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13565 Marco Bertoni
Enrico Rettore
Lorenzo Rocco
If (My) 6 Was (Your) 9: Reporting Heterogeneity in Student Evaluations of Teaching
Student Evaluations of Teaching (SET) are subjective measures of student satisfaction that are often used to assess teaching quality. In this paper, we show that heterogeneity in students' reporting ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 89, 102567)
I23, I28, D63
13564 Jörgen Hansen
Nicolai Kristensen
Henrik Lindegaard Andersen
The Bottom 20%: Early Career Paths of Adolescents with Low GPA
Across nations, large proportions of younger birth cohorts obtain no professional qualications. Using a structural dynamic approach, we analyze policies targeted adolescents who leave grade nine with ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2024, 126 (4), 810–839)
I2, I38
13561 Alena Bicakova
Matias Cortes
Jacopo Mazza
Caught in the Cycle: Economic Conditions at Enrollment and Labor Market Outcomes of College Graduates
We find robust evidence that cohorts of male graduates who start college during worse economic times earn higher average wages than those who start during better times. This gap is not explained by ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (638), 2383-2412.)
I23, J24, J31, E32
13557 Matias Cortes
Jeanne Tschopp
Rising Concentration and Wage Inequality
Wage inequality has risen in many countries over recent decades. At the same time, production has become increasingly concentrated in a small number of firms. In this paper, we show that these two ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2024, 126 (2), 320-354)
J31, L11, E24
13556 Mathias Huebener
Sevrin Waights
C. Katharina Spieß
Nico A. Siegel
Gert G. Wagner
Parental Well-Being in Times of COVID-19 in Germany
We examine the differential effects of Covid-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in Germany. We specifically focus on the role of school and day care center closures, ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2021, 81, 91 - 120)
D1, H12, H75, I2
13555 Marta Martínez Matute
Ernesto Villanueva
Task Specialization and Cognitive Skills: Evidence from PIAAC and IALS
We study how the tasks conducted on the job relate to measures of cognitive skills using data from 18 countries participating in the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competences ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2023, 21, 59 - 92)
J24, J31, I20
13553 Matthew Gibson
Jamie Mullins
Climate Risk and Beliefs in New York Floodplains
Applying a difference-in-differences framework to a census of residential property transactions in New York City 2003-2017, we estimate the price effects of three flood risk signals: 1) the ...
(published as 'Climate risk and beliefs in New York floodplains' in: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2020, 7 (6), 1069-1111.)
Q54, Q58, R30, G22
13551 Daniel S. Hamermesh
H. Gregg Lewis: Perhaps the Father of Modern Labor Economics
H. Gregg Lewis did fundamental research outlining the economic effects of trade unions and considering how to measure them carefully. He also laid out the theory of the supply and demand for labor in ...
(published in: Robert A. Cord (ed.), The Palgrave Companion to Chicago Economics, Vol. II, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, 574-594, )
B21, C29
13550 M. Shahe Emran
Francisco H. G. Ferreira
Yajing Jiang
Yan Sun
Occupational Dualism and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in the Rural Economy: Evidence from China and India
This paper extends the Becker-Tomes model of intergenerational educational mobility to a rural economy characterized by farm-nonfarm occupational dualism and provides a comparative analysis of rural ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2023, 21, 743 - 773)
O12, J62
13549 Benoit Decerf
Francisco H. G. Ferreira
Daniel Gerszon Mahler
Olivier Sterck
Lives and Livelihoods: Estimates of the Global Mortality and Poverty Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic
This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of ...
(pubished in: World Development, 2021, 146, 105561)
D63, I15, I32, O15
13548 Egidio Farina
Colin P. Green
Duncan McVicar
Are Estimates of Non-Standard Employment Wage Penalties Robust to Different Wage Measures? The Case of Zero Hours Contracts in the UK
A range of evidence suggests that non-standard jobs, including fixed-term and other temporary jobs such as casual jobs, pay lower wages than more standard, permanent jobs, even after controlling for ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2021, 60 (3), 370 - 399)
J21, J48, M55
13547 Darius Schlangenotto
Wendelin Schnedler
Radovan Vadovic
Against All Odds: Tentative Steps Toward Efficient Information Sharing in Groups
When groups face difficult problems, the voice of experts may be lost in the noise of others' contributions. We present results from a 'naturally noisy' setting, a large first-year undergraduate ...
(published in: Games, 2020, 11 (3), 31)
D71, D72, D81, D82, C99
13546 Ylenia Brilli
Claudio Lucifora
Antonio Russo
Marco Tonello
Vaccination Take-up and Health: Evidence from a Flu Vaccination Program for the Elderly
We analyze the effects of a vaccination program providing free flu vaccine to individuals aged 65 or more on take-up behavior and hospitalization. Using both administrative and survey data, we ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 179, 323 - 341)
I12, I18, J10
13544 Elisabeth Leduc
Ilan Tojerow
Subsidizing Domestic Services as a Tool to Fight Unemployment: Effectiveness and Hidden Costs
European countries have increasingly adopted wage subsidies for the sector of domestic services to reduce low-skilled unemployment. Yet, empirical evidence on their effectiveness is scarce. In this ...
(published as 'Home work: Exploring the labor market effects of subsidizing domestic services' in: Labour Economics, 2024, 90, 102595)
J08, J24, J28, J38
13543 Mary-Alice Doyle
Stefanie Schurer
Sven Silburn
Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform: Evidence from Birth Outcomes of Aboriginal Australians
Australia's 'income management' policy requires benefit recipients to spend at least half of their government transfers on essentials (e.g. food, housing). We estimate income management's impact on ...
(updated version published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 84, 102618)
D04, I14, I38
13542 Effrosyni Adamopoulou
Ernesto Villanueva
Wage Determination and the Bite of Collective Contracts in Italy and Spain: Evidence from the Metalworking Industry
In several OECD countries employer federations and unions fix skill-specific wage floors for all workers in an industry. One view of those "explicit" contracts argues that the prevailing wage ...
(published as 'Wage determination and the bite of collective contracts in Italy and Spain' in: Labour Economics, 2022, 76, 102147)
J31, J38, J52
13539 Andreas Haller
Stefan Staubli
Josef Zweimüller
Designing Disability Insurance Reforms: Tightening Eligibility Rules or Reducing Benefits?
We study the welfare effects of disability insurance (DI) and derive social-optimality conditions for the two main DI policy parameters: (i) DI eligibility rules and (ii) DI benefits. Causal evidence ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2024, 92 (1), 79-110.)
H53, H55, J14, J21, J65
13537 Rafael Lalive
Arvind Magesan
Stefan Staubli
The Impact of Social Security on Pension Claiming and Retirement: Active vs. Passive Decisions
We exploit a unique Swiss reform to identify the importance of passivity, claiming social security benefits at the Full Retirement Age (FRA). Sharp discontinuities generated by the reform reveal that ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023, 15 (3), 115-50)
H55, J21, J26
13536 Massimiliano Tani
The Labour Market for Native and International PhD Students: Similarities, Differences, and the Role of (University) Employers
This paper studies the labour market outcomes of native and foreign PhD graduates staying as migrants in Australia, using data on career destinations over the period 1999-2015. Natives with an ...
(published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2022, 56, 20 (2022))
I26, J24, J31, J61
13534 Rajeev Darolia
Peter R. Mueser
Jacob Cronin
Labor Market Returns to a Prison GED
Educational and skill-building programs are commonplace in prisons and have been the focus of recent prominent policy initiatives. These educational programs are expected to increase prisoners' ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 82, 102093)
I26, J24, J31, J38
13533 Julia Bredtmann
Lisa Sofie Höckel
Sebastian Otten
The Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Role Attitudes: Evidence from Immigrant Mothers-In-Law
Previous literature has shown that attitudes and preferences are intergenerationally transmitted from parents to their children. We contribute to this literature by analyzing whether gender role ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 179, 101-115)
J13, J15, J22, D1
13531 Lukáš Lafférs
Bernhard Schmidpeter
Early Child Development and Parents' Labor Supply
The impact of children's early development status on parental labor market outcomes is not well established in the empirical literature. We combine an instrumental variable approach to account for ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2021, 36 (2), 190-208)
C21, I23, J13, J31, J64
13530 Stefan Pichler
Katherine Wen
Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Positive Health Externalities of Mandating Paid Sick Leave
A growing economic literature studies the optimal design of social insurance systems and the empirical identification of welfare-relevant externalities. In this paper, we test whether mandating ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2021, 40 (3), 715-743)
H23, H75, I12, I14, I18, J22, J38, J58
13528 Robert A. Hart
Labour Productivity during the Great Depression and the Great Recession in UK Engineering and Metal Manufacture
This paper compares labour productivity during the Great Depression (GD) and the Great Recession (GR) in engineering, metal working and allied industries. Throughout, it distinguishes between output ...
(revised version published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2022, 74 (2), 431 - 452)
E32, J23, J24
13527 Massimiliano Tani
Zhiming Cheng
Matloob Piracha
Ben Zhe Wang
Ageing, Health, Loneliness and Wellbeing
Older people experience high rates of depression and suicide, yet they make a positive net contribution to the economy through activities such as employment, volunteering, and looking after ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2020, 26, 1-17)
I31, J14
13526 Fernando Alexandre
Pedro Bação
João Cerejeira
Hélder Costa
Miguel Portela
Minimum Wage and Financially Distressed Firms: Another One Bites the Dust
Since late 2014, Portuguese Governments adopted ambitious minimum wage policies. Using linked employer-employee data, we provide an econometric evaluation of the impact of those policies. Our ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 24, 102088)
E24, J38, L25
13524 Damian Clarke
Kathya Tapia Schythe
Implementing the Panel Event Study
Many studies estimate the impact of exposure to some quasi-experimental policy or event using a panel event study design. These models, as a generalized extension of 'difference-in-differences' or ...
(published in: Stata Journal, 2021, 21 (4), 853 - 884)
C1, C13, C51, C54, C63, C87
13523 Louis Lippens
Stijn Baert
Abel Ghekiere
Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe
Eva Derous
Is Labour Market Discrimination against Ethnic Minorities Better Explained by Taste or Statistics? A Systematic Review of the Empirical Evidence
Scholars have gone to great lengths to chart the incidence of ethnic labour market discrimination. To effectively mitigate this discrimination, however, we need to understand its underlying ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2022, 48 (17), 4243 - 4276)
J71, J15, J23
13521 Joseph Benitez
Charles Courtemanche
Aaron Yelowitz
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19: Evidence from Six Large Cities
As of June 2020, the coronavirus pandemic has led to more than 2.3 million confirmed infections and 121 thousand fatalities in the United States, with starkly different incidence by race and ...
(published in: Journal of Economics, Race and Policy, 2020, 3, 243 - 261)
I14
13519 Lucia Mangiavacchi
Luca Piccoli
Luca Pieroni
Fathers Matter: Intra-Household Responsibilities and Children's Wellbeing during the COVID-19 Lockdown in Italy
The lockdown declared during the Spring 2020 because of the COVID-19 outbreak caused a reallocation of market and household work. A the same time school closures in many countries impacted on ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2021, 42, 101016)
I21, I24, J13, J16
13518 Grégory Jolivet
Fabien Postel-Vinay
A Structural Analysis of Mental Health and Labor Market Trajectories
We conduct a joint dynamic analysis of individual labor market and mental health outcomes. We allow for a two-way interaction between work and mental health. We model selection in and out of ...
(published online in: Review of Economic Studies, 25 June 2024)
I12, I14, J62, J64
13516 Gordon Betcherman
Nicholas Giannakopoulos
Ioannis Laliotis
Ioanna Pantelaiou
Mauro Testaverde
Giannis Tzimas
Reacting Quickly and Protecting Jobs: The Short-Term Impacts of the COVID-19 Lockdown on the Greek Labor Market
We use administrative, survey, and online vacancy data to analyze the short-term labor market impacts of the COVID-19 lockdown in Greece. We find that flows into unemployment have not increased; in ...
(published as 'The short-term impact of the 2020 pandemic lockdown on employment in Greece' in: Empirical Economics, 2023, 65, 1273 - 1307)
J21, J60, J68
13515 Utteeyo Dasgupta
Subha Mani
Smriti Sharma
Saurabh Singhal
Social Identity, Behavior, and Personality: Evidence from India
Hierarchies in social identities have been found to be integrally related to divergences in economic status. In India, caste is one such significant social identity where continued discriminatory ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2023, 59 (4), 472 - 489)
I23, C9, C18, J24, O15
13514 Philippe Sterkens
Stijn Baert
Claudia Rooman
Eva Derous
As If It Weren't Hard Enough Already: Breaking down Hiring Discrimination Following Burnout
Hiring discrimination towards (former) burnout patients has been extensively documented in the literature. To tackle this problem, it is important to understand the underlying mechanisms of such ...
(revised version published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2021, 43, 101050 )
J71, I14, C83, C91
13513 Marianne Bertrand
Bruno Crépon
Teaching Labor Laws: Evidence From a Randomized Control Trial in South Africa
We assess whether imperfect knowledge of labor regulation hinders job creation at small and medium-sized firms. We partner with a labor law expert that provides information about labor regulation via ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2021, 13 (4), 124 - 149)
J23, J63, J64, J68
13512 Stijn Baert
The Iceberg Decomposition: A Parsimonious Way to Map the Health of Labour Markets
This article introduces the metaphor of the iceberg in the labour market. While policy in most OECD countries has historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of ...
(revised version published in: Economic Analysis and Policy , 2021, 69, 350 - 365)
J64, J08, J23, J24, J68
13511 Michael Jetter
Rafat Mahmood
Christopher F. Parmeter
Andres Ramirez Hassan
Explaining Post-Cold-War Civil Conflict among 17 Billion Models: The Importance of History and Religion
Model uncertainty remains a persistent concern when exploring the drivers of civil conflict and civil war. Considering a comprehensive set of 34 potential determinants in 175 post-Cold-War countries ...
(published as 'Post-Cold War civil conflict and the role of history and religion: A stochastic search variable selection approach' in: Economic Modelling, 2022, 114, 105907)
D74, Q34, Z12, F54
13510 Reto Odermatt
Alois Stutzer
Does the Dream of Home Ownership Rest upon Biased Beliefs? A Test Based on Predicted and Realized Life Satisfaction
The belief that home ownership makes people happy is probably one of the most widespread intuitive theories of happiness. However, whether it is accurate is an open question. Based on individual ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2022, 23 (8), 3731-3763)
D12, D83, D90, I31, R20
13509 Christian vom Lehn
Cache Ellsworth
Zachary Kroff
Reconciling Occupational Mobility in the Current Population Survey
Measuring occupational mobility from the Current Population Survey using recall (retrospective) or linked panel responses (longitudinal) generates substantially different outcomes, both in levels and ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2022, 40 (4), 1005 - 1051)
J62, C83, F16
13508 Gordon B. Dahl
Dan-Olof Rooth
Anders Stenberg
Long-Run Returns to Field of Study in Secondary School
This paper studies whether specialized academic fields of study in secondary school, which are common in many countries, affect earnings as an adult. Identification is challenging, because it ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023, 15 (1), 351-382)
I26, J24, J31
13507 Gordon B. Dahl
Christina Felfe
Paul Frijters
Helmut Rainer
Caught between Cultures: Unintended Consequences of Improving Opportunity for Immigrant Girls
What happens when immigrant girls are given increased opportunities to integrate into the workplace and society, but their parents value more traditional cultural outcomes? Building on Akerlof and ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2022, 89 (5), 2491 - 2528)
Z18, J15, J16
13506 Ian Burn
Patrick Button
Luis Munguia Corella
David Neumark
Older Workers Need Not Apply? Ageist Language in Job Ads and Age Discrimination in Hiring
We study the relationships between ageist stereotypes – as reflected in the language used in job ads – and age discrimination in hiring, exploiting the text of job ads and differences in callbacks to ...
(published as 'Does Ageist Language in Job Ads Predict Age Discrimination in Hiring?' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2022, 40 (3), 613-667. )
J14, J7
13504 Lutz Bellmann
Olaf Hübler
Job Satisfaction and Work-Life Balance: Differences between Homework and Work at the Workplace of the Company
Working remotely can complement and sometimes completely substitute conventional work at the workplace of the company. Until the COVID-19 crisis the share of remote workers was relatively low and ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2021, 42 (3), 424-441)
J22, J29, M54, M55
13503 Eugenio Proto
Climent Quintana-Domeque
COVID-19 and Mental Health Deterioration among BAME Groups in the UK
We use the UK Household Longitudinal Study and compare pre- (2017-2019) and post-COVID-19 data (April 2020) for the same group of individuals to assess and quantify changes in mental health among ...
(revised version published as 'COVID-19 and mental health deterioration by ethnicity and gender in the UK' in: PLOS ONE, 2021, 16 (1), e0244419)
I1, J1, J15
13501 Sergio Olivieri
Francesc Ortega
Ana Rivadeneira
Eliana Carranza
The Labor Market Effects of Venezuelan Migration in Ecuador
As of 2019, more than 1.2 million Venezuelans have passed through Ecuador and over 400,000 settled in, which amounts to almost 3% of Ecuador's population. This paper analyzes the location choices of ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2022, 58 (4), 713 - 729)
O15, J61, D31
13500 Alison Andrew
Sarah Cattan
Monica Costa Dias
Christine Farquharson
Lucy Kraftman
Sonya Krutikova
Angus Phimister
Almudena Sevilla
The Gendered Division of Paid and Domestic Work under Lockdown
COVID-19 has uprooted many aspects of parents' daily routines, from their jobs to their childcare arrangements. In this paper, we provide a novel description of how parents in England living in ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2022, 43 (4), 325 - 340)
J21, J22, J24, J33, J63
13498 Josse Delfgaauw
Robert Dur
Oke Onemu
Joeri Sol
Team Incentives, Social Cohesion, and Performance: A Natural Field Experiment
We conduct a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain of 122 stores to study the interaction between team incentives, team social cohesion, and team performance. Theory predicts that the effect of ...
(published in: Management Science, 2022, 68 (1), 230-256)
C93, M52
13497 Daniel Keum
Stephan Meier
License to Fire? Unemployment Insurance and the Moral Cost of Layoffs
Expanding unemployment insurance (UI) not only reduces the burden for the unemployed but also the moral cost of layoffs to firms and their managers. Using staggered expansions of UI across US states, ...
(published as 'License to Layoff? Unemployment Insurance and the Moral Cost of Layoffs' in: Organization Science, 2023, 35 (3), 994-1014 )
D04, D91, J65
13496 Julia Schmieder
Fertility as a Driver of Maternal Employment
Based on findings from high-income countries, typically economists hypothesize that having more children unambiguously decreases the time mothers spend in the labor market. Few studies on ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 72,102048)
J13, J16, J22, J46
13495 Christopher Jepsen
Lisa Jepsen
Convergence Over Time or Not? U.S. Wages by Sexual Orientation, 2001-2018
An extensive literature on labor-market outcomes by sexual orientation finds lower wages for gay men compared to heterosexual men and higher wages for lesbians compared to heterosexual women. Recent ...
(published in. Labour Economics, 2022, 74, 102086)
D10, J10, J12, J70
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