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12306 Laura Hospido
Luc Laeven
Ana Lamo
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)
J16, J31, J41, J63
12305 Sebastian Butschek
Jan Sauermann
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)
M51, D22, J24, J38
12304 Octave De Brouwer
Elisabeth Leduc
Ilan Tojerow
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)
I13, J64
12303 Douglas L. Kruse
Joseph Blasi
Dan Weltmann
Saehee Kang
Jung Ook Kim
William Castellano
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)
J32, J33, J54, D31, P13
12302 Marco Colagrossi
Beatrice d'Hombres
Sylke V. Schnepf
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)
J62, I24
12301 Irene Mosca
Robert E. Wright
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)
J71, J78, J24
12300 Adrian Adermon
Mikael Lindahl
Mårten Palme
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)
I24, J62
12298 M. Paula Cacault
Christian Hildebrand
Jérémy Laurent-Lucchetti
Michele Pellizzari
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)
I20, I21, I23, I26
12297 Ramiro de Elejalde
Eugenio Giolito
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)
I11, I13, I18
12296 Olivier Deschenes
Huixia Wang
Si Wang
Peng Zhang
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)
I12, I15, Q53
12295 Christina A. Houseworth
Barry R. Chiswick
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)
J12, J15, J16, J24
12294 Etienne Lalé
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.)
E24, J21, J62
12293 Daron Acemoglu
Pascual Restrepo
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)
J23, J24
12292 Daron Acemoglu
Pascual Restrepo
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)
J23, J24
12291 Egidio Farina
Colin P. Green
Duncan McVicar
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)
J21, J48, M55
12290 Lu Jinks
Thomas J. Kniesner
John D. Leeth
Anthony T. Lo Sasso
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)
C54, C55, I13, J32, J38
12288 Diane Coffey
Dean Spears
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)
O15, I15
12287 Aurelie Dariel
Arno Riedl
Simon Siegenthaler
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)
C92, D82, D85, E20
12286 Marcelo Bergolo
Gabriel Burdin
Mauricio De Rosa
Matias Giaccobasso
Martin Leites
Tax Bunching at the Kink in the Presence of Low Capacity of Enforcement: Evidence from Uruguay
By using a bunching design on rich administrative tax records from Uruguay's tax agency we explore how individual taxpayers respond to personal income taxation in a context with high sheltering ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (639), 2726 - 2762. )
H21, H24, H30, J22
12285 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Sarah C. Dahmann
Nathan Kettlewell
Depression, Risk Preferences and Risk-Taking Behavior
Depression affects the way that people process information and make decisions, including those involving risk and uncertainty. Our objective is to analyze the way that depressive episodes shape risk ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (5) 1566-160)
D91, I12, D14
12284 Maximilian Sprengholz
Anna Wieber
Elke Holst
Gender Identity and Wives' Labor Market Outcomes in West and East Germany between 1984 and 2016
We exploit the natural experiment of German reunification in 1990 to investigate if the institutional regimes of the formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather ...
(published in: Socio-Economic Review (SER), 2020, 18 (3), 1-23 )
J16, J12, D10
12283 Oded Stark
Wiktor Budzinski
Repercussions of Negatively Selective Migration for the Behavior of Nonmigrants When Preferences Are Social
We study how the work effort and output of non-migrants in a village economy are affected when a member of the village population migrates. Given that individuals dislike low relative income, and ...
(published in: JODE - Journal of Demographic Economics, 2019, 85 (2), 165-179 )
D01, D31, J24, O15
12280 Thomas J. Kniesner
Behavioral Economics and the Value of a Statistical Life
There are many possible connections between VSL and behavioral economics. A list of topics includes endowment effects, risk salience, ambiguity aversion, present bias, reference groups, reference ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2019, 58(2-3), 207-217 )
D61, D91, J17, J31
12279 Tito Boeri
Andrea Ichino
Enrico Moretti
Johanna Posch
Wage Equalization and Regional Misallocation: Evidence from Italian and German Provinces
In many European countries, wages are determined by collective bargaining agreements intended to improve wages and reduce inequality. We study the local and aggregate effects of collective bargaining ...
(published in: Journal of the European Association, 2021,19 (6), 3249 - 3292)
J20
12278 Wolfgang Dauth
Sebastian Findeisen
Enrico Moretti
Jens Suedekum
Matching in Cities
In most countries, average wages tend to be higher in larger cities. In this paper, we focus on the role played by the matching of workers to firms in explaining geographical wage differences. Using ...
(published in: Journal of the Europen Economic Association, 2022, 20 (4), 1478 - 1521)
J20
12277 Richard Hornbeck
Enrico Moretti
Estimating Who Benefits from Productivity Growth: Direct and Indirect Effects of City Manufacturing TFP Growth on Wages, Rents, and Inequality
We estimate direct and indirect effects of total factor productivity growth in manufacturing on US workers' earnings, housing costs, and purchasing power. Drawing on four alternative instrumental ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024,106 (3), 587 - 607)
J20
12276 David Berger
Kyle Herkenhoff
Simon Mongey
Labor Market Power
What are the welfare implications of labor market power? We provide an answer to this question in two steps: (1) we develop a tractable quantitative, general equilibrium, oligopsony model of the ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2022, 112 (4), 1147 - 1193)
E2, J2, J42
12275 Petri Böckerman
Mika Kortelainen
Liisa Laine
Mikko Nurminen
Tanja Saxell
Digital Waste? Unintended Consequences of Health Information Technology
We exploit a large-scale natural experiment – the rollout of a nationwide electronic prescribing system in Finland – to study how digitization of prescriptions affects pharmaceutical use and health ...
(published as 'Information Technology, Improved Access, and Use of Prescription Drugs' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2025, 23 (1), 396 - 430)
H51, H75, I12, I18
12273 Paolo Acciari
Alberto Polo
Giovanni L. Violante
'And Yet, It Moves': Intergenerational Mobility in Italy
We link administrative data on tax returns across two generations of Italians to study the degree of intergenerational mobility. We estimate that a child with parental income below the median is ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022, 14 (3), 118 - 163)
J31, J61, J62, R1
12272 Krzysztof Makarski
Joanna Tyrowicz
Magda Malec
Evaluating Welfare and Economic Effects of Raised Fertility
Many countries consider rising fertility through pro-family policies as a solution to the fiscal pressure stemming from longevity. However, an increased number of births implies immediate private ...
(published as 'Fiscal and Welfare Effects of Raised Fertility in Poland: Overlapping Generations Model Estimates' in: Population and Development Review, 2019, 45 (4), 795 - 818)
H55, E17, C60 C68, E21, D63
12271 Gizem Koşar
Tyler Ransom
Wilbert van der Klaauw
Understanding Migration Aversion Using Elicited Counterfactual Choice Probabilities
Residential mobility rates in the U.S. have fallen considerably over the past three decades. The cause of the long-term decline remains largely unexplained. In this paper we investigate the relative ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2022, 231 (1), 123-147)
J61, R23, D84
12270 Albrecht Glitz
Rune Majlund Vejlin
Learning through Coworker Referrals
In this paper, we study the role of coworker referrals for labor market outcomes. Using comprehensive Danish administrative data covering the period 1980 to 2005, we first document a strong tendency ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2021, 42, 37-71)
J31, J63, J64
12268 William G. Morrison
Robert J. Oxoby
Asset Integration, Risk Taking and Loss Aversion in the Laboratory
We report on a laboratory experiment testing for the presence of loss aversion, as separate from risk aversion, utilizing an asset integration protocol designed to ensure that a loss of cash provided ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2022, 55 (3), 1460 - 1479)
C91, D81
12267 Anastasia Danilov
Bernd Irlenbusch
Christine Harbring
Helping under a Combination of Team and Tournament Incentives
We study how help can be fostered by means of a team bonus in the presence of rank-order tournaments. In a simple model we combine elements of relative rewards and a team bonus and study their effect ...
(published in: in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 2019, 162, 120-135)
M52, J33, J41, L23, C72, C91
12266 Bruce D. Meyer
Nikolas Mittag
Combining Administrative and Survey Data to Improve Income Measurement
We describe methods of combining administrative and survey data to improve the measurement of income. We begin by decomposing the total survey error in the mean of survey reports of dollars received ...
(published in: A. Y. Chun, M. Larson, J. Reiter and G. Durrant (eds.), Administrative Records for Survey Methodology, Wiley, 2021, 297 - 322)
C18, C81, C83, D31, I32
12265 Patrick Button
Population Aging, Age Discrimination, and Age Discrimination Protections at the 50th Anniversary of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act
This paper discusses population aging, increased participation of seniors in the labor force in the United States (and reasons for this), and how these trends are making the struggles of older ...
(published in: Czaja, S. J.; Sharit, J. and J. James (eds.), Current and Emerging Trends in Aging and Work, Springer: New York, 2020)
J71, J78, J14, K31, J16, J26
12264 Anders Frederiksen
Colleen Flaherty Manchester
Responding to Regulation: The Effects of Changes in Mandatory Retirement Laws on Firm-Provided Incentives
The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1978 expanded employee age protections to age 70, making the widespread practice by U.S. firms of mandating retirement at age 65 illegal. Building on the ...
(published as 'Personnel Practices and Regulation: How Firm-Provided Incentives Respond to Changes in Mandatory Retirement Law' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (4), 1011-1042 )
M51, M52
12263 Jeffrey R. Brown
Arie Kapteyn
Erzo F.P. Luttmer
Olivia S. Mitchell
Anya Samek
Behavioral Impediments to Valuing Annuities: Complexity and Choice Bracketing
This paper examines two behavioral factors that diminish people's ability to value a life-time income stream or annuity, drawing on a survey of about 4,000 adults in a U.S. nationally representative ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 103 (3), 533–546.)
D14, D91, G11, H55
12262 Tony Fang
Derek Messacar
Voluntary Job Separations and Traditional versus Flexible Workplace Saving Plans: Evidence from Canada
This paper provides new insights into the longstanding empirical issue of whether the type of workplace saving plan (a "traditional" registered pension plan or RPP, a "flexible" group registered ...
(published in: Canadian Public Policy, 2019, 45 (2), 239-261.)
J26, J32, J63
12261 Marco Caliendo
Stefan Tübbicke
New Evidence on Long-Term Effects of Start-Up Subsidies: Matching Estimates and Their Robustness
The German start-up subsidy (SUS) program for the unemployed has recently undergone a major make-over, altering its institutional setup, adding an additional layer of selection and leading to ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 59 (4), 1605-1631)
J68, H43, C14, C26, L26
12260 Brigitte Hochmuth
Britta Kohlbrecher
Christian Merkl
Hermann Gartner
Hartz IV and the Decline of German Unemployment: A Macroeconomic Evaluation
This paper proposes a new approach to evaluate the macroeconomic effects of the Hartz IV reform in Germany, which reduced the generosity of long-term unemployment benefits. We use a model with ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 127, 2021, 104114)
E24, E00, E60
12257 Oliver Krebs
Michael P. Pflüger
On the Road (Again): Commuting and Local Employment Elasticities in Germany
This paper uses the quantitative spatial model with heterogeneous locations linked by costly goods trade, migration and commuting developed in Monte et al. (2018) to address the workings of local ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics 2023, 99, 103874)
F12, F14, R13, R23
12255 Michael Nesbitt
Robert J. Oxoby
Meagan Potier
An Empirical and Qualitative Assessment of Terrorism Sentencing Decisions in Canada since 2001: Shifting Away from the Fundamental Principle and Towards Cognitive Biases
In this paper, we take a comprehensive and multidisciplinary look at terrorism sentencing decisions over a 17-year period, between September 2001 when the ATA was first conceived of and September ...
(published as 'Terrorism Sentencing Decisions in Canada Since 2001: Shifting away from the Fundamental Principle and towards Cognitive Biases' in: UBC Law Review, 2019, 52 (2), Article 5)
K14, K15
12254 Artjoms Ivlevs
Roswitha M. King
To Europe or Not to Europe? Migration and Public Support for Joining the European Union in the Western Balkans
For decades, countries aspiring to join the European Union (EU) have been linked to it through migration. Yet little is known about how migration affects individual support for joining the EU in ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2020, 54(2), 559–584)
F22, F24, J61, O52
12251 Varun Gauri
Julian C. Jamison
Nina Mazar
Owen Ozier
Motivating Bureaucrats through Social Recognition: External Validity — A Tale of Two States
Bureaucratic performance is a crucial determinant of economic growth, but little real-world evidence exists on how to improve it, especially in resource-constrained settings. We conducted a field ...
(published in: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2021, 163, 117-131)
C93, D73, D91, I18, L38, O35
12250 Luigino Bruni
Vittorio Pelligra
Tommaso G. Reggiani
Matteo Rizzolli
The Pied Piper: Prizes, Incentives, and Motivation Crowding-In
In mainstream business and economics, prizes such as the Presidential Medal of Freedom are understood as special types of incentives, with the peculiar features of being awarded in public, and of ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Business Ethics, 2020, 166(3), 643-658 )
B1, D03, J33
12249 Elisabeth Grewenig
Philipp Lergetporer
Katharina Werner
Ludger Woessmann
Do Party Positions Affect the Public's Policy Preferences?
The standard assumption of exogenous policy preferences implies that parties set their positions according to their voters' preferences. We investigate the reverse effect: Are the electorates' policy ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 179, 523-543)
D72, D83, H52, J13, I28, P16
12248 Xiahai Wei
Tony Fang
Yang Jiao
Jiahui Li
Language Premium Myth or Fact: Evidence from Migrant Workers of Guangdong, China
Using unique matched employer-employee data from China, we discover that migrant workers in the manufacturing industry who are proficient in the local dialect earn lower wages than those who are not. ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2019, 40, 356–386.)
J32, J61, R23
12246 Ying Ge
Tony Fang
Yeheng Jiang
Access to Imported Intermediates and Intra-Firm Wage Inequality
We use Chinese firm-level data from the World Bank Investment Climate Survey to examine the link between importing intermediates and intra-firm wage inequality. Our results show that intermediate ...
(published in: World Economy, 2019, 42 (8), 2364-2384.)
F16, F63, F66
12244 Giam Pietro Cipriani
Tamara Fioroni
Endogenous Demographic Change, Retirement and Social Security
In this paper, we analyse the effects of demographic change on a PAYG pension system, financed with a defined contribution scheme. In particular we examine the relationship between retirement, ...
(published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2021, 25 (3), 609-631)
J13, H2, H8, H55
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