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mso-cellspacing:0in;mso-padding-alt:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt'> <tr> <td style='padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt'> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:15.0pt'><u>Below are some of my <b>research papers.</b></u></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b>WORK IN PROGRESS:</b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b>Research Papers</b></p> <p> "Joint distribution of income and wealth" with Markus Jantti (Stockholm University) and Philippe Van Kerm (CEPS/INSTEAD, Luxembourg)</p> <p>"Wealth and marital dissolution" with Vincent Hildebrand (York U)</p> <p>"Immigrants, assimilation and wealth portfolios" with Chung Choe (CEPS/INSTEAD, Luxembourg) and Vincent Hildebrand (York U)</p> <p>"Risk, Gender and Self-Employment in Poland" with Dominik Buttler (Poznan University of Economics)</p> <p>"Wealth portfolios in the US and Norway" with Elin Halvorsen (Statistics Norway)</p> <p>"Job flows,industries, demographics and the great recession" with Yelena Takhtamanova (SF FRB) </p> <p>"Income and the Effect of Health on Employment of the Elderly in Taiwan" with A.Bicakova (CERGE-EI) and J.Chang (Taiwan U)</p> <p><br> <b>Methodological Research Papers</b></p> <p>"Measurement Issues in Wealth: Equivalence Scales, Accounting Framework, and Reference Unit with Tim Smeeding (Wisconsin-Madison U.) </p> <p>"Measuring Wealth Holdings of Older Households in the U.S.: Evidence from the HRS, PSID and SCF in Comparison" with Susann Rohwedder and Pierre-Carl Michaud (RAND)</p> <p><b>PUBLICATIONS:</b></p> <p><b>Refereed journal articles</b></p> <p>"Financial and housing wealth and consumption spending: cross country and age group comparisons" with Yelena Takhtamanova, <i>Housing Studies</i> vol. 27, issue 5 (June 2012).</p> <p>"Job flows, demographics and the great recession" with Yelena Takhtamanova, <i>Research in Labor Economics</i> vol. 32, (May 2011).</p> <p>"Examining the Gender Wealth Gap" with Joachim Frick and Markus Grabka, <i>Oxford Economic Papers</i> vol. 62, issue 4, 2010.<a href="http://oep.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/gpq007?%0D%0Aijkey=lAJc91zcxiLhgQp&amp;keytype=ref">doi: 10.1093/oep/gpq007 </a></p> <p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> Gender, monetary policy, and employment: the case of nine OECD countries, with Yelena Takhtamanova. <i>Feminist Economics</i>, (15)3 pp.1-31, (July) 2009. </p> <p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> Differences in the measurement and structure of wealth using alternative data sources: the case of the UK,&quot; with Zoe Oldfield.<i> Journal of Financial Transformation</i></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>, (September) 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p>"The Income and Wealth Packages of Older Women in Cross-National Perspective" with Janet Gornick and Tim Smeeding.<i>The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences</i>, 64B(3) pp.402-414, 2009.</p> <p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> Income, Assets and Poverty: Older Women in Comparative Perspective with J.Gornick, T.Munzi and T.Smeeding.<i> Journal of Women, Politics &amp; Policy</i></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> vol. 30 pp.272-300, 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> The Effect of Wealth on Consumption Expenditures: Cross-Country and Cross Socio-Demographic Group Comparisons with Yelena Takhtamanova.<i> Ekonomia</i></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> 2008.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> The Luxembourg Wealth Study  A Cross-Country Database for Household Wealth Research, with Andrea Brandolini and Tim Smeeding. <i>Journal of Economic Inequality </i></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>vol. 4 no. 3, (December) 2006.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><b>Other journal articles</b></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> Disentangling the Wealth Effect: Some International Evidence, with Yelena Takhtamanova. <i><a href="http://www.frbsf.org/publications/economics/letter/2007/el2007-02.html">FRBSF Economic Letter, No. 2007-02</a></i></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:Verdana'>, 2007.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> Income and Poverty in the United States in Comparative Perspective: The Role of Income and Wealth in Guaranteeing Economic Security in Old Age. with T. Smeeding, J. Williamson, J. Gornick, and A. Brandolini. <i>Public Policy and Aging Report 16(3):23-27.</i></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: Verdana'> 2006. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><b>Books and book chapters </b></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Chapter 10: &quot;Gender, Monetary Policy, and Employment: The Case of Nine OECD Countries&quot; with Yelena Takhtamanova (SF FRB) in <i>Inequality, Development, and Growth</i></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: Verdana'> edited by Günseli Berik, Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, Stephanie Seguino, Routledge, January 2011. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Chapter 2: Survey Estimates of Wealth Holdings in OECD Countries: Evidence on the level and distribution across selected countries with Markus Jäntti (Åbo Akademi U) in <i>Personal Wealth from a Global Perspective </i></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>edited by James B. Davies, UNU-WIDER Studies in Development Economics, Oxford University Press, 2008. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> Homeownership Inequality and the Access to Credit Markets (Can Credit Availability Explain Cross-country Differences in the Inequality of Homeownership across Income of Young Households?) with Alena Bicakova (CERGE-EI) in &quot;Growth and Income distribution in an integrated Europe: Does EMU make a difference?&quot; edited by Lars Jonung and Jarmo Kontulainen, <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/publications/publication12674_en.pdf">EUROPEAN ECONOMY. ECONOMIC PAPERS. 325.</a> June 2008. European Commission. Brussels. 349pp.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> Comparing wealth distribution across rich countries: the Luxembourg Wealth Study, with Andrea Brandolini and Tim Smeeding. <i><a href="http://www.bis.org/ifc/publ/ifcb25.pdf">IFC Bulletin No. 25, volume 1</a> of the&nbsp;Proceedings of the IFC Conference on &quot;Measuring the financial position of the household sector&quot;</i></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> August, 2006.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><b>Working papers and other unpublished papers</b></span> <p>  The Immigrant/Native Wealth Gap in Germany, Italy and Luxembourg with Thomas Mathae (BCL) and Alessandro Porpiglia (BCL), <i>ECB Working Paper No. 1302</i>, February 2011.</p> <p>"Job flows,demographics and the great recession" with Yelena Takhtamanova (SF FRB), <i><a href="http://ideas.repec.org/p/diw/diwwpp/dp1042.html">DIW Berlin Discussion Paper No. 1042</a></i>, August 2010 and <i><a href="http://ideas.repec.org/p/irs/cepswp/2010-41.html">CEPS/INSTEAD Working Paper No. 2010-41</a></i>, December 2010. (published)</p> <p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>"Examining the Gender Wealth Gap in Germany" with Joachim Frick and Markus Grabka, <i><a href="http://ftp.iza.org/dp3573.pdf">IZA Discussion Paper No. 3573</a></i></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>, June 2008.(published) <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>&quot;Mortgage Market Maturity and Homeownership Inequality among Young Households: A Five-Country Perspective&quot; with Alena Bicakova (CERGE-EI), <i><a href="http://ideas.repec.org/p/diw/diwwpp/dp778.html">DIW Berlin Discussion Paper No. 778</a></i></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>, April 2008, and <i><a href="http://ideas.repec.org/p/diw/diwsop/diw_sp90.html">SOEP papers 90/2008 </a></i></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>, February 2008. (submitted)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p>"Older Women's Income and Wealth Packages in Cross-National Perspective" with T.Smeeding, J.Gornick, and Maurice Leach, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, <i><a href="http://crr.bc.edu/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=523&amp;Itemid=3">CRR WP 2008-1</a></i>, 2008. (published)</p> <p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>"Gender differences in the effect of monetary policy on employment: the case of nine OECD countries" with Yelena Takhtamanova (SF Federal Reserve Bank) <i><a href="http://ideas.repec.org/p/irs/iriswp/2008-04.html">IRISS Working Paper, 2008-04</a></i></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>, 2008. (published)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> Homeownership Inequality and the Access to Credit Markets (Can Credit Availability Explain Cross-country Differences in the Inequality of Homeownership across Income of Young Households?) with Alena Bicakova (CERGE-EI), <i>Luxembourg Wealth Study Working Paper No.5</i></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:Verdana'>, 2007.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> Differences in the measurement and structure of wealth using alternative data sources: the case of the UK&quot; with Zoe Oldfield (IFS).<i> <a href="http://www.ifs.org.uk/publications.php?publication_id=4005">IFS Working Paper, W11/07</a></i></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:Verdana'>, 2007. (published)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p>"Wealth Effects out of Financial and Housing Wealth: Cross-Country and Age Group Comparisons" with Yelena Takhtamanova, <i>Luxembourg Wealth Study Working Paper No. 4</i>, 2006 and <a href="http://www.frbsf.org/publications/economics/papers/2007/wp07-01.pdf">Federal Reserve Bank SF Working Paper Series 2007-01</a>, 2007. (published)</p> <p>"Representative wealth data for Germany: The impact of methodological decisions around imputation and the choice of the aggregation unit with Joachim Frick (DIW) and Markus Grabka (DIW), <i><a href="http://ideas.repec.org/p/diw/diwwpp/dp672.html">DIW Berlin Discussion Paper No. 672</a></i>, March 2007.</p> <p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> Survey Estimates of Wealth Holdings in OECD Countries: Evidence on the level and distribution across selected countries with Markus Jäntti (Åbo Akademi U). <i><a href="http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/working-papers/research-papers/2007/en_GB/rp2007-17/_files/78091833762253175/default/rp2007-17.pdf">UNU-WIDER Research Paper No. 2007/17</a>.</i>(published)</p> <p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>"First results from the Luxembourg Wealth Study"<i>Luxembourg Wealth Study Working Paper No.1</i>,2006.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>"Cross National Comparison of Income and Wealth Status in Retirement: First Results from the Luxembourg Wealth Study" with Andrea Brandolini (Banca d Italia) and Tim Smeeding (Syracuse U.), Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, <i><a href="http://ideas.repec.org/p/crr/crrwps/wp2007-03.html">CRR WP 2007-03 </a></i></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>and <i>Luxembourg Wealth Study Working Paper No.2</i></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>, 2006.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>"Older Women s Economic Security: the Four-Legged Stool in Cross-National Perspective" with J.Gornick, T.Munzi and T.Smeeding, <i>Luxembourg Wealth Study Working Paper No.3</i></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>, 2006. </span></p> <p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>"Cross-Country Income and Expenditure Distributions using the Luxembourg Income Study" with Thesia Garner (BLS), <i>Bureau of Labor Statistics Working Paper No. 380</i></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>,March 2005.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> Measurement Issues in Wealth: Equivalence Scales, Accounting Framework, and Reference Unit with Tim Smeeding, <i>Prepared for the LWS Workshop:&quot; Construction and Usage of Comparable Microdata on Wealth: the LWS Perugia, Italy, 2005.</i></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>The Measurement of Housing Wealth: Conceptual Issues and Practice with Andrea Neri (Banca d'Italia), <i>Prepared for the LWS Workshop: Construction and Usage of Comparable Microdata on Wealth: the LWS Perugia, Italy, 2005.</i></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> Female Income Differentials and Social Benefits: A Four Country Comparison&quot; <i>Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper No. 377</i></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:Verdana'>, 2004.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> Immigrants and State Clustering: The Effect of Welfare Benefits?, <i>Johns Hopkins University, unpublished manuscript, 2003.</i></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> A Comparison of Income, Expenditures and Home Market Value Distributions using the Luxembourg Income Study data from the 1990s with Thesia Garner (BLS), <i>Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper No. 338</i></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:Verdana'>, 2002.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><b>Publications to the general public </b></p> <p>Doorley K. &amp; Sierminska E. (2010), 'Identifying Beauty and the Beast in the Labour Market: Returns to Physical Appearance in Luxembourg' , Vivre au Luxembourg no.65, Chroniques de l enquête PSELL-3/2007, CEPS/INSTEAD, Luxembourg.</p> <p>Sierminska, E.(2009),'The economic position of the elderly in Luxemburg in a cross-national perspective,' Vivre au Luxembourg no.59, Chroniques de l enquête PSELL-3/2007, CEPS/INSTEAD, Differdange, Luxembourg.</p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <!-----------------------------------------------------------------> </table> <p><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><i>This site was last updated<span style='color:blue'> <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED" S-Format="%m/%d/%y" startspan -->09/05/11<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="13220" --></span></i></span><span style='color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr></span> </table> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></p> </div> </body> </html>