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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
6852 Govert Bijwaard
Stijn van Doeselaar
The Impact of Divorce on Return-Migration of Family Migrants
Many migrants have non-labour motives to migrate and they differ substantially in their migration behaviour. Family migrants main migration motive is to join their future spouse. Thus, when their ...
(revised version published as 'The Impact of Changes in the Marital Status on Return-Migration of Family Migrants' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27(4), 961-997 )
J12, F22, C41
6851 Quang Nguyen
Marie Claire Villeval
Hui Xu
Trust and Trustworthiness under the Prospect Theory: A Field Experiment in Vietnam
We study the influence of risk and time preferences on trust and trustworthiness by conducting a field experiment in Vietnamese villages and by estimating the parameters of the Cumulative Prospect ...
(revised version published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2016, 64 (3), 545-572)
C91, C93, D81, D90, O10, O53
6850 Gil S. Epstein
Migrants, Ethnicity and the Welfare State
A model is set up where migrants must choose a level of social traits and consumption of ethnic goods. As the consumption level of ethnic goods increases, the migrants become ever more different to ...
(published in: Korean Economic Review, 2012, 28 (2), 117-136.)
F22, O15, D6
6849 Andreas I. Mueller
Separations, Sorting and Cyclical Unemployment
This paper establishes a new fact about the compositional changes in the pool of unemployed over the U.S. business cycle and evaluates a number of theories that can potentially explain it. Using ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2017, 107 (7), 2081-2107)
E24, E32, J63
6848 Kailing Shen
Peter J. Kuhn
Do Chinese Employers Avoid Hiring Overqualified Workers? Evidence from an Internet Job Board
Can having more education than a job requires reduce one's chances of being offered the job? We study this question in a sample of applications to jobs that are posted on an urban Chinese website. We ...
(published in: Corrado Giulietti, Konstantinos Tatsiramos and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.), Research in Labor Economics, vol 37, Labor Market Issues in China, Emerald, 2013)
J64, J24
6845 Michaela Trax
Stephan Brunow
Jens Suedekum
Cultural Diversity and Plant?Level Productivity
Using comprehensive data for German establishments (1999-2008), we estimate plant-level production functions to analyze if “cultural diversity” affects total factor productivity. We distinguish ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2015, 53, 85-96 )
R23, J21, J31
6844 Christopher Dawson
David Emmanuel de Meza
Andrew Henley
Reza Arabsheibani
Entrepreneurship: Cause or Consequence of Financial Optimism?
Extant evidence that the self-employed overestimate their returns by more than employees do is consistent with two mutually inclusive possibilities. Self-employment may generate optimism or optimists ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2014, 23(4), 717–742)
D84, M13
6843 Benjamin Elsner
Does Emigration Benefit the Stayers? Evidence from EU Enlargement
Around 9% of the Lithuanian workforce emigrated to Western Europe after the enlargement of the European Union in 2004. I exploit this emigration wave to study the effect of emigration on wages in the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (2), 531-553)
F22, J61, R23
6842 Grant R. McDermott
Řivind Anti Nilsen
Electricity Prices, River Temperatures and Cooling Water Scarcity
Thermal-based power stations rely on water for cooling purposes. These water sources may be subject to incidents of scarcity, environmental regulations and competing economic concerns. This paper ...
(revised version published in: Land Economics, 2014 90 (1), 131-148.)
Q25, Q41, Q5, C3
6841 Albrecht Glitz
Ethnic Segregation in Germany
This paper provides a comprehensive description of the nature and extent of ethnic segregation in Germany. Using matched employer-employee data for the universe of German workers over the period 1975 ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 29, 28-40)
J61, J63, J31
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