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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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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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11991
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Alison
L.
Booth
Xin
Meng
Elliott
Fan
Dandan
Zhang
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The Intergenerational Behavioural Consequences of a Socio-Political Upheaval
Social scientists have long been interested in the effects of social-political upheavals on a society subsequently. A priori, we would expect that, when traumas are brought about by outsiders, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 200, 931-958.)
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C91, N4
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11990
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Luca
Fumarco
Stijn
Baert
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Younger and Dissatisfied? Relative Age and Life-Satisfaction in Adolescence
This is the first study to investigate whether age gaps between classmates (that is, relative age) affect life-satisfaction gaps in adolescence. To this end, we analyse data from the multi-country ...
(revised version published as 'Younger, Dissatisfied, and Unhealthy? Relative Age and Life-satisfaction in Adolescence' (with additional coauthor: Francesco Sarracino) in: Economics & Human Biology, 2019, 168, 313 - 337)
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C26, I21, I31, Z13
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11989
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Xavier
D'Haultfoeuille
Christophe
Gaillac
Arnaud
Maurel
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Rationalizing Rational Expectations? Tests and Deviations
In this paper, we build a new test of rational expectations based on the marginal distributions of realizations and subjective beliefs. This test is widely applicable, including in the common ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2021, 12 (3), 817 - 842)
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C12, D15, D84
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11988
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Shan
Huang
Martin
Salm
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The Effect of a Ban on Gender-Based Pricing on Risk Selection in the German Health Insurance Market
Starting from December 2012, insurers in the European Union were prohibited from charging gender-discriminatory prices. We examine the effect of this unisex mandate on risk segmentation in the German ...
(revised version published in: Health Economics, 2020, 29, 3-17)
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I13, D82, H51
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11986
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Carl
Lin
Yana
van der Meulen Rodgers
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Parental Migration Decisions and Child Health Outcomes: Evidence from China
This study uses migrant household survey data from 2008 and 2009 to examine how parental migration decisions are associated with the nutritional status of children in rural and urban China. Results ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics (Health and Labor Markets), 2019, 47, 281-310)
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I10, J61
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11985
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James
Gordon
Chris
M.
Herbst
Erdal
Tekin
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Who's Minding the Kids? Experimental Evidence on the Demand for Child Care Quality
Despite the well-documented benefits of high-quality child care, many preschool-age children in the U.S. attend low-quality programs. Accordingly, improving the quality of child care is increasingly ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 80, 102076)
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I21, I28, J01, J23, J24
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11984
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Matias
Berthelon
Dante
Contreras
Diana
Kruger
María Isidora
Palma
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Violence during Early Childhood and Child Development
We study the effects of violence towards children on early childhood development. We contribute to the literature providing estimates of the effects of violence (verbal and/or physical) that control ...
(published as 'Harsh parenting during early childhood and child development' in: Economics & Human Biology, 2020, 36, 100831)
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O15, J12, J13, I31
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11983
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Luca
Pellerano
Eleonora
Porreca
Furio
C.
Rosati
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The Income Elasticity of Child Labour: Do Cash Transfers Have an Impact on the Poorest Children?
The possible non linearity of the income elasticity of child labour has been at the centre of the debate regarding both its causes and the policy instruments to address it. We contribute to this ...
(published in. IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2020, 11:11)
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H, C93, I28, J1, J24
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11981
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Alberto
Alesina
Michela
Carlana
Eliana
La Ferrara
Paolo
Pinotti
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Revealing Stereotypes: Evidence from Immigrants in Schools
If individuals become aware of their stereotypes, do they change their behavior? We study this question in the context of teachers' bias in grading immigrants and native children in middle schools. ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2024, 114 (7), 1915 - 1948)
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I24, J15
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11980
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Shushanik
Margaryan
Annemarie
Paul
Thomas
Siedler
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Does Education Affect Attitudes Towards Immigration? Evidence from Germany
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and exploiting the staggered implementation of a compulsory schooling reform in West Germany, this article finds that an additional year of schooling ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2021, 56 (2), 446-479)
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I26, J15, J62
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11979
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Graziella
Bertocchi
Marianna
Brunetti
Anzelika
Zaiceva
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The Financial Decisions of Immigrant and Native Households: Evidence from Italy
Using rich Italian data for the period 2006-2014, we document sizeable gaps between native and immigrant households with respect to wealth holdings and financial decisions. Immigrant household heads ...
(substantially revised version published in: Italian Economic Journal, 2023, 9, 117-174)
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F22, G11, D14, E21, J15
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11978
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Guido
Friebel
Miriam
Manchin
Mariapia
Mendola
Giovanni
Prarolo
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International Migration Intentions and Illegal Costs: Evidence from Africa-to-Europe Smuggling Routes
Irregular migrants from Africa and the Middle East flow into Europe along land and sea routes under the control of human smugglers. The demise of the Gaddafi regime in 2011 marked the opening of the ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2024, 148, 103878.)
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K23, K42
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11977
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Ruchir
Agarwal
Patrick
Gaule
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Invisible Geniuses: Could the Knowledge Frontier Advance Faster?
The advancement of the knowledge frontier is crucial for technological innovation and human progress. Using novel data from the setting of mathematics, this paper establishes two results. First, we ...
(published: American Economic Review: Insights, 2020, 2 (4), 409 - 424)
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O31, J24, I25
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11975
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Jan
Feld
Nicolás
Salamanca
Ulf
Zölitz
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Are Professors Worth It? The Value-added and Costs of Tutorial Instructors
A substantial share of university instruction happens in tutorial sessions—small group instruction given parallel to lectures. In this paper, we study whether instructors with a higher academic rank ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2020, 55 (3), 836-863)
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I21, I24, J24
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11974
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Shelly
Lundberg
Jenna
Stearns
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Women in Economics: Stalled Progress
In this paper, we first document trends in the gender composition of academic economists over the past 25 years, the extent to which these trends encompass the most elite departments, and how women's ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perpectivesm 2019, 33 (1), 3 - 22)
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J16, J71, J21
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11973
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Michela
Bia
Alfonso
Flores-Lagunes
Andrea
Mercatanti
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Evaluation of Language Training Programs in Luxembourg Using Principal Stratification
In a world increasingly globalized, multiple language skills can create more employment opportunities. Several countries include language training programs in active labor market programs for the ...
(published in: Observational Studies, 2022, 8 (1), 1- 44)
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C21, I38, J38
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11972
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Luca
Fumarco
Stijn
Baert
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Relative Age Effect on European Adolescents' Social Network
We contribute to the literature on relative age effects on pupils' (non-cognitive) skills formation by studying students' social network. We investigate data on European adolescents from the Health ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization,, 2019, 168, 318-337.)
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I21
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11971
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Stijn
Baert
Dieter
Verhaest
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Work Hard or Play Hard? Degree Class, Student Leadership and Employment Opportunities
We investigated the impact on first hiring outcomes of two main curriculum vitae (CV) characteristics by which graduates with a tertiary education degree distinguish themselves from their peers: ...
(revised version published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 83 (4), 1024 - 1047)
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J23, J24, I23, C93
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11969
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Alex
Bryson
Lucy
Stokes
David
Wilkinson
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Is Pupil Attainment Higher in Well-Managed Schools?
Linking the Workplace Employment Relations Surveys 2004 and 2011 to administrative data on pupil attainment in England we examine whether secondary and primary schools who deploy more intensive human ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2023, 31 (1), 129 - 144)
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I21
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11968
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Steven
W.
Hemelt
Kevin
Stange
Fernando
Furquim
Andrew
Simon
John
E.
Sawyer
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Why is Math Cheaper than English? Understanding Cost Differences in Higher Education
The private return to postsecondary investment varies widely by field, but the resources required by different fields are not well known. This paper establishes five new facts about college costs ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39(2), 397-435)
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I21, I22, I23
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11966
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Anna
Sokolova
Todd
A.
Sorensen
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Monopsony in Labor Markets: A Meta-Analysis
When jobs offered by different employers are not perfect substitutes in the minds of workers, employers gain wage-setting power; the extent of this power can be captured by the elasticity of labor ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2021, 72 (1), 27-55 )
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J42, C83
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11965
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Michael
White
Alex
Bryson
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HPWS in the Public Sector: Are There Mutual Gains?
Few studies investigate the links between high-performance work systems (HPWS) on public sector organizational performance and worker job attitudes. We fill this gap with analyses of these links ...
(published in: F. Origio and S. Tomelleri (eds.), Rethinking entrepreneurial human capital, Springer, 2018, 43-62)
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J28, L23, M50, M54
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11964
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David
Card
Thomas
Lemieux
W. Craig
Riddell
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Unions and Wage Inequality: The Roles of Gender, Skill and Public Sector Employment
We examine the changing relationship between unionization and wage inequality in Canada and the United States. Our study is motivated by profound recent changes in the composition of the unionized ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2020, 53 (1), 140 - 173)
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J31, J45, J51
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11963
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Christine
Dauth
Pia
Homrighausen
Gesine
Stephan
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Informing Employees in Small and Medium Sized Firms about Training: Results of a Randomized Field Experiment
We analyze a German labor market program that subsidizes skill-upgrading occupational training for workers employed in small and medium sized enterprises. This WeGebAU program reimburses training ...
(revised version published in: Economic Inquiry, 2023, 61, 162-178.)
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J24, J65
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11959
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Omoniyi
Alimi
David
C.
Maré
Jacques
Poot
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International Migration and the Distribution of Income in New Zealand Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan Areas
Since the 1980s, income inequality in New Zealand has been a growing concern - particularly in metropolitan areas. At the same time, the encouragement of permanent and temporary immigration has led ...
(published in: New Zealand Economic Papers, 2022, 56 (3), 272-295)
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D63, F22, J15, R23
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11958
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Carina
Neisser
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The Elasticity of Taxable Income: A Meta-Regression Analysis
The elasticities of taxable and broad income are key parameters in tax policy analysis. To examine the large variation in estimates found in the literature, I conduct a comprehensive meta-regression ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (640), 3365- 3391)
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C81, H24, H26
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11957
|
Abel
Brodeur
Joanne
Haddad
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Institutions, Attitudes and LGBT: Evidence from the Gold Rush
This paper analyzes the determinants behind the spatial distribution of the LGBT population in the U.S. We relate the size of the present-day LGBT population to the discovery of gold mines during the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 187, 92-110)
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O13, O18, J10, R23
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11956
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Giuseppe
Attanasi
Claire
Rimbaud
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Embezzlement and Guilt Aversion
Psychological game theory can contribute to renew the analysis of unethical behavior by providing insights on the nature of the moral costs of dishonesty. We investigate the moral costs of ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 167, 409-429)
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C91
|
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11955
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Marco
Casari
Andrea
Ichino
Moti
Michaeli
Maria
De Paola
Ginevra
Marandola
Vincenzo
Scoppa
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Civicness Drain
Migration may cause not only a brain drain but also a civicness drain, leading to an uncivicness trap. We study this possibility using college choices of southern-Italian students classified as Civic ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133, 649, 323–354.)
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H, J6
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11954
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Murat
Iyigun
Jared
Rubin
Avner
Seror
|
A Theory of Conservative Revivals
Why do some societies fail to adopt more efficient political and economic institutions in response to changing economic conditions? And why do such conditions sometimes generate conservative ...
(published as 'A Theory of Cultural Revivals' in: European Economic Review, 2021, 135, 103-134.)
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D02, N40, N70, O33, O38, O43, Z10
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