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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
7788 Floro Ernesto Caroleo
Francesco Pastore
Overeducation at a Glance: Determinants and Wage Effects of the Educational Mismatch, Looking at the AlmaLaurea Data
This paper provides the first available evidence on overeducation/overskilling based on AlmaLaurea data. We focus on jobs held 5 years after graduation by pre-reform graduates in 2005. ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2018, 137 (3): 999-1032.)
C25, C26, C33, I2, J13, J24
7787 Aedin Doris
Donal O'Neill
Olive Sweetman
Wage Flexibility and the Great Recession: The Response of the Irish Labour Market
There is considerable debate about the role of wage rigidity in explaining unemployment. Despite a large body of empirical work, no consensus has emerged on the extent of wage rigidity. Previous ...
(published in: [IZA Journal of European Labor Studies], 2015, 4(18))
J31, J38, D31
7786 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Laura Juarez
Old-Age Government Transfers and the Crowding Out of Private Gifts: The 70 and Above Program for the Rural Elderly in Mexico
We estimate the crowding out of private transfers caused by 70 y Más – a public assistance program for the rural elderly in Mexico for whom family support is an important source of income. Using data ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2015, 81 (3), 782–802)
H3, H55, J14, J18
7782 James P. Smith
Liam Delaney
Acquiring Human Capital through the Generations by Migration
Our focus will be on the role of migration to the United States from a set of important European sending countries as a device for improving the human capital of the children and grandchildren of ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2015, 9 (4), 564 - 600)
I24, I25
7781 Catia Batista
Janis Umblijs
Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Do more risk loving migrants opt for self-employment? This is a question especially relevant for policymakers designing selective immigration policies in countries of destination. In order to provide ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2014, 3:17)
F22, J01, J15, J61, L26
7780 Marion Mercier
The Return of the Prodigy Son: Do Return Migrants Make Better Leaders?
This paper investigates the impact of political leaders' migration experience on the quality of their leadership. We build up an original database on the personal background of 932 politicians who ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 122, 76-91)
O11, E02, F22, N40
7779 Matloob Piracha
Amrita Saraogi
Remittances and Migration Intentions of the Left-Behind
Migration and the consequent flow of remittances are like a double-edged sword; while keeping many out of poverty, they can also result in further brain drain and demographic imbalance for the ...
(published in: Migration and Development, 2016, 6(1), 102-122)
F22, F24, J1
7778 Sara de la Rica
Albrecht Glitz
Francesc Ortega
Immigration in Europe: Trends, Policies and Empirical Evidence
This chapter summarizes the main trends, policies and empirical evidence regarding immigration in Europe. We start by providing descriptive evidence on long-term immigration trends and current ...
(published in: Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller (eds.): Handbook on the Economics of International Migration, 1B, 2014)
J2, J11, J15, J61
7777 Eswar Prasad
Distributional Effects of Macroeconomic Policy Choices in Emerging Market Economies
Distributional consequences typically receive limited attention in economic models that analyze the effects of monetary and financial sector policies. These consequences deserve more attention since ...
(published in: IMF Economic Review, 2014, 62 (3), 409-429)
E5, E6, F4
7776 Boris Hirsch
Elke J. Jahn
Claus Schnabel
The Cyclical Behaviour of Employers' Monopsony Power and Workers' Wages
This paper investigates the behaviour of employers' monopsony power and workers' wages over the business cycle. Using German administrative linked employer-employee data for the years 1985-2010 and ...
(substantially revised version published as "Do employers have more monopsony power in slack labor markets?" in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2018, 71(3), 676-704)
J42, J31
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