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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
7679 Marco Bertoni
Giorgio Brunello
Laterborns Don't Give Up: The Effects of Birth Order on Earnings in Europe
While it is well known that birth order affects educational attainment, less is known about its effects on earnings. Using data from eleven European countries for males born between 1935 and 1956, we ...
(published in: Demography, 2016, 53 (2), 449-470)
D13, J12, J24
7678 Pierpaolo Parrotta
Nina Smith
Why So Few Women on Boards of Directors? Empirical Evidence from Danish Companies 1997-2007
This paper analyzes the determinants of women on the boards of directors based on a panel sample of all Danish companies in the private sector with more than 50 employees. The share of women on the ...
(published in: Journal of Business Ethics, 2018, 147 (2), 445-467 )
G34, J16, L25
7676 Brian Stacy
Cassandra M. Guarino
Mark D. Reckase
Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
Does the Precision and Stability of Value-Added Estimates of Teacher Performance Depend on the Types of Students They Serve?
This paper investigates how the precision and stability of a teacher's value-added estimate relates to the characteristics of the teacher's students. Using a large administrative data set and a ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 64, 50-74)
I0, I20, I21, I28, J01, J08, J24, J44, J45
7675 Giorgio Di Pietro
Do Study Abroad Programs Enhance the Employability of Graduates?
Despite the great popularity of international educational mobility schemes, relatively little research has been conducted to explore their benefits. Using data on a large sample of recent Italian ...
(revised version published in: Education, Finance & Policy, 2015, 10 (2), 223-243)
I2, J6
7673 Carlos Lamarche
Industry-Wide Work Rules and Productivity: Evidence from Argentine Union Contract Data
In the early 1990's, the Argentine government promoted a framework for productivity-based negotiations between firms and unions at low levels of organization. The policy weakened the industry-wide ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2013, 2:11)
J52, O14, O43, O54
7672 Tanja Hethey-Maier
Johannes F. Schmieder
Does the Use of Worker Flows Improve the Analysis of Establishment Turnover? Evidence from German Administrative Data
Economists have long been interested in analyzing entries and exits of establishments. In many countries administrative datasets provide an excellent source for detailed analysis on a fine and ...
(published in: Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, 2013, 133 (4), 477–510)
L1, M1, J6
7671 Andrea Conte
Marco Vivarelli
Succeeding in Innovation: Key Insights on the Role of R&D and Technological Acquisition Drawn from Company Data
This paper discusses the relationship between a company's investment in innovation and its success in introducing new product and/or process innovations. In doing so, this analysis departs from the ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2014, 47(4), 1317-1340)
O31
7670 Anabela Carneiro
Pedro Portugal
José Varejăo
Catastrophic Job Destruction
In this article we study the resilience of the Portuguese labor market, in terms of job flows, employment and wage developments, in the context of the current recession. We single out the huge ...
(published as 'Catastrophic job Destruction during the Portuguese Economic Crisis' in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2014, 39 (Part B), 444-457)
E24, J23, J63
7669 Robert W. Fairlie
Magnus Lofstrom
Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created ...
(published in: Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller (eds.), Handbook on the Economics of International Immigration, 1B, Elsevier, 2015)
J15, J18, J31, J38, J61, L26, M13
7668 Niall O'Higgins
Christian Brüggemann
The Consequences of Cumulative Discrimination: How Special Schooling Influences Employment and Wages of Roma in the Czech Republic
Unequal labour market outcomes between Roma and non-Roma have typically been explained by either the low level of educational attainment on the one hand or labour marked discrimination on the other – ...
(published in: European Educational Research Journal, 2014, 13(3), 282-294 )
J15, I24
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