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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
5345 Shoshana Grossbard
José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto Molina
Racial Discrimination and Household Chores
We make the novel argument that time spent on household chores can possibly reflect racial discrimination based on color. Our model, based on Becker's theory of allocation of time and his theory of ...
(published as 'Racial intermarriage and household production' in: Review of Behavioral Economics, 2014, 1 (4), 295-347)
D13, I21, J12, J22
5343 Simen Markussen
Arnstein Mykletun
Knut Rĝed
The Case for Presenteeism
Can activation requirements control moral hazard problems in public sickness absence insurance and accelerate recovery? Based on empirical analysis of Norwegian data, we show that it can. Activation ...
(revised version published as 'The Case for Presenteeism - Evidence from Norway's Sickness Insurance Program' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2012, 96 (11-12), 959-972)
C26, I18, I38, J48
5342 Barry Hirsch
Unions, Dynamism, and Economic Performance
This paper explores the relationship between economic performance and US unionism, focusing first on what we do and do not know based on empirical research handicapped by limited data on ...
(published in: Cynthia Estlund and Michael Wachter (eds.), Research Handbook on the Economics of Labor and Employment Law, Edward Elgar, 2012, pp. 107-145)
J50, J20, J30
5341 Pia M. Orrenius
Madeline Zavodny
The Minimum Wage and Latino Workers
Latinos comprise a large and growing share of the low-skilled labor force in the U.S. and may be disproportionately affected by minimum wage laws as a result. We compare the effects of minimum wage ...
(published in: David Leal and Stephen Trejo (eds)., Latinos and the Economy: Integration and Impact in Schools, Labor Markets, and Beyond, New York: Springer, 2011, 169-191)
J23, J38, J15
5340 Samuel Bentolila
Pierre Cahuc
Juan J. Dolado
Thomas Le Barbanchon
Two-Tier Labor Markets in the Great Recession: France vs. Spain
This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2012, 122, 155-187)
H29, J23, J38, J41, J64
5338 Meritxell Solé
Luis Diaz-Serrano
Marisol Rodriguez Martinez
Work, Risk and Health: Differences between Immigrants and Natives in Spain
We analyze the impact of working and contractual conditions, particularly exposure to job risks, on the probability of acquiring a disability. We postulate a model in which this impact is mediated by ...
(published as 'Disparities in Work, Risk, and Health between Immigrants and Native-Born' in: Social Science and Medicine, 179-187)
J28, J61, J81
5337 Bart Cockx
Muriel Dejemeppe
The Threat of Monitoring Job Search: A Discontinuity Design
Since July 2004 the job search effort of long-term unemployed benefit claimants is monitored in Belgium. We exploit the discontinuity in the treatment assignment at the age of 30 to evaluate the ...
(revised version published in :Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (5), 729-737 )
J64, J65, J68, H43
5336 Mariana Blanco
Florencia López Bóo
ICT Skills and Employment: A Randomized Experiment
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the impact that the acquisition of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) skills has on the labor market of two Latin-American cities: Buenos Aires and ...
(published in: Chong Alberto(ed.), Measuring the Impact of Information Technologies in Latin America, World Bank, 2016)
J23, J24
5335 Marco Leonardi
Giovanni Pica
Who Pays for It? The Heterogeneous Wage Effects of Employment Protection Legislation
Theory predicts that the wage effects of government-mandated severance payments depend on workers' and firms' relative bargaining power. This paper estimates the effect of employment protection ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123, 1236-1278. )
E24, J3, J65
5334 Nauro F. Campos
Ralitza Dimova
Ahmad Saleh
Whither Corruption? A Quantitative Survey of the Literature on Corruption and Growth
Does corruption grease or sand the wheels of economic growth? This paper uses meta-analysis techniques to systematically evaluate the evidence addressing this question. It uses a data set comprising ...
(published as 'Corruption and Economic Growth: An Econometric Survey of the Evidence' in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2016, 172 (3), 521-543)
O1
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