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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
6371 Laura Chioda
João M. P. de Mello
Rodrigo R. Soares
Spillovers from Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Bolsa Família and Crime in Urban Brazil
This paper investigates the impact of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs on crime. Making use of a unique dataset combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 54, 306-320)
I28, I38, K42
6369 Ulf Rinne
The Evaluation of Immigration Policies
This chapter summarizes the literature on the evaluation of immigration policies. It brings together two strands of the literature dealing with the evaluation of labor market programs and with the ...
(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 28, 530-551)
F22, J15, J61, C21
6368 Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Raquel Vegas
Moroccans' Assimilation in Spain: Family-Based versus Labor-Based Migration
An important immigration policy question is to identify the best criteria to select among potential migrants. At least two methodological problems arise: the host country's immigration policy regime ...
(published in: Middle East Development Journal, 2011, 3 (2), 119-139 )
J15, J24, J61, J62
6367 Timothy J. Halliday
Earnings Growth and Movements in Self-Reported Health
We employ data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate income to health causality. To account for unobserved heterogeneity, we focus on the relationship between earnings growth and ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2017, 63 (4), 760-776)
I0, I12, J1
6366 Carlos Carrillo-Tudela
Eric Smith
Search Capital
We construct a simple equilibrium search model in which workers accumulate information about previously met employment contacts. We term the latter search capital. Here search capital (partially) ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2017, 23, 191 - 211. )
J62, J63, J64
6365 Pierre Cahuc
Olivier Charlot
Franck Malherbet
Explaining the Spread of Temporary Jobs and its Impact on Labor Turnover
This paper provides a simple model which explains the choice between permanent and temporary jobs. This model, which incorporates important features of actual employment protection legislations ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2016, 57 (2), 533-572)
J63, J64, J68
6364 Christoph Rothe
Dominik Wied
Misspecification Testing in a Class of Conditional Distributional Models
We propose a specification test for a wide range of parametric models for the conditional distribution function of an outcome variable given a vector of covariates. The test is based on the ...
(published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2013, 108 (501), 314-324)
C12, C14, C31, C52, J31
6363 Julia Beckhusen
Raymond J.G.M. Florax
Thomas de Graaff
Jacques Poot
Brigitte Waldorf
Living and Working in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency of Immigrants in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Learning English is a potentially profitable investment for immigrants in the U.S.: while there are initial costs, the subsequent benefits include the ability to communicate with the majority of the ...
(published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2013, 92(2), 305-328)
F22, J15, J24, R23
6362 Ronald Bachmann
Mathias Sinning
Decomposing the Ins and Outs of Cyclical Unemployment
This paper analyzes the contribution of the socioeconomic and demographic composition of the pool of employed and unemployed individuals to the dynamics of the labor market in different phases of the ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 78 (6), 853-876)
J63, J64, J21, E24
6360 Alessandro Barbarino
Giovanni Mastrobuoni
The Incapacitation Effect of Incarceration: Evidence from Several Italian Collective Pardons
We estimate the "incapacitation effect" on crime using variation in Italian prison population driven by eight collective pardons passed between 1962 and 1995. The prison releases are sudden – within ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2014, 6(1), 1-37)
K40, K42, H11
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