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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
7656 Samuel Mühlemann
Harald Pfeifer
The Structure of Hiring Costs in Germany: Evidence from Firm-Level Data
This paper analyzes the structure of hiring costs of skilled workers in Germany. Using detailed and representative firm-level data on recruitment and adaptation costs of new hires, we find that ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2016, 55 (2), 193–218)
J32, J63
7655 Adrian Hille
Jürgen Schupp
How Learning a Musical Instrument Affects the Development of Skills
Despite numerous studies on skill development, we know little about the causal effects of music training on cognitive and non-cognitive skills. This study examines how long-term music training during ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2015, 44, 56-8)
I21, J24, Z11
7654 Christian von Scheve
Frederike Esche
Jürgen Schupp
The Emotional Timeline of Unemployment: Anticipation, Reaction, and Adaptation
Unemployment continues to be one of the major challenges in industrialized societies. Aside from its economic dimensions and societal repercussions, questions concerning the individual experience of ...
(published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2017, 18(4), 1231-1254.)
A14, D63, J17
7653 Max Nathan
The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration 2014, 3:4)
G23, G24, J15, J61, L5, L26, M12, M13, O31, O32, R11
7652 Josse Delfgaauw
Robert Dur
Arjan Non
Willem Verbeke
Dynamic Incentive Effects of Relative Performance Pay: A Field Experiment
We conduct a field experiment among 189 stores of a retail chain to study dynamic incentive effects of relative performance pay. Employees in the randomly selected treatment stores could win a bonus ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 28, 1-13)
C93, M52
7651 Iván Fernández-Val
Yevgeniya Savchenko
Francis Vella
Evaluating the Role of Individual Specific Heterogeneity in the Relationship Between Subjective Health Assessments and Income
This paper investigates the impact of income on an individual's subjective self-assessment of own health. We employ recently developed methods in the non linear panel data literature to account for ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2017, 25, 85-98)
I12, C33, C35
7650 Rafael Lalive
Camille Landais
Josef Zweimüller
Market Externalities of Large Unemployment Insurance Extension Programs
This paper offers quasi experimental evidence of the existence of spillover effects of UI extensions using a unique program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2015, 105 (12), 3564-3596)
J65, J21, J22
7649 Lex Borghans
Bart H.H. Golsteyn
Anders Stenberg
Does Expert Advice Improve Educational Choice?
This paper reports evidence that an individual meeting with a study counselor at high school significantly improves the quality of choice of tertiary educational field, as self-assessed 18 months ...
(published in: PLOS ONE, 2015, 10 (12))
I2, J24, J31
7648 Govert Bijwaard
Hans van Kippersluis
Justus Veenman
Education and Health: The Role of Cognitive Ability
We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality using a structural equation model suggested by Conti et al. (2010). We extend ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 42, 29–43 )
C41, I14, I24
7646 Etienne Lehmann
Laurent Simula
Alain Trannoy
Tax Me If You Can! Optimal Nonlinear Income Tax between Competing Governments
We investigate how potential tax-driven migrations modify the Mirrlees income tax schedule when two countries play Nash. The social objective is the maximin and preferences are quasilinear in income. ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014, 129 (4), 1995-2030 )
D82, H21, H87
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