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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
13381 Francesco Campo
Mariapia Mendola
Andrea Morrison
Gianmarco Ottaviano
Immigrant Inventors and Diversity in the Age of Mass Migration
A possible unintended but damaging consequence of anti-immigrant rhetoric, and the policies it inspires, is that they may put high-skilled immigrants off more than low-skilled ones at times when ...
(published in: Journal of European Economic Association, 2022, 20 (5), 1971-2021)
F22, J61, O31
13380 Andreas Kuhn
Stefan C. Wolter
Things versus People: Gender Differences in Vocational Interests and in Occupational Preferences
Occupational choices remain strongly segregated by gender, for reasons not yet fully understood. In this paper, we use detailed information on the cognitive requirements in 130 distinct learnable ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 203, 210-234)
J16, J24, D91
13379 Olivier Marie
Judit Vall Castello
If Sick-Leave Becomes More Costly, Will I Go Back to Work? Could It Be Too Soon?
We investigate the impact on work absence of a massive reduction in paid sick leave benefits. We exploit a policy change that only affected public sector workers in Spain and compare changes in the ...
(published as 'Sick Leave Cuts and (Unhealthy) Returns to Work' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41, 923-956.)
I12, I13, I18, J22, J28, J32
13378 Miriam Gensowski
Mette Gørtz
Stefanie Schurer
Inequality in Personality over the Life Cycle
We describe gender and socioeconomic inequalities in the Big Five personality traits over the life cycle, using a facet-level inventory linked to administrative data. We estimate life-cycle profiles ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 184, 46-77 )
J24, I24, J62, I31, J16
13377 Cahit Guven
Lan Anh Tong
Mutlu Yuksel
Australia's Immigration Selection System and Labour Market Outcomes in a Family Context: Evidence from Administrative Data
This paper examines the efficacy of Australian points system in a family context among working-age permanent resident immigrants who arrived between 2000 and 2011 when there was a major focus on ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2020, 96 (1), 50-77.)
J12, J13, J24, J31, J61, J62
13375 Edoardo di Porto
Paolo Naticchioni
Vincenzo Scrutinio
Partial Lockdown and the Spread of COVID-19: Lessons from the Italian Case
This paper investigates the effect of the lockdown on COVID-19 infections. After the 22nd of March 2020, the Italian government shut down many economic activities to limit the contagion. Sectors ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 81, 102572)
J18, I18
13372 Lena Janys
Evidence for a Two-Women Quota in University Departments across Disciplines
Increasing diversity in higher tiers of occupations is a strongly debated topic and subject to legislation and reform in professional organizations in many countries. I use a novel method for ...
(published as 'Testing the Presence of Implicit Hiring Quotas with Application to German Universities' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106 (3), 627–637)
J71, C15
13371 Sascha O. Becker
Jared Rubin
Ludger Woessmann
Religion in Economic History: A Survey
This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, ...
(published in: A. Bisin, G. Federico (eds.), The Handbook of Historical Economics, London: Academic Press, 2021, 585-639)
Z12, N00, J15, I15, I25
13370 Tyler Ransom
Selective Migration, Occupational Choice, and the Wage Returns to College Majors
I examine the extent to which the returns to college majors are influenced by selective migration and occupational choice across locations in the US. To quantify the role of selection, I develop and ...
(published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 142, 45-110)
I2, J3, R1
13369 Hyejin Ku
Does Minimum Wage Increase Labor Productivity? Evidence from Piece Rate Workers
We examine worker effort as a potential margin of adjustment to a minimum wage hike using unique data on piece rate workers who perform a homogenous task and whose individual output is rigorously ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2022, 40 (2), 325-359)
J20, J38, M50
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