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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8885 Benoît Mahy
François Rycx
Guillaume Vermeylen
Educational Mismatch and Firm Productivity: Do Skills, Technology and Uncertainty Matter?
The authors provide first evidence on whether the direct relationship between educational mismatch and firm productivity varies across working environments. Using detailed Belgian linked ...
(published in: De Economist, 2015, 163 (2), 233-262)
J21, J24
8884 Benedikt Herz
Thijs van Rens
Accounting for Mismatch Unemployment
We investigate unemployment due to mismatch in the US over the past three decades. We propose an accounting framework that allows us to estimate the overall amount of mismatch unemployment as well as ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economics Association, 2020, 18 (4), 1619 - 1654)
E24, J61, J62
8883 Isabelle Sin
Steven Stillman
Economic Liberalisation and the Mobility of Minority Groups: Evidence from M?ori in New Zealand
Between 1984 and 2003, New Zealand undertook comprehensive market-oriented economic reforms. In this paper, we use Census data to examine how the internal mobility of M?ori compares to that of ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2016, 5, 4 (2016) )
J61, J15, R23
8880 Beatrice d'Hombres
Luca Nunziata
Wish You Were Here? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Education on Attitude toward Immigrants
We use European Social Survey and Labour Force Survey data to estimate the causal effect of education on European natives' opinion toward immigration exploiting reforms in compulsory education in ...
(revised version publishd in: European Economic Review, 2016, 90, 201 - 224)
I20, J61, J15
8879 Ulrich Matter
Alois Stutzer
The Role of Lawyer-Legislators in Shaping the Law: Evidence from Voting Behavior on Tort Reforms
Attorneys elected to the US Congress and to US state legislatures are systematically less likely to vote in favor of tort reforms that restrict tort litigation, but more likely to support bills that ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2015, 58 (2), 357-384)
D72, K13
8878 Alessandro Cigno
Giorgia Giovannetti
Laura Sabani
The Role of Trade and Offshoring in the Determination of Child Labour
Incorporating family decisions in a two-period-model of the world economy, we show that trade liberalization may reduce child labour in developing countries where the initial share of skilled workers ...
(published in: Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2018, 27, 267 - 292.)
D13, D33, F16, J13, J24
8877 Lanse Minkler
Nishith Prakash
The Role of Constitutions on Poverty: A Cross-National Investigation
In this paper we use novel historical data on economics and social rights from the constitutions of 201 countries and an instrument variable strategy to answer two important questions. First, do ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017, 45(3), 563-581)
I24, I32, I38, O1, O38
8876 Francesca Marchetta
David E. Sahn
The Role of Education and Family Background in Marriage, Childbearing and Labor Market Participation in Senegal
This paper examines the role of education and family background on age at marriage, age at first birth, and age at labor market entry for young Senegalese women. We use a multiple-equation framework ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2016, 64 (2). 369-403)
O12, I25, J12, J13
8875 David L. Sjoquist
John V. Winters
The Effect of Georgia's HOPE Scholarship on College Major: A Focus on STEM
There is growing concern in the U.S. that the nation is producing too few college graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields and there is a desire to understand how ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 4:15)
I23, J24
8873 Stefanie Schurer
Sonja C. de New
Felix Leung
Do Universities Shape Their Students' Personality?
We investigate whether universities select by, or also shape, their students' personality, as implied by the human capital investment model. Using a nationally representative sample of Australian ...
(published as 'University education and non-cognitive skill development' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2018, 70(2), 538–562 )
I12, J24
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