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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
4743 Oliver Falck
Stephan Heblich
Alfred Lameli
Jens Suedekum
Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange
We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2012, 72 (2-3), 225-239)
R23, Z10, J61
4742 Alexander M. Danzer
Firat Yaman
Ethnic Concentration and Language Fluency of Immigrants in Germany
Studies that investigate the effect of the regional ethnic composition on immigrant outcomes have been complicated by the self-selection of ethnic minorities into specific neighbourhoods. We analyse ...
(revised version published as 'Ethnic concentration and language fluency of immigrants: Evidence from the guest-worker placement in Germany' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 131(A), 151-165)
J61, R23, F22
4741 Leo Kaas
Christian Manger
Ethnic Discrimination in Germany's Labour Market: A Field Experiment
This paper studies ethnic discrimination in Germany's labour market with a correspondence test. To each of 528 advertisements for student internships we send two similar applications, one with a ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2012, 13 (1), 1-20)
C93, J71
4738 Peter Arcidiacono
V. Joseph Hotz
Songman Kang
Modeling College Major Choices Using Elicited Measures of Expectations and Counterfactuals
The choice of a college major plays a critical role in determining the future earnings of college graduates. Students make their college major decisions in part due to the future earnings streams ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2012, 166 (1), 3-16)
I2, C81
4737 Simone Bertoli
Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga
Francesc Ortega
Immigration Policies and the Ecuadorian Exodus
Ecuador experienced an unprecedented wave of international migration since the late 1990s, triggered by a severe economic and financial crisis. This paper gathers individual-level data from Ecuador ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2011, 25 (1), 57-76)
O15, J61, D31
4736 Alan Barrett
Jean Goggin
Returning to the Question of a Wage Premium for Returning Migrants
Using data from a large-scale survey of employees in Ireland, we estimate the extent to which people who have emigrated from Ireland and returned earn more relative to comparable people who have ...
(published in: National Institute Economic Review, 2010, 213 (1), R43-R51)
J61, O15
4735 Martin Kahanec
Michael P. Shields
The Working Hours of Immigrants in Germany: Temporary versus Permanent
Migration is often viewed as an investment decision. Temporary migrants can be expected to invest less in accumulating human capital specific to the host country. Instead, they work more hours in ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2013, 2:14)
J22, J61, F22
4734 Konstantinos Pouliakas
Ioannis Theodossiou
An Inquiry into the Theory, Causes and Consequences of Monitoring Indicators of Health and Safety at Work
This paper engages in an interdisciplinary survey of the current state of knowledge related to the theory, determinants and consequences of occupational safety and health (OSH). First, it synthesizes ...
(revised version published as 'The Economics of Health and Safety at Work: An Interdisciplinary Review of the Theory and Policy' in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2013, 27 (1), 167 - 208)
J17, J28, J81, K32
4733 Elena Bardasi
Kathleen Beegle
Andrew Dillon
Pieter Serneels
Do Labor Statistics Depend on How and to Whom the Questions Are Asked? Results from a Survey Experiment in Tanzania
Labor market statistics are critical for assessing and understanding economic development. In practice, widespread variation exists in how labor statistics are measured in household surveys in ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2012, 25 (3), 418-447)
J21, C83, C93
4732 Matthias Sutter
Simon Czermak
Francesco Feri
Strategic Sophistication of Individuals and Teams in Experimental Normal-Form Games
We present an experiment on strategic thinking and behavior of individuals and teams in one-shot normal-form games. Besides making choices, decision makers have to state their first- and second-order ...
(revised version published as 'Strategic sophistication of individuals and teams. Experimental evidence' in: European Economic Review, 2013, 64, 395-410)
C72, C91, C92
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