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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
12519 Paul Dolan
Grace Lordan
Climbing up Ladders and Sliding down Snakes: An Empirical Assessment of the Effect of Social Mobility on Subjective Wellbeing
We examine how intergenerational mobility affects subjective wellbeing (SWB) using data from the British Cohort Study. Our SWB measures encapsulates both life satisfaction and mental health, and we ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2021, 19, 1023–1045)
D31, D63, I1,I14, J60
12518 Oded Stark
Krzysztof Szczygielski
The Likelihood of Divorce and the Riskiness of Financial Decisions
We link causally the riskiness of men's management of their finances with the probability of their experiencing a divorce. Our point of departure is that when comparing single men to married men, the ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2019, 85 (3), 209 - 229)
D21, D81, G32
12517 Michael White
Alex Bryson
High Performance Work Systems and Public Sector Workplace Performance in Britain
Using nationally representative surveys of workplaces with 50 or more employees we find the adoption of High-Performance Work Systems (HPWS) in the public sector are positively correlated with ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2021,73 (3), 1057-1076 )
J45, M5
12516 Shuai Chen
Jan C. van Ours
Symbolism Matters: The Effect of Same-Sex Marriage Legalization on Partnership Stability
We study the effect of marriage on the stability of formal partnerships exploiting same-sex marriage legalization in the Netherlands as a natural experiment. Same-sex marriage legalization allowed ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 178, 44-58.)
D78, J12, J15, J16, K36
12515 Fabio Berton
Stefano Dughera
Andrea Ricci
Unions and Firms' Investments: A Unified View
In this paper, we present a simple model in which a unionized and non-unionized firm optimally make investment decisions given their labor productivity. By allowing workers' organizations to have ...
(published as 'A simple model of holdup, union voice, and firm investments' in: S.W. Polachek, K. Tatsiramos, G. Russo and G. van Houten (eds.): Workplace productivity and management practices (Research in Labor Economics, 49), 2021, 67 - 84)
J51, O31, O32
12514 Nusrat Abedin Jimi
Plamen Nikolov
Mohammad Abdul Malek
Subal C. Kumbhakar
The Effects of Access to Credit on Productivity: Separating Technological Changes from Changes in Technical Efficiency
Improving productivity among microenterprises is important, especially in low-income countries where market imperfections are pervasive, and resources are scarce. Relaxing credit constraints can ...
(published in: Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2019, 52 (1-3), 37-55)
E22, H81, Q12, D2, O12, O16
12513 Christian Grund
Christine Harbring
Kirsten Thommes
Katja Rebecca Tilkes
Decisions on Extending Group Membership: Evidence from a Public Good Experiment
We experimentally analyze whether the opportunity to receive a permanent contract motivates temporary group members in a public good setting and how this affects the other group members. We compare ...
(published in: Games, 2020, 11 (4), 61 )
C9, M5
12512 James Albrecht
Xiaoming Cai
Pieter A. Gautier
Susan Vroman
Multiple Applications, Competing Mechanisms, and Market Power
We consider a labor market with search frictions in which workers make multiple applications and firms can post and commit to general mechanisms that may be conditioned both on the number of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2020, 190, 105121)
C78, D44, D83
12511 Benoit Dostie
Mohsen Javdani
Immigrants and Workplace Training: Evidence from Canadian Linked Employer Employee Data
Job training is one of the most important aspects of skill formation and human capital accumulation. In this study we use longitudinal Canadian linked employer-employee data to examine whether ...
(published in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy & Society, 2020, 59 (2), 275-315.)
J24, L22, M53
12510 Caterina Alacevich
Catia Nicodemo
Immigration and Work-Related Injuries: Evidence from Italian Administrative Data
There is growing evidence that foreign-born workers are over represented in physically demanding and dangerous jobs with relatively higher injury hazard rates. Given this pattern, do increasing ...
(published as 'The Effect of Immigration on Occupational Injuries: Evidence from Administrative Data' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 86 (2), 209-235)
C55, J61, J28, I1
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