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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8458 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Susan Pozo
On the Intended and Unintended Consequences of Enhanced Border and Interior Immigration Enforcement: Evidence from Deportees
Over the past decade, a number of federal and state policies intended to stem the flow of illegal immigration have been implemented. In this paper, we focus on two initiatives: (a) Operation ...
(Demography , 2014, 51, 2255 - 2279)
F22, K42
8457 Giovanni Facchini
Cecilia Testa
The Rhetoric of Closed Borders: Quotas, Lax Enforcement and Illegal Migration
This paper studies why illegal immigration is widespread. We develop a political agency model in which a politician decides on an immigration target and its enforcement, facing uncertainty on the ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2021, 129 103415)
F22, J61
8456 Martin Kahanec
Mariola Pytlikova
Klaus F. Zimmermann
The Free Movement of Workers in an Enlarged European Union: Institutional Underpinnings of Economic Adjustment
The eastern enlargements of the European Union (EU) and the extension of the free movement of workers to the new member states' citizens unleashed significant east-west migration flows in a labor ...
(published in: M. Kahanec and K.F. Zimmermann (eds.), Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession, Springer: Berlin, et al. 2016, 1-34)
F22, J61, J68
8453 Timo Baas
Ansgar H. Belke
Labor Market Reforms and Current Account Imbalances: Beggar-Thy-Neighbor Policies in a Currency Union?
Member countries of the European Monetary Union (EMU) initiated wide-ranging labor market reforms in the last decade. This process is ongoing as countries that are faced with serious labor market ...
(also available as: CEPS Working Document No. 399, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, September)
E24, E32, J64, F32
8452 Nishith Prakash
Marc Rockmore
Yogesh Uppal
Do Criminal Representatives Hinder or Improve Constituency Outcomes? Evidence from India
The recent increase in the number of criminally accused politicians elected to state assemblies has caused much furor in India. Despite the potentially important consequences and the widely divergent ...
(published as 'Do criminally accused politicians affect economic outcomes? Evidence from India' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 141, 102370)
D72, D73, O40, O12
8451 Tilman Brück
Neil T.N. Ferguson
Money Can't Buy Love But Can It Buy Peace? Evidence from the EU Programme for Peace and Reconciliation
In 1998, the Good Friday Agreement concluded a period of violence in Northern Ireland yet the scars of the conflict remained prevalent in the political landscape. Rival communities remained divided, ...
(published as 'Money Can't Buy Love but Can It Buy Peace? Evidence from PEACE II' in: Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2020, 37 (5), 536-558)
D74, F35, H56, I38, O18
8450 Gerard J. van den Berg
Antoine Bozio
Monica Costa Dias
Policy Discontinuity and Duration Outcomes
Causal effects of a policy change on hazard rates of a duration outcome variable are not identified from a comparison of spells before and after the policy change, if there is unobserved ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2020, 11 (3), 871- 916)
J64, C14, C25
8449 Mark Curtis
Barry Hirsch
Mary C. Schroeder
Evaluating Workplace Mandates with Flows versus Stocks: An Application to California Paid Family Leave
Employer mandates and other labor demand/supply shocks typically have small effects on wages and employment. These effects should be more discernible using data on employment transitions and wages ...
(revised version published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2016, 83 (2), 501-526)
J32, J38
8448 Erzo F.P. Luttmer
Monica Singhal
Tax Morale
Standard economic models of tax compliance have focused on enforcement-driven compliance. Notably, tax administrators also tend to place a great deal of emphasis on the importance of improving "tax ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2014, 28 (4), 149–168)
H26
8447 Stijn Baert
Ann-Sophie De Pauw
Nick Deschacht
Do Employer Preferences Contribute to Sticky Floors?
We investigate the importance of employer preferences in explaining Sticky Floors, the pattern that women are, compared to men, less likely to start to climb the job ladder. To this end we perform a ...
(revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2016, 69 (3), 714 - 736. )
J16, J71, M51, J41, C93
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