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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
6103 Magnus Lofstrom
Timothy Bates
Simon C. Parker
Transitions to Entrepreneurship and Industry-Specific Barriers
Drivers of entrepreneurial entry are investigated in this study by examining how entry into small-business ownership is shaped by industry-specific constraints. The human- and financial-capital ...
(published as 'Why Are Some People More Likely to Become Small-Businesses Owners than Others: Entrepreneurship Entry and Industry-specific Barriers' in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2014, 29(2), 232–251)
J24, L26, M13
6102 Olivier B. Bargain
André Decoster
Mathias Dolls
Dirk Neumann
Andreas Peichl
Sebastian Siegloch
Welfare, Labor Supply and Heterogeneous Preferences: Evidence for Europe and the US
Following the report of the Stiglitz Commission, measuring and comparing well-being across countries has gained renewed interest. Yet, analyses that go beyond income and incorporate non-market ...
(revised version published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2013, 41 (4), 789-817)
C35, D63, H24, H31, J22
6100 Annabelle Krause-Pilatus
Ulf Rinne
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Anonymous Job Applications of Fresh Ph.D. Economists
Discrimination in recruitment decisions is well documented. Anonymous job applications may reduce discriminatory behavior in hiring. This paper analyzes the potential of this approach in a randomized ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 117 (2), 441-444 )
J44, J79, J20
6099 Petter Lundborg
Martin Nordin
Dan-Olof Rooth
The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Exploring the Role of Skills and Health Using Data on Adoptees and Twins
In this paper, we focus on possible causal mechanisms behind the intergenerational transmission of human capital. For this purpose, we use both an adoption and a twin design and study the effect of ...
(published as 'The intergenerational transmission of human capital: the role of skills and health' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31 (4), 1035-1065.')
I12, I11, J14, J12, C41
6098 Jinjing Li
Denisa M. Sologon
A Continuous Labour Supply Model in Microsimulation: A Life-Cycle Modelling Approach with Heterogeneity and Uncertainty Extension
This paper advances a structural inter-temporal model of labour supply that is able to simulate the dynamics of labour supply in a continuous setting and to circumvent two main drawbacks of most of ...
(published in: PLoS ONE, 2014, 9 (11), e111903)
C20, D90, J22
6097 Joshua Healy
Kostas Mavromaras
Peter J. Sloane
Adjusting to Skill Shortages: Complexity and Consequences
Skill shortages are often portrayed as a major problem for the economies of many countries including the Australian economy. Yet, there is surprisingly little evidence about their prevalence, causes ...
(published as 'Adjusting to skill shortages in Australian SMEs' in: Applied Economics, 2015, 47(24), 2470-2487)
J0, J20, J23, J24
6096 Guillermo Cruces
Pablo Glüzmann
Luis-Felipe López-Calva
Economic Crises, Maternal and Infant Mortality, Low Birth Weight and Enrollment Rates: Evidence from Argentina's Downturns
This study investigates the impact of recent crises in Argentina (including the severe downturn of 2001-2002) on health and education outcomes. The identification strategy relies on both the ...
(published in: World Development, 2012, 40 (2), 303-314 )
I15, I25
6095 Ernst Fehr
Oliver Hart
Christian Zehnder
How Do Informal Agreements and Renegotiation Shape Contractual Reference Points?
Previous experimental work provides encouraging support for some of the central assumptions underlying Hart and Moore (2008)’s theory of contractual reference points. However, existing studies ignore ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2015, 13 (1), 1-28)
C91, D03, D86, J41
6093 Christoph Kneiding
Alexander S. Kritikos
Funding Self-Employment: The Role of Consumer Credit
This paper investigates whether self-employed households use consumer loans – in particular instalment loans and overdrafts – to finance business activities. Controlling for financial and ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2013, 45 (13), 1741-1749)
G32, D12, D14
6092 Anette Primdal Kvist
Helena Skyt Nielsen
Marianne Simonsen
The Effects of Children's ADHD on Parents' Relationship Dissolution and Labor Supply
This paper uses Danish register-based data for the population of children born in 1990-1997 to investigate the effects on parents of having a child with attention-deficit/hyperactivity-disorder ...
(published as 'The importance of children's ADHD for parents' relationship stability and labor supply' in: Social Science and Medicine, 2013, 88, 30-38)
I12, J12, J13, J22
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