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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
6609 Hans K. Hvide
Eirik Gaard Kristiansen
Management of Knowledge Workers
We study how firm-specific complementary assets and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results show when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with ...
(published in: Journal of Law & Economics, 2012, 55 (4), 815-838)
J30, J60
6608 Ervin Prifti
Daniela Vuri
Employment Protection and Fertility: Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform
The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) on fertility decisions of Italian working women using administrative data. We exploit a reform that ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 23, 77-88)
J2, J13, J65
6606 Xiaodong Gong
Robert Breunig
Child Care Assistance: Are Subsidies or Tax Credits Better?
We evaluate price subsidies and tax credits for child care. We focus on partnered women's labor supply, household income and welfare, demand for formal and informal child care and government ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2017, 38 (1), 7 - 48)
C15, C35, J22
6605 Abigail Wozniak
Discrimination and the Effects of Drug Testing on Black Employment
Nearly half of U.S. employers test job applicants and workers for drugs. I use variation in the timing and nature of drug testing regulation to study discrimination against blacks related to ...
(Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 93 (7), 548-566)
J7, J15, K2, K3, M5
6603 Umut Oguzoglu
Dynamics of Disability and Work in Canada
Canadian disability policy has come a long way in the past century. However, in contrast with the evidence that disability is not permanent for most, current disability support programs still carry ...
(shorter version published as 'Why Do Past Disabilities Still Haunt the Newly Healthy?' in: Review of Economic Analysis, 2020, 12 (3), 331-344 )
J14, J21, C23
6602 Cassandra M. Guarino
Mark D. Reckase
Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
Can Value-Added Measures of Teacher Performance Be Trusted?
We investigate whether commonly used value-added estimation strategies can produce accurate estimates of teacher effects. We estimate teacher effects in simulated student achievement data sets that ...
(published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2015, 10 (1), 117-156)
I20, J08, J24, J44, J45
6601 Jacobus de Hoop
Furio C. Rosati
Does Promoting School Attendance Reduce Child Labour? Evidence from Burkina Faso's BRIGHT Project
Using data from BRIGHT, an integrated program that aims to improve school participation in rural communities in Burkina Faso, we investigate the impact of school subsidies and increased access to ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 39, 78-96)
I25, J22, J24, O12, O55
6599 David de la Croix
Fabio Mariani
From Polygyny to Serial Monogamy: A Unified Theory of Marriage Institutions
Consider an economy populated by males and females, both rich and poor. The society has to choose one of the following marriage institutions: polygyny, strict monogamy, and serial monogamy (divorce ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2015, 82(2), 565-607)
J12, O17, Z13
6598 Sarah Bohn
Magnus Lofstrom
Employment Effects of State Legislation against the Hiring of Unauthorized Immigrant Workers
We analyze the impact of the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) on employment outcomes of low-skilled Arizona workers, with a focus on the states' unauthorized population. The intent of LAWA was ...
(published in: David Card and Steven Raphael (eds.) Immigration, Poverty, and Socioeconomic Inequality, Russell Sage, 2013)
J8, J11, J15, J18, J48, J61
6596 Krisztina Kis-Katos
Helge Liebert
Günther G. Schulze
On the Heterogeneity of Terror
The existing literature on the determinants of terrorism treats terror as a uniform phenomenon and does not distinguish between different types of terror. This paper explicitly addresses the ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 68, 116-136)
D74, K4
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