Research classified by Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) codes

2008

• Les OXxley & Ttrinh Le & John Gibson, 2008, "Measuring Human Capital: Alternative Methods and International Evidence," Korean Economic Review, Korean Economic Association, volume 24, pages 283-344.
• Spyros Arvanitis, 2008, "Are Firm Innovativeness and Firm Age Relevant for the Supply of Vocational Training? - A Study Based on Swiss Micro Data," KOF Working papers, KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich, number 08-198, May, DOI: 10.3929/ethz-a-005582294.
• Spyros Arvanitis & Tobias Stucki, 2008, "Training Propensity of Start-ups in Switzerland - A Study Based on Data for the Start-up Cohort 1996-97," KOF Working papers, KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich, number 08-199, May, DOI: 10.3929/ethz-a-005582300.
• Mathias Zurlinden & Thomas Bolli, 2008, "Measurement of Labor Quality Growth: Caused by Unobservable Characteristics," KOF Working papers, KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich, number 08-203, Aug, DOI: 10.3929/ethz-a-005666794.
• Helene Bie Lilleør, 2008, "Human Capital Diversification within the Household: Findings from Rural Tanzania," CAM Working Papers, University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics. Centre for Applied Microeconometrics, number 2008-04, Aug.
• Helene Bie Lilleør, 2008, "Sibling Dependence, Uncertainty and Education: Findings from Tanzania," CAM Working Papers, University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics. Centre for Applied Microeconometrics, number 2008-05, Aug.
• Helene Bie Lilleør, 2008, "Can Future Uncertainty Keep Children Out of School?," CAM Working Papers, University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics. Centre for Applied Microeconometrics, number 2008-06, Aug.
• Kenn Ariga & Giorgio Brunello & Roki Iwahashi & Lorenzo Rocco, 2008, "The Stairways to Heaven: A Model of Career Choice in Sports and Games, with an Application to Chess," KIER Working Papers, Kyoto University, Institute of Economic Research, number 646, Jan.
• María Cecilia Calderón, 2008, "High quality nutrition in childhood, body size and wages in early adulthood: evidence from guatemalan workers," Económica, Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, volume 0, issue 1-2, pages 41-86, January-D.
• Marisa Hidalgo-Hidalgo, 2008, "On the optimal allocation of students when peer effect works: Tracking vs Mixing," Discussion Papers in Economics, Division of Economics, School of Business, University of Leicester, number 08/18, Jun.
• Abbi M. Kedir, 2008, "Health and Wages: Panel Evidence on Men and Women using IV Quantile Regression," Discussion Papers in Economics, Division of Economics, School of Business, University of Leicester, number 08/37, Oct.
• Jozef Konings, 2008, "The Impact of Training on Productivity and Wages. Evidence from Belgian Firm Level Panel Data," LICOS Discussion Papers, LICOS - Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, KU Leuven, number 19708.
• Sandner, Philipp G. & Block, Jörn H. & Lutz, Andreas, 2008, "Determinanten des Erfolgs staatlich geförderter Existenzgründungen – eine empirische Untersuchung," Discussion Papers in Business Administration, University of Munich, Munich School of Management, number 2968, Apr.
• Wößmann, Ludger, 2008, "Efficiency and equity of European education and training policies," Munich Reprints in Economics, University of Munich, Department of Economics, number 19667.
• Poutvaara, Panu, 2008, "On human capital formation with exit options: Comment and new results," Munich Reprints in Economics, University of Munich, Department of Economics, number 19803.
• Hanushek, Eric A. & Wößmann, Ludger, 2008, "The role of cognitive skills in economic development," Munich Reprints in Economics, University of Munich, Department of Economics, number 20454.
• Luca Marchiori & Patrice Pieretti & Benteng Zou, 2008, "Brain Drain, Remittances, and Fertility," DEM Discussion Paper Series, Department of Economics at the University of Luxembourg, number 08-04.
• Christiane Clemens & Maik Heinemann, 2008, "On Entrepreneurial Risk–Taking and the Macroeconomic Effects of Financial Constraints," Working Paper Series in Economics, University of Lüneburg, Institute of Economics, number 103, Oct.
• Nils Braakmann, 2008, "Non scholae, sed vitae discimus! - The importance of fields of study for the gender wage gap among German university graduates during labor market entry and the first years of their careers," Working Paper Series in Economics, University of Lüneburg, Institute of Economics, number 85, May.
• Nils Braakmann, 2008, "Fields of training, plant characteristics and the gender wage gap in entry wages among skilled workers– Evidence from German administrative data," Working Paper Series in Economics, University of Lüneburg, Institute of Economics, number 90, Jul.
• Marie-Hélène Cloutier & John Cockburn & Bernard Decaluwé, 2008, "Education and Poverty in Vietnam: a Computable General Equilibrium Analysis," Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE, number 0804.
• Pierre Lefebvre & Philip Merrigan, 2008, "Family Background, Family Income, Cognitive Tests Scores, Behavioural Scales and their Relationship with Post-secondary Education Participation: Evidence from the NLSCY," Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE, number 0830.
• Veronica Frisancho & Dean Karlan & Martin Valdivia, 2008, "Business Training for Microfinance Clients: How it Matters and for Whom?," Working Papers PMMA, PEP-PMMA, number 2008-11.
• Christiane Clemens & Maik Heinemann, 2008, "Borrowing Constraints, Entrepreneurial Risks, and the Wealth Distribution in a Heterogeneous Agent Model," FEMM Working Papers, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Faculty of Economics and Management, number 08008, Mar.
• Jennifer Hunt & Marjolaine Gauthier-Loiselle, 2008, "How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?," Departmental Working Papers, McGill University, Department of Economics, number 2008-07, Aug.
• Shintaro Yamaguchi, 2008, "Career Progression and Comparative Advantage," Department of Economics Working Papers, McMaster University, number 2008-03, Feb.
• Andreas Pollak, 2008, "Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Variable Skill Levels," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, volume 164, issue 4, pages 696-726, December.
• Oscar Mitnik, 2008, "How do Training Programs Assign Participants to Training? Characterizing the Assignment Rules of Government Agencies for Welfare-to-Work Programs in California," Working Papers, University of Miami, Department of Economics, number 0907, Dec.
• Floriana Cerniglia & Riccarda Longaretti, 2008, "Federalism, Education-Related Public Good and Growth when Agents are Heterogeneou," Working Papers, University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Economics, number 138, May, revised May 2008.
• Mariapia Mendola & Gero Carletto, 2008, "International migration and gender differentials in the home labor market: evidence from Albania," Working Papers, University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Economics, number 148, Dec, revised Dec 2008.
• Alberto BUCCI, 2008, "Population in factor accumulation-based growth," Departmental Working Papers, Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods at Università degli Studi di Milano, number 2008-017, Jun.
• Alberto BUCCI, 2008, "Scale effects, saving and factor shares in a human capital-based growth model with physical capital accumulation," Departmental Working Papers, Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods at Università degli Studi di Milano, number 2008-029, Jul.
• Alberto BUCCI & Herb E. KUNZE & Davide LA TORRE, 2008, "Parameter identification, population and economic growth in an extended Lucas and Uzawa-type two sector model," Departmental Working Papers, Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods at Università degli Studi di Milano, number 2008-034, Oct.
• Alberto BUCCI & Cinzia COLAPINTO & Martin FORSTER & Davide LA TORRE, 2008, "On human capital and economic growth with random technology shocks," Departmental Working Papers, Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods at Università degli Studi di Milano, number 2008-036, Nov.
• Alberto BUCCI, 2008, "Population in factor accumulation-based growth," Departmental Working Papers, Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods at Università degli Studi di Milano, number 2008-17, Jun.
• Alberto BUCCI, 2008, "Scale effects, saving and factor shares in a human capital-based growth model with physical capital accumulation," Departmental Working Papers, Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods at Università degli Studi di Milano, number 2008-29, Jul.
• Alberto BUCCI & Herb E. KUNZE & Davide LA TORRE, 2008, "Parameter identification, population and economic growth in an extended Lucas and Uzawa-type two sector model," Departmental Working Papers, Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods at Università degli Studi di Milano, number 2008-34, Oct.
• Alberto BUCCI & Cinzia COLAPINTO & Martin FORSTER & Davide LA TORRE, 2008, "On human capital and economic growth with random technology shocks," Departmental Working Papers, Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods at Università degli Studi di Milano, number 2008-36, Nov.
• Michael Coelli & Roger Wilkins, 2008, "Credential Changes and Education Earnings Premia in Australia," Department of Economics - Working Papers Series, The University of Melbourne, number 1037.
• Oechssler, Jörg & Roider, Andreas & Schmitz, Patrick W., 2008, "Cognitive Abilities and Behavioral Biases," Papers, Sonderforschungsbreich 504, number 08-05.
• Colin Davies & Alireza Naghavi, 2008, "Offshoring Production: A Simple Model of Wages, Productivity, and Growth," Center for Economic Research (RECent), University of Modena and Reggio E., Dept. of Economics "Marco Biagi", number 027, Nov.
• Salma Ahmed & Pushkar Maitra, 2008, "Public Pension Governance And Asset Allocation," Monash Economics Working Papers, Monash University, Department of Economics, number 23/08, Aug.
• Mireille Bruyère & Laurence Lizé, 2008, "Pass professionnel et s curit des trajectoires. Une exploitation de l'enqu te FQP de 2003," Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne, number r08044, Jul.
• Thi Quynh Trang Do & Gérard Duchêne, 2008, "Determinants of self-employment: the case in Vietnam," Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne, number v08038, Sep.
• Fabio Mariani & Agustin Perez-Barahona & Natacha Raffin, 2008, "Life expectancy and the environment," Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne, number v08048, Jul, DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2009.11.007.
• Fabien Moizeau & Jean-Philippe Tropeano & Jean-Christophe Vergnaud, 2008, "Effets de voisinage et localisation : la ségrégation urbaine est-elle inéluctable ?," Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne, number v08072, Sep, DOI: 10.3917/reco.614.0723.
• 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, December.
• 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.
• Cristian TIU & Cosmin DOBRIN & Ion POPA & Constantin Bagu, 2008, "Performance measurement of hedge funds managers," Economia. Seria Management, Faculty of Management, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania, volume 11, issue 2, pages 38-48, December.
• Annalisa Cristini & Alessandro Gaj & Riccardo Leoni, 2008, "Direct and Indirect Complementarity between Workplace Reorganization and New Technology," Rivista di Politica Economica, SIPI Spa, volume 98, issue 2, pages 87-117, March-Apr.
• Michela Braga & Daniele Checchi, 2008, "Closing the Gender Gap? Life Competences and Social Environment," Rivista di Politica Economica, SIPI Spa, volume 98, issue 5, pages 155-198, September.
• Maciej Jakubowski, 2008, "Implementing Value-Added Models of School Assessment," RSCAS Working Papers, European University Institute, number 2008/06, Feb.
• D. Verhaest & E. Omey, 2008, "Objective overeducation and worker well-being: a shadow price approach," Working Papers of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium, Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, number 08/514, Apr.
• 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.
• Andrew Sharpe & Jean-François Arsenault & Simon Lapointe, 2008, "Apprenticeship Issues and Challenges Facing Canadian Manufacturing Industries," CSLS Research Reports, Centre for the Study of Living Standards, number 2008-02, Feb.
• 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.
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