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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
14879 Fabio Montobbio
Jacopo Staccioli
Maria Enrica Virgillito
Marco Vivarelli
Labour-Saving Automation and Occupational Exposure: A Text-Similarity Measure
This paper represents one of the first attempts at building a direct measure of occupational exposure to robotic labour-saving technologies. After identifying robotic and LS robotic patents retrieved ...
(published as 'Labour-saving automation: a direct measure of occupational exposure' in: World Economy, 2024, 47, 332–361)
O33, J24
14878 Hanan Morsy
Abebe Shimeles
Tiguene Nabassaga
Structural Change and Inequality in Africa
This paper examines how inequality could be tackled through structural transformation using unit record data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for Africa. Results suggest inequality ...
(published in: Journal of African Economies, 2023, 32 (S2), ii228–ii245, )
D30, D31, J2
14876 Joan Costa-Font
Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto
Biased Survival Expectations and Behaviours: Does Domain Specific Information Matter?
We study biased survival expectations across two domains and examine whether such biased expectations influence health and financial behaviors. Combining individual-level longitudinal data, ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2022, 65, 285 - 317)
I18, D14, G22
14875 Mahvish Faran
Karl Taylor
The Impact of a New Quality Management Practice on Firm Performance: Evidence from Pakistan
This paper uses a novel firm level data set to investigate the impact of a unique quality management practice on the production and productivity of a large-scale garments manufacturer in Pakistan. ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2025, 73 (3), 1365-1408)
L2, M2, O14, O32, O33
14874 Mongoljin Batsaikhan
Mette Gørtz
John Kennes
Ran Sun Lyng
Daniel Monte
Norovsambuu Tumennasan
Discrimination and Daycare Choice: Evidence from a Randomized Survey
We use a randomized survey to study how discrimination affects parenting choices. In our survey, parents with young children choose between two public daycares, which are described by testimonials ...
(published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 08 January 2024)
D15, D63, J15, I24
14873 Daniel Fackler
Claus Schnabel
Jens Stegmaier
Personnel Adjustments during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Did Co-Determination Make a Difference?
Using a unique dataset of establishments in Germany surveyed during the Covid-19 pandemic, this study investigates whether personnel adjustments during the crisis differed between establishments with ...
(published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2024, 58, 4 (2024))
J53, J63, M51
14872 Orley Ashenfelter
David Card
Henry S Farber
Michael R. Ransom
Monopsony in the Labor Market: New Empirical Results and New Public Policies
This paper summarizes the results of nearly a dozen new papers presented at the Sundance Conference on Monopsony in Labor Markets held in October 2018. These papers, to be published as a special ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (S), S1-S10)
J0, J2, J3, L4
14867 Arnab K. Basu
Nancy H. Chau
Brian Park
Rethinking Border Enforcement, Permanent and Circular Migration
Canonical models of migration feature border enforcement as a strategy to contain undocumented immigration by effectively exacting a mobility cost. This paper revisits the role of border enforcement ...
(revised version published in: Economic Modelling, 2022, 108, 105733)
F22, J61, J68
14866 Jonas Maibom
The Welfare Effects of Mandatory Reemployment Programs: Combining a Structural Model and Experimental Data
This paper estimates a structural model of job search which accounts for utility costs and benefits linked to mandatory reemployment programs. The estimation uses data from a randomized experiment ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2023, 64 (2), 607 - 640)
C9, I3, J64, J65, J68
14864 Joshua D. Merfeld
Peter Brummund
The Importance of Specification Choices When Analyzing Sectoral Productivity Gaps
A consistent finding in the development literature is that average non-farm labor productivity is higher than average farm labor productivity. These differences in average productivity are sometimes ...
(published in: Agricultural Economics, 2022, 53 (4), 605-616)
J24, J43, O13, Q12, R23
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