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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
8305 Marco Caliendo
Wang-Sheng Lee
Robert Mahlstedt
The Gender Wage Gap: Does a Gender Gap in Reservation Wages Play a Part?
This paper focuses on re-examining the gender wage gap and the potential role that reservation wages play. Based on two waves of rich data from the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey we examine the ...
(substantially revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 136, 161-173.)
J16, J31
8304 Mark L. Bryan
Almudena Sevilla
Flexible Working and Couples' Coordination of Time Schedules
Using previously unexploited data on time scheduling in the employment and household contexts, we investigate the effect of flexible working on couples' coordination of their daily work time ...
(published as 'Flexible working in the UK and its impact on couples’ time coordination' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 15, 1415–1437)
J12, J22, J32
8303 Nezih Guner
Remzi Kaygusuz
Gustavo Ventura
Childcare Subsidies and Household Labor Supply
What would be the aggregate effects of adopting a more generous and universal childcare subsidy program in the U.S.? We answer this question in a life-cycle equilibrium model with joint labor-supply ...
(published as 'Child-Related Transfers, Household Labor Supply and Welfare' in: Review of Economic Studies, 2020, 87 (5), 2290–2321)
E62, H24, H31
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