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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9504 Armin Falk
Anke Becker
Thomas Dohmen
Benjamin Enke
David B. Huffman
Uwe Sunde
The Nature and Predictive Power of Preferences: Global Evidence
This paper presents the Global Preference Survey, a globally representative dataset on risk and time preferences, positive and negative reciprocity, altruism, and trust. We collected these preference ...
(revised version published as 'Global Evidence on Economic Preferences' in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2018, 133 (4), 1645-1692)
D01, D03, F00
9503 Nikos Askitas
Predicting Road Conditions with Internet Search
Traffic jams are an important problem both on an individual and on a societal level and much research has been done on trying to explain their emergence. The mainstream approach to road traffic ...
(published in: PLoS ONE, 2016, 11 (8), e0162080 )
R41
9501 Alan Benson
Aaron Sojourner
Akhmed Umyarov
Can Reputation Discipline the Gig Economy? Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market
In two experiments, we examine the effects of employer reputation in an online labor market (Amazon Mechanical Turk) in which employers may decline to pay workers while keeping their work product. ...
(published in: Management Science, 2020, 66 (5), 1802-1825 )
L14, M55, J41, J2, L86, D82, K12, K42
9500 Nicholas Larsen
Barry R. Chiswick
The Impact of Missionary Type on the English Language Proficiency and Earnings of Immigrants
This paper analyzes the impact of missionary activity on English language proficiency and labor market earnings of all immigrants to the United States by using the pooled files of the American ...
(published as 'The impact of exposure to missionaries on the English language proficiency and earnings of immigrants in the USA' in: International Journal of Manpower, 2019, 40 (4), 574 - 590)
F22, J61, J31, J24, Z12
9499 Alicia Adsera
Ana Ferrer
The Effect of Linguistic Proximity on the Occupational Assimilation of Immigrant Men in Canada
This paper contributes to the analysis of the integration of immigrants in the Canadian labour market by focusing in two relatively new dimensions. We combine the large samples of the restricted ...
(published as 'Linguistic Proximity and the Labour Market Performance of Immigrant Men in Canada' in: Labour, 2021, 35 (1), 1 - 23)
F22, J24, J31, J5
9497 Michaela Slotwinski
Alois Stutzer
The Deterrent Effect of Voting Against Minarets: Identity Utility and Foreigners' Location Choice
This paper uses the vote on the Swiss minaret initiative as a natural experiment to identify the causal effect of negative attitudes towards immigrants on foreigners' location choices and thus ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2019, 32 (3), 1043–1095)
D83, J61, R23, Z13
9495 Neeraj Kaushal
Yao Lu
Nicole Denier
Julia Shu-Huah Wang
Stephen J. Trejo
Immigrant Employment and Earnings Growth in Canada and the U.S.: Evidence from Longitudinal Data
We study the short-term trajectories of employment, hours worked, and real wages of immigrants in Canada and the U.S. using nationally representative longitudinal datasets covering 1996-2008. Models ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29 (4), 1249-1277.)
J15, J3, J18
9494 Teresa Molina Millán
Regional Migration, Insurance and Economic Shocks: Evidence from Nicaragua
To test whether transfers sent and received by regional migrants serve an insurance role, this paper estimates the causal impact of income shocks at a migrant's origin and destination location on the ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2020, 56 (11), 2000-2029 )
O12, O15, F24, R23
9493 Eleni Kalfa
Matloob Piracha
Social Networks and the Labour Market Mismatch
This paper assesses the extent to which social contacts and ethnic concentration affect the education-occupation mismatch of natives and immigrants. Using Australian panel data and employing a ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31(3), 877-914)
F22, J61, Z13
9492 John Gibson
David McKenzie
Halahingano Rohorua
Steven Stillman
The Long-Term Impacts of International Migration: Evidence from a Lottery
We examine the long-term impacts of international migration by comparing immigrants who had successful ballot entries in a migration lottery program, and first moved almost a decade ago, with people ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2018, 32(1), 127-47)
F22, O15
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