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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
12292 Daron Acemoglu
Pascual Restrepo
The Wrong Kind of AI? Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Labor Demand
Artificial Intelligence is set to influence every aspect of our lives, not least the way production is organized. AI, as a technology platform, can automate tasks previously performed by labor or ...
(published in: Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2020, 13 (1), 25 - 35)
J23, J24
12291 Egidio Farina
Colin P. Green
Duncan McVicar
Zero Hours Contracts and Their Growth
This paper studies the prevalence and nature of zero-hours contracts (ZHCs) in the UK labour market. The headline count of ZHC workers based on the Labour Force Survey has long underestimated and ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 58(3), 507-531)
J21, J48, M55
12290 Lu Jinks
Thomas J. Kniesner
John D. Leeth
Anthony T. Lo Sasso
Opting out of Workers' Compensation: Non-Subscription in Texas and Its Effects
Texas is the only state that does not mandate that employers carry workers' compensation insurance (WC) coverage. We employ a quasi-experimental design paired with a novel machine learning approach ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2020, 60(1), 53-76)
C54, C55, I13, J32, J38
12288 Diane Coffey
Dean Spears
Neonatal Death in India: Birth Order in a Context of Maternal Undernutrition
We document a novel fact about neonatal death, or death in the first month of life. Globally, neonatal mortality is disproportionately concentrated in India. We identify a large effect of birth order ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (638), 2478 - 2507)
O15, I15
12287 Aurelie Dariel
Arno Riedl
Simon Siegenthaler
Hiring through Referrals in a Labor Market with Adverse Selection
Information asymmetries can prevent markets from operating efficiently. An important example is the labor market, where employers face uncertainty about the productivity of job candidates. We examine ...
(published as 'Referral hiring and wage formation in a market with adverse selection' in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2021, 130, 109 - 130)
C92, D82, D85, E20
12286 Marcelo Bergolo
Gabriel Burdin
Mauricio De Rosa
Matias Giaccobasso
Martin Leites
Tax Bunching at the Kink in the Presence of Low Capacity of Enforcement: Evidence from Uruguay
By using a bunching design on rich administrative tax records from Uruguay's tax agency we explore how individual taxpayers respond to personal income taxation in a context with high sheltering ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (639), 2726 - 2762. )
H21, H24, H30, J22
12285 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Sarah C. Dahmann
Nathan Kettlewell
Depression, Risk Preferences and Risk-Taking Behavior
Depression affects the way that people process information and make decisions, including those involving risk and uncertainty. Our objective is to analyze the way that depressive episodes shape risk ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (5) 1566-160)
D91, I12, D14
12284 Maximilian Sprengholz
Anna Wieber
Elke Holst
Gender Identity and Wives' Labor Market Outcomes in West and East Germany between 1984 and 2016
We exploit the natural experiment of German reunification in 1990 to investigate if the institutional regimes of the formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather ...
(published in: Socio-Economic Review (SER), 2020, 18 (3), 1-23 )
J16, J12, D10
12283 Oded Stark
Wiktor Budzinski
Repercussions of Negatively Selective Migration for the Behavior of Nonmigrants When Preferences Are Social
We study how the work effort and output of non-migrants in a village economy are affected when a member of the village population migrates. Given that individuals dislike low relative income, and ...
(published in: JODE - Journal of Demographic Economics, 2019, 85 (2), 165-179 )
D01, D31, J24, O15
12280 Thomas J. Kniesner
Behavioral Economics and the Value of a Statistical Life
There are many possible connections between VSL and behavioral economics. A list of topics includes endowment effects, risk salience, ambiguity aversion, present bias, reference groups, reference ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2019, 58(2-3), 207-217 )
D61, D91, J17, J31
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