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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9956 Jimmy R. Ellis
Seth Gershenson
LATE for the Meeting: Gender, Peer Advising, and College Success
Many male and first-generation college goers struggle in their first year of postsecondary education. Mentoring programs have been touted as a potential solution to help such students acclimate to ...
(published as 'Gender, peer advising, and college success' in: Labour Economics, 2020, 62, 101775)
I21, I23, I28
9955 Stephen Machin
Sandra McNally
Martina Viarengo
"Teaching to Teach" Literacy
Significant numbers of people have very low levels of literacy in many OECD countries and, because of this, face significant labour market penalties. Despite this, it remains unclear what teaching ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2018, 10, 217-41 )
I21, I28
9954 Rodrigo Fernandez
Herwig Immervoll
Daniele Pacifico
Céline Thévenot
Faces of Joblessness: Characterising Employment Barriers to Inform Policy
This paper proposes a novel method for identifying and visualising key employment obstacles that may prevent individuals from participating fully in the labour market. The approach is intended to ...
(also available as OECD Social, Employment and Migration Paper)
C38, J08, H31, J21, J22, J68, J82
9953 Juan J. Dolado
Etienne Lalé
Nawid Siassi
From Dual to Unified Employment Protection: Transition and Steady State
This paper analyses the optimal design of a single open-ended contract (SOEC) and studies the political economy of moving towards such a SOEC in a labour market where employment protection is highly ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2021, 12 (2), 547-585.)
H29, J33, J65
9952 Atanu Ghoshray
Javier Ordóñez
Hector Sala
Euro, Crisis and Unemployment: Youth Patterns, Youth Policies?
This paper examines the occurrence of structural breaks in European unemployment associated with major events experienced by the European economies at an institutional level: the creation of the ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2016, 58, 442-453.)
J64, O52, J08, F66
9951 Daniel Haanwinckel
Rodrigo R. Soares
Workforce Composition, Productivity, and Labor Regulations in a Compensating Differentials Theory of Informality
We develop a search model of informal labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, intra-firm bargaining with imperfect substitutability across types of workers, and a comprehensive set of labor ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2021, 88 (6), 2970-3010)
J24, J31, J46, J64, O17
9950 Xiaoming Cai
Pieter A. Gautier
Ronald P. Wolthoff
Search Frictions, Competing Mechanisms and Optimal Market Segmentation
In a market in which sellers compete for heterogeneous buyers by posting mechanisms, we analyze how the properties of the meeting technology affect the allocation of buyers to sellers. We show that a ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2017, 169, 453-473)
C78, D44, D83
9949 Guoqian Xi
Jörn Block
Frank Lasch
Frank Robert
Roy Thurik
Work Experience from Paid Employment and the Path to Entrepreneurship: Business Takeover versus New Venture Start-Up
Our paper investigates how the type of work experience gained from prior paid employment influences the path to entrepreneurship. We distinguish between two distinct entrepreneurship entry modes: ...
(published as 'Work experience from paid employment and entry mode to entrepreneurship: business takeover versus new venture start-up' in: Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat, 2018, 17 (2), 91-112)
L26
9947 S. Nageeb Ali
Roland Benabou
Image versus Information: Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy
We analyze the costs and benefits of using social image to foster virtuous behavior. A Principal seeks to motivate reputation-conscious agents to supply a public good. Each agent chooses how much to ...
(published as 'Image versus Information: Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy' in: American Economic Review, 2020, 13 (3), 116 - 164)
D62, D64, D82, H41, K42, Z13
9945 Guillaume Daudin
Raphaël Franck
Hillel Rapoport
The Cultural Diffusion of the Fertility Transition: Evidence from Internal Migration in 19th Century France
France experienced the demographic transition before richer and more educated countries. This paper offers a novel explanation for this puzzle that emphasizes the diffusion of culture and information ...
(published as 'Can internal migration foster convergence in regional fertility rates? Evidence from 19th Century France' in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (620), 1618-1692)
J13, N33, O15
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