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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
7542 Daniel Fackler
Claus Schnabel
Survival of Spinoffs and Other Startups: First Evidence for the Private Sector in Germany, 1976-2008
Using a 50 percent sample of all establishments in the German private sector, we report that spinoffs are larger and initially employ more skilled and more experienced workers than other startups. ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Spinoffs in Germany: Characteristics, Survival, and the Role of their Parents', in: Small Business Economics, 2016, 46 (1), 93-114 ( co-authored by Alexandra Schmucker,))
L2, D22, M13, C41
7540 Eric Bartelsman
Sabien Dobbelaere
Bettina Peters
Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier: Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands
This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels ...
(published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2015, 24(5), 875-949)
C10, I20, O14, O30
7538 Erdal Tekin
Chandler McClellan
Karen Jean Minyard
Health and Health Behaviors during the Worst of Times: Evidence from the Great Recession
While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus of these studies has been on the relatively milder recessions of the late 20th ...
(published as 'Health and health behaviors during the great recession: a note on drinking, smoking, obesity, and physical activity' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 16, 1017 - 1026)
E32, I00, I10, I12, I14, I15
7537 Tyas Prevoo
Bas ter Weel
The Importance of Early Conscientiousness for Socio-Economic Outcomes: Evidence from the British Cohort Study
This research estimates models of the importance of conscientiousness for socio-economic outcomes. We use measures of conscientiousness at age 16 to explain adult wages and other outcomes, such as ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2015, 67 (4), 918-948)
J24
7536 Xiaoyan Lei
James P. Smith
Xiaoting Sun
Yaohui Zhao
Gender Differences in Cognition in China and Reasons for Change over Time: Evidence from CHARLS
In this paper, we model gender differences in cognitive ability in China using a new sample of middle-aged and older Chinese respondents. Modeled after the American Health and Retirement Survey ...
(published as 'Gender differences in cognition in China and reasons for change over time: Evidence from CHARLS' in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2014, 4, 46-55)
H10
7535 James P. Smith
Meng Tian
Yaohui Zhao
Community Effects on Elderly Health: Evidence from CHARLS National Baseline
There is increasing interest in neighborhood or area effects on health and individual development. China, due to its vast regional variations in health infrastructure and geography and relative ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2013, 1-2, 50 - 59, )
I10, I14
7534 Richard Fabling
David C. Maré
Firm-Level Hiring Difficulties: Persistence, Business Cycle and Local Labour Market Influences
We examine the correlates of reported hiring difficulties at the firm level using linked employer-employee and panel survey data over 2005-2011, focussing on the relative influence of firm-level ...
(published in: Journal of Labour Research, 2016, 37, 179 - 210)
E24, J23, J63, M51
7532 Maja Adena
Michal Myck
Poverty and Transitions in Health
Using a sample of Europeans aged 50+ from twelve countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) we analyse the role of poor material conditions as a determinant of changes ...
(revised version published as 'Poverty and Transitions in Health in Later Life' in: Social Science and Medicine, 2014, 116, 202–210)
I14, I32, J14
7531 Rachel Connelly
Jean Kimmel
If You're Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands: How Do Mothers and Fathers Really Feel about Child Caregiving?
This paper considers the question posed by popular media, do women like doing child care more than men? Using experienced emotions data paired with 24 hour time diaries from the 2010 American Time ...
(published in: Feminist Economics, 2015, 21 (1), 1-34)
D13, J13, J16
7530 Ahmed Elsayed
Andries de Grip
Terrorism and Integration of Muslim Immigrants
We study the effect that a series of fundamentalist-Islamic terrorist attacks in Europe had on the attitudes of Muslim immigrants in the Netherlands towards integration. Shortly after the attacks, ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31 (1), 45 - 67)
F22, J15, Z13
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