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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
7763 Vanessa Lutgen
Bruno Van der Linden
Regional Equilibrium Unemployment Theory at the Age of the Internet
This paper studies equilibrium unemployment in a two-region economy where homogeneous workers and jobs are free to move and the housing market clears. Because of the Internet, searching for a job in ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2015, 53, 50-67)
J61, J64, R13, R23
7762 Anders Akerman
Ingvil Gaarder
Magne Mogstad
The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet
Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological change skill biased or factor neutral? We exploit rich Norwegian data with ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2015, 130 (4), 1781–1824)
J23, J24, J31, O33
7761 D. Mark Anderson
Daniel I. Rees
Deployments, Combat Exposure, and Crime
During the period 2001-2009, four combat brigades and the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment were based at Fort Carson, Colorado. These units were repeatedly deployed during the Iraq War, allowing us to ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2015, 58 (1), 235-267)
K4, H56
7760 Amedeo Piolatto
Matthew D. Rablen
Prospect Theory and Tax Evasion: A Reconsideration of the Yitzhaki Puzzle
The standard expected utility model of tax evasion predicts that evasion is decreasing in the marginal tax rate (the Yitzhaki puzzle). The existing literature disagrees on whether prospect theory ...
(published in: Theory and Decision, 2017, 82 (4), 543-565)
H26, D81, K42
7759 Andrew McGee
Peter McGee
After the Tournament: Outcomes and Effort Provision
Modeling the incentive effects of competitions among employees for promotions or financial rewards, economists have largely ignored the effects of competition on effort provision once the competition ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2019, 57 (4), 2125-2146.)
C90, J30, D03
7758 William Fuchs
Subjective Evaluations: Discretionary Bonuses and Feedback Credibility
We provide a new rationale for the use of discretionary bonuses. In a setting with unknown match qualities between a worker and a firm and subjective evaluations by the principal, bonuses are useful ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2015, 7 (1), 99–108)
D82, D83, D86, M5
7756 Daniel S. J. Lechmann
Claus Schnabel
Absence from Work of the Self-Employed: A Comparison with Paid Employees
Utilising a large representative data set for Germany, this study contrasts absenteeism of self-employed individuals and paid employees. We find that absence from work is clearly less prevalent among ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2014, 67 (3), 368-390)
I19, J22, J23
7755 Giorgio Brunello
Simona Lorena Comi
The Side Effect of Pension Reforms on Training: Evidence from Italy
Due to pension reforms, minimum retirement age increased substantially in Italy between the second part of the 1990s and the early 2000s. We compare the training participation of pre- and post-reform ...
(published in: Journal of Economics of Aging, 2015, 6, 113 - 122)
J24, J26
7754 Mika Haapanen
Petri Böckerman
Does Higher Education Enhance Migration?
This paper examines the causal impact of education on within-country migration. A major higher education reform took place in Finland in the 1990s. It gradually transformed former vocational colleges ...
(published as "More Educated, More Mobile? Evidence from Post-secondary Education Reform" in: Spatial Economic Analysis, 2017, 12 (1), 8-26)
J10, J61, I20, R23
7753 Rania Gihleb
Osea Giuntella
Nuns and the Effects of Catholic Schools: Evidence from Vatican II
This paper examines the causal effects of Catholic schooling on educational attainment. Using a novel instrumental-variable approach that exploits an exogenous shock to the Catholic school system, we ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 137, 191-213)
I20, J24, N3
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