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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
7890 Philipp Doerrenberg
Sebastian Siegloch
Is Soccer Good for You? The Motivational Impact of Big Sporting Events on the Unemployed
We examine the effect of salient international soccer tournaments on the motivation of unemployed individuals to search for employment using the German Socio Economic Panel 1984-2010. Exploiting the ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2014, 123 (1), 66-69)
D8, J2, J6
7888 Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira
Teresa Lloyd-Braga
Leonor Modesto
Employment Dynamics and Redistributive Policies under Workers' Social Norms
We study employment dynamics using an OLG model with unemployment benefits and universal old-age survival pensions, both financed by taxing employed workers. The novelty is that we explicitly ...
(published as 'The destabilizing effects of the social norm to work under a social security system' in: Mathematical Social Sciences, 2015, 76, 64-72)
E32, H23, H31, J65
7887 Cassandra M. D. Hart
Aaron Sojourner
Unionization and Productivity: Evidence from Charter Schools
This paper studies the relationship between teacher unionization and student achievement. Generally stable patterns of teacher unionization since the 1970s have historically presented challenges in ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2015. 55 (4), 422-448)
I21, J5, J45, J24, H75, D24
7886 Sumon K. Bhaumik
Ralitza Dimova
Subal C. Kumbhakar
Kai Sun
More Is Better! What Can Firm-Specific Estimates of the Impact of Institutional Quality on Performance Tell Us?
We introduce a novel approach to modeling the impact of institutional quality on firm performance. Our methodology enables us to estimate the marginal effect of institutional quality on TFP, factor ...
(published as 'Is Tinkering with Institutional Quality a Panacea for Firm Performance? Insights from a Semiparametric Approach to Modeling Firm Performance' in: Review of Development Economics, 2018, 22 (1), 1-22)
C14, D24, K31, O43
7884 Krisztina Kis-Katos
Bambang Suharnoko Sjahrir
The Impact of Fiscal and Political Decentralization on Local Public Investments in Indonesia
We investigate the effects of the Indonesian decentralization and democratization process on budget allocation at the sub-national level. Based on panel data for 271 Indonesian districts for the ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017, 45 (2), 344-365)
H72, H75
7883 Frédéric Docquier
Tobias Müller
Joaquín Naval
Informality and Long-Run Growth
One of the most salient features of developing economies is the existence of a large informal sector. This paper uses quantitative theory to study the dynamic implications of informality on wage ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2017, 119(4), 1040-1085)
O11, O15, O17
7882 Susanne Prantl
Alexandra Spitz-Oener
Interacting Product and Labor Market Regulation and the Impact of Immigration on Native Wages
Does interacting product and labor market regulation alter the impact of immigration on wages of competing native workers? Focusing on the large, sudden and unanticipated wave of migration from East ...
(published as 'The Impact of Immigration on Competing Natives’ Wages: Evidence from German Reunification' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (1), 79–97)
J61, L50, J3
7881 Giovanni Facchini
Eleonora Patacchini
Max F. Steinhardt
Migration, Friendship Ties and Cultural Assimilation
Using novel information from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1996-2011, we document that migrants with a German friend are more similar to natives than those without a local companion ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2015, 117, 619-649.)
A14, J15, J61
7880 Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
International Migration and the Economics of Language
This paper provides a review of the research on the ‘economics of language' as applied to international migration. Its primary focuses are on: (1) the effect of the language skills of an individual ...
(published in: Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller (eds.), Handbook on the Economics of International Immigration, 1A, Elsevier, 2015)
J15, J24, J31, J61
7876 Lucija Muehlenbachs
Stefan Staubli
Mark A. Cohen
The Effect of Inspector Group Size and Familiarity on Enforcement and Deterrence
The paper provides new insights into the productivity of teams and the relationship between the inspector and the inspected party. Exploiting exogenous variation in the number of inspectors that are ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2016, 3 (1), 159-204)
Q58, K42
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