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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8520 Milena Nikolova
Carol Lee Graham
In Transit: The Well-Being of Migrants from Transition and Post-Transition Countries
The extant literature has focused on migration's consequences for the receiving countries. In this paper, we ask a different but important question: how much do migrants gain from moving to another ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 112, 164-186)
F22, I31, J61, O15
8519 Sarah Brown
Karl Taylor
The Reservation Wage Curve: Evidence from the UK
We investigate the relationship between an individuals' reservation wage, i.e. the lowest wage acceptable in order to enter into employment, and unemployment in the local area district. Largely ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 126, 22-24)
J64, J31, R23
8518 Matthew Groh
David McKenzie
Nour Shammout
Tara Vishwanath
Testing the Importance of Search Frictions, Matching, and Reservation Prestige Through Randomized Experiments in Jordan
Unemployment rates for tertiary-educated youth in Jordan are high, as is the duration of unemployment. Two randomized experiments in Jordan were used to test different theories that may explain this ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 4:7)
O12, O15, J64, J08
8517 Luc Behaghel
Bruno Crépon
Thomas Le Barbanchon
Unintended Effects of Anonymous Resumes
We evaluate an experimental program in which the French public employment service anonymized resumes for firms that were hiring. Firms were free to participate or not; participating firms were then ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2015, 7 (3), 1 - 27)
J71, J78
8516 Stijn Baert
Eddy Omey
Hiring Discrimination against Pro-Union Applicants: The Role of Union Density and Firm Size
We study the causal impact of revealing pro-unionism during the recruitment stage on hiring chances. To this end, we conduct a randomised field experiment in the Belgian labour market. When matched ...
(revised version published in: De Economist, 2015, 163, 263 - 280)
J53, J71, C93
8515 Britta Kohlbrecher
Christian Merkl
Daniela Nordmeier
Revisiting the Matching Function
This paper shows analytically and numerically that there are two ways of generating an observationally equivalent comovement between matches, unemployment, and vacancies in dynamic labor market ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2016, 69, 350–374.)
E24, E32, J63, J64
8514 David Autor
David Dorn
Gordon H. Hanson
Jae Song
Trade Adjustment: Worker Level Evidence
We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through 2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China's ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014, 129 (4), 1799-1860)
F16, H55, J23, J31, J63
8513 Miriam Mäder
Steffen Müller
Regina T. Riphahn
Caroline Schwientek
Intergenerational Transmission of Unemployment: Evidence for German Sons
This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik), 2016, 235 (4-5), 355–375)
J62, C21, C26
8512 Alan B. Krueger
Alexandre Mas
Xiaotong Niu
The Evolution of Rotation Group Bias: Will the Real Unemployment Rate Please Stand Up?
This paper documents that rotation group bias – the tendency for labor force statistics to vary systematically by month in sample in labor force surveys – in the Current Population Survey (CPS) has ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 99 (2), 258 - 264)
J01, J64
8511 Vincenzo Caponi
Public Employment Policies and Regional Unemployment Differences
This paper contributes to the existing literature on public employment showing that the wage setting policy of the public sector can be an important determinant of private employment and ...
(revised version published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2017, 63, 1-12)
E24, J60
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