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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8329 Andrew Mountford
Hillel Rapoport
Migration Policy, African Population Growth and Global Inequality
According to recent UN projections more than 50 percent of the growth in world population over the next half century will be due to population growth in Africa. Given this, any policy that influences ...
(published in: World Economy, 2016, 39 (4), 543-556)
O40, F11, F43
8328 Daniela Del Boca
Alessandra Venturini
Migration in Italy is Backing the Old Age Welfare
Our research analyzes the effect of changes in migration policies and the accession to the European Union of former countries of emigration, considering the crucial role played by migrants in an ...
(published in: M. Kahanec and K.F. Zimmermann (eds.), Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession, 2016)
J6, J15, F66
8327 Madeline Zavodny
Do Immigrants Work in Worse Jobs than U.S. Natives? Evidence from California
In the debate over immigration reform, it is frequently asserted that immigrants take jobs that U.S. natives do not want. Using data from the 2000 Census merged with O*NET data on occupation ...
(published in: Industrial Relations 2015, 54, 276-293)
J81, J15
8326 Daehoon Nahm
Massimiliano Tani
Skilled Immigrants' Contribution to Productive Efficiency
This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's 'productive efficiency' (Farrell, 1957) using input-output and immigration sectoral data for seven industries in twelve ...
(published in Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 2015, 20, 594–612 )
D24, F2, F66, J6, J24
8325 Michael Kidd
Nigel C. O'Leary
Peter J. Sloane
Should I Stay or Should I Go? An Investigation of Graduate Regional Mobility in the UK and its Impact upon Early Career Earnings
This paper uses HESA data from the Destination of Leavers from Higher Education survey 2003/04 to examine whether more mobile students in terms of choice of institution and location of employment ...
(published as 'The impact of mobility on early career earnings: A quantile regression approach for UK graduates' in: Economic Modelling, 2017, 62, 92 - 102)
J24, J31
8324 Ragnhild Balsvik
Sissel Jensen
Kjell G. Salvanes
Made in China, Sold in Norway: Local Labor Market Effects of an Import Shock
We analyze whether regional labor markets are affected by expo- sure to import competition from China. We find negative employment effects for low-skilled workers, and observe that low-skilled ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 127, 137-144)
F16, H53, J23, J31
8321 Polona Domadenik
Janez Prašnikar
Jan Svejnar
Legal Corruption, Politically Connected Corporate Governance and Firm Performance
In this paper we present and test a theory of how political corruption, found in many transition and emerging market economies, affects corporate governance and productive efficiency of firms. Our ...
(published as 'Political Connectedness, Corporate Governance, and Firm Performance' in: Journal of Business Ethnics, 2016, 139 (2), 411 - 428)
D2, D21, D73, G34, L32
8320 Stijn Baert
Sarah De Visschere
Koen Schoors
Eddy Omey
First Depressed, Then Discriminated Against?
This study assesses hiring discrimination based on disclosed depression. We send out pairs of job applications from fictitious unemployed candidates to real vacancies in Belgium. Within each pair, ...
(revised version published in: Social Science & Medicine , 2016, 170, 247 - 254 )
I14, J71, C93
8319 Stijn Baert
Ann-Sophie De Pauw
Is Ethnic Discrimination Due to Distaste or Statistics?
Employing a lab experiment, we directly test the empirical importance of key attitudes underlying the models of taste-based and statistical discrimination in explaining ethnic hiring discrimination. ...
(revised version published in: Economics Letters, 2014, 125 (2), 170 - 273)
J24, J60, C92
8318 Stijn Baert
Wage Subsidies and Hiring Chances for the Disabled: Some Causal Evidence
We evaluate the effectiveness of wage subsidies as a policy instrument to integrate disabled individuals into the labour market. To identify causal effects, we conduct a large-scale field experiment ...
(revised version published in: European Journal of Health Economics , 2016, 17, 71 - 86)
I38, J14, J78
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