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14548 Daniel Fernández-Kranz
Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Too Family Friendly? The Consequences of Parent Part-Time Working Rights
We use a difference-in-differences model with individual fixed effects to evaluate a 1999 Spanish law granting employment protection to workers with children younger than 6 who had asked for a ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 197, 104407)
C23, J16, J18, J62
14544 Kseniya Abanokova
Hai-Anh H Dang
Poverty in Russia: A Bird's-Eye View of Trends and Dynamics in the past Quarter of Century
Hardly any recent study exists that broadly reviews poverty trends over time for Russia. Analyzing the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Surveys between 1994 and 2019, we offer an updated review of ...
(published in: Jacques Silber (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation, Edward Elgar Press, 2023)
C15, D31, I31, O10, O57
14543 Sonia R. Bhalotra
Diogo Britto
Paolo Pinotti
Breno Sampaio
Job Displacement, Unemployment Benefits and Domestic Violence
We estimate impacts of male job loss, female job loss, and male unemployment benefits on domestic violence in Brazil. We merge employer-employee and social welfare registers with administrative data ...
(forthcoming in: Review of Economic Studies)
J16, J08
14542 Oded Stark
Menopause as a Regulatory Device for Matching the Demand for Children with Its Supply: A Hypothesis
Drawing on two assumptions: that menopause is an instrument for the efficient regulation of the duration of a biologically expensive state, and that people have children in order to obtain support ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2021, 42, 101001.)
D64, D90, J13, J14
14540 Emilia Del Bono
Greta Morando
For Some, Luck Matters More: The Impact of the Great Recession on the Early Careers of Graduates from Different Socio-Economic Backgrounds
This paper uses variation in unemployment caused by the 2008 recession to analyse socio- economic gaps in graduate outcomes. Our data comes from a survey which collects information on several cohorts ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2022, 74 (3), 869 - 893)
E32, I23, I24, I26, J62
14539 Diego de la Fuente Stevens
Panu Pelkonen
Economics of Minority Groups: Labour Market Returns and Transmission of Indigenous Languages
This study demonstrates a series of links between minority language skills, their economic return and their transmission across generations. Using a detailed matching procedure and different data ...
(published in: World Development, 2023, 162, 106096)
J4, J15, J31, O54, Z1, Z13
14538 David Dorn
Josef Zweimüller
Migration and Labor Market Integration in Europe
The European labor market allows for the border-free mobility of workers across 31 countries that cover most of the continent's population. However, rates of migration across European countries ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2021, 35(2), 49-76)
F22, F53, J31, J61
14537 David L. Dickinson
David Masclet
Unethical Decision Making and Sleep Restriction: Experimental Evidence
Recent examinations into the cognitive underpinnings of ethical decision making has focused on understanding whether honesty is more likely to result from deliberative or unconscious decision ...
(revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2023,141, 484-502.)
C91, D91, D63
14536 David L. Dickinson
David M. McEvoy
David Bruner
The Impact of Sleep Restriction on Interpersonal Conflict Resolution and the Narcotic Effect
Insufficient sleep is commonplace, and understanding how this affects interpersonal conflict holds implications for personal and workplace settings. We experimentally manipulated participant sleep ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 194, 71-90.)
J52, D74, D90, C92, D83
14535 Björn Anders Gustafsson
Yudan Zhang
Self-Employment in Rural China: Its Development, Characteristics, and Relation to Income
The changes in the employment structure in rural China are studied with a focus on off farm self-employment. Data from the China Household Income Project surveys covering the same 14 provinces from ...
(published in: China & World Economy, 2022, 30 (1), 136-165)
L26, M13, O12, P32
14533 Alex Davenport
David Dorn
Peter Levell
Import Competition and Public Attitudes Towards Trade
We use data from the Pew Global Attitudes Survey to analyse how public attitudes towards trade have changed over time in developed economies, and how these attitudes differ across groups in the ...
(also available as: IFS Report no. 176, 2020)
F10, F16, F60
14532 Francesco Devicienti
Bernardo Fanfani
Firms' Margins of Adjustment to Wage Growth: The Case of Italian Collective Bargaining
This paper studies firms' adjustment behavior to the growth in labor costs induced by Italian collective bargaining institutions. Our research design compares several firms' outcomes across ...
(published in: Economica, 2025, 92 (365), 107 - 149)
J00, J23, J24, J31, J38, J58, L13
14531 Terry Sicular
Xiuna Yang
Björn Anders Gustafsson
The Rise of China's Global Middle Class in International Perspective
Defining the 'global middle class' as being neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate the size of the global middle class in China and 33 other countries and analyze China's expanding ...
(published in: China & World Economy, 2022, 30 (1), 5 - 27)
D31,O15, O53, P3
14530 Erling Barth
Harald Dale-Olsen
Pal Schone
Kjersti Misje Ostbakken
Chutes and Ladders? Job Opportunities for Generation COVID
With a focus on jobs for youth, this paper analyses the development of job postings in Norway during the first and second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Jobs for youth are defined by the top ...
(published online in: Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2024)
J23, J6, J63
14529 Eliana Carranza
Robert Garlick
Kate Orkin
Neil Rankin
Job Search and Hiring with Two-Sided Limited Information about Workseekers' Skills
We present field experimental evidence that limited information about workseekers' skills distorts both firm and workseeker behavior. Assessing workseekers' skills, giving workseekers their ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2022, 112 (11), 3547 - 3583)
J23, J24, J31, J41, O15, O17
14528 Alex Dickson
Markus Gehrsitz
Jonathan Kemp
Does a Spoonful of Sugar Levy Help the Calories Go Down? An Analysis of the UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy
This study evaluates the effects of the 2018 UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy on soft drinks prices, sales, reformulation activities, and consequently calories consumed. We combine novel electronic point ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 29 May 2023)
H21, H23, H51, I12, I18
14524 James Albrecht
Xiaoming Cai
Pieter A. Gautier
Susan Vroman
On the Foundations of Competitive Search Equilibrium with and without Market Makers
The literature offers two foundations for competitive search equilibrium, a Nash approach and a market-maker approach. When each buyer visits only one seller (or each worker makes only one job ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2023, 208, 105605)
C78, D44, D83
14523 Jose C. Galdo
Using Bank Savings Product Design for Empowering Women and Agricultural Development
This study examines whether the random allocation of single and joint saving accounts to cash crop farmers in rural Ethiopia is associated with changes in decision-making authority and control over ...
(updated version published online in: World Bank Economic Review, 29 May 2024)
C93, D14, G21, J43, I21, O12, R20
14522 Farzana Afridi
Amrita Dhillon
Arka Roy Chaudhuri
Saattvic
Measuring Performance: Ranking State Success over Two Decades in India
This paper proposes new composite measures of relative and dynamic state performance to improve governance and delivery of public programs in developing countries with a federal structure. We rank ...
(published in: Journal of Asian Economics, 2022, 83, 101550)
H4, I38, O18, C43, R42
14521 Giuseppe Albanese
Vincenzo Carrieri
Maria Maddalena Speziali
Looking for a Star: Evaluating the Effect of the Cohesion Policy on Regional Well-Being
This paper presents new evidence on the last concluded wave (2007-2013) of the EU cohesion policy. We depart from the broadly used GDP-growth approach and evaluate the impact of EU Structural Funds ...
(published online as 'Beyond GDP: assessing the impact of the 2007–13 EU Cohesion Policy' in: Regional Studies, 03 Jun 2024)
C21, H51, H52, I31, R11
14520 Marion Goussé
Marion Leturcq
More or Less Unmarried. The Impact of Legal Settings of Cohabitation on Labour Market Outcomes
We study how different levels of protection upon separation affect the labour market behaviour of unmarried cohabiting partners. In Canada, unmarried cohabitation becomes a legal status after one ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2022, 149, 104259)
J12, J22, J18, K36
14519 Maurice Kugler
Mariana Viollaz
Daniel Duque
Isis Gaddis
David Newhouse
Amparo Palacios-Lopez
Michael Weber
How Did the COVID-19 Crisis Affect Different Types of Workers in the Developing World?
This paper investigates the impacts of the economic shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment of different types of workers in developing countries. Employment outcomes are taken from a ...
(published in: World Development, 2023, 170, 106331)
E24, J15, J16, J21
14517 Rodrigo R. Soares
Rudi Rocha
Michel Szklo
American Delusion: Life Expectancy and Welfare in the US from an International Perspective
Recent increases in mortality have brought life expectancy back to the forefront of the public health debate in the US. Though unprecedented, this trend comes after an equally striking phenomenon: a ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2022, 16 (1), 73 - 132)
I1, I3, O5
14516 Kelvin Seah
Do Ethnically-Congruent Teachers Really Matter Little for Hispanic Students? A Re-Examination of the Data
While there is now much evidence in the literature that assignment to ethnically-congruent teachers results in better student outcomes like achievement and teachers' evaluations of their behavior for ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2021, 206, Article 109976)
I21, J15
14514 Daniele Checchi
Alessandra Fenizia
Claudio Lucifora
Public Sector Jobs: Working in the Public Sector in Europe and the US
This paper reviews recent theoretical and empirical work on public employment management and presents novel stylized facts on public sector jobs. In the first part, we examine the evolution of ...
(published as 'Public- and private-sector jobs: a cross-country perspective' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2024, 76 (3), 759–779)
J45, J31, H50
14513 Aysun Hızıroğlu Aygün
Murat Güray Kirdar
Murat Koyuncu
Quentin Stoeffler
Keeping Refugee Children in School and Out of Work: Evidence from the World's Largest Humanitarian Cash Transfer Program
This paper investigates whether unconditional cash transfers can keep refugee children in school and out of work. We raise this question in the unique context of Turkey, which hosts the world's ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 168, 103266.)
F22, I21, I28, I38, J21, O15, O22
14512 Massimiliano Tani
Yu Zhu
Lei Xu
The Impact of an Un(der)Funded Inclusive Education Policy: Evidence from the 2013 China Education Panel Survey
Using the 2013 China Education Panel Survey (CEPS), we study the impact of a 2008 inclusive education policy, through which the central government mandated urban public schools to exempt migrant ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 2021, 190, 768-784.)
I21, I24, I25, I28, J15
14510 Janos Gabler
Tobias Raabe
Klara Röhrl
Hans-Martin von Gaudecker
The Effectiveness of Strategies to Contain Sars-Cov-2: Testing, Vaccinations, and NPIs
In order to slow the spread of the CoViD-19 pandemic, governments around the world have enacted a wide set of policies limiting the transmission of the disease. Initially, these focused on ...
(published as 'The effectiveness of testing, vaccinations and contact restrictions for containing the CoViD-19 pandemic' in: Scientific Reports, 2022, 12, 8048 )
C63, I18
14509 Colm Kelly
Dennis J. Snower
Capitalism Recoupled
This paper examines major forces that have decoupled economic and business prosperity from social prosperity and explores how recoupling can be promoted. Economists have specified well-known ...
(pubished in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2021, 37 (4), 851 - 863)
M21, P1, A13
14508 John V. Winters
Young and Hungry? Employment Levels for Young People During Spring 2021
This article examines employment rates for persons in their teens and early 20s during April and May 2021 compared to April and May 2019. Employment rates for teens are significantly higher in Spring ...
(published in: Economic Bulletin, 2022, 42 (2), 643 - 652)
J2
14507 Govert Bijwaard
Educational Differences in Mortality and Hospitalisation for Cardiovascular Diseases for Males
High educated individuals are less frequently admitted to hospital for cardiovascular diseases and live longer than the lower educated. We address whether the educational gradient in the mortality ...
(published as 'Educational differences in mortality and hospitalisation for cardiovascular diseases 'in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 81, 102565 )
C41, I14, I24
14503 Jonathan Mansfield
David Slichter
The Long-Run Effects of Consequential School Accountability
The rise of high-stakes accountability programs was one of the most noticeable changes in the U.S. education system during the 1990s and early 2000s. We measure the impact of these programs on ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics)
I28, J24, H0
14502 Philippe Sterkens
Stijn Baert
Claudia Rooman
Eva Derous
Why Making Promotion after a Burnout Is like Boiling the Ocean
Recent studies have explored hiring discrimination as an obstacle to former burnout patients. Many workers, however, return to the same employer, where they face an even more severe aftermath of ...
(revised version published in: European Sociological Review , 2023, 39 (4), 516- 531 )
J71, I14, C83, C91
14501 Xiaoming Cai
Pieter A. Gautier
Ronald P. Wolthoff
Search, Screening and Sorting
We investigate the effect of search frictions on labor market sorting by constructing a model which is in line with recent evidence that employers collect a pool of applicants before interviewing a ...
(forthcoming in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics)
C78, D82, D83, E24
14499 Marco Francesconi
Jonathan James
None for the Road? Stricter Drink Driving Laws and Road Accidents
Reducing drink drive limits is generally regarded an effective strategy to save lives on the road. Using several new administrative data sources, we evaluate the effect of a stricter limit introduced ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 79, 102487)
I12, I18, D62, K42
14497 Sugat Chaturvedi
Kanika Mahajan
Zahra Siddique
Words Matter: Gender, Jobs and Applicant Behavior
We examine employer preferences for hiring men vs women using 160,000 job ads posted on an online job portal in India, linked with more than 6 million applications. We apply machine learning ...
(published as 'Gendered language in job ads and applicant behaviour: Evidence from India' in: Labour Economics, 2025, 96, 102726)
J16, J63, J71
14496 Nick Drydakis
Sexual Orientation and Earnings. A Meta-Analysis 2012-2020
This meta-analysis utilizes 24 papers published between 2012-2020 that focus on earnings differences by sexual orientation. The papers cover the period between 1991 and 2018, and countries in Europe, ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 35, 409 - 440)
C93, E24, J15, J16, J71
14495 Doris Weichselbaumer
Julia Schuster
The Effect of Photos and a Local-Sounding Name on Discrimination against Ethnic Minorities in Austria
A large body of research documents the existence of discrimination against migrants and ethnic minorities in the labour market. This study investigates for Austria, to what degree employment ...
(published in: European Sociological Review, 2021, 37 (6), 867-882)
C93, J15, J71
14492 Nelly Elmallakh
Jackline Wahba
Return Migrants and the Wage Premium: Does the Legal Status of Migrants Matter?
This paper examines the impact of the legal status of overseas migrants on their wages upon return to the home country. Using unique data from Egypt, which allows us to distinguish between return ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 35, 1631-1685)
F22, J30
14491 Inés Berniell
Lucila Berniell
Dolores De la Mata
María Edo
Yarine Fawaz
Matilde P. Machado
Mariana Marchionni
Motherhood and the Allocation of Talent
In this paper we show that motherhood triggers changes in the allocation of talent in the labor market besides the well-known effects on gender gaps in employment and earnings. We use an event study ...
(published online in: Applied Economics, 9 October 2024)
J13, J16, J22, J24
14490 Aamer Abu-Qarn
Shirlee Lichtman-Sadot
Older Adult Health Following Greater Access to Secondary Health Care: Evidence from Bus Service Introductions to Arab Towns in Israel
How much can socioeconomically-based health disparities be attributed to differential access to secondary and specialist health care? We evaluate this question in the context of Arab-Jewish health ...
(published as 'Can greater access to secondary health care decrease health inequality? Evidence from bus line introduction to Arab towns in Israel' in: Economic Modelling, 2022, 106, 105695)
I12, I14, R4
14489 Joan Costa-Font
Nattavudh Powdthavee
Does Money Strengthen Our Social Ties? Longitudinal Evidence of Lottery Winners
We study the effect of lottery wins on social ties and support network in the United Kingdom. On average, we find that winning more in the lottery increases the probability of meeting friends on most ...
(published in: Rationality & Society, 2023, 35 (2), 139-166. )
Z1
14488 Alvaro Calderon
Vasiliki Fouka
Marco Tabellini
Racial Diversity and Racial Policy Preferences: The Great Migration and Civil Rights
Between 1940 and 1970, more than 4 million African Americans moved from the South to the North of the United States, during the Second Great Migration. This same period witnessed the struggle and ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2023, 90 (1), 165–200, )
D72, J15, N92
14487 Zichen Deng
Maarten Lindeboom
Early-Life Famine Exposure, Hunger Recall and Later-Life Health
We use newly collected individual-level hunger recall information from the China Family Panel Survey to estimate the causal effect of undernourishment on later-life health. We develop a Two-Sample ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2022, 37 (4), 771-787)
I12, J11, C21, C26
14485 Vincenzo Carrieri
Apostolos Davillas
Andrew M. Jones
Equality of Opportunity and the Expansion of Higher Education in the UK
Using nine waves of data from Understanding Society (UKHLS), we study the expansion of higher education in the UK, since the landmark Robbins Report in 1963, and its consequences for levels of and ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2023, 69 (4), 861-85.)
C1, D63, I12, I14
14484 David Card
Stefano DellaVigna
Patricia Funk
Nagore Iriberri
Gender Differences in Peer Recognition by Economists
We study the selection of Fellows of the Econometric Society, using a new data set of publications and citations for over 40,000 actively publishing economists since the early 1900s. Conditional on ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2022, 90 (5), 1937-1971)
J71, I23
14483 Daniel Kreisman
Jonathan Smith
Bondi Arifin
Labor Market Signaling and the Value of College: Evidence from Resumes and the Truth
How do college non-completers list schooling on their resumes? The negative signal of not completing might outweigh the positive signal of attending but not persisting. If so, job-seekers might hide ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023, 58 (6), 1820-1849)
J01, J24
14481 Allan Webster
Sangeeta Khorana
Francesco Pastore
The Effects of COVID-19 on Employment, Labour Markets and Gender Equality in Central America
This study considers the economic impact of Covid-19 on enterprises in four Central American countries – El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. At the time of the analysis neither the ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2022, 13 (1), 1-43.)
I18, J23, J28, J65
14480 Bilge Erten
Pinar Keskin
Does Knowledge Empower? Education, Legal Awareness and Intimate Partner Violence
This paper uses an extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey to estimate the causal effects of education on women's legal awareness of laws that were designed to reduce gender inequality and ...
(published in: Feminist Economics, 2022, 28 (4), 29 - 59)
J12, J16, I25
14478 Mathias Huebener
Jonas Jessen
Daniel Kühnle
Michael Oberfichtner
A Firm-Side Perspective on Parental Leave
Motherhood and parental leave interrupt employment relationships, likely imposing costs on firms. We document that mothers who are difficult to replace internally take shorter leave and that their ...
(published as "Parental Leave, Worker Substitutability, and Firms’ Employment" in The Economic Journal, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueae114)
J16, J18, J24
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