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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
7389 Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
Negative and Positive Assimilation By Prices and By Quantities
This paper considers the labor market assimilation of immigrants in terms of earnings and employment (employment probability, unemployment probability, and hours worked per week). Using the 2006 ...
(published in: Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 2015, 18 (1))
J61, J31, F22
7387 Alain Jousten
Mathieu Lefčbvre
Retirement Incentives in Belgium: Estimations and Simulations Using SHARE Data
The paper studies retirement behavior of wage-earners in Belgium – for the first time using rich survey data to explore retirement incentives as faced by individuals. Specifically, we use SHARE data ...
(published in: De Economist, 2013, 161 (3), 253-276)
H55, J21, J26, J14
7385 Eva Spring
Volker Grossmann
Does Bilateral Trust Affect International Movement of Goods and Labor?
Trust in the citizens of a potential partner country may affect the decision to trade with or to migrate to a foreign country. This paper employs panel data to examine the causal impact of such ...
(published as "Does Bilateral Trust Across Countries Really Affect International Trade and Factor Mobility?" in: Empirical Economics, 2016, 50 (1), 103-136)
F10, F22, Z10
7382 Stephen V. Burks
Bo Cowgill
Mitchell Hoffman
Michael Housman
The Value of Hiring through Referrals
Employee referrals are a very common means by which firms hire new workers. Past work suggests that workers hired via referrals often perform better than non-referred workers, but we have little ...
(revised version published as 'The Value of Hiring through Employee Referrals' in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2015, 130(2), 805-839)
M51, J24, O32, J63, L84, L86, L92
7381 David L. Sjoquist
John V. Winters
State Merit-Aid Programs and College Major: A Focus on STEM
Since 1991 more than two dozen states have adopted merit-based student financial aid programs, intended at least in part to increase the stock of human capital by improving the knowledge and skills ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33 (4), 973-1006. )
I23, J24
7380 Jan Feld
Nicolás Salamanca
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Endophilia or Exophobia: Beyond Discrimination
The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relative: One group suffers compared to another. But does a difference arise because agents discriminate against others – are exophobic – ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (594), 1503-1527)
J71, I24, B40
7377 Avner Greif
Murat Iyigun
Social Organizations, Violence & Modern Growth
Although social institutions permeate the world in which we live, they are all but absent from our analyses of economic growth and development. This paper argues the need to mitigate this omission by ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (3), 534-538)
O10, N10, N13
7376 Alberto Alesina
Paola Giuliano
Family Ties
We study the role of the most primitive institution in society: the family. Its organization and relationship between generations shape values formation, economic outcomes and influences national ...
(published in Philippe Aghion and Steven Durlauf (eds.), Handbook of Economic Growth, Vol. 2A, The Netherlands: North Holland, pp. 177-215, 2014)
J2, J6, O4, O5, Z1
7375 Richard Blundell
Monica Costa Dias
Costas Meghir
Jonathan Shaw
Female Labour Supply, Human Capital and Welfare Reform
We consider the impact of tax credits and income support programs on female education choice, employment, hours and human capital accumulation over the life-cycle. We analyze both the short run ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2016, 84 (5), 1705-1753)
J22, J24, H31
7374 Johannes Abeler
Daniele Nosenzo
Self-Selection into Economics Experiments Is Driven by Monetary Rewards
Laboratory experiments have become a wide-spread tool in economic research. Yet, there is still doubt about how well the results from lab experiments generalize to other settings. In this paper, we ...
(revised version published as 'Self-Selection into Laboratory Experiments: Pro-Social Motives versus Monetary Incentives' in: Experimental Economics, 2015, 18(2), 195-214)
C90, D03
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