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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
7599 Afsin Sahin
Aysit Tansel
Hakan Berument
Output-Employment Relationship across Sectors: A Long- versus Short-Run Perspective
This paper investigates the nature of the output-employment relationship by using the Turkish quarterly data for the period 1988-2008. Even if we fail to find a long-run relationship between ...
(published in: Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies, 2013, 2, 1-23.)
C32, E24, E32
7598 Jakub Cerveny
Jan C. van Ours
Unemployment of Non-western Immigrants in the Great Recession
This paper examines whether unemployment of non-western immigrant workers in the Netherlands was disproportionally affected by the Great Recession. We analyze unemployment data covering the period ...
(published in: De Economist, 2013, 161, 463-480.)
J15, J64
7597 Stephan Klasen
Janneke Pieters
What Explains the Stagnation of Female Labor Force Participation in Urban India?
We study the surprisingly low level and stagnation of female labor force participation rates in urban India between 1987 and 2009. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Revew, 2015, 29 (3), 449-478)
J20, J16, I25, O15
7596 Alan Barrett
Irene Mosca
Brendan J. Whelan
(Lack of) Pension Knowledge
Governments are increasingly concerned about the capacity of pensions systems to meet demands in the coming years. According to the OECD, one part of the policy response in many countries will be ...
(published as 'How Well-informed are Pension Scheme Members on their Future Pension Benefits?: Evidence from Ireland' in: Journal of Aging and Social Policy, 2015, 27(4), 295-313)
I38, J14
7594 Alexander Hijzen
Leopoldo Mondauto
Stefano Scarpetta
The Perverse Effects of Job-Security Provisions on Job Security in Italy: Results from a Regression Discontinuity Design
This paper analyses the impact of employment protection (EP) on the composition of the workforce and worker turnover using a unique firm-level dataset for Italy. The impact of employment protection ...
(published as "The Impact of Employment Protection on Temporary Employment: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design" in: Labour Economics, 2017 , 46 (C), 65 - 76)
J42, J63, J65
7592 David Card
Ana Rute Cardoso
Patrick Kline
Bargaining and the Gender Wage Gap: A Direct Assessment
An influential recent literature argues that women are less likely to initiate bargaining with their employers and are (often) less effective negotiators than men. We use longitudinal wage data from ...
(published as 'Bargaining, sorting, and the gender wage gap: Quantifying the impact of firms on the relative pay of women' in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2016, 131 (2), 633-686)
J16, J31, J71
7591 Todd J. Kumler
Eric Verhoogen
Judith A. Frias
Enlisting Employees in Improving Payroll-Tax Compliance: Evidence from Mexico
Non-compliance of firms with tax regulations is a major constraint on state capacity in developing countries. We focus on an arguably under-appreciated dimension of non-compliance: under-reporting of ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (5), 881–896. )
O17, H26, H55
7590 Hielke Buddelmeyer
Duncan McVicar
Mark Wooden
Non-Standard 'Contingent' Employment and Job Satisfaction: A Panel Data Analysis
It is widely assumed that contingent forms of employment, such as fixed-term contracts, labour-hire and casual employment, are associated with low quality jobs. This hypothesis is tested using data ...
(Published in: Industrial Relations, 2015, 54(2), 256-275. doi:10.1111/irel.12090)
J28, J41, J81
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