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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
16357 Abdulmohsen Almuhaisen
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Delia Furtado
Immigration Enforcement and the Institutionalization of Elderly Americans
This paper examines the relationship between immigration enforcement and institutionalization rates of the elderly. Exploiting the staggered implementation of the Secure Communities (SC) immigration ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economoics, 2024, 94, 102859)
J14, J61, J68
16356 L. Rachel Ngai
Orhun Sevinc
A Multisector Perspective on Wage Stagnation
Low-skill workers are concentrated in sectors experiencing fast productivity growth, yet their real wages have stagnated and lagged behind aggregate productivity. We provide evidence demonstrating ...
(this version: July 2024)
E24, J23, J31
16355 David G. Blanchflower
Alex Bryson
Were COVID and the Great Recession Well-Being Reducing?
Using micro-data on six surveys – the Gallup World Poll 2005-2023, the U.S. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 1993-2022, Eurobarometer 1991-2022, the UK Covid Social Survey Panel, ...
(published in: PloS ONE, 2024, 19 (11), e0305347)
I31
16354 Vincent Boucher
Michelle Rendall
Philip Ushchev
Yves Zenou
Towards a General Theory of Peer Effects
There is substantial empirical evidence showing that peer effects matter in many activities. The workhorse model in empirical work on peer effects is the linear-in-means (LIM) model, whereby it is ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2024, 92 (2), 543-565)
C31, D04, D85, Z13
16353 Yumi Koh
Jing Li
Yifan Wu
Junjian Yi
Hanzhe Zhang
Young Women in Cities
Young women outnumber young men in cities in many countries during periods of economic growth and urbanization. This gender imbalance among young urbanites is more pronounced in larger cities. We use ...
(published as 'Young women in cities:published as 'Young women in cities: Urbanization and gender-biased migration' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2025, 172, 103378)
O15, J12
16351 Steven J. Davis
Pawel M. Krolikowski
Sticky Wages on the Layoff Margin
We design and field an innovative survey of unemployment insurance (UI) recipients that yields new insights about wage stickiness on the layoff margin. Most UI recipients express a willingness to ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2025, 115 (2), 491 - 524)
E24, J63, J65
16349 Maria Balgova
Hannah Illing
Job Displacement and Migrant Labor Market Assimilation
This paper sheds new light on the barriers to migrants' labor market assimilation. Using administrative data for Germany from 1997-2016, we estimate dynamic difference-in-differences regressions to ...
(updated version available as DP 17496)
J62, J63, J64
16348 Andrew Foster
Merve Betül Gökçe
Murat Güray Kirdar
Intergenerational Power Shift and the Rise of Non-arranged Marriages among Refugees
The experience of war and refugee status can alter intra-family dynamics and therefore have implications for family formation, including marriage. This study investigates marriage patterns among ...
(published as 'Intergenerational Power Shift and the Rise of Nonarranged Marriages Among Refugees' in: Demography, 2024, 61 (5), 1427 - 1454)
J12, J15
16339 Stefan Leopold
Jens Ruhose
Simon Wiederhold
Why Is the Roy-Borjas Model Unable to Predict International Migrant Selection on Education? Evidence from Urban and Rural Mexico
The Roy-Borjas model predicts that international migrants are less educated than nonmigrants because the returns to education are generally higher in developing (migrant-sending) than in developed ...
(published in: World Economy, 2025, 48 (2), 300 - 322)
F22, O15, J61, J24
16338 David L. Dickinson
Dark versus Light Personality Types and Moral Choice
Dark personality traits have been linked to behaviors commonly understood as unethical, such as fraud, bribe-taking, and marital infidelity. Presumably, more "light" personality traits may be ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2025, 178, 105092)
C91, D91, D63
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