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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9041 Simon Gächter
Lingbo Huang
Martin Sefton
Combining 'Real Effort' with Induced Effort Costs: The Ball-Catching Task
We introduce the "ball-catching task", a novel computerized real effort task, which combines “real” efforts with induced material cost of effort. The central feature of the ball-catching task is that ...
(revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 2016, 19, 687–712)
C91, C92, J41
9040 Steffen Altmann
Armin Falk
Simon Jäger
Florian Zimmermann
Learning about Job Search: A Field Experiment with Job Seekers in Germany
We conduct a large-scale field experiment in the German labor market to investigate how information provision affects job seekers' employment prospects and labor market outcomes. Individuals assigned ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 164, 33-49)
C93, D04, D83, J64, J68
9039 Silvia Angerer
Daniela Glätzle-Rützler
Philipp Lergetporer
Matthias Sutter
Cooperation and Discrimination Within and Across Language Borders: Evidence from Children in a Bilingual City
We present experimental evidence from a bilingual city in Northern Italy on whether the language spoken by a partner in a prisoner's dilemma game affects behavior and leads to discrimination. Running ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 90, 254-264)
C91, C93, D03
9038 Paul Bisschop
Stephen Kastoryano
Bas van der Klaauw
Street Prostitution Zones and Crime
This paper studies the effects of introducing legal street prostitution zones on both registered and perceived crime. We exploit a unique setting in the Netherlands where legal street prostitution ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2017, 9 (4), 28-63)
J16, J47, K14, K23, K42
9036 Tymon Sloczynski
Average Wage Gaps and Oaxaca–Blinder Decompositions
In this paper I develop a new version of the Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition whose unexplained component recovers a parameter which I refer to as the average wage gap. Under a particular conditional ...
(superseded by IZA Discussion Paper No. 12041)
C21, J31, J71
9035 Regina T. Riphahn
Christoph Wunder
State Dependence in Welfare Receipt: Transitions Before and After a Reform
We study state dependence in welfare receipt and investigate whether welfare transitions changed after a welfare reform. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we apply dynamic multinomial ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2016, 50 (4), 1303-1329)
I38, J61
9034 Arash Nekoei
Andrea Weber
Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality?
Contrary to standard search model predictions, prior studies failed to estimate a positive effect of unemployment insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2017, 107(2), 527-561.)
H5, J3, J6
9032 Alain Jousten
Mathieu Lefèbvre
Work Capacity and Longer Working Lives in Belgium
We explore the link between health indicators and employment rates of the population aged 55 or more. Our focus lies on work capacity as a key determinant of employment. Using cohort mortality ...
(published in: D. A. Wise (ed.); Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World: The Capacity to Work at Older Ages, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017, 5-58)
J14, J21, J26
9031 Annemarie Künn-Nelen
Does Commuting Affect Health?
This paper analyzes the relation between commuting time and health in the United Kingdom. I focus on four different types of health outcomes: subjective health measures, objective health measures, ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2016, 25(8), 984-1004 )
I12, R41
9030 Antonio Filippin
Paolo Crosetto
Click'n'Roll: No Evidence of Illusion of Control
Evidence of Illusion of Control – the fact that people believe to have control over pure chance events – is a recurrent finding in experimental psychology. Results in economics find instead little to ...
(published in: De Economist, 2016, 164(3), 281-295. )
B49, C91, D81
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