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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
5507 Yves Zenou
Spatial versus Social Mismatch: The Strength of Weak Ties
The aim of this paper is to provide a new mechanism based on social interactions explaining why distance to jobs can have a negative impact on workers' labor-market outcomes, especially ethnic ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2013, 74,113-132.)
A14, J15, R14, Z13
5506 Robert W. Helsley
Yves Zenou
Social Networks and Interactions in Cities
We examine how interaction choices depend on the interplay of social and physical distance, and show that agents who are more central in the social network, or are located closer to the geographic ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2014, 150, 426-466)
D85, R14, Z13
5505 Morris M. Kleiner
Alan B. Krueger
Analyzing the Extent and Influence of Occupational Licensing on the Labor Market
This study examines the extent and influence of occupational licensing in the U.S. using a specially designed national labor force survey. Specifically, we provide new ways of measuring occupational ...
(published in: Labor Economics, 2013, 31 (S1, Part 2), S173–S202)
J08, J44, J58, J80, K23, K31, L38, L5, L51
5504 Randolph Luca Bruno
Maria Bytchkova
Saul Estrin
Institutions and Entry: A Cross-Regional Analysis in Russia
We analyse a micro-panel data set to investigate the effect of regional institutional environment and economic factors on Russian new firm entry rates across time, industries and regions. The paper ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (5), 1740-1749 )
D22, L26, P31
5502 Alberto Alesina
Paola Giuliano
Nathan Nunn
Fertility and the Plough
The current study finds that societies which historically engaged in plough agriculture today have lower fertility. We argue, and provide ethnographic evidence, that the finding is explained by the ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (3), 499-503)
J13, O13
5501 Esteban F. Klor
Sebastian Kube
Eyal Winter
Ro'i Zultan
Can Higher Bonuses Lead to Less Effort? Incentive Reversal in Teams
Conventional wisdom suggests that an increase in monetary incentives should induce agents to exert higher effort. In this paper, however, we demonstrate that this may not hold in team settings. In ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014, 97, 72-83)
C92, D23, J31, J33, J41, M12, M52
5500 Mathilde Almlund
Angela Lee Duckworth
James J. Heckman
Tim Kautz
Personality Psychology and Economics
This paper explores the power of personality traits both as predictors and as causes of academic and economic success, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a ...
(published in: E.A. Hanushek, S. Machin and S. Woessman (eds). Handbook of the Economics of Education, Amsterdam: Elsevier. 2011)
I2, J24
5499 Alexander M. Danzer
Labor Supply and Consumption Smoothing When Income Shocks Are Non-Insurable
The paper investigates how employees use secondary employment to smooth out consumption shortfalls from non-anticipated wage shocks in their main employment. The identification strategy exploits ...
(revised version published as 'Can Secondary Jobs Smooth Consumption? Evidence from Unanticipated Wage Arrears' in: Economic Development and Cultural Changes, 2019, 67 (3), 571-594. )
J22, J33, P36, O17
5497 Jürgen Meckl
Benjamin Weigert
Occupational Choice, Aggregate Productivity, and Trade
We propose occupational decisions of heterogeneous individuals as an alternative mechanism of explaining the distribution of firm productivities emphasized by empirical studies. Thus, we integrate ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2013, 17 (3), 549-558)
F12, F16, J24
5496 Frédéric Docquier
Elisabetta Lodigiani
Hillel Rapoport
Maurice Schiff
Emigration and Democracy
Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 120, 209-223)
O1, F22
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