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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
15344 Konstantinos Pouliakas
Antonio Ranieri
Hybrid (Solo)Self-Employment and Upskilling: Is Online Platform Work a Path Towards Entrepreneurship?
The increasing use of online labour platforms as intermediaries for finding work – known as crowdwork or gig work – is a new form of 'hybrid' (solo)self-employment that hinges on the borders of ...
(published in: W. Conen and E. Reuter (eds.), Research Handbook on Self-employment and Public Policy, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024)
J22, J24, J62, J28, L26, J49
15343 Konstantinos Pouliakas
Patricia Wruuck
Corporate Training and Skill Gaps: Did COVID-19 Stem EU Convergence in Training Investments?
European firms have increasingly invested in training of employees but differences across countries and types of firms remain – and the Covid-19 shock may have exacerbated them. This report analyses ...
(also available as: European Investment Bank (EIB) Economics Working Papers 2022/07)
J24, M53, C23, D22, E22
15340 Tony Fang
Viet Hoang Ha
Minimum Wages in Developing Countries
There is considerable debate on the level and effects of minimum wages for many decades. However, most of the studies are conducted in developed countries. This chapter first reviews the theoretical ...
(published in: Klaus F. Zimmermannn (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2023)
J31, J33, J38
15339 Joan Costa-Font
Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto
Caregiving Subsidies and Spousal Early Retirement Intentions
Balancing caregiving duties and work can be both financially and emotionally burdensome, especially when care is provided to a spouse at home. This paper documents that financial respite for ...
(published in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2023, 22 (4), 550-589)
I18, J14
15337 Michael Johannes Böhm
Daniel Metzger
Per Strömberg
'Since You're So Rich, You Must Be Really Smart': Talent, Rent Sharing, and the Finance Wage Premium
Financial sector wages have increased extraordinarily over the last decades. We address two potential explanations for this increase: (1) rising demand for talent and (2) firms sharing rents with ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2023, 90 (5), 2215–2260, )
J24, J31, G20
15336 Ian M. Schmutte
Meghan Skira
The Response of Firms to Maternity Leave and Sickness Absence
We study how firms respond to predictable, but uncertain, worker absences arising from maternity and non-work-related sickness leave. Using administrative data on over 1.5 million spells of leave in ...
(published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 6 July 2023)
J23, J21, J63, J68, J13
15335 Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel
Naci Mocan
Semih Tumen
Belgi Turan
The Crime Effect of Refugees
We analyze the impact on crime of 3.7 million refugees who entered and stayed in Turkey as a result of the civil war in Syria. Using a novel administrative data source on the flow of offense records ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2024, 43 (2), 472-508)
J08, J2, J3, J38, J61, J68, K14, K37, K42
15334 Tony Fang
Alex Wells
Diaspora Economics
Diasporas are global communities of migrants who retain a sense of connection with their homeland. The concept is ancient but has only recently become an important area of research in economics. Due ...
(published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2023)
J61, J68
15333 Tony Fang
John Hartley
Evolution of Union Wages and Determinants
Labor unions, chiefly through collective organizing and bargaining, almost universally increase the wages of their members, even after controlling for individual, job, firm, and other characteristics ...
(published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2022)
J31, J33, J51
15332 Sonia Oreffice
Dario Sansone
Commuting to Work and Gender-Conforming Social Norms: Evidence from Same-Sex Couples
We assess the role of gender-conforming social norms in household decision-making and gender inequalities in the labor market with a parsimonious household model that endogenizes commuting time. ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 85, 102451)
D10, J15, J16, J22, R20, R41
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