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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
12778 Brecht Neyt
Dieter Verhaest
Stijn Baert
The Impact of Internship Experience during Secondary Education on Schooling and Labour Market Outcomes
The literature on workplace learning in secondary education has mainly focussed on vocational education programmes. In this study, we examine the impact of internship experience in secondary ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2022, 68 (2), 127–154)
I21, I26, J21, J24
12777 Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski
Thierry Kangoye
Mona Said
Training, Human Capital, and Gender Gaps in Entrepreneurial Performance
In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, policymakers have been increasingly striving to support female entrepreneurship as a possible growth driver. This paper contributes to reconciling ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2020, 85, 367-380)
L53, O12, J4
12776 Erica L. Groshen
Harry J. Holzer
Improving Employment and Earnings in 21st Century Labor Markets: An Introduction
What are the prospects for improving the lot of US workers in the 21st century? This introduction to the topic examines the most important US labor market trends of the late 20th and early 21st ...
(published in: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2019, 5 (1), 1-19;)
J01, J08, J2, J5
12775 Pierre Koning
Heike Vethaak
Decomposing Employment Trends of Disabled Workers
Many OECD countries are facing decreases in the employment rates of disabled workers. To uncover the driving forces of these trends, this paper estimates Age-Period- Cohort (APC) models on ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2021, 21 (4), 20210010)
H75, J21, C23
12774 Gerald J. Pruckner
Nicole Schneeweis
Thomas Schober
Martina Zweimüller
Birth Order, Parental Health Investment, and Health in Childhood
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between birth order, health at birth and in childhood, and parental health investment using administrative data from Austria. We find ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 76, 102426)
I10, I12, I14, J12, J13
12773 Massimiliano Bratti
Maurizio Conti
Giovanni Sulis
Employment Protection and Firm-Provided Training: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Labour Market Reform
In 2012, a labour market reform in Italy known as the Fornero Law substantially reduced firing restrictions for open-ended contracts in the case of firms with more than 15 employees. The results from ...
(revised version published as 'Employment Protection and Firm-provided Training in Dual Labour Markets' in: Labour Economics, 2021, 69, 101972)
J42, J63, J65, M53
12772 Mallory Avery
Osea Giuntella
Peiran Jiao
Why Don't We Sleep Enough? A Field Experiment among College Students
Sleep deprivation is a risky behavior prevalent in modern societies, leading to negative health and economic consequences. However, we know little about why people decide to sleep less than the ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 27 September 2022 )
B49, C93, I1
12769 Enrico Moretti
Claudia Steinwender
John Van Reenen
The Intellectual Spoils of War? Defense R&D, Productivity and International Spillovers
In the US and many other OECD countries, expenditures for defense-related R&D represent a key policy channel through which governments shape innovation, and dwarf all other public subsidies for ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 6 February 2023)
O30
12768 Judith M. Delaney
Paul J. Devereux
Math Matters! The Importance of Mathematical and Verbal Skills for Degree Performance
We find that mathematics skills have a stronger relationship to university performance than verbal skills. While both are predictive of degree completion and class of degree obtained, mathematics ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2020, 186, 1-5)
I23
12767 Arnd Kölling
Claus Schnabel
Owners, External Managers, and Industrial Relations in German Establishments
Using data from the representative IAB Establishment Panel in Germany and estimating a panel probit model with fixed effects, this paper finds a negative relationship between the existence of ...
(substantially revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2022, 60 (2), 424-443)
J53, M54, G32
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