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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
11556 Daniel Fackler
Michaela Fuchs
Lisa Hölscher
Claus Schnabel
Do Startups Provide Employment Opportunities for Disadvantaged Workers?
This paper analyzes whether startups offer job opportunities to workers potentially facing labor market problems. It compares the hiring patterns of startups and incumbents in the period 2003 to 2014 ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2019, 72 (5), 1123-1148)
J31, J63, L26, M51
11555 Nicole Gürtzgen
André Nolte
Laura Pohlan
Gerard J. van den Berg
Do Digital Information Technologies Help Unemployed Job Seekers Find a Job? Evidence from the Broadband Internet Expansion in Germany
This paper studies effects of the introduction of a new digital mass medium on reemployment of unemployed job seekers. We combine data on high-speed (broadband) internet availability at the local ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 132, 103657)
J64, K42, H40, L96, C26
11554 Emilio Depetris-Chauvin
Ömer Özak
The Origins of the Division of Labor in Pre-Modern Times
This research explores the historical roots of the division of labor in pre-modern societies. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that intra-ethnic diversity had a positive effect ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2020, 25 (3), 297-340)
D74, F10, F14, J24, N10, O10, O11, O12, O40, O43, O44, Z10, Z13
11548 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Delia Furtado
Huanan Xu
Did OPT Policy Changes Help Steer and Retain Foreign Talent into Stem?
Academia and the public media have emphasized the link between STEM majors and innovation, as well as the need for STEM graduates in the U.S. economy. Given the proclivity of international students ...
(published as 'OPT policy changes and foreign born STEM talent in the U.S.' in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, 101752)
F22, J61, J68
11547 Michael C. Knaus
A Double Machine Learning Approach to Estimate the Effects of Musical Practice on Student's Skills
This study investigates the dose-response effects of making music on youth development. Identification is based on the conditional independence assumption and estimation is implemented using a recent ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 2021, 184(1), 282-300)
J24, Z11, C21, C31
11546 Jason M. Fletcher
Jin Ho Kim
Learning Hope and Optimism: Classmate Experiences and Adolescent Development
This paper explores individual and contextual factors related to the development of hopeful attitudes during adolescence using a nationally representative study. A key focus is on the experiences of ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2019, 26 (5), 409-412 )
J24, D9
11545 Rebecca McDonald
Nattavudh Powdthavee
The Shadow Prices of Voluntary Caregiving: Using Panel Data of Well-Being to Estimate the Cost of Informal Care
This paper uses the wellbeing valuation (WV) approach to estimate and monetize the wellbeing impacts of informal care provision on caregivers. Using nationally representative longitudinal data from ...
(published online in: Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2024)
H8, I18, I31
11544 Jason M. Fletcher
Environmental Bottlenecks on Children's Genetic Potential for Adult Socioeconomic Attainments: Evidence from a Health Shock
This paper explores gene-environmental interactions between family environments and children's genetic scores in determining educational attainment. The central question is whether poor childhood ...
(published in: Population Studies: A Journal of Demography, 2019, 73 (1), 139-148)
J62, J1, J24
11543 Elena Grinza
François Rycx
The Impact of Sickness Absenteeism on Productivity: New Evidence from Belgian Matched Panel Data
We investigate the impact of sickness absenteeism on productivity by using rich longitudinal matched employer-employee data on Belgian private firms. We deal with endogeneity, which arises from ...
(published in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2020, 59 (1), 150-194)
D24, M59, I15
11542 Soohyung Lee
Heesun Yoo
Minhyuk Nam
Impact of the Clean Air Act on Air Pollution and Infant Health: Evidence from South Korea
This paper examines the extent to which the 2005 Clean Air Act introduced in South Korea affected air pollution and infant health. To identify the causal effect, we exploit the time and geographical ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2018, 168, 98-101)
I18, K32, Q52
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