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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8205 Petri Böckerman
Ohto Kanninen
Ilpo Suoniemi
A Kink that Makes You Sick: The Incentive Effect of Sick Pay on Absence
This paper examines the effect of the replacement rule of the Finnish sickness insurance system on the duration of sickness absence. A pre-determined, piecewise linear policy rule in which the ...
(published as "A Kink that Makes You Sick: The Effect of Sick Pay on Absence" in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2018, 33 (4), 568-579)
I13, I18, J22
8204 Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia
The Effects of the Great Recession on Teenagers' Risky Health Behaviors and Time Use
This paper uses individual-level data from both the 2003-2011 American Time Use Survey and Youth Risk Behavior Survey and state-level unemployment rates to examine the effects of the Great Recession ...
(published as 'Teenagers’ Risky Health Behaviors and Time Use During the Great Recession' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 15 (3), 945–964)
J22, J11
8203 Stefanie Schurer
Bouncing Back from Health Shocks: Locus of Control, Labor Supply, and Mortality
Policy-makers worldwide are embarking on school programmes aimed at boosting students' resilience. One facet of resilience is a belief about cause and effect in life, locus of control. I test whether ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,133, 1-20, 2017)
I12, J24
8201 Bart H.H. Golsteyn
Trudie Schils
Gender Gaps in Primary School Achievement: A Decomposition into Endowments and Returns to IQ and Non-cognitive Factors
In elementary school, girls typically outperform boys in languages and boys typically outperform girls in math. The determinants of these differences have remained largely unexplored. Using rich data ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 41, 176-187)
I21, I24
8199 David Wildasin
Human Capital Mobility: Implications for Efficiency, Income Distribution, and Policy
Mobility of highly-skilled workers affects and is affected by labor market conditions, taxes, and other policies. This paper documents the demographic and fiscal importance of international ...
(published in: M. Gérard and S. Uebelmesser (eds.), The Mobility of Students and the Highly Skilled: Implications for Education Financing and Economic Policy, MIT Press, 2014)
J11, J24, J61, H2, H5
8198 Marcelo Bergolo
Guillermo Cruces
Work and Tax Evasion Incentive Effects of Social Insurance Programs: Evidence from an Employment-Based Benefit Extension
This article studies how social insurance programs shape individual's incentives to take up registered employment and to report earnings to the tax authorities. The analysis is based on a social ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 117, 211-228)
J22, H26, O17
8196 Bhanu Gupta
Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay
Local Funds and Political Competition: Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India
This paper examines how local politics affects public fund allocations. It uses the context of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India which was introduced by the Indian ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 41 (1), 14-30)
D72, J08, H53, H75
8195 Catia Batista
Tara McIndoe Calder
Pedro C. Vicente
Return Migration, Self-Selection and Entrepreneurship in Mozambique
Does return migration affect entrepreneurship? This question has important implications for the debate on the economic development effects of migration for origin countries. The existing literature ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 79, 797–821.)
F22, L26, O15
8194 Rachel Connelly
Michael Iannotti
Margaret Maurer-Fazio
Dandan Zhang
Coresidency, Ethnicity, and Happiness of China's Rural Elders
As China moves into the ranks of aged societies, coresidency of elders with their adult children has become an increasingly important policy concern. This article utilizes data from the 2000 ...
(published in: Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2015, 56 (1), 70 - 88 )
D13, J12, J14, J15
8193 Michael Grimm
Anna Luisa Paffhausen
Do Interventions Targeted at Micro-Entrepreneurs and Small and Medium-Sized Firms Create Jobs? A Systematic Review of the Evidence for Low and Middle Income Countries
Worldwide 600 million jobs are needed over the next 15 years to keep employment rates at their current level. Governments, non-governmental organizations and donors spend on targeted programs and ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 32, 67-85)
D22, G21, J21, O10
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