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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
5654 Ulrich Kaiser
Hans Christian Kongsted
Thomas Rřnde
Labor Mobility, Social Network Effects, and Innovative Activity
We study the mapping between labor mobility and industrial innovative activity for the population of R&D active Danish firms observed between 1999 and 2004. Our study documents a positive ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2015, 110, 91–105 )
O33, O34, C23
5653 Thomas Hintermaier
Winfried Koeniger
Debt Portfolios
We provide a model with endogenous portfolios of secured and unsecured household debt. Secured debt is collateralized by owner-occupied housing whereas unsecured debt can be discharged according to ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2016, 8 (4), 103-141)
E21, D91
5652 Arnaud Chevalier
Subject Choice and Earnings of UK Graduates
Using a survey of a cohort of UK graduates, linked to administrative data on higher education participation, this paper investigates the labour market attainment of recent graduates by subject of ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (6), 1187-1201)
I22, J31
5650 Amelie F. Constant
Bienvenue N. Tien
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Jingzhou Meng
China's Latent Human Capital Investment: Achieving Milestones and Competing for the Top
In this paper we provide an overview of China’s human capital strategy and educational achievements over the last two decades. While every one acknowledges China as an economic superpower, very few ...
(published in: Journal of Contemporary China, 2013, 22 (79), 109-130.)
F22, J24, N35, O15, O24, O53
5649 Andrea Ichino
Elly-Ann Lindström
Eliana Viviano
Hidden Consequences of a First-Born Boy for Mothers
We show that in the US, the UK, Italy and Sweden women whose first child is a boy are less likely to work in a typical week and work fewer hours than women with first-born girls. The puzzle is why ...
(published in: Economic Letters, 2014, 123 (3), 274–278)
E24, J13, J22, J23
5647 Luis Diaz-Serrano
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
Decentralization, Happiness and the Perception of Institutions
This paper analyses whether the different powers and resources at the disposal of local and regional governments across Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to ...
(published as 'Decentralization, Subjective Well-Being and the Perception of Institutions' in: Kyklos, 2012, 65 (2), 179-193)
H11, H77
5646 Liam Delaney
Colm P. Harmon
Cathy Redmond
Parental Education, Grade Attainment and Earnings Expectations among University Students
While there is an extensive literature on intergenerational transmission of economic outcomes (education, health and income for example), many of the pathways through which these outcomes are ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (6), 1136-1152)
I21, J62, C81
5645 Pablo Casas-Arce
Albert Saiz
Women and Power: Unwilling, Ineffective, or Held Back?
We develop a model that nests previous explanations for women under-representation in positions of power. Focusing on democratic electoral dynamics, our framework delineates the three types of ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2015, 123 (3), 641–669)
J16, J71
5644 Ekkehart Schlicht
Consistency in Organization (updated)
Internal organization relies heavily on psychological consistency requirements. This thought has been emphasized in modern compensation theory, but has not been extended to organization theory. The ...
(earlier version published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2004, 160 (2), 232-42)
B52, D02, L2
5643 Matteo Cervellati
Uwe Sunde
Democratization, Violent Social Conflicts, and Growth
This paper investigates the empirical role of violent conflicts for the causal effect of democracy on economic growth. Exploiting within-country variation to identify the effect of democratization ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Civil Conflict, Democratization, and Growth: Violent Democratization as Critical Juncture' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2014, 116 (2), 482-505)
O43, N10, N40
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