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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
6656 David W. Johnston
Stefanie Schurer
Michael A. Shields
Maternal Gender Role Attitudes, Human Capital Investment, and Labour Supply of Sons and Daughters
Using data from the 1970 British Cohort Study, we investigate the role of maternal gender role attitudes in explaining the differential educational expectations mothers have for their daughters and ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2014, 66 (3), 631-659)
J62
6655 Francesc Ortega
Giovanni Peri
The Role of Income and Immigration Policies in Attracting International Migrants
This paper makes two contributions to the literature on the determinants of international migration flows. First, we compile a new dataset on annual bilateral migration flows covering 15 OECD ...
(published as 'The effect of income and immigration policies on international migration' in: Migration Studies, 2013, 1 (1), 47-74.)
F22, E25, J61
6654 Maite Blázquez Cuesta
Santiago Budría
Unemployment Persistence: How Important Are Non-Cognitive Skills?
Using a random effects dynamic panel data model and the 2000-2008 waves of the German SOEP this paper shows that non-cognitive skills have a predictive power on unemployment transitions.
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 69, 29-37)
C33, J64
6653 Jian Zhang
John T. Giles
Scott Rozelle
Does It Pay to Be a Cadre? Estimating the Returns to Being a Local Official in Rural China
Recruiting and retaining leaders and public servants at the grass-roots level in developing countries creates a potential tension between providing sufficient returns to attract talent and limiting ...
(Journal of Comparative Economics, 2012, 40 (3), 337-356)
O16, O17, J45, P25, P26
6652 Martyn J. Andrews
Hans-Dieter Gerner
Thorsten Schank
Richard Upward
More Hours, More Jobs? The Employment Effects of Longer Working Hours
Increases in standard hours have been a contentious policy issue in Germany. Whilst this might directly lead to a substitution of workers by hours, there may also be a positive employment effect due ...
(published in: Oxford Eonomic Papers,, 2015, 67(2), 245-268)
C23, J23, J81
6651 Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll
Veruska Oppedisano
Fostering the Emancipation of Young People: Evidence from a Spanish Rental Subsidy
In Southern Europe youngsters leave the parental home significantly later than in Northern Europe and United States. In this paper, we study the effect of a monthly cash subsidy on young adults' ...
(published as: 'Fostering Household Formation: Evidence from a Spanish Rental Subsidy' in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions, 2015, 15 (1), 53 - 85)
J1, H2, I3
6650 Simon M.S. Lo
Gesine Stephan
Ralf Wilke
Estimating the Latent Effect of Unemployment Benefits on Unemployment Duration
We estimate the effect of a shortening of unemployment benefit entitlements on unemployment duration. Previous studies on the same or related problems have not taken into account that the competing ...
(fundamentally revised version published as 'Competing Risks Copula Models for Unemployment Duration: An Application to a German Hartz Reform' in Journal of Econometric Methods, 2017, 6, 1-20)
C34, C41, J64
6649 Delia Furtado
Nikolaos Theodoropoulos
Immigrant Networks and the Take-Up of Disability Programs: Evidence from US Census Data
This paper examines the role of ethnic networks in disability program take-up among working-age immigrants in the United States. We find that even when controlling for country of origin and area of ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2016, 54 (1), 247–267)
C31, H55, I18, J61
6648 Graziella Bertocchi
Marianna Brunetti
Costanza Torricelli
Is It Money or Brains? The Determinants of Intra-Family Decision Power
We empirically study the determinants of intra-household decision power with respect to economic and financial choices using a suitable direct measure provided in the 1989-2010 Bank of Italy Survey ...
(revised version published as 'Who Holds the Purse Strings within the Household? The Determinants of Intra-family Decision Making' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014, 101, 65-86)
J12, D13, E21, G11
6646 Oana Borcan
Mikael Lindahl
Andreea Mitrut
The Impact of an Unexpected Wage Cut on Corruption: Evidence from a "Xeroxed" Exam
This paper aims to understand how corruption responds to financial incentives and, in particular, it is an attempt to identify the causal impact of a wage loss on the prevalence of corruption in the ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 120 , 32-47)
I2, H7, J3
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