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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9115 Muriel Dejemeppe
Catherine Smith
Bruno Van der Linden
Did the Intergenerational Solidarity Pact Increase the Employment Rate of Older Workers in Belgium? A Macro-Econometric Evaluation
In December 2005, the Belgian government adopted the law on the Intergenerational Solidarity Pact (ISP) aiming at increasing the employment rate of older workers. The main policies of the ISP consist ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2015, 4 (17))
J21, J26, H53, E32
9113 Andreas Bernecker
Pierre C. Boyer
Christina Gathmann
Trial and Error? Reelection Concerns and Policy Experimentation during the U.S. Welfare Reform
We study the political economy of policy innovations during the U.S. welfare reform in 1996. Specifically, we investigate how reputation concerns among governors influence the decision to experiment ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2021, 13 (2), 26-57)
I38, H11, H77, D78, D83
9110 Tor Eriksson
Lei Mao
Marie Claire Villeval
Saving Face and Group Identity
Are people willing to sacrifice resources to save one's and others' face? In a laboratory experiment, we study whether individuals forego resources to avoid the public exposure of the least performer ...
(revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 2017, 20 (3), 622-647)
C92, D03, M52, Z13
9109 Mirko Draca
Theodore Koutmeridis
Stephen Machin
The Changing Returns to Crime: Do Criminals Respond to Prices?
In economic models of crime individuals respond to changes in the potential value of criminal opportunities. We analyse this issue by estimating crime-price elasticities from detailed data on ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2019, 86, 1228–57 )
K42
9108 Martin Guzi
Martin Kahanec
Lucia Mýtna Kureková
How Immigration Grease Is Affected by Economic, Institutional and Policy Contexts: Evidence from EU Labor Markets
Theoretical arguments and previous country-level evidence indicate that immigrants are more fluid than natives in responding to changing labor shortages across countries, skill-groups or industries. ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2018, 71 (2), 213-243 )
J15, J24, J61, J68
9107 Eric D. Gould
Explaining the Unexplained: Residual Wage Inequality, Manufacturing Decline, and Low-Skilled Immigration
This paper investigates whether the increasing "residual wage inequality" trend is related to manufacturing decline and the influx of low-skilled immigrants. There is a vast literature arguing that ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (619), 1281–1326)
J31
9106 Dominique Meurs
Patrick A. Puhani
Friederike von Haaren
Number of Siblings and Educational Choices of Immigrant Children: Evidence from First- and Second-Generation Immigrants
We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and educational decisions and distinguishing particularly between first- and ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 15 (4), 1137–1158)
J13, J15, J24
9105 Graziella Bertocchi
The Legacies of Slavery in and out of Africa
The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this paper I illustrate their long-term consequences. I first consider the influence ...
(Julian Simon Lecture at the 12th IZA Annual Migration Meeting in Dakar, revised version published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2016, 5,1-19)
F22, J15, O15
9104 Rainald Borck
Michael P. Pflüger
Green Cities? Urbanization, Trade and the Environment
This paper establishes a simple theoretical framework which comprises key forces that shape the structure and interrelation of cities to study the interdependencies between urban evolution and the ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2019, 59:4, 743-766)
F18, Q50, R11, R12
9103 Daniel L. Millimet
Ian K. McDonough
Thomas B. Fomby
Financial Literacy and Food Security in Extremely Vulnerable Households
Food insecurity is one of the most, if not the most, significant, nutrition-related public health issue confronted in the US. Unfortunately, we know very little about the determinants of food ...
(published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2018, 100, 1224-1249)
I12, I18
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