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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
11705 Randall K. Q. Akee
Liqiu Zhao
Zhong Zhao
Unintended Consequences of China's New Labor Contract Law on Unemployment and Welfare Loss of the Workers
China's new Labor Contract Law, which intended to strengthen the labor protection for workers, went into effect on January 1, 2008. The law stipulated that the maximum cumulative duration of ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2019, 53, 87-105)
J41, J64, I31
11703 Laura M. Argys
Susan L. Averett
Muzhe Yang
Light Pollution, Sleep Deprivation, and Infant Health at Birth
This is the first study that uses a direct measure of skyglow, an important aspect of light pollution, to examine its impact on infant health at birth. We find evidence of reduced birth weight, ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2021, 87 (3), 849-888)
I10, I12, I18, Q59, R11
11701 Xavier Bartoll
Joan Gil
Raul Ramos
Has the Economic Crisis Worsened the Work-Related Stress and Mental Health of Temporary Workers in Spain?
This paper analyses the causal effects of temporary employment on work-related stress and mental health before (2006/07) and during the economic crisis (2011/12) and examines whether the economic ...
(published in: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 2019, 92 (7), 1047-1059.)
I10, J41, J28
11700 José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto Molina
Jorge Velilla
Commuting Time and Sick-Day Absence of US Workers
This paper analyzes the relationship between commuting time and sick-day absence of US workers. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics for the years 2011, 2013, and 2015, we find that a ...
(published in: Empirica, 2022, 49, 691 - 719)
I10, J22, R2, R40
11699 Nick Drydakis
School-Age Bullying, Workplace Bullying and Job Satisfaction: Experiences of LGB People in Britain
Using a data set that contains information on retrospective school-age bullying, as well as on workplace bullying in the respondents' present job, the outcomes of this study suggest that bullying, ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2019, 87 (4), 455-488)
J16, J28, J70
11698 Tony Fang
Carl Lin
Xueli Tang
How Has the Two-Day Weekend Policy Affected Labour Supply and Household Work in China?
This paper examines the effects of working time reduction policy on labour supply (hours of work and whether an individual takes a second job) and household production, by exploiting the Chinese ...
(published as 'Where did the time go? The effects of China's two-day weekend policy on labor supply, household work, and wage' in: China Economic Review, 2024, 83, 102107. )
J22, J28
11696 Annika Campaner
John S. Heywood
Uwe Jirjahn
Flexible Work Organization and Employer Provided Training: Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data
We examine the hypothesis that flexible work organization involves greater skill requirements and, hence, an increased likelihood of receiving employer provided training. Using unique linked ...
(revised version published in: Kyklos, 2022, 75 (1), 3-29)
J24, L00, M53
11694 Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano
Anastasia Terskaya
Independent Thinking and Hard Working, or Caring and Well Behaved? Short- and Long-Term Impacts of Gender Identity Norms
Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, we explore the causal effect of gender-identity norms on female teenagers' engagement in risky behaviors relative to boys in the ...
( substantially revised version published as 'Gender Norms in High School: Impacts on Risky Behaviors from Adolescence to Adulthood' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 196, 429-456 )
I10, I12, J15, J16, J22, Z13
11693 Ariel J. Binder
David Lam
Is There a Male Breadwinner Norm? The Hazards of Inferring Preferences from Marriage Market Outcomes
Spousal characteristics such as age, height, and earnings are often used in social science research to infer social preferences. For example, a "male taller" norm has been inferred from the fact that ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (6), 1885-1914)
D10, J12, J16
11692 Anne Ardila Brenøe
Origins of Gender Norms: Sibling Gender Composition and Women's Choice of Occupation and Partner
I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment – sibling gender composition – affects women's gender conformity, measured through their choice of occupation and partner. Using ...
(published as 'Brothers Increase Women's Gender Conformity' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 35, 1859 - 1896)
I2, J1, J3
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