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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9646 Mirjam Strupler Leiser
Stefan C. Wolter
Empirical Evidence on the Effectiveness of Social Public Procurement Policy: The Case of the Swiss Apprenticeship Training System
In this paper we assess the effectiveness of a social public procurement policy in Switzerland that gives firms that train apprentices a preferential treatment. We estimate the effectiveness of this ...
(published in: Labour, 2017, 31 (2), 204-222)
H32, I28, J08
9645 Øystein Hernaes
Simen Markussen
Knut Røed
Television, Cognitive Ability, and High School Completion
We exploit supply-driven heterogeneity in the expansion of cable television across Norwegian municipalities to identify developmental effects of commercial television exposure during childhood. We ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2019, 54 (2), 371-400)
J13, J16, J24, L82
9644 Øystein Hernaes
Simen Markussen
Knut Røed
Can Welfare Conditionality Combat High School Dropout?
Based on administrative data, we analyze empirically the effects of stricter conditionality for social assistance receipt on welfare dependency and high school completion rates among Norwegian ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 48, 144-156.)
H55, I29, I38, J18
9643 Dongshu Ou
Zhong Zhao
Higher Education Expansion and Labor Market Outcomes for Young College Graduates
We examine the causal impact of China's higher education expansion on labor market outcomes for young college graduates using China's 2005 1% Population Sample Survey. Exploiting variation in the ...
(revised version published in: China & World Economy, 2022, 30 (2), 117-141)
I23, I28, J31, O15
9642 Binnur Balkan
Semih Tumen
Immigration and Prices: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Syrian Refugees in Turkey
We exploit the regional variation in the unexpected (or forced) inflow of Syrian refugees as a natural experiment to estimate the impact of immigration on consumer prices in Turkey. Using a ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29(3), 657-686)
C21, E31, J46, J61
9641 Nancy H. Chau
Yu Qin
Weiwen Zhang
Leader Networks and Transaction Costs: A Chinese Experiment in Interjurisdictional Contracting
Do leader networks promote efficient intergovernmental contracts? We examine a groundbreaking policy in China where subprovincial governments freely traded land conversion quotas, and investigate the ...
(published as 'Leader Networks and Interjurisdictional Contracting in Land Conversion Quotas' in: Land Economics, 2024, 100 (3), 568-587)
H11, H77, P35, R52, D23
9640 Sylvie Démurger
Xiaoqian Wang
Remittances and Expenditure Patterns of the Left Behinds in Rural China
This paper investigates how private transfers from internal migration in China affect the expenditure behaviour of families left behind in rural areas. Using data from the Rural-Urban Migration in ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2016, 37, 177-190)
O15, J22, R23, D13, O53
9639 Joyce J Chen
Katrina Kosec
Valerie Mueller
Temporary and Permanent Migrant Selection: Theory and Evidence of Ability-Search Cost Dynamics
The migrant selection literature concentrates primarily on spatial patterns. This paper illustrates the implications of migration duration for patterns of selection by integrating two workhorses of ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2019, 23 (4), 1477-1519)
J61, O15
9638 Rafael Dix-Carneiro
Rodrigo R. Soares
Gabriel Ulyssea
Local Labor Market Conditions and Crime: Evidence from the Brazilian Trade Liberalization
This paper estimates the effect of local labor market conditions on crime in a developing country with high crime rates. Contrary to the previous literature, which has focused exclusively on ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (4), 158-195)
F16, J23, J24, K42
9637 Niaz Asadullah
Saizi Xiao
Emile Kok-Kheng Yeoh
Subjective Well-being in China, 2005-2010: The Role of Relative Income, Gender and Location
We use data from two rounds of the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) to study the determinants of subjective well-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2018, 48, 83–101)
O12, I30, I31
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