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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8369 Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Peter Hans Matthews
Benjamin Tabb
Progressive Taxation in a Tournament Economy
Not enough is known about the responsiveness of individuals, in particular those who tend to work under different incentives, to changes in marginal tax rates. We ask whether changes in marginal tax ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 143, 65 - 72)
H20, H41, J22, J33, C91
8367 Robert W. Fairlie
Dean Karlan
Jonathan Zinman
Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training
Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate testable predictions regarding heterogeneous treatment effects from such programs. ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2015, 7 (2), 125 - 161)
L26, J24
8365 Niels-Hugo Blunch
Maitreyi Bordia Das
Changing Norms about Gender Inequality in Education: Evidence from Bangladesh
This paper examines norms about gender equality of the education of children and adults in Bangladesh using a recent household survey for two cohorts of married women. Education norms are found to ...
(published in: Demographic Research, 2015, 32, 183-218.)
D19, I29, J12, J16, J24
8364 Filipa Sa
The Effect of Tuition Fees on University Applications and Attendance: Evidence from the UK
This article uses variation in university tuition fees over time and across countries in the UK to examine the effect of fees on university applications and attendance. It focuses on two policy ...
(published in: Economica, 2019, 86 (343), 607 - 634)
I21, J24
8363 Arnaud Chevalier
Does Higher Education Quality Matter in the UK?
This paper estimates the financial returns to higher education quality in the UK. To account for the selectivity of students to institution, we rely on a selection on observable assumptions. We use ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2014, 40, 257-292)
I22, J31
8361 Getinet Astatike Haile
Alex Bryson
Michael White
Spillover Effects of Unionisation on Non-members' Well-being
The paper investigates whether unionisation has a spillover effect on wellbeing by comparing non-members in union and non-union workplaces. To this end, it adapts the social custom model of trade ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 35, 108-122)
J5, J51, J28, J82
8360 Alex Bryson
John Forth
Lucy Stokes
The Performance Pay Premium: How Big Is It and Does It Affect Wage Dispersion?
Using nationally representative linked employer-employee data we find one-quarter of employees in Britain are paid for performance. The log hourly wage gap between performance pay and fixed pay ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2018, 86 (2), 139 - 154)
J33
8357 Benjamin R. Lester
Ludo Visschers
Ronald P. Wolthoff
Meeting Technologies and Optimal Trading Mechanisms in Competitive Search Markets
In a market in which sellers compete by posting mechanisms, we study how the properties of the meeting technology affect the mechanism that sellers select. In general, sellers have incentive to use ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2015, 155, 1-15)
C78, D44, D83
8356 Jens Bonke
Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen
Do Preferences Impact Behavior and Wellbeing? A Panel Study of Preferred and Actual Working Time 2001-2008/09
Various European studies show that the majority of those employed wish to work fewer hours than they actually do. The question addressed here is whether imbalanced working hours – working hour ...
(published in: Danish Journal of Economics, 2014, 152 (1), 1-25.)
J22
8355 Didier Fouarge
Ben Kriechel
Thomas Dohmen
Occupational Sorting of School Graduates: The Role of Economic Preferences
We relate risk attitudes and patience of young graduates from high-school, college and university, measured around the time that they start their labor market career in a large representative survey, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 106, 335-351)
J24, J31, D01
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