Report NEP-LAB-2011-12-13

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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• Riddell, W. Craig & Song, Xueda, 2011. "Education, Job Search and Re-employment Outcomes among the Unemployed," IZA Discussion Papers 6134, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Meschi, Elena & Swaffield, Joanna K. & Vignoles, Anna, 2011. "The Relative Importance of Local Labour Market Conditions and Pupil Attainment on Post-Compulsory Schooling Decisions," IZA Discussion Papers 6143, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Dahl, Christian M. & le Maire, Daniel & Munch, Jakob R., 2011. "Wage Dispersion and Decentralization of Wage Bargaining," IZA Discussion Papers 6176, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Zorlu, Aslan, 2011. "Ethnic Disparities in the Graduate Labour Market," IZA Discussion Papers 6159, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Luc Behaghel & Julie Moschion, 2011. "Skilled labor supply, IT-based technical change and job instability," PSE Working Papers halshs-00646595, HAL.
• Cho, In Soo, 2011. "Do Gender Differences in Risk Preferences Explain Gender Differences in Labor Supply, Earnings or Occupational Choice?," Staff General Research Papers Archive 34651, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
• Mosca, Irene & Wright, Robert E., 2011. "Is Graduate Under-employment Persistent? Evidence from the United Kingdom," IZA Discussion Papers 6177, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Robert Metcalfe & Simon Burgess & Steven Proud, 2011. "Student effort and educational attainment: Using the England football team to identify the education production function," The Centre for Market and Public Organisation 11/276, The Centre for Market and Public Organisation, University of Bristol, UK.
• Jones, Melanie K. & Mavromaras, Kostas & Sloane, Peter J. & Wei, Zhang, 2011. "Disability and Job Mismatches in the Australian Labour Market," IZA Discussion Papers 6152, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Peter Siminski, 2011. "Are Low Skill Public Sector Workers Really Overpaid? A Quasi-Differenced Panel Data Analysis," Economics Working Papers wp11-10, School of Economics, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
• Goux, Dominique & Maurin, Eric & Petrongolo, Barbara, 2011. "Worktime regulations and spousal labor supply," CEPR Discussion Papers 8666, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
• Filiztekin, Alpay, 2011. "Education-occupation mismatch in Turkish labor market," MPRA Paper 35123, University Library of Munich, Germany.
• Rob Euwals & Elisabetta Trevisan, 2011. "Early Retirement and Financial Incentives: Differences Between High and Low Wage Earners," CPB Discussion Paper 195, CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis.
• Schmelzer, Paul, 2011. "Unemployment and occupational mobility at the beginning of employment career in Germany and the UK," IAB-Discussion Paper 201125, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany].
• Lundborg, Petter & Nilsson, Martin & Vikström, Johan, 2011. "Socioeconomic Heterogeneity in the Effect of Health Shocks on Earnings: Evidence from Population-Wide Data on Swedish Workers," IZA Discussion Papers 6121, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Hirsch, Barry & Kaufman, Bruce E. & Zelenska, Tetyana, 2011. "Minimum Wage Channels of Adjustment," IZA Discussion Papers 6132, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Ruhm, Christopher J. & Waldfogel, Jane, 2011. "Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Care and Education," IZA Discussion Papers 6149, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Item repec:lan:wpaper:4148 is not listed on IDEAS anymore

• Wang, Le, 2011. "How Does Education Affect the Earnings Distribution in Urban China?," IZA Discussion Papers 6173, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• de Grip, A. & Sauermann, J. & Sieben, I.J.P., 2011. "The role of peers in estimating tenure-performance profiles: evidence from personnel data," ROA Research Memorandum 014, Maastricht University, Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA).
• Raphaela Hyee, 2011. "Do Marriage Markets Influence the Divorce Hazard?," Working Papers 685, Queen Mary University of London, School of Economics and Finance.
• Juan F. Jimeno & Carlos Thomas, 2011. "Collective bargaining, firm heterogeneity and unemployment," Working Papers 1131, Banco de España.
• Das, Satya P., 2011. "International trade and polarization in the labor market," Economics Discussion Papers 2011-48, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel).
• Blunch, Niels-Hugo & Sulla, Victor, 2011. "The Financial Crisis, Labor Market Transitions and Earnings: A Gendered Panel Data Analysis for Serbia," IZA Discussion Papers 6151, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Morin, Louis-Philippe, 2011. "Cohort Size and Youth Earnings: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment," CLSSRN working papers clsrn_admin-2011-28, Vancouver School of Economics, revised 28 Nov 2011.
• Maitra, Pushkar & Pal, Sarmistha & Sharma, Anurag, 2011. "Reforms, Growth and Persistence of Gender Gap: Recent Evidence from Private School Enrolment in India," IZA Discussion Papers 6135, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Steven J. Davis & Till M. von Wachter, 2011. "Recessions and the Cost of Job Loss," NBER Working Papers 17638, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Manning, Alan & Petrongolo, Barbara, 2011. "How Local Are Labor Markets? Evidence from a Spatial Job Search Model," IZA Discussion Papers 6178, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Xiaodong Gong & Robert Breuing, 2011. "Estimating Net Child Care Price Elasticities of Partnered Women With Pre-School Children Using a Discrete Structural Labour Supply-Child Care Model," CEPR Discussion Papers 653, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Economics, Australian National University.
• Eichhorst, Werner & Marx, Paul & Pastore, José, 2011. "The Use of Flexible Measures to Cope with Economic Crises in Germany and Brazil," IZA Discussion Papers 6137, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Item repec:lan:wpaper:4149 is not listed on IDEAS anymore

• Dinkelman, Taryn & Ranchhod, Vimal, 2011. "Evidence on the impact of minimum wage laws in an informal sector: Domestic workers in South Africa," CEPR Discussion Papers 8682, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
• Bratsberg, Bernt & Raaum, Oddbjørn & Røed, Knut, 2011. "Educating Children of Immigrants: Closing the Gap in Norwegian Schools," IZA Discussion Papers 6138, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Meghir, Costas & Palme, Mårten & Schnabel, Marieke, 2011. "The Effect of Education Policy on Crime: An Intergenerational Perspective," IZA Discussion Papers 6142, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Arslan, Yavuz & Taskin, Temel, 2011. "Explaining the gender gaps in unemployment across OECD countries," MPRA Paper 34873, University Library of Munich, Germany.
• Manning, Alan & Petrongolo, Barbara, 2011. "How local are labor markets? Evidence from a spatial job search model," CEPR Discussion Papers 8686, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
• Filiztekin, Alpay, 2011. "Social returns to education in a developing country," MPRA Paper 35124, University Library of Munich, Germany.
• Myck, Michal & Bohacek, Radim, 2011. "Long Shadows of History: Persecution in Central Europe and Its Labor Market Consequences," IZA Discussion Papers 6130, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Berkhout, Peter & Hartog, Joop & van Praag, Mirjam C., 2011. "It's the Opportunity Cost, Stupid! How Self-Employment Responds to Financial Incentives of Return, Risk and Skew," IZA Discussion Papers 6166, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Elsner, Benjamin, 2011. "Emigration and Wages: The EU Enlargement Experiment," IZA Discussion Papers 6111, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Verick, Sher, 2011. "Giving Up Job Search During a Recession: The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on the South African Labour Market," IZA Discussion Papers 6116, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• J. Ignacio García-Pérez & Marisa Hidalgo-Hidalgo & J. Antonio Robles-Zurita, 2011. "Does grade retention affect achievement? Some evidence from Pisa," Working Papers 2011/37, Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB).
• Martha J. Bailey & Susan M. Dynarski, 2011. "Gains and Gaps: Changing Inequality in U.S. College Entry and Completion," NBER Working Papers 17633, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Belzil, Christian & Hansen, Jörgen & Liu, Xingfei, 2011. "Dynamic Skill Accumulation, Comparative Advantages, Compulsory Schooling, and Earnings," IZA Discussion Papers 6167, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. & Sinning, Mathias & Stillman, Steven, 2011. "Migrant Youths' Educational Achievement: The Role of Institutions," IZA Discussion Papers 6150, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Item repec:lan:wpaper:2722 is not listed on IDEAS anymore

• admin, clsrn, 2011. "The Mom Effect: Family Proximity and the Labour Force Status of Women in Canada," CLSSRN working papers clsrn_admin-2011-30, Vancouver School of Economics, revised 28 Nov 2011.
• Tom Coupe & Anna Olefir & Juan Diego Alonso, 2011. "Is Optimization an Opportunity? An Assessment of the Impact of Class Size and School Size on the Performance of Ukrainian Secondary Schools," Discussion Papers 44, Kyiv School of Economics.
• Carneiro, Pedro & Umapathi, Nithin & Lokshin, Michael & Ridao-Cano, Cristobal, 2011. "Average and Marginal Returns to Upper Secondary Schooling in Indonesia," CEPR Discussion Papers 8689, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
• Daniel Montolio (University of Barcelona (UB) and Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB)) & Amedeo Piolatto (University of Barcelona (UB) and Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB)), 2011. "Financing public education when altruistic agents have retirement concerns," Working Papers in Economics 268, Universitat de Barcelona. Espai de Recerca en Economia.
• de Grip, Andries & Sauermann, Jan & Sieben, Inge, 2011. "The Role of Peers in Estimating Tenure-Performance Profiles: Evidence from Personnel Data," IZA Discussion Papers 6164, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Dostie, Benoit & Léger, Pierre Thomas, 2011. "Firm-Sponsored Classroom Training: Is It Worth It for Older Workers?," IZA Discussion Papers 6123, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Carole Brunet & Nathalie Havet, 2011. "Homeownership and job-match quality in France," Working Papers 1131, Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon St-Étienne (GATE Lyon St-Étienne), Université de Lyon.
• Claudio Sapelli, 2011. "Sudden Stops in Social Mobility: Intergenerational Mobility in Chile," Documentos de Trabajo 400, Instituto de Economia. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile..
• Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude & Khamis, Melanie & Yuksel, Mutlu, 2011. "Rubble Women: The Long-Term Effects of Postwar Reconstruction on Female Labor Market Outcomes," IZA Discussion Papers 6148, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Grund, Christian, 2011. "Job Preferences as Revealed by Employee Initiated Job Changes," IZA Discussion Papers 6127, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• DeVaro, Jed, 2011. "Using "opposing responses" and relative performance to distinguish empirically among alternative models of promotions," MPRA Paper 35175, University Library of Munich, Germany.
• Edmark, Karin & Hanspers, Kajsa, 2011. "Is welfare dependency inherited? Estimating the causal welfare transmission effects using Swedish sibling data," Working Paper Series 2011:25, IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy.
• Akay, Alpaslan & Khamis, Melanie, 2011. "The Persistence of Informality: Evidence from Panel Data," IZA Discussion Papers 6163, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Khan, Rana Ejaz Ali & Raza, Maryam, 2011. "Household choice of public versus private schooling: a case study of Bahawalpur City," MPRA Paper 34794, University Library of Munich, Germany.
• Malte Reimers & Stephan Klasen, 2011. "Revisiting the Role of Education for Agricultural Productivity," Ibero America Institute for Econ. Research (IAI) Discussion Papers 214, Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research, revised 27 Jul 2012.
• Jason M. Lindo & Isaac D. Swensen & Glen R. Waddell, 2011. "Alcohol and Student Performance: Estimating the Effect of Legal Access," NBER Working Papers 17637, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Marga Peeters & Loek Groot, 2011. "Demographic Change Across The Globe Maintaining Social Security In Ageing Economies," EERI Research Paper Series EERI_RP_2011_18, Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI), Brussels.
• Ana Paula Martins, 2011. "Compliance with the Institutional Wage in Dualistic Models," EERI Research Paper Series EERI_RP_2011_15, Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI), Brussels.
• Tsujita, Yuko, 2011. "Foctors that prevent children from gaining access to schooling : a study of Delhi Slum households," IDE Discussion Papers 317, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization(JETRO).
• Roberto Basile & Alessandro Girardi & Marianna Mantuano & Francesco Pastore, 2011. "Sectoral Shifts, Diversification and Regional Unemployment. Evidence From Local Labour Systems in Italy," WIFO Working Papers 411, WIFO.
• Carneiro, Pedro & Lokshin, Michael & Ridao-Cano, Cristobal & Umapathi, Nithin, 2011. "Average and Marginal Returns to Upper Secondary Schooling in Indonesia," IZA Discussion Papers 6162, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Rajshri Jayaraman & Dora Simroth, 2011. "The impact of school lunches on primary school enrollment: Evidence from India’s midday meal scheme," ESMT Research Working Papers ESMT-11-11, ESMT European School of Management and Technology.
• Robert Rudolf & Sung-Jin Kang, 2011. "Adaptation under Traditional Gender Roles: Testing the Baseline Hypothesis in South Korea," Courant Research Centre: Poverty, Equity and Growth - Discussion Papers 101, Courant Research Centre PEG.
• Zorlu, Aslan, 2011. "Ethnic Disparities in Degree Performance," IZA Discussion Papers 6158, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Lommerud, Kjell Erik & Meland, Frode, 2011. "North-South technology transfer in unionised multinationals," CEPR Discussion Papers 8664, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
• Maria De Paola & Vincenzo Scoppa, 2011. "The Effectiveness Of Remedial Courses In Italy: A Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design," Working Papers 201114, Università della Calabria, Dipartimento di Economia, Statistica e Finanza "Giovanni Anania" - DESF.
• Alejandra Traferri, 2011. "Gender Differences in Major Choice and College Entrance Probabilities in Brazil," Documentos de Trabajo 403, Instituto de Economia. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile..
• Simon Burgess & Marcela Umaña-Aponte, 2011. "Raising your sights: the impact of friendship networks on educational aspirations," The Centre for Market and Public Organisation 11/271, The Centre for Market and Public Organisation, University of Bristol, UK.
• Renata Ivanova & Byeongju Jeong, 2011. "Why Don't Migrants with Secondary Education Return?," CERGE-EI Working Papers wp449, The Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economics Institute, Prague.
• Angela Cipollone, 2011. "Education as a Precautionary Asset," Working Papers CELEG 1108, Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza, LUISS Guido Carli.
• Simon Burgess & Carol Propper & Marisa Ratto & Emma Tominey, 2011. "Incentives in the Public Sector: Evidence from a Government Agency," The Centre for Market and Public Organisation 11/265, The Centre for Market and Public Organisation, University of Bristol, UK.
• Gabriella Berloffa & Francesca Modena, 2011. "Measuring (in)security in the event of unemployment: are we forgetting someone?," Department of Economics Working Papers 1111, Department of Economics, University of Trento, Italia.
• Hirsch, Boris & Konietzko, Thorsten, 2011. "The effect of housework on wages in Germany: No impact at all," Discussion Papers 74, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Chair of Labour and Regional Economics.
• Item repec:lan:wpaper:916 is not listed on IDEAS anymore

• Dolado, Juan J & Bentolila, Samuel & Jimeno, Juan Francisco, 2011. "Reforming an Insider-Outsider Labor Market: The Spanish Experience," CEPR Discussion Papers 8691, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
• Schüller, Simone, 2011. "Parental Ethnic Identity and Educational Attainment of Second-Generation Immigrants," IZA Discussion Papers 6155, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Antonella Mennella, 2011. "Informal social networks, organised crime and local labour market," Departmental Working Papers of Economics - University 'Roma Tre' 0126, Department of Economics - University Roma Tre.
• Aysit Tansel & Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir & Mehmet Balcilar, 2011. "International Labour Force Participation Rates by Gender: Unit Root or Structural Breaks?," Koç University-TUSIAD Economic Research Forum Working Papers 1130, Koc University-TUSIAD Economic Research Forum.
• Carpio, Miguel Angel, 2011. "Do pension wealth, pension cost and the nature of pension system affect coverage? Evidence from a country where pay-as-you-go and funded systems coexist," MPRA Paper 34926, University Library of Munich, Germany.
• Graziella Bertocchi & Arcangelo Dimico, 2011. "The Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery," Center for Economic Research (RECent) 075, University of Modena and Reggio E., Dept. of Economics "Marco Biagi".
• Ahmed Ennasri & Marc Willinger, 2011. "Managerial incentives under competitive pressure: Experimental investigation," Working Papers 11-12, LAMETA, Universtiy of Montpellier, revised Jun 2011.
• Gans, Joshua S. & Leigh, Andrew, 2011. "Bargaining Over Labor: Do Patients Have Any Power?," IZA Discussion Papers 6165, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Katsuhiko Hori & Katsunori Yamada, 2011. "Education, Innovation, and Long-Run Growth," KIER Working Papers 798, Kyoto University, Institute of Economic Research.
• Francisco H. G. Ferreira & Jérémie Gignoux, 2011. "The measurement of educational inequality: Achievement and opportunity," Working Papers 240, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality.
• Schlicht-Schmälzle, Raphaela & Teltemann, Janna & Windzio, Michael, 2011. "Deregulation of education: What does it mean for efficiency and equality?," TranState Working Papers 157, University of Bremen, Collaborative Research Center 597: Transformations of the State.
• Zimmermann, Klaus F. & Kahanec, Martin & Guzi, Martin & Giulietti, Corrado, 2011. "Unemployment Benefits and Immigration: Evidence from the EU," CEPR Discussion Papers 8672, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
• Cervini-Plá, María, 2011. "Intergenerational earnings and income mobility in Spain," MPRA Paper 34942, University Library of Munich, Germany.