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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
6015 Margherita Fort
Nicole Schneeweis
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
More Schooling, More Children: Compulsory Schooling Reforms and Fertility in Europe
We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Is Education Always Reducing Fertility? Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms' in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (595), 1823 - 1855 )
I2, J13
6014 David W. Johnston
Stefanie Schurer
Michael A. Shields
Evidence on the Long Shadow of Poor Mental Health across Three Generations
Individuals suffering from mental health problems are often severely limited in their social and economic functioning. Mental health problems can develop early in life, are frequently chronic in ...
(published as "Exploring the intergenerational persistence of mental health: Evidence from three generations" in: Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 32 (6), 1077-1089)
I12, I14, J62
6012 Lídia Farré
Francesco Fasani
Media Exposure and Internal Migration: Evidence from Indonesia
This paper investigates the impact of television on internal migration in Indonesia. We exploit the differential introduction of private television throughout the country and the variation in signal ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 102, 48–61)
J61, L82, O15
6010 Stephan Kampelmann
François Rycx
Does Institutional Diversity Account for Pay Rules in Germany and Belgium?
This paper examines the relationship between institutions and the remuneration of different jobs by comparing the German and Belgian labour markets with respect to a typology of institutions (social ...
(published in: Socio-Economic Review, 2013, 11 (1), 131-157)
J31, J51, J52, J53
6009 Joachim Wagner
Exports, Foreign Direct Investments and Productivity: Are Services Firms Different?
This paper contributes to the literature on international firm activities and firm performance by providing the first evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct ...
(published in: Service Industries Journal, 2014, 34 (1), 24-37)
F14, F21
6007 Patricia Apps
Ngo Van Long
Ray Rees
Optimal Piecewise Linear Income Taxation
Given its significance in practice, piecewise linear taxation has received relatively little attention in the literature. This paper offers a simple and transparent analysis of its main ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2014, 16 (4), 523-545)
H21, H31, J22
6006 Rita K. Almeida
Z. Bilgen Susanli
Firing Regulations and Firm Size in the Developing World: Evidence from Differential Enforcement
This paper examines how stringent de facto firing regulations affect firm size throughout the developing world. We exploit a large firm level dataset across 63 countries and within country variation ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2012, 16 (4), 540–558)
J21, J24, K20
6005 René Böheim
Thomas Leoni
Firms' Moral Hazard in Sickness Absences
Sick workers in many countries receive sick pay during their illness-related absences from the workplace. In several countries, the social security system insures firms against their workers' ...
(published in: Sandinavian Journal of Economics, 2020, 122(2), 553–581)
J22, I38
6004 Almas Heshmati
Subal C. Kumbhakar
A General Model of Technical Change with an Application to the OECD Countries
In the neoclassical production functions model technical change (TC) is assumed to be exogenous and it is specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can ...
(published in: Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2014, 23(1), 25-48. )
C33, C43, D24, O33, O47, O57
6002 Ronald P. Wolthoff
It's About Time: Implications of the Period Length in an Equilibrium Job Search Model
This paper analyzes the role of the period length in a search model of the labor market and argues that it has profound implications for the market equilibrium. In the model, job offers and job ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2014, 55 (3), 839-867)
J64, J31, D83
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