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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
4731 Jozef Konings
Stijn Vanormelingen
The Impact of Training on Productivity and Wages: Firm Level Evidence
This paper uses firm level panel data of firm provided training to estimate its impact on productivity and wages. To this end the strategy proposed by Ackerberg, Caves and Frazer (2006) for ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97 (3), 485-497 )
J24, J31, L22
4730 Bénédicte Apouey
Andrew E. Clark
Winning Big but Feeling No Better? The Effect of Lottery Prizes on Physical and Mental Health
We use British panel data to determine the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes: general health status, mental health, physical health problems, and health behaviors ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2015, 24 (5), 516-538)
D1, I1, I3
4729 Peter Debaere
Holger Görg
Horst Raff
Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce: How Services Facilitate Firms' International Sourcing
We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empirical analysis we ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2013, 46 (1), 78-102)
F12, L23
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