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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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7849
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Tiziano
Razzolini
Roberto
Leombruni
Giovanni
Mastrobuoni
Mario
Pagliero
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Beneath the Surface: The Decline in Gender Injury Gap
Despite its policy relevance there is little evidence on the joint evolution of gender differences in wages and workplace safety. Between 1994 and 2002 Italian micro-level data show a decline in both ...
(substantially revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 282-288)
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J16, J28, J31
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7848
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Hani
Mansour
Terra
McKinnish
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Couples' Time Together: Complementarities in Production versus Complementarities in Consumption
Economists have previously suggested that gains from marriage can be generated by complementarities in production (gains from specialization and exchange) or by complementarities in consumption ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27, 1127-1144)
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J12, J13, J16
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7847
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Stijn
Baert
Lynn
Decuypere
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Better Sexy than Flexy? A Lab Experiment Assessing the Impact of Perceived Attractiveness and Personality Traits on Hiring Decisions
In this letter we present a laboratory experiment to assess the relative and independent effect of perceived attractiveness and personality traits on hiring decisions. Our results indicate that ...
(revised version published in: Applied Economics Letters , 2014, 21 (9), 597 - 601)
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C91, J24, J71
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7846
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Chris
M.
Herbst
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Universal Child Care, Maternal Employment, and Children's Long-Run Outcomes: Evidence from the U.S. Lanham Act of 1940
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the Lanham Act of 1940, a heavily-subsidized and universal child care program that was administered throughout the U.S. during World War II. I begin by ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35 (2), 519–564)
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J13
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7845
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Stijn
Baert
Elsy
Verhofstadt
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Labour Market Discrimination against Former Juvenile Delinquents: Evidence from a Field Experiment
We identify hiring discrimination against former juvenile delinquents in a direct way. To this end we conduct a field experiment in the Belgian labour market. We find that labour market ...
(revised version published in: Applied Economics, 2015, 47 (11), 1061 - 1072)
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C93, J2, J71
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7844
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Hartmut
Lehmann
Anzelika
Zaiceva
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Re-defining Informal Employment and Measuring its Determinants: Evidence from Russia
Informal activities impact countries' economic development and overall growth. However, studying informal employment is not easy and it is crucial to provide a valid definition of it. This paper ...
(published in: Journal of International Development, 2015, 27 (4), 464 - 488)
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J31, J40, P23
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7842
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Sarah
Bohn
Todd
Pugatch
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U.S. Border Enforcement and Mexican Immigrant Location Choice
We provide the first evidence on the causal effect of border enforcement on the full spatial distribution of Mexican immigrants to the United States. We address the endogeneity of border enforcement ...
(published in: Demography, 2015, 52 (5), 1543-1570)
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J15, J61
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7841
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Alfonso
Miranda
Yu
Zhu
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The Causal Effect of Deficiency at English on Female Immigrants' Labor Market Outcomes in the UK
We investigate the extent to which deficiency at English as measured by English as Additional Language (EAL), contribute to the immigrant-native wage gap for female employees in the UK, controlling ...
(published as 'The Effect of Deficiency at English on Female Immigrants' Wage in the UK: Correcting for measurement error, endogenous treatment, and sample selection bias' in: Applied Economics Letters, 2021, 28 (5), 349-353 )
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J15, J31, J61, C21
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7840
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Lídia
Farré
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New Evidence on the Healthy Immigrant Effect
This paper provides new empirical evidence on the contribution of selective migration to the health advantage of immigrants upon arrival to the new destination (i.e. the Healthy Immigrant Effect). It ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29 (2), 365-394)
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J61, I14, C14
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7839
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Catia
Batista
Gaia
Narciso
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Migrant Remittances and Information Flows: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Do information flows matter for remittance behavior? We design and implement a randomized control trial to quantitatively assess the role of communication between migrants and their contacts abroad ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2018, 32(1), 203–219.)
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F22, J61, O15
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