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Don't worry, be happy? Happiness and reemployment

Krause, Annabelle - 2012

Subjective well-being is primarily treated as an outcome variable in the economic literature. However, is happiness also a driver of behavior and life's outcomes? Rich survey data of recent entrants into unemployment in Germany show that a significant inverted U-shaped relationship exists...

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The cost of acting "girly": Gender stereotypes and educational choices

Favara, Marta - 2012

This paper looks at horizontal sex segregation in education as a factor contributing to gender segregation in the labor market. Economic theories fail to explain why women with the same years of schooling and educational attainment as men are under-represented in many technical degrees, which...

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Household interaction and the labor supply of married women

Eckstein, Zvi; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2012

is the outcome of an internal household game. The type of the household game is exogenously determined as either … Classical or Modern. In the former type of household, the spouses play a Stackelberg leader game in which the wife's labor … supply decision is based on her husband's employment outcome while the latter type of household is characterized by a …

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FDI and wages: Evidence from firm-level and linked employer-employee data in Hungary, 1986 - 2008

Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos; Antal, Gábor - 2012

We estimate the wage effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) with universal firm-level and linked employer-employee panel data containing 4,926 foreign acquisitions in Hungary. Matching on pre-acquisition data and controlling for fixed effects for firms and detailed worker groups, we find...

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Everything you always wanted to know about sex discrimination

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Portugal, Pedro - 2012

contribution that combines the estimation of sets of high-dimensional fixed effects and Gelbach's (2009) unambiguous decomposition …

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Wage growth through job hopping in China

Ariga, Kenn; Ohtake, Fumio; Sasaki, Masaru; Wu, Zheren - 2012

and job mobilities. Our estimation results deliver the following major findings. (1) The sample individuals are highly …

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Worker productivity and wages: Evidence from linked employer-employee data

Lopes, Ana Sofia; Teixeira, Paulino - 2012

This study compares the determinants of productivity and wages at both firm and worker level. In the firm-level analysis, we follow Hellerstein, Neumark and Troske (1999) and provide improved estimates based on an extended set of covariates including the intensity of firm-provided training. In...

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Cyclical variation in labor hours and productivity using the ATUS

Burda, Michael C.; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Stewart, Jay … - 2012

We examine monthly variation in weekly work hours using data for 2003-10 from the Current Population Survey (CPS) on hours/worker, from the Current Employment Survey (CES) on hours/job, and from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) on both. The ATUS data minimize recall difficulties and constrain...

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Trade liberalization, democratization and technology adoption

Cervellati, Matteo; Naghavi, Alireza; Toubal, Farid - 2013

We study the role of trade liberalization, democratization and their interaction for technology adoption. A general equilibrium theory with heterogeneous skills predicts a complementarity between trade and political regimes. Openness should accelerate technology adoption if coupled with...

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Tax base erosion and inequity from Michigan's assessment growth limit: The case of Detroit

Hodge, Timothy R.; Skidmore, Mark; Sands, Gary; … - 2013

In this paper we examine the degree to which Michigan's property value assessment growth cap has eroded the tax base and created substantial differences in effective tax rates among residential properties within the City of Detroit. While the analysis focuses on a specific city with significant...

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