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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
11161 Erich Battistin
Lorenzo Neri
School Performance, Score Inflation and Economic Geography
We show that grading standards for primary school exams in England have triggered an inflation of quality indicators in the national performance tables for almost two decades. The cumulative effects ...
(published as 'School Performance, Score Inflation, and Neighborhood Development' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (3), 753–792)
C26, C31, I2
11160 Sumon K. Bhaumik
Ira N. Gang
Myeong-Su Yun
Poverty's Deconstruction: Beyond the Visible
In contrast to his contribution to other areas, Shubhashis Gangopadhyay's contributions to our understanding of poverty are often thought of as indirect consequences of the main themes of his work. ...
(published in: R. Lensink, S. Sjogren, C. Wihlborg (eds): Paths for Sustainable Economic Development, Gothenburg, 2017, 81 - 96)
C20, I30
11159 Nauro F. Campos
Paul De Grauwe
Yuemei Ji
Structural Reforms, Growth and Inequality: An Overview of Theory, Measurement and Evidence
This chapter provides a critical overview of the state of the art in the economics literature on structural reforms. It takes stock of theoretical developments, measurement efforts and of the ...
(published in N. Campos, P. De Grauwe and Y. Ji (eds.), The Political Economy of Structural Reforms in Europe, Oxford University Press, 2018, 1-44.)
E65, O11, O43
11158 Thomas Deckers
Armin Falk
Fabian Kosse
Pia Pinger
Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
Socio-Economic Status and Inequalities in Children's IQ and Economic Preferences
This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 129 (9), 2504 -2545)
C90, D64, D90, D81, J13, J24, J62
11157 Xavier Ramos
Dirk Van de gaer
Is Inequality of Opportunity Robust to the Measurement Approach?
Recent literature has suggested many ways of measuring equality of opportunity. We analyze in a systematic manner the various approaches put forth in the literature to show whether and to what extent ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2021, 67 (1), 18 - 36)
D3, D63
11156 Sabien Dobbelaere
Jacques Mairesse
Comparing Micro-Evidence on Rent Sharing from Two Different Econometric Models
Researchers contributing to the empirical rent-sharing literature have typically resorted to estimating the responsiveness of workers' wages on firms' ability to pay in order to assess the extent to ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 52, 18-26)
C23, D21, J31, J51
11155 Guoqian Xi
Jörn Block
Frank Lasch
Frank Robert
Roy Thurik
How Does Firm Survival Differ between Business Takeovers and New Venture Start-ups?
Focusing on entrepreneurship entry modes, we investigate two research questions regarding firm survival: how does the survival probability differ between business takeovers and new venture start-ups? ...
(published as 'The survival of business takeovers and new venture start-ups' in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2020, 29 (3), 797 - 826)
L26, M13
11154 Uwe Jirjahn
Foreign Ownership and Intra-Firm Union Density in Germany
From a theoretical viewpoint the relationship between foreign ownership and unionization is ambiguous. On the one hand, foreign owners have better opportunities to undermine workers' unionization. On ...
(revised version published in: Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2021, 42 (4), 1052-1079)
F23, F66, J51, J52
11152 Anat Alexandron-Lavon
Gil S. Epstein
Renana Lindner Pomerantz
The Effect of Ideological Positions on Job Market Interaction
Reporters and editors may not have the same ideology. When an editor wants to employ a new reporter with a different ideology, they have to negotiate the price of moving from their own to the other's ...
(published as 'The effect of ideological positions on job market interaction: A spatial analysis' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 145, 261 - 274)
J32, J44
11149 Gil S. Epstein
Ira N. Gang
Inequality, Good Governance and Endemic Corruption
Can a society suffering contests between rich and poor achieve good governance in the face of endemic corruption? We examine a stylized poor state with weak institutions in which a "culture of ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2019, 26, 999 - 1017)
O12, O15, O16, D82, G38
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