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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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12344
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Uwe
Jirjahn
Jens
Mohrenweiser
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Works Councils and Organizational Gender Policies in Germany
While education and labor force participation of women have been increased, there is still a substantial gender gap in labor market opportunities. This gives rise to the question of what factors lead ...
(revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2021, 59 (4), 1020-1048)
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J13, J16, J52, J53
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12342
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Paul
Marx
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Anti-Elite Politics and Emotional Reactions to Socio-Economic Problems. Experimental Evidence on 'Pocketbook Anger' from France, Germany, and the United States
Many observers have noticed the importance of anger in contemporary politics, particularly with reference to populism. This article addresses the question under which conditions people become angry ...
(published in: British Journal of Sociology, 2020, 71 (4), 608-624.)
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D72, D74, P16
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12341
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Petri
Böckerman
Andrew
Conlin
Rauli
Svento
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Early Health, Risk Aversion and Stock Market Participation
To examine the relationship between early health status and financial decisions in adulthood, we link information on birth weight in 1966 from the Northern Finland Birth Cohort to data from the ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2021, 32, 100568)
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I100, G110
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12340
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Sergi
Jimenez-Martin
Catia
Nicodemo
Stuart
Redding
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Modelling the Dynamic Effects of Elective Hospital Admissions on Emergency Levels in England
In England as elsewhere, policy makers are trying to reduce the pressure on costs due to rising hospital admissions by encouraging GPs to refer fewer patients to hospital specialists. This could have ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 59, 1933-1957)
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I10, I14, C10, B12
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12339
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Piotr
Lewandowski
Albert
Park
Wojciech
Hardy
Yang
Du
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Technology, Skills, and Globalization: Explaining International Differences in Routine and Nonroutine Work Using Survey Data
The shift away from manual and routine cognitive work, and towards non-routine cognitive work is a key feature of labor markets. There is no evidence, however, if the relative importance of various ...
(published in: The World Bank Economic Review, 2022, 36(3), 687-708)
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J21, J23, J24
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12338
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Giorgio
Brunello
David
Kiss
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Math Scores in High Stakes Grades
We investigate whether tests taken during a high stakes grade by German primary and secondary students produce higher math scores than in lower stakes grades. We identify a high stakes grade with the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2022, 82, 102219)
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I26, J24, D91
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12337
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Steffen
Altmann
Andreas
Grunewald
Jonas
Radbruch
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Passive Choices and Cognitive Spillovers
Passive behavior is ubiquitous - even when facing various alternatives to choose from, people commonly fail to take decisions. This paper provides evidence on the cognitive foundations of such ...
(published as 'Interventions and Cognitive Spillovers' in: Review of Economic Studies, 2022, 89 (5), 2293-2328)
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D91, D01, D04, C91
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12336
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Michael
Fritsch
Alina
Sorgner
Michael
Wyrwich
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Types of Institutions and Well-Being of Self-Employed and Paid Employees in Europe
This paper analyzes the role of different types of institutions, such as entrepreneurship-facilitating entry conditions, labor market regulations, quality of government, and perception of corruption ...
(revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 56, 877–901)
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L26, I31, D01, D91, P51
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12335
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Marcelo
Bergolo
Rodrigo
Ceni
Guillermo
Cruces
Matias
Giaccobasso
Ricardo
Perez-Truglia
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Tax Audits as Scarecrows. Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment
The canonical model of Allingham and Sandmo (1972) predicts that firms evade taxes by optimally trading off between the costs and benefits of evasion. However, there is no direct evidence that firms ...
(published in: American Economic Journal, 2023, 15 (1), 110 - 153)
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C93, H26, K34, K42, Z13
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12333
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Boris
Hirsch
Elke
J.
Jahn
Thomas
Zwick
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Birds, Birds, Birds: Co-Worker Similarity, Workplace Diversity, and Voluntary Turnover
We investigate how the demographic composition of the workforce along the sex, nationality, education, age, and tenure dimension affects voluntary turnover. Fitting duration models for workers' ...
(revised version published as 'Birds, Birds, Birds: Co-Worker Similarity, Workplace Diversity and Job Switches' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 58 (3), 690-718)
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J63, J62, J21, J19
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12332
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Badi
H.
Baltagi
Alfonso
Flores-Lagunes
Haci
M.
Karatas
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The Effect of Education on Health: Evidence from the 1997 Compulsory Schooling Reform in Turkey
This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The compulsory schooling increased from 5 to 8 years in 1997. This increase was ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2019, 17, 205-221)
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C26, I12, I21, I28
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12331
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Oded
Stark
Wiktor
Budzinski
Grzegorz
Kosiorowski
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The Pure Effect of Social Preferences on Regional Location Choices: The Evolving Dynamics of Convergence to a Steady State Population Distribution
This paper tracks the consequences of individuals' desire to align their location with their social preferences. The social preference studied in the paper is distaste for relative deprivation, ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2019, 59 (5), 883 - 909)
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C62, C63, R12, R13, Z13
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12330
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Guillermo
Alves
Pablo
Blanchard
Gabriel
Burdin
Mariana
Chávez
Andres
Dean
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The Economic Preferences of Cooperative Managers
A growing body of research has been investigating the role of management practices and managerial behaviour in conventional private firms and public sector organizations. However, little is known ...
(revised version published as 'Like principal, like agent? Managerial preferences in employee-owned firms' in: Journal of Institutional Economics, 2022, 18 (6), 877 - 899)
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C90, D81, J54
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12328
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Kati
Kraehnert
Tilman
Brück
Michele
Di Maio
Roberto
Nistico
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The Effects of Conflict on Fertility: Evidence from the Genocide in Rwanda
This paper analyzes the fertility effects of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. We study the effects of violence on both the hazard of having a child in the early post-genocide period and on the total ...
(published in: Demography, 2019, 56 (3), 935 - 968. )
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J13, N47, O12
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12327
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Michele
Cantarella
Chiara
Strozzi
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Workers in the Crowd: The Labour Market Impact of the Online Platform Economy
In this paper, we compare wages and labor market conditions of individuals engaged in online platform work and in traditional occupations by exploiting individual-level survey data on crowdworkers ...
(revised and updated version published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2021, 30 (6), 1429 - 1458)
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J31, J42, F66
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12326
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Milena
Nikolova
Olga
Popova
Vladimir
Otrachshenko
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Stalin and the Origins of Mistrust
We show that current differences in trust levels within former Soviet Union countries can be traced back to the system of forced prison labor during Stalin's rule, which was marked by high ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 208, 104629)
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D02, H10, N94, Z13
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12325
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Diego
Ubfal
Irani
Arraiz
Diether
Beuermann
Michael
Frese
Alessandro
Maffioli
Daniel
Verch
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The Impact of Soft-Skills Training for Entrepreneurs in Jamaica
A randomized control trial with 945 entrepreneurs in Jamaica shows positive shortterm impacts of soft-skills training on business outcomes. The effects are concentrated among men, and disappear ...
(published in: World Development, 2022, 152, 105787)
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J24, L25, M13, O12
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12324
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Pavel
Jelnov
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What Remains after the Oil Boom Is Over?
This paper links between Beckerian literature that shows that marriage is a normal good with respect to male income and the literature that explores cultural changes as a result of exogenous events. ...
(published in: Economics Bulletin, 2019, 39 (2), 1327-1335)
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J12
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12323
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Marcus
Eliason
Lena
Hensvik
Francis
Kramarz
Oskar
Nordström Skans
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Social Connections and the Sorting of Workers to Firms
The literature on social networks often presumes that job search through (strong) social ties leads to increased inequality by providing privileged individuals with access to more attractive labor ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2023, 233 (2), 468 - 506)
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J60, J30, J23
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12322
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Tony
Fang
Byron
Lee
Andrew
R.
Timming
Di
Fan
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The Effects of Work-Life Benefits on Employment Outcomes in Canada: A Multivariate Analysis
Using the longitudinal Workplace and Employee Survey of Canada, we examine the association between the provision of work-life benefits and various employment outcomes in the Canadian labour market. ...
(published in: Relations industrielles/Industrial Relations, 2019, 74(2), 323-351.)
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J32, J33, J38
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12321
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Herwig
Immervoll
Daniele
Pacifico
Marieke
Vandeweyer
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Faces of Joblessness in Australia: An Anatomy of Employment Barriers Using Household Data
Australia's economy and labour market have escaped a dramatic downturn following the global financial economic crisis. Yet, a substantial share of working-age Australians either were not working or ...
(elements published in Connecting People with Jobs: Australia)
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C38, H31, J2, J6, J8
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12320
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Joshua
Graff Zivin
Lisa
B.
Kahn
Matthew
Neidell
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Incentivizing Learning-By-Doing: The Role of Compensation Schemes
In this paper, we examine the impact of pay-for-performance incentives on learning-by-doing. We exploit personnel data on fruit pickers paid under two distinct compensation contracts: a standard ...
(published in: S. W. Polachek, K. Tatsiramos, G. Russo, G. van Houten (eds.): Workplace Productivity and Management Practices, Research in Labor Economics 49, 2021, 139 - 178)
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J33, J43
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12319
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Harry
J.
Holzer
Zeyu
Xu
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Community College Pathways for Disadvantaged Students
In this paper we estimate the impacts of the "pathways" chosen by community college students - in terms of desired credentials and fields of study, as well as other choices and outcomes along the ...
(published in: Community College Review, 2021, 49 (4), 351 - 388)
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I2
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12318
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Rafat
Mahmood
Michael
Jetter
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Military Intervention via Drone Strikes
We study the 420 US drone strikes in Pakistan from 2006-2016, isolating causal effects on terrorism, anti-US sentiment, and radicalization via an instrumental variable strategy based on wind. Drone ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (650), 787-811)
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C26, D74, F51, F52, H56, O53
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12316
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Mathias
Huebener
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Life Expectancy and Parental Education
This study analyses the relationship between life expectancy and parental education. It extends the previous literature that focused mostly on the relationship between individuals' own education and ...
(published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2019, Vol. 232, 351-365)
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I12, I14, I26
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12314
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Angela
Cools
Raquel
Fernández
Eleonora
Patacchini
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Girls, Boys, and High Achievers
This paper studies the effect of exposure to female and male "high-achievers" in high school on the long-run educational outcomes of their peers. Using data from a recent cohort of students in the ...
(published as 'The asymmetric gender effects of high flyers' in: Labour Economics, 2022, 79, 102287)
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I21, J16
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12313
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Xin
Zhang
Xi
Chen
Xiaobo
Zhang
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The Effects of Exposure to Air Pollution on Subjective Well-being in China
This paper studies the impact of six main air pollutants on three key dimensions of subjective well-being (SWB) – life satisfaction, hedonic happiness and mental health. We match a nationally ...
(longer version published in: D.Maddison, K. Rehdanz, H. Welsch (eds.): Handbook on Well-being, Happiness, and the Environment, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020)
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I31, Q51, Q53
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12312
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Hasan
Bilgehan
Yavuz
Francesco
Pastore
Ömer
Tuğsal
Doruk
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Intergenerational Mobility: An Assessment for Latin American Countries
This paper aims to study the process of intergenerational income mobility in some Latin American economies (Panama and Brazil), which have been much neglected in the existing literature. Like other ...
(published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2022, 60 (1), 141-157)
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J62, J60, D3, D6
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12310
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Richard
Blundell
David
Goll
Monica
Costa Dias
Costas
Meghir
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Wages, Experience and Training of Women over the Lifecycle
We investigate the role of training in reducing the gender wage gap using the UK-BHPS which contains detailed records of training. Using policy changes over an 18 year period we identify the impact ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (S1), S275–S315)
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J22, J24, J31
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12309
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Werner
Eichhorst
Paul
Marx
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How Stable Is Labour Market Dualism? Reforms of Employment Protection in Nine European Countries
Labour market segmentation currently is at the forefront of national and European policy debates. While the European Commission and the OECD try to promote what they see as more inclusive policies, ...
(published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2021, 27 (1), 93-110)
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J41, J42, J65
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12308
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Sascha
O.
Becker
Ana
Fernandes
Doris
Weichselbaumer
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Discrimination in Hiring Based on Potential and Realized Fertility: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment
Due to conventional gender norms, women are more likely to be in charge of childcare than men. From an employer's perspective, in their fertile age they are also at "risk" of pregnancy. Both factors ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 59, 139–152)
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C93, J16, J71
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12307
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Simon
Briole
Eric
Maurin
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Does Evaluating Teachers Make a Difference?
In France, secondary school teachers are evaluated every six or seven years by senior experts of the Ministry of education. These external evaluations mostly involve the supervision of one class ...
(published as 'There's always room for improvement: the persistent benefits of a large-scale teacher evaluation system' in : Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (4), 1150 - 1179)
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I20, I28, J24
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12306
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Laura
Hospido
Luc
Laeven
Ana
Lamo
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The Gender Promotion Gap: Evidence from Central Banking
We examine gender differences in career progression and promotions in central banking, a stereotypical male-dominated occupation, using confidential anonymized personnel data from the European ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104 (5), 981 - 996)
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J16, J31, J41, J63
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12305
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Sebastian
Butschek
Jan
Sauermann
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The Effect of Employment Protection on Firms' Worker Selection
To estimate the causal effect of employment protection on firms' worker selection, we study a policy change that reduced dismissal costs for the employers of over a tenth of Sweden's workforce. Our ...
(published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 09 May 2022)
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M51, D22, J24, J38
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12304
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Octave
De Brouwer
Elisabeth
Leduc
Ilan
Tojerow
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The Unexpected Consequences of Job Search Monitoring: Disability Instead of Employment?
This paper investigates how the implementation of Job Search Monitoring (JSM) programs over the last two decades could have impacted the rise of disability rates in OECD countries. To do so, we use ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 224, 104929)
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I13, J64
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12303
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Douglas
L.
Kruse
Joseph
Blasi
Dan
Weltmann
Saehee
Kang
Jung
Ook
Kim
William
Castellano
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Do Employee Share Owners Face Too Much Financial Risk?
A major theoretical objection against employee ownership is that workers become inadequately diversified and exposed to excessive financial risk. Recent theory concludes that 10-15% of a worker's ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2022, 75 (3), 716 - 740)
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J32, J33, J54, D31, P13
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12302
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Marco
Colagrossi
Beatrice
d'Hombres
Sylke
V.
Schnepf
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Like (Grand)Parent, like Child? Multigenerational Mobility across the EU
This study shows that the intergenerational transmission of inequality in most of the 28 EU countries is higher than what a parent-to-child paradigm would suggest. While a strand of the literature ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 130, 103600)
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J62, I24
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12301
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Irene
Mosca
Robert
E.
Wright
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The Long-Term Consequences of the Irish Marriage Bar
A Marriage Bar is the requirement that women in certain jobs must leave that job when they marry. Ireland had a Marriage Bar in place until the 1970s. In 2014/2015, women participating in the The ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2020, 51 (1), 1-34)
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J71, J78, J24
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12300
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Adrian
Adermon
Mikael
Lindahl
Mĺrten
Palme
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Dynastic Human Capital, Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility
We study the importance of the extended family – the dynasty – for the persistence in inequality across generations. We use data including the entire Swedish population, linking four generations. ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2021, 111 (5), 1523-48)
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I24, J62
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12298
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M.
Paula
Cacault
Christian
Hildebrand
Jérémy
Laurent-Lucchetti
Michele
Pellizzari
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Distance Learning in Higher Education: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Using a randomized experiment in a public Swiss university, we study the impact of online live streaming of lectures on student achievement and attendance. We find that (i) students use the live ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19 (4), 2322 - 2372)
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I20, I21, I23, I26
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12297
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Ramiro
de Elejalde
Eugenio
Giolito
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More Hospital Choices, More C-Sections: Evidence from Chile
In this paper, we study the effect on cesarean rates of a policy change in Chile that decreased the cost of delivery at private hospitals for women with public health insurance. Using a ...
(revised version published as "A demand-smoothing incentive for cesarean deliveries" in: Journal of Health Economics 2021, 75, 102411)
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I11, I13, I18
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12296
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Olivier
Deschenes
Huixia
Wang
Si
Wang
Peng
Zhang
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The Effect of Air Pollution on Body Weight and Obesity: Evidence from China
We provide the first study estimating the causal effect of air pollution on body weight. Using the China Health and Nutrition Survey, which provides detailed longitudinal health and socioeconomic ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 145, 102461)
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I12, I15, Q53
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12295
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Christina
A.
Houseworth
Barry
R.
Chiswick
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Divorce among European and Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.
This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data ...
(published in: Review of the Economics of the Household, 2020, 18, 1-25)
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J12, J15, J16, J24
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12294
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Etienne
Lalé
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Search and Multiple Jobholding
A search-theoretic model of the labor market with idiosyncratic fluctuations in hours worked, search both off- and on-the-job, and multiple jobholding is developed. Taking on a second job entails a ...
(published in: Economic Theory, 2025, 80, 891-939.)
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E24, J21, J62
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12293
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Daron
Acemoglu
Pascual
Restrepo
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Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor
We present a framework for understanding the effects of automation and other types of technological changes on labor demand, and use it to interpret changes in US employment over the recent past. At ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2019, 33 (2), 3 - 30)
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J23, J24
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12292
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Daron
Acemoglu
Pascual
Restrepo
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The Wrong Kind of AI? Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Labor Demand
Artificial Intelligence is set to influence every aspect of our lives, not least the way production is organized. AI, as a technology platform, can automate tasks previously performed by labor or ...
(published in: Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2020, 13 (1), 25 - 35)
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J23, J24
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12291
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Egidio
Farina
Colin
P.
Green
Duncan
McVicar
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Zero Hours Contracts and Their Growth
This paper studies the prevalence and nature of zero-hours contracts (ZHCs) in the UK labour market. The headline count of ZHC workers based on the Labour Force Survey has long underestimated and ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 58(3), 507-531)
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J21, J48, M55
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12290
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Lu
Jinks
Thomas
J.
Kniesner
John
D.
Leeth
Anthony
T.
Lo Sasso
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Opting out of Workers' Compensation: Non-Subscription in Texas and Its Effects
Texas is the only state that does not mandate that employers carry workers' compensation insurance (WC) coverage. We employ a quasi-experimental design paired with a novel machine learning approach ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2020, 60(1), 53-76)
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C54, C55, I13, J32, J38
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12288
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Diane
Coffey
Dean
Spears
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Neonatal Death in India: Birth Order in a Context of Maternal Undernutrition
We document a novel fact about neonatal death, or death in the first month of life. Globally, neonatal mortality is disproportionately concentrated in India. We identify a large effect of birth order ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (638), 2478 - 2507)
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O15, I15
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12287
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Aurelie
Dariel
Arno
Riedl
Simon
Siegenthaler
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Hiring through Referrals in a Labor Market with Adverse Selection
Information asymmetries can prevent markets from operating efficiently. An important example is the labor market, where employers face uncertainty about the productivity of job candidates. We examine ...
(published as 'Referral hiring and wage formation in a market with adverse selection' in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2021, 130, 109 - 130)
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C92, D82, D85, E20
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12984Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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