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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
10774 Milena Nikolova
Olga Popova
Sometimes Your Best Just Ain't Good Enough: The Worldwide Evidence on Well-Being Efficiency
Despite the burgeoning happiness economics literature, scholars have largely ignored explorations of how individuals or countries translate given resources into well-being. Using a balanced panel on ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2021, 21(1), 83-114)
D60, I31, O15, P52
10773 Terhi Maczulskij
Petri Böckerman
Harsh Times: Do Stressors Lead to Labor Market Losses?
This paper examines the effects of past stressful life events on subsequent labor market success using data on twins matched to comprehensive register-based, individual-level information on income ...
(published in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 20 (3), 357-373)
I31, J24, J31
10771 Khulan Altangerel
Jan C. van Ours
U.S. Immigration Reform and the Dynamics of Mexican Migration
The 1986 US Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) was directed at tackling the problem of growing unauthorized migration through legalization of unauthorized immigrants, increasing border ...
(published in: De Economist, 2017, 165 (4), 463-485.)
J61, J68
10770 Tomi Kyyrä
José María Arranz
Carlos García-Serrano
Does Part-Time Work Help Unemployed Workers to Find Full-Time Work? Evidence from Spain
This paper examines whether part-time work acts as a bridge towards full-time work for unemployed workers in Spain. We follow the timing-of-event approach and estimate the causal effect of part-time ...
(published as "Does Subsidized Part-Time Employment Help Unemployed Workers to Find Full-Time Employment?" in: Labour Economics, 2019, 56, 68-83)
J64, J65
10768 Duncan McVicar
Mark Wooden
Yin King Fok
Contingent Employment and Labour Market Pathways: Bridge or Trap?
The debate over whether contingent (and typically more precarious) employment acts as a bridge to permanent employment, or as a trap, has tended to focus on transitions rather than longer-run ...
(published in: European Sociological Review, 2019, 35 (1), 98 - 115.)
J41, C38
10767 Francesco Pastore
Why So Slow? The School-to-Work Transition in Italy
This essay provides a comprehensive interpretative framework to understand the reasons why the school-to-work transition (SWT) is so slow and hard in Italy. The country is a typical example of the ...
(published in: Studies in Higher Education, 2019, 44 (8), 1358-1371)
H52, I2, I24, J13, J24
10766 Andrea Albanese
Lorenzo Cappellari
Marco Leonardi
The Effects of Youth Labor Market Reforms: Evidence from Italian Apprenticeships
This paper estimates the causal effects of the 2003 reform of the Italian apprenticeship contract which aimed at introducing the "dual system" in Italy by allowing on-the-job training. The reform ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2021, 73 (1), 98 - 121)
J24, J41, C21
10763 Martin Biewen
Matthias Seckler
Changes in the German Wage Structure: Unions, Internationalization, Tasks, Firms, and Worker Characteristics
This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the quantitative importance of the factors associated with the rise in male wage inequality in Germany over the period 1995-2010. In contrast to most ...
(revised version published as 'Unions, Internationalization, Tasks, Firms, and Worker Characteristics: A Detailed Decomposition Analysis of Rising Wage Inequality in Germany' in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2019, 17, 461-498)
C14, J31, J51, F16
10761 Paul Bingley
Lorenzo Cappellari
Correlations of Brothers' Earnings and Intergenerational Transmission
Correlations between parent and child earnings reflect intergenerational mobility and, more broadly, correlations between siblings' earnings reflect shared community and family background. These ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (2), 370 - 383)
D31, J62
10758 Jorge Luis García
James J. Heckman
Anna Ziff
Gender Differences in the Benefits of an Influential Early Childhood Program
This paper estimates gender differences in life-cycle impacts across multiple domains of an influential enriched early childhood program targeted toward disadvantaged children that was evaluated by ...
(revised version available as NBER Working Paper No. 23412)
J13, I28, C93
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