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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
11096 Tobias Thomas
Moritz Heß
Gert G. Wagner
Reluctant to Reform? A Note on Risk-Loving Politicians and Bureaucrats
As from a political economy perspective, politicians often fail to implement structural reforms, we investigate if the resistance to reform is based on the differences in the risk preferences of ...
(published in: Review of Economics (Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftswissenschaften), 2017, 68 (3), 167-179)
D71, D78, H11, H70, P16, Z13
11095 Robert Dur
Max van Lent
Serving the Public Interest in Several Ways: Theory and Empirics
We develop a model where people differ in their altruistic preferences and can serve the public interest in two ways: by making donations to charity and by taking a public service job and exerting ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 13-24)
D64, H11, J45, M50
11094 Riccardo Magnani
Luca Piccoli
Martine Carré
Amedeo Spadaro
Would a Euro's Depreciation Improve the French Economy?
In this paper, we use a Micro-Macro model to evaluate the effects of a euro's depreciation on the French economy, both at the macro and micro level. Our Micro-Macro model consists of a ...
(published as 'A Micro-Macro Simulation Model Applied to the French Economy: The Case of a Euro's Real Depreciation' in: In: Perali F., Scandizzo P. (eds) The New Generation of Computable General Equilibrium Models. Springer, 2018)
F40, C63, C68
11093 Sabyasachi Das
Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay
Rajas Saroy
Efficiency Consequences of Affirmative Action in Politics: Evidence from India
We examine how overall delivery of public goods (i.e., efficiency) is affected by affirmative action in elections, i.e., restricting candidate entry in elections to one population group. We argue ...
(published as 'Does Affirmative Action in Politics hinder Performance? Evidence from India' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2023, 214, 370-405)
D72, D78, H41, O12
11092 Ugo Trivellato
Microdata for Social Sciences and Policy Evaluation as a Public Good
The balance between the right to privacy and the right to freedom of information is altered when scientific research comes into play, because of its inherent needs and societal function. This paper ...
(published in: Crato N. and P. Paruolo (eds,), Data-driven Policy Impact Evaluation: How Microdata is Transforming Policy Design, Springer, 2019, 27- 45)
C81, D04, H41, I38, J08, L5
11091 Pedro Maia Gomes
Heterogeneity and the Public Sector Wage Policy
A model with search and matching frictions and heterogeneous workers was established to evaluate a reform of the public sector wage policy in steady-state. The model was calibrated to the UK economy ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2018, 59 (3), 1469 -1489)
E24, E62, J45
11090 Emile Cammeraat
Egbert L. W. Jongen
Pierre Koning
Preventing NEETs during the Great Recession: The Effects of a Mandatory Activation Program for Young Welfare Recipients
We study the impact of a mandatory activation program for young welfare recipients in the Netherlands. Introduced at the end of 2009, the goal of the program was to prevent so-called NEETs ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2022, 62, 749-777)
C21, H31, J21
11089 Felix Bransch
Michael Kvasnicka
Male Gatekeepers Gender Bias in the Publishing Process?
Using data on articles published in the top-five economic journals in the period 1991 to 2010, we explore whether the gender composition of editorial boards is related to the publishing success of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 202, 714-732)
A14, J16, J71
11087 Julia Bredtmann
Sebastian Otten
Christian Rulff
Husband's Unemployment and Wife's Labor Supply: The Added Worker Effect across Europe
This paper investigates the responsiveness of women's labor supply to their husband's job loss – the so-called added worker effect. We contribute to the literature by taking an explicit ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2018, 71 (5), 1201-1231 )
J22, J64, J82
11086 Sudipa Sarkar
Soham Sahoo
Stephan Klasen
Employment Transitions of Women in India: A Panel Analysis
This study analyses employment transitions of working-age women in India. The puzzling issue of low labour force participation despite substantial economic growth, strong fertility decline and ...
(published in: World Development, 2019, 115, 291-309)
J21, J16, O15
11084 Nicolas Frémeaux
Arnaud Lefranc
Assortative Mating and Earnings Inequality in France
This paper analyzes economic assortative mating and its contribution to inequality in France. We first provide descriptive evidence on the statistical association in several socio-economic attributes ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2020, 66 (4), 757 - 783)
J12, J22, D31
11082 Graziella Bertocchi
Arcangelo Dimico
Francesco Lancia
Alessia Russo
Youth Enfranchisement, Political Responsiveness and Education Expenditure: Evidence from the U.S.
This paper studies the effect of preregistration laws on government spending in the U.S. Preregistration allows young citizens to register before being eligible to vote and has been introduced in ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 12, 2020, 1-32)
D72, H52, P16
11081 Luca Moretti
Martin Mayerl
Samuel Mühlemann
Peter Schlögl
Stefan C. Wolter
So Similar and Yet So Different: A Comparative Analysis of a Firm's Cost and Benefits of Apprenticeship Training in Austria and Switzerland
The authors compare a firm's costs and benefits of providing apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland, using two original micro data sets. While both countries share a number of ...
(published as 'So similar and yet so different: A firm's net costs and post-training benefits from apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland' in: Evidence Based HRM, 2019, 7 (2), 229-246.)
J24, J31, J44
11080 Martin Biewen
Madalina Tapalaga
Early Tracking, Academic vs. Vocational Training and the Value of 'Second Chance' Options
This paper employs the dynamic treatment effects methodology proposed by Heckman et al. (2016, 2017) to examine educational transitions and expected returns in the German education system which is ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 66, 101900)
C3, I21, I26, J31
11078 Amy Hsin
Francesc Ortega
The Effects of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals on the Educational Outcomes of Undocumented Students
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is the first large-scale immigration reform to affect undocumented immigrants in the United States in decades and offers eligible undocumented youth ...
(published in: Demography, 2018, 55 (4), 1487-1506.)
J15, J24
11077 Sebastian Till Braun
Anica Kramer
Michael Kvasnicka
Local Labor Markets and the Persistence of Population Shocks
This paper studies the persistence of a large, unexpected, and regionally very unevenly distributed population shock, the inflow of eight million ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2021, 21 (2), 231–260)
J61, R12, R23, N34
11076 Maria Vaalavuo
Maarten van Ham
Timo M. Kauppinen
Income Increase and Moving to a Better Neighbourhood: An Enquiry into Ethnic Differences in Finland
Concentration to disadvantaged neighbourhoods may hinder immigrants' opportunities for social integration, so equal chances of translating available economic resources into mobility to less ...
(published in: European Sociological Review, 2019, 35 (4), 538 - 551)
O15, O18, P25, R23
11074 Liang Zheng
Zhong Zhao
What Drives Spatial Clusters of Entrepreneurship in China? Evidence from Economic Census Data
Since Chinese government initiated economic reform in the late 1970s, entrepreneurship and private sectors have emerged gradually and played an increasingly important role in promoting economic ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2017, 46, 228-248 )
L26, L60, L80, R10, R12
11073 Simonetta Longhi
Spatial-Ethnic Inequalities: The Role of Location in the Estimation of Ethnic Wage Differentials
Analyses of ethnic and racial wage differentials neglect the fact that minorities cluster in urban and in more deprived areas. This paper estimates ethnic wage differentials by comparing minorities ...
(published as 'Does Geographical Location Matter for Ethnic Wage Gaps?' in: Journal of Regional Science, 2020, 60 (3), 538-557)
J31, J71, R10, R23
11072 Martin Biewen
Bernd Fitzenberger
Jakob de Lazzer
Rising Wage Inequality in Germany: Increasing Heterogeneity and Changing Selection into Full-Time Work
This study revisits the increase in wage inequality in Germany. Accounting for changes in various sets of observables, composition changes explain a large part of the increase in wage inequality ...
(revised version published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 7:10)
J31, J20, J60
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