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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
9636 Milena Nikolova
Boris Nikolaev
Does Joining the EU Make You Happy? Evidence from Bulgaria and Romania
We examine the effect of joining the European Union on individual life satisfaction in Bulgaria and Romania in the context of the 2007 EU enlargement. Although EU membership is among the most ...
(published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2017, 18, 1593 - 1623)
I31, I39, P20
9635 Boris Hirsch
Elke J. Jahn
Michael Oberfichtner
The Urban Wage Premium in Imperfect Labour Markets
Using administrative data for West Germany, this paper investigates whether part of the urban wage premium stems from fierce competition in thick labour markets. We first establish that employers ...
(substantially revised version coauthored with Alan Manning published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57, S111-S136)
R23, J42, J31
9633 Lixin Cai
Kostas Mavromaras
Peter J. Sloane
Low Paid Employment in Britain: Estimating State-Dependence and Stepping Stone Effects
Using 18 waves of the British Household Panel Study, this paper examines state dependence and stepping stone effects of low pay. A distinguishing feature is that five types of transition- not in the ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80 (2), 283 - 326)
J24, J31, I21
9632 Petri Böckerman
Per Skedinger
Roope Uusitalo
Seniority Rules, Worker Mobility and Wages: Evidence from Multi-Country Linked Employer-Employee Data
We construct a multi-country employer-employee data to examine the consequences of employment protection. We identify the effects by comparing worker exit rates between units of the same firm that ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 48-62)
K31, J63, J32, J08, L51
9631 Barry Hirsch
Muhammad M. Husain
John V. Winters
The Puzzling Fixity of Multiple Job Holding across Regions and Labor Markets
Multiple job holding rates differ substantially across U.S. regions, states, and metropolitan areas. Rates decrease markedly with respect to labor market size. These patterns have been largely ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2017, 84 (1), 26-51)
J21, R23
9630 Barry Hirsch
Muhammad M. Husain
John V. Winters
Multiple Job Holding, Local Labor Markets, and the Business Cycle
About 5 percent of U.S. workers hold multiple jobs, which can exacerbate or mitigate employment changes over the business cycle. Theory is ambiguous and prior literature is not fully conclusive. We ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 5:4)
J21
9629 Christina Patterson
Aysegül Sahin
Giorgio Topa
Giovanni L. Violante
Working Hard in the Wrong Place: A Mismatch-Based Explanation to the UK Productivity Puzzle
The UK experienced an unusually prolonged stagnation in labor productivity in the aftermath of the Great Recession. This paper analyzes the role of sectoral labor misallocation in accounting for this ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 84, 42-56)
E24, E32, J24
9628 Marco Caliendo
Steffen Künn
Martin Weißenberger
Personality Traits and the Evaluation of Start-Up Subsidies
Many countries support business start-ups to spur economic growth and reduce unemployment with different programmes. Evaluation studies of such programmes commonly rely on the conditional ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 86, 87-108)
C14, L26, H43, J68
9627 Bert van Landeghem
Frank Cörvers
Andries de Grip
Is There a Rationale to Contact the Unemployed Right from the Start? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
Active Labour Market Policies often exclusively target towards the long-term unemployed. Although it might be more efficient to intervene earlier in order to prevent long-term unemployment rather ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 45, 158-168 )
D04, D61, J64, J68
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