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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9672 Arno Tausch
Almas Heshmati
Islamism and Gender Relations in the Muslim World as Reflected in Recent World Values Survey Data
Ever since Goldin (1995) proposed the idea that there is a U-shaped female labor force participation rate function in economic development, empirical research is stunned by the question why the ...
(published in: Society and Economy, 2016, 38 (4), 427–453 )
A13, C43, F66, J15, J16, J21, J42, N30, Z12
9671 Murat Iyigun
Jeanne Lafortune
Why Wait? A Century of Education, Marriage Timing and Gender Roles
We document that, over the 20th century, age at first marriage followed a U-shaped pattern, while the gender education gap tracked an inverted-U path in the United States. To explain this, we propose ...
(published as 'Putting the Husband Through: Role of Credit Constraints in Timing of Marriage and Spousal Education' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41 (1), 245–289)
J12, J11, N32
9670 Eve Caroli
Lexane Weber-Baghdiguian
Self-Reported Health and Gender: The Role of Social Norms
We investigate the role of social norms in accounting for differences in self-reported health as reported by men and women. Using the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS, 2010), we first ...
(published in Social Science & Medicine, 153, 220-229, 2016)
I12, I19, J16
9669 Michael Jetter
Jay K. Walker
Gender in Jeopardy!: The Role of Opponent Gender in High-Stakes Competition
Using 4,279 episodes of the popular US game show Jeopardy!, we analyze whether the opponents' gender is able to explain the gender gap in competitive behavior. Our findings indicate that gender ...
(published as 'The gender of opponents: Explaining gender differences in performance and risk-taking' in: European Economic Review, 2018, 109, 238 - 256)
D03, J10, J16
9668 Peter Norlander
Todd A. Sorensen
Discouraged Immigrants and the Missing Pop in EPOP
We address the impact of declining migration on the measurement of labor market health. We first document an historically significant decline in the growth rate of the U.S. foreign born population ...
(published as '21st Century Slowdown: The Historic Nature of Recent Declines in the Growth of the Immigrant Population in the United States' in: Migration Letters, 2018, 15 (3), 410 - 422)
J21, J61
9667 Ali Fakih
May Ibrahim
The Impact of Syrian Refugees on the Labor Market in Neighboring Countries: Empirical Evidence from Jordan
This paper analyzes time-sensitive data on a humanitarian crisis in the Middle East. It aims to assess the impact of the steep influx of Syrian refugees into Jordan on the country's labor market ...
(published in: Defence and Peace Economics, 2016, 27 (1), 64-86)
J61, H56, N45
9666 Alessandra Casarico
Giovanni Facchini
Tommaso Frattini
What Drives the Legalization of Immigrants? Evidence from IRCA
We develop a model to understand the trade-offs faced by an elected representative in supporting an amnesty when a restrictive immigration policy is in place. We show that an amnesty is more ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2018, 70, 258-27)
F22, O51
9665 Richard V. Burkhauser
Markus Hahn
Matthew Hall
Nicole Watson
Australia Farewell: Predictors of Emigration in the 2000s
The factors leading individuals to immigrate to developed nations are widely studied, but comparatively less is known about those who emigrate from them. In this paper, we use data from a nationally ...
(revided version published in: Population Research and Policy Review, 2016, 35(2), 197-215.)
J1, J6
9664 Osea Giuntella
Luca Stella
The Acceleration of Immigrant Unhealthy Assimilation
It is well-known that immigrants tend to be healthier than US natives and that this advantage erodes with time spent in the US. However, we know less about the heterogeneity of these trajectories ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2017, 26 (4), 511-518)
J15, I10
9663 Maarten van Ham
Tiit Tammaru
New Perspectives on Ethnic Segregation over Time and Space: A Domains Approach
The term segregation has a strong connotation with residential neighbourhoods, and most studies investigating ethnic segregation focus on the urban mosaic of ethnic concentrations in residential ...
(published in: Urban Geography, 2016, 37 (7), 953-962)
I32, J15, R23
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