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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9134 Alexander Spermann
How to Fight Long-Term Unemployment: Lessons from Germany
The number of long-term unemployed in Germany has stagnated at around one million for several years. Despite excellent labour market conditions, the long-term unemployment rate is well above the OECD ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2015, 4:15)
J31, J38
9133 Wen Fan
Yuanyuan Ma
Liming Wang
Estimating the External Returns to Education: Evidence from China
Using longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we examine how individual wages change in line with the share of college graduates in a given province. The individual fixed effect ...
(published in: Asian Economic Papers, 2015, 14 (3), 88-104)
J0, J24, O15
9132 Christophe Jalil Nordman
Leopold Sarr
Smriti Sharma
Cognitive, Non-Cognitive Skills and Gender Wage Gaps: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data in Bangladesh
We use a first-hand linked employer-employee dataset representing the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender wage gaps by the inclusion of measures of cognitive skills and personality traits. ...
(published as 'Skills, Personality Traits and Gender Wage Gaps: Evidence from Bangladesh' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2019, 71(3), 687-708)
J16, J24, J31, J71, C21, O12
9130 Eric A. Hanushek
Jens Ruhose
Ludger Woessmann
Human Capital Quality and Aggregate Income Differences: Development Accounting for U.S. States
Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2017, 9 (4), 184-224)
I25, O47, J24
9129 Moussa Blimpo
Ousman Gajigo
Todd Pugatch
Financial Constraints and Girls' Secondary Education: Evidence from School Fee Elimination in The Gambia
We assess the impact of large-scale fee elimination for secondary school girls in The Gambia on the quantity, composition, and achievement of students. The gradual rollout of the program across ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2019, 33 (1), 185-208)
O15, I21, C93
9128 Noemi Peter
Petter Lundborg
Dinand Webbink
The Effect of a Sibling's Gender on Earnings, Education and Family Formation
We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 54, 61-78)
J00, J24, J16
9127 Robert A. Moffitt
Brian J. Phelan
Anne E. Winkler
Welfare Rules, Incentives, and Family Structure
In this study we provide a new examination of the incentive effects of welfare rules on family structure. Focusing on the AFDC and TANF programs, we first emphasize that the literature, by and large, ...
(substantially revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2020, 55 (1), 1 - 42)
I3, J1
9126 Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia
Children's Media Use and Homework Time
Homework is an important part of the academic production function, but often students are studying while doing another activity. Using the nationally representative Panel Study of Income ...
(published in: Charlene M. Kalenkoski and Gigi Foster (eds.): The Economics of Multitasking, 2015, New York, 91-107)
J24
9125 Sabien Dobbelaere
Rodolfo Lauterbach
Jacques Mairesse
Micro-Evidence on Product and Labor Market Regime Differences between Chile and France
Institutions, social norms and the nature of industrial relations vary greatly between Latin American and Western European countries. Such institutional and organizational differences might shape ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2016, 37 (2): 229-252)
C23, D21, J51, L13
9123 Sebastian Findeisen
Dominik Sachs
Redistribution and Insurance with Simple Tax Instruments
We analyze optimal taxation of labor and capital income in a life-cycle framework with idiosyncratic income risk. We provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 146, 58-78)
H21, H23
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