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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
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
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