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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
6558 Yekaterina Chzhen
Karen A. Mumford
Catia Nicodemo
The Gender Pay Gap in the Australian Private Sector: Is Selection Relevant across the Wage Distribution?
We use quantile regression and counterfactual decomposition methods to explore gender gaps across the earning distribution for full-time employees in the Australian private sector. Significant ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2013, 89 (286), 367–381)
J3, J7
6557 Nattavudh Powdthavee
Yohanes E. Riyanto
Why Do People Pay for Useless Advice? Implications of Gambler's and Hot-Hand Fallacies in False-Expert Setting
We investigated experimentally whether people can be induced to believe in a non-existent expert, and subsequently pay for what can only be described as transparently useless advice about future ...
(published as 'Would You Pay for Transparently Useless Advice? A Test of Boundaries of Beliefs in the Folly of Predictions' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97 (2), 257 - 272)
C91, D03
6556 Aysit Tansel
Elif Öznur Acar
The Formal/Informal Employment Earnings Gap: Evidence from Turkey
In this study, we examine the formal/informal sector earnings differentials in the Turkish labor market using detailed econometric methodologies and a novel panel data set drawn from the 2006-2009 ...
(published in: John A. Bishop and Juan Gabriel Rodrigue (eds.), Inequality after the 20th Century: Papers from the Sixth ECINEQ Meeting (Research on Economic Inequality Book 24) ,2016, 123-156)
J21, J31, J40, O17
6555 Carlo Dell’Aringa
Claudio Lucifora
Laura Pagani
A 'Glass-Ceiling' Effect for Immigrants in the Italian Labour Market?
This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the (imperfect) international transferability of human capital. Data are drawn from the 2009 ...
(published as: 'Earnings differentials between immigrants and natives: the role of occupational attainment' in: IZA Journal of Migration, 4 (8), 2015)
J31, J24, J61, F22
6554 Hans Grönqvist
Per Johansson
Susan Niknami
Income Inequality and Health: Lessons from a Refugee Residential Assignment Program
This paper examines the effect of income inequality on health for a group of particularly disadvantaged individuals: refugees. Our analysis draws on longitudinal hospitalization records coupled with ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics 2012, 31 (4), 617-629 )
I10, J15
6553 Per Engström
Pathric Hägglund
Per Johansson
Early Interventions and Disability Insurance: Experience from a Field Experiment
This paper estimates the effects of early interventions in the Swedish sickness insurance system. The aim of the interventions is to screen and, further to, rehabilitate sick listed individuals. We ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017,127 (600), 363 - 392)
C93, H51, H55, I18, J22
6551 Shareen Joshi
T. Paul Schultz
Family Planning and Women's and Children's Health: Long Term Consequences of an Outreach Program in Matlab, Bangladesh
The paper analyzes the impact of an experimental maternal and child health and family-planning program that was implemented in Matlab, Bangladesh in 1977. Village data from 1974, 1982 and 1996 ...
(published in: Demography, 2013, 50 (1), 149-180)
O12, J13, I12, J16
6550 James J. Heckman
Junjian Yi
Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Inequality in China
China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled labor acquired before economic reforms began. As development proceeded, the ...
(published in: S. Fan, R. Kanbur, S. Wei, and X. Zhang (eds)., The Oxford Companion to the Economics of China on Human Capital, Oxford: OUP, 2014)
I25, J24, O15
6549 Mehtabul Azam
Vipul Bhatt
Like Father, Like Son? Intergenerational Education Mobility in India
An important constraint in studying intergenerational education mobility for India is the lack of data that contain information about parents' education for the entire adult population. This paper ...
(substantially revised version published in: Demography, 2015, 52(6), 1929-1959 )
J6, I28
6547 Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Determinants of Immigrants' Cash-Welfare Benefits Intake in Spain
Much of the literature on immigrants' cash-welfare benefits use has focused on countries with a large tradition of receiving immigrants and with well established Welfare states. This paper ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (2), 167-180)
J15, J61, J68, I38
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