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11443 Ronald Bachmann
Rahel Felder
Labour Market Transitions, Shocks and Institutions in Turbulent Times: A Cross-Country Analysis
This paper analyses the impact of the business cycle on labour market dynamics in EU member states and the US during the first decade of the 21st century. Using unique measures of labour market flows ...
(published in: Empirica, 2021, 48 (2), 329-352 )
J6, E24, E32
11442 Carlos Carrillo-Tudela
Andrey Launov
Jean-Marc Robin
The Fall in German Unemployment: A Flow Analysis
In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work, labour market participation, inequality and welfare in Germany. Unemployment fell because the Hartz IV ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 132, 103658)
J21, J31, J63, J64
11441 Krzysztof Makarski
Joanna Tyrowicz
On Welfare Effects of Increasing Retirement Age
We develop an OLG model with realistic assumptions about longevity to analyze the welfare effects of raising the retirement age. We look at a scenario where an economy has a pay-as-you-go defined ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Modelling, 2019, 41 (4), 718 - 746)
C68, E21, J11, H55
11440 Mathias Dolls
Karina Doorley
Alari Paulus
Hilmar Schneider
Eric Sommer
Demographic Change and the European Income Distribution
This paper assesses the effect of key demographic changes (population ageing and upskilling) that are expected by 2030 on the income distribution in the EU-27 and examines the potential of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2019, 17 (3), 337 - 357)
J11, J21, J22
11439 Tim Callan
Karina Doorley
Michael Savage
Inequality in EU Crisis Countries: How Effective Were Automatic Stabilisers?
The Great Recession and the widespread adoption of fiscal austerity policies have heightened concern about inequality and how well tax-benefit systems redistribute. We examine how the distribution of ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2021, 42 (2), 319-343 )
H24, D31, D63
11438 James T. Bang
Aniruddha Mitra
Phanindra V. Wunnava
Hollowing Out the Middle? Remittances and Income Inequality in Nigeria
This paper investigates the impact of remittances on poverty and inequality in Nigeria. In contrast to the existing literature, our methodology of instrumental variable quantile regression (IVQR) ...
(published in: Migration and Development, 2022, 11 (3), 543 - 559)
F22, F24, O15, O55
11437 Artjoms Ivlevs
Milena Nikolova
Carol Lee Graham
Emigration, Remittances and the Subjective Well-Being of Those Staying Behind
Despite growing academic and policy interest in the subjective well-being consequences of emigration for those left behind, existing studies have focused on single origin countries or specific world ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2019, 32 (1), 113-151.)
F22, F24, I3, J61, O15
11436 Gonzalo Olcina
Fabrizio Panebianco
Yves Zenou
Conformism, Social Norms and the Dynamics of Assimilation
We consider a model where each individual (or ethnic minority) is embedded in a network of relationships and decides whether or not she wants to be assimilated to the majority norm. Each individual ...
(published as 'Conformism, social pressure, and the dynamics of integration' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 2020, 279 - 304)
D83, D85, J15, Z13
11435 Francesca Marchetta
David E. Sahn
Luca Tiberti
School or Work? The Role of Weather Shocks in Madagascar
We examine the impact of rainfall variability and cyclones on schooling and work among a cohort of teens and young adults by estimating a bivariate probit model, using a panel survey conducted in ...
(published as 'The Role of Weather on Schooling and Work of Young Adults in Madagascar' in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2019, 101 (4), 1203 - 1227)
Q54, J43, I25
11434 Martin Lundin
Oskar Nordström Skans
Pär Zetterberg
Leadership Experiences, Labor Market Entry, and Early Career Trajectories
Matching archive data on election discontinuities to register data on labor market trajectories we estimate the causal effects of being elected into Swedish student union councils on subsequent labor ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Human Resources, 2021, 56 (2), 480-511 )
I26, I23, J24
11431 Silvia Mendolia
Paul McNamee
Oleg Yerokhin
The Transmission of Mental Health within Households: Does One Partner's Mental Health Influence the Other Partner's Life Satisfaction?
This paper investigates the relationship between partner's mental health and individual life satisfaction, using a sample of married and cohabitating couples from the Household, Income and Labour ...
(published as 'The transmission of partner mental health to individual life satisfaction: Estimates from a longitudinal household survey' in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 68 (4), 494-516)
I10, I12
11428 Mi Dai
Wei Huang
Yifan Zhang
How Do Households Adjust to Trade Liberalization? Evidence from China's WTO Accession
We investigate the impacts of trade liberalization on household behaviors and outcomes in urban China, exploiting regional variation in the exposure to tariff cuts resulting from WTO entry. Regions ...
(published as 'How do households adjust to tariff liberalization? Evidence from China's WTO accession' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 150, 102628)
F14, F16, J20, R23
11426 Pierre Nguimkeu
Augustine Denteh
Rusty Tchernis
On the Estimation of Treatment Effects with Endogenous Misreporting
Participation in social programs is often misreported in survey data, complicating the estimation of the effects of those programs. In this paper, we propose a model to estimate treatment effects ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2019, 208 (2), 487 - 506)
C35, C51
11424 Chris Doucouliagos
Martin Paldam
T. D. Stanley
Skating on Thin Evidence: Implications for Public Policy
Good public policy needs to be evidence based. However, the evidence base is thin for many policy issues. How can policy makers best respond to such thin areas of research that are also quite likely ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 54, 16 - 25)
C1, H00, H5
11423 Muhammad Asali
A Tale of Two Academic Tracks
Given asymmetric information, this paper explores the need for non-tenure-track jobs in academia alongside the usual tenure-track positions. It also explains the coexistence of these two types of ...
(revised version published in: Education Economics, 2019, 27 (3), 323-337.)
J21, J11, J24, J31, J41, J44, I23
11422 Nicholas Barr
Bruce Chapman
Lorraine Dearden
Susan Dynarski
Reflections on the US College Loans System: Lessons from Australia and England
There is wide agreement the US student loan system faces significant problems. Seven million borrowers are in default and many more experience non-repayment. The stress of repayments faced by many ...
(published as 'The US college loans system: Lessons from Australia and England' in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 71, 32 - 48)
H28, I22, I28, J24
11421 Carmen Aina
Eliana Baici
Giorgia Casalone
Francesco Pastore
The Economics of University Dropouts and Delayed Graduation: A Survey
This survey organizes and discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the determinants of university student achievements. According to the theoretical framework, the decision to invest in ...
(substantially revised version published as 'The Determinants of University Dropout: A Review of the Socio-Economic Literature' in: Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2022, 79, 101102)
H52, I21, I22, I23, J13, J24
11420 Julio Cáceres-Delpiano
Eugenio Giolito
Minimum Age Requirements and the Impact of School Choice
Using several data sources from Chile, we study the impact of school choice at the time of starting primary school. To study the contribution of school choice, we exploit the combination of multiple ...
(published as 'Minimum age requirements and the role of the school choice set ' in: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, 2022, 14, 63 - 103)
A21, I24, I25, I28
11419 Ana Rute Cardoso
Paulo Guimaraes
Pedro Portugal
Hugo Reis
The Returns to Schooling Unveiled
We bring together the strands of literature on the returns to education, its spillovers, and the role of the employer shaping the wage distribution. The aim is to analyze the labor market returns to ...
(part 1 of this paper published online as 'What Lies Behind the Returns to Schooling: The Role of Labor Market Sorting and Worker Heterogeneity' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 22 August 2024 )
J31, J24, I26
11417 Marie-Anne Valfort
Anti-Muslim Discrimination in France: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Relying on a correspondence study conducted in France before the 2015 attacks, this paper compares the callback rates of immigrants of Muslim and Christian culture who originate from the same country ...
(published in: World Development, 2020, 135, 105022)
C93, J15, J71, Z12
11416 Ana Petrović
David Manley
Maarten van Ham
Freedom from the Tyranny of Neighbourhood: Rethinking Socio-Spatial Context Effects
Theory behind neighbourhood effects suggests that different geographies and scales affect individual outcomes. We argue that neighbourhood effects research needs to break away from the tyranny of ...
(published in: Progress in Human Geography, 2020, 44 (6), 1103 - 1123)
I30, J60, P46, R23
11415 Mauro Lanati
Alessandra Venturini
Cultural Change and the Migration Choice
Cultural differences play an important role in shaping migration patterns. The conventional proxies for cross country cultural differences – such as common language, ethnicity, genetic traits or ...
(published in: Review of World Economy, 2021, 157, 799 - 852)
F16, F22, Z10
11412 Charles Courtemanche
Augustine Denteh
Rusty Tchernis
Estimating the Associations between SNAP and Food Insecurity, Obesity, and Food Purchases with Imperfect Administrative Measures of Participation
Administrative data are considered the "gold standard" when measuring program participation, but little evidence exists on the potential problems with administrative records or their implications for ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2019, 86 (1), 202 228)
C81, H51, I12, I18
11411 David Gill
Victoria L. Prowse
Measuring Costly Effort Using the Slider Task
Using real effort to implement costly activities increases the likelihood that the motivations that drive effort provision in real life carry over to the laboratory. However, unobserved differences ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2019, 21, 1-9)
C91, C13
11410 Silvia Garcia Mandico
Pilar Garcia-Gomez
Anne C. Gielen
Owen O'Donnell
Earnings Responses to Disability Benefit Cuts
Using Dutch administrative data, we assess the work and earnings capacity of disability insurance (DI) recipients by estimating employment and earnings responses to benefit cuts. Reassessment of DI ...
(published as 'Earnings responses to disability insurance stringency' in: Labour Economics, 2020, 66, 101880)
H53, H55, J14, J22
11409 Tomi Kyyrä
Tuuli Paukkeri
Using a Kinked Policy Rule to Estimate the Effect of Experience Rating on Disability Inflow
We study whether the experience rating of employers' disability insurance premiums affects the inflow to disability benefits in Finland. To identify the causal effect of experience rating, we exploit ...
(published as "Does Experience Rating Reduce Sickness and Disability Claims? Evidence from Policy Kinks" in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 61, 178-192)
J14, J26, H32
11408 Benjamin Elsner
Florian Wozny
The Human Capital Cost of Radiation: Long-Run Evidence from Exposure Outside the Womb
This paper studies the long-term effect of radiation on cognitive skills. We use regional variation in nuclear fallout caused by the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, which led to a permanent increase in ...
(published as 'Long-run exposure to low-dose radiation reduces cognitive performance' in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2023, 118, 102785)
J24, Q53
11406 Arnaud Lefranc
Intergenerational Earnings Persistence and Economic Inequality in the Long-Run: Evidence from French Cohorts, 1931-1975
This paper analyzes long-term trends in intergenerational earnings persistence in France for male cohorts born between 1931 and 1975. This time period has witnessed important changes in the French ...
(published in: Economica, 2018, 85 (340), 808 - 845)
D1, D3, J3
11405 Paolo Brunori
Vito Peragine
Laura Serlenga
Upward and Downward Bias When Measuring Inequality of Opportunity
Estimates of the level of inequality of opportunity have traditionally been interpreted as lower bounds due to the downward bias resulting from the partial observability of circumstances that affect ...
(published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2019, 52 (4), 635 - 661)
C52, D3, D63
11404 Martin Leites
Xavier Ramos
The Effect of Relative Concern on Life Satisfaction: Relative Deprivation and Loss Aversion
Income comparisons are important for individual well-being. We examine the shape of the relationship between relative income and life satisfaction, and test empirically if the features of the value ...
(published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2022, 23, 3485 - 3515)
D6, I31
11403 Christian Grund
Krystina Titz
Further Training and Affective Commitment
We investigate the relation of further training and employees' affective commitment. In doing so, we distinguish between a support effect and a participation effect: On the one hand we analyze how a ...
(revised version published as 'Affective Commitment through Further Training: The Roles of Firm Provision and Employee Participation' in: Review of Managerial Science, 2022, 16, 1195-1226. )
M53, M12, J24
11402 Paul Bingley
Lorenzo Cappellari
Workers, Firms and Life-Cycle Wage Dynamics
Studies of individual wage dynamics typically ignore firm heterogeneity, whereas decompositions of earnings into worker and firm effects abstract from life-cycle considerations. We study firm effects ...
(revised version forthcoming as "Earnings Dynamics, Inequality, and Firm Heterogeneity" in: Journal of Applied Econometrics)
J24, J31
11400 Hassan Arouri
Adel Ben-Youssef
Francesco Quatraro
Marco Vivarelli
The Determinants of Young Firms Growth in Tunisia
The aim of this paper is to investigate the growth dynamics of young small firms (in contrast with larger and older incumbents) in a developing country context, using a unique and comprehensive ...
(published as 'Drivers of Growth in Tunisia: Young Firms vs Incumbents' in: Small Business Economics, 2020, 54, 323–340 )
O12, L26
11399 John Forth
Alex Bryson
The Impact of Management Practices on SME Performance
We examine the impact of management practices on firm performance among SMEs in Britain over the period 2011-2014, using a unique dataset which links survey data on management practices with firm ...
(published as 'Management practices and SME performance' in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 66 (4), 527 - 558)
L25, L26, M12, M52, M53
11397 Tom Kleinepier
Maarten van Ham
The Temporal Dynamics of Neighborhood Disadvantage in Childhood and Subsequent Problem Behavior in Adolescence
Research on neighborhood effects has increasingly focused on how long children have lived in a deprived neighborhood during childhood (duration), but has typically ignored when in childhood the ...
(published in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2018, 47 (8), 1611–1628. )
I30, J60, P46, R23
11396 Elizabeth E. Davis
Won Fy Lee
Aaron Sojourner
Family-Centered Measures of Access to Early Care and Education
This study proposes new family-centered measures of access to early care and education (ECE) services with respect to quantity, cost, and quality and uses them to assess disparities in access across ...
(published in: Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2019, 47, 472 - 486 )
J13, R12, R53, H4, L84
11395 Gianna Claudia Giannelli
Chiara Rapallini
Parental Occupation and Children's School Outcomes in Math
We find a positive relationship between math attitude and students' math scores using data obtained from PISA 2012 and a 2SLS model. Math attitude is approximated by three subjective measures: ...
(published in: Research in Economics, 2019, 73 (4), 293-303)
I21, J13, J24
11394 Alexander Ahammer
Martin Halla
Nicole Schneeweis
The Effect of Prenatal Maternity Leave on Short and Long-Term Child Outcomes
Maternity leave policies are presumed to be essential to ensure the health of pregnant workers and their unborn children. However, little is known about the optimal duration of prenatal maternity ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 70, 102250)
J13, I18, J28, I13, J83, J88
11392 Diego Zambiasi
Steven Stillman
The Pot Rush: Is Legalized Marijuana a Positive Local Amenity?
This paper examines the amenity value of legalized marijuana by analyzing the impact of marijuana legalization on migration to Colorado. Colorado is the pioneering state in this area having legalized ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2020, 58 (2), 667-679)
I18, R23, K42, C22
11391 Mark Borgschulte
Adriana Corredor-Waldron
Guillermo Marshall
A Path Out: Prescription Drug Abuse, Treatment, and Suicide
In this paper we investigate the dual role of supply restrictions and drug treatment in combating the concurrent rise of opioid abuse and suicide in the United States over the last two decades. We ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 149, 169 - 184)
I12, I18, D11, D12
11390 Alexander Muravyev
Oleksandr Talavera
Unsafe Sex in the City: Risk Pricing in the London Area
This paper studies the incidence, determinants and pricing of unprotected oral sex in the London sex services market. The analysis is based upon matched sex worker-client panel data, which were ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 65(5), 528-549)
J46, J48, K42
11388 Yusi Ouyang
Abebe Shimeles
Erik Thorbecke
Revisiting Cross-Country Poverty Convergence in the Developing World with a Special Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa
The literature on poverty convergence is sparse and much of the empirical evidence relies on Ravallion (2012) who found a lack of poverty convergence across some ninety Less Developed Countries ...
(published in: World Development, 2019, 117 (C), 13 - 28)
O10, O55
11387 Bohdan Kukharskyy
Michael P. Pflüger
Time Is on My Side: Relational Contracts and Aggregate Welfare
This paper develops a simple general equilibrium model which establishes a link between the patience of economic agents and the well-being of nations. We show that firms in long-term oriented ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2019, 71 (3), 709 - 732)
D23, L14, L22, L23, O10
11386 Eliav Danziger
Leif Danziger
The Optimal Graduated Minimum Wage and Social Welfare
This paper analyzes the effects of introducing a graduated minimum wage in a model with optimal income taxation in which a government seeks to maximize social welfare. It shows that the optimal ...
(published in: Transitions through the Labor Market (Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 46), Emerald Publishing, 2018, 55-72.)
D60, H21, J30
11385 Ragui Assaad
Rana Hendy
Moundir Lassassi
Shaimaa Yassin
Explaining the MENA Paradox: Rising Educational Attainment, Yet Stagnant Female Labor Force Participation
Despite rapidly rising female educational attainment and the closing if not reversal of the gender gap in education, female labor force participation rates in the MENA region remain low and stagnant, ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2018, 8 (17))
J16, J21, J22, J82
11382 Marianne Bertrand
Patricia Cortes
Claudia Olivetti
Jessica Pan
Social Norms, Labor Market Opportunities, and the Marriage Gap for Skilled Women
In most of the developed world, skilled women marry at a lower rate than unskilled women. We document heterogeneity across countries in how the marriage gap for skilled women has evolved over time. ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2021, 88 (4), 1936 - 1978)
J12, J16
11381 Sarah Bana
Kelly Bedard
Maya Rossin-Slater
The Impacts of Paid Family Leave Benefits: Regression Kink Evidence from California Administrative Data
Although the United States provides unpaid maternity and family leave to qualifying workers, it is the only OECD country without a national paid leave policy, making wage replacement a pivotal issue ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis & Management, 2020, 39 (4), 888-929)
I18, J13, J16, J18
11379 José Azar
Ioana E. Marinescu
Marshall Steinbaum
Bledi Taska
Concentration in US Labor Markets: Evidence from Online Vacancy Data
Using data on the near-universe of online US job vacancies collected by Burning Glass Technologies in 2016, we calculate labor market concentration using the Herfindahl-Hirschman index (HHI) for each ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 66, 101886)
J21, J23, J42, K21, L11
11378 John T. Addison
Paulino Teixeira
Philipp Grunau
Lutz Bellmann
Worker Representation and Temporary Employment in Germany: The Deployment and Extent of Fixed-Term Contracts and Temporary Agency Work
This study examines the potential impact of works councils and unions on the deployment of fixed-term contracts and agency temps. We report inter al. that works councils are associated with a higher ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, 2019, 2 (1), 24-46.)
J21, J23, J41, J48, J51, J63, K31
11374 Samuel Lüthi
Stefan C. Wolter
Are Apprenticeships Business Cycle Proof?
Although there is evidence that apprenticeship training can ease the transition of youth into the labour market and thereby reduce youth unemployment, many policy makers fear that firms will cut ...
(published in: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 156, Article number: 3 (2020))
E24, E32, I21, J18, J44
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