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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
7727 Sylvie Démurger
Hui Xu
Left-Behind Children and Return Decisions of Rural Migrants in China
This paper examines how left-behind children influence return migration in China. We first present a simple illustrative model based on Dustmann (2003) that incorporates economic and non-economic ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2015, 4:10)
J61, J13, C41, C25, O53
7726 Manuela Angelucci
Migration and Financial Constraints: Evidence from Mexico
Using data collected for the evaluation of the rural component of Oportunidades, Mexico's flagship anti-poverty program, I show that poor households' entitlement to an exogenous, temporary but ...
(revised version published in: The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97(1), 224-228)
J61, O12, O15, F22
7725 Costanza Biavaschi
Corrado Giulietti
Zahra Siddique
The Economic Payoff of Name Americanization
We examine the impact of the Americanization of names on the labor market outcomes of migrants. We construct a novel longitudinal data set of naturalization records in which we track a complete ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35 (4), 1089-1116)
J61, J62, Z1, N32
7724 Antonio Di Paolo
Aysit Tansel
Returns to Foreign Language Skills in a Developing Country: The Case of Turkey
Foreign language skills represent a form of human capital that can be rewarded in the labor market. Drawing on data from the Adult Education Survey of 2007, this is the first study estimating returns ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2015, 51(4), 407-421)
I25, J24, J31, O15, O53
7723 Todd Pugatch
Elizabeth Schroeder
Incentives for Teacher Relocation: Evidence from the Gambian Hardship Allowance
We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school teachers in remote locations, on the distribution and characteristics of teachers ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 41, 120-136)
I25, I28, J38, J45, J61, O12, O15
7722 Massimiliano Bratti
Daniele Checchi
Re-testing PISA Students One Year Later: On School Value Added Estimation Using OECD-PISA
Thanks to the effort of two local educational authorities, in two regions of North Italy (Valle d'Aosta and the autonomous province of Trento) the PISA 2009 test was re-administered to the same ...
(revised version published in: Rivista di Politica Economica, 2016, 105, 145-189 )
I21, J24
7721 Eleni Kalfa
Matloob Piracha
Immigrants' Educational Mismatch and the Penalty of Over-Education
This paper analyses immigrants' education-occupation mismatch as well as its impact on their wages in Spain. Using cross-sectional data from the National Immigrant Survey of Spain 2007, we estimate a ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2017, 22(5), 462-481)
C34, J24, J61
7720 Asako Ohinata
Jan C. van Ours
Spillover Effects of Studying with Immigrant Students: A Quantile Regression Approach
We analyze how the share of immigrant children in the classroom affects the educational attainment of native Dutch children in terms of their language and math performance at the end of primary ...
(published as 'Quantile Peer Effects of Immigrant Children at Primary Schools' in: Labour, 2016, 30 (2), 135 - 157)
I21, J15
7719 Matteo Picchio
Stefano Staffolani
Does Apprenticeship Improve Job Opportunities? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
In Italy the reforms of the last twenty years shaped a dual labour market with different levels of employment protection for permanent jobs, on one side, and temporary jobs like apprenticeships and ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2019, 56 (1), 23-60)
C36, C41, J24, J41
7718 A. Kerem Cosar
Nezih Guner
James Tybout
Firm Dynamics, Job Turnover, and Wage Distributions in an Open Economy
This paper explores the combined effects of reductions in trade frictions, tariffs, and firing costs on firm dynamics, job turnover, and wage distributions. It uses establishment-level data from ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (3), 625-63.)
F12, F16, E24, J64, L11
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