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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9828 David de la Croix
Matthias Doepke
Joel Mokyr
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy
In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, Western Europe gradually pulled ahead of other world regions in terms of technological creativity, population growth, and income per capita. ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2018, 133 (1), 1-70)
E02, J24, N10, N30, O33, O43
9827 Robert A. Hart
Mirko Moro
J. Elizabeth Roberts
Who Gained from the Introduction of Free Universal Secondary Education in England and Wales?
This paper investigates the introduction of free universal secondary education in England and Wales in 1944. It focuses on its effects in relation to a prime long-term goal of pre-war Boards of ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2017, 69 (3), 707-733)
I21, I24, I28
9826 Nick Drydakis
The Effect of University Attended on Graduates' Labour Market Prospects: A Field Study of Great Britain
Utilizing data for comparable BSc graduates in economics who have studied in different universities that had set the same entry standards, we compare job seekers' employment prospects when they ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 52, 192 - 208)
I23, I26
9825 Simen Markussen
Knut Rĝed
The Market for Paid Sick Leave
In many countries, general practitioners (GPs) are assigned the task of controlling the validity of their own patients' insurance claims. At the same time, they operate in a market where patients are ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 55, 244-261)
H55, I11, I18
9823 Donald O. Parsons
The Simple Analytics of Job Displacement Insurance
Job displacement in the U.S. is a serious threat to the earnings of long-tenured workers, through both (i) unemployment spells and (ii) reduced reemployment wages. Although full insurance requires ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2019, 86 (2), 351 - 380)
J65, J41, J33, J08
9822 Karina Doorley
Nico Pestel
Labour Supply after Inheritances and the Role of Expectations
This paper examines the effect of wealth on labour market behaviour. Providing convincing evidence on this relationship is challenging since wealth and labour supply may be endogenously determined. ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 82(4), 843-863)
D31, J22, L26
9821 Helmuth Cremer
Pierre Pestieau
Taxing Pensions
There exists a wide variety of tax treatments of pensions across the world. And the reasons for such a range of regimes are not clear. This note reviews the general principles of pension taxes and ...
(published in: Robert Holzmann and John Piggott (eds.), The Taxation of Pensions, Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2018.)
H21, H55
9820 Friedrich Schneider
Andreas Buehn
Estimating the Size of the Shadow Economy: Methods, Problems and Open Questions
This paper presents various methods for estimating the size of the shadow economy and analyzes their strengths and weaknesses. The purpose of the paper is twofold. Firstly, it demonstrates that no ...
(published as 'Shadow Economy: Estimation Methods, Problems, Results and Open questions' in: Open Economics, 2018, 1, 1-29)
D78, E26, H2, H11, H26, K42, O5, O17
9819 Arjeta Aliaj
Xavier Flawinne
Alain Jousten
Sergio Perelman
Lin Shi
Old?Age Employment and Hours of Work Trends: Empirical Analysis for Four European Countries
For the last two decades, the increase of employment among cohorts of individuals aged 50+ has been a policy objective on the European employment agenda. The present paper takes stock of the ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Studies 2016, 5, 16 (2016))
J08, J21, J26
9818 Steffen Otterbach
Mark Wooden
Yin King Fok
Working-Time Mismatch and Mental Health
Nationally representative panel survey data for Germany and Australia are used to investigate the impact of working-time mismatches (i.e., differences between actual and desired work hours) on mental ...
(revised version published as 'Working-time regulation, long hours working, overemployment and mental health' in: International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2021, 32 (22), 4659 - 4686 )
I12, J22
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