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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
10180 Mette Foged
Family Migration and Relative Earnings Potentials
A unitarian model of family migration in which families may discount wives' private gains is used to derive testable predictions regarding the type of couples that select into migrating. The ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 42, 87-100 )
F22, D19, J16, J61
10179 Alexander Bick
Bettina Brüggemann
Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln
Hours Worked in Europe and the US: New Data, New Answers
We use national labor force surveys from 1983 through 2011 to construct hours worked per person on the aggregate level and for different demographic groups for 18 European countries and the US. We ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economic, 2019, 121 (4), 1381 - 1516)
E24, J21, J22
10178 Aysit Tansel
Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir
Emre Aksoy
Does the Unemployment Invariance Hypothesis Hold for Canada?
This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada. The cointegration analysis vindicates the existence of a long-run relationship ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Unemployment Invariance Hypothesis, Added and Discouraged Workers in Canada' in: International Journal of Manpower, 2018, 39 (7), 929-936. )
E24, J64, J21
10177 Marco Caliendo
Steffen Künn
Arne Uhlendorff
Earnings Exemptions for Unemployed Workers: The Relationship between Marginal Employment, Unemployment Duration and Job Quality
In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income by working a few hours per week. The intention is to keep unemployed job seekers attached to the labour market and to ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 42, 177-193)
J64, C41, C33
10176 Niaz Asadullah
Who Trusts Others? Community and Individual Determinants of Social Capital in a Low Income Country
This study presents new evidence on individual and community-specific determinants of social trust using data from 96 villages in Bangladesh. We find perceived institutional trust to be positively ...
(published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2017, 41(2): 515-544.)
O12, Z1
10174 Jakub Cerveny
Jan C. van Ours
Martin A. van Tuijl
Effects of a Red Card on Goal-Scoring in World Cup Football Matches
We examine the effect of the sending-off of a player on the goal-scoring rates in FIFA World Cup matches in tournaments from 1998 to 2014. We use a hazard rate framework in which the effect of a red ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2018, 55 (2), 883-903.)
Z29
10173 Clara Welteke
Katharina Wrohlich
Peer Effects in Parental Leave Decisions
This paper analyzes to what extent parental leave decisions of mothers with young children depend on the decisions made by their coworkers. The identification of peer effects, which are defined as ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 56 (2), 146-163.)
C31, J22, D04
10171 John Ifcher
Homa Zarghamee
The Rapid Evolution of Homo Economicus: Brief Exposure to Neoclassical Assumptions Increases Self-Interested Behavior
Economics students have been shown to exhibit more selfishness than other students. Because the literature identifies the impact of long-term exposure to economics instruction (e.g., taking a ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2018, 75 ,55 - 65)
A2, D6, C9, C7, A1
10169 Nekeisha Spencer
Solomon Polachek
Eric Strobl
How Do Hurricanes Impact Achievement in School? A Caribbean Perspective
This study examines whether hurricanes have any impact on performance in standardized examinations. The analysis uses a panel of thirteen Caribbean countries and over 800 schools for the period 1993 ...
(published in: Natural Hazards, 2016, 84(2), 1437-1462.)
I2, Q54
10167 Ernest Boffy-Ramirez
The Heterogeneous Impacts of Business Cycles on Educational Attainment
In this study I examine the impact of fluctuations in the unemployment rate before high school graduation on educational attainment measured 30 years later. I find evidence that educational ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2017, 25 (6), 554-561)
I2, I22, J1, J18, J24
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