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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8096 Michael Gibbs
Susanne Neckermann
Christoph Siemroth
A Field Experiment in Motivating Employee Ideas
We study the effects of a field experiment designed to motivate employee ideas, at a large technology company. Employees were encouraged to submit ideas on process and product improvements via an ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 99(4), 577-590)
C93, J24, M52, O32
8095 Farzana Afridi
Vegard Iversen
Social Audits and MGNREGA Delivery: Lessons from Andhra Pradesh
In spite of widespread acclaims of social audits as low-cost and powerful participatory tools that can bolster awareness and improve public service delivery, a key policy question is what such audits ...
(published in: India Policy Forum, 2013-14, 10, 297-331)
H4, I3
8094 Arusha Cooray
Friedrich Schneider
Does Corruption Promote Emigration? An Empirical Examination
This paper empirically investigates the relationship between corruption and the emigration of those with high, medium and low levels of educational attainment. The empirical results indicate that as ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29 (1), 293 - 310)
O17, O5, D78, H2, H11, H26
8093 Junfu Zhang
Liang Zheng
Are Ghettos Good or Bad? Evidence from U.S. Internal Migration
It is difficult to determine whether ghettos are good or bad, partly because racial segregation may have some effects that are unobservable. To overcome this challenge, we present a migration choice ...
(revised version published as 'Are People Willing to Pay for Less Segregation? Evidence from U.S. Internal Migration' in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2015, 53, 97-112 )
O15, R12, R23
8092 Carmel U. Chiswick
Immigrants and Religion
Religious considerations affect the decision to immigrate as well as the choice of destination country, and religious behaviors change as immigrants adjust to the economic context of their new ...
(published in: Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller (eds.), Handbook on the Economics of International Immigration, 1A, Elsevier, 2015)
Z12, J61, J11, J15
8091 Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Lídia Farré
Migration, Crisis and Adjustment in an Enlarged E(M)U: The Spanish Perspective
This paper investigates the labour market and welfare changes experienced by enlarged-EU migrants before and after 2007. For this purpose, we briefly review the Spanish socio-economic institutional ...
(published in: M. Kahanec and K.F. Zimmermann (eds.): Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession, 2016)
J15, J24, J61, J62
8090 Ingo E. Isphording
Sebastian Otten
Linguistic Barriers in the Destination Language Acquisition of Immigrants
There are various degrees of similarity between the languages of different immigrants and the language of their destination country. This linguistic distance is an obstacle to the acquisition of a ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 105, 30–50.)
F22, J15, J24, J40
8089 Corrado Giulietti
Jackline Wahba
Yves Zenou
Strong versus Weak Ties in Migration
This paper studies the role of strong versus weak ties in the rural-to-urban migration decision in China. We first develop a network model that puts forward the different roles of weak and strong ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 104, 111 - 137)
O15, J61
8088 Gregory Verdugo
The Great Compression of the French Wage Structure, 1969-2008
Wage inequality decreased continuously in France from 1969 to 2008. In contrast to the US and the UK, this period was also characterised by a substantial increase in the educational attainment of the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 28, 131-144)
J31
8087 Ugo Colombino
Five Crossroads on the Way to Basic Income: An Italian Tour
The current Italian income support policies are defective with respect to both efficiency and equity. A more effective design must face five crucial choices: universal vs. categorical policies; ...
(revised version published in: Italian Economic Journal, 2015, 1 (3), 353-389)
H31, H21, C25
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