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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
6937 Massimiliano Tani
Does Immigration Policy Affect the Education-Occupation Mismatch? Evidence from Australia
This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced on 1st July 1999, on migrants' probability of being over-/under-educated or correctly matched. The policy ...
(published in: Australian Bulletin of Labour, 2012, 38(2), 111-141)
C34, J24, J61
6936 Laurent Gobillon
Carine Milcent
Spatial Disparities in Hospital Performance
Using a French exhaustive dataset, this paper studies the determinants of regional disparities in mortality for patients admitted to hospitals for a heart attack. These disparities are large, with an ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2013, 13 (6), 1013-1040)
I11, C41
6935 Olivier Charlot
Franck Malherbet
Mustafa Ulus
Efficiency in a Search and Matching Economy with a Competitive Informal Sector
We consider a dual labor market with a frictional formal sector and a competitive informal sector. We show that the size of the informal sector is generally too large compared to the optimal ...
(published in: Economic Letters, 2013, 118(1), 192-194)
E24, E26, J60, L16, O1
6934 Murat Iyigun
Are We There Yet? Time for Checks and Balances on New Institutionalism
New institutionalism has had considerable success during the last decade in shepherding the debate on sustained economic development. If the sociopolitical, legal and economic transformations in the ...
(published in: Annual Proceedings of the Wealth & Well-Being of Nations, 2013, 5, 73-84)
O11, O57, N10
6933 Krzysztof Karbownik
Michal Myck
For Some Mothers More Than Others: How Children Matter for Labour Market Outcomes When Both Fertility and Female Employment Are Low
We estimate the causal relationship between family size and labour market outcomes for families in low fertility and low female employment regime. Family size is instrumented using twinning and ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Transition, 2016, 24(4), 705-725 )
J13, J22
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
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