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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9077 Lydia Geijtenbeek
Erik Plug
Is There a Penalty for Becoming a Woman? Is There a Premium for Becoming a Man? Evidence from a Sample of Transsexual Workers
We study the earnings of transsexuals using Dutch administrative labor force data. First, we compare transsexuals to other women and men, and find that transsexuals earn more than women and less than ...
(published as 'Is There a Penalty for Registered Women? Is There a Premium for Registered Men? Evidence from a Sample of Transsexual Workers' in: European Economic Review, 2018, 109, 334 -347)
J16, J24, J71
9076 Melanie Guldi
Chris M. Herbst
Offline Effects of Online Connecting: The Impact of Broadband Diffusion on Teen Fertility Decisions
Broadband (high-speed) internet access expanded rapidly from 1999 to 2007. This expansion is associated with higher economic growth and labor market activity. In this paper, we examine whether the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30, 69-91)
J13, J18
9074 Erik Plug
Bas van der Klaauw
Lennart Ziegler
Do Parental Networks Pay Off? Linking Children's Labor-Market Outcomes to their Parents' Friends
This paper examines whether children are better off if their parents have stronger social networks. Using data on high-school friendships of parents, we analyze whether the number and characteristics ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2108, 120 (1), 268-295)
A14, J24, J46, J62
9073 Annette Bergemann
Regina T. Riphahn
Maternal Employment Effects of Paid Parental Leave
We study the short, medium, and longer run employment effects of a substantial change in the parental leave benefit program in Germany. In 2007, a means-tested parental leave transfer program that ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36, 139 - 178)
J13, J21
9072 Chris M. Herbst
The Rising Cost of Child Care in the United States: A Reassessment of the Evidence
Anecdotal evidence suggests that the cost of child care in the U.S. has increased substantially over the past few decades. This paper marshals data from a variety of sources to rigorously assess the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 64, 13-30)
I28, J01, J08, J20
9071 Ioana E. Marinescu
Ronald P. Wolthoff
Opening the Black Box of the Matching Function: The Power of Words
How do employers attract the right workers? How important are posted wages vs. other job characteristics? Using data from the leading job board CareerBuilder.com, we show that most vacancies do not ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2020, 38 (2), 535–568)
J31, J63, J64
9070 Ana Rute Cardoso
Annalisa Loviglio
Lavinia Piemontese
Information Frictions and Labor Market Outcomes
We analyze the impact of information frictions on workers' wages, contributing to the literature that tested search theory, which has so far focused on labor market frictions in general and not ...
(published as 'Misperceptions of unemployment and individual labor market outcomes' in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2016, 5 (13))
J31, J42, J64
9068 Daron Acemoglu
David Autor
David Dorn
Gordon H. Hanson
Brendan Price
Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s
Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 34 (S1), S141-S198)
F16, J23
9067 Jason M. Lindo
María Padilla-Romo
Kingpin Approaches to Fighting Crime and Community Violence: Evidence from Mexico's Drug War
This study considers the effects of the kingpin strategy, an approach to fighting organized crime in which law-enforcement efforts focus on capturing the leaders of the criminal organization, on ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 58, 253-268)
I18, K42, O12
9063 Dongdong Luo
Chunbing Xing
Who Is More Mobile in Response to Local Demand Shifts in China?
In this paper, we use two nationally representative datasets to examine the population adjustment of demographic groups in response to regional demand shifts between 2000 and 2005. Results from OLS ...
(published as 'Population adjustments in response to local demand shifts in China' in: Journal of Housing Economics, 2016, 33, 101 - 114)
J23, R23
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