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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
6198 Řivind Anti Nilsen
Katrine Holm Reiso
Scarring Effects of Unemployment
Using Norwegian individual register data of young workers, from the period 1986-2008, we analyse whether there are large and persistent negative relationships between unemployment and the risk of ...
(published as 'Scarring Effects of Early-Career Unemployment' in: Nordic Economic Policy Review, 2014, 1, 13-45)
J64, J65, C23
6197 Roberto Basile
Alessandro Girardi
Marianna Mantuano
Francesco Pastore
Sectoral Shifts, Diversification and Regional Unemployment: Evidence from Local Labour Systems in Italy
Using Local Labour Systems (LLSs) data, this work aims at assessing the effects of sectoral shifts and industry specialization patterns on regional unemployment in Italy over the years 2004-2008, ...
(published in: Empirica, 2012, 39 (4), 525-545)
C14, C21, L16, R23
6196 Pierre-André Chiappori
Sonia Oreffice
Climent Quintana-Domeque
Black-White Marital Matching: Race, Anthropometrics, and Socioeconomics
We analyze the interaction of race with physical and socioeconomic characteristics in the U.S. marriage market, using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1999 to 2009 for black, white, and ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2016, 82, 399-421.)
D1, J1
6195 Gunther Bensch
Jochen Kluve
Jörg Peters
Impacts of Rural Electrification in Rwanda
Rural electrification is believed to contribute to the achievement of the MDG. In this paper, we investigate electrification impacts on different indicators. We use household data that we collected ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2011, 3 (4), 567-588)
O12, O13, O18, O22
6194 Richard Akresh
Sonia R. Bhalotra
Marinella Leone
Una O. Osili
War and Stature: Growing Up During the Nigerian Civil War
The Nigerian civil war of 1967-70 was precipitated by secession of the Igbo-dominated south-eastern region to create the state of Biafra. It was the first civil war in Africa, the predecessor of ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (3), 273-277)
I12, O12, J13
6192 Graziella Bertocchi
Arcangelo Dimico
The Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery
We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout this period, despite evidence of convergence, the racial gap in attainment between ...
(revised version published as 'The Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2012, 40, 581-595)
J15, I24, N31, O11
6191 Sarah Brown
Karl Taylor
Household Finances and the 'Big Five' Personality Traits
We explore the relationship between household finances and personality traits from an empirical perspective. Specifically, using individual level data drawn from the British Household Panel Survey, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2014, 45, 197-212)
C24, D03, D14
6190 Michela Braga
Daniele Checchi
Elena Meschi
Institutional Reforms and Educational Attainment in Europe: A Long Run Perspective
In this paper we analyse the effects of changes in the institutional design of the educational system on school attainment. In particular, we test whether alternative reforms have increased the ...
(revised version published as 'Educational policies in a long-run perspective' in: Economic Policy, 2013, 28 (73), 45-100)
I2
6187 Antonio Filippin
Francesco Guala
Costless Discrimination and Unequal Achievements in a Labour Market Experiment
We investigate the emergence of discrimination in an experiment where individuals affiliated to different groups compete for a monetary prize, submitting independent bids to an auctioneer. The ...
(published in: Experimental Economics, 2013, 16(3), 285-305)
J71, D44, C9
6186 Samuel Bentolila
Juan J. Dolado
Juan F. Jimeno
Reforming an Insider-Outsider Labor Market: The Spanish Experience
This paper presents a case study on reforming a very dysfunctional labor market with a deep insider-outsider divide, namely the Spanish case. We show how a dual market, with permanent and temporary ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2012, 1:4)
H29, J23, J38, J41, J64
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