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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
6932 John H. Pencavel
Worker Cooperatives and Democratic Governance
A worker co-operative is a firm that is owned and managed by those who work in it. This paper provides a selective review of research in economics on worker cooperatives. It concentrates on the ...
(published in: Anna Grandori (ed.), Handbook of Economic Organization, Edward Elgar, 2013)
J54
6931 David C. Ribar
Immigrants' Time Use: A Survey of Methods and Evidence
This paper discusses research questions related to immigrants' time use, reviews conceptual and methodological approaches to examining time allocations, and reviews evidence from previous studies. It ...
(published in: A. Constant and K.F. Zimmermann (eds), International Handbook of the Economics of Migration, Cheltenham, 2013, 373-92)
J22, J61
6930 Gabriella Conti
James J. Heckman
The Economics of Child Well-Being
This chapter presents an integrated economic approach that organizes and interprets the evidence on child development. It also discusses the indicators of child well-being that are used in ...
(published in: A. Ben-Arieh, F. Casas, I. Frones, and J. Korbin (eds.), Handbook of Child Well-Being: Theories, Methods, and Policies in Global Perspective, Dordrecht: Springer-Verlag, 2013)
J13, I21, D03, D04
6929 Tin-chi Lin
Alicia Adsera
Son Preference and Children's Housework: The Case of India
Son preference in countries like India results in higher female infant mortality rates and differentially lower access to health care and education for girls than for boys. We use a nationally ...
(published in: Population Research and Policy Review, 2013, 32 (4), 553-584)
J13, J22, O15, J16
6928 Laurent Gobillon
Dominique Meurs
Sébastien Roux
Estimating Gender Differences in Access to Jobs
This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure is the probability ratio of getting a job for females and males at each rank of ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33(2), 317-363)
J16, J31, J71
6927 Kadir Atalay
Fayzan Bakhtiar
Stephen L. Cheung
Robert Slonim
Savings and Prize-Linked Savings Accounts
Many households have insufficient savings to handle moderate and routine consumption shocks. Many of these financially fragile households also have the highest lottery expenditures as a proportion of ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 107 (A), 86-106)
E21, D14, C91, L83, D12
6925 Laszlo Goerke
Profit Sharing and Relative Consumption
Traditionally, it has been argued that profit sharing can increase employment and welfare because it lowers marginal labour costs without reducing total cost or labour income. In this paper, we show ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 118 (1), 167-169)
D62, J22, J33
6924 Pieter Bevelander
Ravi Pendakur
The Labour Market Integration of Refugee and Family Reunion Immigrants: A Comparison of Outcomes in Canada and Sweden
This paper assesses the employment and earnings trajectories of refugee and family reunion category immigrants in Canada and Sweden using two national level sources of data. The Canadian Immigration ...
(published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2014, 40 (5), 689-709.)
F22, J61, J68
6923 Eric Strobl
Marie-Anne Valfort
The Effect of Weather-Induced Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets: Evidence from Uganda
Relying on census data collected in 2002 and historical weather data for Uganda, we estimate the impact of weather-induced internal migration on the probability for non-migrants living in the ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2015, 29 (2), 385-412)
E24, J21, J61, Q54, R23
6922 Stephen L. Cheung
Morten Hedegaard
Stefan Palan
To See Is To Believe: Common Expectations in Experimental Asset Markets
We challenge the recent claim that mispricing in the experimental asset markets introduced by Smith, Suchanek, and Williams (1988) is merely an artefact of confusion over declining fundamental value, ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 66, 84-96)
C92, D84, G12
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