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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8069 Ahmed Elsayed
Andries de Grip
Didier Fouarge
Job Tasks, Computer Use, and the Decreasing Part-Time Pay Penalty for Women in the UK
Using data from the UK Skills Surveys, we show that the part-time pay penalty for female workers within low- and medium-skilled occupations decreased significantly over the period 1997-2006. The ...
(revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 55 (1), 58-82)
J24, J31
8066 Anna De Paoli
Mariapia Mendola
International Labor Mobility and Child Work in Developing Countries
This paper investigates the labor market effect of international migration on child work in countries of origin. We use an original cross-country survey dataset, which combines information on ...
(published in: World Economy, 2017, 40 (4), 678-702.)
F22, F1, J61
8064 Christina Gathmann
Nicolas Keller
Returns to Citizenship? Evidence from Germany's Recent Immigration Reforms
Immigrants in many countries have lower employment rates and lower earnings than natives. In this paper, we ask whether a more liberal access to citizenship can improve the economic integration of ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (616), 3141-3181)
J24, J31, J61, K37
8063 Cristina Mitaritonna
Gianluca Orefice
Giovanni Peri
Immigrants and Firms' Productivity: Evidence from France
Immigrants may complement native workers, increase productivity, allow specialization by skill in the firm and lower costs. These effects could be beneficial for the firm and increase its ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 96, 62 - 82)
F22, E25, J61
8062 Jean-Louis Pan Ké Shon
Gregory Verdugo
Forty Years of Immigrant Segregation in France, 1968-2007: How Different Is the New Immigration?
Analysing restricted access census data, this paper examines the long-term trends of immigrant segregation in France from 1968 to 2007. Similar to other European countries, France experienced a rise ...
(published in: Urban Studies, 2015, 52 (5), 823-840)
J61
8059 Sarojini Hirshleifer
David McKenzie
Rita K. Almeida
Cristobal Ridao-Cano
The Impact of Vocational Training for the Unemployed: Experimental Evidence from Turkey
We use a randomized experiment to evaluate a large-scale active labor market policy: Turkey's vocational training programs for the unemployed. A detailed follow-up survey of a large sample with low ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (579), 2115 - 1246 )
I28, J24, J68, O12, C93
8058 Vojtech Bartos
Michal Bauer
Julie Chytilová
Filip Matejka
Attention Discrimination: Theory and Field Experiments with Monitoring Information Acquisition
We link two important ideas: attention is scarce and lack of information about an individual drives discrimination in selection decisions. Our model of allocation of costly attention implies that ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (6), 1437-1475)
C93, D83, J15, J71
8056 Kyung-Gon Lee
Solomon Polachek
Do School Budgets Matter? The Effect of Budget Referenda on Student Performance
This paper analyzes how changes in school expenditures affect dropout rates and standardized test scores based on data from 465 school districts in New York during the 2003/04 to the 2008/09 school ...
(published in: Education Economics 2018, 26(2), 129-144.)
I20, I21, I22
8055 Michael Kosfeld
Susanne Neckermann
Xiaolan Yang
Knowing that You Matter, Matters! The Interplay of Meaning, Monetary Incentives, and Worker Recognition
We manipulate workers' perceived meaning of a job in a field experiment. Half of the workers are informed that their job is important, the other half are told that their job is of no relevance. ...
(published as 'The Effects of Financial and Recognition Incentives across Work contexts: The Rolel of Meaning' in: Economic Inquiry, 2017, 55 (1), 237 - 247)
C93, J33, M12, M52
8054 Ulla Lehmijoki
Tapio K. Palokangas
Land Reforms, Status and Population Growth
In this document, we consider the effects of a land reform on economic and demographic growth by a family-optimization model with sharecropping, endogenous fertility and status seeking. We show that ...
(revised version published as 'Landowning, Status and Population Growth' in: E. Moser et al. (eds.), Dynamic Optimization in Environmental Economics, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2014, 315 - 328; extended and more advanced version published as 'Land Reforms and Population Growth' in: Portuguese Economic Journal, 2016, 15, 1-15 (all versions co-authored with Ulla Lehmijoki))
O41, J13, N33
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