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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
5283 Pedro S. Martins
Yong Yang
Globalised Labour Markets? International Rent Sharing across 47 Countries
We present evidence about the role of rent sharing in fostering the interdependence of labour markets around the world. Our results draw on a firm-level panel of more than 2,000 multinationals and ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2015, 53(4), 664–691)
J31, J41, J50
5282 Helen Baker-Henningham
Florencia López Bóo
Early Childhood Stimulation Interventions in Developing Countries: A Comprehensive Literature Review
This report reviews the effectiveness of early childhood stimulation interventions in developing countries. The report aims to answer the questions: What works in terms of early stimulation for young ...
(published as 'Intervenciones de estimulación infantil temprana en los países en vías de desarrollo: lo que funciona, por qué y para quién' in: Económica, 2014, 60, 120-186)
J13, J18, J24
5280 Decio Coviello
Andrea Ichino
Nicola Persico
Don't Spread Yourself Too Thin: The Impact of Task Juggling on Workers' Speed of Job Completion
We show that task juggling, i.e., the spreading of effort across too many active projects, decreases the performance of workers, raising the chances of low throughput, long duration of projects and ...
(published as 'Time Allocation and Task Juggling' in: American Economic Review, 2014, 104 (2), 609-623 (theoretical model), and as 'The Inefficiency of Worker Time Use' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2015, 5 (19), 906 - 947 (empirical part))
J0, K0, M5
5278 Peter Dolton
Chiara Rosazza-Bondibene
Jonathan Wadsworth
Employment, Inequality and the UK National Minimum Wage over the Medium-Term
This paper assesses the impact of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on employment and inequality in the UK over the decade since its introduction in 1999. Identification is facilitated by using ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 74 (1), 78-106)
J0, J2, J3
5277 Rory Coulter
Maarten van Ham
Peteke Feijten
A Longitudinal Analysis of Moving Desires, Expectations and Actual Moving Behaviour
Many theories of residential mobility contend that individuals express a sequence of moving desires, intentions and expectations prior to moving. Much research has investigated how individuals form ...
(published in: Environment and Planning A, 2011, 43 (11), 2742-2760)
J61, R21, R23
5276 David de la Croix
Olivier Pierrard
Henri R. Sneessens
Aging and Pensions in General Equilibrium: Labor Market Imperfections Matter
This paper re-examines the effects of population aging and pension reforms in an OLG model with labor market frictions. The most important feature brought about by labor market frictions is the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2013, 37 (1), 104-124)
E24, H55, J26, J64
5275 Pedro Carneiro
James J. Heckman
Edward Vytlacil
Estimating Marginal Returns to Education
This paper estimates the marginal returns to college for individuals induced to enroll in college by different marginal policy changes. The recent instrumental variables literature seeks to estimate ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 110 (6), 2754-2781)
J31
5273 Gustavo J. Canavire Bacarreza
Fernando Rios-Avila
Domestic Violence and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Mixed-Race Developing Country
This study investigates the heterogeneous effects of domestic violence over labor markets in an ethnically fragmented country such as Bolivia. Among developing countries, Bolivia “excels” in having ...
(published as 'The effect of intimate partner violence on labor market decisions: Evidence from a multi-ethnic country' in: International Journal of Social Economics, 2017, 44 (1), 75 - 92 )
J15, J71
5272 Kristin J. Kleinjans
Arthur van Soest
Nonresponse and Focal Point Answers to Subjective Probability Questions
We develop and estimate a panel data model explaining the answers to questions about subjective probabilities, using data from the US Health and Retirement Study. We explicitly account for ...
(published as 'Rounding, Focal Point Answers and Nonresponse to Subjective Probability Questions' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2014, 29 (4), 567 - 585)
C81, D84
5271 David Manley
Maarten van Ham
Neighbourhood Effects, Housing Tenure, and Individual Employment Outcomes
This paper investigates whether individuals living in neighbourhoods with high concentrations of unemployment are less likely to enter work if they are unemployed and more likely to lose their job if ...
(published in: Van Ham M., Manley D., Bailey N., Simpson L., Maclennan D. (eds.), Neighbourhood Effects Research: New Perspectives, Springer Dordrecht, 2012, 147-173 )
I30, J60, R23
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