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No.
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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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15360
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Yannis
Georgellis
Andrew
E.
Clark
Emmanuel
Apergis
Catherine
Robinson
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Occupational Status and Life Satisfaction in the UK: The Miserable Middle?
We use British panel data to explore the link between occupational status and life satisfaction. We find puzzling evidence, for men, of a U-shaped relationship in cross-section data: employees in ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 204, 509-527)
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I31, J24, Z13
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15357
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John
Forth
Nikolaos
Theodoropoulos
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Earnings Discrimination in the Workplace
This paper provides an overview of theory and empirical evidence on earnings discrimination within the workplace. Earnings discrimination occurs when employees producing work of equal value are ...
(published in: Klaus F. Zimmermannn (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, Cham. 2022)
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J71, J31
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15356
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Julia
Bredtmann
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Immigration and Electoral Outcomes: Evidence from the 2015 Refugee Inflow to Germany
This paper investigates the effects of local exposure to refugees on electoral outcomes in the 2016 state election in Germany. Based on quasi-random variation in the allocation of refugees across ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2022, 96, 103807)
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D72, F22, J15, R23
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15354
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Todd
Pugatch
Paul
N.
Thompson
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Excellence for All? University Honors Programs and Human Capital Formation
Can public university honors programs deliver the benefits of selective undergraduate education within otherwise nonselective institutions? We evaluate the impact of admission to the Honors College ...
(published online in: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 11 March 2024)
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I21, I23, I26
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15352
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Judith
M.
Delaney
Paul
J.
Devereux
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Gender Differences in STEM Persistence after Graduation
Much attention is focused on finding ways to encourage females to study STEM in school and college but what actually happens once women complete a STEM degree? We use the UK Quarterly Labour Force ...
(published in: Economica, 2022, 89 (356), 862-883.)
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I23, I26, J16, J24, J31
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15351
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Wonsik
Ko
Robert
A.
Moffitt
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Take-up of Social Benefits
Take-up of a social benefit is usually defined as receiving a benefit for which an individual or household is eligible. The take-up rate is the fraction of those eligible for a program who ...
(published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2022)
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I38
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15349
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Philippe
Sterkens
Adelina
Sharipova
Stijn
Baert
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Disclosing the 'Big C': What Does Cancer Survivorship Signal to Employers?
To study hiring discrimination against cancer survivors, we conduct a vignette experiment in which American and British recruiters evaluate fictitious job candidates. Candidates differed by periods ...
(published in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 24, 671–688 )
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I10, I12, J70, J71
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15347
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Nick
Drydakis
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The Perceived Social Rejection of Sexual Minorities: Substance Use and Unprotected Sexual Intercourse
This study presents associations between the perceived social rejection of sexual minorities and tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis consumption and unprotected sexual intercourse in the capital of ...
(published in: Drug and Alcohol Review, 2022, 41 (6), 1341-1354. )
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I12, I14, L66
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15346
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Baris
Yörük
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Does Public Policy Affect Attitudes? Evidence from Age-Based Health Insurance Coverage Policies in the United States
The existing literature provides evidence that public opinion and attitudes often affect public policy. However, little is known on how public policy might affect public attitudes and norms. I ...
(Published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 205, 287-302)
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I12, I13, I18
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15345
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Lei
Xu
Yu
Zhu
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Does the Employment Effect of National Minimum Wage Vary by Non-employment Rate? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
We examine the impact of increasing minimum wage on employment by exploiting variation in the age-dependent National Minimum Wage (NMW) in the UK. We extend the Regression Discontinuity model to ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2023, 91 (1), 18 - 36)
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J22
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15344
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Konstantinos
Pouliakas
Antonio
Ranieri
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Hybrid (Solo)Self-Employment and Upskilling: Is Online Platform Work a Path Towards Entrepreneurship?
The increasing use of online labour platforms as intermediaries for finding work – known as crowdwork or gig work – is a new form of 'hybrid' (solo)self-employment that hinges on the borders of ...
(published in: W. Conen and E. Reuter (eds.), Research Handbook on Self-employment and Public Policy, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024)
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J22, J24, J62, J28, L26, J49
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15343
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Konstantinos
Pouliakas
Patricia
Wruuck
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Corporate Training and Skill Gaps: Did COVID-19 Stem EU Convergence in Training Investments?
European firms have increasingly invested in training of employees but differences across countries and types of firms remain – and the Covid-19 shock may have exacerbated them. This report analyses ...
(also available as: European Investment Bank (EIB) Economics Working Papers 2022/07)
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J24, M53, C23, D22, E22
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15340
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Tony
Fang
Viet
Hoang
Ha
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Minimum Wages in Developing Countries
There is considerable debate on the level and effects of minimum wages for many decades. However, most of the studies are conducted in developed countries. This chapter first reviews the theoretical ...
(published in: Klaus F. Zimmermannn (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2023)
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J31, J33, J38
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15339
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Joan
Costa-Font
Cristina
Vilaplana-Prieto
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Caregiving Subsidies and Spousal Early Retirement Intentions
Balancing caregiving duties and work can be both financially and emotionally burdensome, especially when care is provided to a spouse at home. This paper documents that financial respite for ...
(published in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2023, 22 (4), 550-589)
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I18, J14
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15337
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Michael
Johannes
Böhm
Daniel
Metzger
Per
Strömberg
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'Since You're So Rich, You Must Be Really Smart': Talent, Rent Sharing, and the Finance Wage Premium
Financial sector wages have increased extraordinarily over the last decades. We address two potential explanations for this increase: (1) rising demand for talent and (2) firms sharing rents with ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2023, 90 (5), 2215–2260, )
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J24, J31, G20
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15336
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Ian
M.
Schmutte
Meghan
Skira
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The Response of Firms to Maternity Leave and Sickness Absence
We study how firms respond to predictable, but uncertain, worker absences arising from maternity and non-work-related sickness leave. Using administrative data on over 1.5 million spells of leave in ...
(published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 6 July 2023)
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J23, J21, J63, J68, J13
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15335
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Mevlude
Akbulut-Yuksel
Naci
Mocan
Semih
Tumen
Belgi
Turan
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The Crime Effect of Refugees
We analyze the impact on crime of 3.7 million refugees who entered and stayed in Turkey as a result of the civil war in Syria. Using a novel administrative data source on the flow of offense records ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2024, 43 (2), 472-508)
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J08, J2, J3, J38, J61, J68, K14, K37, K42
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15334
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Tony
Fang
Alex
Wells
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Diaspora Economics
Diasporas are global communities of migrants who retain a sense of connection with their homeland. The concept is ancient but has only recently become an important area of research in economics. Due ...
(published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2023)
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J61, J68
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15333
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Tony
Fang
John
Hartley
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Evolution of Union Wages and Determinants
Labor unions, chiefly through collective organizing and bargaining, almost universally increase the wages of their members, even after controlling for individual, job, firm, and other characteristics ...
(published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2022)
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J31, J33, J51
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15332
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Sonia
Oreffice
Dario
Sansone
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Commuting to Work and Gender-Conforming Social Norms: Evidence from Same-Sex Couples
We assess the role of gender-conforming social norms in household decision-making and gender inequalities in the labor market with a parsimonious household model that endogenizes commuting time. ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 85, 102451)
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D10, J15, J16, J22, R20, R41
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15329
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José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
Almudena
Sevilla
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Work Effort in the UK: Trends and Explanations
This paper links detailed 24-hour diary surveys in the United Kingdom (UK) over the last four decades to provide evidence on the increase in work effort in three specific dimensions: timing, nature, ...
(published as 'Trends in effort at work in the UK' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2024, 76 (3), 628–646, )
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D63, J22, J23, J24, J31, J62
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15328
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Henry
Saffer
Markus
Gehrsitz
Michael
Grossman
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The Effects of Alcohol Excise Tax Increases by Drinking Level and by Income Level
The alcohol industry argues that alcohol excise taxes do not reduce heavy drinking because of substitutions to lower-cost products and that these taxes disproportionately burden low-income drinkers. ...
(published online in: National Tax Journal, 18 October 2024)
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I18, H20
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15326
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Hai-Anh
H
Dang
Trong-Anh
Trinh
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Does Hotter Temperature Increase Poverty? Global Evidence from Subnational Data Analysis
Despite a vast literature documenting the negative effects of climate change on various socio-economic outcomes, little, if any, evidence exists on the global impacts of hotter temperature on ...
(forthcoming as ''Impacts of Global Warming on Subnational Poverty and Inequality' in: Nature Climate Change, 2025 (with Stephane Hallegatte, and Minh Cong Nguyen))
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Q54, I32, O1
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15325
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
Jeff
E.
Biddle
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Days of Work over a Half Century: The Rise of the Four-Day Week
We examine work patterns in the U.S. from 1973-2018, with the novel focus on days per week, using intermittent CPS samples and one ATUS sample. Among full-time workers the incidence of four-day work ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2025, 78 (1), 37-61)
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J11, J22
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15324
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Caio
Piza
André
Portela Souza
Patrick
M.
Emerson
Vivian
Amorim
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The Short- And Longer-Term Effects of a Child Labor Ban
Are bans effective at lowering child labor and increasing school attendance and, if so, do these effects lead to positive outcomes later in life? This paper seeks to answer these questions by ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2024, 38 (2), 351–370)
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C21, J08, J22, J24, K31
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15323
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Johnathan
G.
Conzelmann
Steven
W.
Hemelt
Brad
J.
Hershbein
Shawn
Martin
Andrew
Simon
Kevin
Stange
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Grads on the Go: Measuring College-Specific Labor Markets for Graduates
This paper introduces a new measure of the labor markets served by colleges and universities across the United States. About 50 percent of recent college graduates are living and working in the metro ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2025, 44 (3), 741-763)
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I23, I25, J21, J40, J61
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15322
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Simon
Gächter
Felix
Kölle
Simone
Quercia
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Preferences and Perceptions in Provision and Maintenance Public Goods
We study two generic versions of public goods problems: in Provision problems, the public good does not exist initially and needs to be provided; in Maintenance problems, the public good already ...
(revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2022, 135, 338-355.)
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C92, H41
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15319
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Ali
Fakih
Nathir
Haimoun
Anastasia
Sleiman
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What Drives Demand for Private Tutoring in the Middle East and North Africa Region? Evidence from a Youth Survey
This paper examines the determinants of private tutoring in five major Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries, Egypt, Algeria, Lebanon, Morocco, and Tunisia. The paper uses data extracted from ...
(published in: African Development Review, 2022, 34 (2), 268-279)
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I21, I22, I24
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15318
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Jani-Petteri
Ollikainen
Tuomas
Pekkarinen
Roope
Uusitalo
Hanna
Virtanen
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Effect of Secondary Education on Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills
We exploit admission cutoffs to secondary schools to study the effects of general academically oriented, versus vocational secondary schooling on cognitive and non-cognitive skills using a regression ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2024, 103, 102603)
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J24, I21
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15317
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Michael
A.
Clemens
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The Economic and Fiscal Effects on the United States from Reduced Numbers of Refugees and Asylum Seekers
International migrants who seek protection also participate in the economy. Thus the policy of the United States to drastically reduce refugee and asylum-seeker arrivals from 2017 to 2020 might have ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2022, 38 (3), 449-486.)
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F62, H60, J61
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15312
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Hélène
Turon
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The Labour Supply of Mothers
This chapter surveys recent literature on the drivers of mothers’ labour supply in OECD countries. We present a number of facts on the variations across time and across countries of family ...
(published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2023)
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J12, J22, J38
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15311
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Tushar
Bharati
Michael
Jetter
Muhammad
Nauman
Malik
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Types of Communications Technology and Civil Conflict
This paper introduces a unifying theoretical framework to understand the relationship between different types of communications technology (CT) and the incidence of civil conflict. In our model, ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 170, 103312)
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D74, L82, O14
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15310
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Hanna
Onerva
Pesola
Matti
Sarvimäki
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Intergenerational Spillovers of Integration Policies: Evidence from Finland's Integration Plans
We examine the intergenerational effects of an integration program that increased language training and improved labor market outcomes of adult immigrants in Finland. Exploiting a discontinuity in ...
(this version: August 2024, published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, September 16 2024)
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J61, J68, J13, H53
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15309
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Xinwei
Dong
Dean
R.
Hyslop
Daiji
Kawaguchi
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Training, Productivity and Wages: Direct Evidence from a Temporary Help Agency
Firms frequently provide general skill training to workers at the firm's cost. Theories proposed that labor market frictions entails wage compression, larger productivity gain than wage growth to ...
(published as 'Skill, Productivity, and Wages: Direct Evidence from a Temporary Help Agency' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (S1), 133-181.)
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J24, J42
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15308
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José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto
Molina
Almudena
Sevilla
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Effort at Work and Worker Well-Being in the US
This paper analyses detailed 24-hour diary data from the United States to provide evidence on the relationship between workers' effort and well-being while at work. In doing so, we first measure ...
(published as 'Effort at Work and Worker Well-Being' in: Hamermesh, D.S. and Polachek, S.W. (eds.), Time Use in Economics (Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 51), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, 2023, 35-53)
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D60, J22, J24
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15307
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Abi
Adams-Prassl
Teodora
Boneva
Marta
Golin
Christopher
Rauh
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Perceived Returns to Job Search
In this paper we provide the first evidence on workers' perceptions of the returns to job search effort. The perceived job finding probability is nearly linear in hours searched and only slightly ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 80, 102307)
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J62, J64
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15306
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Ferdi
Botha
Sarah C.
Dahmann
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Locus of Control, Self-Control, and Health Outcomes
We provide the first empirical evidence on the direct link between locus of control and self-control, and how they interact in explaining a range of health outcomes. Using rich Australian survey ...
(published in: SSM - Population Health, 2024, 25, 101566)
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D91, I12, I31
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15305
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Peng
Nie
Qiaoge
Li
Alfonso
Sousa-Poza
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Housing Unaffordability and Adolescent Subjective Well-Being in China
Using the 2010-2018 waves of the China Family Panel Studies, we investigate the impact of housing unaffordability on subjective well-being (SWB) among Chinese adolescents aged 10-15. Using a combined ...
(published online in: Applied Economics, 21 August 2024)
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D10, I10, I31, J13, R21
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15304
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María
Padilla-Romo
Cecilia
Peluffo
Mariana
Viollaz
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Parents' Effective Time Endowment and Divorce: Evidence from Extended School Days
Policies that extend the school day in elementary school provide an implicit childcare subsidy for families. As such, they can affect parents' time allocation and family dynamics. This paper examines ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2025, 242, 105302)
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J12, J13, J18
|
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15303
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Ronald
Bachmann
Myrielle
Gonschor
Piotr
Lewandowski
Karol
Madoń
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The Impact of Robots on Labour Market Transitions in Europe
We study the effects of robot exposure on worker flows in 16 European countries between 1998-2017. Overall, we find small negative effects on job separations and small positive effects on job ...
(published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2024, 70, 422-441)
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J24, O33, J23
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15299
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Yu
Zhu
Lei
Xu
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Returns to Higher Education - Graduate and Discipline Premiums
This paper reviews and evaluates progress in recent research on the graduate premium in general as well as the differential graduate premiums by discipline, accounting for higher-education choice by ...
(published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2022)
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I26, I23, I24
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15298
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Marco
Alfano
Joseph-Simon
Goerlach
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Terrorism, Media Coverage and Education: Evidence from Al-Shabaab Attacks in Kenya
We examine how terrorism alters the demand for education through perceived risks and returns by relating terrorist attacks to media signal coverage and schooling in Kenya. Exploiting geographical and ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, 21 (2), 727–763)
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D74, L82, F52, I21
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15297
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Badi
H.
Baltagi
Alfonso
Flores-Lagunes
Haci
M.
Karatas
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The Effect of Higher Education on Women's Obesity and Smoking: Evidence from College Openings in Turkey
This paper analyzes the relationship between higher education and body weight and smoking behavior among women in Turkey. We exploit the largely exogenous and substantial increase in the openings of ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2023, 123, 106-286. )
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I12, I21, I23, I26, C26
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15291
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Samuel
Baker
Pietro
Biroli
Hans
van Kippersluis
Stephanie
von Hinke
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Beyond Barker: Infant Mortality at Birth and Ischaemic Heart Disease in Older Age
Adverse conditions in early life can have consequential impacts on individuals' health in older age. In one of the first papers on this topic, Barker and Osmond (1986) show a strong positive ...
(published as 'Advantageous early-life environments cushion the genetic risk for ischemic heart disease' in: PNAS, 2024, 121 (27), e2314056121)
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I10, I14, I19
|
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15290
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Wei
Shi
Yun
Qiu
Pei
Yu
Xi
Chen
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Optimal Travel Restrictions in Epidemics
Travel restrictions are often imposed to limit the spread of infectious diseases. As uniform restrictions can be inefficient and incur unnecessarily high costs, this paper examines the optimal design ...
(also available in: Spatial Data Lab, 2020, Webinars on Modeling COVID-19 Pandemic? Resources, Methodology and Applications, Harvard Dataverse, V4)
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I18, R1, C21, C6
|
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15289
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Herwig
Immervoll
Rodrigo
Fernandez
Raphaela
Hyee
Jongmi
Lee
Daniele
Pacifico
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De-facto Gaps in Social Protection for Standard and Non-standard Workers: An Approach for Monitoring the Accessibility and Levels of Income Support
Social protection systems play a key stabilising role for individuals and societies, especially in the recent context of heightened uncertainties. Income stabilisation and related social policy ...
(elements published in: Left on your own? Social protection when labour markets are in flux, OECD, 2019, and in two OECD country studies: Korea, 2023, United States, 2023)
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I38, J65, H55, H53, C31, C35
|
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15287
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Alison
Preston
Robert
E.
Wright
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Financial Literacy Amongst Young People: When Does the Gender Gap Begin?
Using micro-data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, and the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition technique, this paper contributes to knowledge on gender-gaps in ...
(published as 'When Does the Gender Gap in Financial Literacy Begin?' in: Economic Record, 2024, 100 (328), 44-73)
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B54, D14, D31, G18, I30, J26
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15281
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Andreas
Leibing
Frauke
Peter
Sevrin
Waights
C.
Katharina
Spieß
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Gender Gaps in Early Wage Expectations
Using detailed data from a unique survey of high school graduates in Germany, we document a gender gap in expected full-time earnings of more than 15%. We apply a regression-compatible Oaxaca-Blinder ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 94, 102398)
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I26, J31, D84
|
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15280
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Vitus
Püttmann
Stephan
L.
Thomsen
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The Third Mission in the Academic Profession: Empirical Insights into Academic Identities
In line with the growing relevance of higher education and science for societal development and innovation processes, there has been a steady increase in the salience of interrelations with the ...
(revised version forthcoming as 'The Microfoundations of Academics’ Engagement with Society' in: Technovation, 2025.)
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I23, O35, O36
|
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15279
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Maria
Cotofan
Richard
Layard
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The Full Returns to the Choice of Occupation and Education
Information on both earnings and non-pecuniary rewards is needed to understand the occupational dispersion of wellbeing. We analyse subjective wellbeing in a large UK sample to construct a measure of ...
(published as 'Do wages underestimate the inequality in workers’ rewards? The joint distribution of job quality and wages across occupations' in: Economica, 2024, 91 (362), 497-546)
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I31, J31
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