Report NEP-LAB-2012-02-27

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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• MORIKAWA Masayuki, 2012. "Postgraduate Education and Human Capital Productivity in Japan," Discussion papers 12009, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI).
• Chevalier, Arnaud, 2012. "To Be or Not to Be... a Scientist?," IZA Discussion Papers 6353, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Fredriksson, Peter & Öckert, Björn & OOsterbeek, Hessel, 2012. "Long-term effects of class size," Working Paper Series 2012:5, IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy.
• Korkeamäki, Ossi, 2011. "The Finnish payroll tax cut experiment revisited," Working Papers 22, VATT Institute for Economic Research.
• Brixiova, Zuzana & Égert, Balázs, 2012. "Labour Market Reforms and Outcomes in Estonia," IZA Discussion Papers 6336, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Jean-Olivier Hairault & François Langot & Sébastien Ménard & Thepthida Sopraseuth, 2012. "Optimal Unemployment Insurance for Older Workers," Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers) hal-00668989, HAL.
• Lasse Steiner & Lucian Schneider, 2012. "The Happy Artist?: An Empirical Application of the Work-Preference Model," SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research 430, DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).
• Owen Haaga & Richard W. Johnson, 2012. "Social Security Claiming: Trends and Business Cycle Effects," Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College wp2012-5, Center for Retirement Research, revised Feb 2012.
• Carol A. Scotese, 2012. "Wage inequality, tasks and occupations," Working Papers 1201, VCU School of Business, Department of Economics.
• Gobillon, Laurent & Magnac, Thierry & Selod, Harris, 2012. "Do Unemployed Workers Benefit from Enterprise Zones? The French Experience," IZA Discussion Papers 6357, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Krause, Michael U. & Uhlig, Harald, 2011. "Transitions in the German labor market: Structure and crisis," Discussion Paper Series 1: Economic Studies 2011,34, Deutsche Bundesbank.
• Kosonen, Tuomas, 2011. "To work or not to work? The effct of child-care subsidies on the labour supply of parents," Working Papers 23, VATT Institute for Economic Research.
• Eric Toder & Karen E. Smith, 2011. "Do Low-Income Workers Benefit from 401(k) Plans?," Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College wp2011-14, Center for Retirement Research, revised Sep 2011.
• Klassen, Thomas R., 2012. "The Future of Contractual Mandatory Retirement in South Korea," CLSSRN working papers clsrn_admin-2012-6, Vancouver School of Economics, revised 19 Feb 2012.
• Emanuela Ghignoni, 2011. "Young workers' overeducation and cohort effects in P.I.G.S. countries versus the Netherlands: a pseudo-panel analysis," Working Papers in Public Economics 147, University of Rome La Sapienza, Department of Economics and Law.
• Gaetano Lisi & Maurizio Pugno, 2012. "A Matching Model of Endogenous Growth and Underground Firms," EERI Research Paper Series EERI_RP_2012_03, Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI), Brussels.
• Stephan Klasen & Thomas Otter & Carlos Villalobos Barría, 2012. "The dynamics of inequality change in a highly dualistic economy: Honduras, 1991-2007," Ibero America Institute for Econ. Research (IAI) Discussion Papers 215, Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research.
• Simone Balestra & Uschi Backes-Gellner, 2012. "When a Door Closes, a Window Opens? Long-term Labor Market Effects of Involuntary Separations," Economics of Education Working Paper Series 0072, University of Zurich, Department of Business Administration (IBW), revised Dec 2015.
• Dechief, Diane & Oreopoulos, Philip, 2012. "Why do some employers prefer to interview Matthew but not Samir? New evidence from Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver," CLSSRN working papers clsrn_admin-2012-8, Vancouver School of Economics, revised 19 Feb 2012.
• Oecd, 2012. "Does Money Buy Strong Performance in PISA?," PISA in Focus 13, OECD Publishing.
• Vincenzo Carrieri & Edoardo Di Porto & Leandro Elia, 2011. "Risky jobs and wage differentialsAn indirect test for segregation," Working Papers in Public Economics 144, University of Rome La Sapienza, Department of Economics and Law.
• Item repec:cep:cepcnp:cepdp358 is not listed on IDEAS anymore

• John Schmitt, 2012. "Low-wage Lessons," CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs 2012-03, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR).
• Amine Ouazad & Lionel Page, 2012. "Pupils' progress: how children's perceptions influence their efforts," CentrePiece - The magazine for economic performance 359, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
• Michele Raitano & Francesco Vona, 2011. "Peer Heterogeneity, School Tracking and Students' Performances: Evidence from PISA 2006," Working Papers in Public Economics 143, University of Rome La Sapienza, Department of Economics and Law.
• Zucchelli, E. & Harris, M. & Zhao, X., 2012. "Ill-health and transitions to part-time work and self-employment among older workers," Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers 12/04, HEDG, c/o Department of Economics, University of York.
• Di Pietro, Giorgio, 2012. "The Short-Term Effectiveness of a Remedial Mathematics Course: Evidence from a UK University," IZA Discussion Papers 6358, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Dooley, Martin D. & Payne, A. Abigail & Robb, A. Leslie, 2012. "Persistence and Academic Success in University," CLSSRN working papers clsrn_admin-2012-7, Vancouver School of Economics, revised 19 Feb 2012.
• Milo Bianchi, 2012. "Financial Development, Entrepreneurship, and Job Satisfaction," Post-Print halshs-00670031, HAL.
• López Bóo, Florencia & Rossi, Martín A. & Urzua, Sergio, 2012. "The Labor Market Return to an Attractive Face: Evidence from a Field Experiment," IZA Discussion Papers 6356, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• SOLOGON Denisa & O'DONOGHUE Cathal, 2012. "Shaping earnings instability: labour market policy and institutional factors," LISER Working Paper Series 2012-06, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER).
• KOISSY KPEIN Sandrine Aïda, 2012. "Child labor, schooling and household wealth in African rural area: luxury axiom or wealth paradox," LISER Working Paper Series 2012-08, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER).
• Cristini, Annalisa & Origo, Federica & Pinoli, Sara, 2012. "The Healthy Fright of Losing a Good One for a Bad One," IZA Discussion Papers 6348, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Dara N. Lee, 2012. "The Impact of Childhood Health on Adult Educational Attainment: Evidence from Modern Mandatory School Vaccination Laws," Working Papers 1202, Department of Economics, University of Missouri, revised 29 Oct 2012.
• González de San Román, Ainara & de la Rica, Sara, 2012. "Gender Gaps in PISA Test Scores: The Impact of Social Norms and the Mother's Transmission of Role Attitudes," IZA Discussion Papers 6338, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Auriol, Emmanuelle & Friebel, Guido & Lammers, Frauke, 2012. "The Firm as the Locus of Social Comparisons: Internal Labor Markets versus Up-or-Out," IZA Discussion Papers 6343, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Elias Dinopoulos & Wolf-Heimo Grieben & Fuat Sener, 2012. "The Conundrum of Recovery Policies: Growth or Jobs?," Working Paper Series of the Department of Economics, University of Konstanz 2012-03, Department of Economics, University of Konstanz.
• Marco de Pinto, 2012. "Unemployment Benefits as Redistribution Scheme of Trade Gains - a Positive Analysis," MAGKS Papers on Economics 201210, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Department of Economics (Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung).
• Christian Pfeifer & Joachim Wagner, 2012. "Age and gender composition of the workforce, productivity and profits: Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises," Working Paper Series in Economics 232, University of Lüneburg, Institute of Economics.
• Battistin, Erich & De Nadai, Michele & Sianesi, Barbara, 2012. "Misreported Schooling, Multiple Measures and Returns to Educational Qualifications," IZA Discussion Papers 6337, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Kelly, Elish & McGuinness, Seamus & O'Connell, Philip J., 2011. "What Can Active Labour Market Policies Do?," Papers EC1, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).
• Item repec:cep:cepdps:dp01113 is not listed on IDEAS anymore

• Blatter, Marc & Mühlemann, Samuel & Schenker, Samuel & Wolter, Stefan C., 2012. "Hiring Costs of Skilled Workers and the Supply of Firm-Provided Training," IZA Discussion Papers 6344, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Slim Bridji & Matthieu Charpe, 2012. "Labour Market and Fiscal Policy," IHEID Working Papers 03-2012, Economics Section, The Graduate Institute of International Studies, revised 16 Feb 2012.
• Latika Chaudhary & Aldo Musacchio & Steven Nafziger & Se Yan, 2012. "Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China," NBER Working Papers 17852, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Giuseppe Croce & Emanuela Ghignoni, 2011. "Overeducation and spatial flexibility in Italian local labour markets," Working Papers in Public Economics 145, University of Rome La Sapienza, Department of Economics and Law.
• David Dickinson & Marie Claire Villeval, 2012. "Job Allocation Rules and Sorting Efficiency: Experimental Outcomes in a Peter Principle Environment," Post-Print halshs-00664665, HAL.
• Oecd, 2012. "How Has the Global Economic Crisis Affected People with Different Levels of Education ?," Education Indicators in Focus 1, OECD Publishing.
• Julien Martin & Isabelle Méjean, 2012. "Low-Wage Countries’ Competition, Reallocation Across Firms and the Quality Content of Exports," Working Papers 2012-04, CEPII research center.
• Becchetti, Leonardo & Pisani, Fabio, 2012. "Family money, relational life and (class) relative wealth: an empirical analysis on life satisfaction of secondary school students," AICCON Working Papers 101-2012, Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione e del Non Profit.
• Margarida Chagas Lopes, 2011. "Education, Vocational Training and R&D: Towards New Forms of Labor Market Regulation," Working Papers wp082011, SOCIUS, Research Centre in Economic and Organisational Sociology at the School of Economics and Management (ISEG) of the University of Lisbon.
• Ceyhun Elgin & Tolga Umut Kuzubas, 2012. "Wage-Productivity Gap in Turkish Manufacturing Sector," Working Papers 2012/03, Bogazici University, Department of Economics.
• Smyth, Emer & McCoy, Selina, 2011. "Improving Second-level Education: Using Evidence for Policy Development," Papers EC5, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).
• Irina Sinitsina, 2012. "The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Education Services in Economies of the Former Soviet Union," CASE Network E-briefs 04, CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research.
• Nicholas Bloom & Christos Genakos & Raffaella Sadun & John Van Reenen, 2012. "Management Practices Across Firms and Countries," NBER Working Papers 17850, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Neher, Frank, 2012. "Preferences for redistribution around the world," Discussion Papers 2012/2, Free University Berlin, School of Business & Economics.
• Simon Breakspear, 2012. "The Policy Impact of PISA: An Exploration of the Normative Effects of International Benchmarking in School System Performance," OECD Education Working Papers 71, OECD Publishing.
• Item repec:ner:maastr:urn:nbn:nl:ui:27-25335 is not listed on IDEAS anymore

• Kumagai, Narimasa, 2012. "Socioeconomic Determinants of Physical Inactivity among Japanese Workers," CIS Discussion paper series 535, Center for Intergenerational Studies, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.
• Valentina Conti & Joanna Kopinska, 2012. "The Role of Parental Cognitive Aging in the Intergenerational Mobility of Cognitive Abilities," CEIS Research Paper 219, Tor Vergata University, CEIS, revised 30 Jan 2012.
• Crawford, Claire & Brewer, Mike & Browne, James & Chowdry, Haroon, 2012. "The impact of a time-limited, targeted in-work benefit in the medium-term: an evaluation of In Work Credit," ISER Working Paper Series 2012-04, Institute for Social and Economic Research.
• Kotsadam, Andreas & Nerman, Måns, 2012. "The Effects of Gender Quotas in Latin American National Elections," Working Papers in Economics 528, University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics.
• Thomas Liebig & Sebastian Kohls & Karolin Krause, 2012. "The Labour Market Integration of Immigrants and Their Children in Switzerland," OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers 128, OECD Publishing.
• Ropponen, Olli, 2011. "A Note on the Robustness of Card and Krueger (1994) and Neumark and Wascher (2000)," Working Papers 25, VATT Institute for Economic Research.
• Alcalde, José & Subiza, Begoña, 2012. "Affirmative Action and School Choice," QM&ET Working Papers 12-3, University of Alicante, D. Quantitative Methods and Economic Theory.
• Nakamura, R., 2012. "Intergenerational effect of schooling and childhood overweight," Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers 12/02, HEDG, c/o Department of Economics, University of York.
• Nguyen, Cuong, 2011. "Do Minimum Wage Increases Cause Inflation? Evidence from Vietnam," MPRA Paper 36750, University Library of Munich, Germany.
• Denis Cogneau & Alexander Moradi, 2011. "Borders that Divide: Education and Religion in Ghana and Togo since Colonial Times," CSAE Working Paper Series 2011-21, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
• Giovanni Andrea Cornia, 2012. "Inequality Trends and their Determinants: Latin America over 1990-2010," Working Papers - Economics wp2012_02.rdf, Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa.
• d'Artis Kancs & Pavel Ciaian, 2011. "Modelling the Flow of Knowledge and Human Capital: A Framework of Innovative Capital," EERI Research Paper Series EERI_RP_2011_21, Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI), Brussels.
• d'Artis Kancs, 2011. "Labour Migration in the Enlarged EU: A New Economic Geography Approach," EERI Research Paper Series EERI_RP_2011_22, Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI), Brussels.
• Brice Corgnet & Ismael Rodriguez-Lara, 2012. "Are you a Good Employee or Simply a Good Guy? Infl?uence Costs and Contract Design," Working Papers 12-02, Chapman University, Economic Science Institute.
• Ahmet Ozkardas & Agnieszka Rusinowska, 2012. "Wage bargaining with discount rates varying in time under exogenous strike decisions," Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne 12013, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne.
• Luca Barbone, 2011. "The Battle Over Private Pensions," CASE Network E-briefs 05, CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research.
• Codrina Rada, 2012. "The Economics of Pensions. Remarks on Growth, Distribution and Class Conflict," Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, University of Utah 2012_02, University of Utah, Department of Economics.
• Nina Pološki Vokić, 2011. "The Relationship between the Level and Modality of HRM Metrics, Quality of HRM Practice and Organizational Performance," EFZG Working Papers Series 1109, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb.