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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
6242 Helena Skyt Nielsen
Beatrice Schindler Rangvid
The Impact of Parents' Years since Migration on Children's Academic Achievement
In this paper, we employ register data for eight cohorts of second-generation immigrant pupils to identify the impact of each parent's years since migration on their children's school achievements. ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2012, 1:6)
I21, J12, J62
6241 Hendrik Schmitz
Nicolas R. Ziebarth
In Absolute or Relative Terms? How Framing Prices Affects the Consumer Price Sensitivity of Health Plan Choice
This paper provides field evidence on (a) how price framing affects consumers' decision to switch health insurance plans and (b) how the price elasticity of demand for health insurance can be ...
(revised version published as: 'Does Price Framing Affect the Consumer Price Sensitivity of Health Plan Choice?' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52(1): 89-128)
H51, I11, I18
6240 Maya Rossin-Slater
Christopher J. Ruhm
Jane Waldfogel
The Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Program on Mothers' Leave-Taking and Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes
This analysis uses March Current Population Survey data from 1999-2010 and a differences-in-differences approach to examine how California's first in the nation paid family leave (PFL) program ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2013, 32 (2), 224-245)
J2, J13, J18
6239 Mario Centeno
Alvaro A. Novo
Excess Worker Turnover and Fixed-Term Contracts: Causal Evidence in a Two-Tier System
Portuguese firms engage in intense reallocation, most employers simultaneously hire and separate from workers, resulting in high excess worker turnover flows. These flows are constrained by the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (3), 320-328)
J21, J23, J63
6238 Stephane Mahuteau
Matloob Piracha
Massimiliano Tani
Matias Vaira-Lucero
Immigration Policy and Entrepreneurship
This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants' probability of becoming entrepreneurs. The policy change consists of stricter ...
(published in: International Migration, 2014, 52(2), 53 - 65)
C34, J24, J61
6237 Carl Lin
Decomposing Excess Returns in Stochastic Linear Models
We present a theorem helpful in estimating the mean and variance of a linear function with arbitrary multivariate randomness in its coefficients and variables. We derive a generalized decomposition ...
(revised version published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 118(1), 143-147)
G14, J31, J38
6236 Ilhom Abdulloev
Ira N. Gang
John Landon-Lane
Migration as a Substitute for Informal Activities: Evidence from Tajikistan
How is migration related to informal activities? They may be complementary since new migrants may have difficulty finding employment in formal work, so many of them end up informally employed. ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2012, 34, 205-227)
O17, J61, P23
6235 Stefan Eriksson
Dan-Olof Rooth
Do Employers Use Unemployment as a Sorting Criterion When Hiring? Evidence from a Field Experiment
In this paper, we use unique data from a field experiment in the Swedish labor market to investigate how past and contemporary unemployment affect a young worker's probability of being invited to a ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2014, 104 (3), 1014-1039)
J64
6234 Alan Fuchs
Hendrik Wolff
Concept and Unintended Consequences of Weather Index Insurance: The Case of Mexico
Recently, Weather Index Insurance (WII) has received considerable attention as a tool to insure farmers against weather related risks, particularly in developing countries. Donor organizations, local ...
(published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2011, 93 (2), 505–511)
Q11, Q14, O13, G22
6233 Martin Kahanec
Renáta Králiková
Pulls of International Student Mobility
Economic theory suggests that high-skilled immigration generally has positive effects on the receiving economy. International student mobility is an important channel through which high-skilled ...
(shortened version published as 'Higher Education Policy and Migration: The Role of International Student Mobility' in: CESifo DICE Report, 2012, 9(4), 20-27)
I23, I28, J21, J24, J61, J68
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