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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9979 Massimiliano Bratti
Tommaso Frattini
Francesco Scervini
Grandparental Availability for Child Care and Maternal Employment: Pension Reform Evidence from Italy
In this paper, we exploit pension reform-induced changes in retirement eligibility requirements to assess the role of grandparental child care availability in the employment of women who have ...
(revised version published as "Grandparental availability for child care and maternal labor force participation: Pension reform evidence from Italy" in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31(4), 1239–1277)
J13, J22
9978 Seth Gershenson
Should Value-Added Models Control for Student Absences?
Whether or not value-added models should control for contemporaneous student absences is theoretically ambiguous, as such absences are only partly outside of teachers' control. Teachers often feel ...
(published in: Teachers College Record, 2016, ID No. 21629.)
I2
9977 Marco Francesconi
James J. Heckman
Symposium on Child Development and Parental Investment: Introduction
This paper introduces the EJ Symposium on Child Development by reviewing the literature and placing the contributions of the papers in the Symposium in the context of a vibrant literature.
(published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126(596), F1-F27)
H43, I21, I24, J13, J24
9976 Can Tang
Liqiu Zhao
Zhong Zhao
Child Labor in China
We present the first systematic study on child labor in China. Child labor is not a negligible social phenomenon in China; about 7.74% of children aged from 10 to 15 were working in 2010, and they ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2018, 51, 149-166)
J43, J81, O15
9975 Christopher Taber
Rune Majlund Vejlin
Estimation of a Roy/Search/Compensating Differential Model of the Labor Market
In this paper we develop a model capturing key features of the Roy model, a search model, compensating differentials, and human capital accumulation on-the-job. We establish which features of the ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2020, 88 (3), 1031 - 1069)
J31, J32, J24
9974 Shantanu Khanna
Deepti Goel
René Morissette
Decomposition Analysis of Earnings Inequality in Rural India: 2004-2012
We analyze the changes in earnings of paid workers (wage earners) in rural India from 2004/05 to 2011/12. Real earnings increased at all percentiles, and the percentage increase was larger at the ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2016, 5 (18))
J30, J31, O53
9973 Subhayu Bandyopadhyay
Arnab K. Basu
Nancy H. Chau
Devashish Mitra
Disentangling the Wage Impacts of Offshoring on a Developing Country: Theory and Policy
The various channels through which a reduction in the cost of offshoring can improve wages in a developed country are by now well understood. But does a similar reduction in the offshoring cost also ...
(revised version published as 'Consequences of Offshoring to Developing Nations: Labor-Market Outcomes, Welfare and Corrective Interventions' in: Economic Inquiry, 2020, 58 (1), 209 -224)
F11, F13, F16, F66, O19, O24
9972 Arnab K. Basu
Nancy H. Chau
Gary S. Fields
Ravi Kanbur
Job Creation in a Multi-Sector Labor Market Model for Developing Economies
This paper proposes an overlapping generations multi-sector model of the labor market for developing countries with three heterogeneities – heterogeneity within self-employment, heterogeneity in ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2019, 71 (1), 119 - 144)
O17, I32
9971 Alexander M. Danzer
Robert Grundke
Coerced Labor in the Cotton Sector: How Global Commodity Prices (Don't) Transmit to the Poor
This paper investigates the economic fortunes of coerced vs. free workers in a global supply chain. To identify the differential treatment of otherwise similar workers we resort to a unique exogenous ...
(published as 'Export price shocks and rural labor markets: The role of labor market distortions' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 145, 102464)
J47, J43, F16, O13, Q12
9970 Christophe Jalil Nordman
Faly Rakotomanana
François Roubaud
Informal versus Formal: A Panel Data Analysis of Earnings Gaps in Madagascar
Little is known about the informal sector's income structure vis-à-vis the formal sector, despite its predominant economic weight in developing countries. While most of the papers on this topic are ...
(published in: World Development, 2016, 86, 1–17)
J21, J23, J24, J31, O17
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