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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
5437 Laura Giuliano
Michael R. Ransom
Manager Ethnicity and Employment Segregation
Using nine years of personnel records from a regional grocery store chain in the United States, this study examines the effect of manager ethnicity on the ethnic composition of employment at the ...
(published in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66 (2), 346-379.)
J71
5436 Massimiliano Tani
Business Visits and the Quest for External Knowledge
This paper contributes to existing work on innovation by studying the determinants of various types of interaction between a firm and its external environment. In particular, it focuses on ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2014, 40, 293-324)
F2, J6
5434 Horst Entorf
Turning 18: What a Difference Application of Adult Criminal Law Makes
This paper contributes to the literature on specific deterrence by addressing the issue of selecting adolescents into adult and juvenile law systems. In Germany, different from the U.S. and most ...
(published as 'Expected Recidivism among Young Offenders: Comparing Specific Deterrence under Juvenile and Adult Criminal Law' in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2012, 28 (4), 414-429)
K14, C52, K42, H11
5433 Wolter Hassink
Bernard van den Berg
Time-Bound Opportunity Costs of Informal Care: Consequences for Access to Professional Care, Caregiver Support, and Labour Supply Estimates
Patterns of informal care are documented throughout the day with Dutch time use diary data. The diary data enable us to identify a, so far overlooked, source of opportunity costs of informal care, ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2011, 73 (10), 1508-1516)
J2, I3
5432 Aaron Sojourner
Identification of Peer Effects with Missing Peer Data: Evidence from Project STAR
This paper studies peer effects on student achievement among first graders randomly assigned to classrooms in Tennessee’s Project STAR. The analysis uses previously unexploited pre-assignment ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (569), 574-605.)
C2, I21, J13
5431 Guido Schwerdt
Dolores Messer
Ludger Woessmann
Stefan C. Wolter
Effects of Adult Education Vouchers on the Labor Market: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Lifelong learning is often promoted in ageing societies, but little is known about its returns or governments' ability to advance it. This paper evaluates the effects of a large-scale randomized ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2012, 96 (7-8), 569-583)
I22, J24, H43, C93, M53
5430 Pierre Cahuc
Stéphane Carcillo
Is Short-Time Work a Good Method to Keep Unemployment Down?
Short-time work compensation aims at reducing lay-offs by allowing employers to temporarily reduce hours worked while compensating workers for the induced loss of income. These programs are now ...
(published in: Nordic Economic Policy Review, 2011, 1(1),133-165.)
E24, J22, J65
5429 William P. Warburton
Rebecca N. Warburton
Arthur Sweetman
Clyde Hertzman
The Impact of Placing Adolescent Males into Foster Care on their Education, Income Assistance and Incarcerations
Understanding the causal impacts of taking youth on the margins of risk into foster care is an element of the evidence-base on which policy development for this crucial function of government relies. ...
(published as 'The Impact of Placing Adolescent Males into Foster Care on Education, Income Assistance, and Convictions' in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2014, 47(1), 35-69.)
J13, I13, I38
5428 Albert A. Okunade
Phanindra V. Wunnava
Alumni Giving of Business Executives to the Alma Mater: Panel Data Evidence at a Large Metropolitan Research University
Charitable giving to public and private institutions of higher learning in the US is a growing major source of financing academic and support programs. The novel contribution of this research is the ...
(published as 'Do Business Executives Give More to Their Alma Mater? Longitudinal Evidence from a Large University' in: American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2013, 72 (3), 761–778)
I2, L3
5426 Subhayu Bandyopadhyay
Sugata Marjit
Lei Yang
An Evaluation of the Employment Effects of Barriers to Outsourcing
Barriers to outsourcing that are being currently implemented in the US effectively tax its companies who "export" jobs through outsourcing. The objective is to raise domestic employment. Given that ...
(revised version published as 'International Oligopoly, Barriers to Outsourcing and Domestic Employment' in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2014, 47(4), 1372-1386)
F13
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