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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
7912 Jonas Maibom
Michael Rosholm
Michael Svarer
Can Active Labour Market Policies Combat Youth Unemployment?
Active labour market policies (ALMPs) may play an important role in preventing an increase in long-term unemployment following the Great Recession. We consider this issue for Denmark, a country ...
(published in: Nordic Economic Policy Review, 2014, 1, 215-262)
J0, J64
7911 Ximena V Del Carpio
Julián Messina
Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano
Minimum Wage: Does It Improve Welfare in Thailand?
We study the causal impact of the minimum wage on employment and welfare in Thailand using a difference-in-difference approach that relies on exogenous policy variation in minimum wages across ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65(2), 358-382)
J31, D31
7909 Ian Gazeley
Andrew T. Newell
Kevin Reynolds
Rebecca Searle
The Poor and the Poorest, Fifty Years On
We re-explore Able-Smith and Townsend's landmark study of poverty in early post WW2 Britain. They found a large increase in poverty between 1953-4 and 1960, a period of relatively strong economic ...
(published in: Journal of The Royal Statistical Society, 2017, 180 (2), 45 5- 474.)
N34, I32, J12
7907 Sumon K. Bhaumik
Ralitza Dimova
Ira N. Gang
Is Women's Ownership of Land a Panacea in Developing Countries? Evidence from Land-Owning Farm Households in Malawi
Our analysis of a rich representative household survey for Malawi, where patrilineal and matrilineal institutions coexist, suggests that (a) in matrilineal societies the likelihood of cash crop ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2016, 52(2), 242-253)
Q12, O2, O13, J16
7906 Daron Acemoglu
David Autor
David Dorn
Gordon H. Hanson
Brendan Price
Return of the Solow Paradox? IT, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing
An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores ...
(published in: American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings, 2014, 104 (5), 394-399)
O3, J2, L6
7905 Maria Knoth Humlum
Jannie H. G. Kristoffersen
Rune Majlund Vejlin
Timing of College Enrollment and Family Formation Decisions
The level of progression of an individual's educational or labor market career is a potentially important factor for family formation decisions. We address this issue by considering the effects of a ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 48: 215-230)
I2, J12, J13
7904 Matthias Krapf
Heinrich W. Ursprung
Christian Zimmermann
Parenthood and Productivity of Highly Skilled Labor: Evidence from the Groves of Academe
We examine the effect of pregnancy and parenthood on the research productivity of academic economists. Combining the survey responses of nearly 10,000 economists with their publication records as ...
(published in:Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 140, 147-175)
J13, I23, J24
7902 Michela Braga
Marco Paccagnella
Michele Pellizzari
The Academic and Labor Market Returns of University Professors
This paper estimates the impact of college teaching on students' academic achievement and labor market outcomes using administrative data from Bocconi University (Italy) matched with Italian tax ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 34 (3), 781-822.)
I20, M55
7899 Sandra E. Black
Jane Arnold Lincove
Jenna Cullinane
Rachel Veron
Can You Leave High School Behind?
In recent years, many states, including California, Texas, and Oregon, have changed admissions policies to increase access to public universities for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. A ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, June 2015)
I20
7898 Verena Wondratschek
Karin Edmark
Markus Frölich
The Short- and Long-Term Effects of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence from a School Choice Reform in Sweden
This paper evaluates the effects of a major Swedish school choice reform. The reform in 1992 increased school choice and competition among public schools as well as through a large-scale introduction ...
(published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 111/112, 71-102)
I20, C21
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