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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
14631 Hai-Anh H Dang
Peter F. Lanjouw
Data Scarcity and Poverty Measurement
Measuring poverty trends and dynamics is an important undertaking for poverty reduction policies, which is further highlighted by the SDG goal 1 on eradicating poverty by 2030. We provide a broad ...
(published as 'Regression-based imputation for poverty measurement in data-scarce settings' in: Jacques Silber (ed.), Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation, Edward Elgar Press, 2023, chapter 13)
C15, I32, O15
14630 Maksim Belitski
Christina Guenther
Alexander S. Kritikos
Roy Thurik
Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses
The existential threat to small businesses, based on their crucial role in the economy, is behind the plethora of scholarly studies in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining the 14 ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2022, 58 (2), 593-609)
L26, J38, I18
14628 Andrew Seltzer
Jonathan Wadsworth
The Impact of Public Transportation and Commuting on Urban Labour Markets: Evidence from the New Survey of London Life and Labour, 1929-32
This paper examines the consequences of the commuter transport revolution on working class labour markets in 1930s London. The ability to commute alleviated urban crowding and increased workers’ ...
(published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2024, 91, 101553.)
N94, J39, N34
14621 Alessandro Cigno
Rules, Preferences and Evolution from the Family Angle
This paper reviews the literature concerning the evolution of cultural traits in general and preferences in particular, and the emergence and persistence of rules or norms, from a family perspective. ...
(published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook fo Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, 2022)
Z1, C78, D01, D02, D13, J13
14619 Jing Liu
Michael S. Hayes
Seth Gershenson
From Referrals to Suspensions: New Evidence on Racial Disparities in Exclusionary Discipline
We use novel data on disciplinary referrals, including those that do not lead to suspensions, to better understand the origins of racial disparities in exclusionary discipline. We find significant ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2024, 141, 103453)
I2, J7
14618 Peter J. Kuhn
Kailing Shen
What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads?
When employers' explicit gender requests were unexpectedly removed from a Chinese job board overnight, pools of successful applicants became more integrated: women's (men's) share of call-backs to ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2023, 113 (4), 1013 - 1048)
J16, J63, J71
14617 Daron Acemoglu
Tuomas Pekkarinen
Kjell G. Salvanes
Matti Sarvimäki
The Making of Social Democracy: The Economic and Electoral Consequences of Norway's 1936 Folk School Reform
Upon assuming power for the first time in 1935, the Norwegian Labour Party delivered on its promise for a major schooling reform. The reform raised minimum instruction time in less developed rural ...
(published online in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 24 June 2024)
P16, I28, J26
14616 Sam Parsons
Alex Bryson
Alice Sullivan
Teenage Conduct Problems: A Lifetime of Disadvantage in the Labour Market?
Using data from two British birth cohorts born in 1958 and 1970 we investigate the impact of teenage conduct problems on subsequent employment prospects through to age 42. We find teenagers with ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2024, 78 (1), 60 - 80)
I12, J20, J64
14615 Attila Gyetvai
Maria Zhu
Coworker Networks and the Role of Occupations in Job Finding
Which former coworkers help displaced workers find jobs? We answer this question by studying occupational similarity in job finding networks. Using matched employer-employee data from Hungary, this ...
(forthcoming in: Labour Economics)
J64, D85, J24
14614 Philippe Sterkens
Ralf Caers
Marijke De Couck
Michael Geamanu
Victor Van Driessche
Stijn Baert
Costly Mistakes: Why and When Spelling Errors in Resumes Jeopardise Interview Chances
Earlier research has associated spelling errors in resumes with reduced hiring chances. However, the analysis of hiring penalties due to spelling errors has thus far been restricted to white-collar ...
(published in: PLoS ONE, 2022, 18 (4), e0283280)
C91, I21, J24
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