Report NEP-LAB-2008-09-29

This is the archive for NEP-LAB, a report on new working papers in the area of Labour Economics. Stephanie Lluis issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.

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• Koskela, Erkki & Poutvaara, Panu, 2008. "Flexible Outsourcing and the Impacts of Labour Taxation in European Welfare States," IZA Discussion Papers 3699, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Bo Hansson, 2008. "Job-Related Training and Benefits for Individuals: A Review of Evidence and Explanations," OECD Education Working Papers 19, OECD Publishing.
• Wahlberg, Roger, 2008. "Differences in Wage Distributions between Natives, Non-Refugees, and Refugees," Working Papers in Economics 316, University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics.
• Wahlberg, Roger, 2008. "The Gender Wage Gap across the Wage Distribution in the Private and Public Sectors," Working Papers in Economics 317, University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics.
• Item repec:bcl:bclwop:cahier_etude_33 is not listed on IDEAS anymore

• Wahlberg, Roger, 2008. "Part-Time Penalty in Sweden: Evidence from Quantile Regression," Working Papers in Economics 315, University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics.
• Merkl, Christian & Snower, Dennis J., 2008. "Escaping the Unemployment Trap: The Case of East Germany," IZA Discussion Papers 3681, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Pedro S. Martins, 2008. "Dismissals for cause: The difference that just eight paragraphs can make," Working Papers 24, Queen Mary, University of London, School of Business and Management, Centre for Globalisation Research.
• Laura Bucila, 2008. "Employment-Based Health Insurance and the Minimum Wage," Working Papers 0812, College of the Holy Cross, Department of Economics.
• Enrico Moretti, 2008. "Real Wage Inequality," NBER Working Papers 14370, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Wahlberg, Roger, 2008. "The Part-Time Penalty for Natives and Immigrants," Working Papers in Economics 314, University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics.
• Günseli Berik & Cihan Bilginsoy & Larry S. Williams, 2008. "Gender and Racial Training Gaps in Oregon Apprenticeship Programs," Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, University of Utah 2008_15, University of Utah, Department of Economics.
• Cahuc, Pierre & Le Barbanchon, Thomas, 2008. "Labor Market Policy Evaluation in Equilibrium: Some Lessons of the Job Search and Matching Model," IZA Discussion Papers 3687, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Moon, Weh-Sol, 2008. "Explaining the Joint Behavior of Employment, Unemployment and Nonparticipation," MPRA Paper 10583, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised May 2008.
• Kräkel, Matthias & Schöttner, Anja, 2008. "Relative Performance Pay, Bonuses, and Job-Promotion Tournaments," IZA Discussion Papers 3702, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Brown, J. David & Earle, John S. & Telegdy, Álmos, 2008. "Employment and Wage Effects of Privatization: Evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine," IZA Discussion Papers 3688, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Kaas, Leo, 2008. "Variable Search Intensity in an Economy with Coordination Unemployment," IZA Discussion Papers 3697, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Zhongmin Wu & Mark Baimbridge & Yu Zhu, 2008. "Multiple job holding in the United Kingdom: evidence from the Bristish household panel survey," NBS Discussion Papers in Economics 2008/1, Economics, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University.
• Item repec:rim:rimwps:30-08 is not listed on IDEAS anymore

• Buscha, Franz & Maurel, Arnaud & Page, Lionel & Speckesser, Stefan, 2008. "The Effect of High School Employment on Educational Attainment: A Conditional Difference-in-Differences Approach," IZA Discussion Papers 3696, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Karlson, Nils & Box, Marcus & Heshmati, Almas, 2008. "Generality, State Neutrality and Unemployment in the OECD," Ratio Working Papers 124, The Ratio Institute.
• Nykvist, Jenny, 2008. "The Effects of Displacement on Self-employment Survival," Working Paper Series 764, Research Institute of Industrial Economics.
• David H. Autor, 2008. "The Economics of Labor Market Intermediation: An Analytic Framework," NBER Working Papers 14348, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Low, Hamish & Meghir, Costas & Pistaferri, Luigi, 2008. "Wage Risk and Employment Risk over the Life Cycle," IZA Discussion Papers 3700, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Katherine Terrell & T.H. Gindling, 2008. "Minimum Wages, Globalization, and Poverty in Honduras," WIDER Working Paper Series RP2008-23, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
• Item repec:lan:wpaper:005698 is not listed on IDEAS anymore

• Betsey Stevenson, 2008. "Divorce Law and Women's Labor Supply," NBER Working Papers 14346, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Muhamad Purnagunawan, 2008. "Earning Motivation and The Conventional Earning Function," Working Papers in Economics and Development Studies (WoPEDS) 200805, Department of Economics, Padjadjaran University, revised Sep 2008.
• Blanchflower, David G. & Lawton, Helen, 2008. "The Impact of the Recent Expansion of the EU on the UK Labour Market," IZA Discussion Papers 3695, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Joost de Laat & William Jack, 2008. "Adverse Selection and Career Outcomes in the Ethiopian Physician Labor Market," Cahiers de recherche 0828, CIRPEE.
• Guido Schwerdt & Andrea Ichino & Oliver Ruf & Rudolf Winter-Ebmer & Josef Zweimüller, 2008. "Does the color of the collar matter? Firm specific human capital and post-displacement outcomes," NRN working papers 2008-01, The Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of the Welfare State, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria.
• Thomas DeLeire & Christopher Timmins, 2008. "Roy Model Sorting and Non-Random Selection in the Valuation of a Statistical Life," NBER Working Papers 14364, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Natalya Y. Shelkova, 2008. "Low-Wage Labor Markets and the Power of Suggestion," Working papers 2008-33, University of Connecticut, Department of Economics, revised Dec 2008.
• Fox, Louise & Oviedo, Ana Maria, 2008. "Institutions and labor market outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa," Policy Research Working Paper Series 4721, The World Bank.
• Carlos Thomas & Francesco Zanetti, 2008. "Labor market reform and price stability: an application to the Euro Area," Working Papers 0818, Banco de España.
• Grout, Paul & Schnedler, Wendelin, 2008. "Non-Profit Organizations in a Bureaucratic Environment," IZA Discussion Papers 3685, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Bennmarker, Helge & Mellander, Erik & Öckert, Björn, 2008. "Do regional payroll tax reductions boost employment?," Working Paper Series 2008:19, IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy.
• Hall, Caroline, 2008. "Do interactions between unemployment insurance and sickness insurance affect transitions to employment?," Working Paper Series 2008:18, IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy.
• Hou, Feng & Ram, Bali & Abada, Teresa, 2008. "Group Differences in Educational Attainment Among the Children of Immigrants," Analytical Studies Branch Research Paper Series 2008308e, Statistics Canada, Analytical Studies Branch.
• Zeynep Ton, 2008. "The Effect of Labor on Profitability: The Role of Quality," Harvard Business School Working Papers 09-040, Harvard Business School, revised Jul 2009.
• Barrett, Alan & Kelly, Elish, 2008. "Using a Census to Assess the Reliability of a National Household Survey for Migration Research: The Case of Ireland," IZA Discussion Papers 3689, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• King, Elizabeth M. & Orazem, Peter F. & Paterno, Elizabeth M., 2008. "Promotion with and without learning : effects on student enrollment and dropout behavior," Policy Research Working Paper Series 4722, The World Bank.
• Böhlmark, Anders & Lindahl, Mikael, 2008. "Does School Privatization Improve Educational Achievement? Evidence from Sweden's Voucher Reform," IZA Discussion Papers 3691, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Stefanie Schurer, 2008. "Discrete Heterogeneity in the Impact of Health Shocks on Labour Market Outcomes," Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series wp2008n19, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne.
• Yao, Fang, 2008. "Lumpy labor adjustment as a propagation mechanism of business cycles," SFB 649 Discussion Papers 2008-056, Humboldt University Berlin, Collaborative Research Center 649: Economic Risk.
• Biewen, Martin & Steffes, Susanne, 2008. "Unemployment Persistence: Is There Evidence for Stigma Effects?," ZEW Discussion Papers 08-057, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
• McArthur, David & Thorsen, Inge & Ubøe, Jan, 2008. "An agent-based computational approach to explaining persistent spatial unemployment disparities," Discussion Papers 2008/17, Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Business and Management Science.
• Contreras, Juan & Sinclair, Sven, 2008. "Labor supply response in macroeconomic models: Assessing the empirical validity of the intertemporal labor supply response from a stochastic overlapping generations model with incomplete markets," MPRA Paper 10533, University Library of Munich, Germany.
• Martin Chalkley & J. S. Rennie & Colin Tilley, 2008. "Recruitment and retention incentives in health labour markets: an analysis of participation in NHS Scotland following Dental Vocational Training," Dundee Discussion Papers in Economics 218, Economic Studies, University of Dundee.
• Behrens, Kristian & Mion, Giordano & Murata, Yasusada & Suedekum, Jens, 2008. "Trade, Wages, and Productivity," IZA Discussion Papers 3682, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Antonio Merlo & Kenneth I. Wolpin, 2008. "The Transition from School to Jail: Youth Crime and High School Completion Among Black Males," PIER Working Paper Archive 08-033, Penn Institute for Economic Research, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania.
• Grodner, Andrew & Kniesner, Thomas J., 2008. "Distribution of Wealth and Interdependent Preferences," IZA Discussion Papers 3684, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Dan Wheatley & Irene Hardill & Bruce Philp, 2008. "Managing reductions in working hours: a study of work-time and leisure preferences in UK industry," NBS Discussion Papers in Economics 2008/5, Economics, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University.
• Jaison R. Abel & Richard Deitz, 2008. "Have amenities become relatively more important than firm productivity advantages in metropolitan areas?," Staff Reports 344, Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
• Oleksiy Ivaschenko & Cem Mete, 2008. "Asset-Based Poverty in Rural Tajikistan: Who Climbs out and Who Falls in?," WIDER Working Paper Series RP2008-26, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
• Item repec:pra:mprapa:10694 is not listed on IDEAS anymore

• Alok Bhargava, 2008. "Globalization, Literacy Levels, and Economic Development," WIDER Working Paper Series RP2008-04, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
• Anna Aizer, 2008. "Peer Effects and Human Capital Accumulation: the Externalities of ADD," NBER Working Papers 14354, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Gurleen K. Popli, 2008. "Trade Liberalization and the Self-employed in Mexico," WIDER Working Paper Series RP2008-05, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
• Bridget Terry Long & Michal Kurlaender, 2008. "Do Community Colleges provide a Viable Pathway to a Baccalaureate Degree?," NBER Working Papers 14367, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Blomeyer, Dorothea & Coneus, Katja & Laucht, Manfred & Pfeiffer, Friedhelm, 2008. "Initial Risk Matrix, Home Resources, Ability Development and Children's Achievement," IZA Discussion Papers 3692, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Bolhaar, Jonneke & Lindeboom, Maarten & van der Klaauw, Bas, 2008. "A Dynamic Analysis of the Demand for Health Insurance and Health Care," IZA Discussion Papers 3698, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Joao Ricardo Faria & Juan Carlos Cuestas & Luis Gil-Alana, 2008. "Unemployment and entrepreneurship: a cyclical relationship?," NBS Discussion Papers in Economics 2008/2, Economics, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University.
• Joao Ricardo Faria & Juan Carlos Cuestas & Estefania Mourelle, 2008. "Entrepreneurship and unemployment: a nonlinear bidirectional causality," NBS Discussion Papers in Economics 2008/6, Economics, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University.
• Item repec:iim:iimawp:2008-09-01 is not listed on IDEAS anymore

• Jean-François Giret & Christine Guégnard & Jean-Jacques Paul, 2008. "Genre et valorisation des compétences sur les marchés du travail en Europe," Post-Print halshs-00324236, HAL.
• George Atsalakis & Camelia Ioana Ucenic & Christos Skiadas, 2008. "Forecasting Unemployment Rate Using a Neural Network with Fuzzy Inference System," Working Papers 0823, University of Crete, Department of Economics.
• Gary S. Fields & Maria Laura Sánchez Puerta, 2008. "Earnings Mobility in Times of Growth and Decline: Argentina from 1996 to 2003," WIDER Working Paper Series RP2008-06, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
• Lisa Barrow & Cecilia Elena Rouse, 2008. "School vouchers and student achievement: recent evidence, remaining questions," Working Paper Series WP-08-08, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
• Hou, Feng & Ram, Bali & Abada, Teresa, 2008. "Differences entre les groupes dans les niveaux de scolarite des enfants d'immigrants," Direction des études analytiques : documents de recherche 2008308f, Statistics Canada, Direction des études analytiques.