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No.
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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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13549
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Benoit
Decerf
Francisco
H. G.
Ferreira
Daniel
Gerszon
Mahler
Olivier
Sterck
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Lives and Livelihoods: Estimates of the Global Mortality and Poverty Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic
This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of ...
(pubished in: World Development, 2021, 146, 105561)
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D63, I15, I32, O15
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13548
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Egidio
Farina
Colin
P.
Green
Duncan
McVicar
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Are Estimates of Non-Standard Employment Wage Penalties Robust to Different Wage Measures? The Case of Zero Hours Contracts in the UK
A range of evidence suggests that non-standard jobs, including fixed-term and other temporary jobs such as casual jobs, pay lower wages than more standard, permanent jobs, even after controlling for ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2021, 60 (3), 370 - 399)
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J21, J48, M55
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13547
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Darius
Schlangenotto
Wendelin
Schnedler
Radovan
Vadovic
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Against All Odds: Tentative Steps Toward Efficient Information Sharing in Groups
When groups face difficult problems, the voice of experts may be lost in the noise of others' contributions. We present results from a 'naturally noisy' setting, a large first-year undergraduate ...
(published in: Games, 2020, 11 (3), 31)
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D71, D72, D81, D82, C99
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13546
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Ylenia
Brilli
Claudio
Lucifora
Antonio
Russo
Marco
Tonello
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Vaccination Take-up and Health: Evidence from a Flu Vaccination Program for the Elderly
We analyze the effects of a vaccination program providing free flu vaccine to individuals aged 65 or more on take-up behavior and hospitalization. Using both administrative and survey data, we ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 179, 323 - 341)
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I12, I18, J10
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13544
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Elisabeth
Leduc
Ilan
Tojerow
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Subsidizing Domestic Services as a Tool to Fight Unemployment: Effectiveness and Hidden Costs
European countries have increasingly adopted wage subsidies for the sector of domestic services to reduce low-skilled unemployment. Yet, empirical evidence on their effectiveness is scarce. In this ...
(published as 'Home work: Exploring the labor market effects of subsidizing domestic services' in: Labour Economics, 2024, 90, 102595)
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J08, J24, J28, J38
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13543
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Mary-Alice
Doyle
Stefanie
Schurer
Sven
Silburn
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Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform: Evidence from Birth Outcomes of Aboriginal Australians
Australia's 'income management' policy requires benefit recipients to spend at least half of their government transfers on essentials (e.g. food, housing). We estimate income management's impact on ...
(updated version published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 84, 102618)
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D04, I14, I38
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13542
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Effrosyni
Adamopoulou
Ernesto
Villanueva
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Wage Determination and the Bite of Collective Contracts in Italy and Spain: Evidence from the Metalworking Industry
In several OECD countries employer federations and unions fix skill-specific wage floors for all workers in an industry. One view of those "explicit" contracts argues that the prevailing wage ...
(published as 'Wage determination and the bite of collective contracts in Italy and Spain' in: Labour Economics, 2022, 76, 102147)
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J31, J38, J52
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13539
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Andreas
Haller
Stefan
Staubli
Josef
Zweimüller
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Designing Disability Insurance Reforms: Tightening Eligibility Rules or Reducing Benefits?
We study the welfare effects of disability insurance (DI) and derive social-optimality conditions for the two main DI policy parameters: (i) DI eligibility rules and (ii) DI benefits. Causal evidence ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2024, 92 (1), 79-110.)
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H53, H55, J14, J21, J65
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13538
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Thomas
Beissinger
Joël
Hellier
Martyna
Marczak
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Divergence in Labour Force Growth: Should Wages and Prices Grow Faster in Germany?
We develop a model which shows that wages, prices and real income should grow faster in countries with low increase in their labour force. If not, other countries experience growing unemployment ...
(published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2025, 67, 949-988. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41294-025-00266-0)
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E24, F16, J11, O57
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13537
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Rafael
Lalive
Arvind
Magesan
Stefan
Staubli
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The Impact of Social Security on Pension Claiming and Retirement: Active vs. Passive Decisions
We exploit a unique Swiss reform to identify the importance of passivity, claiming social security benefits at the Full Retirement Age (FRA). Sharp discontinuities generated by the reform reveal that ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023, 15 (3), 115-50)
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H55, J21, J26
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