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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
14345 Daniel Goller
Stefan C. Wolter
"Too Shocked to Search": The COVID-19 Shutdowns' Impact on the Search for Apprenticeships
This study is, to the best of our knowledge, the first analysis of apprenticeship supply that allows us to analyse the effects of the shutdowns triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic before, during and ...
(published in: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2021,157, 6 (2021))
I20, J22
14344 Ceren Ozgen
The Economics of Diversity: Innovation, Productivity, and the Labour Market
The empirical evidence on the economic impacts of diversity is mixed. Many studies in the literature present context dependent and data driven results which are challenging to reconcile with each ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2021, 35 (4), 1168-1216)
J24, J15, F22, O15
14343 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Michal Myck
Monika Oczkowska
Widows' Time, Time Stress and Happiness: Adjusting to Loss
By age 77 a plurality of women in wealthy Western societies are widows. Comparing older (aged 70+) married women to widows in the American Time Use Survey 2003-18 and linking the data to the Current ...
(published as 'Widows' Time: Adjusting to Loss' in: Research in Labor Economics, 2023, 50, 369-396)
J22, J14, I31
14342 David N. Figlio
Cassandra M. D. Hart
Krzysztof Karbownik
Effects of Scaling up Private School Choice Programs on Public School Students
Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging a student fixed effects design, we explore how the massive scale-up of a Florida private school choice ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023, 15 (4), 255-294 )
H75, I21, I22, I28
14341 Thomas Gries
Wim Naudé
The Race of Man and Machine: Implications of Technology When Abilities and Demand Constraints Matter
In "The Race between Man and Machine: Implications of Technology for Growth, Factor Shares, and Employment," Acemoglu and Restrepo (2018b) combine the task-based model of the labor market with an ...
(published in: W. Naudé and T. Gries and N. Dimitri (eds.), Artificial Intelligence: Economic Perspectives and Models, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2024)
O47, O33, J24, E21, E25
14340 Ewa Galecka-Burdziak
Marek Góra
Jonas Jessen
Robin Jessen
Jochen Kluve
The Effects of Shortening Potential Benefit Duration: Evidence from Regional Cut-Offs and a Policy Reform
We quantify labour market effects of changes in the potential benefit duration (PBD) in Poland. Individual workers' PBD depends on the county unemployment rate relative to the national average - 12 ...
(updated version available as IZA DP 15978)
H55, J20, J65
14338 Jeffrey T. Denning
Eric R. Eide
Kevin J. Mumford
Daniel Sabey
Decreasing Time to Baccalaureate Degree in the United States
After increasing in the 1970s and 1980s, time to bachelor's degree has declined since the 1990s. We document this fact using data from three nationally representative surveys. We show that this ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2022, 90, 102287)
I20, I21
14337 Tijan L. Bah
Catia Batista
Flore Gubert
David McKenzie
How Has COVID-19 Affected the Intention to Migrate via the Backway to Europe and to a Neighboring African Country? Survey Evidence and a Salience Experiment in the Gambia
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in border closures in many countries and a sharp reduction in overall international mobility. However, this disruption of legal pathways to migration has raised ...
(published as 'COVID-19 and Changes in Intentions to Migrate from The Gambia' in: Journal of African Economies, 2024, 33 (1), 1–19)
F22, O15, J61, C93
14336 Michael Gibbs
Friederike Mengel
Christoph Siemroth
Work from Home & Productivity: Evidence from Personnel & Analytics Data on IT Professionals
Using personnel and analytics data from over 10,000 skilled professionals at a large Asian IT services company, we compare productivity before and during the work from home [WFH] period of the ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics, 2023, 1 (1), 7 - 41)
D2, M5
14335 Francine D. Blau
Lawrence M. Kahn
Nikolai Boboshko
Matthew Comey
The Impact of Selection into the Labor Force on the Gender Wage Gap
We study the impact of selection bias on the gender pay gap, focusing on post 1981 period. Previous work on this question has found divergent results. Using Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (2), 1093–1133)
C21, C24, J16, J31
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