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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9163 Alpaslan Akay
Olivier B. Bargain
Corrado Giulietti
Juan David Robalino
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Remittances and Relative Concerns in Rural China
The paper investigates the impact of remittances on the relative concerns of households in rural China. Using the Rural to Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) dataset we estimate a series of well-being ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2016, 37, 191-207)
C90, D63
9162 Ali T. Akarca
Aysit Tansel
Voter Reaction to Government Incompetence and Corruption Related to the 1999 Earthquakes in Turkey
Two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999 exposed rampant corruption involving construction and zoning code violations. The government's relief efforts were tainted by corruption ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Studies, 2016, 43 (2), 309 - 335.)
D72, D73, H84, Q54
9159 Dripto Bakshi
Indraneel Dasgupta
A Model of Dynamic Conflict in Ethnocracies
We model an infinitely repeated Tullock contest, over the sharing of some given resource, between two ethnic groups. The resource is allocated by a composite state institution according to relative ...
(published in: Defence and Peace Economics, 2018, 29 (2), 147-170)
D72, D74, O10, O20
9156 Eric Bonsang
Arthur van Soest
Home Production and Retirement in Couples: A Panel Data Analysis
We analyse the effects of retirement of one partner on home production by both partners in a couple. Using longitudinal data from Germany on couples, we control for fixed household specific effects ...
(published as 'Time devoted to home production and retirement in couples: A panel data analysis' in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101810)
J22, J29, J14
9155 Boris F. Blumberg
Gerard A. Pfann
Roads Leading to Self-Employment: Comparing Transgenerational Entrepreneurs and Self-Made Start-Ups
This paper studies the event history of business foundation. Three theoretical concepts of human, financial and social capital are linked to investigate variations over time of people's decision ...
(published in: Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2016, 40 (2), 335-357)
D92, M14, M21
9154 Spencer Bastani
Tomer Blumkin
Luca Micheletto
Optimal Wage Redistribution in the Presence of Adverse Selection in the Labor Market
In this paper we allude to a novel role played by the non-linear income tax system in the presence of adverse selection in the labor market due to asymmetric information between workers and firms. We ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 131, 41-57)
D82, H21, J31
9153 Marilyn Spencer
Deniz Gevrek
Valrie Chambers
Randall Bowden
Labor Supply and Productivity Responses to Non-Salary Benefits: Do They Work? If So, at What Level Do They Work Best?
This study explores the impact of a particular low marginal-cost employee benefit on employees' intended retention and performance. By utilizing a unique data set constructed by surveying full-time ...
(published in: Personnel Review, 2016, 45 (5), 1047-1068)
J22, J32, J45, M52
9151 Charlotte Bartels
Nico Pestel
The Impact of Short- and Long-Term Participation Tax Rates on Labor Supply
Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to hamper employment. This paper investigates the importance of incentives inherent in the tax-benefit ...
(revised version published as 'Short- and Long-term Participation Tax Rates and Their Impact on Labor Supply' in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2016, 23(6), 1126-1159)
H24, H31, J22, J65
9149 Arindrajit Dube
Laura Giuliano
Jonathan Leonard
Fairness and Frictions: The Impact of Unequal Raises on Quit Behavior
We analyze how quits responded to arbitrary differences in own and peer wages using an unusual feature of a pay raise at a large U.S. retailer. The firm's use of discrete pay steps created ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2019, 109 (2), 620 - 663)
J00, J31, J42, J63
9147 Vincent Van Roy
Daniel Vertesy
Marco Vivarelli
Innovation and Employment in Patenting Firms: Empirical Evidence from Europe
This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering almost 20,000 patenting firms from Europe over the period 2003-2012. The main ...
(published as 'Technology and Employment: Mass Unemployment or Job Creation? Empirical Evidence from European Patenting Firms' in: Research Policy, 2018, 47 (9), 1762 - 1776)
O31, O33
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