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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
12020 Daniel Martinez
Oscar A. Mitnik
Edgar Salgado
Lynn Scholl
Patricia Yanez-Pagans
Connecting to Economic Opportunity? The Role of Public Transport in Promoting Women's Employment in Lima
Limited access to safe transportation is one of the greatest challenges to labor force participation faced by women in developing countries. This paper quantifies the causal impacts of improved urban ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, 2020, 3, 1-23 )
J01, J16, O12, R40
12017 Olivier B. Bargain
Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo
Prudence Magejo
Miracle Benhura
Learning from the
Redistributive systems in Africa are still in their infancy but are constantly expanding in order to finance increasing public spending. This paper aims at characterizing the redistributive potential ...
(published as 'Income Distribution and the Potential of Redistributive Systems in Africa: A Decomposition Approach ' in: Journal of African Economies, 2022, 31 (4), 293 - 328)
H23, H53, I32
12016 Indraneel Dasgupta
Sarmistha Pal
Touch Thee Not: Group Conflict, Caste Power, and Untouchability in Rural India
We investigate the impact of community power on the practice of untouchability in rural India. We model two-dimensional simultaneous group conflict over social norms, wherein an upper and backward ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2021, 49 (2), 442-466)
D72, D74, J71, J78, Z1
12014 Stephen P. Jenkins
Perspectives on Poverty in Europe
I address four topics: how our capacities to monitor poverty in Europe have improved substantially over recent decades; how progress on EU poverty reduction has been disappointing and why this has ...
(published in: Italian Economic Journal, 2020, 6 (1), 129-155 )
C81, D31, I32
12013 Raul Ramos
Esteban Sanromá
Hipólito Simón
Wage Differentials by Bargaining Regime in Spain (2002-2014): An Analysis Using Matched Employer-Employee Data
This research examines wage differentials associated to different collective bargaining regimes in Spain and their evolution over time based on matched employer-employee microdata. The primary ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Modeling, 2022, 44 (2), 375-395)
J31, J51
12012 Wayne A. Grove
Michael Jetter
Kerry L. Papps
Career Lotto: Labor Supply in Winner-Take-All Markets
Are people prone to selecting occupations with highly skewed income distributions despite minuscule chances of success? Assembling a comprehensive pool of potential teenage entrants into professional ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 183, 362-376)
J22, J24, J31, J44, L83
12011 Brecht Neyt
Dieter Verhaest
Stijn Baert
The Impact of Dual Apprenticeship Programs on Early Labour Market Outcomes: A Dynamic Approach
This study examines the impact of enrolling into dual apprenticeship programs in secondary education on six early employment outcomes. Our contribution to the literature is threefold. First, we ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 78, 102022)
I21, I26, J21
12010 Ronald Bachmann
Rahel Felder
Marcus Tamm
Labour Market Participation and Atypical Employment over the Life Cycle: A Cohort Analysis for Germany
We use data from the adult cohort of the National Education Panel Study to analyse the changes in the employment histories of cohorts born after World War II and the role of atypical employment in ...
(published as 'Atypical employment over the life cycle ' in: Evidence-based HRM, 2020, 8 (2), 195-213)
J21, J42, J81
12009 Peter Brummund
Laura Connolly
Who Creates Stable Jobs? Evidence from Brazil
Recent research shows that start-ups are important for job creation, but these firms are also inherently volatile. We use linked employer-employee data to examine the relative importance of firm age ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 82 (3), 540 - 563)
L25, J23, J63
12008 Gabriele Cardullo
Maurizio Conti
Giovanni Sulis
Unions, Two-Tier Bargaining and Physical Capital Investment: Theory and Firm-Level Evidence from Italy
In this paper we present a search and matching model in which firms invest in sunk capital equipment. By comparing two wage setting scenarios, we show that a two-tier bargaining scheme, where a ...
(revised version published as 'A Model of Unions, Two-Tier Bargaining and Capital Investment' in: Labour Economics, 2020, 67, 101936)
J51, J64 E22
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