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In Germany, dependent employees take almost 30 days of paid vacation annually. We enquire whether an individual’s trade union membership affects the duration of vacation. Using data from the German Socio-Econo...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2015 4:17
Published on: 10 September 2015
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This paper introduces an innovative test of search and matching models using the exogenous variation available in experimental data. We take an off-the-shelf search model and calibrate it to data on the control g...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2015 4:16
Published on: 27 August 2015
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There is growing concern that the U.S. is producing too few college graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, and there is a desire to understand how various policies affect...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2015 4:15
Published on: 10 August 2015
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This paper shows how family policies aimed at reconciling the pressures of family and work generate substantial variation in labour market outcomes across developed countries. We use a life-cycle model of fema...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2015 4:14
Published on: 24 July 2015
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This paper develops an equilibrium search model to explain gender asymmetry in occupational distribution. Workers’ utility depends on salary and working hours, and women have a greater aversion to longer worki...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2015 4:13
Published on: 10 July 2015
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This paper provides a new perspective by classifying active labor market programs (ALMPs) depending on their objectives, relevance and cost-effectiveness during normal times, a crisis and recovery. We distingu...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2015 4:12
Published on: 26 June 2015
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We investigate whether public and private sector employees differ in terms of public service motivation using a representative sample of elderly workers from 12 European countries. We find that public sector w...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2015 4:11
Published on: 12 June 2015
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This study investigates the long-term effects of peace-time military conscription on educational attainment and earnings by exploiting a policy change that exempted a complete birth cohort from military servic...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2015 4:10
Published on: 26 May 2015
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By allowing agents to switch from entrepreneurship to wage work and vice versa over the life cycle, this study proposes a dynamic Jacks-of-All-Trades (JAT) model where entrepreneurs invest in highly varied ski...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2015 4:9
Published on: 15 May 2015
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I use the 2007 Schools and Staffing Survey to estimate the effect of tenure on K-12 teacher behavior. Estimates are obtained by exploiting the cross-state variation in the probationary period length of novice ...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2015 4:8
Published on: 29 April 2015
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We test the role of search and matching frictions in explaining the high unemployment of tertiary-educated youth in Jordan through a randomized experiment. Firms and job candidates were provided with a job-mat...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2015 4:7
Published on: 24 April 2015
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Labour market transition rates are typically estimated using survey data, which are mainly carried out at monthly or quarterly frequency. I argue that rates from surveys at different frequencies are not compar...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2015 4:6
Published on: 26 March 2015
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I use a structural matching model, North Carolina public school data, and a survey of teachers’ career plans to analyze schools’ and teachers’ behaviors in the teacher transfer market. Results show that mid-ca...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2015 4:5
Published on: 21 March 2015
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This paper examines how peer quality within distinct college majors affects graduation rates and major persistence. To mitigate the selection problem, we control for school-specific fixed effects, as well as v...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2015 4:4
Published on: 28 February 2015
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This paper reviews the role of locus of control in the labor market. I begin with a discussion of the conceptual origins of locus of control, including its relationship to related concepts such as self-efficac...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2015 4:3
Published on: 19 February 2015
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This paper shows that job loss is associated with a fall in subjective well-being (SWB). It then looks at how this change in SWB predicts job search and unemployment duration. The findings suggest that those w...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2015 4:2
Published on: 29 January 2015
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We use the Mexican labor market structure to price the set of fringe benefits that household heads receive when formally employed. We exploit longitudinal, nationally-representative information on household he...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2015 4:1
Published on: 14 January 2015
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Using linked employer–employee panel data for West Germany that include direct information on the competition faced by plants, we investigate the effect of product market competition on the gender pay gap. Con...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2014 3:19
Published on: 31 December 2014
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The Current Population Survey is used to investigate effects of Common Law Marriage (CLM) on whether young US-born adults live in couples in the US CLM effects are identified through cross-state and time varia...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2014 3:16
Published on: 10 December 2014
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In a prolific and illustrious career, the late Gary Becker (1930–2014) developed what he would later call "the economic approach to human behaviour". One of the most significant strands of that research was th...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2014 3:12
Published on: 29 November 2014
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We model consumption and labor supply behavior of a couple in a non-cooperative setting. Using minimal assumptions, we prove that demand for public goods is characterized by three regimes. It is either determi...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2014 3:11
Published on: 10 November 2014
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Access to selective universities is highly coveted because of the perception that attending one provides opportunities otherwise difficult to obtain. To broaden access to the state’s flagship universities in a...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2014 3:10
Published on: 22 October 2014
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We show that information revealed by the occupation choices of spouses predicts marital dissolution. Using a novel measure of occupational distance constructed from the O*Net Content Model, we find that spouse...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2014 3:9
Published on: 8 October 2014
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This paper investigates the role of productivity as a determinant of the worker’s retirement intentions. Using an overlapping generation framework, we analyze the retirement decision of a cohort of workers bei...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2014 3:8
Published on: 29 September 2014
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Proposition 209 banned the use of racial preferences in admissions at public colleges in California. We analyze unique data for all applicants and enrollees within the University of California (UC) system befo...
IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2014 3:7
Published on: 15 September 2014
