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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
12411 Jeffrey T. Denning
Eric R. Eide
Merrill Warnick
Why Have College Completion Rates Increased?
College completion rates declined from the 1970s to the 1990s. We document that this trend has reversed - since the 1990s, college completion rates have increased. We investigate the reasons for the ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022, 14 (3), 1 - 29)
I23, I21
12410 Charlie Brown
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Wages and Hours Laws: What Do We Know? What Can Be Done?
We summarize recent research on the wage and employment effects of minimum wage laws in the U.S. and infer from non-U.S. studies of hours laws the likely effects of unchanging U.S. hours laws. ...
(published in: RSF -The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2019, 5 (5), 68-87)
J23, J18
12409 Andrew Mountford
Jonathan Wadsworth
Trainspotting: 'Good Jobs', Training and Skilled Immigration
While skilled immigration ceteris paribus provides an immediate boost to GDP per capita by adding to the human capital stock of the receiving economy, might it also reduce the number of 'good jobs', ...
(published in: Economica, 2023, 90 (359), 851-881)
J6
12408 Giovanni Dosi
Mariacristina Piva
Maria Enrica Virgillito
Marco Vivarelli
Embodied and Disembodied Technological Change: The Sectoral Patterns of Job-Creation and Job-Destruction
This paper addresses, both theoretically and empirically, the sectoral patterns of job creation and job destruction in order to distinguish the alternative effects of embodied vs disembodied ...
(published in: Research Policy, 2021, 50 (4), 10419)
O14, O31, O33
12405 Marina Della Giusta
Maria Laura Di Tommaso
Sarah Jewell
Francesca Bettio
Quashing Demand Criminalizing Clients? Evidence from the UK
We discuss changes in the demand for paid sex accompanying the criminalization of prostitution in the United Kingdom, which moved from a relatively permissive regime under the Wolfenden Report of ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2021, 88 (2), 527-544)
C35, J16, J22, K42
12404 Eva Sierminska
Daniela Piazzalunga
Markus M. Grabka
Transitioning Towards More Equality? Wealth Gender Differences and the Changing Role of Explanatory Factors over Time
The objective of the study is to investigate the changing role of explanatory factors of wealth and the gender wealth gap in Germany over the period 2002-2012 using individual level microdata from ...
(published as 'Women’s Labour Market Attachment and the Gender Wealth Gap' in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy,2024, 24 (4), 1045-1071.)
D31, D13
12403 Francesca Barigozzi
Helmuth Cremer
Chiara Monfardini
The Gender Gap in Informal Child Care: Theory and Some Evidence from Italy
Our model studies couples. time allocation and career choices, which are a¤ected by a social norm on gender roles in the family. Parents can provide two types of informal child care: basic care ...
(published in: Economia Italiana, 2019, 3, 66-98.)
D13, H23, J16, J22
12402 William Cochrane
Jacques Poot
Did the Post-1986 Decline in the Homeownership Rate Benefit the New Zealand Labour Market? A Spatial-Econometric Exploration
The proportion of New Zealand households living in owner-occupied dwellings has declined steadily since the early 1990s. The unemployment rate declined steadily as well, except for upward shifts due ...
(published in: Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, 2020, 4 (1), 261-284)
J61, J64, R23, R31
12401 Fredrik W. Andersson
Henrik Jordahl
Jens Josephson
Outsourcing Public Services: Contractibility, Cost, and Quality
We review the literature on public sector outsourcing to explore if the theoretical predictions from the incomplete contracts literature hold up to recent empirical evidence. Guided by theory, we ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2019, 65 (4), 349–372, )
D23, H11, L33
12400 Daniel Kühnle
How Effective Are Pictorial Warnings on Tobacco Products? New Evidence on Smoking Behaviour Using Australian Panel Data
Studies examining the introduction of pictorial warnings on cigarette packages provide inconclusive evidence due to small samples and methodological issues. We use individual-level panel data from ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 67, 102215)
I12, I14, I18
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