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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
13327 Guyonne Kalb
Jordy Meekes
Wage Growth Distribution and Changes over Time: 2001-2018
This paper investigates how wage growth varies among Australian employees with different individual characteristics and job characteristics, and how the role of these characteristics has changed over ...
(published in: Australian Economic Review, 2021, 54 (1), 76-93)
J31, J53, L24
13326 Patricia Apps
Ray Rees
Inequality Measurement and Tax/Transfer Policy
We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to ...
(revised version published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2022, 29, 953–984)
D13, D31, H21, H24, H31
13325 Matthias Doepke
Ruben Gaetani
Why Didn't the College Premium Rise Everywhere? Employment Protection and On-the-Job Investment in Skills
Why has the college wage premium risen rapidly in the United States since the 1980s, but not in European economies such as Germany? We argue that differences in employment protection can account for ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2024, 16 (3), 268–309)
E24, J24, J31, O15
13324 Marios Michaelides
Peter R. Mueser
Jeffrey A. Smith
Do Reemployment Programs for the Unemployed Work for Youth? Evidence from the Great Recession in the United States
We present experimental evidence on the effects of four U.S. reemployment programs for youth Unemployment Insurance (UI) recipients during the Great Recession. The three programs that emphasized ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2021, 59 (1), 162-185)
J6, H4
13322 Cecily Josten
Grace Lordan
The Interaction Between Personality and Health Policy: Empirical Evidence from the UK Smoking Bans
We investigate whether responses to the UK public places smoking ban depend on personality. Drawing on individual level panel data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) we exploit variation ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2020, 38, 100899)
C23, D04, I10, I12, I18, H75
13319 Timo Mitze
Reinhold Kosfeld
Johannes Rode
Klaus Wälde
Face Masks Considerably Reduce COVID-19 Cases in Germany: A Synthetic Control Method Approach
We use the synthetic control method to analyze the effect of face masks on the spread of Covid-19 in Germany. Our identification approach exploits regional variation in the point in time when face ...
(published in: PNAS, 2020, 117 (5), 32293-32301)
I18, C23
13318 Melanie K. Jones
Ezgi Kaya
The Gender Pay Gap: What Can We Learn from Northern Ireland?
Northern Ireland forms an important outlier to the established international pattern of a pronounced gender pay gap in favour of men. Using contemporary data from the Quarterly Labour Force Survey we ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2022, 74 (1), 94–114)
J16, J31, J24
13315 Hai-Anh H Dang
Long T. Giang
Turning Vietnam's COVID-19 Success into Economic Recovery: A Job-Focused Analysis of Individual Assessments on Their Finance and the Economy
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in income and employment loss in many countries around the world. Yet, hardly any formal study exists on household finance and future economic expectations in ...
(published in: Sustainability, 2021, 13 (19), 10664)
I1, I3, J01, J08, O1
13313 Sofoklis Goulas
Silvia Griselda
Rigissa Megalokonomou
Comparative Advantage and Gender Gap in STEM
Why are females compared to males both more likely to have strong STEM-related performance and less likely to study STEM later on? We exploit random assignment of students to classrooms in Greece to ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (6), 1937-1980)
I21, I24, J24
13311 Robert W. Fairlie
The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners: Evidence of Early-Stage Losses from the April 2020 Current Population Survey
Social distancing restrictions and demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first ...
(published as 'The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners: Evidence from the first three months after widespread social-distancing restrictions' in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2020, 29 (4), 727-740)
J15, J16, L26
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