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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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11262
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Matthias
Doepke
Michèle
Tertilt
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Women's Empowerment, the Gender Gap in Desired Fertility, and Fertility Outcomes in Developing Countries
We document evidence on preferences for childbearing in developing countries. Across countries, men usually desire larger families than women do. Within countries, we find wide dispersion in spouses' ...
(published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2018, 108, 358–362)
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J12, J13, J16, O10
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11261
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Wifag
Adnan
Sami
H.
Miaari
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Voting Patterns and the Gender Wage Gap
Striving for gender equality presents major challenges but the benefits are vast, ranging from reduced conflict, both within and between communities, to higher economic growth. Unfortunately, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 146, 222-247)
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J21, J31, J61, J45, C14, C24
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11260
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Z. Eylem
Gevrek
Christian
Neumeier
Deniz
Gevrek
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Explaining the Gender Test Score Gap in Mathematics: The Role of Gender Inequality
Using data from the 2012 PISA across 56 countries, this study examines the link between societal gender inequalities and the gender test score gap in mathematics. We employ a novel two-stage ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 76 (3), 1-31 )
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C14, I24, I25, J16
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11259
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Mireia
Borrell-Porta
Joan
Costa-Font
Julia
Philipp
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The 'Mighty Girl' Effect: Does Parenting Daughters Alter Attitudes towards Gender Roles?
Understanding the malleability of gender norms is crucial to address gender inequalities. We study the effect of parenting daughters on a gender role attitude relating to the traditional male ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2019, 71 (1), 24 - 46)
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J7, Z1
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11258
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Robert
W.
Fairlie
Frank
M.
Fossen
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Opportunity versus Necessity Entrepreneurship: Two Components of Business Creation
A common finding in the entrepreneurship literature is that business creation increases in recessions. This counter-cyclical pattern is examined by separating business creation into two components: ...
(revised version published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2020, 48, 253-289.)
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J22, J23, L26
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11257
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David
Cornille
François
Rycx
Ilan
Tojerow
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Heterogeneous Effects of Credit Constraints on SMEs' Employment: Evidence from the Great Recession
This paper takes advantage of access to detailed matched bank-firm data to investigate whether and how employment decisions of SMEs have been affected by credit constraints in the wake of the Great ...
(published as 'Heterogeneous Effects of Credit Constraints on SME's Employment: Evidence from the European Sovereign Debt Crisis' in : Journal of Financial Stability, 2019, 41, 1-13)
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C35, C36, D22, G01, G21, J21, J23
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11256
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Hartmut
Lehmann
Norberto
Pignatti
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Informal Employment Relationships and the Labor Market: Is There Segmentation in Ukraine?
One of the most important factors that determine individuals' quality of life and wellbeing is their position in the labor market and the type of jobs that they hold. When workers are rationed out of ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics 2018, 46 (3), 838-857)
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J31, J40, P23
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11255
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Sascha
O.
Becker
Stephan
Heblich
Daniel
M.
Sturm
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The Impact of Public Employment: Evidence from Bonn
This paper evaluates the impact of public employment on private sector activity using the relocation of the German federal government from Berlin to Bonn in the wake of the Second World War as a ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2021, 122, article 103291)
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F15, J45, N44, R12
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11254
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José
Azar
Ioana
E.
Marinescu
Marshall
Steinbaum
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Labor Market Concentration
A product market is concentrated when a few firms dominate the market. Similarly, a labor market is concentrated when a few firms dominate hiring in the market. Using data from the leading employment ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (S 2022), S167-S199 )
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J30, J42, L40
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11253
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Eugénie
Joltreau
Katrin
Sommerfeld
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Why Does Emissions Trading under the EU ETS Not Affect Firms' Competitiveness? Empirical Findings from the Literature
Environmental policies may have important consequences for firms' competitiveness or profit-ability. However, the empirical literature shows that hardly any statistically significant effects on firms ...
(published in: Climate Policy, 2019, 19 (4), 453-471)
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Q52, Q58, D22
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11252
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Timo
Baas
Ansgar
H.
Belke
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Oil Price Shocks, Monetary Policy and Current Account Imbalances within a Currency Union
For more than two decades now, current-account imbalances are a crucial issue in the international policy debate as they threaten the stability of the world economy. More recently, the government ...
(published as 'Oil Price Shocks and Current Account Imbalances within a Currency Union' in: Energy Journal, 2023, 44( 4), 223-240. )
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E32, F32, F45, Q43
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11251
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David
W.
Johnston
Michael A.
Shields
Agne
Suziedelyte
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World Commodity Prices, Job Security and Health: Evidence from the Mining Industry
A lack of job security is an increasingly prevalent characteristic of modern labour markets, and there is evidence that recent financial crises have exacerbated this issue. In this paper, we assess ...
(published as 'Macroeconomic Shocks, Job Security, and Health from the Mining Industry' in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 6 (3), 348-371)
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J11, J21, I31
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11250
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Joanna
Tyrowicz
Magdalena
Smyk
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Wage Inequality and Structural Change
Income inequality in the context of large structural change has received a lot of attention in the literature, but most studies relied on household post-transfer inequality measures. This study ...
(published in Social Indicators Research, 2019, 141(2), 503-538)
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E24, D31, N34, O57, P36, P51
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11249
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Joanna
Tyrowicz
Lucas
Van der Velde
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Labor Reallocation and Demographics
We explore data from all transition economies over nearly two decades, providing insights on the mechanisms behind labor force reallocation. We show that worker flows between jobs in different ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (1), 381-412)
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P2, P5, D2, J6
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11248
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Pierre
Cahuc
Stéphane
Carcillo
Thomas
Le Barbanchon
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The Effectiveness of Hiring Credits
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of hiring credits. Using comprehensive administrative data, we show that the French hiring credit, implemented during the Great Recession, had significant ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2019, 86 (2), 593-626.)
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C31, C93, J6
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11246
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Marco
Caliendo
Alexandra
Fedorets
Malte
Preuß
Carsten
Schröder
Linda
Wittbrodt
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The Short-Term Distributional Effects of the German Minimum Wage Reform
This study quantifies the short-term distributional effects of the new statutory minimum wage in Germany. Using detailed survey data (German Socio-Economic Panel), we assess changes in the ...
(substantially revised version published as 'The short- and medium-term distributional effects of the German minimum wage reform' in: Empirical Economics, 2023, 64, 1149 - 1175)
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J31, J38, J22
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11245
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Ahmed
Elsayed
Jackline
Wahba
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Political Change and Informality: Evidence from the Arab Spring
This paper examines informality during the political and economic turmoil that accompanied the Arab Spring revolution in Egypt. The paper focuses on unprotected employment and the extent to which it ...
(published as 'Political Change and Informality' in: Economics of Transition, 2019, 27 (1), 31 - 66)
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J21, J23, J24, J31, O17
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11244
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Stefano
Gagliarducci
Massimiliano
Gaetano
Onorato
Francesco
Sobbrio
Guido
Tabellini
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War of the Waves: Radio and Resistance during World War II
Can counter-propaganda by a foreign democratic country help to overthrow an authoritarian military regime? And if so, what are the mechanisms through which this happens? We analyze these questions in ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020, 12 (4), 1–38)
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D74, L82, N44
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11243
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Joshua
Lewis
Edson
Severnini
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Short- and Long-Run Impacts of Rural Electrification: Evidence from the Historical Rollout of the U.S. Power Grid
Electrification among American farm households increased from less than 10 percent to nearly 100 percent over a three decade span, 1930{1960. We exploit the historical rollout of the U.S. power grid ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 143, 102412)
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N72, N92, N32, O13, O18, Q48
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11242
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Chiara
Kofol
Maryam
Naghsh Nejad
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Child Labor and the Arrival of Refugees: Evidence from Tanzania
The impact of hosting refugees on child labor in host countries is unclear. This paper estimates both the short and the long term consequences of hosting refugees fleeing from the genocides of Rwanda ...
(published in: Journal of African Economies, 2022, 31 (5), 467–486)
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J13, O15, R23
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11241
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Massimiliano
Tani
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Skilled Migration Policy and the Labour Market Performance of Immigrants
This paper studies whether migration policy, besides managing a country's population size, is a suitable tool to influence immigrants' labour market outcomes. To do so, it uses a migration policy ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2020, 54 (1), 35-57)
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J15, J24
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11240
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Ahmed
Elsayed
Rania
Roushdy
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Empowering Women under Social Constraints: Evidence from a Field Intervention in Rural Egypt
Women in the MENA region are economically and socially disempowered. High youth unemployment rates together with discriminatory social norms drive them to limit their investment in human capital. We ...
(published as 'Empowering women in conservative settings: evidence from an intervention in rural Egypt' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2022, 20, 1287–1322 )
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I25, J24, O12
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11239
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Rachel
Brulé
Sanchari
Roy
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Women's Inheritance Rights Reform and the Preference for Sons in India
We investigate whether legislation of equal inheritance rights for women modifies the historic preference for sons in India, and find that it exacerbates it. Children born after the reform in ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 146 (C), 102275)
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O12, K11, I21
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11238
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Ayse
Abbasoglu Ozgoren
Banu
Ergöçmen
Aysit
Tansel
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Birth and Employment Transitions of Women in Turkey: Conflicting or Compatible Roles?
The relationship between fertility and employment among women is a challenging topic that requires further exploration, especially for developing countries where the micro and macro evidence fails to ...
(published as "Birth and Employment Transitions of Women in Turkey: The Emergence of Role Incompatibility' in: Demographic Research, 2018, 39(46), 1241-1290)
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C41, J13, J16
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11237
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Richard
Blundell
Luigi
Pistaferri
Itay
Saporta-Eksten
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Children, Time Allocation and Consumption Insurance
We consider the life cycle choices of a household that in each period decides how much to consume and how to allocate spouses' time to work, leisure, and childcare. In an environment with ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 126 (S1), S73 - S115)
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J22
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11235
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Peter
Rupert
Giulio
Zanella
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Grandchildren and Their Grandparents' Labor Supply
Working-age grandparents supply large amounts of child care, an observation that raises the question of how having grandchildren affects grandparents' own labor supply. Exploiting the unique ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 159, 89 - 103)
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D19, J13, J14, J22
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11234
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Jesper
Alex-Petersen
Petter
Lundborg
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Long-Term Effects of Childhood Nutrition: Evidence from a School Lunch Reform
We examine the long-term impact of a policy that introduced free and nutritious school lunches in Swedish primary schools. For this purpose, we use historical data on the gradual implementation of ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2022, 89 (2), 876-908)
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I12, I38, J24
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11233
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Kashi
Kafle
Dean
Jolliffe
Alex
Winter-Nelson
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Do Different Types of Assets Have Differential Effects on Child Education? Evidence from Tanzania
This analysis is motivated by recognition that anti-poverty interventions often affect both the level and composition of assets held by beneficiaries. To assess the conventional view that assets ...
(published in: World Development, 2018, 109, 14 - 28)
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I25, J22, D13, O12
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11231
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Jared
Ashworth
V. Joseph
Hotz
Arnaud
Maurel
Tyler
Ransom
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Changes across Cohorts in Wage Returns to Schooling and Early Work Experiences
This paper investigates the wage returns to schooling and actual early work experiences, and how these returns have changed over the past twenty years. Using the NLSY surveys, we develop and estimate ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (4), 931 - 964)
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C33, J22, J24, I21, I26
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11230
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Dan
Zeltzer
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Gender Homophily in Referral Networks: Consequences for the Medicare Physician Earnings Gap
In this paper, I assess the extent to which the gender gap in physician earnings may be driven by physicians' preference for working with specialists of the same gender. By analyzing administrative ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020, 12 (2), 169-197)
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I11, J16, L14
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11229
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Christian
Grund
Axel
Minten
Nevena
Toporova
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The Motivation of Temporary Agency Workers: An Empirical Analysis
We are investigating the relationship between individual and job-related characteristics and the motivation of temporary agency workers. To do so, we are using a unique dataset from one of Germany's ...
(revised version published as 'Motivation assessments of temporary agency workers - an empirical analysis based on appraisals compiled by hiring companies' in: management revue - Socio-Economic Studies, 2019, 30, 5-39)
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J5, J81, M5
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11228
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Josse
Delfgaauw
Robert
Dur
Michiel
Souverijn
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Team Incentives, Task Assignment, and Performance: A Field Experiment
The performance of a work team commonly depends on the effort exerted by the team members as well as on the division of tasks among them. However, when leaders assign tasks to team members, ...
(published in: The Leadership Quarterly, 2020, 31 (3), 101241)
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C93, M12, M52
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11227
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Alice
Solda
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Exclusion and Reintegration in a Social Dilemma
Using a negatively framed public good game, we study the cooperative behavior of individuals who reintegrate their group after being excluded by their peers. We manipulate the length of exclusion and ...
(revised version published in: Economic Inquiry, 2019, 58 (1), 120-149)
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C92, H41, D23
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11226
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Bénédicte
Apouey
Cahit
Guven
Claudia
Senik
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Retirement and Unexpected Health Shocks
Do people form correct expectations about the impact of retirement on their health? This paper looks at unexpected health shocks that hit people after they retire. Using data from the Household, ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2019, 33, 116-123.)
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I12, I31, J26
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11225
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Sabien
Dobbelaere
Kozo
Kiyota
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Labor Market Imperfections, Markups and Productivity in Multinationals and Exporters
This paper examines the links between the internationalization mode of firms and market imperfections in product and labor markets. We develop a framework for modelling heterogeneity across firms in ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 53, 198-212)
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C23, D24, F14, F16, J50, L13
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11224
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Russell
Weinstein
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Geography and Employer Recruiting
I analyze whether reducing geographic distance to high-wage jobs increases access to those employment opportunities. I collect office locations and campus recruiting strategies for over 70 ...
(updated version published as 'Firm Decisions and Variation Across Universities in Access to High-Wage Jobs: Evidence from Employer Recruiting' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2022, 40 (1), 1-46 )
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J23, J61, I26
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11223
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Alex
Bryson
Richard
B.
Freeman
Rafael
Gomez
Paul
Willman
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The Twin Track Model of Employee Voice: An Anglo-American Perspective on Union Decline and the Rise of Alternative Forms of Voice
We present a simple framework for analyzing decline in union voice in the Anglo-American world and its replacement by non-union, often direct, forms of worker voice. We argue that it is a decline in ...
(published in: Holland, P., Teicher, J. and Donaghey, J. (eds.) Employee Voice at Work, Springer, 2019)
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J51, J52, J53, M54
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11222
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Alex
Bryson
Harald
Dale-Olsen
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Does Sick Pay Affect Workplace Absence?
Higher replacement rates often imply higher levels of absenteeism, yet even in generous welfare economies, private sick pay is provided in addition to the public sick pay. Why? Using comparative ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2019, (47), 227-252)
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H31, J22, J28, J32
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11221
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Robert
Breunig
Syed
Hasan
Boyd
Hunter
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Financial Stress and Indigenous Australians
We examine the high levels of financial stress among Indigenous populations in Australia. We estimate separate models for the determinants of financial stress for Indigenous and non-Indigenous ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2019, 95 (308), 34 - 57)
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I31, I32, J15
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11220
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Michael
Johannes
Böhm
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The Price of Polarization: Estimating Task Prices under Routine-Biased Technical Change
The debate about the impact of routine-biased technical change on wages revolves around the question whether occupational or overall wage distributions polarized. This paper instead argues that ...
(revised version published in: Quantitative Economics, 2020, 11, 761-799.)
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J23, J24, J31
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11216
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Le
Wen
Sholeh
A.
Maani
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A Panel Study of Immigrants' Overeducation and Earnings in Australia
The recent literature on overeducation has provided divergent results on whether or not overeducation bears an earnings penalty. In addition, few studies have considered overeducation among ...
(published in: International Migration, 2018, 56 (2), 177-200)
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J24, J15, J31
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11215
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Artjoms
Ivlevs
Michail
Veliziotis
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Beyond Conflict: Long-Term Labour Market Integration of Internally Displaced Persons in Post-Socialist Countries
The break-ups of the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia were accompanied by some of the worst military conflicts in modern history, claiming lives of thousands of people and forcibly displacing ...
(published in: Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2018, 105, 131-146)
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D74, J64, M53
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11214
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Bin
Xie
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The Effects of Immigration Quotas on Wages, the Great Black Migration, and Industrial Development
This paper exploits the exogenous and differential immigrant supply shocks caused by the immigration quota system in the 1920s to identify the causal effects of the immigration restriction on the US ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2025, 53 (1), 25-55)
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J61, K37, N32
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11213
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Peter
A.
Savelyev
Kegon
T.K.
Tan
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Socioemotional Skills, Education, and Health-Related Outcomes of High-Ability Individuals
We use the high IQ Terman sample to estimate relationships between education, socioemotional skills, and health-related outcomes that include health behaviors, lifestyles, and health measures across ...
(published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 5 (2), 250–280)
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I12, J24
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11212
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Jan
Bietenbeck
Sanna
Ericsson
Fredrick
M.
Wamalwa
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Preschool Attendance, School Progression, and Cognitive Skills in East Africa
We study the effects of preschool attendance on children's school progression and cognitive skills in Kenya and Tanzania. Our analysis uses novel data from large-scale household surveys of children's ...
(revised version published as 'Preschool attendance, schooling, and cognitive skills in East Africa' in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 73, 101909)
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I21, J24
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11211
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Daniele
Checchi
Maria
De Paola
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The Effect of Multigrade Classes on Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills: Causal Evidence Exploiting Minimum Class Size Rules in Italy
We analyse how schooling in multigrade classes affect the formation of student cognitive and non-cognitive skills. Our identification strategy is based on some institutional features of the Italian ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 67, 235-253)
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I21, I28, C36
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11209
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Sanghamitra
Kanjilal-Bhaduri
Francesco
Pastore
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Returns to Education and Female Participation Nexus: Evidence from India
In this paper, we make an attempt to understand whether low labour market returns to education in India are responsible for low female work participation. The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) ...
(published in: Indian Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 61 (3), 515-536.)
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J16, J21, J82, O12, O15
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11208
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Bethlehem
A.
Argaw
Patrick
A.
Puhani
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Does Class Size Matter for School Tracking Outcomes after Elementary School? Quasi-Experimental Evidence Using Administrative Panel Data from Germany
We use administrative panel data on about a quarter of a million students in the German state of Hesse to estimate the causal effect of class size on school tracking outcomes after elementary school. ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 65, 48-57)
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I21, I28
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11206
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Nattavudh
Powdthavee
Anke
C.
Plagnol
Paul
Frijters
Andrew
E.
Clark
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Who Got the Brexit Blues? Using a Quasi-Experiment to Show the Effect of Brexit on Subjective Wellbeing in the UK
We use the 2015-2016 waves of the UK Household Longitudinal Study (Understanding Society) to look at subjective wellbeing around the time of the June 2016 EU membership Referendum in the UK (Brexit). ...
(published in: Economica, 2019, 86 (343), 471-494)
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I14, I30, I31
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11204
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Michael
Jetter
Ingebjørg
Kristoffersen
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Financial Shocks and the Erosion of Interpersonal Trust: Evidence from Longitudinal Data
This paper evaluates the effect of financial shocks on interpersonal trust levels, exploiting longitudinal survey data from 22,112 Australians. Using within-individual level variation, we find that ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2018, 67, 162 - 176)
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D90, E32, G40, Z1
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