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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
6440 Christina Gathmann
Björn Sass
Taxing Childcare: Effects on Family Labor Supply and Children
Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36 (3), 665-709)
J13, J22, J18
6438 Ioana E. Marinescu
HIV, Wages, and the Skill Premium
The HIV epidemic has dramatically decreased labor supply among prime-age adults in sub-Saharan Africa. Using within-country variation in regional HIV prevalence and a synthetic panel, I find that HIV ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 37, 181-197)
J22, I15, J31
6437 Nicole B. Simpson
Chad Sparber
The Short- and Long-Run Determinants of Less-Educated Immigration into U.S. States
This paper uses a gravity model of migration to analyze how income differentials affect the flow of immigrants into U.S. states using annual data from the American Community Survey. We add to ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2013, 80(2), 414-438)
J61, E01
6436 Leslie S. Stratton
The Role of Preferences and Opportunity Costs in Determining the Time Allocated to Housework
The time devoted to housework in couple households is substantial. Research on intrahousehold time allocations has generally assumed that housework is a necessary evil and that the partner with the ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102(3), 606-611)
D13, J22
6435 Daniel S. J. Lechmann
Claus Schnabel
What Explains the Gender Earnings Gap in Self-Employment? A Decomposition Analysis with German Data
Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in self-employment than in paid employment. Applying an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, ...
(published as 'Why is there a gender earnings gap in self-employment? A decomposition analysis with German data' in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2012, 1 (6))
J31, J71
6434 Niall O'Higgins
This Time It's Different? Youth Labour Markets During 'The Great Recession'
This paper looks at the effects of the 'Great Recession' on young people's labour market experiences in the European Union. The paper documents some of the key characteristics of young people's ...
(published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2012, 54 (2), 395-412)
I28, J13, J23, J24
6433 Abdurrahman B. Aydemir
Skill Based Immigrant Selection and Labor Market Outcomes by Visa Category
Attracting skilled immigrants is emerging as an important policy goal for immigrant receiving countries. This article first discusses the economic rationale for immigrant selection. Selection ...
(published in: Amelie F. Constant and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, Chapter 23, 432-452)
J61, J68
6432 M. Hashem Pesaran
Testing Weak Cross-Sectional Dependence in Large Panels
This paper considers testing the hypothesis that errors in a panel data model are weakly cross sectionally dependent, using the exponent of cross-sectional dependence ?, introduced recently in ...
(published in: Econometric Reviews, 2015, 34 (6-10), 1089-1117 )
C12, C13, C33
6431 Michael L. Bognanno
Eduardo Melero Martín
Promotion Signals, Age and Education
This paper examines whether more informative job promotions carry larger wage increases. In job assignment models with asymmetric information, unexpected promotions send a signal to the external ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2016, 25 (1), 111 - 132)
J3
6428 Chiara Mussida
Matteo Picchio
The Gender Wage Gap by Education in Italy
This paper studies the gender wage gap by educational attainment in Italy using the 1994–2001 ECHP data. We estimate wage distributions in the presence of covariates and sample selection separately ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2014, 12 (1), 117-147)
C21, C41, J16, J31, J71
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