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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
7615 Andriana Bellou
Emanuela Cardia
Occupations after WWII: The Legacy of Rosie the Riveter
WWII induced a dramatic increase in female labor supply, which persisted over time, particularly for women with higher education. Using Census micro data we study the qualitative aspects of this long ...
(published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2016, 62, 124-142)
J24, J31, N42
7612 Marco Alberto De Benedetto
Maria De Paola
The Impact of Incumbency on Turnout: Evidence from Italian Municipalities
We analyze how having an incumbent among candidates affects electoral turnout. We use a rich data set providing information on the electoral results of Italian municipal elections over the period ...
(published in: Electoral Studies, 2016, 44, 98-108)
D72, D78, J71, J16
7610 Steffen Altmann
Armin Falk
Andreas Grunewald
Incentives and Information as Driving Forces of Default Effects
The behavioral relevance of non-binding default options is well established. While most research has focused on decision makers' responses to a given default, we argue that this individual decision ...
(substantially revised version forthcoming in: Review of Economics and Statistics)
D03, D18, D83, C92
7609 Werner Eichhorst
Verena Tobsch
Has Atypical Work Become Typical in Germany?
This paper gives an overview of the transformation of the German labor market since the mid-1990s with a special focus on the changing patterns of labor market segmentation or 'dualization' of ...
(also available as: ILO Employment Working Paper 145 and DIW SOEP Paper 596)
J21, J31, J58
7608 Mehtabul Azam
Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in India
In this paper, we examine the intergenerational occupational mobility in India among men born during 1945-85. Following Long and Ferrie (2013, American Economic Review), we not only distinguish ...
(published as 'Intergenerational Occupational Mobility among Men in India' in: Journal of Development Studies , 2015, 51(10), 1389-1408)
J62
7607 Shelly Lundberg
Robert Pollak
Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the U.S., 1950-2010
Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women overtook and surpassed that of men and the ratio of men's to women's wage rates fell, ...
(published in: Leah Platt Boustan, Carola Frydman and Robert A. Margo (eds.), Human Capital in History: The American Record, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014, 241-272.)
J12, J13
7606 Benedikt Herrmann
Alexander S. Kritikos
Growing out of the Crisis: Hidden Assets to Greece's Transition to an Innovation Economy
Greece's currently planned institutional reforms will help to get the country going with limited economic growth. With an economy based primarily on tourism, trade, and agriculture, Greece lacks an ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:14)
L2, L26, O3, O4
7604 Hannes Schwandt
Unmet Aspirations as an Explanation for the Age U-shape in Human Wellbeing
A large literature in behavioral and social sciences has found that human wellbeing follows a U-shape over age. Some theories have assumed that the U-shape is caused by unmet expectations that are ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 122, 75-87)
A12, I30, D84
7602 Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Erick Gong
Motivating Agents: How Much Does the Mission Matter?
Economic theory predicts that agents will work harder if they believe in the "mission" of the organization. Well-identified estimates of exactly how much harder they will work have been elusive, ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 35 (1 Part 1), 211-236 )
C91, J22, J33, M52
7600 Joanne Lindley
Stephen Machin
Spatial Changes in Labour Market Inequality
We study spatial changes in labour market inequality for US states and MSAs using Census and American Community Survey data between 1980 and 2010. We report evidence of significant spatial variations ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2014, 79, 121-138)
J31, R11
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