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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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12059
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Armin
Falk
Johannes
Hermle
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Relationship of Gender Differences in Preferences to Economic Development and Gender Equality
Preferences - concerning time, risk and social interactions - systematically shape human behavior, and contribute to differential economic and social outcomes between the genders. Here, we present a ...
(published in: Science, 2018, 362 (6412) (data available here: https://gps.iza.org/home))
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C91, D91, D63, D64
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12058
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Charlotte
Saucet
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Motivated Memory in Dictator Games
The memory people have of their past behavior is one of the main sources of information about themselves. To study whether people retrieve their memory self-servingly in social encounters, we ...
(revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2019, 117, 250-275)
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C91, D91, D63, D64
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12057
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Guido
de Blasio
Maria
De Paola
Samuele
Poy
Vincenzo
Scoppa
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Risk Aversion and Entrepreneurship: New Evidence Exploiting Exposure to Massive Earthquakes in Italy
This paper investigates the impact of risk attitudes on the decision to become an entrepreneur. In contrast to previous research, we handle endogeneity issues relying on an instrumental variables ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 57, 295-322)
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D81, D91, L26, C36
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12056
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Daniel
Velásquez
Santiago
Medina
Gustavo
Yamada
Pablo
Lavado
Miguel
Núñez
Hugo
Alatrista
Juandiego
Morzan
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I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The Effect of Crime News Coverage on Crime Perception and Trust
Crime perception has increased in Peru in recent years, as in other developing and developed countries, in spite of the reduction in crime victimization figures. Our hypothesis is that the news ...
(published in: World Development, 2020, 136, 105111)
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D83, D84, L82
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12055
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Niels-Hugo
Blunch
David
C.
Ribar
Mark
Western
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Under Pressure? Assessing the Roles of Skills and Other Personal Resources for Work-Life Strains
Many working parents struggle to balance the demands of their jobs and family roles. Although we might expect that additional resources would ease work-family constraints, theory and evidence ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2020, 18 (3), 883-906)
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I1, I31, J24, J81
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12054
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Kristian Hedeager
Bentsen
Jakob
R.
Munch
Georg
Schaur
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Education Spillovers within the Workplace
Education policies depend in part on the presence of externalities, but very little evidence exists to confirm the existence of such externalities. In this paper we investigate if there are spillover ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2019, 175, 57-59)
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E20, J24, I26
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12053
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Michael
Bahrs
Thomas
Siedler
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University Tuition Fees and High School Students' Educational Intentions
This paper studies whether higher education tuition fees influence the intention to acquire a university degree among high school students and, if so, whether the effect on individuals from ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2019, 40 (2), 117-147)
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I22, I23, I24
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12051
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John
V.
Winters
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In-State College Enrollment and Later Life Location Decisions
State and local policymakers are very interested in how attending college in one's home state affects the likelihood of living in that state after college. This paper uses cohort-level data from the ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2020, 55 (4), 1400-1426)
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H75, I25, J24, R23
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12050
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Ege
Aksu
Refik
Erzan
Murat
Güray
Kirdar
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The Impact of Mass Migration of Syrians on the Turkish Labor Market
We estimate the effects of the arrival of 2.5 million Syrian migrants in Turkey by the end of 2015 on the labor market outcomes of natives, using a difference-in-differences IV methodology. We show ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 76, 102183)
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J21, J31, J61, C26
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12049
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Esther
Arenas-Arroyo
Almudena
Sevilla
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Labor Market Impacts of States Issuing of Driving Licenses to Undocumented Immigrants
Twelve U.S. states, plus the District of Columbia, have recently enacted measures granting undocumented immigrants access to driving licenses. We exploit the state and temporal variation in the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 63,101805)
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I38, J15, J22, K37
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12048
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Esther Mirjam
Girsberger
Romuald
Meango
Hillel
Rapoport
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Regional Migration and Wage Inequality in the West African Economic and Monetary Union
We investigate the impact of regional migration on average wages and on wage inequality in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA). We exploit unique data from a unified labour force ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2020, 48 (2), 385-404)
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F22, J61, O15
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12046
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James
J.
Heckman
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The Race between Demand and Supply: Tinbergen's Pioneering Studies of Earnings Inequality
Understanding inequality and devising policies to alleviate it was a central focus of Jan Tinbergen's lifetime research. He was far ahead of his time in many aspects of his work. This essay places ...
(published in: De economist, 2019, 167, 243–258)
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B31, D31, D33, D63, I24, J20, P21
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12043
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Marco
Caliendo
Carsten
Schröder
Linda
Wittbrodt
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The Causal Effects of the Minimum Wage Introduction in Germany: An Overview
In 2015, Germany introduced a statutory hourly minimum wage that was not only universally binding but also set at a relatively high level. We discuss the short-run effects of this new minimum wage on ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2019, 20 (3), 257-292)
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J22, J23, J31, J38
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12042
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Olga
Demidova
Alena
Kolyagina
Francesco
Pastore
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Marshallian vs Jacobs Effects: Which One Is Stronger? Evidence for Russia Unemployment Dynamics
This paper is devoted to the study of diversification and specialization influence on one of the main indicators of Russian labour market, the unemployment growth. The purpose of the work is to find ...
(published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2020, 55, 244-258.)
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J64, L16, L25, L52, R23
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12041
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Tymon
Sloczynski
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Average Gaps and Oaxaca's Blinder Decompositions: A Cautionary Tale about Regression Estimates of Racial Differences in Labor Market Outcomes
In this paper I demonstrate, both theoretically and empirically, that the interpretation of regression estimates of between-group differences in economic outcomes depends on the relative sizes of ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2020, 73 3), 705–729)
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C21, I24, J15, J31, J71
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12039
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Michael
C.
Knaus
Michael
Lechner
Anthony
Strittmatter
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Machine Learning Estimation of Heterogeneous Causal Effects: Empirical Monte Carlo Evidence
We investigate the finite sample performance of causal machine learning estimators for heterogeneous causal effects at different aggregation levels. We employ an Empirical Monte Carlo Study that ...
(published in: Econometrics Journal, 2021, 24 (1), 134-161)
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C21
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12038
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Bruce
D.
Meyer
Nikolas
Mittag
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Misreporting of Government Transfers: How Important Are Survey Design and Geography?
Recent studies linking household surveys to administrative records reveal high rates of misreporting of program receipt. We use the FoodAPS survey to examine whether the findings of these studies of ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2019, 86 (1), 230-253)
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C81, D31, I32, I38
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12036
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Alessio
Muscillo
Paolo
Pin
Tiziano
Razzolini
Francesco
Serti
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Does "Network Closure" Beef up Import Premium?
We investigate whether network closure in the supply chain can explain the heterogeneity observed in import premia. Using unique panel data on trade flows among beef farms in the Italian region of ...
(substantially revised version published in: Social Networks, 2023, 73, 89-103.)
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D22, D85, F10, F14, L14, O13
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12035
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David
Audretsch
Marian
Hafenstein
Alexander
S.
Kritikos
Alexander
Schiersch
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Firm Size and Innovation in the Service Sector
A rich literature links knowledge inputs with innovative outputs. However, most of what is known is restricted to manufacturing. This paper analyzes whether the three aspects involving innovative ...
(published as 'Microfirms and innovation in the service sector' in: Small Business Economics, 2020, 55 (4), 997-1018)
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L25, L60, L80, O31, O33
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12034
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Joshua S.
Gans
Andrew
Leigh
Martin
Schmalz
Adam
Triggs
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Inequality and Market Concentration, When Shareholding Is More Skewed Than Consumption
Economic theory suggests that monopoly prices hurt consumers but benefit shareholders. But in a world where individuals or households can be both consumers and shareholders, the impact of market ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2019, 35 (3), 550 - 563)
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D42, D43, D61, D63
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12033
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Sylke
V.
Schnepf
Beatrice
d'Hombres
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International Mobility of Students in Italy and the UK: Does It Pay off and for Whom?
International student mobility is the most recognised element of Erasmus+, a major EU policy. Not enough is known about the causal effect of studying abroad on labour market outcomes. This is because ...
(revised version published in: Higher Education 2021, 82, 1173-1194.)
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I23, I24. I26
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12032
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Jane
Falkingham
Corrado
Giulietti
Jackline
Wahba
Chuhong
Wang
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The Impact of Brexit on International Students' Return Intentions
This paper is the first attempt to study the causal impact of "Brexit", namely the UK's departure from the European Union (EU), on the post-graduation mobility decisions of EU students in the UK. We ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2021, 89 (2), 139-171.)
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J15, J61
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12030
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Herbert
Brücker
Albrecht
Glitz
Adrian
Lerche
Agnese
Romiti
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Occupational Recognition and Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes
In this paper, we analyze how the formal recognition of immigrants' foreign occupational qualifications affects their subsequent labor market outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on a novel ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (2), 497–525)
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J15, J24, J44, J61
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12028
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Chad
Sparber
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Substitution between Groups of Highly-Educated, Foreign-Born, H-1B Workers
Highly-educated foreign-born workers can secure legal US employment through the H-1B program. The annual cap on H-1B issuances varies across individuals' US educational experience, H-1B work history, ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, 101756)
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J61, F22
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12027
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David
Carroll
Jaai
Parasnis
Massimiliano
Tani
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Teaching, Gender and Labour Market Incentives
The concentration of women in the teaching profession is widely noted and generally attributed to gender differences in preferences and social roles. Further, gender segregation exists within this ...
(revised version published as 'Why do women become teachers while men don't?' in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2021, 21 (2), 793-823)
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I26, J16, J24, J31
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12026
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Iga
Magda
Ewa
Cukrowska-Torzewska
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Do Female Managers Help to Lower Within-Firm Gender Pay Gaps? Public Institutions vs. Private Enterprises
We analyze the link between the presence of female managers and the size of the firm-level gender pay gap, looking separately at the private and public sector. Using a large linked employer-employee ...
(published as 'Do Women Managers Lower Gender Pay Gaps? Evidence from Public and Private Firms' in: Feminist Economics, 2019, 25 (4), 185 - 210)
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J16, J31, J45
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12025
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Daniel
Fernández-Kranz
Jennifer
Louise
Roff
Hugette
Sun
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Can Reduced Child Support Make Joint Custody Bad for Children? The Role of Economic Incentives in U.S. Divorce Law on Child Outcomes
This paper examines the effect of economic incentives generated by U.S. divorce and custody law on a range of child health and human capital measures. State laws vary widely in the treatment of child ...
(published as 'Can economic incentives for joint custody harm children of divorced parents? Evidence from state variation in child support laws' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 189, 1 - 27)
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J12, J13, J22, I12, I29, K36
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12024
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Andriana
Bellou
Emanuela
Cardia
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Great Depression and the Rise of Female Employment: A New Hypothesis
The cohorts of women born at the turn of the 20th century increased markedly their participation in the labor market when older. These are the first cohorts who worked after their childbearing years. ...
(published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2021, 80, 101383)
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J21, N32, J01
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12022
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Peter
J.
Kuhn
Kailing
Shen
Shuo
Zhang
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Gender-Targeted Job Ads in the Recruitment Process: Evidence from China
We document how explicit employer requests for applicants of a particular gender enter the recruitment process on a Chinese job board. We find that 95 percent of callbacks to gendered jobs are of the ...
(published as 'Gender-Targeted Job Ads in the Recruitment Process: Facts from a Chinese Job Board in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 147, 201531.)
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J16, J63, J71
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12021
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Daniele
Checchi
Simona
Cicognani
Nevena
Kulic
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Gender Quotas or Girls' Networks? Evidence from an Italian Research Selection
This article investigates the role of the gender composition of selection committees and the role of connections in promoting women in research activities. Exploiting a newly collected data set on ...
(published in: Work Employment and Society 2019, 33 (3), 462-482)
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J70
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12020
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Daniel
Martinez
Oscar
A.
Mitnik
Edgar
Salgado
Lynn
Scholl
Patricia
Yanez-Pagans
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Connecting to Economic Opportunity? The Role of Public Transport in Promoting Women's Employment in Lima
Limited access to safe transportation is one of the greatest challenges to labor force participation faced by women in developing countries. This paper quantifies the causal impacts of improved urban ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, 2020, 3, 1-23 )
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J01, J16, O12, R40
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12017
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Holguer Xavier
Jara Tamayo
Prudence
Magejo
Miracle
Benhura
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Learning from the
Redistributive systems in Africa are still in their infancy but are constantly expanding in order to finance increasing public spending. This paper aims at characterizing the redistributive potential ...
(published as 'Income Distribution and the Potential of Redistributive Systems in Africa: A Decomposition Approach ' in: Journal of African Economies, 2022, 31 (4), 293 - 328)
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H23, H53, I32
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12016
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Indraneel
Dasgupta
Sarmistha
Pal
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Touch Thee Not: Group Conflict, Caste Power, and Untouchability in Rural India
We investigate the impact of community power on the practice of untouchability in rural India. We model two-dimensional simultaneous group conflict over social norms, wherein an upper and backward ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2021, 49 (2), 442-466)
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D72, D74, J71, J78, Z1
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12014
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Stephen
P.
Jenkins
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Perspectives on Poverty in Europe
I address four topics: how our capacities to monitor poverty in Europe have improved substantially over recent decades; how progress on EU poverty reduction has been disappointing and why this has ...
(published in: Italian Economic Journal, 2020, 6 (1), 129-155 )
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C81, D31, I32
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12013
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Raul
Ramos
Esteban
Sanromá
Hipólito
Simón
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Wage Differentials by Bargaining Regime in Spain (2002-2014): An Analysis Using Matched Employer-Employee Data
This research examines wage differentials associated to different collective bargaining regimes in Spain and their evolution over time based on matched employer-employee microdata. The primary ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Modeling, 2022, 44 (2), 375-395)
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J31, J51
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12012
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Wayne
A.
Grove
Michael
Jetter
Kerry
L.
Papps
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Career Lotto: Labor Supply in Winner-Take-All Markets
Are people prone to selecting occupations with highly skewed income distributions despite minuscule chances of success? Assembling a comprehensive pool of potential teenage entrants into professional ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 183, 362-376)
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J22, J24, J31, J44, L83
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12011
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Brecht
Neyt
Dieter
Verhaest
Stijn
Baert
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The Impact of Dual Apprenticeship Programs on Early Labour Market Outcomes: A Dynamic Approach
This study examines the impact of enrolling into dual apprenticeship programs in secondary education on six early employment outcomes. Our contribution to the literature is threefold. First, we ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 78, 102022)
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I21, I26, J21
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12010
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Ronald
Bachmann
Rahel
Felder
Marcus
Tamm
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Labour Market Participation and Atypical Employment over the Life Cycle: A Cohort Analysis for Germany
We use data from the adult cohort of the National Education Panel Study to analyse the changes in the employment histories of cohorts born after World War II and the role of atypical employment in ...
(published as 'Atypical employment over the life cycle ' in: Evidence-based HRM, 2020, 8 (2), 195-213)
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J21, J42, J81
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12009
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Peter
Brummund
Laura
Connolly
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Who Creates Stable Jobs? Evidence from Brazil
Recent research shows that start-ups are important for job creation, but these firms are also inherently volatile. We use linked employer-employee data to examine the relative importance of firm age ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 82 (3), 540 - 563)
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L25, J23, J63
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12008
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Gabriele
Cardullo
Maurizio
Conti
Giovanni
Sulis
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Unions, Two-Tier Bargaining and Physical Capital Investment: Theory and Firm-Level Evidence from Italy
In this paper we present a search and matching model in which firms invest in sunk capital equipment. By comparing two wage setting scenarios, we show that a two-tier bargaining scheme, where a ...
(revised version published as 'A Model of Unions, Two-Tier Bargaining and Capital Investment' in: Labour Economics, 2020, 67, 101936)
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J51, J64 E22
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12007
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Denis
Fougère
Rémy
Lecat
Simon
Ray
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Real Estate Prices and Corporate Investment: Theory and Evidence of Heterogeneous Effects across Firms
In this paper, we investigate the effect of real estate prices on productive investment. We build a simple theoretical framework of firms' investment with credit rationing and real estate collateral. ...
(published in: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2019, 51(6), 1503-1546)
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D22, G30, O52, R30
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12006
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Luca
Bittarello
Francis
Kramarz
Alexis
Maitre
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The Task Content of Occupations
This paper evaluates how an increase in the supply of skilled labor affects task assignment within and between occupations. Guided by a simple theoretical framework, we exploit detailed information ...
(published in: Revue économique, 2024, 75 (1), 31 - 54)
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J21, J24, J31
|
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12004
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Holger
Görg
Cecília
Hornok
Catia
Montagna
George
E.
Onwordi
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Employment to Output Elasticities & Reforms towards Flexicurity: Evidence from OECD Countries
How do labour market policies influence employment's responsiveness to output fluctuations (employment-output elasticity)? We revisit this question on a panel of OECD countries, which also ...
(published in: Bulletin of Economic Research, 2023, 75 (3), 641–670)
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E24, E32, J21, J65
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12002
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Raymond
Robertson
Timothy
J.
Halliday
Sindhu
Vasireddy
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Labor Market Adjustment to Third Party Competition: Evidence from Mexico
China's exports reduce wages in importing countries, but few studies have looked at competition in third party markets. We examine labor market outcomes in Mexico's apparel and textile sectors ...
(published in: World Economy, 2020, 43 (7), 1977 - 2006)
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F16, J31
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12000
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William
E.
Even
David
A.
Macpherson
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Where Does the Minimum Wage Bite Hardest in California?
This study uses employment data on California county-industry pairs (CIPs) between 1990 and 2016 to test whether minimum wage increases caused employment growth to slow most in the CIPS with a large ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2019, 40 (1), 1 - 23 )
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J23, J30, J38
|
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11999
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David
Neumark
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The Econometrics and Economics of the Employment Effects of Minimum Wages: Getting from Known Unknowns to Known Knowns
I discuss the econometrics and the economics of past research on the effects of minimum wages on employment in the United States. My intent is to try to identify key questions raised in the recent ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2019, 20 (3), 293 - 329)
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J23, J38
|
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11997
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
Jeff
E.
Biddle
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Taking Time Use Seriously: Income, Wages and Price Discrimination
The American Time Use Survey 2003-15, the French Enquête Emploi du Temps, 2009-10, and the German Zeitverwendungserhebung, 2012-13, have sufficient observations to allow examining the theory of ...
(published as 'Income, wages and household production theory' in: Economics Letters, 2020, 192, 109188)
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J22, J15
|
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11996
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Simon
Jäger
Benjamin
Schoefer
Samuel
Young
Josef
Zweimüller
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Wages and the Value of Nonemployment
Nonemployment is often posited as a worker's outside option in wage setting models such as bargaining and wage posting. The value of this state is therefore a fundamental determinant of wages and, in ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2020, 135 (4), 1905-1963.)
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J31, J60, J65
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11995
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Gilles
Saint-Paul
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Pareto-Improving Structural Reforms
Economists recommend to partly redistribute gains to losers from a structural reform, which in many cases may be required for making the reform politically viable. However, taxation is distortionary. ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2021. 194, 105262. )
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E64, H21, P11
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11993
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Younghwan
Song
Jia
Gao
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Does Telework Stress Employees Out? A Study on Working at Home and Subjective Well-Being for Wage/Salary Workers
Using data from the 2010, 2012, and 2013 American Time Use Survey Well-Being Modules, this paper examines how subjective well-being (SWB) varies between working at home and working in the workplace ...
(published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2020, 21, 2649-2668)
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J22, J28, D13
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