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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8429 Eszter Czibor
Sander Onderstal
Randolph Sloof
Mirjam C. van Praag
Does Relative Grading Help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom
The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately. Our paper contributes to this discussion by investigating the effectiveness of ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 75, 101953)
I21, I23, A22, D03, C93
8427 Oded Galor
Ömer Özak
The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (10), 3064-3103)
O1, O4, Z1
8425 Joyce P. Jacobsen
Melanie Khamis
Mutlu Yuksel
Convergences in Men's and Women's Life Patterns: Lifetime Work, Lifetime Earnings, and Human Capital Investment
The changes in women and men's work lives have been considerable in recent decades. Yet much of the recent research on gender differences in employment and earnings has been of a more snapshot nature ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2015, 1-33)
J3, J16, J24, N3
8424 James J. Heckman
Introduction to A Theory of the Allocation of Time by Gary Becker
Gary Becker's classic study, A Theory of the Allocation of Time, laid the analytical foundations for the study of household production and the allocation of time within the household. The analytical ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2015,125 (583), 403–409 )
B31, D13, J24
8423 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Elena G. F. Stancanelli
Long Workweeks and Strange Hours
American workweeks are long compared to other rich countries'. Much less well-known is that Americans are more likely to work at night and on weekends. We examine the relationship between these two ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68 (5), 1007-1018 )
J22, J08
8422 Stéphane Auray
Samuel Danthine
Markus Poschke
Mandated versus Negotiated Severance Pay
While most of the literature on employment protection has focused on government-mandated severance pay, it has recently been documented that a substantial share of severance payments derives from ...
(published as 'Understanding the Determination of Severance Pay: Mandates, Bargaining, and Unions' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2020, 122 (3), 1073 - 1111)
E24, J32, J33, J64, J65
8420 John T. Addison
McKinley L. Blackburn
Chad Cotti
On the Robustness of Minimum Wage Effects: Geographically-Disparate Trends and Job Growth Equations
Just as the standard two-way fixed effects model for estimating the impact of minimum wages on employment has been sharply criticized for its neglect of spatial heterogeneity so, too, have the latest ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 4, 1-16. )
J23, J38
8419 Andrea Garnero
Stephan Kampelmann
François Rycx
Minimum Wage Systems and Earnings Inequalities: Does Institutional Diversity Matter?
This paper explores how the diversity of minimum wage systems affects earnings inequalities within European countries. It relies on the combination of (a) harmonized micro-data from household ...
(published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2015, 21 (2), 115-130)
J31, J33, J51
8417 Boris Hirsch
Thomas Zwick
How Selective Are Real Wage Cuts? A Micro-Analysis Using Linked Employer-Employee Data
Using linked employer-employee panel data for Germany, this paper investigates whether firms implement real wage reductions in a selective manner. In line with insider-outsider and several strands of ...
(published in: Labour, 2015, 29 (4), 327-347)
J30, J31
8416 Emin Dinlersoz
Jeremy Greenwood
Henry R. Hyatt
Who Do Unions Target? Unionization over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses
What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2017, 70(3): 733-766)
J5, J50, J51, L11, L23, L25, L6, D24, D21
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