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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
13513 Marianne Bertrand
Bruno Crépon
Teaching Labor Laws: Evidence From a Randomized Control Trial in South Africa
We assess whether imperfect knowledge of labor regulation hinders job creation at small and medium-sized firms. We partner with a labor law expert that provides information about labor regulation via ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2021, 13 (4), 124 - 149)
J23, J63, J64, J68
13512 Stijn Baert
The Iceberg Decomposition: A Parsimonious Way to Map the Health of Labour Markets
This article introduces the metaphor of the iceberg in the labour market. While policy in most OECD countries has historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of ...
(revised version published in: Economic Analysis and Policy , 2021, 69, 350 - 365)
J64, J08, J23, J24, J68
13511 Michael Jetter
Rafat Mahmood
Christopher F. Parmeter
Andres Ramirez Hassan
Explaining Post-Cold-War Civil Conflict among 17 Billion Models: The Importance of History and Religion
Model uncertainty remains a persistent concern when exploring the drivers of civil conflict and civil war. Considering a comprehensive set of 34 potential determinants in 175 post-Cold-War countries ...
(published as 'Post-Cold War civil conflict and the role of history and religion: A stochastic search variable selection approach' in: Economic Modelling, 2022, 114, 105907)
D74, Q34, Z12, F54
13510 Reto Odermatt
Alois Stutzer
Does the Dream of Home Ownership Rest upon Biased Beliefs? A Test Based on Predicted and Realized Life Satisfaction
The belief that home ownership makes people happy is probably one of the most widespread intuitive theories of happiness. However, whether it is accurate is an open question. Based on individual ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2022, 23 (8), 3731-3763)
D12, D83, D90, I31, R20
13509 Christian vom Lehn
Cache Ellsworth
Zachary Kroff
Reconciling Occupational Mobility in the Current Population Survey
Measuring occupational mobility from the Current Population Survey using recall (retrospective) or linked panel responses (longitudinal) generates substantially different outcomes, both in levels and ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2022, 40 (4), 1005 - 1051)
J62, C83, F16
13508 Gordon B. Dahl
Dan-Olof Rooth
Anders Stenberg
Long-Run Returns to Field of Study in Secondary School
This paper studies whether specialized academic fields of study in secondary school, which are common in many countries, affect earnings as an adult. Identification is challenging, because it ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023, 15 (1), 351-382)
I26, J24, J31
13507 Gordon B. Dahl
Christina Felfe
Paul Frijters
Helmut Rainer
Caught between Cultures: Unintended Consequences of Improving Opportunity for Immigrant Girls
What happens when immigrant girls are given increased opportunities to integrate into the workplace and society, but their parents value more traditional cultural outcomes? Building on Akerlof and ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2022, 89 (5), 2491 - 2528)
Z18, J15, J16
13506 Ian Burn
Patrick Button
Luis Munguia Corella
David Neumark
Older Workers Need Not Apply? Ageist Language in Job Ads and Age Discrimination in Hiring
We study the relationships between ageist stereotypes – as reflected in the language used in job ads – and age discrimination in hiring, exploiting the text of job ads and differences in callbacks to ...
(published as 'Does Ageist Language in Job Ads Predict Age Discrimination in Hiring?' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2022, 40 (3), 613-667. )
J14, J7
13504 Lutz Bellmann
Olaf Hübler
Job Satisfaction and Work-Life Balance: Differences between Homework and Work at the Workplace of the Company
Working remotely can complement and sometimes completely substitute conventional work at the workplace of the company. Until the COVID-19 crisis the share of remote workers was relatively low and ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2021, 42 (3), 424-441)
J22, J29, M54, M55
13503 Eugenio Proto
Climent Quintana-Domeque
COVID-19 and Mental Health Deterioration among BAME Groups in the UK
We use the UK Household Longitudinal Study and compare pre- (2017-2019) and post-COVID-19 data (April 2020) for the same group of individuals to assess and quantify changes in mental health among ...
(revised version published as 'COVID-19 and mental health deterioration by ethnicity and gender in the UK' in: PLOS ONE, 2021, 16 (1), e0244419)
I1, J1, J15
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