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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
11577 Eva Van Belle
Ralf Caers
Marijke De Couck
Valentina Di Stasio
Stijn Baert
The Signal of Applying for a Job under a Vacancy Referral Scheme
Persistent unemployment across OECD countries has led to increasing investments in activation programmes and, as a consequence, rigorous evaluations of the effectiveness of these programmes. The ...
(revised version published in: Industrial Relations, 2019, 58 (2), 251 - 274)
J68, J23, C91
11576 Martin Eckhoff Andresen
Tarjei Havnes
Child Care, Parental Labor Supply and Tax Revenue
We study the impact of child care for toddlers on the labor supply of mothers and fathers in Norway. For identification, we exploit the staggered expansion across municipalities following a large ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, 101762)
H24, H52, J13, J22
11575 Takao Kato
Yang Song
An Advisor like Me: Does Gender Matter?
This paper provides new causal evidence on the effects of gender congruence in the student-adviser relationship on three key student outcomes: (i) retention; (ii) grades; and (iii) post-graduation ...
(revised version published as 'Advising, Gender, and Performance: Evidence from a University with Exogenous Adviser-Student Gender Match' in: Economic Inquiry, 2022, 60 (1), 121-141)
I21, I23
11574 Christopher S. Carpenter
Jeff Frank
Cevat Giray Aksoy
Matt L. Huffman
Gay Glass Ceilings: Sexual Orientation and Workplace Authority in the UK
A burgeoning literature has examined earnings inequalities associated with a minority sexual orientation, but far less is known about sexual orientation-based differences in access to workplace ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 159, 167-180)
J15, J71, M54
11573 Haifeng Nie
Chunbing Xing
Education Expansion, Assortative Marriage, and Income Inequality in China
We use census and household survey data to document China's educational assortative marriage and its evolution between 1990 and 2009. Empirical results suggest that men are increasingly likely to ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2019, 55, 37 - 51)
J12, I24, O15
11572 Arnaud Dupuy
Simon Weber
Marital Patterns and Income Inequality
We investigate the role of marital patterns in explaining rising income inequality using a structural marriage matching model with unobserved heterogeneity. This allows us to consider both the ...
(published in: Economica, 2022, 89, 29-43)
C78, D1, D3, I24, J12
11571 Francisco H. G. Ferreira
Emanuela Galasso
Mario Negre
Shared Prosperity: Concepts, Data, and Some Policy Examples
"Shared prosperity" has become a common phrase in the development policy discourse. This short paper provides its most widely used operational definition – the growth rate in the average income of ...
(published in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance. Oxford. OUP. 2020.)
D30, D63, I30
11570 Ronald Bachmann
Merve Cim
Colin P. Green
Long-Run Patterns of Labour Market Polarisation: Evidence from German Micro Data
The past four decades have witnessed dramatic changes in the structure of employment. In particular, the rapid increase in computational power has led to large-scale reductions in employment in jobs ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2019, 57 (2), 350-376)
J23, J24, J62, E24
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