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Job Mobility and the Gender Wage Gap in Italy
Bono, Emilia Del; Vuri, Daniela - CESifo - 2008
indication that wages and fringe benefits compensate for lower levels of job satisfaction in larger firms, but that this is so …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094222
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The Effect of Temporary Migration Experience on Occupational Mobility in Estonia
Masso, Jaan; Eamets, Raul; Mõtsmees, Pille - CESifo - 2013
The literature on return migration includes several studies on the impact of foreign work experience on the returnees’ earnings or their decision to become self-employed; however in this paper we analyze the less studied effect on occupational mobility, i.e. how the job in home country after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877669
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Does Bilateral Trust Affect International Movement of Goods and Labor
Spring, Eva; Grossmann, Volker - CESifo - 2013
Trust in the citizens of a potential partner country may affect the decision to trade with or to migrate to a foreign … country. This paper employs panel data to examine the causal impact of such bilateral trust on international trade and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010659179
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Trade, Integration, and Interregional Inequality
Hirte, Georg; Lessmann, Christian - CESifo - 2014
We study the effect of international trade and freeness of trade (openness) on interregional inequality within … on weighted trade shares and trade costs. In addition to the standard trade-to-GDP ratio, we derive and propose an … aggregate freeness-of-trade measure based on phiness of trade. Both measures are instrumented by proxies constructed from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877821
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Work and Wage Dynamics around Childbirth
Ejrnæs, Mette; Kunze, Astrid - CESifo - 2012
identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers’ wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645655
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Do Medical Doctors Respond to Economic Incentives?
Andreassen, Leif; Tommaso, Maria Laura Di; Strøm, Steinar - CESifo - 2012
A longitudinal analysis of married physicians labor supply is carried out on Norwegian data from 1997 to 1999. The model utilized for estimation implies that physicians can choose among 10 different job packages which are a combination of part time/full time, hospital/primary care,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010546959
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Dynamic Models of R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Panel Data Evidence for Dutch and French Manufacturing
Raymond, Wladimir; Mairesse, Jacques; Mohnen, Pierre; … - CESifo - 2013
This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly been estimated on cross-sectional data. It considers four nonlinear dynamic simultaneous equations models that include individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010670799
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Wages Anatomy. Labor Supply of Nurses and a Comparison with Physicians
Andreassen, Leif; Tommaso, Maria Laura Di; Strøm, Steinar - CESifo - 2014
We estimate a dynamic discrete choice model of Registered Nurses’ labor supply with random terms. A distinguished feature of our model is that random terms are correlated over time and jobs (habit persistence). Past options and not only the past optimal choices matter for the current choices....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011082832
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Individual Attitudes towards Immigrants: Welfare-State Determinants across Countries
Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria - CESifo - 2006
This paper analyzes welfare-state determinants of individual attitudes towards immigrants - within and across countries - and their interaction with labor-market drivers of preferences. We consider two different mechanisms through which a redistributive welfare system might adjust as a result of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005416495
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International Trade in Natural Resources: Practice and Policy
Ruta, Michele; Venables, Anthony J. - CESifo - 2012
Natural resources account for 20% of world trade, and dominate the exports of many countries. Policy is used to … (equivalent to trade taxes if no domestic production is possible). We review the literature, and argue that the policy equilibrium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010540254