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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
2764 Dan-Olof Rooth
Implicit Discrimination in Hiring: Real World Evidence
This is the first study providing evidence of a new form of discrimination, implicit discrimination, acting in real economic life. In a two-stage field experiment we first measure the difference in ...
(published as "Automatic associations and discrimination in hiring: Real world evidence" in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (3), 523-534)
J64, J71
2763 Giacomo Corneo
Olivier Jeanne
Symbolic Values, Occupational Choice, and Economic Development
Channeling human resources into the right occupations has historically been a key to economic prosperity. Occupational choices are not only driven by the material rewards associated with the various ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2010, 54 (2), 241-255)
D1, O1
2762 Gianna Claudia Giannelli
Francesca Francavilla
Do Family Planning Programmes Help Women's Employment? The Case of Indian Mothers
The paper deals with female employment in developing countries. We set out a model to test our argument that, at the first stage of development, demographic and health programmes have proven to be ...
(published in: Journal of Asian Economics, 2011, 22 (5), 412 - 426)
J13, J16, J22, O18
2761 Tobias J. Klein
College Education and Wages in the U.K.: Estimating Conditional Average Structural Functions in Nonadditive Models with Binary Endogenous Variables
We propose and implement an estimator for identifiable features of correlated random coefficient models with binary endogenous variables and nonadditive errors in the outcome equation. It is ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 44(1), 135-161)
C14, C31, J31
2760 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Replication in Economics
This examination of the role and potential for replication in economics points out the paucity of both pure replication – checking on others' published papers using their data – and scientific ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2007, 40 (3), 715-733)
A14, B41, C59
2759 Martin Nordin
Dan-Olof Rooth
The Income Gap Between Natives and Second Generation Immigrants in Sweden: Is Skill the Explanation?
This is the first study to use an achievement test score to analyze whether the income gap between second-generation immigrants and natives is caused by a skill gap rather than ethnic discrimination. ...
(revised version published as 'The Ethnic Employment and Income Gap in Sweden: Is Skill or Labor Market Discrimination the Explanation?' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2009, 111 (3), 487 - 510)
J64, J71
2758 Björn Anders Gustafsson
Deng Quheng
Social Assistance Receipt and its Importance for Combating Poverty in Urban China
Since the second half of the 1990s economic restructuring in urban China has led to widespread joblessness and income insecurity. The rapid expansion of the system of social assistance, Di Bao, can ...
(published in: Poverty and Public Policy, 2011, 3(1), Article 10)
I32, I38, P36
2757 Jennifer Hunt
Bribery in Health Care in Peru and Uganda
In this paper, I examine the role of household income in determining who bribes and how much they bribe in health care in Peru and Uganda. I find that rich patients are more likely than other ...
(published as "Bribery in Health Care in Uganda" in: Journal of Health Economics, 2010, 29 (5), 699-707)
H4, K4, O1
2755 Richard A. Easterlin
Laura Angelescu McVey
Modern Economic Growth and Quality of Life: Cross Sectional and Time Series Evidence
To what extent are improvements in quality of life (material living levels, health, education, political and civil rights, happiness, and the like) associated with economic growth? International ...
(published in: Kenneth C. Land (ed.). Handbook of Social Indicators and Quality-of-Life Research, New York and London: Springer, 2011)
N30, O57, D60, Y1
2754 Gabriel Felbermayr
Julien Prat
Product Market Regulation, Firm Selection and Unemployment
This paper analyzes the effect of Product Market Regulation (PMR) on unemployment in a search model with heterogeneous multiple-worker firms. In our setup, PMR modifies the distribution of firm ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (2), 278-318)
E24, J63, L16, O00
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