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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
8313 Brian Clark
Clement Joubert
Arnaud Maurel
The Career Prospects of Overeducated Americans
In this paper we analyze career dynamics for the large share of U.S. workers who have more schooling than their peers in the same occupation. We use data from the NLSY79 combined with the CPS to ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 6:3)
J24, I21
8312 Stijn Baert
Dieter Verhaest
Unemployment or Overeducation: Which is a Worse Signal to Employers?
This study aims at estimating the stigma effect of unemployment and overeducation within one framework. To this end, we conduct a field experiment in the Belgian labour market. We send out trios of ...
(revised version published in: De Economist, 2019, 167, 1 - 21)
J24, J60, C93
8311 Christiane Bradler
Robert Dur
Susanne Neckermann
Arjan Non
Employee Recognition and Performance: A Field Experiment
This paper reports the results from a controlled field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of unannounced, public recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 ...
(published in: Management Science, 2016, 62(11), 3085-3099)
C93, M52
8308 Maria Cubel
Ana Nuevo-Chiquero
Santiago Sanchez-Pages
Marian Vidal-Fernandez
Do Personality Traits Affect Productivity? Evidence from the Lab
While survey data supports a strong relationship between personality and labor market outcomes, the exact mechanisms behind this association remain unexplored. In this paper, we take advantage of a ...
(published in: Economic Journal , 2016, 126 (592). 654–681 )
C91, D03, J3, M5
8307 Anne-Kathrin Bronsert
Amihai Glazer
Kai A. Konrad
Old Money, the Nouveaux Riches and Brunhilde's Marriage Strategy
A woman assessing the wealth of a potential husband may observe some, but not all, of his wealth. She may screen, leading to status consumption and wasteful gift giving. The screening activity is ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30 (1), 163-188)
J12, D82
8306 Karina Doorley
Eva Sierminska
Cross-National Differences in Wealth Portfolios at the Intensive Margin: Is There a Role for Policy?
Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach in this literature, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European ...
(published in: Research on Economic Inequality, 2014, 22, 43-85)
G11, G21, J10
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