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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8653 Gil S. Epstein
Ira N. Gang
Making Aid Work: Governance and Decentralization
Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to find solutions to problems for countries, investing staff resources and effort ...
(published in: in Mak Arvin (ed.): Handbook on the Economics of Foreign Aid, Edward Elgar, 2015, 488 - 502)
O10, O19, F35
8651 Alina Sorgner
Michael Fritsch
Alexander S. Kritikos
Do Entrepreneurs Really Earn Less?
Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our results show that the median self-employed entrepreneur with employees earns ...
(revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2017, 49 (2), 251–272)
L26, D22
8649 Antonio Cabrales
Juan J. Dolado
Ricardo Mora
Dual Labour Markets and (Lack of) On-the-Job Training: PIAAC Evidence from Spain and Other EU Countries
Using the Spanish micro data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), we first document how the excessive gap in employment protection between indefinite and ...
(published in SERIEs Journal of the Spanish Economic Association (2017), 8, 345-371.)
C14, C52, D24, J24
8648 Werner Eichhorst
Michael Jan Kendzia
Workforce Segmentation in Germany: From the Founding Era to the Present Time
Despite a more recent debate about ever deeper segmentation, we argue that since industrialization, Germany has continually experienced a dual labor market. One segment contains the primary segment ...
(published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2016, 49 (4), 297–315)
N34, J42
8647 Stefano Gagliarducci
M. Daniele Paserman
The Effect of Female Leadership on Establishment and Employee Outcomes: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
In this paper we use a large linked employer-employee data set on German establishments between 1993 and 2012 to investigate how the gender composition of the top layer of management affects a ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2015, 41, 341-372)
D22, J16, J70, M50
8645 Alex Bryson
Rafael Gomez
Tingting Zhang
All-Star or Benchwarmer? Relative Age, Cohort Size and Career Success in the NHL
We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as a function of the demographic conditions into which they were born. We have ...
(published in: Frick, B. (ed.) Breaking the Ice: The Economics of Hockey, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer, 2017)
J1, J24, J31
8644 János Köllő
Bence Czafit
Labor Market Careers Before and After Incarceration
We study the entry to formal employment and earnings of a large sample of convicts released from Hungarian prisons in 2002-2008. We identify the effect of the prison service on post-release careers ...
(published as 'Employment and wages before and after incarceration - evidence from Hungary' in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies. 2015, 4:21)
K42, J64, J39
8643 Grégory Jolivet
Hélčne Turon
Consumer Search Costs and Preferences on the Internet
We analyse consumers' search and purchase decisions on an Internet platform. Using a rich dataset on all adverts posted and transactions made on a major French Internet platform (PriceMinister), we ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2019, 86 (3), 1258-1300.)
C13, D12, D81, D83, L13
8642 Xi Chen
Gift-giving and Network Structure in Rural China: Utilizing Long-term Spontaneous Gift Records
The tradition of keeping written records of gift received during household ceremonies in many countries offers researchers an underutilized means of data collection for social network analysis. This ...
(PLoS ONE, 2014, 9 (8): e102104)
C8, D1, R2, Z1
8640 Stephan Heblich
Alfred Lameli
Gerhard Riener
The Effect of Perceived Regional Accents on Individual Economic Behavior: A Lab Experiment on Linguistic Performance, Cognitive Ratings and Economic Decisions
Does it matter if you speak with a regional accent? Speaking immediately reveals something of one's own social and cultural identity, be it consciously or unconsciously. Perceiving accents involves ...
(published in: PLOS ONE, 2015, 10 (2), e0124732.)
C90, J70, Z10
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