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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
4888 Gianna Claudia Giannelli
Lucia Mangiavacchi
Children's Schooling and Parental Migration: Empirical Evidence on the
This article investigates the long-term effects of parental migration abroad on the schooling of children left behind in Albania. Although parents' migration usually benefits children economically, ...
(published in: Labour, 2010, 24 (s1), 76 - 92)
J13, J18, O15, P36
4887 T. H. Gindling
Sara Z. Poggio
The Effect of Family Separation and Reunification on the Educational Success of Immigrant Children in the United States
For many immigrants, especially those from Central America and Mexico, it is common for a mother or father (or both) to migrate to the United States and leave their children behind. Then, after the ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2012, 38 (7),1155-1173)
I2, J13, J61
4885 Christian Dustmann
Francesca Fabbri
Ian Preston
Racial Harassment, Ethnic Concentration and Economic Conditions
In this paper, we analyse the association between spatial concentration of ethnic minorities, and racial harassment. Ethnic concentration relates to racial harassment through at least three channels: ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2011, 113 (3), 689-711)
J15, R23
4884 Erik Snowberg
Justin Wolfers
Explaining the Favorite-Longshot Bias: Is it Risk-Love or Misperceptions?
The favorite-longshot bias describes the longstanding empirical regularity that betting odds provide biased estimates of the probability of a horse winning – longshots are overbet, while favorites ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2010, 118 (4), 723-746)
D03, D49, G12, L83
4882 María Cervini-Plá
Xavier Ramos
José I. Silva
Wage Effects of Non-Wage Labour Costs
We study short- and long-term wage effects of two important elements of non-wage labour costs: firing costs and payroll taxes. We exploit a reform that introduced substantial reduction in these two ...
(substantially revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 72, 113-137. Winner of the 2015 Spanish Association for Labour Economics Best Paper Award.)
C23, D31, J31
4881 Björn Anders Gustafsson
Torun Österberg
Neighbourhood Child Poverty in Sweden
This paper takes a fresh look at child poverty at the neighbourhood level in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden using unique data for 1990, 1996 and 2002. We find that the number of ...
(published in: Peter Saunders and Roy Sainsbury (eds.), Social Security, Poverty and Social Exclusion in Rich and Poorer Countries. International Studies on Social Security volume 16, Intersentia Publishing, 2010 )
I32, J13, R23
4880 Glen R. Waddell
Gender and the Influence of Peer Alcohol Consumption on Adolescent Sexual Activity
I consider the alcohol consumption of opposite-gender peers as explanatory to adolescent sexual intercourse and demonstrate that female sexual activity is higher where there is higher alcohol ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2011, 50 (1), 248-263)
J13, I12
4879 Sonia R. Bhalotra
Marcela Umana-Aponte
The Dynamics of Women's Labour Supply in Developing Countries
This paper investigates cyclicality in women's labour supply motivated by the hypothesis that it contributes to smoothing household consumption in environments characterized by income volatility. We ...
(revised version available)
J22, J13
4878 Helmut Rainer
Thomas Siedler
Family Location and Caregiving Patterns from an International Perspective
This paper conducts a cross-national econometric analysis of intra-family location and caregiving patterns. First, we assess, from an international perspective, the relationship between family ...
(revised version published in: Population and Development Review, 2012, 38 (2), 337-351)
D19, J14
4877 Albert Park
Dewen Wang
Migration and Urban Poverty and Inequality in China
Using data from recent surveys of migrants and local residents in 10 cities in 2005, this paper examines how migration influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also ...
(published in: China Economic Journal, 2010, 3 (1), 40 - 67)
J61, O15
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