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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
11161 Erich Battistin
Lorenzo Neri
School Performance, Score Inflation and Economic Geography
We show that grading standards for primary school exams in England have triggered an inflation of quality indicators in the national performance tables for almost two decades. The cumulative effects ...
(published as 'School Performance, Score Inflation, and Neighborhood Development' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (3), 753–792)
C26, C31, I2
11160 Sumon K. Bhaumik
Ira N. Gang
Myeong-Su Yun
Poverty's Deconstruction: Beyond the Visible
In contrast to his contribution to other areas, Shubhashis Gangopadhyay's contributions to our understanding of poverty are often thought of as indirect consequences of the main themes of his work. ...
(published in: R. Lensink, S. Sjogren, C. Wihlborg (eds): Paths for Sustainable Economic Development, Gothenburg, 2017, 81 - 96)
C20, I30
11159 Nauro F. Campos
Paul De Grauwe
Yuemei Ji
Structural Reforms, Growth and Inequality: An Overview of Theory, Measurement and Evidence
This chapter provides a critical overview of the state of the art in the economics literature on structural reforms. It takes stock of theoretical developments, measurement efforts and of the ...
(published in N. Campos, P. De Grauwe and Y. Ji (eds.), The Political Economy of Structural Reforms in Europe, Oxford University Press, 2018, 1-44.)
E65, O11, O43
11158 Thomas Deckers
Armin Falk
Fabian Kosse
Pia Pinger
Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
Socio-Economic Status and Inequalities in Children's IQ and Economic Preferences
This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 129 (9), 2504 -2545)
C90, D64, D90, D81, J13, J24, J62
11157 Xavier Ramos
Dirk Van de gaer
Is Inequality of Opportunity Robust to the Measurement Approach?
Recent literature has suggested many ways of measuring equality of opportunity. We analyze in a systematic manner the various approaches put forth in the literature to show whether and to what extent ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2021, 67 (1), 18 - 36)
D3, D63
11156 Sabien Dobbelaere
Jacques Mairesse
Comparing Micro-Evidence on Rent Sharing from Two Different Econometric Models
Researchers contributing to the empirical rent-sharing literature have typically resorted to estimating the responsiveness of workers' wages on firms' ability to pay in order to assess the extent to ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 52, 18-26)
C23, D21, J31, J51
11155 Guoqian Xi
Jörn Block
Frank Lasch
Frank Robert
Roy Thurik
How Does Firm Survival Differ between Business Takeovers and New Venture Start-ups?
Focusing on entrepreneurship entry modes, we investigate two research questions regarding firm survival: how does the survival probability differ between business takeovers and new venture start-ups? ...
(published as 'The survival of business takeovers and new venture start-ups' in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2020, 29 (3), 797 - 826)
L26, M13
11154 Uwe Jirjahn
Foreign Ownership and Intra-Firm Union Density in Germany
From a theoretical viewpoint the relationship between foreign ownership and unionization is ambiguous. On the one hand, foreign owners have better opportunities to undermine workers' unionization. On ...
(revised version published in: Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2021, 42 (4), 1052-1079)
F23, F66, J51, J52
11152 Anat Alexandron-Lavon
Gil S. Epstein
Renana Lindner Pomerantz
The Effect of Ideological Positions on Job Market Interaction
Reporters and editors may not have the same ideology. When an editor wants to employ a new reporter with a different ideology, they have to negotiate the price of moving from their own to the other's ...
(published as 'The effect of ideological positions on job market interaction: A spatial analysis' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 145, 261 - 274)
J32, J44
11149 Gil S. Epstein
Ira N. Gang
Inequality, Good Governance and Endemic Corruption
Can a society suffering contests between rich and poor achieve good governance in the face of endemic corruption? We examine a stylized poor state with weak institutions in which a "culture of ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2019, 26, 999 - 1017)
O12, O15, O16, D82, G38
11148 Gil S. Epstein
Ira N. Gang
Taxation, Social Protection, and Governance Decentralization
Governments do not have perfect information regarding constituent priorities and needs. This lack of knowledge opens the door for groups to lobby in order to affect the government's taxation levels. ...
(published as 'Taxation and social protection under governance decentralisation' in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 60, 101743)
H77, D72, H73
11147 Nizamul Islam
Ugo Colombino
The Case for NIT+FT in Europe: An Empirical Optimal Taxation Exercise
We present an exercise in empirical optimal taxation for European countries from three areas: Southern, Central and Northern Europe. For each country, we estimate a microeconometric model of labour ...
(revised version published in: Economic Modelling, 2018, 75, 38-69.)
H21, C18
11146 Raul Ramos
Migration Aspirations among NEETs in Selected MENA Countries
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region shows high levels of unemployment rates among youth and the rate of youth not in education, employment or training (NEET) is also among the highest in ...
(published in: Journal of Geographical Systems, 2019, 21 (4), 487-507)
F22, J61, J65, R23
11145 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Esther Arenas-Arroyo
The Changing Family Structure of American Children with Unauthorized Parents
Tougher immigration enforcement has been responsible for 1.8 million deportations between 2009 and 2013 alone, most of them involving fathers and heads of household. We exploit the geographic and ...
(published as 'Immigration Enforcement and Children's Living Arrangements' in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2019, 38 (1), 11-40 )
J13, J15, K37
11144 Björn Anders Gustafsson
Hanna Mac Innes
Torun Österberg
Older People in Sweden Without Means: On the Importance of Age at Immigration for Being 'Twice Poor'
This paper examines immigrant poverty at an older age in Sweden with an emphasis on late-in-life immigrants. We analyse tax data for the entire Swedish-born and non-Swedish-born population. The ...
(published in: Aging and Society, 2019, 39 (6), 1172-1199)
I32, J14, J15
11143 Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga
Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell
Albert Saiz
Immigrant Locations and Native Residential Preferences: Emerging Ghettos or New Communities?
While the impact of immigrants on labor markets may be small, strong political movements voicing opposition to the growth of resident foreign-born populations are on the upswing. We study whether ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2019, 112, 133-151)
F22, J61, D33
11141 Juanna Schrřter Joensen
Helena Skyt Nielsen
Spillovers in Education Choice
This paper examines how skills are shaped by social interactions in families. We show that older siblings causally affect younger sibling's education choices and early career earnings. We focus on ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 157, 158-183)
I21, I24, J24
11140 Casey Boyd-Swan
Chris M. Herbst
Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in the Labor Market for Child Care Teachers
This paper examines racial and ethnic discrimination in the labor market for center-based child care teachers. We assemble a novel dataset that combines a resume audit study of child care centers in ...
(published in: Educational Researcher, 2019, 48 (7), 394 - 406)
J71
11139 Patrick A. Puhani
Do Boys Benefit from Male Teachers in Elementary School? Evidence from Administrative Panel Data
With girls having overtaken boys in many education indicators, the "feminization" of elementary school teaching is causing debates about disadvantages for male students. Using administrative panel ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 340-354)
I21, J45, J71, J78
11136 Radim Bohacek
Michal Myck
Economic Consequences of Political Persecution
We analyze the effects of persecution and labor market discrimination during the communist regime in the former Czechoslovakia using a representative life history sample from the Survey of Health, ...
(updated version available as DP 18282)
N34, J70, J31, C21
11135 Andrew E. Clark
Tom Lee
Early-Life Correlates of Later-Life Well-Being: Evidence from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study
We here use data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) to provide one of the first analyses of the distal (early-life) and proximal (later-life) correlates of older-life subjective well-being. ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 181, 360-368)
I31, I38
11133 Artjoms Ivlevs
Adverse Welfare Shocks and Pro-Environmental Behaviour: Evidence from the Global Economic Crisis
This paper examines the effects of the 2008–09 global economic crisis on people's pro-environmental behaviour and willingness to pay for climate change mitigation. We hypothesise that the crisis ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65(2), 293-311)
G01, P28, Q53, Q54
11132 Peng Zhang
Olivier Deschenes
Kyle C. Meng
Junjie Zhang
Temperature Effects on Productivity and Factor Reallocation: Evidence from a Half Million Chinese Manufacturing Plants
This paper uses detailed production data from a half million Chinese manufacturing plants over 1998-2007 to estimate the effects of temperature on firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), factor ...
(published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2018, 88, 1 - 17)
Q54, Q56, L60, O14, O44
11130 Eugenio Proto
Daniel Sgroi
Mahnaz Nazneen
The Effect of Positive Mood on Cooperation in Repeated Interaction
Existing research supports two opposing mechanisms through which positive mood might affect cooperation. Some studies have suggested that positive mood produces more altruistic, open and helpful ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 168, 209-228)
C72, C91, D91
11129 Steffen Altmann
Christian Traxler
Philipp Weinschenk
Deadlines and Cognitive Limitations
This paper studies the interplay between deadlines and cognitive limitations. We analyze an agent's decision to complete a one-off task under a deadline. Postponing the task can be beneficial for the ...
(substantially revised version published in: Management Science, 2022, 68 (9), 6733-6750)
C93, D03, D91
11128 Matthias Heinz
Sabrina Jeworrek
Vanessa Mertins
Heiner Schumacher
Matthias Sutter
Measuring Indirect Effects of Unfair Employer Behavior on Worker Productivity: A Field Experiment
We present a field experiment in which we set up a call-center to study how the productivity of workers is affected if managers treat their co-workers in an unfair way. This question cannot be ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130(632), 2546-2568)
C93, J50, J63
11127 Stijn Baert
Brecht Neyt
Eddy Omey
Dieter Verhaest
Student Work, Educational Achievement, and Later Employment: A Dynamic Approach
This study examines the direct and indirect impact (via educational achievement) of student work during secondary education on later employment outcomes. To this end, we jointly model student work ...
(revised version published as 'Student work during secondary education, educational achievement, and later employment: a dynamic approach' in: Empirical Economics, 2022, 63, 1605 - 1635)
I21, J24, C35
11126 Vladimir Gimpelson
Rostislav Kapeliushnikov
Age and Education in the Russian Labour Market Equation
This paper deals with age and educational dimensions of the labour supply in Russia and explores two time periods: from 2000 to 2015 (retrospective), and the next 15 years (prospective). For our ...
(published as 'Age and education in the Russian labour market' in: T. Becker, S. Oxenstierna (eds.),The Russian Economy under Putin (Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series), Routledge, 2018)
J11, J21, J24
11123 Jaap Nieuwenhuis
Tiit Tammaru
Maarten van Ham
Lina Hedman
David Manley
Does Segregation Reduce Socio-Spatial Mobility? Evidence from Four European Countries with Different Inequality and Segregation Contexts
The neighbourhoods in which people live reflects their social class and preferences, so studying socio-spatial mobility between neighbourhoods gives insight in the openness of spatial class ...
(published in: Urban Studies, 2020, 57 (1), 176 - 197)
I32, J61, J62, R23
11122 Inés P. Murillo Huertas
Raul Ramos
Hipólito Simón
Revisiting Interregional Wage Differentials: New Evidence from Spain with Matched Employer-Employee Data
This study examines wage differences across Spain's regions along the entire wage distribution based on matched employer-employee microdata from 2006 to 2014. Unlike previous studies, we control for ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2020, 60 (2), 296-347)
J31, J52
11121 Peter Haan
Daniel Kemptner
Holger Lüthen
The Rising Longevity Gap by Lifetime Earnings: Distributional Implications for the Pension System
This study uses German social security records to provide novel evidence about the heterogeneity in life expectancy by lifetime earnings and, additionally, documents the distributional implications ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2020, 17, 100199)
H55, I14, J11
11119 Francesca Barigozzi
Helmuth Cremer
Kerstin Roeder
Until Taxes Do Us Part: Tax Penalties or Bonuses and the Marriage Decision
The tax regimes applied to couples in many countries including the US, France, and Germany imply either a marriage penalty or a marriage bonus. We study how they affect the decision to get married by ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 118, 37–50)
J12, D82, H31
11118 Archana Dang
Pushkar Maitra
Nidhiya Menon
Labor Market Engagement and the Health of Working Adults: Evidence from India
Driven by rapid income growth, labor market transitions in the nature of jobs, and lifestyle factors, there has been a widespread increase in rates of overweight and obesity in many countries. This ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2019, 33, 58 - 77)
I12, I15, O12
11116 Thomas K. Bauer
Matthias Giesecke
Laura Janisch
Forced Migration and Mortality
We examine the long-run effects of forced migration from Eastern Europe into post-war Germany. Existing evidence suggests that displaced individuals are worse off economically, facing a considerably ...
(published as 'The Impact of Forced Migration on Mortality: Evidence from German Pension Insurance Records' in: Demography, 2019, 56(1), 25-47)
I12, J61, O15, R23
11115 Oladele Akogun
Andrew Dillon
Jed Friedman
Ashesh Prasann
Pieter Serneels
Productivity and Health: Alternative Productivity Estimates Using Physical Activity
This paper investigates an alternative proxy for individual worker productivity in physical work settings: a direct measure of physical activity using an accelerometer. First, the paper compares ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2021, 35 (3), 652 - 680)
I12, J22, J24, O12
11114 John T. Addison
Liwen Chen
Orgul Demet Ozturk
Occupational Match Quality and Gender over Two Cohorts
Job mobility, especially early in a career, is an important source of wage growth. This effect is typically attributed to heterogeneity in the quality of employee-employer matches, with individuals ...
(revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2020, 73(3), 730-767.)
J3, J16, J22, J24, J31, J33, N3
11113 Alexander Hijzen
Pedro S. Martins
Jante Parlevliet
Collective Bargaining through the Magnifying Glass: A Comparison between the Netherlands and Portugal
This paper contributes to a deeper understanding of sector-level bargaining systems and their role for labour market performance. We compare two countries with seemingly similar collective bargaining ...
(published as 'Frontal assault versus incremental change: A comparison of collective bargaining in Portugal and the Netherlands' in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2019/0008)
J5, P52
11112 Alex Bryson
Mutual Gains? Is There a Role for Employee Engagement in the Modern Workplace?
I examine the history of employee engagement and how it has been characterised by thinkers in sociology, psychology, management and economics. I suggest that, while employers may choose to invest in ...
(published in: Bosio, G., Minola, T., Origio, F., and Tomelleri, S. (eds), Rethinking Entrepreneurial Human Capital, Springer, 2018)
J24, J28, L22, L23, M12, M54
11111 Erling Barth
Alex Bryson
Harald Dale-Olsen
Union Density, Productivity and Wages
We exploit tax-induced exogenous variance in the price of union membership to identify the effects of changes in firm union density on firm productivity and wages in the population of Norwegian firms ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130 (631), 1898 - 1936)
J01, J08, J50, J51
11110 Michael R. Ransom
Tyler Ransom
Do High School Sports Build or Reveal Character?
We examine the extent to which participation in high school athletics has beneficial effects on future education, labor market, and health outcomes. Due to the absence of plausible instruments in ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 64 (1), 75-89)
I20, J24
11108 Benoit Dostie
Mohsen Javdani
Not for the Profit, but for the Training? Gender Differences in Training in the For-Profit and Non-Profit Sectors
We use Canadian linked employer-employee data to examine gender differences in probability, duration, and intensity of firm-sponsored training. We find that women in the for-profit sector are less ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 58 (3), 644-689.)
J24, L22, M53, O32
11107 Judith M. Delaney
Paul J. Devereux
More Education, Less Volatility? The Effect of Education on Earnings Volatility over the Life Cycle
Much evidence suggests that having more education leads to higher earnings in the labor market. However, there is little evidence about whether having more education causes employees to experience ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37 (1), 101-137)
I26, J01
11106 Rita Ginja
Jenny Jans
Arizo Karimi
Parental Investments in Early Life and Child Outcomes: Evidence from Swedish Parental Leave Rules
How do parental resources early in life affect children's health and schooling outcomes? We address this question by exploiting the so-called speed premium (SP) in the Swedish parental leave (PL) ...
(published as 'Parental Leave Benefits, Household Labor Supply, and Children's Long-Run Outcomes' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2020, 38 (1), 261-320.)
J13, J22, J18
11105 Dan Lerner
Ingrid Verheul
Roy Thurik
Entrepreneurship & Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Large-Scale Study Involving the Clinical Condition of ADHD
A growing conversation has emerged linking ostensibly dark or pathological individual-level characteristics to entrepreneurship. Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) emerged as a ...
(published in: Small Business Economcis, 2019, 53, 381- 392)
L26, I12
11104 Guoqian Xi
Jörn Block
Frank Lasch
Frank Robert
Roy Thurik
Mode of Entry into Hybrid Entrepreneurship: New Venture Start-Up versus Business Takeover
Many entrepreneurs start their ventures while retaining jobs in wage employment; this phenomenon is called hybrid entrepreneurship. Little is known about the entry modes (new venture start-up vs. ...
(published in: International Review of Entrepreneurship, 2018, 16 (2), 217 - 240)
L26
11103 Jolanda Hessels
Wim Naudé
The Intersection of the Fields of Entrepreneurship and Development Economics: A Review towards a New View
Policy makers find it difficult to promote economic development through entrepreneurship and SMEs. In this paper we argue that this is because the positive impact of entrepreneurship is overestimated ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2019, 33 (2), 389 - 403)
F23, L26, L25, O38, O57
11102 Reto Odermatt
Alois Stutzer
Subjective Well-Being and Public Policy
Measures of subjective well-being have gained substantial attention in economics as quantitative approximations of individual welfare. They allow researchers to study relevant determinants of welfare ...
(published in: Ed Diener, Shigehiro Oishi and Louis Tay (eds.), Handbook of Well-Being. Noba Scholar Handbook Series: Subjective Well-being. Salt Lake City, UT: DEF Publishers, 2018. )
D61, D91, H4, I31
11101 Neha Agarwal
Hans-Peter Kohler
Subha Mani
Dynamics in Physical Functioning Limitations
The extent to which physical functioning limitations result in permanent job loss, lowered lifetime income and assets, in part, depends upon the extent to which onset of these limitations becomes ...
(published as 'Path Dependence in Disability' in: Journal of African Economies, 2022, 31 (4), 329 - 354)
J14, I15, I10
11098 Reto Odermatt
Nattavudh Powdthavee
Alois Stutzer
Overoptimistic Entrepreneurs: Predicting Wellbeing Consequences of Self-Employment
The formation of expectations is a fundamental part of the process when people decide about engaging in an entrepreneurial venture. We evaluate the accuracy of newly self-employed people's ...
(revised version published as 'Are Newly Self-Employed Overly Optimistic About Their Future Well-Being?' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2021, 95, 101779)
D83, D91, J20, I31
11097 Jonathan F. Schulz
Petra Thiemann
Christian Thöni
Nudging Generosity: Choice Architecture and Cognitive Factors in Charitable Giving
In an experimental setup we investigate the effect of two different choice architectures on donation decisions. In the treatment group, subjects can either specify a charity of their choice, or ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2018, 74, 139-145)
C93, D64, H41, L3
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