Journal of Population Economics

Newsletter 4/2010

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• Editor-in-chief: Klaus F. Zimmermann
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2. Abstracts of Volume 23, Number 4, 2010
3. Content of Volume 23, 2010
4. About the Journal of Population Economics
5. Editorial Board

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   "The response of Japanese wives' labor supply to husbands' job loss"
   KOHARA, Miki
   J Popul Econ (2010) 23(4):1133-1149
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2. Abstracts of Volume 23, Number 4, 2010

   Marriage
   

   "The response of Japanese wives' labor supply to husbands' job loss"
   
   KOHARA, Miki
   Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University, 1-31 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka Osaka, 560-0043, Japan
   Email: kohara@osipp.osaka-u.ac.jp
   
   Abstract. This paper examines how Japanese wives react to their husbandsÆ involuntary job loss and tests the existence of complementarity of a wifeÆs labor supply to her husbandÆs. Utilizing panel data on Japanese households from 1993 to 2004, we found that wivesÆ labor supply is stimulated when husbands suffer involuntary job loss. The detailed statistics show that not only do working wives raise their labor hours but also nonworking wives begin to participate in the labor market. The added worker effect is evident during the period of job insecurity in Japan following the mid-1990s.

   
   

   "The effects of remarriage on women's labor supply"
   
   AUGHINBAUGH, Alison
   US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2 Massachusetts Ave. NE, Room 4945, Washington, D.C. 20212, USA
   Email: aughinbaugh.alison@bls.gov
   
   Abstract. Many studies have found that women decrease their labor supply upon marriage and increase their labor supply upon divorce. This paper examines whether that pattern varies depending on whether the marriage is a first or higher-order one using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics for the years 1979 through 2001. The combination of a greater expected probability that a remarriage will end and the failure of household production to bring returns upon the end of a previous marriage may make women less likely to reduce their labor supply in second or higher marriages as compared to a first marriage. The results differ for the intensive and extensive margins of labor supply. With one exception, after controlling for background characteristics, the estimates imply that the probability of working is related to marriage in a similar manner regardless of whether the marriage is a first or a remarriage. In contrast, the estimates provide support for the possibility that decreases in hours of work upon marriage are smaller in second and higher marriages as compared to first marriages.

   
   

   "Far above rubies: Bride price and extramarital sexual relations in Uganda"
   
   BISHAI, David
   Department of Population Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe St., Baltimore, MD 21030, USA
   Email: dbishai@jhu.edu
   
   GROSSBARD, Soshana
   Department of Economics, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA, and IZA, Bonn, Germany
   
   Abstract. The custom of bride price involves the payment of goods or cash from the groomÆs family to the brideÆs family at the time of marriage. Data from a household survey in Uganda were used to estimate the relationship between payment of bride price and non-marital sexual relationships. A robust correlation between bride price payment and lower rates of non-marital sexual relationships is found for women but not for men. One interpretation we offer for these findings is that bride price reflects the price of womenÆs sexual fidelity to men. This interpretation makes sense in light of the refundable nature of bride price in Uganda.

   
   Migration
   

   "Migration, trade and wages"
   
   HIJZEN, Alexander
   ELS/EAP, OECD, 2 Rue Andr‰-Pascal, 75775 Paris Cedex 16, France
   
   WRIGHT, Peter
   Leverhulme Centre for Research in Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP), School of Economics, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
   Email: peter.wright@nottingham.ac.uk
   
   Abstract. This paper analyses the impact of immigration on the UK labour market using the GNP function approach. We find that an increase in the number of unskilled immigrants reduces the wages of unskilled domestic workers, though the quantitative impact of this increase is small. No discernible impact of migration is found for skilled native workers. The results also suggest that unskilled immigrant workers and imports are substitutes in production, whilst skilled immigrant workers and imports are complements.

   
   

   "Immigrant migration dynamics model for The Netherlands"
   
   BIJWAARD, Govert E.
   Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), PO Box 11650, 2502 AR The Hague, The Netherlands
   Email: bijwaard@nidi.nl
   
   Abstract. In this paper, we analyze the demographic factors that influence the migration dynamics of recent immigrants to The Netherlands. We show how we can allow for both permanent and temporary migrants. Results disclose differences among migrants by migration motive and by country of origin and lend support to our analytical framework. Combining both models, for departure and returning to The Netherlands, yields a framework for predicting the migration dynamics over the life-cycle. From the obtained insight in the dynamic composition of migrants in the country, important policy implications can be derived.

   
   

   "International migration: a panel data analysis of the determinants of bilateral flows"
   
   MAYDA, Anna Maria
   Department of Economics and School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, ICC 552, 37th and O Streets, NW, Washington, DC 20057, USA
   Email: amm223@georgetown.edu
   
   Abstract. In this paper, I empirically investigate the determinants of migration inflows into 14 OECD countries by country of origin between 1980 and 1995. I analyze the effect on migration of average income and income dispersion in destination and origin countries. I also examine the impact of geographical, cultural, and demographic factors as well as the role played by changes in destination countriesÆ migration policies. My analysis both delivers estimates consistent with the predictions of the international migration model and generates empirical puzzles.

   
   

   "Competition, substitution, or discretion: an analysis of Palestinian and foreign guest workers in the Israeli labor market"
   
   ARANKI, Ted N.
   Monetary Policy Department, Sveriges Riksbank, 103 37 Stockholm, Sweden
   Email: ted.aranki@riksbank.se
   
   DAOUD, Yousef
   Department of Economics and Center for Development Studies, Birzeit University, Birzeit, Palestine
   
   Abstract.This paper investigates the effects of foreign workers on labor market outcomes for Palestinian workers in the Israeli labor market. The paper utilizes a micro-dataset on the Palestinian labor force combined with time-series data on foreign workers in Israel. The data covers the period 1999û2003, a period in which Israel enforced a strict closure on labor (and goods) movement, particularly in 2001 and 2002. The evidence suggests that foreign workers in Israel do not affect Palestinian employment; however, an increase in the number of foreign workers in Israel tends to reduce Israeli wages paid to Palestinian workers from the Gaza Strip. The Israeli closure policy appears to be the main cause for the substantial reduction in long-run Palestinian employment levels in Israel, not the presence of foreign workers.

   
   

   "From Europe to the Americas: a comparative panel-data analysis of migration to Argentina, Brazil, and the United States, 1870-1910"
   
   BALDERAS, J. Ulyses
   Department of Economics, University of Colorado, Campus Box 256, Boulder, CO 80309, USA, and Department of Economics, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX 77341, USA
   
   GREENWOOD, Michael J.
   Department of Economics, University of Colorado, Campus Box 256, Boulder, CO 80309, USA, and Department of Economics, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX 77341, USA
   Email: michael.greenwood@colorado.edu
   
   Abstract. We use annual panel data, 1870-1910, to estimate and compare the determinants of European emigration to Argentina, Brazil, and the USA. The Hausman-Taylor instrumental variable technique we use provides for cross-sectional (country) controls, accounts for variables that are potentially correlated with the unobservables and allows the recovery of the coefficients of temporally invariant variables. In general, migration was from low-wage source countries, from countries with large stocks of immigrants in the destination who were born in the origin, and from countries with relatively much recent migration to the destination. Certain determinants differ considerably for the three countries.

   
   

   "The relative importance of the husband's and wife's characteristics in family, 1960-2000"
   
   TENN, Steven
   Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Economics, 600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20580, USA
   Email: stenn@ftc.gov
   
   Abstract. We explore whether the growing labor force attachment of married women has increased the importance of the wifeÆs characteristics in determining the household migration decision. To the contrary, we find that surprisingly little changed between 1960 and 2000. Wives were a weak determinant of family migration over the entire period. Our results suggest that it is difficult to balance two careers simultaneously, with households finding it optimal to focus primarily on the husbandÆs career rather than settling for significantly inferior labor market outcomes for each spouse.

   
   

   "Aprˆs nous le D‰luge: fertility and the intensity of struggle against immigration"
   
   AZARNERT, Leonid V.
   Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 52900, Israel
   Email: azarnel@mail.biu.ac.il
   
   Abstract. This paper is inspired by a puzzling empirical fact that, despite the importance of controlling migration for their future, the host countries allocate very limited amounts of resources to the struggle against illegal immigration. The present model analyzes this issue in the context of low fertility in the host countries and suggests a novel channel though which the intensity of the struggle against immigration can be related to fertility. The analysis shows that, for childless individuals, who have no reason to care about the future, it is optimal to contribute less to the costly immigration-prevention measures.

   
   Growth
   

   "Trade, population growth, and the environment in developing countries"
   
   LEHMIJOKI, Ulla
   University of Helsinki and HECER, P.O. Box 17, Arkadiankatu 7, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
   
   PALOKANGAS, Tapio
   University of Helsinki and HECER, P.O. Box 17, Arkadiankatu 7, 00014, Finland, and IZA, Bonn, Germany
   Email: Tapio.Palokangas@helsinki.fi
   
   Abstract. We examine pollution in a developing country where fertility is endogenous and wealth increases welfare through status. When the country has defective environmental laws, it has a comparative advantage in capital-intensive ôdirtyö goods. Gains from trade due to trade liberalization then increase income and boost population growth. With strong incentives to save, they also stimulate investment, which hampers population growth. Because population growth crowds out labor supply, production of capital-intensive dirty goods first increases and then decreases. This yields a typical environmental Kuznets path: pollution increases at the earlier stages but decreases at the later stages of development.

   
   

   "Gibrat's law for countries"
   
   GONZALEZ-VAL, Rafael
   Departamento de Anßlisis Econmico, Facultad de Ciencias Econmicas y Empresariales, Universidad de Zaragoza, Gran Va, 2, 50005 Zaragoza, Spain
   Email: rafaelg@unizar.es
   
   SANSO-NAVARRO, Marcos
   Departamento de Anßlisis Econmico, Facultad de Ciencias Econmicas y Empresariales, Universidad de Zaragoza, Gran Va, 2, 50005 Zaragoza, Spain
   
   Abstract. A reassessment of GibratÆs Law in the context of country size is carried out in this paper. In addition, how similarly population is distributed in cities and countries is analyzed from a temporal perspective. Although evidence of GibratÆs Law is found, it is weaker than that previously established in Rose (J Money Credit Bank 38(8):2225û2246, 2006). This is due to the methodology applied and is especially appreciable in very small countries. Nonetheless, we observe that the population growth process in countries is similar to that of cities. As a result, the similarities between how the population is distributed in these two geographical categories have increased over time.

   
   Acknowledgement to editorial collaborators
   
   

3. Content of Volume 23, 2010

   Issue 1, 2010

   Fertility

   "The fertility effect of catastrophe: U.S. hurricane births"
   
   EVANS, Richard
   HU, Yingyao
   ZHAO, Zhong

   
   

   "Life expectancy, fertility and educational investment"
   
   CHEN, Hung-Ju

   
   

   "Variety expansion and fertility rates"
   
   MARUYAMA, Akiko
   YAMAMOTO, Kazuhiro

   
   

   "Child mortality and fertility: public vs private education"
   
   FIORONI, Tamara

   
   

   "Demographic transitions: analyzing the effects of mortality on fertility"
   
   ANGELES, Luis

   
   Households

   "Mobility, information, and bequest: The "other side" of the equal division puzzle"
   
   FARMER, Amy
   HOROWITZ, Andrew

   
   

   "Reconciling workless measures at the individual and household level. Theory and evidence from the United States, Birtain, Germany, Spain and Australia"
   
   GREGG, Paul
   SCUTELLA, Rosanna
   WADSWORTH, Jonathan

   
   

   "Household vulnerability and child labor: the effect of shocks, credit rationing, and insurance"
   
   GURACELLO, Lorenzo
   MEALLI, Fabrizia
   ROSATI, Furio Camillo

   
   

   "Siblings, child labor, and schooling in Nicaragua and Guatemala"
   
   DAMMERT, Ana C.

   
   

   "Household division of labor and cross-country differences in household formation rates"
   
   SEVILLA-SANZ, Almudena

   
   Labor

   "Are there Asymmetries in the Effects of Training on the Conditional Male Wage Distribution?"
   
   ARULAMPALAM, Wiji
   BOOTH, Alison L.
   BRYAN, Mark L.

   
   

   "The Effects of Cohors Size in European Earnings"
   
   BRUNELLO, Giorgio

   
   

   "How performance related pay affects productivity and employment"
   
   GIELEN, Anne C.
   KERKHOFS, Marcel J.M.
   VAN OURS, Jan C.

   
   

   "Binge drinking and labor market success: a longitudinal study on young people"
   
   KENG, Shao-Hsun
   HUFFMAN, Wallace E.

   
   

   ""Making work pay" in a rationed labor market"
   
   BARGAIN, Olivier
   HAAN, Peter
   CALIENDO, Marco
   ORSINI, Kristian

   
   

   "Occuptational Language Requirements and the Value of English in the U.S. Labor Market"
   
   CHISWICK, Barry R.
   MILLER, Paul W.

   
   

   "Explaining welfare recidivism: what role do unemployment and initial spells have? "
   
   AYALA, Luis
   RODRIGUEZ, Magdalena

   
   

   Issue 2, 2010

   Education

   "Does a food for education program affect school outcomes? The Bangladesh case"
   
   MENG, Xin
   RYAN, Jim

   
   

   "Free education, fertility and human capital accumulation"
   
   AZARNERT, Leonid

   
   

   "Parental transfers, student achievement, and the labor supply of college students"
   
   KALENKOSKI, Charlene M.
   PABLIONIA, Sabrina W.

   
   

   "Central exit examinations increase performance... but take the fun out of mathematics"
   
   J›RGES, Hendrik
   SCHNEIDER, Kerstin

   
   

   "Arab immigrants in the United States: how and why do returns to education vary by country of origin?"
   
   ALY, Ashraf El-Araby
   RAGAN, James

   
   

   "Firm-level social returns to education"
   
   MARTINS, Pedro S.
   JIN, Jim Y.

   
   Aging

   "Aging, fertility, social security and political equilibrium"
   
   HIRAZAWA, Makoto
   KITAURA, Koji
   YAKITA, Akira

   
   

   "Population aging, health care and growth"
   
   HASHIMOTO, Ken-ichi
   TABATA, Ken

   
   

   "Hiring older workers and employing older workers: German evidence"
   
   HEYWOOD, John S.
   JIRJAHN, Uwe
   TSERTSVARDZE, Georgi

   
   

   "Do early life and contemporaneous macroconditions explain health at older ages?"
   
   ALESSIE. Rob
   DEEG, Dorly
   PORTRAIT, France

   
   

   "Do the elderly reduce housing equity? An international comparison"
   
   CHIURI, Maria
   JAPPELLI, Tullio

   
   

   "The spillover effects of population aging, international capital flows, and welfare"
   
   ITO, Hiroyuki
   TABATA, Ken

   
   

   "Mortality, fertility, education and capital accumulation in a simple OLG economy"
   
   LUDWIG, Alexander
   VOGEL, Edgar

   
   Pensions

   "Growth and unemployment in an OLG economy with public pensions"
   
   ONO, Tetsuo

   
   

   "Pension reform and labor market incentives"
   
   FISHER, Walter H.
   KEUSCHNIGG, Christian

   
   

   "Mixing Bismarch and child pension systems: an optimal taxation approach"
   
   FENGE, Robert
   VON WEIZSýCKER, Jakob

   
   

   "Do Beveridgian pension systems increase growth?"
   
   HACHON, Christophe

   
   

   Issue 3, 2010

   Earning differentials

   "Sexual orientation and earnings: a register data-based approach to identify homosexuals"
   
   AHMED, Ali M.
   HAMMARSTEDT, Mats

   
   

   "The Intra-Firm Gender Wage Gap: A new view on wage differentials based on linked employer-employee data"
   
   HEINZE, Anja
   WOLF, Elke

   
   

   "Wages and unemployment of French workers with African origin"
   
   AEBERHARDT, Romain
   FOUG®RE, Denis
   POUGET, Julien
   RATHELOT, Roland

   
   Gender

   "Dual tracks: part-time work in life-cycle employment for British women"
   
   CONNOLLY, Sara
   GREGORY, Mary

   
   

   "Approval of equal rights and gender differences in well-being"
   
   LALIVE, Rafael
   STUTZER, Alois

   
   Family

   "Giving to family versus giving to the community within and across generations"
   
   DEB, Partha
   OKTEN, Cagla
   OSILI, Una O.

   
   

   "Measuring educational inequalities: a method and an application to Albania"
   
   PICARD, Nathalie
   WOLFF, Francois-Charles

   
   

   "Are parents altruistic? Evidence from Mexico"
   
   SCHLUTER, Christian
   WAHBA, Jackline

   
   

   "Youth emancipation and perceived job insecurity of parents and children"
   
   BECKER. Sascha O.
   BENTOLILA, Samuel
   FERNANDES, Ana
   ICHINO, Andrea

   
   

   "Childhood family structure and schooling outcomes: evidence for Germany"
   
   FRANCESCONI, Marco
   JENKINS, Stephen P.
   SIEDLER, Thomas

   
   

   "Do smart partens raise smart children? The intergenerational transmission of cognitive abilities"
   
   ANGER, Silke
   HEINECK, Guido

   
   

   Issue 4, 2010

   see above

4. About the JOURNAL OF POPULATION ECONOMICS

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5. Editorial Board

   Editor-in-chief:
   
   KLAUS F. ZIMMERMANN, IZA, Bonn
   Fax: +49-228-3894210 / E-mail: zimmermann@iza.org

   Editors:
   
   ALESSANDRO CIGNO, University of Florence, Italy
   Fax: +39-055-472102 / E-mail: cigno@unifi.it
   
   ERDAL TEKIN, Georgia State University, USA
   Fax: +1-404 413-0145/ Email: tekin@gsu.edu
   
   JUNSEN ZHANG, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
   Fax: +852-26035805 / E-mail: jszhang@cuhk.edu.hk

   
   

   Associate Editors: HEATHER ANTECOL, Claremont McKenna College, USA
   ORLEY ASHENFELTER, Princeton University, USA
   KAUSHIK BASU, Cornell University, USA
   DAVID CARD, University of California, Berkeley, USA
   BARRY R. CHISWICK, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
   GIAM P.CIPRIANI, Universit€ di Verona, Italy
   HELMUTH CREMER, GREMAQ and IDEI, Universitˆ de Toulouse, France
   GIL S. EPSTEIN, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
   JOHN F. ERMISCH, ISER, University of Essex, UK
   DENIS FOUG®RE, CREST/INSEE, Paris, France
   ODED GALOR, Brown University, USA
   IRA N. GANG, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA
   NEZIH GUNER, ICREA, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and Barcelona GSE, Spain
   DANIEL S. HAMERMESH, University of Texas at Austin, USA
   JAMES J. HECKMAN, University of Chicago, USA
   KAI A. KONRAD, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Munich, Germany
   PETER KOOREMAN, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
   FRANCIS KRAMARZ, CREST/INSEE, France
   RONALD D. LEE, University of California, Berkeley, USA
   SHELLY LUNDBERG, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
   LISA LYNCH, Brandeis University, USA
   GIOVANNI PERI, University of California, Davis, USA
   DAVID RIBAR, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA
   CHRISTOPH M. SCHMIDT, RWI Essen, Germany
   T. PAUL SCHULTZ, Yale University, New Haven, USA

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