Report NEP-LAB-2008-10-07

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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• Waisman, Gisela & Larsen, Birthe, 2008. "Who is Hurt by Discimination?," SULCIS Working Papers 2008:4, Stockholm University, Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies - SULCIS.
• 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 14387, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Blázquez, Maite & Moral Carcedo, Julian, 2008. "Maternity and working life: reconsidering the effectiveness of part-time employment," Working Papers in Economic Theory 2008/07, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), Department of Economic Analysis (Economic Theory and Economic History).
• Adriana Kugler & Mutlu Yuksel, 2008. "Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives: Evidence from Hurricane Mitch," RF Berlin - CReAM Discussion Paper Series 0809, Rockwool Foundation Berlin (RF Berlin) - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM).
• Kräkel, Matthias & Schöttner, Anja, 2008. "Relative Performance Pay, Bonuses, and Job-Promotion Tournaments," Discussion Paper Series of SFB/TR 15 Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems 245, Free University of Berlin, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Bonn, University of Mannheim, University of Munich.
• Waisman, Gisela & Larsen, Birthe, 2008. "Do Attitudes Towards Immigrants Matter?," SULCIS Working Papers 2008:5, Stockholm University, Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies - SULCIS.
• John Dagsvik & Kristian Orsini & Zhiyang Jia, 2008. "Subsidies on low skilled's social security contributions: the case of Belgium," Working Papers of Department of Economics, Leuven ces0816, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Department of Economics, Leuven.
• John Gibson, 2008. "The Rising Public Sector Pay Premium in the New Zealand Labour Market," Working Papers in Economics 08/16, University of Waikato.
• Laura Juarez, 2008. "Are Informal Workers Compensated for the Lack of Fringe Benefits? Free Health Care as an Instrument for Formality," Working Papers 0804, Centro de Investigacion Economica, ITAM.
• José Ignacio García & Alfonso R. Sánchez Martín, 2008. "Social security and the search behaviour of workers approaching retirement," Economic Working Papers at Centro de Estudios Andaluces E2008/10, Centro de Estudios Andaluces.
• de Walque, Damien, 2008. "Race, immigration, and the U.S. labor marke t: contrasting the outcomes of foreign born and native blacks," Policy Research Working Paper Series 4737, The World Bank.
• 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 14388, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Danny Leung & Alexander Ueberfeldt, 2008. "Human Capital Risk and the Firmsize Wage Premium," Staff Working Papers 08-33, Bank of Canada.
• David Casado-Marín & Pilar García-Gómez & Ángel López-Nicolás, 2008. "Labour and income effects of caregiving across Europe: an evaluation using matching techniques," Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers 08/23, HEDG, c/o Department of Economics, University of York.
• Joshua L. Rosenbloom, 2008. "Reflections on“Lifting the Curse of Dimensionality: Measures of the Labor Legislation Climate in the States During the Progressive Era”," WORKING PAPERS SERIES IN THEORETICAL AND APPLIED ECONOMICS 200807, University of Kansas, Department of Economics, revised Sep 2008.
• Kucel, Aleksander & Byrne, Delma, 2008. "Are Over-educated People Insiders or Outsiders? A Case of Job Search Methods and Over-education in UK," Papers WP258, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).
• Jürgen Maurer & Roger Klein & Francis Vella, 2008. "Subjective Health Assessments and Active Labor Market Participation of Older Men: Evidence from a Semiparametric Binary Choice Model with Nonadditive Correlated Individualspecific Effects," MEA discussion paper series 08169, Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy.
• Erixon, Lennart, 2008. "A Social Innovation or a Product of Its Time? The Rehn-Meidner Model’s Relation to Contemporary Economics and the Stockholm School," Research Papers in Economics 2008:8, Stockholm University, Department of Economics.
• Aaberge, Rolf & Flood, Lennart, 2008. "Evaluation of an In-work Tax Credit Reform in Sweden: Effects on Labor Supply and Welfare Participation of Single Mothers," Working Papers in Economics 319, University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics.
• Andrew Figura & William L. Wascher, 2008. "The causes and consequences of economic restructuring: evidence from the early 21st century," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2008-41, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• M. Eslava, J. Haltwanger, A. Kugler, M. Kugler, 2008. "Factor Adjustments After Deregulation: Panel Evidence from Colombian Plants," Working Papers eg0059, Wilfrid Laurier University, Department of Economics, revised 2008.
• Reinhold Kosfeld & Hans-Friedrich Eckey, 2008. "Market Access, Regional Price Level and Wage Disparities: The German Case," MAGKS Papers on Economics 200814, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Department of Economics (Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung).
• Maria Knoth Humlum, 2008. "Timing of Family Income, Borrowing Constraints and Child Achievement," Economics Working Papers 2008-12, Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University.
• Graziella Bertocchi, 2008. "The Enfranchisement of Women and the Welfare State," Center for Economic Research (RECent) 018, University of Modena and Reggio E., Dept. of Economics "Marco Biagi".
• Evans Jadotte, 2008. "Labor Supply Response to International Migration and Remittances in the Republic," Working Papers wpdea0808, Department of Applied Economics at Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona.
• Carlos Gradin, 2008. "Poverty among minorities in the United States: Explaining the racial poverty gap for Blacks and Latinos," Working Papers 96, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality.
• Matteo Bassi, 2008. "An Egg Today and a Chicken Tomorrow: A Model of Social Security with Quasi-Hyperbolic Discounting," CSEF Working Papers 205, Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF), University of Naples, Italy.
• Denis Cogneau & Rémi Jedwab, 2008. "Family income and child outcomes: the 1990 cocoa price shock in Cote d’Ivoire," Working Papers DT/2008/05, DIAL (Développement, Institutions et Mondialisation).
• André Decoster & Kris De Swerdt & Kristian Orsini, 2008. "A Belgian flat income tax: effects on labour supply and income distribution," Working Papers of Department of Economics, Leuven ces0820, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Department of Economics, Leuven.
• David C. Maré, 2008. "Labour Productivity in Auckland Firms," Working Papers 08_12, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research.
• Bruce Sacerdote, 2008. "When The Saints Come Marching In: Effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on Student Evacuees," NBER Working Papers 14385, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Alicia Sasser, 2008. "The future of the skilled labor force in New England: the supply of recent college graduates," New England Public Policy Center Research Report 08-1, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
• Giles, John & Park, Albert & Wang, Meiyan, 2008. "The great proletarian cultural revolution, disruptions to education, and returns to schooling in urban China," Policy Research Working Paper Series 4729, The World Bank.
• Item repec:pse:psecon:2008-45 is not listed on IDEAS anymore

• Ke Chen Chen & Mali Chivakul, 2008. "What Drives Household Borrowing and Credit Constraints? Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina," IMF Working Papers 08/202, International Monetary Fund.
• Item repec:cdl:ucsdec:2008-03 is not listed on IDEAS anymore

• Yu, Li & Orazem, Peter, 2011. "O-Ring Production on U.S. Hog Farms: Joint Choices of Farm Size, Technology, and Compensation," Staff General Research Papers Archive 12992, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
• Denis Cogneau & Sandrine Mesplé-Somps, 2008. "Inequality of Opportunity for Income in Five Countries of Africa," Working Papers DT/2008/04, DIAL (Développement, Institutions et Mondialisation).
• Peter C. Mancall & Joshua L. Rosenbloom & Thomas Weiss, 2008. "The Role of Exports in the Economy of Colonial North America: New Estimates for the Middle Colonies," WORKING PAPERS SERIES IN THEORETICAL AND APPLIED ECONOMICS 200806, University of Kansas, Department of Economics, revised Sep 2008.
• Brian Volz, 2008. "Minority Status and Managerial Survival in Major League Baseball," Working papers 2008-36, University of Connecticut, Department of Economics.
• Nino-Zarazua, Miguel, 2008. "Wider impacts of microcredit: evidence from labor and human capital in urban Mexico," MPRA Paper 10814, University Library of Munich, Germany.
• Robert Pollin & Mwangi we Githinji & James Heintz, 2008. "La réduction des salaires au Kenya augmentera la pauvreté, pas les emplois décents," One Pager French 46, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth.
• Matthias Sutter, 2008. "Individual behavior and group membership: Comment," Working Papers 2008-23, Faculty of Economics and Statistics, Universität Innsbruck.
• Fidel Pérez Sebastián, 2008. "Testing Capital-Skill Complementarity Across Sectors in a Panel of Spanish Regions," Working Papers. Serie EC 2008-11, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie).
• Benno Torgler & Markus Schaffner & Bruno S. Frey & Sascha L. Schmidt & Uwe Dulleck, 2008. "Inequality Aversion and Performance in and on the Field," CREMA Working Paper Series 2008-18, Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA).
• Sitnikov, Catalina Soriana, 2008. "O noua provocare a invatamantului superior din Romania - universitatile antreprenoriale," MPRA Paper 10775, University Library of Munich, Germany.
• Francesco Feri & Bernd Irlenbusch & Matthias Sutter, 2008. "Efficiency Gains from Team-Based Coordination - Large-Scale Experimental Evidence," Working Papers 2008-22, Faculty of Economics and Statistics, Universität Innsbruck.
• Diedrich, Andreas, 2008. "Producing Difference in Organizing – Attempts to Change an Ethnic Identity into a Proffesional One," GRI-rapport 2008:3, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg Research Institute GRI.
• Pipergias Analytis, Pantelis & Ramachandran, Rajesh & Rauh, Chris & Willis, Jack, 2008. "The Economics of Student Attendance," MPRA Paper 10848, University Library of Munich, Germany.
• Melanie Lührmann & Jürgen Maurer, 2008. "Who wears the trousers? A semiparametric analysis of decision power in couples," MEA discussion paper series 08168, Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy.
• Benno Torgler & Bruno S. Frey & Markus Schaffner & Sascha L. Schmidt, 2008. "A Crowding-out Effect for Relative Income," CREMA Working Paper Series 2008-20, Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA).
• Bart Capéau & André De coster & Kris De Swerdt & Kristian Orsini, 2008. "Welfare effects of alternative financing of social security. Some calculations for Belgium," Working Papers of Department of Economics, Leuven ces0812, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Department of Economics, Leuven.
• Item repec:cdl:ucsdec:2006-05r is not listed on IDEAS anymore

• Francisco Gallego, 2008. "Historical Origins of Schooling: The Role of Democracy and Political Decentralization," Documentos de Trabajo 342, Instituto de Economia. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile..
• Item repec:hal:journl:halshs-00326245_v1 is not listed on IDEAS anymore

• Yu-Fu Chen & Michael Funke, 2008. "Product Market Competition, Investment and Employment-Abundant versus Job-Poor Growth: A Real Options Perspective," Quantitative Macroeconomics Working Papers 20802, Hamburg University, Department of Economics.
• Raouf Boucekkine & Patricia Crifo & Claudio Mattalia, 2008. "Technological Progress, Organizational Change and the Size of the Human Resources Department," Working Papers hal-00240715, HAL.
• de la Garza, Adrián G., 2008. "Do smart cities grow faster?," MPRA Paper 10881, University Library of Munich, Germany.
• Item repec:pse:psecon:2008-43 is not listed on IDEAS anymore

• yamamura, eiji, 2008. "Positive externalities of congestion, human capital, and socio-economic factors: A case study of chronic illness in Japan," MPRA Paper 10833, University Library of Munich, Germany.
• Bruno S. Frey & Katja Rost, 2008. "Do Rankings Reflect Research Quality?," CREMA Working Paper Series 2008-22, Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA).