data," Working Papers, The University of Sheffield, Department of Economics, number 2008007, May, revised May 2008.
• Sarah Brown & Karl Taylor, 2008, "Reservation Wages, Expected Wages and Labour Market Outcomes: Analysis of Individual Level Panel Data," Working Papers, The University of Sheffield, Department of Economics, number 2008008, Jul, revised Jul 2008.
• Joanne Lindley & Steven McIntosh, 2008, "A Panel Data Analysis of the Incidence and Impact of Over-education," Working Papers, The University of Sheffield, Department of Economics, number 2008009, Jul, revised Jul 2008.
• Andrew Sharpe, 2008, "Editor’s Overview," International Productivity Monitor, Centre for the Study of Living Standards, volume 16, pages 1-2, Spring.
• Jean-Francois Arsenault & Andrew Sharpe, 2008, "An Analysis of the Causes of Weak Labour Productivity Growth in Canada since 2000," International Productivity Monitor, Centre for the Study of Living Standards, volume 16, pages 14-39, Spring.
• Martin Brown & Christian Zehnder, 2008, "The Emergence of Information Sharing in Credit Markets," Working Papers, Swiss National Bank, number 2008-01.
• Thomas Bolli & Mathias Zurlinden, 2008, "Measuring growth of labour quality and the quality-adjusted unemployment rate in Switzerland," Working Papers, Swiss National Bank, number 2008-13.
• Allen Scott, 2008, "Production and work in the American metropolis: a macroscopic approach," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, volume 42, issue 4, pages 787-805, December, DOI: 10.1007/s00168-007-0194-7.
• Hongbin Li & Junsen Zhang & Yi Zhu, 2008, "The quantity-Quality trade-Off of children In a developing country: Identification using chinese twins," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), volume 45, issue 1, pages 223-243, February, DOI: 10.1353/dem.2008.0006.
• Aniela Wirz, 2008, "Private returns to education versus education spill-over effects," Empirical Economics, Springer, volume 34, issue 2, pages 315-342, March, DOI: 10.1007/s00181-007-0124-7.
• Omer Gokcekus & Amy Muedin, 2008, "Quantifying corruption by a human capital earnings equation," International Review of Economics, Springer;Happiness Economics and Interpersonal Relations (HEIRS), volume 55, issue 3, pages 243-252, September, DOI: 10.1007/s12232-007-0039-9.
• Persefoni Tsaliki, 2008, "Economic development, human capital and technical change: the question of machinery revisited," International Review of Economics, Springer;Happiness Economics and Interpersonal Relations (HEIRS), volume 55, issue 4, pages 363-371, December, DOI: 10.1007/s12232-008-0048-3.
• C. Guilmi & F. Clementi & T. Matteo & M. Gallegati, 2008, "Social networks and labour productivity in Europe: an empirical investigation," Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, Springer;Society for Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents, volume 3, issue 1, pages 43-57, June, DOI: 10.1007/s11403-008-0034-6.
• Kazuo Mino & Kazuo Nishimura & Koji Shimomura & Ping Wang, 2008, "Equilibrium dynamics in discrete-time endogenous growth models with social constant returns," Economic Theory, Springer;Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), volume 34, issue 1, pages 1-23, January, DOI: 10.1007/s00199-007-0211-1.
• Yılmaz Kılıçaslan & Erol Taymaz, 2008, "Labor market institutions and industrial performance: an evolutionary study," Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Springer, volume 18, issue 3, pages 477-492, August, DOI: 10.1007/s00191-008-0098-4.
• Erik Stam & David Audretsch & Joris Meijaard, 2008, "Renascent entrepreneurship," Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Springer, volume 18, issue 3, pages 493-507, August, DOI: 10.1007/s00191-008-0095-7.
• Thomas Lemieux, 2008, "The changing nature of wage inequality," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, volume 21, issue 1, pages 21-48, January, DOI: 10.1007/s00148-007-0169-0.
• Rafael Gómez & Pablo Hernández de Cos, 2008, "The importance of being mature: the effect of demographic maturation on global per capita GDP," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, volume 21, issue 3, pages 589-608, July, DOI: 10.1007/s00148-006-0107-6.
• Panu Poutvaara, 2008, "On human capital formation with exit options: comment and new results," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, volume 21, issue 3, pages 679-684, July, DOI: 10.1007/s00148-006-0129-0.
• Martin Nordin, 2008, "Ability and rates of return to schooling—making use of the Swedish enlistment battery test," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, volume 21, issue 3, pages 703-717, July, DOI: 10.1007/s00148-006-0131-6.
• Mihails Hazans & Ija Trapeznikova & Olga Rastrigina, 2008, "Ethnic and parental effects on schooling outcomes before and during the transition: evidence from the Baltic countries," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, volume 21, issue 3, pages 719-749, July, DOI: 10.1007/s00148-007-0134-y.
• Jan Oosterhaven & Lourens Broersma, 2008, "Measuring revealed localisation economies," Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, Springer, volume 1, issue 1, pages 55-60, July, DOI: 10.1007/s12076-008-0006-4.
• Hipólito Simón & Esteban Sanromá & Raúl Ramos, 2008, "Labour segregation and immigrant and native-born wage distributions in Spain: an analysis using matched employer–employee data," Spanish Economic Review, Springer;Spanish Economic Association, volume 10, issue 2, pages 135-168, June, DOI: 10.1007/s10108-007-9035-1.
• Michèle Belot & Erik Canton & Dinand Webbink, 2008, "Does reducing student support affect scholastic performance? Evidence from a Dutch reform," Studies in Empirical Economics, Springer, in: Christian Dustmann & Bernd Fitzenberger & Stephen Machin, "The Economics of Education and Training", DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7908-2022-5_2.
• Christian Dustmann & Arthur Soest, 2008, "Part-time work, school success and school leaving," Studies in Empirical Economics, Springer, in: Christian Dustmann & Bernd Fitzenberger & Stephen Machin, "The Economics of Education and Training", DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7908-2022-5_3.
• Patrick A. Puhani & Andrea M. Weber, 2008, "Does the early bird catch the worm?," Studies in Empirical Economics, Springer, in: Christian Dustmann & Bernd Fitzenberger & Stephen Machin, "The Economics of Education and Training", DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7908-2022-5_6.
• Matias Ramirez & Xibao Li, 2008, "Learning and sharing in a Chinese high-technology cluster: A study of inter-firm and intra-firm knowledge flows between R&D employees," SPRU Working Paper Series, SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex Business School, number 174, Jan.
• Ian Coxhead & Muqun Li, 2008, "Prospects For Skills-Based Export Growth In A Labour-Abundant, Resource-Rich Developing Economy," Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, volume 44, issue 2, pages 209-238, DOI: 10.1080/00074910802168998.
• Elena Bardasi & Janet Gornick, 2008, "Working for less? Women's part-time wage penalties across countries," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, volume 14, issue 1, pages 37-72, DOI: 10.1080/13545700701716649.
• Harriet Presser & Hsiao-ye Yi, 2008, "Women's gender-type occupational mobility in Puerto Rico, 1950 — 80," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, volume 14, issue 2, pages 89-114, DOI: 10.1080/13545700701881088.
• Pontus Braunerhjelm, 2008, "Specialization of Regions and Universities: The New Versus the Old," Industry and Innovation, Taylor & Francis Journals, volume 15, issue 3, pages 253-275, DOI: 10.1080/13662710802040853.
• Dipa Mukherjee & Rajarshi Majumder, 2008, "Tertiarisation of the Indian labour market: a new growth engine or sending distress signals?," Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, volume 13, issue 4, pages 387-413, DOI: 10.1080/13547860802364729.
• Hessel Oosterbeek & Mirjam van Praag & Auke IJsselstein, 2008, "The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurship Competencies and Intentions," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers, Tinbergen Institute, number 08-038/3, Apr.
• Aslan Zorlu & Joop Hartog, 2008, "Employment Assimilation of Immigrants in the Netherlands," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers, Tinbergen Institute, number 08-057/3, Jun.
• Joop Hartog & Mirjam van Praag & Justin van der Sluis, 2008, "If you are so smart, why aren't you an Entrepreneur?," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers, Tinbergen Institute, number 08-073/3, Aug.
• Joern Block & Philipp Koellinger, 2008, "I can't get no Satisfaction - Necessity Entrepreneurship and Procedural Utility," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers, Tinbergen Institute, number 08-078/3, Sep.
• Josse Delfgaauw & Robert Dur, 2008, "Managerial Talent, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Public Management," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers, Tinbergen Institute, number 08-097/1, Oct.
• van den Brink, J.R. & Ruys, P.H.M., 2008, "Technology driven organizational structure of the firm," Other publications TiSEM, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management, number 417827ae-0c53-4d1e-8f55-1.
• Árpád Ábrahám, 2008, "Earnings Inequality and Skill-Biased Technological Change with Endogenous Choice of Education," Journal of the European Economic Association, MIT Press, volume 6, issue 2-3, pages 695-704, 04-05.
• Robert J. Gary-Bobo & Alain Trannoy, 2008, "Efficient Tuition Fees and Examinations," Journal of the European Economic Association, MIT Press, volume 6, issue 6, pages 1211-1243, December.
• Coen Teulings & Thijs van Rens, 2008, "Education, Growth, and Income Inequality," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, volume 90, issue 1, pages 89-104, February.
• Judith K. Hellerstein & David Neumark, 2008, "Workplace Segregation in the United States: Race, Ethnicity, and Skill," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, volume 90, issue 3, pages 459-477, August.
• Jörn-Steffen Pischke & Till von Wachter, 2008, "Zero Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany: Evidence and Interpretation," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, volume 90, issue 3, pages 592-598, August.
• Stelios Michalopoulos, 2008, "The Origins of Ethnolinguistic Diversity: Theory and Evidence," Discussion Papers Series, Department of Economics, Tufts University, Department of Economics, Tufts University, number 0725.
• Blázquez, Maite & Ramos, Jose, 2008, "Recent Investments in Human Capital and its Effect on the Chances of Escaping from Low-Paid Jobs: The Spanish Case," Working Papers in Economic Theory, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), Department of Economic Analysis (Economic Theory and Economic History), number 2008/03, May.
• Boudarbat, Brahim & Lemieux, Thomas & Riddell, Craig, 2008, "The Evolution of the Returns to Human Capital in Canada, 1980-2006," Economics working papers, Vancouver School of Economics, number craig_riddell-2008-15, Oct, revised 22 Oct 2008.
• Ian Walker & Yu Zhu, 2008, "The College Wage Premium and the Expansion of Higher Education in the UK," Working Papers, Geary Institute, University College Dublin, number 200817, Apr.
• Lex Borghans & Angela Lee Duckworth & James J. Heckman & Bas ter Weel, 2008, "The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits," Working Papers, Geary Institute, University College Dublin, number 200827, Dec.
• Paul J. Devereux & Daniel A. Ackerberg, 2008, "Improved Jive estimators for overidentified linear models with and without heteroskedasticity," Working Papers, School of Economics, University College Dublin, number 200817, Aug.
• Isaac Ehrlich & William A. Hamlen Jr. & Yong Yin, 2008, "Asset Management, Human Capital, and the Market for Risky Assets," Journal of Human Capital, University of Chicago Press, volume 2, issue 3, pages 217-262, DOI: 10.1086/593051.
• Kevin M. Murphy & Curtis Simon & Robert Tamura, 2008, "Fertility Decline, Baby Boom, and Economic Growth," Journal of Human Capital, University of Chicago Press, volume 2, issue 3, pages 262-302, DOI: 10.1086/593052.
• Susana Iranzo & Fabiano Schivardi & Elisa Tosetti, 2008, "Skill Dispersion and Firm Productivity: An Analysis with Employer-Employee Matched Data," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, volume 26, issue 2, pages 247-285, April, DOI: 10.1086/587091.
• Rodrigo R. Soares & Bruno L. S. Falcão, 2008, "The Demographic Transition and the Sexual Division of Labor," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, volume 116, issue 6, pages 1058-1104, December, DOI: 10.1086/596102.
• Patrick Bayer & Stephen L. Ross & Giorgio Topa, 2008, "Place of Work and Place of Residence: Informal Hiring Networks and Labor Market Outcomes," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, volume 116, issue 6, pages 1150-1196, December, DOI: 10.1086/595975.
• Francis Green & Yu Zhu, 2008, "Overqualification, Job Dissatisfaction, and Increasing Dispersion in the Returns to Graduate Education," Studies in Economics, School of Economics, University of Kent, number 0803, Feb.
• William Collier & Francis Green & Young-Bae Kim & John Peirson, 2008, "Education, Training and Economic Performance: Evidence from Establishment Survival Data," Studies in Economics, School of Economics, University of Kent, number 0822, Dec.
• Sile Padraigin O'Dorchai, 2008, "Do women gain or lose from becoming mothers? A comparative wage analysis in 20 European countries," ULB Institutional Repository, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles, number 2013/135835.
• Cory Koedel & Julian Betts, 2008, "Value-Added to What? How a Ceiling in the Testing Instrument Influences Value-Added Estimation," Working Papers, Department of Economics, University of Missouri, number 0807, Jun.
• Borghans, L. & Duckworth, A.L. & Heckman, J. & ter Weel, B.J., 2008, "The economics and psychology of personality traits," ROA Research Memorandum, Maastricht University, Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA), number 001, Jan, DOI: 10.26481/umaror.2008001.
• Cörvers, F. & Meriküll, J., 2008, "Occupational structures across 25 EU countries: the importance of industry structure and technology in old and new EU countries," ROA Research Memorandum, Maastricht University, Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA), number 002, Jan, DOI: 10.26481/umaror.2008002.
• Maliranta, Mika & Mohnen, Pierre & Rouvinen, Petri, 2008, "Is Inter-Firm Labor Mobility a Channel of Knowledge spillovers? Evidence from a Linked Employer-Employee Panel," MERIT Working Papers, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT), number 2008-005.
• Borghans, Lex & Duckworth, Angela Lee & Heckman, James J. & Weel, Bas ter, 2008, "The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits," MERIT Working Papers, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT), number 2008-010.
• Lal, Kaushalesh & Dunnewijk, Theo, 2008, "Entrepreneurship and Innovation Strategies in ICT SMEs in Enlarged Europe (EU25)," MERIT Working Papers, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT), number 2008-016.
• Muhamad Purnagunawan, 2008, "Earning Motivation and The Conventional Earning Function," Working Papers in Economics and Development Studies (WoPEDS), Department of Economics, Padjadjaran University, number 200805, Sep, revised Sep 2008.
• Almut Balleer & Thijs van Rens, 2008, "Skill-biased technological change and the business cycle," Economics Working Papers, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, number 1079, Mar, revised May 2012.
• Timothy J. Bartik & Susan n. Houseman (ed.), 2008, "A Future of Good Jobs? America's Challenge in the Global Economy," Books from Upjohn Press, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, number fgj, ISBN: ARRAY(0x73b482d8).
• Randall W. Eberts, 2008, "The United States: How Partnerships Can Overcome Policy Gaps," Book chapters authored by Upjohn Institute researchers, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, in: Sylvain Giguere, "More tha Just Jobs: Workforce Development in a Skills-Based Economy".
• Cawley, John & Spiess, C. Katharina, 2008, "Obesity and skill attainment in early childhood," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, volume 6, issue 3, pages 388-397, December.
• Dickinson, David & Villeval, Marie-Claire, 2008, "Does monitoring decrease work effort?: The complementarity between agency and crowding-out theories," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, volume 63, issue 1, pages 56-76, May.
• Kübler, Dorothea & Müller, Wieland & Normann, Hans-Theo, 2008, "Job-market signaling and screening: An experimental comparison," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, volume 64, issue 1, pages 219-236, September.
• Leung, Ambrose & Ferris, J. Stephen, 2008, "School size and youth violence," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, volume 65, issue 2, pages 318-333, February.
• Jeon, Doh-Shin & Menicucci, Domenico, 2008, "Money, fame and the allocation of talent: Brain drain and the institution of science," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, volume 66, issue 3-4, pages 558-581, June.
• Gervais, Martin & Livshits, Igor & Meh, Césaire, 2008, "Uncertainty and the specificity of human capital," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, volume 143, issue 1, pages 469-498, November.
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