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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
16273 Catherine Haeck
Jean-William Laliberté
Careers and Intergenerational Income Mobility
This paper uses Census microdata linked with tax records to quantify the contribution of career choices - occupations and fields of study - to intergenerational income mobility. We document ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2025, 17 (1), 431–458)
J62, J24
16271 Markus Poschke
Wage Employment, Unemployment and Self-Employment across Countries
Poor countries have low wage employment and high self-employment. This paper shows that they also have high unemployment relative to wage employment, and that self-employment increases with this ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics. 2025, 149, 103684)
O11, E24, J64, L26
16268 Antoine Bertheau
Birthe Larsen
Zeyu Zhao
What Makes Hiring Difficult? Evidence from Linked Survey-Administrative Data
We design a survey that asks firms about the obstacles that discourage them from hiring despite having potential needs. Using Danish administrative data and subjective beliefs elicited from our ...
(this version: December 2023)
J23, M12
16267 Uwe Jirjahn
Jens Mohrenweiser
Variable Payment Schemes and Productivity: Do Individual-Based Schemes Really Have a Stronger Influence than Collective Ones?
While studies on individual-based and collective payment schemes are largely unconnected, there appears to be a widely held belief that individual-based schemes have a stronger influence on firm ...
(revised version published in: Kyklos, 2025, 78, 1316-1332)
J33, M52, M50
16266 Ines Helm
Nicolas Koch
Alexander Rohlf
The Effects of Cash for Clunkers on Local Air Quality
We study the effects of a large car scrappage scheme in Germany on new car purchases and local air quality by combining vehicle registration data with data on local air pollutant emissions. For ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2023, 138, 103576)
H20, H23, Q53, Q58
16265 Jonathan Phares
Jason W. Miller
Stephen V. Burks
State-Level Trucking Employment and the COVID-19 Pandemic in the U.S: Understanding Heterogenous Declines and Rebounds
Some of the U.S. states saw sharper declines in truck transportation payrolls at the onset of the COVID-19 shutdown, and others displayed differing trajectories in the rebound of truck transportation ...
(revised version published as 'Shedding light on truck driver supply and demand: Heterogeneous state-level recovery of trucking employment following the COVID-19 employment shock' in: Transportation Journal, 2025, 65 (1), e12038)
J21, L92, R41
16264 Oded Stark
Covid-19 and Income Inequality in OECD Countries: A Methodological Comment
Wildman (2021), who identifies "a clear association between income inequality [measured by the Gini coefficient] and COVID-19 cases and deaths," concludes that "a goal of government should be to ...
(published in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 24, 1235–1237)
D01, D63, D91, I10, I14, I31, Z18
16262 Anna Bottasso
Massimiliano Bratti
Gabriele Cardullo
Maurizio Conti
Giovanni Sulis
Labor Market Regulation and Firm Adjustments in Skill Demand
We study how changes in labor market regulation may trigger firm adjustments in skill demand. Leveraging rich administrative data from Italy, we investigate the effects of a reform that reduced ...
(revised version published as 'Labor Market Regulations and Firm Adjustments in Skill Demand' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2025, 242, 105292)
J42, J63, J65, M53
16261 Luisa Wieser
Martin Abraham
Claus Schnabel
Cornelia Niessen
Mauren Wolff
When Are Employers Interested in Electronic Performance Monitoring? Results from a Factorial Survey Experiment
This paper examines what affects supervisors' considerations about (not) using monitoring technologies to keep track of their subordinates and their work performance. Following a cost-benefit ...
(slightly revised version published as 'Employers’ Muted Interest in Electronic Performance Monitoring (EPM)' in: S. Pfeiffer et al. (eds.), Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelten, SpringerNature. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2024, 181-202)
M50, D22, J01
16260 Annette Alstadsæter
Bernt Bratsberg
Simen Markussen
Oddbjørn Raaum
Knut Røed
Social Gradients in Employment during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic
We examine employment effects of the COVID-19 crisis in Norway during the initial lockdown, through the subsequent recovery, and after the dust had settled. While we identify large and socially ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2025, 63 (2), 440–514)
E24, J2, J4, J6, J11
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