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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
5576 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Cynthia Bansak
The Impact of Amnesty on Labor Market Outcomes: A Panel Study Using the Legalized Population Survey
This paper tests whether amnesty, a provision of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), affected the labor market outcomes of the legalized population. Using the Legalized Population ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2011, 50 (3), 443-471.)
J6
5575 Hans-Martin von Gaudecker
Arthur van Soest
Erik Wengström
Experts in Experiments: How Selection Matters for Estimated Distributions of Risk Preferences
An ever increasing number of experiments attempts to elicit risk preferences of a population of interest with the aim of calibrating parameters used in economic models. We are concerned with two ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2011, 42 (2), 159–190)
C90, D81
5574 Andrea Salvatori
Union Threat and Non-Union Employment: A Natural Experiment on the Use of Temporary Employment in British Firms
This paper presents the first empirical evidence on the effect of the threat of unionisation on the use of a predominantly non-union type of employment, i.e. temporary employment. The identification ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (6), 944–956)
J51
5573 Andreas Kuhn
Inequality Perceptions, Distributional Norms, and Redistributive Preferences in East and West Germany
This paper studies differences in inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences between East and West Germany. As expected, there are substantial differences with ...
(revised and shortened version published in: German Economic Review, 2013, 14(4), 483-499)
D31, D63, H50, J31
5572 W. Craig Riddell
Xueda Song
The Impact of Education on Unemployment Incidence and Re-employment Success: Evidence from the U.S. Labour Market
This study investigates the causal effects of education on individuals’ transitions between employment and unemployment, with particular focus on the extent to which education improves re-employment ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (4), 453-463)
I20, J64
5571 Catia Nicodemo
Raul Ramos
Wage Differentials between Native and Immigrant Women in Spain: Accounting for Differences in the Supports
The objective of the study is to quantify the wage gap between native and immigrant women in Spain taking into account differences in their characteristics and the need to control for common support. ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2012, 33 (1), 118-136)
J16, J31, C2, C3
5570 Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers
Trust in Public Institutions over the Business Cycle
We document that trust in public institutions – and particularly trust in banks, business and government – has declined over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (3), 281-287)
D72, E32, E65, K0, O4, P52, Z13
5569 John Griffin
David Nickerson
Abigail Wozniak
Racial Differences in Inequality Aversion: Evidence from Real World Respondents in the Ultimatum Game
The distinct historical and cultural experiences of American blacks and whites may influence whether members of those groups perceive a particular exchange as fair. We investigate racial differences ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012,. 84(2), 600-617.)
J15, D03, D63, C72, C91
5568 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Susan Pozo
Remittances and Income Smoothing
Due to inadequate savings and binding borrowing constraints, income volatility can make households in developing countries particularly susceptible to economic hardship. We examine the role of ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (3), 582-587)
F22, O15, O54
5567 Olga Nottmeyer
Couple's Relative Labor Supply in Intermarriage
In this paper the hypothesis that partnerships between immigrants and natives are less specialized – in the sense that spouses provide similar working hours per weekday – than those between ...
(revised version published in: IZA Journal of Migration 2014, 3:3)
J1, J12
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