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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
7114 David Neumark
Matthew Thompson
Leslie Koyle
The Effects of Living Wage Laws on Low-Wage Workers and Low-Income Families: What Do We Know Now?
We provide updated evidence on the effects of living wage laws in U.S. cities, relative to the earlier research covering only the first six or seven years of existence of these laws. There are some ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2012, 1:11)
J23, J38
7113 David Neumark
Matthew Thompson
Francesco Brindisi
Leslie Koyle
Clayton Reck
Simulating the Economic Impacts of Living Wage Mandates Using New Public and Administrative Data: Evidence for New York City
Policy researchers often have to estimate the future effect of imposing a policy in a particular location. There is often evidence on the effects of similar policies in other jurisdictions, but no ...
(pubished in: Economic Development Quarterly, 2013, 27 (4), 271 - 283)
J23, J38, R51
7112 Steven G. Dieterle
Cassandra M. Guarino
Mark D. Reckase
Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
How do Principals Assign Students to Teachers? Finding Evidence in Administrative Data and the Implications for Value-added
The federal government's Race to the Top competition has promoted the adoption of test-based performance measures as a component of teacher evaluations throughout many states, but the validity of ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2015, 34 (1), 461-480)
I0, I20, I21, I28, J01, J08, J24, J44, J45
7111 Anzelika Zaiceva
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Returning Home at Times of Trouble? Return Migration of EU Enlargement Migrants during the Crisis
The eastern enlargements of the EU in 2004 and 2007 have stimulated the mobility of workers from the new EU8 and EU2 countries. A significant proportion of these migrants stayed abroad only ...
(published in: M. Kahanec and K.F. Zimmermann (eds.), Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession, Springer: Berlin, et al., 2016 : 397-418)
F22, J61
7110 Werner Eichhorst
Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Ricarda Schmidl
Klaus F. Zimmermann
A Roadmap to Vocational Education and Training Systems Around the World
With young people among the big losers of the recent financial crisis, vocational education and training (VET) is often seen as the silver bullet to the problem of youth joblessness. This paper ...
(published as 'A Roadmap to Vocational Education and Training in Industrialized Countries' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68 (2), 314-337 )
J24, I25, O17
7109 Ana Rute Cardoso
Paulo Guimaraes
Pedro Portugal
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex Discrimination
Earlier literature on the gender pay gap has taught us that occupations matter and so do firms. However, the role of the firm has received little scrutiny; occupations have most often been coded in a ...
(published as 'What drives the gender wage gap? A look at the role of firm and job-title heterogeneity' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2016, 68 (2), 506-524)
J31, J16, J24, J71
7108 Matthias Doepke
Fabrizio Zilibotti
Parenting with Style: Altruism and Paternalism in Intergenerational Preference Transmission
We construct a theory of intergenerational preference transmission that rationalizes the choice between alternative parenting styles (related to Baumrind 1967). Parents maximize an objective function ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2017, 85 (5), 1331-1371 )
D10, J10, O10, O40
7107 Annabelle Krause-Pilatus
Don't Worry, Be Happy? Happiness and Reemployment
Subjective well-being is primarily treated as an outcome variable in the economic literature. However, is happiness also a driver of behavior and life's outcomes? Rich survey data of recent entrants ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 96, 1-20)
J60, J64, I31
7106 Saibal Kar
Shrabani Saha
Corruption, Shadow Economy and Income Inequality: Evidence from Asia
A number of recent studies for Latin America show that as the size of the informal economy grows, corruption is less harmful to inequality. We investigate if this relationship is equally compelling ...
(published in: Economic Systems, 2021, 45 (2), 100774)
J48, K42, O17, O53
7105 Daniel W. Sacks
Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers
The New Stylized Facts about Income and Subjective Well-Being
In recent decades economists have turned their attention to data that asks people how happy or satisfied they are with their lives. Much of the early research concluded that the role of income in ...
(published in: Emotion, 2012, 12(6), 1181-1187 (lead article))
D6, I3, J1, O1
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