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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9584 Stijn Baert
Do They Find You on Facebook? Facebook Profile Picture and Hiring Chances
We investigate whether the publicly available information on Facebook about job applicants affects employers' hiring decisions. To this end, we conduct a field experiment in which fictitious job ...
(revised version published as 'Facebook profile picture appearance affects recruiterd first hiring decisions' in: New Media & Society, 2018, 20 (3), 1220 - 1239)
C93, D83, J24, J79, L86
9583 Lutz Bellmann
Olaf Hübler
Are Working Time Accounts Beneficial for German Establishments?
This contribution investigates whether working time accounts are beneficial for the performance of German establishments. Based on the representative German Establishment Panel of the Institute for ...
(published as 'Working time accounts and firm performance in Germany' in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2015, 4:24)
C22, D21, J21, J22
9582 Dirk Van de gaer
Xavier Ramos
Measurement of Inequality of Opportunity Based on Counterfactuals
The theoretical literature on inequality of opportunity formulates basic properties that measures of inequality of opportunity should have. Standard methods for the measurement of inequality of ...
(published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2020, 55, 595–627)
D3, D63, C1
9581 Erik Bengtsson
Daniel Waldenström
Capital Shares and Income inequality: Evidence from the Long Run
This paper investigates the relationship between the capital share in national income and personal income inequality over the long run. Using a new historical cross-country database on capital shares ...
(published in: Journal of Economic History, 2018, 78 (3), 712-74)
D30, N30
9580 Niamh Holton
Donal O'Neill
The Changing Nature of Irish Wage Inequality from Boom to Bust
The dramatic change in economic conditions in Ireland over the last 10 years provides an opportunity to examine the impact of large macroeconomic shocks on inequality. We analyse wage inequality in ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2017, 48 (1):1-26)
J31
9579 Andreas Kuhn
The Individual Perception of Wage Inequality: A Measurement Framework and Some Empirical Evidence
This paper presents a simple conceptual framework specifically tailored to measure individual perceptions of wage inequality. Using internationally comparable survey data, the empirical part of the ...
(revised version published as `The Individual (Mis-)Perception of Wage Inequality: Measurement, Correlates and Implications' in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 59, 2039-2069)
D31, D63, J31
9578 Joop Hartog
Pedro Raposo
Are Starting Wages Reduced by an Insurance Premium for Preventing Wage Decline? Testing the Prediction of Harris and Holmstrom (1982)
In the model of Harris and Holmstrom (1982) workers pay an insurance premium to prevent a wage decline. As employers are unable to assess the ability of a labour market entrant, they would offer a ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 48, 105-119)
J310, D860
9576 John Bennett
Ioana Chioveanu
The Optimal Minimum Wage with Regulatory Uncertainty
For two different regulatory standards, we examine the optimal minimum wage in a competitive labour market when the government is uncertain about supply and demand. Solutions are related to ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2017, 19 (6), 1099-1116)
J38, J31
9573 Semih Tumen
Informal versus Formal Search: Which Yields a Better Pay?
Estimates on the effect of job contact method – i.e., informal versus formal search – on wage offers vary considerably across studies, with some of them finding a positive correlation between getting ...
(published in: International Journal of Economic Theory, 2016, 12(3), 257-277)
D85, J31, J64
9572 Philip Du Caju
François Rycx
Ilan Tojerow
Unemployment Risk and Over-Indebtedness: A Micro-Econometric Perspective
We study how unemployment effects the over-indebtedness of households using the new European Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). First, we assess the role of different labor market ...
(also available as: European Central Bank Working Papers, 2016, No. 1908)
D14, D91, J12
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