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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
13493 Paul Anand
Heidi Allen
Robert Ferrer
Natalie Gold
Rolando Gonzales Martinez
Evan Kontopantelis
Melanie Krause
Francis Vergunst
Work-Related and Personal Predictors of COVID-19 Transmission
The paper provides new evidence from a survey of 2000 individuals in the US and UK related to predictors of Covid-19 transmission. Specifically, it investigates work and personal predictors of ...
(published as 'Work-related and personal predictors of COVID-19 transmission: evidence from the UK and USA' in: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2022, 76, 152 - 157 )
I1, I12, I14, I18
13492 Caterina Alacevich
Nicolò Cavalli
Osea Giuntella
Raffaele Lagravinese
Francesco Moscone
Catia Nicodemo
Exploring the Relationship between Care Homes and Excess Deaths in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Italy
We explore the relationship between the spatial distributions of excess deaths and care home facilities during the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy. Using registry-based mortality data (January 1st- March ...
(published as 'The presence of care homes and excess deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Italy' in: Health Economics, 2021, 30 (7), 1703-1710)
I10, I18, I30
13491 Steffen Künn
Christian Seel
Dainis Zegners
Cognitive Performance in the Home Office - Evidence from Professional Chess
During the recent COVID-19 pandemic, traditional (offline) chess tournaments were prohibited and instead held online. We exploit this as a unique setting to assess the impact of moving offline tasks ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2022, 132 (643), 1218 - 1232)
H12, L23, M11, M54
13490 Matthias Dorner
Katja Görlitz
Training, Wages and a Missing School Graduation Cohort
This study analyzes the effects of a missing high school graduation cohort on firms' training provision and trainees' wages. An exogenous school reform varying at the state and year level caused the ...
(updated version published as 'The impact of a missing school graduation cohort on the training market' in: Economics of Education Review, 2024, 103, 102580 (with Elke J. Jahn) )
J21, J24, J31
13489 Todd Pugatch
Elizabeth Schroeder
Promoting Female Interest in Economics: Limits to Nudges
Why is the proportion of women who study Economics so low? This study assesses whether students respond to messages about majoring in Economics, and whether this response varies by student gender. We ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 2021, 111, 123-127)
I21, I23
13488 Stijn Baert
Matteo Picchio
A Signal of (Train)Ability? Grade Repetition and Hiring Chances
This article contributes to the nascent literature on the effect of grade retention in school on later labour market success. A field experiment is conducted to rule out the endogeneity of both ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 188, 867 - 878)
I21, J23, J70, C93
13486 Francesco Pastore
Allan Webster
Kevin Hope
Assessing the Role of Women in Tourism Related Sectors in the Caribbean
This study contributes to the rapidly growing literature on women in tourism. It focuses on a group of 13 Caribbean countries. The study analyses the impact of women in apical positions within firms ...
(published in: International Journal of Tourism Research, 2021, 23 (3), 378-400)
D22, J16, L26, L83, Z32
13485 Jonas Cuzulan Hirani
Hans Henrik Sievertsen
Miriam Wüst
Missing a Nurse Visit
While a large literature studies the impact of exposure to early-life investment policies, this paper examines the impact of changes within a program, the Danish nurse home visiting program, on child ...
(published online as: 'Beyond Treatment Exposure: The Impact of the Timing of Early Interventions on Child and Maternal Health' in: Journal of Human Resources, May 9, 2022 )
I11, I12, I14, I18, I21
13484 Rocco d'Este
Alex Harvey
Universal Credit and Crime
We evaluate the criminogenic effects of Universal Credit (UC), a monumental welfare reform designed to radically change the social security payment system in the United Kingdom. We exploit the UC ...
(published as 'The Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reforms: Universal Credit, Financial Insecurity, and Crime' in: Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2024, 40 (1), 129 - 181)
K14, K42
13483 Chiara Canta
Helmuth Cremer
Firouz Gahvari
Welfare Improving Tax Evasion
We study optimal income taxation in a framework where one's willingness to report his income truthfully is positively correlated with his type. We show that allowing low-productivity types to cheat ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2024, 126 (1), 98 - 126)
H20, H21, H26
13482 Cevat Giray Aksoy
Berkay Özcan
Julia Philipp
Robots and the Gender Pay Gap in Europe
Could robotization make the gender pay gap worse? We provide the first large-scale evidence on the impact of industrial robots on the gender pay gap using data from 20 European countries. We show ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 134, 103693)
J00, J31, J71
13481 Marek Antosiewicz
J. Rodrigo Fuentes
Piotr Lewandowski
Jan Witajewski-Baltvilks
Distributional Effects of Emission Pricing in a Carbon-Intensive Economy: The Case of Poland
In this paper, we assess the distributional impact of introducing a carbon tax in Poland. We apply a two-step simulation procedure. First, we evaluate the economy-wide effects with a dynamic general ...
(published in: Energy Policy, 2022, 160, 112678 )
H23, P18, O15
13480 Hai-Anh H Dang
Trong-Anh Trinh
Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Improve Global Air Quality? New Cross-National Evidence on Its Unintended Consequences
Despite a growing literature on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, scant evidence currently exists on its impacts on air quality. We offer the first study that provides cross-national evidence on ...
(published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2021, 105, 102401.)
D00, H00, O13, Q50
13477 Danula K. Gamage
Almudena Sevilla
Sarah Smith
Women in Economics: A UK Perspective
The status of women in economics in the US has come increasingly under the spotlight. We exploit high quality administrative data to paint the first comprehensive picture of the status of women in UK ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy 2020, 36 (4), 962 - 982)
A14
13473 Bart H.H. Golsteyn
Cécile A. J. Magnée
Does Sibling Gender Affect Personality Traits?
This paper studies whether sibling gender affects personality traits. We use the idea that if parents decide to have a second child, it is random whether they will have a boy or a girl. Therefore, ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 77, 102016)
I2, J12, J16, J24
13472 Shigeru Fujita
Giuseppe Moscarini
Fabien Postel-Vinay
Measuring Employer-to-Employer Reallocation
We revisit measurement of Employer-to-Employer (EE) transitions, the main engine of labor market competition and employment reallocation, in the monthly Current Population Survey (CPS). We follow ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2024, 16 (3), 1–51)
J63, E24
13469 David Slusky
Richard J. Zeckhauser
Sunlight and Protection Against Influenza
Recent medical literature suggests that vitamin D supplementation protects against acute respiratory tract infection. Humans exposed to sunlight produce vitamin D directly. This paper investigates ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology. 2021, 40, 100942)
I10, I12, I18, Q5, N32
13468 Seung Jin Cho
Jun Yeong Lee
John V. Winters
Employment Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic across Metropolitan Status and Size
We examine effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment losses across metropolitan area status and population size. Non-metropolitan and metropolitan areas of all sizes experienced significant ...
(published in: Growth and Change, 2021, 52 (4), 1958-1996)
J2, R2
13467 Graziella Bertocchi
Arcangelo Dimico
COVID-19, Race, and Redlining
Discussion on the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on African Americans has been at center stage since the outbreak of the epidemic in the United States. To present day, however, lack of ...
(published in: Covid Economics, 2020, 38, 129-195)
I14, J15, N32, N92, R38
13466 Stephen R. G. Jones
Fabian Lange
W. Craig Riddell
Casey Warman
Waiting for Recovery: The Canadian Labour Market in June 2020
The Canadian labour market is currently emerging from a holding pattern with unusually high numbers in temporary (or "recall") unemployment, those "employed but absent from work" for unspecified ...
(published in: Canadian Public Policy, 2020, 14 (46 S2), S102–S118.)
J21, J22, J23, J63
13465 Claus Schnabel
Union Membership and Collective Bargaining: Trends and Determinants
This survey shows that union membership and density as well as bargaining coverage have fallen in most countries and that collective bargaining has become more decentralized over the last decades. ...
(published in: K. F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, Cham, 2020)
J51, J52, J58
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