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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
10731 Xi Chen
Karen Eggleston
Ang Sun
The Impact of Social Pensions on Intergenerational Relationships: Comparative Evidence from China
China launched a new rural pension scheme (hereafter NRPS) for rural residents in 2009, now covering almost all counties with over 400 million people enrolled. This implementation of the largest ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2018, 12, 225 -235)
H55, I18, J14, R28
10730 Gerard J. van den Berg
Arne Uhlendorff
Joachim Wolff
Under Heavy Pressure: Intense Monitoring and Accumulation of Sanctions for Young Welfare Recipients in Germany
With the introduction of a new welfare benefit system in 2005, Germany implemented quite strict benefit sanctions for welfare recipients aged younger than 25 years. For all types of non-compliance ...
(revised version published as 'The impact of sanctions for young welfare recipients on transitions to work and wages and on dropping out" in: Economica, 2022, 89 (535), 1-28)
J64, J65, C41, C21
10729 Juan J. Dolado
Cecilia García-Peñalosa
Linas Tarasonis
The Changing Nature of Gender Selection into Employment: Europe over the Great Recession
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the role played by selectivity issues induced by nonemployment in explaining gender wage gap patterns in the EU since the onset of the Great Recession. We show ...
(published in: Economic Policy, 2020, 104, 637-676. )
J31
10727 Aedin Doris
Donal O'Neill
Olive Sweetman
Does Reducing Unemployment Benefits During a Recession Reduce Youth Unemployment? Evidence from a 50% Cut in Unemployment Assistance
We use administrative data to examine the effect of a 50% benefit cut for young unemployed workers in Ireland during the Great Recession. Because the cut applied only to new benefit claims, claimants ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2020, 55 (3), 902-925. )
J64
10726 Laurent Gobillon
Dominique Meurs
Sébastien Roux
Differences in Positions along a Hierarchy: Counterfactuals Based on an Assignment Model
We propose an assignment model in which positions along a hierarchy are attributed to individuals depending on their characteristics. Our theoretical framework can be used to study differences in ...
(published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 145, 29-74)
C51, J31, J45
10725 Anders Frederiksen
Lisa B. Kahn
Fabian Lange
Supervisors and Performance Management Systems
Supervisors occupy central roles in production and performance monitoring. We study how heterogeneity in performance evaluations across supervisors affects employee and supervisor careers and firm ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128 (6), 2123-2187)
M5
10724 Nicholas Bloom
Erik Brynjolfsson
Lucia Foster
Ron Jarmin
Megha Patnaik
Itay Saporta-Eksten
John Van Reenen
What Drives Differences in Management?
Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2019, 109 (5), 1648 - 1683)
L2, M2, O32, O33
10723 Archontis L. Pantsios
Solomon Polachek
How Asymmetrically Increasing Joint Strike Costs Need Not Lead to Fewer Strikes
The "joint costs" model states that the incentive to strike is inversely related to the total costs associated with workers' and firms' strike activities. Not only has this model been tested with ...
(published in: Atlantic Economic Journal, 2017, 45 (2), 149-161)
J51, J52, C72, C78
10722 Marion Collewet
Jan Sauermann
Working Hours and Productivity
This paper studies the link between working hours and productivity using daily information on working hours and performance of a sample of call centre agents. We exploit variation in the number of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 47, 96-106)
J23, J22, M12, M54
10721 Ravi Kanbur
Andy Snell
Inequality Indices as Tests of Fairness
Standard income inequality indices can be interpreted as a measure of welfare loss entailed in departures from equality of outcomes, for egalitarian social welfare functions defined on the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (621), 2216 - 2239)
A10, A13, C01, C12, D63
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