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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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11347
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W. Stanley
Siebert
Xiangdong
Wei
Ho
Lun
Wong
Xiang
Zhou
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Student Feedback, Parent-Teacher Communication, and Academic Performance: Experimental Evidence from Rural China
This study reports a randomized controlled trial to improve teacher-student-parent feedback, conducted in a rural county in China with many left-behind children. Data are collected from over 4,000 ...
(updated paper forthcoming in: Education Economics, 2025)
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C93, I21, J24
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11346
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Kaveh
Majlesi
Gaia
Narciso
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International Import Competition and the Decision to Migrate: Evidence from Mexico
We analyze the effects of the increase in China's import competition on Mexican domestic and international migration. We exploit the variation in exposure to competition from China, following its ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2018, 132, 75-87)
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F14, F16, F22, O15, R23
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11345
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Anna Maria
Mayda
Francesc
Ortega
Giovanni
Peri
Kevin
Y.
Shih
Chad
Sparber
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The Effect of the H-1B Quota on the Employment and Selection of Foreign-Born Labor
The H-1B program allows skilled foreign-born individuals to work in the United States. The annual quota on new H-1B issuances fell from 195,000 to 65,000 for employees of most firms in fiscal year ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 108, 105-128)
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J61, F22 , O33, R10
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11344
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Andrew
Clarke
Ana
Ferrer
Mikal
Skuterud
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A Comparative Analysis of the Labour Market Performance of University-Educated Immigrants in Australia, Canada, and the United States: Does Policy Matter?
We examine data from Australia, Canada, and the U.S. to inform the potential for immigrant screening policies to influence the labour market performance of skilled immigrants. Our estimates point to ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37 (S2), S443–S490)
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J24, J15, J08
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11343
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Olivier
Dagnelie
Anna Maria
Mayda
Jean
Francois
Maystadt
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The Labor Market Integration of Refugees to the United States: Do Entrepreneurs in the Network Help?
We investigate whether entrepreneurs in the network of refugees - from the same country of origin - help refugees' labor-market integration by hiring them in their businesses. We analyze the universe ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 111, 257-272)
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F22, J61
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11342
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Michal
Myck
Monika
Oczkowska
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Shocked by Therapy? Unemployment in the First Years of the Socio-Economic Transition in Poland and its Long-Term Consequences
We examine long-term implications of unemployment for material conditions and well-being using the Polish sample from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). Retrospective data ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2018, 26 (4), 695-724)
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J21, J63, P30
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11341
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Agnieszka
Chłoń-Domińczak
Marek
Góra
Irena
E.
Kotowska
Iga
Magda
Anna
Ruzik-Sierdzińska
Pawel
Strzelecki
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The Impact of Life-Course Developments on Pensions in the NDC Systems in Poland, Italy and Sweden and Point System in Germany
Old-age pensions in the NDC systems reflect the accumulated lifetime labour income. Interrupted careers and differences in the employment rates, particularly between men and women will have a ...
(published as 'The Impact of Lifetime Events on Pensions: Nonfinancial Defined Contribution Schemes in Poland, Italy, and Sweden, and the Point Scheme in Germany' in: Progress and Challenges of Nonfinancial Defined Contribution Pension Schemes: Volume 2. Addressing Gender, Administration, and Communication, World Bank, 2019, 55 -85 )
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D15, H55, J16, J26, J31
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11340
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Øystein
Hernaes
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Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform for Young Adults: An Unconditional Quantile Regression Approach
The paper evaluates the distributional effects on earnings and income of requiring young welfare recipients to fulfill conditions related to work and activation. It exploits within-social insurance ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101818 )
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C21, D31, H55, I38, J18, J22
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11339
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Massimiliano
Bratti
Maurizio
Conti
Giovanni
Sulis
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Employment Protection, Temporary Contracts and Firm-Provided Training: Evidence from Italy
In this study, we leverage on Italy's size-contingent firing restrictions to identify the causal effect of employment protection legislation (EPL) on firm-provided training using a regression ...
(revised version published as 'Employment Protection and Firm-provided Training in Dual Labour Market' in: Labour Economics, 2021, 69, 101972)
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J42, J63, J65, M53
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11338
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Alexander
Paul
Steffen
Reinhold
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Economic Conditions, Parental Employment and Health of Newborns
We examine whether economic downturns are beneficial to health outcomes of newborn infants in developed countries. For this we use merged population-wide registers on health and economic and ...
(published as Economic conditions and the health of newborns: Evidence from comprehensive register data' in: Labour Economics, 2020, 63, 101795)
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I1, J1
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11336
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Pietro
Biroli
Teodora
Boneva
Akash
Raja
Christopher
Rauh
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Parental Beliefs about Returns to Child Health Investments
Childhood obesity has adverse health and productivity consequences and poses negative externalities to health services. Its increase in recent decades can be traced back to unhealthy habits acquired ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2022, 231 (1), 33 - 57)
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D19, I10, I12, I14
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11335
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David
Manley
Maarten
van Ham
Lina
Hedman
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Experienced and Inherited Disadvantage: A Longitudinal Study of Early Adulthood Neighbourhood Careers of Siblings
Longer term exposure to high poverty neighbourhoods can affect individual socio-economic outcomes later in life. Previous research has shown strong path dependence in individual neighbourhood ...
(published as 'Inherited and Spatial Disadvantages: A Longitudinal Study of Early Adult Neighborhood Careers of Siblings' in: Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2020, 110 (6), 1670-1689 )
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I30, J60, R23
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11334
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Gordon
B.
Dahl
Anne
C.
Gielen
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Intergenerational Spillovers in Disability Insurance
Does participation in a social assistance program by parents have spillovers on their children's own participation, future labor market attachment, and human capital investments? While ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021, 13 (2), 116-150)
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I38, H53, J62
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11333
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Francesco
Fasani
Tommaso
Frattini
Luigi
Minale
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(The Struggle for) Refugee Integration into the Labour Market: Evidence from Europe
In this paper, we use repeated cross-sectional survey data to study the labour market performance of refugees across several EU countries and over time. In the first part, we document that labour ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2022, 22 (2), 351–393)
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F22, J61, J15
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11331
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Alexia
Lochmann
Hillel
Rapoport
Biagio
Speciale
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The Effect of Language Training on Immigrants' Economic Integration: Empirical Evidence from France
We examine the impact of language training on the economic integration of immigrants in France. The assignment to this training, offered by the French Ministry of the Interior, depends mainly on a ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 113, 265-296.)
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J15, J61, J68
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11330
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Sankar
Mukhopadhyay
Miaomiao
Zou
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Will Skill-Based Immigration Policies Lead to Lower Remittances? An Analysis of the Relations between Education, Sponsorship, and Remittances
As more and more developed countries adopt policies that favor highly educated immigrants, the impact of such policies on developing countries remains unclear. Some researchers have argued that ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2020, 56 (3), 489-508)
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O15, F22, F24, J61
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11329
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Arnaud
Dupuy
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Migration in China: To Work or to Wed?
This paper develops a model encompassing both Becker's matching model, and Tinbergen-Rosen's hedonic model. We study its properties and provide identification and estimation strategies. Using data on ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2021,36(4), 393-415)
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D3, J21, J23, J31
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11328
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Julia
Jauer
Thomas
Liebig
John
P.
Martin
Patrick
A.
Puhani
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Migration as an Adjustment Mechanism in the Crisis? A Comparison of Europe and the United States 2006-2016
We estimate whether migration can be an equilibrating force in the labour market by comparing pre- and post-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and the United States, and ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2019, 32, 1-22)
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F15, F22, J61
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11327
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Mira
Fischer
Dirk
Sliwka
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Confidence in Knowledge or Confidence in the Ability to Learn: An Experiment on the Causal Effects of Beliefs on Motivation
Previous research has shown that feedback about past performance has ambiguous effects on subsequent performance. We argue that feedback affects beliefs in different dimensions – namely beliefs ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2018, 111, 122-142.)
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C91, D83, I21, J24
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11325
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Giuseppe Lucio
Gaeta
Giuseppe
Lubrano Lavadera
Francesco
Pastore
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Overeducation Wage Penalty among Ph.D. Holders: An Unconditional Quantile Regression Analysis on Italian Data
The wage effect of job-education vertical mismatch (i.e. overeducation) has only recently been investigated in the case of Ph.D. holders. The existing contributions rely on OLS estimates that allow ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2023, 44 (6), 1096-1117)
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C26, I23, I26, J13, J24, J28
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11324
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Luna
Bellani
Vigile
Marie
Fabella
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Upward Income Mobility and Legislator Support for Education Policies
This paper investigates how upward mobility affects legislator voting behavior towards education policies. We develop an electoral competition model where voters are altruistic parents and ...
(revised version published as 'Social mobility and education policy: a district-level analysis of legislative behavior' in Socio-Economic Review, 2024, 22 (2), 533 - 571)
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I24, D72, H4
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11323
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Gordon
B.
Dahl
Andreas
Kotsadam
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Does Integration Change Gender Attitudes? The Effect of Randomly Assigning Women to Traditionally Male Teams
We examine whether exposure of men to women in a traditionally male-dominated environment can change attitudes about mixed-gender productivity, gender roles and gender identity. Our context is the ...
(published in: The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2021, 136(2), 987–1030.)
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J16, J24
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11322
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Mahdi
Majbouri
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Fertility and the Puzzle of Female Employment in the Middle East
Female labor force participation rates across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have remained low for over four decades, despite the fact that in the same period, women's education ...
(published in: Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 2020, 28, 225–244)
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J13, J22, O53
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11320
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Christian
Pfeifer
Gesine
Stephan
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Why Women Don't Ask: Gender Differences in Fairness Perceptions of Own Wages and Subsequent Wage Growth
The authors analyze gender differences in fairness perceptions of own wages and subsequent wage growth. The main finding is that women perceive their wage more often as fair if controls for hourly ...
(revised version published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2019, 43(2), 295-310)
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J16, J31, J71, A12
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11319
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Pramod
Kumar
Sur
Masaru
Sasaki
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Measuring Customer Discrimination: Evidence from the Professional Cricket League in India
Research in the field of customer discrimination has received relatively little attention even if the theory of discrimination suggests that customer discrimination may exist in the long run whereas ...
(publication in: Journal of Sports Economics, 2020, 21(4), 420-448)
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Z22, J71, L83
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11318
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Conchita
D'Ambrosio
Andrew
E.
Clark
Marta
Barazzetta
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Unfairness at Work: Well-Being and Quits
We here consider the effect of the level of income that individuals consider to be fair for the job they do, which we take as measure of comparison income, on both subjective well-being and objective ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 307-316)
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D63, J28, J31
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11316
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Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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Mortgage Finance and Culture
Using a nationally representative sample of 12,344 immigrants from 41 different countries of ancestry living in Spain in 2007, we find that the higher the housing-loan penetration in the country of ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2018, 58 (4), 786 - 821)
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G21, G28, Z13
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11315
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Gweneth
Leigh
Andrew
Leigh
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The Misaddressed Letter Experiment
We design a new field experiment to test pro-social behaviour: will a household return a letter that has been incorrectly addressed? On average, we find that half of all letters were returned. Return ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2018, 25 (21), 1527-1530)
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J71, C93, D64
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11314
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Christian
Merkl
Heiko
Stüber
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Value Added, Wages, and Labor Market Flows at the Establishment Level
In this paper, we analyze the connection between value added, wages, and labor market flows at the establishment level. We develop a simple model to illustrate the expected comovement of these ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2019, 26, 135-142)
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E24, E32, J64
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11313
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Effrosyni
Adamopoulou
Emmanuele
Bobbio
Marta
De Philippis
Federico
Giorgi
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Reallocation and the Role of Firm Composition Effects on Aggregate Wage Dynamics
Aggregate wages display little cyclicality compared to what a standard model would predict. Wage rigidities are an obvious candidate but a recent strand of the literature has emphasized the need to ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 8:3)
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D61, E24
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11311
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Grace
Weishi
Gu
Eswar
Prasad
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New Evidence on Cyclical Variation in Labor Costs in the U.S.
Employer-provided nonwage benefit expenditures now account for one-third of U.S. firms' labor costs. We show that a broad measure of real labor costs including such benefit expenditures has become ...
(published as 'New Evidence on Cyclical Variation in Average Labor Costs in the United States ' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (5), 966–979.)
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E24, J32, E32
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11310
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Aaron
Sojourner
José
Pacas
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The Relationship between Union Membership and Net Fiscal Impact
This paper develops the first evidence on how individuals' union membership status affects their net fiscal impact, the difference between taxes they pay and cost of public benefits they receive, ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2019, 58 (1), 86-107 )
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J5, H24, J31
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11309
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Boris
Hirsch
Steffen
Müller
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Firm Wage Premia, Industrial Relations, and Rent Sharing in Germany
This paper investigates the influence of industrial relations on firm wage premia in Germany. OLS regressions for the firm effects from a two-way fixed effects decomposition of workers' wages by ...
(revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2020, 73 (5), 1119-1146)
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J31, J52, J53
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11308
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Susan
Payne Carter
Abigail
Wozniak
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Making Big Decisions: The Impact of Moves on Marriage among U.S. Army Personnel
We use exogenously determined, long-distance relocations of U.S. Army soldiers to investigate the impact of moving on marriage. We find that marriage rates increase sharply around the time of a move ...
(published online in: JHR Journal of Human Resources, 13 May 2021)
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J12, J61
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11306
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Joni
Hersch
Jennifer
Bennett
Shinall
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Imputation Match Bias in Immigrant Wage Convergence
Although immigrants to the United States earn less at entry than their native-born counterparts, an extensive literature finds that immigrants have faster earnings growth that results in rapid ...
(published in: Demography, 2018, 55 (4), 1475-1485 )
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J15, J31
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11305
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Judite
Goncalves
Pedro
S.
Martins
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The Effect of Self-Employment on Health: Evidence from Longitudinal Social Security Data
The growth of novel flexible work formats raises a number of questions about their effects upon health and the potential required changes in public policy. However, answering these questions is ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 57(3), 1527-1543)
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I18, J24
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11304
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Timothy
J.
Halliday
Bhashkar
Mazumder
Ashley
Wong
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Intergenerational Health Mobility in the US
Studies of intergenerational mobility have largely ignored health despite the central importance of health to welfare. We present the first estimates of intergenerational health mobility in the US by ...
(published as 'Intergenerational mobility in self-reported health status in the US' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 193, 104307)
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I1, I14
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11302
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Daniele
Biancardi
Massimiliano
Bratti
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The Effect of the First Italian Research Evaluation Exercise on Student Enrolment Choices
This paper studies the impact of the first Italian Research Evaluation Exercise (VTR 2001-2003) on university undergraduate students' enrolment choices. A before-after estimator with differential ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 69, 73-93)
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I21 I23
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11301
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Karine
Torosyan
Norberto
Pignatti
Maksym
Obrizan
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Job Market Outcomes of IDPs: The Case of Georgia
Internally displaced people (IDPs) constitute a serious economic, social and cultural problem for many countries, including countries in transition. Despite the importance of the problem, there are ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (3), 800-820)
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D74, J21, O15, P23, R23
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11299
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Wolfgang
Dauth
Sebastian
Findeisen
Jens
Suedekum
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Adjusting to Globalization in Germany
We study the impact of trade exposure in the job biographies, measured with daily accuracy, of 2.4 million workers in Germany. To profit from export opportunities, workers adjust through increased ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (1), 263–302)
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F16, J31, R11
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11298
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Seetha
Menon
Andrea
Salvatori
Wouter
Zwysen
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The Effect of Computer Use on Job Quality: Evidence from Europe
This paper studies changes in computer use and job quality in the EU-15 between 1995 and 2015. We document that while the proportion of workers using computers has increased from 40% to more than 60% ...
(published as 'The Effect of Computer Use on Work Discretion and Work Intensity: Evidence from Europe' in: BJIR British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 58 (4), 1004-1038)
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J21, J23, J24, O33
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11297
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Grace
Lordan
David
Neumark
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People versus Machines: The Impact of Minimum Wages on Automatable Jobs
We study the effect of minimum wage increases on employment in automatable jobs – jobs in which employers may find it easier to substitute machines for people – focusing on low-skilled workers for ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 52, 40-53)
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J23, J38
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11295
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Joanna
Tyrowicz
Lucas
van der Velde
Irene
van Staveren
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Identifying Age Penalty in Women's Wages: New Method and Evidence from Germany 1984-2014
Given theoretical premises, gender wage gap adjusted for individual characteristics is likely to vary over age. We extend DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) semi-parametric technique to disentangle ...
(published in: Feminist Economics, 2018, 24 (4), 108-130)
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J31, J71
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11293
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Nick
Drydakis
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Economic Pluralism in the Study of Wage Discrimination: A Note
Economic pluralism proposes that economists and social planners should consider alternative theories to establish a range of policy actions. Neoclassical, Feminist and Marxian theories evaluate ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2018, 39 (4), 631-636)
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B4, B5, B54, J71
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11292
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Irma
Clots-Figueras
Lakshmi
Iyer
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Religion and Abortion: The Role of Politician Identity
Leveraging close elections to generate quasi-random variation in the religious identity of state legislators in India, we find lower rates of female foeticide in districts with Muslim legislators, ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 53, 102746)
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I15, J13, O15, P16
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11291
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Jason
M.
Fletcher
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Crushing Hope: Short Term Responses to Tragedy Vary by Hopefulness
This research note explores the consequences of dispositional optimism and hopefulness when the environment changes. Much literature has documented the importance of a positive outlook in pursuing ...
(published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2018, 201, 59-62)
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D91, I12
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11290
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Angelo
Antoci
Laura
Bonelli
Fabio
Paglieri
Tommaso
G.
Reggiani
Fabio
Sabatini
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Civility and Trust in Social Media
Social media have been credited with the potential of reinvigorating trust by offering new opportunities for social and political participation. This view has been recently challenged by the rising ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 160, 83-99 )
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C91, D9, D91, Z1
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11288
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Uschi
Backes-Gellner
Holger
Herz
Michael
Kosfeld
Yvonne
Oswald
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Do Preferences and Biases Predict Life Outcomes? Evidence from Education and Labor Market Entry Decisions
Evidence suggests that acquiring human capital is related to better life outcomes, yet young peoples' decisions to invest in or stop acquiring human capital are still poorly understood. We ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 134, 103709)
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D01, D03, D91, I21, J64
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11287
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Eyal
Baharad
Leif
Danziger
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Voting in Hiring Committees: Which "Almost" Rule Is Optimal?
We determine the scoring rule that is most likely to select a high-ability candidate. A major result is that neither the widely used plurality rule nor the inverse-plurality rule are ever optimal, ...
(published in: Group Decision and Negotiation, 2018, 27, 129-151)
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D71
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11286
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Stephen
D.
O'Connell
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Can Quotas Increase the Supply of Candidates for Higher-Level Positions? Evidence from Local Government in India
A common argument for quota policies is that they can increase the participation of targeted groups in positions that are not directly subjected to quotas or after quotas are no longer in place. I ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (1), 65–78.)
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J15, J45
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