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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
4892 Anabela Carneiro
Natércia Fortuna
José Varejão
Immigrants at New Destinations: How They Fare and Why
Using matched employer-employee data, we identify the determinants of immigrants’ earnings in the Portuguese labor market. Results previously reported for countries with a long tradition of hosting ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2012, 25 (3), 1165-1185)
J15, J24, J61
4891 Fernando Alexandre
Pedro Bação
João Cerejeira
Miguel Portela
Employment, Exchange Rates and Labour Market Rigidity
There is increasing evidence that the interaction between shocks and labour market institutions is crucial to understanding the dynamics of employment. In this paper, we show that the inclusion of ...
(published in: World Economy, 2017, 40 (5), 993 - 1011)
J23, F16, F41
4890 Tito Boeri
Pietro Garibaldi
Marta Ribeiro
Behind the Lighthouse Effect
A large body of empirical literature indicates that, contrary to predictions from economic theory, wages in the informal sector increase after any minimum wage hike. This phenomenon was so far ...
(revised version published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2011, 57 (s1), 54-78)
J30
4889 Victoria L. Prowse
Modeling Employment Dynamics with State Dependence and Unobserved Heterogeneity
This paper extends existing work on labor force participation dynamics by distinguishing between full-time and part-time employment and allowing unobserved heterogeneity in the effects of previous ...
(published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2012, 30 (2), 411-431)
C15, C25, J6, J22
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
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