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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
16607 Daniel Goller
Stefan C. Wolter
Reaching for Gold! The Impact of a Positive Reputation Shock on Career Choice
We analyze the causal influence a positive reputation shock for a particular occupation may have on career choice. The measure of the positive reputation shock is the unpredictable event that a young ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2025, 175, 105017)
I21, J22, J24
16606 Michael Johannes Böhm
Pamela Qendrai
System Relevance and Firm Performance Due to COVID-19
We study the impact of COVID-19 on firm performance. Using financial accounts of a large number of German firms, we document that industry affiliation is an important economic dimension of the ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2023, 24 (4), 349-410 )
H12, L25
16604 Vinzenz Pyka
Claus Schnabel
Unionization of Retired Workers in Europe
We shed light on an understudied group: retirees in unions. Using representative individual-level data of 19 European countries, we find that the share of retirees in unions and the union density of ...
(published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2025, 31 (1), 5-29)
J26, J51
16603 L. Rachel Ngai
Kevin D. Sheedy
The Ins and Outs of Selling Houses: Understanding Housing-Market Volatility
The housing market is subject to search frictions in buying and selling houses. This paper documents the role of inflows (new listings) and outflows (sales) in explaining the volatility and ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2024, 65 (3), 1415-1440)
E32, E22, R21, R31
16599 Adam Osman
Jamin D. Speer
Stigma and Take-up of Labor Market Assistance: Evidence from Two Field Experiments
Aversion to "stigma" - disutility associated with a program or activity due to beliefs about how it is perceived - may affect labor market choices and utilization of social programs, but empirical ...
(published in: Economica, 2024, 91 (361), 123-141)
J22, C93, I38, Z13
16598 Adam Osman
Jamin D. Speer
Andrew Weaver
Discrimination against Women in Hiring
We study discrimination in hiring and its associated outcomes for the discriminators using a unique survey of Egyptian businesses. Discrimination against women is widespread and overt: about half ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2025, 73 (2), 781-809)
J16, J71, C83, O12
16594 Badi H. Baltagi
Sergi Jimenez-Martin
José M. Labeaga
Majid al Sadoon
Consistent Estimation of Panel Data Sample Selection Models
The properties of classical panel data estimators including fixed effect, first-differences, random effects, and generalized method of moments-instrumental variables estimators in both static as well ...
(published online in: Econometrics and Statistic, 11 November 2023 )
J52, C23, C24
16593 Sugat Chaturvedi
Kanika Mahajan
Zahra Siddique
Using Domain-Specific Word Embeddings to Examine the Demand for Skills
We study the demand for skills by using text analysis methods on job descriptions in a large volume of ads posted on an online Indian job portal. We make use of domain-specific unlabeled data to ...
(published in: B. Elsner and S. W. Polachek (eds.), Big Data Applications in Labor Economics (Research in Labor Economics Vol. 52B), Emerald, 2024, 171-223 )
J16, J23, J31, J63, J71, L2
16590 Livia Alfonsi
Michal Bauer
Julie Chytilová
Edward Miguel
Human Capital Affects Religious Identity: Causal Evidence from Kenya
We study how human capital and economic conditions causally affect the choice of religious denomination. We utilize a longitudinal dataset monitoring the religious history of more than 5,000 Kenyans ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 167, 103215)
C93, O12, Z12
16589 Ali Moghaddasi Kelishomi
Roberto Nistico
Economic Sanctions and Informal Employment
This paper examines how economic sanctions affect the allocation of workers across formal and informal employment. We analyse the case of the unprecedented sanctions imposed on Iran in 2012. ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 89, 102581)
E26, F16, F51, O17
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