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14879 Fabio Montobbio
Jacopo Staccioli
Maria Enrica Virgillito
Marco Vivarelli
Labour-Saving Automation and Occupational Exposure: A Text-Similarity Measure
This paper represents one of the first attempts at building a direct measure of occupational exposure to robotic labour-saving technologies. After identifying robotic and LS robotic patents retrieved ...
(published as 'Labour-saving automation: a direct measure of occupational exposure' in: World Economy, 2024, 47, 332–361)
O33, J24
14878 Hanan Morsy
Abebe Shimeles
Tiguene Nabassaga
Structural Change and Inequality in Africa
This paper examines how inequality could be tackled through structural transformation using unit record data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for Africa. Results suggest inequality ...
(published in: Journal of African Economies, 2023, 32 (S2), ii228–ii245, )
D30, D31, J2
14876 Joan Costa-Font
Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto
Biased Survival Expectations and Behaviours: Does Domain Specific Information Matter?
We study biased survival expectations across two domains and examine whether such biased expectations influence health and financial behaviors. Combining individual-level longitudinal data, ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2022, 65, 285 - 317)
I18, D14, G22
14875 Mahvish Faran
Karl Taylor
The Impact of a New Quality Management Practice on Firm Performance: Evidence from Pakistan
This paper uses a novel firm level data set to investigate the impact of a unique quality management practice on the production and productivity of a large-scale garments manufacturer in Pakistan. ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2025, 73 (3), 1365-1408)
L2, M2, O14, O32, O33
14874 Mongoljin Batsaikhan
Mette Gørtz
John Kennes
Ran Sun Lyng
Daniel Monte
Norovsambuu Tumennasan
Discrimination and Daycare Choice: Evidence from a Randomized Survey
We use a randomized survey to study how discrimination affects parenting choices. In our survey, parents with young children choose between two public daycares, which are described by testimonials ...
(published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 08 January 2024)
D15, D63, J15, I24
14873 Daniel Fackler
Claus Schnabel
Jens Stegmaier
Personnel Adjustments during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Did Co-Determination Make a Difference?
Using a unique dataset of establishments in Germany surveyed during the Covid-19 pandemic, this study investigates whether personnel adjustments during the crisis differed between establishments with ...
(published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2024, 58, 4 (2024))
J53, J63, M51
14872 Orley Ashenfelter
David Card
Henry S Farber
Michael R. Ransom
Monopsony in the Labor Market: New Empirical Results and New Public Policies
This paper summarizes the results of nearly a dozen new papers presented at the Sundance Conference on Monopsony in Labor Markets held in October 2018. These papers, to be published as a special ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (S), S1-S10)
J0, J2, J3, L4
14867 Arnab K. Basu
Nancy H. Chau
Brian Park
Rethinking Border Enforcement, Permanent and Circular Migration
Canonical models of migration feature border enforcement as a strategy to contain undocumented immigration by effectively exacting a mobility cost. This paper revisits the role of border enforcement ...
(revised version published in: Economic Modelling, 2022, 108, 105733)
F22, J61, J68
14866 Jonas Maibom
The Welfare Effects of Mandatory Reemployment Programs: Combining a Structural Model and Experimental Data
This paper estimates a structural model of job search which accounts for utility costs and benefits linked to mandatory reemployment programs. The estimation uses data from a randomized experiment ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2023, 64 (2), 607 - 640)
C9, I3, J64, J65, J68
14864 Joshua D. Merfeld
Peter Brummund
The Importance of Specification Choices When Analyzing Sectoral Productivity Gaps
A consistent finding in the development literature is that average non-farm labor productivity is higher than average farm labor productivity. These differences in average productivity are sometimes ...
(published in: Agricultural Economics, 2022, 53 (4), 605-616)
J24, J43, O13, Q12, R23
14862 Xingang Wang
Sholeh A. Maani
Ethnic Regional Networks and Immigrants' Earnings: A Spatial Autoregressive Network Approach
The conventional model of immigrant earnings does not account for the correlation of outcomes across immigrant ethnic networks. We apply a spatial autoregressive network approach to account for the ...
(published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2021, 100 (1), 141-169)
J30, J31, Z13, Z18
14858 Eric Verhoogen
Firm-Level Upgrading in Developing Countries
In principle, firms in developing countries benefit from the fact that advanced technologies and products have already been developed in industrialized countries and can simply be adopted, a process ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2023, 61 (4), 1410–1464)
O1, L2, F1
14856 Martin Guzi
Stepan Mikula
Careful What You Say: The Effect of Manipulative Information on the 2013 Czech Presidential Run-off Election
We exploit a quasi-natural experiment that emerged during the Czech presidential run-off election to identify the impact of inaccurate and misleading information on electoral outcomes. A political ...
(published in: Economic Letters, 2021, 209, 110152)
D72, P16, P14
14855 Francesca Barigozzi
Helmuth Cremer
Shining with the Stars: Competition, Screening, and Concern for Coworkers' Quality
We study how workers' concern for coworkers' ability (CfCA) affects competition in the labor market. We consider two firms offering nonlinear contracts to a unit mass of prospective workers. Firms ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2024, 144, 250-283.)
D82, L13, M54
14851 Jonas Jessen
C. Katharina Spieß
Sevrin Waights
Center-Based Care and Parenting Activities
We examine the relationship between parenting activities and center-based care using time diary and survey data for mothers in Germany. While mothers using center-based care spend significantly less ...
(revised version published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 84 (6), 1356 - 1379)
D13, I21, J13
14850 Mark Wooden
Trong-Anh Trinh
Irma Mooi-Reci
The Differential Impacts of Contingent Employment on Fertility: Evidence from Australia
Many studies have reported evidence of negative associations between fixed-term contract employment and fertility. With few exceptions, these studies assume that employment status is exogenous and ...
(published in: Social Forces, 2023, 102 (1), 330–352)
J13, J41
14849 Pedro Molina Ogeda
Emanuel Ornelas
Rodrigo R. Soares
Labor Unions and the Electoral Consequences of Trade Liberalization
We show that the Brazilian trade liberalization in the early 1990s led to a permanent relative decline in the vote share of left-wing presidential candidates in the regions more affected by the ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2025, 23 (1), 236-280)
F13, D72, J51, F16, F14
14848 Satish Chand
Michael A. Clemens
Labour Mobility with Vocational Skill: Australian Demand and Pacific Supply
How many immigrants with less than university education, for a given immigration quota, maximise economic output? The answer is zero in the canonical model of the labour market, where the marginal ...
(published in: Australian Economic Review, 2023, 56 (4), 462-486)
F22, J11, J24
14847 Michael Elsby
Jennifer C. Smith
Jonathan Wadsworth
Population Growth, Immigration and Labour Market Dynamics
This paper examines the role of population flows on labour market dynamics across immigrant and native-born populations in the United Kingdom. Population flows are large, and cyclical, driven first ...
(published in: Demography, 2024, 61 (5), 1559–1584.)
E24, J6
14846 Matthew Harding
Kyle Kettler
Carlos Lamarche
Lala Ma
The (Alleged) Environmental and Social Benefits of Dynamic Pricing
This paper provides a cautionary tale about claiming environmental costs and benefits when justifying the use of public funds. Using the example of a dynamic pricing policy, we show that the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2023, 205, 574-593)
D12, L11, L94, Q53, Q58
14845 Nick Drydakis
The Economics of Being LGBT. A Review: 2015-2020
This paper reviews studies on LGBT workplace outcomes published between 2015 and 2020. In terms of earnings differences, in the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia, gay men were found to experience ...
(published in: Julie. A. Gedro and Tonette. S. Rocco (eds), The Routledge Handbook of LGBTQ Identity in Organizations and Society, London: Routledge, 2024)
C93, E24, J15, J16, J71
14844 Ingo E. Isphording
marc diederichs
Reyn van Ewijk
Nico Pestel
Schools under Mandatory Testing Can Mitigate the Spread of SARS-CoV-2
We use event-study models based on staggered summer vacations in Germany to estimate the effect of school re-openings after the summer of 2021 on the spread of SARS-CoV-2. Estimations are based on ...
(revised version published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022, 119 (26), e2201724119)
I12, I18, I28
14842 Martin Biewen
Stefan Glaisner
Rolf Kleimann
A Convenient Representation of the Wealth Distribution and More Evidence on Homeownership and Wealth Inequality in Euro Area Countries
This note proposes a convenient graphical representation of the wealth distribution and illustrates it with data from the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). We also present ...
(substantially revised version published as 'The shape of the wealth distribution and differences in wealth inequality across Euro area countries' in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2025, 23, 1–25,)
D31, C14, R3
14841 Inés Berniell
Lucila Berniell
Dolores De la Mata
María Edo
Yarine Fawaz
Matilde P. Machado
Mariana Marchionni
Motherhood, Pregnancy or Marriage Effects?
The existence of large child penalties has been documented for multiple countries and time periods. In this paper, we assess to what extent marriage decisions and pregnancies (rather than live ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2022, 214, 110462)
J13, J16, J24
14840 Timothy J. Hatton
Asylum Recognition Rates in Europe: Persecution, Policies and Performance
A minority of applicants for asylum in Europe gain some form of recognition as refugees, and this has been a controversial issue. From the early 2000s the EU introduced a series of directives to ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2023, 76, 102267)
F51, J15, J61, K37
14838 Michael E. Darden
David Dowdy
Lauren Gardner
Barton H. Hamilton
Karen A. Kopecky
Melissa Marx
Nicholas W. Papageorge
Daniel Polsky
Kimberly Powers
Elizabeth Stuart
Matthew V. Zahn
Modeling to Inform Economy-Wide Pandemic Policy: Bringing Epidemiologists and Economists Together
Facing unprecedented uncertainty and drastic trade-offs between public health and other forms of human well-being, policy makers during the Covid-19 pandemic have sought the guidance of ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2022, 31 (7), 1291-1295)
C8, H0, I1, J
14836 Arjan Non
Ingrid M.T. Rohde
Andries de Grip
Thomas Dohmen
Mission of the Company, Prosocial Attitudes and Job Preferences: A Discrete Choice Experiment
We conduct a discrete choice experiment to investigate how the mission of high-tech companies affects job attractiveness and contributes to self-selection of science and engineering graduates who ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 74, 2022, 102087)
J81, J82, M52
14835 Thomas Dohmen
Arjan Non
Tom Stolp
Reference Points and the Tradeoff between Risk and Incentives
We conduct laboratory experiments to investigate basic predictions of principal-agent theory about the choice of piece rate contracts in the presence of output risk, and provide novel insights that ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 192, 813–831)
D81, D91, M52
14834 Nauro F. Campos
Fabrizio Coricelli
Emanuele Franceschi
Institutional Integration and Productivity Growth: Evidence from the 1995 Enlargement of the European Union
This paper studies the productivity effects of integration deepening. The identification strategy exploits the 1995 European Union (EU) enlargement, when all candidate countries joined the Single ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2022, 142, 104014)
C33, F15, F55, O43, O52
14833 Inés Berniell
Yarine Fawaz
Anne Laferrere
Pedro Mira
Elizaveta Pronkina
The COVID-19 Curtain: Can Past Communist Regimes Explain the Vaccination Divide in Europe?
As of November 2021, all former Communist countries from Central and Eastern Europe exhibit lower vaccination rates than Western European countries. Can institutional inheritance explain, at least in ...
(published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2023, 321, 115759)
I15, I12, P36, Z18
14832 Francesco Pastore
Claudio Quintano
Antonella Rocca
The Duration of the School-To-Work Transition in Italy and in Other European Countries: A Flexible Baseline Hazard Interpretation
Purpose: The Italian school-to-work transition (STWT) is astonishingly slow and long in comparison to the other EU countries. The aim of this paper is to analyze its determinants comparing the ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2022, 43 (7), 1579-1600.)
H52, I2, I24, J13, J64, J68
14831 Andrew C. Johnston
Preferences, Selection, and the Structure of Teacher Pay
I conduct a discrete-choice experiment with responses linked to administrative teacher and student records to examine teacher preferences for compensation structure and working conditions. I ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2025, 17 (3), 310–346)
I20, J32, J45, M50
14830 Andreas Lichter
Max Löffler
Ingo E. Isphording
Thu-Van Nguyen
Felix Poege
Sebastian Siegloch
Profit Taxation, R&D Spending, and Innovation
We study how profit taxation affects plants' R&D spending and innovation activities. Relying on geocoded survey panel data which approximately covers the universe of R&D-active plants in Germany, we ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2025, 17 (1), 432- 463)
H25, H32, O31, O32
14828 Marcelo Bergolo
Gabriel Burdin
Santiago Burone
Mauricio De Rosa
Matias Giaccobasso
Martin Leites
Dissecting Inequality-Averse Preferences
Although different approaches and methods have been used to measure inequality aversion, there remains no consensus about its drivers at the individual level. We conducted an experiment on a sample ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 200, 782-802)
D63, D64, D81 C13, C91
14827 Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia
Victoria Vernon
Telework and Time Use
This chapter reviews the evidence on the relationship between telework and households' time allocation, drawing heavily on the empirical evidence from time diary data, and discusses the implications ...
(published online in: Handbook of Labor, Human Resources, and Population Economics, 2023)
J22, J31, D13
14826 Manuel Bagues
Velichka Dimitrova
The Psychological Gains from COVID-19 Vaccination: Who Benefits the Most?
We quantify the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on psychological well-being using information from a large-scale panel survey representative of the UK population. Exploiting exogenous variation in the ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2025, 242, 105304)
I18, I31
14825 Fengyan Dai
Lei Xu
Yu Zhu
Higher Education Expansion and Supply of Teachers in China
We examine the teacher labour market in China using the 2005 mini-Census, in the context of the transformation of the world's largest education system. We first document a significant increase not ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2022, 71, 101732 )
I23, I26, J45
14824 Santosh Kumar Gautam
Mukta Gundi
Sagar Atre
Luu Bich Ngoc
Nguyen Thi Thieng
Anu Rammohan
Alcohol Consumption among Adults in Vietnam: Prevalence, Patterns, and Its Determinants
This study describes the prevalence and drinking patterns of alcohol consumption among adults (aged 15+ years) and explores the association between sociodemographic factors and alcohol consumption in ...
(published in: Journal of Substance Use,2023, 28 (1), 57-65 )
A10, I1
14821 Dominik Hangartner
Matti Sarvimäki
Judith Spirig
Managing Refugee Protection Crises: Policy Lessons from Economics and Political Science
We review and interpret research on the economic and political effects of receiving asylum seekers and refugees in developed countries, with a particular focus on the 2015 European refugee protection ...
(published in: Journal of the Finnish Economic Association, 2021, 2(1), 1-24)
D72, J61
14819 Nicolas Herault
Stephen P. Jenkins
Redistributive Effect and the Progressivity of Taxes and Benefits: Evidence for the UK, 1977-2018
We apply the Kakwani approach to decomposing redistributive effect into average rate, progressivity, and reranking components using yearly UK data covering 1977-2018. We examine cash and in-kind ...
(published in: Journal of Income Distribution, 2022, 31 (3 - 4), 10 - 45)
D31, H24, H50, I38
14818 José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal
Carlos Gracia-Lazaro
José Alberto Molina
Bike-Sharing: Network Efficiency and Demand Profiles
This paper analyzes a bike-sharing service from both network efficiency and demand profiles perspectives. Specifically, it focuses on the BIZI service in the city of Zaragoza (Spain), which was ...
(published as 'Increasing the use of public bicycles: efficiency and demand' in: Economic Analysis and Policy, 2022, 76, 745-754)
R40, C45
14817 Joseph-Simon Goerlach
Borrowing Constraints and the Dynamics of Return and Repeat Migration
As wages in migrant sending countries catch up with those in destinations, migrants adjust on several margins, including their duration of stay, the number of migrations they undertake, as well as ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41 (1), 205 - 243)
J61, D15, F22
14815 Francisca M. Antman
Multi-Dimensional Identities of the Hispanic Population in the United States
This essay discusses the multi-dimensional identities of the Hispanic population in the United States as represented in current surveys. It reviews some of the critical barriers in data collection ...
(published in: Advancing Anti-racist Economic Research and Policy, Perspectives and Resources on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy, Economic Policy Institute, 2022.)
J15, Z13
14814 Ali Moghaddasi Kelishomi
Roberto Nistico
Employment Effects of Economic Sanctions in Iran
This paper investigates the effect of economic sanctions on employment. We exploit the imposition of a series of unexpected and unprecedented international economic sanctions on Iran in 2012 and ...
(published in: World Development, 2022, 151, 105760.)
F16, F51, J21
14813 Valentine Jacobs
François Rycx
Mélanie Volral
Wage Effects of Educational Mismatch According to Workers' Origin: The Role of Demographics and Firm Characteristics
This paper examines the influence of educational mismatch on wages according to workers' region of birth, taking advantage of our access to rich matched employer-employee data for the Belgian private ...
(published in: De Economist, 2022, 170 (4), 459-501)
I24, I26, J15, J24, J31
14812 Iga Magda
Katarzyna Lipowska
Flexibility of Working Time Arrangements and Female Labor Market Outcome
We use data from the 2019 EU Labor Force Survey to study gender and parenthood gaps in two dimensions of flexibility in working time arrangements in 25 European countries. We find that overall in ...
(published in: J.A. Molina (ed.) Mothers in the Labor Market, Springer, May 2022)
J13, J22, J32
14811 Kenneth A. Couch
Robert W. Fairlie
Huanan Xu
The Evolving Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Gender Inequality in the U.S. Labor Market: The COVID Motherhood Penalty
We explore whether COVID-19 disproportionately affected women in the labor market using CPS data through the end of 2020. We find that male-female gaps in the employment-to-population ratio and hours ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2022, 60 (2), 485 - 507)
J16, J2, J13
14809 Zhiming Cheng
Liwen Guo
Russell Smyth
Massimiliano Tani
Childhood Adversity and Energy Poverty
We use data from China Family Panel Studies to examine the effects of being a child or adolescent in China's Great Famine on the likelihood of being in energy poverty in adulthood. We find that a one ...
(published in: Energy Economics, 2022, 111, 106101)
J13, I32, Q41
14808 Abi Adams-Prassl
Teodora Boneva
Marta Golin
Christopher Rauh
The Value of Sick Pay
Not all countries provide universal access to publicly funded paid sick pay. Amongst countries that do, compensation rates can be low and coverage incomplete. This leaves a significant role for ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 151, 104314)
J22, J32, J81
14807 Sébastien Michiels
Christophe Jalil Nordman
Suneha Seetahul
Many Rivers to Cross: Social Identity, Cognition and Labour Mobility in Rural India
By considering the case of rural South India, this study analyses whether individual skills and personality traits are able to facilitate labour market mobility of disadvantaged groups in the ...
(published in: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2021, 697(1), 66 - 80)
J24, J31, J71, O12
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