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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
11391 Mark Borgschulte
Adriana Corredor-Waldron
Guillermo Marshall
A Path Out: Prescription Drug Abuse, Treatment, and Suicide
In this paper we investigate the dual role of supply restrictions and drug treatment in combating the concurrent rise of opioid abuse and suicide in the United States over the last two decades. We ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 149, 169 - 184)
I12, I18, D11, D12
11390 Alexander Muravyev
Oleksandr Talavera
Unsafe Sex in the City: Risk Pricing in the London Area
This paper studies the incidence, determinants and pricing of unprotected oral sex in the London sex services market. The analysis is based upon matched sex worker-client panel data, which were ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 65(5), 528-549)
J46, J48, K42
11388 Yusi Ouyang
Abebe Shimeles
Erik Thorbecke
Revisiting Cross-Country Poverty Convergence in the Developing World with a Special Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa
The literature on poverty convergence is sparse and much of the empirical evidence relies on Ravallion (2012) who found a lack of poverty convergence across some ninety Less Developed Countries ...
(published in: World Development, 2019, 117 (C), 13 - 28)
O10, O55
11387 Bohdan Kukharskyy
Michael P. Pflüger
Time Is on My Side: Relational Contracts and Aggregate Welfare
This paper develops a simple general equilibrium model which establishes a link between the patience of economic agents and the well-being of nations. We show that firms in long-term oriented ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2019, 71 (3), 709 - 732)
D23, L14, L22, L23, O10
11386 Eliav Danziger
Leif Danziger
The Optimal Graduated Minimum Wage and Social Welfare
This paper analyzes the effects of introducing a graduated minimum wage in a model with optimal income taxation in which a government seeks to maximize social welfare. It shows that the optimal ...
(published in: Transitions through the Labor Market (Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 46), Emerald Publishing, 2018, 55-72.)
D60, H21, J30
11385 Ragui Assaad
Rana Hendy
Moundir Lassassi
Shaimaa Yassin
Explaining the MENA Paradox: Rising Educational Attainment, Yet Stagnant Female Labor Force Participation
Despite rapidly rising female educational attainment and the closing if not reversal of the gender gap in education, female labor force participation rates in the MENA region remain low and stagnant, ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2018, 8 (17))
J16, J21, J22, J82
11382 Marianne Bertrand
Patricia Cortes
Claudia Olivetti
Jessica Pan
Social Norms, Labor Market Opportunities, and the Marriage Gap for Skilled Women
In most of the developed world, skilled women marry at a lower rate than unskilled women. We document heterogeneity across countries in how the marriage gap for skilled women has evolved over time. ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2021, 88 (4), 1936 - 1978)
J12, J16
11381 Sarah Bana
Kelly Bedard
Maya Rossin-Slater
The Impacts of Paid Family Leave Benefits: Regression Kink Evidence from California Administrative Data
Although the United States provides unpaid maternity and family leave to qualifying workers, it is the only OECD country without a national paid leave policy, making wage replacement a pivotal issue ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis & Management, 2020, 39 (4), 888-929)
I18, J13, J16, J18
11379 José Azar
Ioana E. Marinescu
Marshall Steinbaum
Bledi Taska
Concentration in US Labor Markets: Evidence from Online Vacancy Data
Using data on the near-universe of online US job vacancies collected by Burning Glass Technologies in 2016, we calculate labor market concentration using the Herfindahl-Hirschman index (HHI) for each ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 66, 101886)
J21, J23, J42, K21, L11
11378 John T. Addison
Paulino Teixeira
Philipp Grunau
Lutz Bellmann
Worker Representation and Temporary Employment in Germany: The Deployment and Extent of Fixed-Term Contracts and Temporary Agency Work
This study examines the potential impact of works councils and unions on the deployment of fixed-term contracts and agency temps. We report inter al. that works councils are associated with a higher ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, 2019, 2 (1), 24-46.)
J21, J23, J41, J48, J51, J63, K31
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