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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9281 Naci Mocan
Luiza Pogorelova
Why Work More? The Impact of Taxes, and Culture of Leisure on Labor Supply in Europe
We use micro data from the European Social Survey to investigate the impact of “culture of leisure” and taxes on labor force participation and hours worked of second-generation immigrants who reside ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2019. 47, 618-639.)
J22, Z1
9280 Petter Lundborg
Kaveh Majlesi
Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Is It a One-Way Street?
Studies on the intergenerational transmission of human capital usually assume a one-way spillover from parents to children. But what if children also affect their parents' human capital? Using ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 57, 206 - 220)
I10, 126
9279 Rasmus Landersø
Helena Skyt Nielsen
Marianne Simonsen
School Starting Age and the Crime-Age Profile
This paper uses register-based data to investigate the effects of school starting age on crime. Through this, we provide insights into the determinants of crime-age profiles. We exploit that Danish ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127, 1096-1118)
I21, K42
9278 Seamus McGuinness
Luis Ortiz
Skill Gaps in the Workplace: Measurement, Determinants and Impacts
Optimal training decisions require employers to have accurate information about their workers' training needs. However, little is known with regard to the key factors determining the accurate ...
(published in: Industrial Relations Journal, 2016, 47 (3), 253-278)
J20, J24, J50
9277 Michael R. Strain
Douglas A. Webber
High School Experiences, the Gender Wage Gap, and the Selection of Occupation
Using within-high-school variation and controlling for a measure of cognitive ability, this paper finds that high-school leadership experiences explain a significant portion of the residual gender ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2017, 49 (49), 5040-5049)
J16, J31
9276 Andrew Eyles
Stephen Machin
The Introduction of Academy Schools to England's Education
We study the origins of what has become one of the most radical and encompassing programmes of school reform seen in the recent past amongst advanced countries – the introduction of academy schools ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2019, 17, 1107-46 )
I20, I21, I28
9275 Giorgio Brunello
Lorenzo Rocco
The Labour Market Effects of Academic and Vocational Education over the Life Cycle: Evidence from Two British Cohorts
Several commentators have argued that vocational education provides a smoother school to work transition than academic education. In the long - run, however, the skills it provides depreciate faster ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2017, 11 (1), 106-166)
J31
9274 Abdurrahman B. Aydemir
Murat Güray Kirdar
Low Wage Returns to Schooling in a Developing Country: Evidence from a Major Policy Reform in Turkey
In this paper, we estimate the returns on schooling for young men and women in Turkey using the exogenous and substantial variation in schooling across birth-cohorts brought about by the 1997 reform ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 79 (6), 1046-1086.)
J18, J31, I21, I28
9273 Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski
Thierry Kangoye
Gender and Constraints to Entrepreneurship in Africa: New Evidence from Swaziland
This paper contributes to closing a knowledge gap on gender, entrepreneurship and development by linking the entrepreneurial productivity to start-up capital and skills. The empirical analysis of a ...
(published in: Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2016, 5, 1- 8)
L53, O12
9267 J. David Brown
John S. Earle
Finance and Growth at the Firm Level: Evidence from SBA Loans
We analyze linked databases on all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans, on all SBA lenders, and on all U.S. employers to estimate the effects of financial access on employment growth. Our ...
(publlished in: Journal of Finance, 2017, 72 (3), 1039 - 1080)
D04, G21, G28, H32, H81, J23, L53
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