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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9185 Jonas Kolsrud
Camille Landais
Peter Nilsson
Johannes Spinnewijn
The Optimal Timing of Unemployment Benefits: Theory and Evidence from Sweden
This paper provides a simple, yet general framework to analyze the optimal time profile of benefits during the unemployment spell. We derive simple sufficient-statistics formulae capturing the ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2018, 108 (4-5),985- 1033)
H20, J64
9184 Ulrich Kaiser
Johan Moritz Kuhn
Worker-level and Firm-level Effects of a Wage Subsidy Program for Highly Educated Labor: Evidence from Denmark
We study the effects of a Danish wage subsidy program for highly educated workers on the labor market outcomes of the persons participating in the program and on the performance of the firms that ...
(published in: Research Policy, 2016, 45 (9), 1939-1943)
D04, O31, O38
9183 Marco Caliendo
Steffen Künn
Robert Mahlstedt
The Return to Labor Market Mobility: An Evaluation of Relocation Assistance for the Unemployed
In many European countries, labor markets are characterized by high regional disparities in terms of unemployment rates on the one hand and low geographical mobility among the unemployed on the other ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 148, 136-151)
J61, J64, J68, D04, C26
9182 John H. Pencavel
Whose Preferences Are Revealed in Hours of Work?
It has become orthodox in economics research to interpret the association between hourly earnings and working hours as the expression of the preferences of workers. This convention originated in H. ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2016, 54 (1), 9–24 )
J22, J23, C13
9181 Wolter Hassink
Pierre Koning
Wim Zwinkels
Employers Opting Out of Public Disability Insurance: Selection or Incentive Effects?
This paper analyzes selection and incentive effects of opting out from public to private insurance on employer Disability Insurance (DI) inflow rates. We use administrative information on DI benefit ...
(published as 'Do Firms with Low Disability Risks Opt Out from Public to Private Insurance?' in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2018, 18 (1), 20170022)
C23, I13
9180 Lex Borghans
Bart H.H. Golsteyn
Susceptibility to Default Training Options Across the Population
This paper analyzes the tendency of people to choose default options when offered courses to acquire job related skills. We ask a random sample of Dutch people aged 6-80 which three skills are most ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 117, 369-379)
J24, J31, I2
9179 Jan Sauermann
Worker Reciprocity and the Returns to Training: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Workers' reciprocal behavior is one argument used to explain why firms invest in employee human capital. We explore the relation between firm-sponsored training and reciprocity by providing evidence ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2023, 32 (3), 543-557)
J24, M53, D01
9178 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereux
Petter Lundborg
Kaveh Majlesi
On the Origins of Risk-Taking
Risk-taking behavior is highly correlated between parents and their children; however, little is known about the extent to which these relationships are genetic or determined by environmental ...
(published as 'On the Origins of Risk-Taking in Financial Markets' in: Journal of Finance, 2017, 72 (5), 2229 - 2278)
G11, J01
9177 Nidhiya Menon
Kathleen McQueeney
Christianity and Infant Health in India
This paper studies child health in India focusing on differences in anthropometric outcomes between the three main religions – Hindus, Muslims and Christians. The results indicate that Christian ...
(published as 'Christianity and girl child health in India' in: World Development, 2020, 136, 105109)
O12, I15, Z12
9176 Alexander Ahammer
Thomas Horvath
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
The Effect of Income on Mortality: New Evidence for the Absence of a Causal Link
We analyze the effect of income on mortality in Austria using administrative social security data. To tackle potential endogeneity concerns arising in this context, we estimate time-invariant ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A, 2017, 180 (3), 793 - 816)
J14, J31, I10
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