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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9084 Alexander K. Koch
Julia Nafziger
A Real-Effort Experiment on Gift Exchange with Temptation
We conduct a real-effort experiment to test whether workers reciprocate generous wages by managers when workers are tempted to surf the internet. Further, we investigate how an active policy of ...
(revised version published as 'Gift Exchange, Control, and Cyberloafing: A Real-Effort Experiment" in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 131,409 - 426 )
C91, D03, J33, M52
9083 Eric S. Lin
Shih-Yung Chiu
Does Holding a Postdoctoral Position Bring Benefits for Advancing to Academia?
Postdoc is a special transitional position for those with a doctoral degree and is usually regarded as an investment to accumulate the additional human and social capital needed to facilitate future ...
(published in: Research in Higher Education, 2016, 57 (3), 335-362)
I2, J24
9080 Eleanor Dillon
Jeffrey A. Smith
The Consequences of Academic Match between Students and Colleges
We consider the effects of student ability, college quality, and the interaction between the two on academic outcomes and future earnings. Both ability and college quality strongly improve outcomes ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2020, 55(3), 768-808.)
I21, J31
9079 Petri Böckerman
Mika Haapanen
Christopher Jepsen
Back to School? Labor-Market Returns to Vocational Postsecondary Education
Outside the U.S., little is known about the labor-market returns to vocational (or polytechnic) postsecondary education. This paper focuses on the labor-market returns to polytechnic bachelor's ...
(published as "More Skilled, Better Paid: Labour-market Returns to Vocational Postsecondary Education" in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2018, 70 (2), 485-508)
J24, I26
9078 John T. Addison
Orgul Demet Ozturk
Si Wang
The Occupational Feminization of Wages
This paper updates the major study by Macpherson and Hirsch (1995) of the effect of the gender composition of occupations on female (and male) earnings. Using large representative national samples of ...
(revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2018, 71 (1), 208-241)
J31, J71
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
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