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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
16620 Ignacio Belloc
José Alberto Molina
Jorge Velilla
Unexpected Inheritances and Household Labor Supply: Does the Identity of the Recipient Matter?
Traditionally, the data of inheritances in surveys are analysed assuming that they are equally shared within households. However, inheritances are individual assets, regardless of the marital ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2025, 71 (1), e12723)
D13, D31, G51, J14, J22
16617 Nicholas Bayly
Robert Breunig
Chris Wokker
Female Board Representation and Corporate Performance: A Review and New Estimates for Australia
Despite a conventional wisdom that female board members positively impact firm performance, a thorough examination of the research to date reveals no consensus that female board members have either a ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2024, 100 (330), 386-417)
J16, N20, G32
16613 Tomasz Zając
Iga Magda
M. Bożykowski
Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak
M. Jasiński
Gender Pay Gaps across STEM Fields of Study
Gender pay gaps in earnings are well-documented in the literature. However, new factors contributing to women's lower earnings have emerged and remain under-researched. Educational choices are among ...
(published in: Studies in Higher Education, 2025, 50 (1), 126-139 )
J16, J24, J3, J71
16610 Milena Nikolova
Anthony Lepinteur
Femke Cnossen
Just Another Cog in the Machine? A Worker-Level View of Robotization and Tasks
Using survey data from 20 European countries, we construct novel worker-level indices of routine, abstract, social, and physical tasks, which we combine with industry-level robotization exposure. Our ...
(published in: Economica, 2025, 92, 1101-1148)
J01, J30, J32, J81, I30, I31, M50
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
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