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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
12330 Guillermo Alves
Pablo Blanchard
Gabriel Burdin
Mariana Chávez
Andres Dean
The Economic Preferences of Cooperative Managers
A growing body of research has been investigating the role of management practices and managerial behaviour in conventional private firms and public sector organizations. However, little is known ...
(revised version published as 'Like principal, like agent? Managerial preferences in employee-owned firms' in: Journal of Institutional Economics, 2022, 18 (6), 877 - 899)
C90, D81, J54
12328 Kati Kraehnert
Tilman Brück
Michele Di Maio
Roberto Nistico
The Effects of Conflict on Fertility: Evidence from the Genocide in Rwanda
This paper analyzes the fertility effects of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. We study the effects of violence on both the hazard of having a child in the early post-genocide period and on the total ...
(published in: Demography, 2019, 56 (3), 935 - 968. )
J13, N47, O12
12327 Michele Cantarella
Chiara Strozzi
Workers in the Crowd: The Labour Market Impact of the Online Platform Economy
In this paper, we compare wages and labor market conditions of individuals engaged in online platform work and in traditional occupations by exploiting individual-level survey data on crowdworkers ...
(revised and updated version published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2021, 30 (6), 1429 - 1458)
J31, J42, F66
12326 Milena Nikolova
Olga Popova
Vladimir Otrachshenko
Stalin and the Origins of Mistrust
We show that current differences in trust levels within former Soviet Union countries can be traced back to the system of forced prison labor during Stalin's rule, which was marked by high ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 208, 104629)
D02, H10, N94, Z13
12325 Diego Ubfal
Irani Arraiz
Diether Beuermann
Michael Frese
Alessandro Maffioli
Daniel Verch
The Impact of Soft-Skills Training for Entrepreneurs in Jamaica
A randomized control trial with 945 entrepreneurs in Jamaica shows positive shortterm impacts of soft-skills training on business outcomes. The effects are concentrated among men, and disappear ...
(published in: World Development, 2022, 152, 105787)
J24, L25, M13, O12
12324 Pavel Jelnov
What Remains after the Oil Boom Is Over?
This paper links between Beckerian literature that shows that marriage is a normal good with respect to male income and the literature that explores cultural changes as a result of exogenous events. ...
(published in: Economics Bulletin, 2019, 39 (2), 1327-1335)
J12
12323 Marcus Eliason
Lena Hensvik
Francis Kramarz
Oskar Nordström Skans
Social Connections and the Sorting of Workers to Firms
The literature on social networks often presumes that job search through (strong) social ties leads to increased inequality by providing privileged individuals with access to more attractive labor ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2023, 233 (2), 468 - 506)
J60, J30, J23
12322 Tony Fang
Byron Lee
Andrew R. Timming
Di Fan
The Effects of Work-Life Benefits on Employment Outcomes in Canada: A Multivariate Analysis
Using the longitudinal Workplace and Employee Survey of Canada, we examine the association between the provision of work-life benefits and various employment outcomes in the Canadian labour market. ...
(published in: Relations industrielles/Industrial Relations, 2019, 74(2), 323-351.)
J32, J33, J38
12321 Herwig Immervoll
Daniele Pacifico
Marieke Vandeweyer
Faces of Joblessness in Australia: An Anatomy of Employment Barriers Using Household Data
Australia's economy and labour market have escaped a dramatic downturn following the global financial economic crisis. Yet, a substantial share of working-age Australians either were not working or ...
(elements published in Connecting People with Jobs: Australia)
C38, H31, J2, J6, J8
12320 Joshua Graff Zivin
Lisa B. Kahn
Matthew Neidell
Incentivizing Learning-By-Doing: The Role of Compensation Schemes
In this paper, we examine the impact of pay-for-performance incentives on learning-by-doing. We exploit personnel data on fruit pickers paid under two distinct compensation contracts: a standard ...
(published in: S. W. Polachek, K. Tatsiramos, G. Russo, G. van Houten (eds.): Workplace Productivity and Management Practices, Research in Labor Economics 49, 2021, 139 - 178)
J33, J43
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