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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
8317 Boris Hirsch
Michael Oberfichtner
Claus Schnabel
The Levelling Effect of Product Market Competition on Gender Wage Discrimination
Using linked employer-employee panel data for West Germany that include direct information on the competition faced by plants, we investigate the effect of product market competition on the gender ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 3:19)
J16, J31, J71
8316 Manudeep Bhuller
Magne Mogstad
Kjell G. Salvanes
Life Cycle Earnings, Education Premiums and Internal Rates of Return
What do the education premiums look like over the life cycle? What is the impact of schooling on lifetime earnings? How does the internal rate of return compare with opportunity cost of funds? To ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35 (4), 993-1030.)
J24, J31
8315 Laura Hospido
Enrique Moral-Benito
The Public Sector Wage Premium in Spain: Evidence from Longitudinal Administrative Data
This paper studies the public sector wage gap in Spain, by gender, skill level and type of contract, using recent administrative data from tax records. We estimate wage distributions in the presence ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 42, 101–122)
C21, C23, J31, J45
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