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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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10774
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Milena
Nikolova
Olga
Popova
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Sometimes Your Best Just Ain't Good Enough: The Worldwide Evidence on Well-Being Efficiency
Despite the burgeoning happiness economics literature, scholars have largely ignored explorations of how individuals or countries translate given resources into well-being. Using a balanced panel on ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2021, 21(1), 83-114)
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D60, I31, O15, P52
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10773
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Terhi
Maczulskij
Petri
Böckerman
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Harsh Times: Do Stressors Lead to Labor Market Losses?
This paper examines the effects of past stressful life events on subsequent labor market success using data on twins matched to comprehensive register-based, individual-level information on income ...
(published in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 20 (3), 357-373)
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I31, J24, J31
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10771
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Khulan
Altangerel
Jan
C.
van Ours
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U.S. Immigration Reform and the Dynamics of Mexican Migration
The 1986 US Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) was directed at tackling the problem of growing unauthorized migration through legalization of unauthorized immigrants, increasing border ...
(published in: De Economist, 2017, 165 (4), 463-485.)
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J61, J68
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10770
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Tomi
Kyyrä
José María
Arranz
Carlos
García-Serrano
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Does Part-Time Work Help Unemployed Workers to Find Full-Time Work? Evidence from Spain
This paper examines whether part-time work acts as a bridge towards full-time work for unemployed workers in Spain. We follow the timing-of-event approach and estimate the causal effect of part-time ...
(published as "Does Subsidized Part-Time Employment Help Unemployed Workers to Find Full-Time Employment?" in: Labour Economics, 2019, 56, 68-83)
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J64, J65
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10768
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Duncan
McVicar
Mark
Wooden
Yin
King
Fok
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Contingent Employment and Labour Market Pathways: Bridge or Trap?
The debate over whether contingent (and typically more precarious) employment acts as a bridge to permanent employment, or as a trap, has tended to focus on transitions rather than longer-run ...
(published in: European Sociological Review, 2019, 35 (1), 98 - 115.)
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J41, C38
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10767
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Francesco
Pastore
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Why So Slow? The School-to-Work Transition in Italy
This essay provides a comprehensive interpretative framework to understand the reasons why the school-to-work transition (SWT) is so slow and hard in Italy. The country is a typical example of the ...
(published in: Studies in Higher Education, 2019, 44 (8), 1358-1371)
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H52, I2, I24, J13, J24
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10766
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Andrea
Albanese
Lorenzo
Cappellari
Marco
Leonardi
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The Effects of Youth Labor Market Reforms: Evidence from Italian Apprenticeships
This paper estimates the causal effects of the 2003 reform of the Italian apprenticeship contract which aimed at introducing the "dual system" in Italy by allowing on-the-job training. The reform ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2021, 73 (1), 98 - 121)
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J24, J41, C21
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10763
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Martin
Biewen
Matthias
Seckler
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Changes in the German Wage Structure: Unions, Internationalization, Tasks, Firms, and Worker Characteristics
This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the quantitative importance of the factors associated with the rise in male wage inequality in Germany over the period 1995-2010. In contrast to most ...
(revised version published as 'Unions, Internationalization, Tasks, Firms, and Worker Characteristics: A Detailed Decomposition Analysis of Rising Wage Inequality in Germany' in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2019, 17, 461-498)
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C14, J31, J51, F16
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10761
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Paul
Bingley
Lorenzo
Cappellari
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Correlations of Brothers' Earnings and Intergenerational Transmission
Correlations between parent and child earnings reflect intergenerational mobility and, more broadly, correlations between siblings' earnings reflect shared community and family background. These ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (2), 370 - 383)
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D31, J62
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10758
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Jorge
Luis
García
James
J.
Heckman
Anna
Ziff
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Gender Differences in the Benefits of an Influential Early Childhood Program
This paper estimates gender differences in life-cycle impacts across multiple domains of an influential enriched early childhood program targeted toward disadvantaged children that was evaluated by ...
(revised version available as NBER Working Paper No. 23412)
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J13, I28, C93
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10757
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Regina
T.
Riphahn
Frederik
Wiynck
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Fertility Effects of Child Benefits
We exploit the 1996 reform of the German child benefit program to identify the causal effect of heterogeneous child benefits on fertility. While generally the reform increased child benefits, the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30, 1135 - 1184)
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J13, I38, C54
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10756
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David
Autor
David
Dorn
Lawrence
Katz
Christina
Patterson
John
Van Reenen
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The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms
The fall of labor's share of GDP in the United States and many other countries in recent decades is well documented but its causes remain uncertain. Existing empirical assessments of trends in ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2020, 135 (2), 645-709)
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E24, J31, L11
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10755
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Michael
Babington
Sebastian
J.
Goerg
Carl
Kitchens
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Do Tournaments with Superstars Encourage or Discourage Competition?
To test and replicate the superstar effect reported by Brown (2011) we empirically study contests where a single entrant has an endogenously higher probability of winning. Unlike the previous ...
(published in: Journal of Sports Economics, 2020, 21 (1), 44-63.)
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C2, J3, M52, D03
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10754
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Simon
Gächter
Lingbo
Huang
Martin
Sefton
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Disappointment Aversion and Social Comparisons in a Real-Effort Competition
We present an experiment to investigate the source of disappointment aversion in a sequential real-effort competition. Specifically, we study the contribution of social comparison effects to the ...
(revised version published in Economic Inquiry, 2018, 56 (3), 1512-1525)
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C91, D12, D81, D84
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10753
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Nikos
Askitas
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Opinion Copulas, Homophily and Multimodal Marginals
An empirically founded and widely established driving force in opinion dynamics is homophily i.e. the tendency of "birds of a feather" to "flock together". The closer our opinions are the more likely ...
(Published in: PLoS ONE, 2017, 12(8), e0183277)
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C92, E03, G02
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10752
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Nattavudh
Powdthavee
Yohanes E.
Riyanto
Jack
L.
Knetsch
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Impact of Lower Rated Journals on Economists' Judgments of Publication Lists: Evidence from a Survey Experiment
Publications in leading journals are widely known to have a positive impact on economists' judgments of the value of authors' contributions to the literature and on their professional reputations. ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2018, 66, 33-44)
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A14
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10750
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Christian
Grund
Johannes
Martin
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The Role of Works Councils for Severance Payments
Using representative German employee data, we analyse the role of works councils for the incidence of severance payments subsequent to dismissals. While there is a positive relation with severance ...
(published in: International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2021, 32, 871-892.)
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J53, J63, J65
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10749
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Belton
M.
Fleisher
William
H.
McGuire
Xiaojun
Wang
Min Qiang
Zhao
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Wages, Innovation, and Employment in China
We investigate the role of factor-priced-induced innovation in mediating the employment impact of expanding production in China. Our empirical approach implements concepts developed in Acemoglu ...
(revised version)
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O30, D22, D24, D33
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10748
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Rafael
de
Balanzó
Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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Crisis and Reorganization in Urban Dynamics: The Barcelona Case Study
We use the adaptive cycle theory to improve our understanding of cycles of urban change in the city of Barcelona from 1953 to present. Most specifically, we explore the vulnerabilities and windows of ...
(published in: Ecology & Society, 2017, 23 (4), Article 6)
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Q01, Q57, R0
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10747
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Daniel
J.
Henderson
Andrew
Houtenville
Le
Wang
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The Distribution of Returns to Education for People with Disabilities
This note takes a first look at the distribution of returns to education for people with disabilities, a particularly disadvantaged group whose labor market performances have not been well studied or ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2017, 38, 261-282)
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C14, I12, I26, I31
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10745
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J. Catherine
Maclean
Brendan
Saloner
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The Effect of Public Insurance Expansions on Substance Use Disorder Treatment: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act
We examine the early effects of U.S. state Medicaid expansions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on substance use disorder (SUD) treatment utilization. We couple administrative data on admissions ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2019, 38 (2), 366 - 393)
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I1, I13, I18
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10744
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Fadima
Bocoum
Michael
Grimm
Renate
Hartwig
Nathalie
Zongo
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Nudging Households to Take Up Health Insurance: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Burkina Faso
In this paper we analyze the impact of a randomized information package on the understanding and uptake of community based health insurance. The information package consists of a detailed brochure ...
(published as 'Can information increase the understanding and uptake of insurance? Lessons from a randomized experiment in rural Burkina Faso' in: Social Science and Medicine, 2019, 220, 102-111.)
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D83, G22, I13, M31, O33
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10742
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Pietro
Biroli
Daniela
Del Boca
James
J.
Heckman
Lynne
Pettler
Heckman
Yu
Kyung
Koh
Sylvi
Kuperman
Sidharth
Moktan
Chiara
D.
Pronzato
Anna
Ziff
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Evaluation of the Reggio Approach to Early Education
We evaluate the Reggio Approach using non-experimental data on individuals from the cities of Reggio Emilia, Parma and Padova belonging to one of five age cohorts: ages 50, 40, 30, 18, and 6 as of ...
(published in: Research in Economics, 2018, 72 (1), 1-32)
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I21, I26, I28, J13
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10741
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Leslie
S.
Stratton
Nabanita
Datta Gupta
David
Reimer
Anders
Holm
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Modeling Enrollment in and Completion of Vocational Education: The Role of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills by Program Type
This study provides evidence of the importance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills to enrollment in and completion of three types of vocational training (VET): education and health, technical, and ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2018, 18(4), 1-17. )
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I21
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10740
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Cristina
Borra
Martin
J.
Browning
Almudena
Sevilla
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Marriage and Housework
This paper provides insights into the welfare gains of forming a couple by estimating how much of the difference in housework time between single and married individuals is causal and how much is due ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2021, 73 (2), 479 - 508)
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D13, J12, J22
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10739
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Charles
Courtemanche
Rusty
Tchernis
Xilin
Zhou
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Parental Work Hours and Childhood Obesity: Evidence Using Instrumental Variables Related to Sibling School Eligibility
This study exploits plausibly exogenous variation from the youngest sibling's school eligibility to estimate the effects of parental work on the weight outcomes of older children in the household. ...
(published as 'Maternal Work Hours and Childhood Obesity: Evidence Using Instrumental Variables Related to Sibling School Eligibility' in: Journal of Human Capital, 2019, 13 (4), 553 - 584 )
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I12, J22
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10738
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Stijn
Baert
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Hiring Discrimination: An Overview of (Almost) All Correspondence Experiments Since 2005
This chapter aims to provide an exhaustive list of all (i.e. 90) correspondence studies on hiring discrimination that were conducted between 2005 and 2016 (and could be found through a systematic ...
(revised version published in: S.M. Gaddis (ed.), Audit Studies Behind the Scenes with Theory, Method, and Nuance, Springer, 2018.)
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C93, J71
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10737
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Alex
Bryson
Michael
White
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HRM and Small-Firm Employee Motivation: Before and after the Recession
A long-running debate in the small firms' literature questions the value of formal 'human resource management' (HRM) practices which have been linked to high performance in larger firms. We ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2019, 72, 3: 749-773)
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L23, M50, M54
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10736
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Jeffrey
P.
Carpenter
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The Sequencing of Gift Exchange: A Field Trial
There is now an extensive literature on "gift exchange" showing that when principals and agents can trade "gifts" (rewards that should not emerge in a competitive equilibrium), exchange becomes more ...
(published in: the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 139, 26 - 31)
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C93, D03, D64, H41, L30, M30
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10734
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Thomas
de Graaff
Daniel
Arribas-Bel
Ceren
Ozgen
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Demographic Aging and Employment Dynamics in German Regions: Modeling Regional Heterogeneity
Persistence of high youth unemployment and dismal labour market outcomes are imminent concerns for most European economies. The relationship between demographic ageing and employment outcomes is even ...
(published in: Stough, R. et al. (eds.): Modelling Aging and Migration Effects on Spatial Labour Markets, Springer, 2018, 211 - 231 )
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J21, J61, J01
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10733
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Marco
Bertoni
Giorgio
Brunello
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Does Delayed Retirement Affect Youth Employment? Evidence from Italian Local Labour Markets
Pension reforms that raise minimum retirement age increase the pool of senior individuals aged 50+ who are not eligible to retire from the labour market. Using data from Italian provinces and regions ...
(published as 'Does A Higher Retirement Age Reduce Youth Employment' in: Economic Policy, 2021, 36 (106), 325 - 372)
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J26, H55, J21, J14, J11
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10732
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Piotr
Lewandowski
Roma
Keister
Wojciech
Hardy
Szymon
Górka
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Routine and Ageing? The Intergenerational Divide in the Deroutinisation of Jobs in Europe
This paper analyses the age dimension of changes in the task composition of jobs in 12 European countries between 1998 and 2014. We use the approach proposed by Autor et al. (2003) and Acemoglu & ...
(published as 'Ageing of routine jobs in Europe' in: Economic Systems, 2020, 100816.)
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J21, J23, J24
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10731
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Xi
Chen
Karen
Eggleston
Ang
Sun
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The Impact of Social Pensions on Intergenerational Relationships: Comparative Evidence from China
China launched a new rural pension scheme (hereafter NRPS) for rural residents in 2009, now covering almost all counties with over 400 million people enrolled. This implementation of the largest ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2018, 12, 225 -235)
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H55, I18, J14, R28
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10730
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Arne
Uhlendorff
Joachim
Wolff
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Under Heavy Pressure: Intense Monitoring and Accumulation of Sanctions for Young Welfare Recipients in Germany
With the introduction of a new welfare benefit system in 2005, Germany implemented quite strict benefit sanctions for welfare recipients aged younger than 25 years. For all types of non-compliance ...
(revised version published as 'The impact of sanctions for young welfare recipients on transitions to work and wages and on dropping out" in: Economica, 2022, 89 (535), 1-28)
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J64, J65, C41, C21
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10729
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Juan
J.
Dolado
Cecilia
García-Peñalosa
Linas
Tarasonis
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The Changing Nature of Gender Selection into Employment: Europe over the Great Recession
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the role played by selectivity issues induced by nonemployment in explaining gender wage gap patterns in the EU since the onset of the Great Recession. We show ...
(published in: Economic Policy, 2020, 104, 637-676. )
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J31
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10727
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Aedin
Doris
Donal
O'Neill
Olive
Sweetman
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Does Reducing Unemployment Benefits During a Recession Reduce Youth Unemployment? Evidence from a 50% Cut in Unemployment Assistance
We use administrative data to examine the effect of a 50% benefit cut for young unemployed workers in Ireland during the Great Recession. Because the cut applied only to new benefit claims, claimants ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2020, 55 (3), 902-925. )
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J64
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10726
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Laurent
Gobillon
Dominique
Meurs
Sébastien
Roux
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Differences in Positions along a Hierarchy: Counterfactuals Based on an Assignment Model
We propose an assignment model in which positions along a hierarchy are attributed to individuals depending on their characteristics. Our theoretical framework can be used to study differences in ...
(published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 145, 29-74)
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C51, J31, J45
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10725
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Anders
Frederiksen
Lisa
B.
Kahn
Fabian
Lange
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Supervisors and Performance Management Systems
Supervisors occupy central roles in production and performance monitoring. We study how heterogeneity in performance evaluations across supervisors affects employee and supervisor careers and firm ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128 (6), 2123-2187)
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M5
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10724
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Nicholas
Bloom
Erik
Brynjolfsson
Lucia
Foster
Ron
Jarmin
Megha
Patnaik
Itay
Saporta-Eksten
John
Van Reenen
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What Drives Differences in Management?
Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2019, 109 (5), 1648 - 1683)
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L2, M2, O32, O33
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10723
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Archontis
L.
Pantsios
Solomon
Polachek
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How Asymmetrically Increasing Joint Strike Costs Need Not Lead to Fewer Strikes
The "joint costs" model states that the incentive to strike is inversely related to the total costs associated with workers' and firms' strike activities. Not only has this model been tested with ...
(published in: Atlantic Economic Journal, 2017, 45 (2), 149-161)
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J51, J52, C72, C78
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10722
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Marion
Collewet
Jan
Sauermann
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Working Hours and Productivity
This paper studies the link between working hours and productivity using daily information on working hours and performance of a sample of call centre agents. We exploit variation in the number of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 47, 96-106)
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J23, J22, M12, M54
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10721
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Ravi
Kanbur
Andy
Snell
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Inequality Indices as Tests of Fairness
Standard income inequality indices can be interpreted as a measure of welfare loss entailed in departures from equality of outcomes, for egalitarian social welfare functions defined on the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (621), 2216 - 2239)
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A10, A13, C01, C12, D63
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10719
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Stephane
Mahuteau
Kostas
Mavromaras
Sue
Richardson
Rong
Zhu
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Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials in Australia
This paper examines wage differentials between public sector and private sector workers in Australia. After controlling for observed characteristics and individual fixed effects, we show that on ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2017, 93, s105–s121)
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J31, J45
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10718
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Manuel
Fernandez Sierra
Julián
Messina
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Skill Premium, Labor Supply and Changes in the Structure of Wages in Latin America
Earnings inequality declined rapidly in Argentina, Brazil and Chile during the 2000s. A reduction in the experience premium is a fundamental driver of declines in upper-tail (90/50) inequality, while ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2018, 135, 555-573)
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E24, J20, J31
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10717
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Ganna
Pogrebna
Andrew
J.
Oswald
David
Haig
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Female Babies and Risk-Aversion
Being told the sex of your unborn child is a major exogenous 'shock'. In the first study of its kind, we collect before-and-after data from hospital wards. We test for the causal effects of learning ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 58, 10 - 17)
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J16, C93, C90, D81
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10715
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Malte
Sandner
Thomas
Cornelissen
Tanja
Jungmann
Peggy
Herrmann
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Evaluating the Effects of a Targeted Home Visiting Program on Maternal and Child Health Outcomes
We evaluate the effects of home visiting targeted towards disadvantaged first-time mothers on maternal and child health outcomes. Our analysis exploits a randomized controlled trial and combines rich ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 58, 269 - 283)
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I14
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10714
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Kasey
Buckles
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Maternal Socio-Economic Status and the Well-Being of the Next Generation(s)
A rich literature in economics and the social sciences has shown that improvements in women's socio-economic status (SES) can also improve the well-being of their children. This chapter identifies ...
(published in: Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys and Saul D. Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women, 2018 )
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I14, I24, I3, J1
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10713
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Benedikt
Gerst
Christian
Grund
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Career Interruptions and Current Earnings: The Role of Interruption Type, Compensation Component, and Gender
This study examines how career interruptions and subsequent wages of employees are related. Using individual panel data of middle managers from the German chemical sector, we are able to ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower 2019, 40 , 850–878)
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M52, J31, J33, J71
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10710
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Leonardo
Becchetti
Vittorio
Pelligra
Tommaso
G.
Reggiani
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Information, Belief Elicitation and Threshold Effects in the 5X1000 Tax Scheme: A Framed Field Experiment
In this paper we study by means of a framed field experiment on a representative sample of the population the effect on people's charitable giving of three, substantial and procedural, elements: ...
(revised version published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2017, 24 (6), 1026-1049)
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C91, D64, H00
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10709
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Erez
Siniver
Yossef
Tobol
Gideon
Yaniv
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Do Higher Achievers Cheat Less? An Experiment of Self-Revealing Individual Cheating
The extensive body of survey-based research correlating between students' cheating and their academic grade point average (GPA) consistently finds a significant negative relationship between cheating ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 68, 91 - 96)
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A22, C91, C92, K42
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