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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9538 Simone Bertoli
Vianney Dequiedt
Yves Zenou
Can Selective Immigration Policies Reduce Migrants' Quality?
Destination countries can adopt selective immigration policies to improve migrants' quality. Screening potential migrants on the basis of observable characteristics also influences their ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 119, 100-109)
F22, K37, J61
9537 Khalid Sekkat
Ariane Szafarz
Ilan Tojerow
Women at the Top in Developing Countries: Evidence from Firm-Level Data
This paper uses worldwide firm-level data to scrutinize the governance factors that favor gender diversity in leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is ...
(published as 'Female corporate owners and female CEOs' in: Economics Letters, 2023, 232, 111285)
O15, J71, G32, M51, D22
9536 Stijn Baert
Hiring a Homosexual, Taking a Risk? A Lab Experiment on Employment Discrimination and Risk Aversion
We investigate risk aversion as a driver of labour market discrimination against homosexual men. We show that more hiring discrimination by more risk-averse employers is consistent with taste-based ...
(revised version published as 'Hiring a Gay Man, Taking a Risk?: A Lab Experiment on Employment Discrimination and Risk Aversion' in: Journal of Homosexuality, 2018, 65 (8), 1015 - 1031)
C91, J15, J71
9535 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Julie Moschion
Gender Gaps in Early Educational Achievement
This paper analyzes the source of the gender gap in third grade numeracy and reading. We adopt an Oaxaca-Blinder approach and decompose the gender gap in educational achievement into endowment and ...
(published in Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30 (4), 1093–1134)
J16, I21, I24
9534 Francine D. Blau
Immigrants and Gender Roles: Assimilation vs. Culture
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women's behavior in the United States – looking both over time with immigrants' ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2015, 4)
J13, J16, J22, J24, J61
9533 Karin Hederos Eriksson
Anders Stenberg
Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households: Evidence from Sweden
Bertrand et al. (2015) show that among married couples in the US, the distribution of the share of the household income earned by the wife exhibits a sharp drop just to the right of .50. They argue ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2022, 124 (3), 744 - 772)
D10, J12, J16
9532 Wei Huang
Yi Zhou
One-Child Policy, Marriage Distortion, and Welfare Loss
Using plausibly exogenous variations in the ethnicity-specific assigned birth quotas and different fertility penalties across Chinese provinces over time, we provide new evidence for the transferable ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 29 May 2023)
H20, I31, J12, J13, J18
9531 Anna Kurowska
Michal Myck
Katharina Wrohlich
Making Work Pay: Increasing Labour Supply of Secondary Earners in Low Income Families with Children
In-work support through the tax-benefit system has proved to be an effective way of increasing labour supply of lone mothers and first earners in couples in a number of OECD countries. At the same ...
(published in: Contemporary Economics, 2017, 11(2), 161-170)
J22, J13, J18
9530 Ann P. Bartel
Maya Rossin-Slater
Christopher J. Ruhm
Jenna Stearns
Jane Waldfogel
Paid Family Leave, Fathers' Leave-Taking, and Leave-Sharing in Dual-Earner Households
This paper provides quasi-experimental evidence on the impact of paid leave legislation on fathers' leave-taking, as well as on the division of leave between mothers and fathers in dual-earner ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2018, 37 (1), 10-37)
J2, J13, J18
9529 David Neumark
Policy Levers to Increase Jobs and Increase Income from Work after the Great Recession
The depth of the Great Recession, the slow recovery of job creation, the downward trend in labor force participation, high long-term unemployment, stagnant or declining wages for low-to-medium skill ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2015, 5, 6 (2016) )
J2, J3, J6
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