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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
7775 Mark L. Bryan
Simonetta Longhi
Couples' Labour Supply Responses to Job Loss: Boom and Recession Compared
We examine how couples' labour supply behaviour in the UK responds to a job loss by one partner, using the Labour Force Survey to compare the period of growth of 1995-2007 to the Great Recession and ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2018, 86 (3) 333-357)
J22, J64
7774 Stijn Baert
Freddy Heylen
Daan Isebaert
Does Homeownership Lead to Longer Unemployment Spells? The Role of Mortgage Payments
This paper examines the impact of housing tenure choice on unemployment duration in Belgium using EU-SILC micro data. We contribute to the literature in distinguishing homeowners with mortgage ...
(revised version published in: De Economist, 2014, 152, 263 - 286)
C41, J64, R2
7771 Sonia R. Bhalotra
Irma Clots-Figueras
Lakshmi Iyer
Path-Breakers: How Does Women's Political Participation Respond to Electoral Success?
This paper analyzes the effect of a woman's electoral victory on women's subsequent political participation. Using the regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (614), 1844 -1878)
J16, J71, P16
7770 Lingučre Mously Mbaye
Natascha Wagner
Bride Price and Fertility Decisions: Evidence from Rural Senegal
This paper is the first to provide evidence about the relationship between bride price payments and fertility decisions in the African context. Remarkably, the results show that bride price payments ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2017, 53 (6), 891-910 )
O12, Z13
7769 Maria De Paola
Francesca Gioia
Does Patience Matter for Marriage Stability? Some Evidence from Italy
Time preferences can affect divorce probability both affecting the quality of the match and affecting the spouses' reactions to negative shocks. We analyze the relationship between time preferences ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2014, 15, 549 - 577)
I20, D03, D91, J01
7768 Christina Felfe
Michael Lechner
Petra Thiemann
After-School Care and Parents' Labor Supply
Does after-school care provision promote mothers' employment and balance the allocation of paid work among parents of schoolchildren? We address this question by exploiting variation in cantonal ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 42, 62-75)
J13, J22, C14
7767 Stijn Baert
Career Lesbians: Getting Hired for Not Having Kids?
Using a field experiment, we investigate whether discrimination based on women's sexual orientation differs by age and family constraints. We find weakly significant evidence of discrimination ...
(revised version published in: Industrial Relations Journal, 2014, 45 (6), 543 - 561)
C93, J13, J16, J71
7766 Terence Chai Cheng
Guyonne Kalb
Anthony Scott
Public, Private or Both? Analysing Factors Influencing the Labour Supply of Medical Specialists
This paper investigates the factors influencing the allocation of time between public and private sectors by medical specialists. A discrete choice structural labour supply model is estimated, where ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2018, 51 (2), 659-691.)
I10, I11, J22, J24
7765 Catia Batista
Jacques Potin
Stages of Diversification in a Neoclassical World
Recent research has documented a U-shaped industrial concentration curve over an economy's development path. How far can neoclassical trade theory take us in explaining this pattern? We estimate the ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2014, 122 (2), 276–284)
F11, L16, O40
7764 Robert W. Fairlie
Samantha H. Grunberg
Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2014, 52 (3), 1040 - 1059)
I21, J24, O33
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