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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
6232 Krzysztof Karbownik
Michal Myck
Mommies' Girls Get Dresses, Daddies' Boys Get Toys: Gender Preferences in Poland and their Implications
We examine the relationship of child gender with family and economic outcomes using a large dataset from the Polish Household Budgets' Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the ...
(revised published as 'Who gets to look nice and who gets to play? Effects of child gender on household expenditures' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 15(3), 925-944)
J13, J12, J16, J22
6231 Veronica Amarante
Marco Manacorda
Edward Miguel
Andrea Vigorito
Do Cash Transfers Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Vital Statistics, Social Security and Program Data
There is limited empirical evidence on whether unrestricted cash social assistance to poor pregnant women improves children's birth outcomes. Using program administrative micro-data matched to ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2016, 8 (2), 1 - 43)
J88, I38, J13
6230 Hartmut Lehmann
Tiziano Razzolini
Anzelika Zaiceva
Job Separations and Informality in the Russian Labor Market
In the years 2003-2008 the Russian economy experienced a period of strong and sustained growth, which was accompanied by large worker turnover and rising informality. We investigate whether the ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2012, 34, 257-290)
J64, J65, P50
6229 Elena G. F. Stancanelli
Arthur van Soest
Retirement and Home Production: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Existing studies show that individuals who retire replace some private consumption by home production, but do not consider joint behaviour of couples. Here we analyze the causal effect of retirement ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102(3), 600-605)
J22, J26, J14
6228 Arnab K. Basu
Nancy H. Chau
Zahra Siddique
Tax Evasion, Minimum Wage Non-Compliance and Informality
We study the impact of tax and minimum wage reforms on the incidence of informality. To gauge the incidence of informality, we use measures of the extent of tax evasion, the extent of minimum wage ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2012, 34, 1-53)
J3, J6, O17
6227 Magnus Carlsson
Dan-Olof Rooth
Employer Attitudes, the Marginal Employer and the Ethnic Wage Gap
Ethnic minorities have lower wages compared to the ethnic majority in most EU-countries. However, to what extent these wage gaps are the result of prejudice toward ethnic minority workers is ...
(published in: Industrial Labor Relations Review, 2016, 69 (1), 227-252 )
J64, J71
6226 Randall K. Q. Akee
Arjun S. Bedi
Arnab K. Basu
Nancy H. Chau
Transnational Trafficking, Law Enforcement and Victim Protection: A Middleman Trafficker's Perspective
We explore three hitherto poorly understood characteristics of the human trafficking market – the cross-border ease of mobility of traffickers, the relative bargaining strength of traffickers and ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2014, 57 (2), 349-386)
K42, R23, O15
6225 Roger Wilkins
Mark Wooden
Gender Differences in Rates of Job Dismissal: Why Are Men More Likely to Lose Their Jobs?
Empirical studies have consistently reported that rates of involuntary job separation, or dismissal, are significantly lower among female employees than among males. Only rarely, however, have the ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2013, 52 (2), 582-608)
J16, J63, J71
6224 Peter Elek
János Köllő
Balázs Reizer
Péter A. Szabó
Detecting Wage Under-reporting Using a Double Hurdle Model
We estimate a double hurdle (DH) model of the Hungarian wage distribution assuming censoring at the minimum wage and wage under-reporting (i.e. compensation consisting of the minimum wage, subject to ...
(published in: Informal Employment in Emerging a Transition Economies, Research in Labor Economics, 34,. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2012, 135-166)
C34, H26, J38
6223 Arno Riedl
Ingrid M.T. Rohde
Martin Strobel
Efficient Coordination in Weakest-Link Games
Existing experimental research on behavior in weakest-link games shows overwhelmingly the inability of people to coordinate on the efficient equilibrium, especially in larger groups. We hypothesize ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2016, 83 (2), 737-767 )
C72, C92, D02, D03, D85
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