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No.
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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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12325
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Diego
Ubfal
Irani
Arraiz
Diether
Beuermann
Michael
Frese
Alessandro
Maffioli
Daniel
Verch
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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)
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J24, L25, M13, O12
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12324
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Pavel
Jelnov
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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)
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J12
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12323
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Marcus
Eliason
Lena
Hensvik
Francis
Kramarz
Oskar
Nordström Skans
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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)
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J60, J30, J23
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12322
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Tony
Fang
Byron
Lee
Andrew
R.
Timming
Di
Fan
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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.)
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J32, J33, J38
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12321
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Herwig
Immervoll
Daniele
Pacifico
Marieke
Vandeweyer
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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)
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C38, H31, J2, J6, J8
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12320
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Joshua
Graff Zivin
Lisa
B.
Kahn
Matthew
Neidell
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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)
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J33, J43
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12319
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Harry
J.
Holzer
Zeyu
Xu
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Community College Pathways for Disadvantaged Students
In this paper we estimate the impacts of the "pathways" chosen by community college students - in terms of desired credentials and fields of study, as well as other choices and outcomes along the ...
(published in: Community College Review, 2021, 49 (4), 351 - 388)
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I2
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12318
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Rafat
Mahmood
Michael
Jetter
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Military Intervention via Drone Strikes
We study the 420 US drone strikes in Pakistan from 2006-2016, isolating causal effects on terrorism, anti-US sentiment, and radicalization via an instrumental variable strategy based on wind. Drone ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (650), 787-811)
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C26, D74, F51, F52, H56, O53
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12316
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Mathias
Huebener
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Life Expectancy and Parental Education
This study analyses the relationship between life expectancy and parental education. It extends the previous literature that focused mostly on the relationship between individuals' own education and ...
(published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2019, Vol. 232, 351-365)
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I12, I14, I26
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12314
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Angela
Cools
Raquel
Fernández
Eleonora
Patacchini
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Girls, Boys, and High Achievers
This paper studies the effect of exposure to female and male "high-achievers" in high school on the long-run educational outcomes of their peers. Using data from a recent cohort of students in the ...
(published as 'The asymmetric gender effects of high flyers' in: Labour Economics, 2022, 79, 102287)
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I21, J16
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