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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
11588 Ian Gazeley
Andrew T. Newell
Kevin Reynolds
Hector Gutierrez Rufrancos
Nutrition in Interwar Britain: A Possible Resolution of the Healthy or Hungry 1930s Debate?
This paper re-examines energy and nutritional available to British working-class households in the 1930s using the individual household expenditure and consumption data derived from the 1937/8 ...
(published as 'How hungry were the poor in late 1930s Britain?' in: Economic History Review, 2022, 75 (1), 80 - 110)
I30, N34
11587 Badi H. Baltagi
Bernard Fingleton
Alain Pirotte
A Time-Space Dynamic Panel Data Model with Spatial Moving Average Errors
This paper focuses on the estimation and predictive performance of several estimators for the time-space dynamic panel data model with Spatial Moving Average Random Effects (SMA-RE) structure of the ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2019, 76, 13-31)
C23
11586 Esther Mirjam Girsberger
Miriam Rinawi
Matthias Krapf
Wages and Employment: The Role of Occupational Skills
How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and estimate a search and matching model for workers with a VET degree. Workers ...
(published as 'Interpersonal, cognitive, and manual skills: How do they shape employment and wages?' in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102235)
E24, J23, J24, J64
11585 Duncan McVicar
Andrew Park
Seamus McGuinness
Exploiting the Irish Border to Estimate Minimum Wage Impacts in Northern Ireland
This paper examines employment and hours impacts of the 1999 introduction of the UK National Minimum Wage (NMW) and the 2016 introduction of the UK National Living Wage (NLW) in Northern Ireland ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 8(2))
E24, J31, J38
11584 Gustavo J. Canavire Bacarreza
Luis C. Carvajal-Osorio
Two Stories of Wage Dynamics in Latin America: Different Policies, Different Outcomes
This article explores the variation in the wage distributions of two Latin American countries, Bolivia and Colombia, which have had different political and economic strategies in recent years. Using ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2020, 41, 128–168,)
J31, J38, C14
11582 Céline Piton
François Rycx
The Unemployment Impact of Product and Labour Market Regulation: Evidence from European Countries
This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment using data for 24 European countries over the period 1998-2013. Controlling for ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2019, 9 (2), 1-32)
E24, E60, J48, J64, L51
11581 Kathrin Manthei
Dirk Sliwka
Multitasking and Subjective Performance Evaluations: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment in a Bank
We study the incentive effects of grating supervisors access to objective performance information when agents work on multiple tasks. We first analyze a formal model showing that incentives are lower ...
(published in: Management Science, 2019, 65 (12), 5449-5956)
M52, J33, D23
11580 Luke Boosey
Sebastian J. Goerg
The Timing of Discretionary Bonuses: Effort, Signals, and Reciprocity
In a real-effort experiment, we investigate how the timing of discretionary bonuses affects the relationship between workers and managers. Average output is substantially higher if bonuses are paid ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2020, 124, 254-280.)
M5
11579 Arnab K. Basu
Nancy H. Chau
Vidhya Soundararajan
Contract Employment as a Worker Discipline Device
Fixed-term contract employment has increasingly replaced regular open-ended employment as the predominant form of employment notably in developing countries. Guided by factory-level evidence showing ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 149, 102601)
J31, J41, O43
11578 Anne Hilger
Christophe Jalil Nordman
Leopold Sarr
Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills, Hiring Channels, and Wages in Bangladesh
This paper uses a novel matched employer-employee data set representing the formal sector in Bangladesh to provide descriptive evidence of both the relative importance of cognitive and non-cognitive ...
(published as 'Which Skills Matter for What Type of Worker? Cognitive Skills, Personality Traits, Hiring Channels, and Wages in Bangladesh', in: Indian Journal of Human Development, 2022, 16 (2), 219-247. )
J24, J31, J71, O12
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