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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
6815 Paolo Masella
Stephan Meier
Philipp Zahn
Incentives and Group Identity
This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2014, 86, 12-25)
C91, D03, Z13
6814 Nicola Lacetera
Mario Macis
Sarah S. Stith
Removing Financial Barriers to Organ and Bone Marrow Donation: The Effect of Leave and Tax Legislation in the U.S.
In an attempt to alleviate the shortfall in organs and bone marrow available for transplants, many U.S. states passed legislation providing leave to organ and bone marrow donors and/or tax benefits ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 33, 43-56)
D64, H41, I12, J18, K32
6812 Nezih Guner
Ezgi Kaya
Virginia Sánchez-Marcos
Gender Gaps in Spain: Policies and Outcomes over the Last Three Decades
We document recent trends in gender equality in employment and wages in Spain. Despite an impressive decline in gender gap in employment, females are still less likely to work, and if they work they ...
(published in: SERIEs - Journal of Spanish Economic Association, 2014, 5,(1), 61-103.)
J16, J21, J22, J24
6811 Zoe McLaren
Coping with Intra-Household Job Separation in South Africa's Labor Market
In the context of South Africa's pervasive poverty and mass unemployment, households provide an important private safety net for the unemployed. Using new South African Labour Force Survey panel ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2019, 67 (4), 757–798)
J22, O15
6810 Marco Caliendo
Jens Hogenacker
The German Labor Market after the Great Recession: Successful Reforms and Future Challenges
The reaction of the German labor market to the Great Recession 2008/09 was relatively mild – especially compared to other countries. The reason lies not only in the specific type of the recession – ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2012, 1(3), 1-24 )
J26, J38, J68
6809 Isis Gaddis
Janneke Pieters
Trade Liberalization and Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Brazil
While there is a large literature analyzing the distributional impacts of trade reforms across the income or skill distribution, very little is known about the gender effects of trade reforms. This ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52(2), 457-490)
F13, F16, J16, J21, O15
6808 Guyonne Kalb
Trinh Le
Boyd Hunter
Felix Leung
Decomposing Differences in Labour Force Status between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians
Despite several policy efforts to promote economic participation by Indigenous Australians, they continue to have low participation rates compared to non-Indigenous Australians. This study decomposes ...
(published as 'Identifying Important Factors for Closing the Gap in Labour Force Status between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians' in: Economic Record, 2014, 90(291), 536–550)
J15, J21
6807 John Cawley
David E. Frisvold
Chad D. Meyerhoefer
The Impact of Physical Education on Obesity among Elementary School Children
In response to the dramatic rise in childhood obesity, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and other organizations have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 32 (4), 743-755)
I12, I18, I21, H75, K32
6806 Alejandra Mizala
Hugo R. Nopo
Evolution of Teachers' Salaries in Latin America at the Turn of the 20th Century: How Much Are They (Under or Over) Paid?
How much are teachers paid in comparison to those in other professions in Latin America? How have these differences evolved at the turn of the 20th century? This paper reports the evolution, between ...
(published in: International Journal of Educational Development, 2016, 47, 20-32)
J31, J44, J8, O54
6804 Abel Brodeur
Marie Connolly
Do Higher Childcare Subsidies Improve Parental Well-being? Evidence from Québec's Family Policies
In this paper, we investigate the effect of a change in childcare subsidies on parental subjective well-being. Starting in 1997, the Canadian province of Québec implemented a generous program ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2013, 93, 1-16)
I31, J20, J28
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