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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
15774 Farzana Afridi
Amrita Dhillon
Social Networks and the Labour Market
This chapter surveys recent literature on social networks and labour markets, with a specific focus on developing countries. It reviews existing research, in particular, on the use of social networks ...
(published online in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 16 September 2022)
J16, J41, J31, D82, D83, O12, O15
15772 Michele Battisti
Christian Dustmann
Uta Schönberg
Technological and Organizational Change and the Careers of Workers
This paper investigates the effects of technological and organizational change (T&O) on jobs and workers. We show that although T&O reduces firm demand for routine relative to abstract task-based ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, 21 (4), 1551–1594)
J23, J24, O33
15771 Thomas J. Kniesner
W. Kip Viscusi
Promoting Equity through Equitable Risk Tradeoffs
The impact and economic merits of President Biden's Executive Order 13985 on equity depend on how the executive order is implemented. While policy discussion to date has focused on equitable ...
(published in: Journal of Benefit Cost Analysis, 2023, 14 (1), 8-34)
D61, D63, I18
15770 Kevin Pineda-Hernández
François Rycx
Mélanie Volral
Moving up the Social Ladder? Wages of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants from Developing Countries
As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working-age population in the developed world, their labour market integration constitutes a key ...
(published online in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 01 February 2025)
J15, J16, J21, J24, J31, J61
15766 Peng Nie
Xu Peng
Tianyuan Luo
Internet Use and Fertility Behavior among Reproductive-Age Women in China
Using longitudinal data from the 2014–2018 China Family Panel Studies, we investigate the impact of internet use (IU) on fertility among reproductive-age women. We find that IU reduces the ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2023, 77, 101903)
D13, D91, J13, J16, R20
15763 Thomas Dohmen
Simone Quercia
Jana Willrodt
On the Psychology of the Relation between Optimism and Risk Taking
In this paper, we provide an explanation for why risk taking is related to optimism. Using a laboratory experiment, we show that the degree of optimism predicts whether people tend to focus on the ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2023, 67, 193–214. )
D91, C91, D81, D01
15762 Erling Barth
Alex Bryson
Harald Dale-Olsen
Creative Disruption: Technology Innovation, Labour Demand and the Pandemic
We utilize a new survey on Norwegian firms' digitalization and technology investments, linked to population-wide register data, to show that the pandemic massively disrupted the technology investment ...
(forthcoming in: Economica)
D22, D24, F14, L11, L60
15760 Pavel Chakraborty
Rahul Singh
Vidhya Soundararajan
Import Competition, Formalization, and the Role of Contract Labor
Does higher import competition increase formalization and aggregate productivity? Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation from Chinese imports, we provide empirical causal evidence that higher ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2024, 38 (4), 741–771, )
F14, F16, O17, O47, F66
15758 Gopi Shah Goda
Matthew R. Levy
Colleen Flaherty Manchester
Aaron Sojourner
Joshua Tasoff
Jiusi Xiao
Are Retirement Planning Tools Substitutes or Complements to Financial Capability?
We conduct a randomized controlled trial to understand how a web-based retirement saving calculator affects workers' retirement-savings decisions. In both conditions, the calculator projects workers' ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 214, 561-573)
D14, G53, J32
15755 Mason Ameri
Douglas L. Kruse
So Ri Park
Yana van der Meulen Rodgers
Lisa Schur
Telework during the Pandemic: Patterns, Challenges, and Opportunities for People with Disabilities
Telework has benefits for many people with disabilities. The pandemic may create new employment opportunities for people with disabilities by increasing employer acceptance of telework, but this ...
(published in: Disability and Health Journal, 2023, 16 (2), 101406)
J14, J22, J71
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