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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9968 Philipp Lergetporer
Guido Schwerdt
Katharina Werner
Ludger Woessmann
Information and Preferences for Public Spending: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments
The electorates' lack of information about the extent of public spending may cause misalignments between voters' preferences and the size of government. We devise a series of representative survey ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 167, 138-157)
H11, D83, D72, H52, I22, P16
9967 Tomer Blumkin
Leif Danziger
Eran Yashiv
Optimal Unemployment Benefit Policy and the Firm Productivity Distribution
This paper provides a novel justification for a declining time profile of unemployment benefits that does not rely on moral hazard or consumption-smoothing considerations. We consider a simple search ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance 2017, 24, 36-59)
J64, J65
9966 Werner Eichhorst
Regina Konle-Seidl
Evaluating Labour Market Policy
Labour market institutions are deemed to have a great influence on the level and structure of employment. This holds for regulation on employment protection, minimum wages or tax/benefit systems as ...
(published in: Bent Greve (ed.), Handbook of Social Policy Evaluation, 2017, Chapter 18)
J08, J65, J68
9965 Claire A. Boeing-Reicher
Vincenzo Caponi
Public Wages, Public Employment, and Business Cycle Volatility: Evidence from U.S. Metro Areas
Based on data from a cross section of U.S. metro areas, we show that public employment correlates negatively with business cycle volatility, hinting at a stabilizing effect of public employment, ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2024, 54, 101232)
E32, E63, J21
9963 John Forth
Alex Bryson
Anitha George
Explaining Cross-National Variation in Workplace Employee Representation
Across Europe, there are many differing opinions on whether workplace employee representation should be encouraged or discouraged. Yet there is very little evidence on the variations in workplace ...
(published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 23 (4), 415-433 )
J51, J53, J83
9962 Ronald Bachmann
Hanna Frings
Monopsonistic Competition, Low-Wage Labour Markets, and Minimum Wages: An Empirical Analysis
This paper investigates the degree of monopsony power of employers in different industries against the background of a statutory minimum wage introduction in Germany in January 2015. A ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2017, 49 (51), 5268-5286 )
J42, J31, J38
9961 Lawrence M. Kahn
Permanent Jobs, Employment Protection and Job Content
Using Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) data for 21 countries, I study the impact of employment protection laws (EPL) on job content. Economic theories predict ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2018, 57 (3), 569-638)
J31, J42
9960 Pedro Carneiro
Jishnu Das
Hugo Reis
The Value of Private Schools: Evidence from Pakistan
Using unique data from Pakistan we estimate a model of demand for differentiated products in 112 rural education markets with significant choice among public and private schools. Our model accounts ...
(revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106 (5), 1301 - 1318)
I20, I21
9959 Anica Kramer
Marcus Tamm
Does Learning Beget Learning Throughout Adulthood? Evidence from Employees' Training Participation
Individuals with more years of education generally acquire more training later on in life. Such a relationship may be due to skills learned in early periods increasing returns to educational ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Does learning trigger learning throughout adulthood? Evidence from training participation of the employed population' in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 62, 82-90)
I21, I24, I26, J24
9958 Rania Gihleb
Osnat Lifshitz
Dynamic Effects of Educational Assortative Mating on Labor Supply
In 30% of young American couples the wife is more educated than the husband. Those women are characterized by a substantially higher employment (all else equal), which in turn amplifies income ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2022, 46, 302-327)
J22, J12, J24, J31
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