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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8573 Mikolaj Herbst
Pawel Kaczmarczyk
Piotr Wojcik
Migration of Graduates within a Sequential Decision Framework: Evidence from Poland
According to the economic literature human capital is a critical growth factor. This is why migration of individuals well endowed with human capital is subject of interest for both academics and ...
(published in: Central European Economic Journal, 2017, 1 (48), 1-18)
I25, J24, J61, J62
8572 Ingo E. Isphording
Language and Labor Market Success
This article summarizes three different strands of the literature that address the labor market effects of language-related human capital. (1) A general importance is demonstrated in the empirical ...
(published in: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition), 2015, Pages 260-265)
J24, J31, J61
8571 Amelie F. Constant
Ethnic Identity and Work
Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in ...
(published in: J.D. Wright (ed) the International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition, 2015, 106-112)
F22, J15, Z10
8570 Solomon Polachek
Xu Zhang
Xing Zhou
A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap: Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy
This paper shows how a shorter fecundity horizon for females (a biological constraint) leads to age and educational disparities between husbands and wives. Empirical support is based on data from a ...
(published in: Gender Convergence in the Labor Market, Research in Labor Economics, 41, 2015, 35-88.)
J1, J2, J3, J43, J7, J8, N3, N9, O5, Y8, Z13
8569 Katrin Auspurg
Maria Iacovou
Cheti Nicoletti
Housework Share between Partners: Experimental Evidence on Gender Identity
Using an experimental design, we investigate the reasons behind the gendered division of housework within couples. In particular, we assess whether the fact that women do more housework may be ...
(published in: Social Science Research, 2017, 66, 118-139)
J16, J22, C35
8567 Delphine Boutin
Climate Vulnerability, Communities' Resilience and Child Labour
This article clarifies and quantifies the causal impact of climate change vulnerability on child labour incidence and intensity. For this purpose, we create an index of vulnerability to climate ...
(published in: Revue d’Economie Politique, 2014, 124 (4), 625-638)
J22, J43, O55, Q54
8566 Samantha Rawlings
Zahra Siddique
Domestic Abuse and Child Health
We examine the effects of different kinds of domestic abuse (physical violence, emotional abuse, sexual abuse and physical violence while the victim is pregnant) on health outcomes of children born ...
(revised version appears as IZA DP 11899; published as `Domestic Violence and Child Mortality in the Developing World' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 82(4): 723-750.)
I14, I15, J12, J13
8565 Daniela Del Boca
Daniela Piazzalunga
Chiara D. Pronzato
Early Child Care and Child Outcomes: The Role of Grandparents
In this paper, we focus on the impact of early grandparents' care on child cognitive outcomes, in the short and medium term, using data from the Millennium Cohort Study (UK). Compared with children ...
(published as 'The role of grandparenting in early childcare and child outcomes' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2018, 16 (2), 477-512)
J13, D1, I21
8563 Andrew McGee
Peter McGee
Jessica Pan
Performance Pay, Competitiveness, and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from the United States
Evidence that women are less likely to opt into competitive compensation schemes in the laboratory has generated speculation that a gender difference in competitiveness contributes to the gender wage ...
(published in: Economic Letters, 2015, 128, 35-38)
J16, A12
8562 Henry S Farber
Why You Can't Find a Taxi in the Rain and Other Labor Supply Lessons from Cab Drivers
In a seminal paper, Camerer, Babcock, Loewenstein, and Thaler (1997) find that the wage elasticity of daily hours of work New York City (NYC) taxi drivers is negative and conclude that their labor ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2015, 130 (4), 1975-2026)
J22, D01, D03
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