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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8999 Luis Diaz-Serrano
Frank Gyimah Sackey
Is Rationing in the Microfinance Sector Determined by the Microfinance Type? Evidence from Ghana
This study sets out to examine the extent to which access to credit and credit rationing are influenced by the microfinance type based on the major factors determining micro, small and medium ...
(published as "Microfinance and credit rationing: does the microfinance type matter?" Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment, 8(2), 114–131.)
G21
8997 Sourafel Girma
Yundan Gong
Holger Görg
Sandra Lancheros
Investment Liberalisation, Technology Take-off and Export Market Entry: Does Foreign Ownership Structure Matter?
Before and after its accession to the WTO in 2001, China has undergone a far-reaching investment liberalisation. As part of this, existing restrictions on foreign ownership structure and mandatory ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 116, 254-269)
F23
8995 Mark L. Bryan
Alex Bryson
Has Performance Pay Increased Wage Inequality in Britain?
Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) we show performance pay (PP) increased earnings dispersion among men and women, and to a lesser extent among full-time working women, in the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 41, 149-161 )
J31, J33
8994 Francisco H. G. Ferreira
Vito Peragine
Equality of Opportunity: Theory and Evidence
Building on earlier work by political philosophers, economists have recently sought to define a concept of equity that accommodates the fairness of reward to individual responsibility and effort, ...
(published in: Matthew Adler and Marc Fleurbaey (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy, Oxford: OUP, 2016)
D63, I32
8991 Torben M. Andersen
Mark Strom Kristoffersen
Michael Svarer
Benefit Reentitlement Conditions in Unemployment Insurance Schemes
Unemployment insurance schemes include conditions on past employment history as part of the eligibility conditions. This aspect is often neglected in the literature which primarily focuses on benefit ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 52, 27-39)
E32, H3, J65
8990 Katja Görlitz
Marcus Tamm
The Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Returns to Voucher-Financed Training
This paper analyzes the returns to training that was co-financed by the German voucher program Bildungsprämie. The estimation strategy compares outcomes of participants in voucher training with ...
(substantially revised version published as 'The returns to voucher-financed training on wages, employment and job tasks' in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 52, 51 - 62 )
I22, I26, J24, M53
8989 Benjamin W. Chute
Phanindra V. Wunnava
Is There a Link Between Employer-Provided Health Insurance and Job Mobility? Evidence from Recent Micro Data
This study investigates the prevalence and severity of job immobility induced by the provision of employer-sponsored health insurance – a phenomenon known as 'job-lock'. Using data from the ...
(published in: Open Journal of Human Resource Management, 2018, 1 (1), 38 - 52)
I13, J16, J32, J51
8988 Andrea Albanese
Bart Cockx
Permanent Wage Cost Subsidies for Older Workers: An Effective Tool for Increasing Working Time and Postponing Early Retirement?
In several OECD countries age-targeted wage subsidies have been introduced to increase the employment of older workers, but evidence on their effectiveness is scarce. This paper examines the effects ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 58, 145-166)
J14, C21, J18, J3
8987 Charlotte Cabane
Adrian Hille
Michael Lechner
Mozart or Pelé? The Effects of Teenagers' Participation in Music and Sports
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this paper analyses the effects of spending part of adolescents' leisure time on playing music or doing sports, or both. We find that while playing ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 41, 90-103)
Z28, Z29, I12, I18, J24, L83, C21
8986 Daniele Checchi
Enrico Rettore
Silvia Girardi
IC Technology and Learning: An Impact Evaluation of Cl@ssi2.0
In this paper we present a counterfactual evaluation of the effect of ICT resources at school on student achievements conducted in Italy. In 2009 156 classes at 6th grade were endowed with additional ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2019, 27 (3), 241 - 264)
I20, I28
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