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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9786 Jonneke Bolhaar
Nadine Ketel
Bas van der Klaauw
Job-Search Periods for Welfare Applicants: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
This paper studies mandatory job-search periods for welfare applicants. During this period the benefits application is put on hold and the applicant is obliged to make job applications. We combine a ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, 11(1), 92-125)
C21, C93, I38, J64, J08
9785 Manudeep Bhuller
Christian Brinch
Sebastian Königs
Time Aggregation and State Dependence in Welfare Receipt
Dynamic discrete-choice models are an important tool in studies of state dependence in benefit receipt. A common assumption of such models is that benefit receipt sequences follow a conditional ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (604), 1833-1873.)
I38, J60, J64, C23, C41
9784 María Laura Alzúa
Guillermo Cruces
Carolina Lopez
Long Run Effects of Youth Training Programs: Experimental Evidence from Argentina
We study the effect of a job training program for low income youth in Cordoba, Argentina. The program included life-skills and vocational training, as well as internships with private sector ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2016, 54 (4), 1839 - 1859)
J08, J24, J68, O15
9783 Matija Vodopivec
Suzana Laporsek
Milan Vodopivec
Levelling the Playing Field: The Effects of Slovenia's 2013 Labour Market Reform
We examine the effects of a 2013 labour market reform in Slovenia which made permanent contracts less restrictive and fixed-term contracts more restrictive. Using matched employer-employee database ...
(published in: Economic and Business Review, 2019, 21(1).)
J62, J63, J68
9782 Gerard J. van den Berg
Petyo Bonev
Enno Mammen
Nonparametric Instrumental Variable Methods for Dynamic Treatment Evaluation
We develop a nonparametric instrumental variable approach for the estimation of average treatment effects on hazard rates and conditional survival probabilities, without model structure. We derive ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (2), 355–367.)
C14, C41, J64, J65
9780 Dhaval M. Dave
Hope Corman
Nancy E. Reichman
Effects of Welfare Reform on Women's Voting Participation
Voting is an important form of civic participation in democratic societies but a fundamental right that many citizens do not exercise. This study investigates the effects of welfare reform in the ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2017, 55 (3), 1430-1451)
H0, I2, J2, J3
9779 Ingvild Almås
Alex Armand
Orazio Attanasio
Pedro Carneiro
Measuring and Changing Control: Women's Empowerment and Targeted Transfers
This paper studies how targeted cash transfers to women affect their empowerment. We use a novel identification strategy to measure women's willingness to pay to receive cash transfers instead of ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (612), F609 - F639)
D13, O12, J16
9776 Henry R. Hyatt
James R. Spletzer
The Shifting Job Tenure Distribution
There has been a shift in the U.S. job tenure distribution toward longer-duration jobs since 2000. This change is apparent both in the tenure supplements to the Current Population Survey and the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 41 (1), 363-377)
J10, J21, J31
9775 Daniel Borowczyk-Martins
Etienne Lalé
How Bad Is Involuntary Part-time Work?
We use a set of empirical and analytical tools to conduct parallel analyses of involuntary part-time work and unemployment in the U.S. labor market. In the empirical analysis, we document that the ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2018, 70 (1), 183-205.)
E21, E32, J21
9774 Osea Giuntella
Wei Han
Fabrizio Mazzonna
Circadian Rhythms, Sleep and Cognitive Skills: Evidence from an Unsleeping Giant
This paper analyzes the effects of sleep duration on cognitive skills and depression symptoms of older workers in China. Cognitive skills and mental health have been associated with sleep duration ...
(published in: Demography, 2017 54 (5), 1715–1742)
I12
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