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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9848 Robert W. Fairlie
Javier Miranda
Taking the Leap: The Determinants of Entrepreneurs Hiring their First Employee
Job creation is one of the most important aspects of entrepreneurship, but we know relatively little about the hiring patterns and decisions of startups. Longitudinal data from the Integrated ...
(published in: Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2017, 26 (1), 3 - 34)
L26
9847 Daniel Borowczyk-Martins
Etienne Lalé
Employment Adjustment and Part-time Jobs: The U.S. and the U.K. in the Great Recession
We document that fluctuations in part-time employment play a major role in movements in hours per worker, especially during cyclical swings in the labor market. Building on this result, we propose a ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, January 2019, 11 (1), 389-435.)
E24, E32, J21
9846 Patricia Cortes
Jessica Pan
When Time Binds: Returns to Working Long Hours and the Gender Wage Gap among the Highly Skilled
This paper explores the relationship between gender differences in hours worked, the returns to working long hours, and the gender pay gap among highly educated workers. Using a cross-section of ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37 (2), 351-398 )
J16, J22
9845 Danny Cohen-Zada
Alex Krumer
Ze'ev Shtudiner
Psychological Momentum and Gender
We exploit a natural experiment in which two professionals compete in a one-stage contest without strategic motives and where one contestant has a clear exogenous psychological momentum advantage ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 135, 66-81)
J16, J24, L83
9843 Laurens Cherchye
Bram De Rock
Selma Walther
Frederic Vermeulen
Where Did It Go Wrong? Marriage and Divorce in Malawi
Do individuals divorce for economic reasons? Can we measure the attractiveness of new matches in the marriage market? We answer these questions using a structural model of the household and a rich ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2021, 12 (2), 505 - 545)
D11, D12, D13, J12
9842 José Alberto Molina
Alfredo Ferrer
José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal
Carlos Gracia-Lazaro
Yamir Moreno
Angel Sanchez
The Effect of Kinship on Intergenerational Cooperation: A Lab Experiment with Three Generations
In this paper, we analyze how kinship among family members affects intergenerational cooperation in a public good game. 165 individuals from 55 families, comprising three generations (youths, ...
(published as 'Intergenerational cooperation within the household: a Public Good game with three generations' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2018, 17, 535 - 552)
D03, D64, D70
9841 Stefano Gagliarducci
Marco Manacorda
Politics in the Family: Nepotism and the Hiring Decisions of Italian Firms
In this paper we investigate the effect of family connections to politicians on individuals' labor market outcomes. We combine data for Italy over almost three decades from longitudinal social ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020, 12 (2), 67 - 95)
D72, D73, H72, J24, J30, M51
9839 Mikael Elinder
Oscar Erixson
Daniel Waldenström
Inheritance and Wealth Inequality: Evidence from Population Registers
We use new population-wide register data on inheritances and wealth in Sweden to estimate the causal impact of inheritances on wealth inequality. We find that inheritances reduce relative wealth ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 165, 17 - 30)
H24, D63, E21
9838 Sander Gerritsen
Dinand Webbink
Bas ter Weel
Sorting around the Discontinuity Threshold: The Case of a Neighbourhood Investment Programme
This paper investigates the empirical validity of the setup of a large-scale government neighbourhood investment programme in the Netherlands. Selection of neighbourhoods into the programme was ...
(published in: De Economist, 2017, 165 (1), 101-128)
C90, D70, R58
9837 Björn Anders Gustafsson
Katarina Katz
Torun Österberg
Residential Segregation from Generation to Generation: Intergenerational Association in Socio-Spatial Context among Visible Minorities and the Majority Population in Metropolitan Sweden
In this paper, we investigate to what degree young adults live in neighbourhoods that are similar, in terms of relative average household income, to the neighbourhoods in which they grew up. We use ...
(published in Population, Space and Place, 2017, 23 (4), e2028)
J15, J62, R23
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