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10487 Bart Cockx
Muriel Dejemeppe
Andrey Launov
Bruno Van der Linden
Imperfect Monitoring of Job Search: Structural Estimation and Policy Design
We build and estimate a non-stationary structural job search model that incorporates the main stylized features of a typical job search monitoring scheme in unemployment insurance (UI) and ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36 (1), 75-120 )
J64, J68, C41
10486 Petri Böckerman
Alex Bryson
Antti Kauhanen
Mari Kangasniemi
Does Job Support Make Workers Happy?
Using linked employer-employee data for Finland we examine associations between job design and ten measures of worker wellbeing. In accordance with Karasek's (1979) model we find positive ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 67 (1), 31-52)
J28, J8, L23, M54
10485 Barbara Hofmann
Michaela Kreyenfeld
Arne Uhlendorff
Job Displacement and First Birth over the Business Cycle
This paper investigates the impact of job displacement on women's first birth rates, and the variation in this effect over the business cycle. We used mass layoffs to estimate the causal effects of ...
(published in: Demography, 2017, 54, 933-959)
J13, J64, J65
10484 Tomi Kyyrä
Hanna Onerva Pesola
The Effects of UI Benefits on Unemployment and Subsequent Outcomes: Evidence from a Kinked Benefit Rule
This paper analyzes the effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits on unemployment exits and subsequent labor market outcomes. We exploit a piecewise linear relationship between the previous ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 82, 1135-1160)
J64, J65
10483 Paul Bingley
Petter Lundborg
Stéphanie Vincent Lyk-Jensen
Brothers in Arms: Spillovers from a Draft Lottery
Family members tend to have similar labor market outcomes, but measuring the contribution of behavioral spillovers is difficult. To identify spillovers between brothers, we exploit Denmark's largest ...
(published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 06 August 2019)
J24, J38, I38, H56
10482 Huu Chi Nguyen
Christophe Jalil Nordman
Household Entrepreneurship and Social Networks: Panel Data Evidence from Vietnam
Using a unique panel of household businesses for Vietnam, this paper sheds light on the links between households' and entrepreneurs' social networks and business performance. We address two related ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2018, 54 (4), 594 - 618)
D13, D61, O12
10480 Elke J. Jahn
Michael Neugart
Do Neighbors Help Finding a Job? Social Networks and Labor Market Outcomes After Plant Closures
Social networks may affect workers' labor market outcomes. Using rich spatial data from administrative records, we analyze whether the employment status of neighbors influences the employment ...
(substantially revised version in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101825, )
J63, J64, R23
10479 Brady P. Horn
J. Catherine Maclean
Michael R. Strain
Do Minimum Wage Increases Influence Worker Health?
This study investigates whether minimum wage increases in the United States affect an important non-market outcome: worker health. To study this question, we use data on lesser-skilled workers from ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2017, 44 (4), 1986-2007)
I1, I11, I18
10477 Jonathan Gruber
J. Catherine Maclean
Bill Wright
Eric Wilkinson
Kevin G. Volpp
The Impact of Increased Cost-Sharing on Utilization of Low Value Services: Evidence from the State of Oregon
In this study we examine the impact of a value-based insurance design (V-BID) program implemented between 2010 and 2013 at a large public employer in the state of Oregon. The program substantially ...
(published as 'The effect of increased cost-sharing on low-value service use' in: Health Economics, 2020, 29 (10), 1180-1201)
I1, I11, I18
10474 Quamrul Ashraf
Oded Galor
The Macrogenoeconomics of Comparative Development
The importance of evolutionary forces for comparative economic performance across societies has been the focus of a vibrant literature, highlighting the roles played by the Neolithic Revolution and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature 2018, 56 (3), 1119–1155)
O11, N10, N30, Z10
10473 Francisco H. G. Ferreira
Sergio Firpo
Antonio F. Galvao
Estimation and Inference for Actual and Counterfactual Growth Incidence Curves
Different episodes of economic growth display widely varying distributional characteristics, both across countries and over time. Growth is sometimes accompanied by rising and sometimes by falling ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2019, 34, 385-402)
C14, C21, D31, I32
10471 Mariacristina Piva
Marco Vivarelli
Technological Change and Employment: Were Ricardo and Marx Right?
The aim of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, the economic insights about the employment impact of technological change are disentangled starting from the classical economists to nowadays ...
(published as 'Technological Change and Employment: Is Europe Ready for the Challenge?' in: Eurasian Business Review, 2018, 8, 13-32)
O33
10470 Georg Graetz
Guy Michaels
Is Modern Technology Responsible for Jobless Recoveries?
Since the early 1990s, recoveries from recessions in the US have been plagued by weak employment growth. One possible explanation for these "jobless" recoveries is rooted in technological change: ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2017, 107 (5), 168-173)
E32, J23, O33
10469 Wolfgang Dauth
Sebastian Findeisen
Jens Suedekum
Trade and Manufacturing Jobs in Germany
The German economy exhibits rising service and declining manufacturing employment. But this decline is much sharper in import-competing than in export-oriented branches. We first document the ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2017, 107 (5), 337-342)
F16, J21, R11
10468 Tapio K. Palokangas
Labor Market Regulation, International Trade and Footloose Capital
I examine the effects of globalization in countries where the employed workers support the unemployed and the governments control wages by regulating the workers' relative bargaining power. I use a ...
(revised version "Public Policy, Footloose Capital, and Union Influence" published in: Review of International Economics, 2020, 28 (4), 976-991.)
C78, F16, F68, J52
10467 James Albrecht
Monica Robayo-Abril
Susan Vroman
Public-Sector Employment in an Equilibrium Search and Matching Model
We extend the Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides model of equilibrium unemployment to incorporate public-sector employment. We calibrate our model to Colombian data and analyze the effects of public-sector ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (617), 35-61)
J45, J64, D83
10466 Christian Bredemeier
Falko Juessen
Roland Winkler
Fiscal Policy and Occupational Employment Dynamics
We document substantial heterogeneity in occupational employment dynamics in response to government spending shocks. Employment rises most strongly in service, sales, and office ("pink-collar") ...
(published in: Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 2020, 52 (5), 1527-1563)
E62, E24, J21, J23
10464 Catalina Herrera-Almanza
David E. Sahn
Kira M. Villa
Teen Fertility and Labor Market Segmentation: Evidence from Madagascar
Women represent the majority of informal sector workers in developing countries, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa where adolescent pregnancy rates are high. Little empirical evidence exists ...
(published in: Journal of African Economies, 2019, 28 (3), 277–303)
J13, J24, O1
10462 Massimiliano Bratti
Simona Fiore
Mariapia Mendola
Family Size, Sibling Rivalry and Migration: Evidence from Mexico
This paper examines the causal effects of family size and demographic structure on offspring's international migration. We use rich survey data from Mexico to estimate the impact of sibship size, ...
(revised version published as 'The Impact of Family Size and Sibling Structure on the Great Mexico-U.S. Migration' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2020, 33(2), 483-529)
J13, F22, O15
10461 Chiara Canta
Helmuth Cremer
Firouz Gahvari
Maybe "Honor thy Father and thy Mother": Uncertain Family Aid and the Design of Social Long Term Care Insurance
We study the role and design of private and public insurance programs when informal care is uncertain. Children's degree of altruism is randomly distributed over some interval. Social insurance helps ...
(published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 55, 2020, 687--734.)
H2, H5
10460 Xin Meng
Guochang Zhao
The Long Shadow of the Chinese Cultural Revolution: The Intergenerational Transmission of Education
Between 1966 and 1976, China experienced a Cultural Revolution (CR). During this period, the education of around 17 birth cohorts was interrupted by between 1 and 8 years. In this paper we examine ...
(published as 'The long shadow of a large scale education interruption: The intergenerational effect' in: Labour Economics, 2021, 71, 102008)
I24, I25, N3
10459 Christopher Birdsall
Seth Gershenson
Raymond Zuniga
Stereotype Threat, Role Models, and Demographic Mismatch in an Elite Professional School Setting
Ten years of administrative data from a diverse, private, top-100 law school are used to examine the ways in which female and nonwhite students benefit from exposure to demographically similar ...
(published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2020, 15(3): 457-486.)
I23, J15, J44
10458 Adriana Di Liberto
Laura Casula
Teacher Assessments versus Standardized Tests: Is Acting
We study if Italian teachers do apply gender discrimination when judging students. To this aim, we use a difference-in-differences approach that exploits the availability of both teachers (non-blind) ...
(published as 'Grading practices, gender bias and educational outcomes: evidence from Italy' in: Education Economics, 2022, 30 (5), 481 - 508)
L2, I2, M1, O32
10457 Simone Sasso
Jo Ritzen
Sectoral Cognitive Skills, R&D, and Productivity: A Cross-Country Cross-Sector Analysis
We focus on human capital measured by education outcomes (skills) and establish the relationship between human capital, R&D investments, and productivity across 12 OECD economies and 17 manufacturing ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2019, 27 (1), 35 - 51)
I21, J24, O47
10455 Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski
Thierry Kangoye
Gender Disparities in Employment and Earnings in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Swaziland
In this paper we provide first systematic evidence on the gender disparities in the labor market in Swaziland, drawing on the country's first two (2007 and 2010) Labor Force Surveys. We find that ...
(updated and substantially revised and rewritten version available as IZA DP No. 14350)
J16, J21, L26, O12
10450 Martin Biewen
Martin Ungerer
Max Löffler
Trends in the German Income Distribution: 2005/06 to 2010/11
We analyze the potential influence of a number of factors on the distribution of equivalized net incomes in Germany over the period 2005/2006 to 2010/11. While income inequality considerably ...
(revised version published as “Why Did Income Inequality in Germany Not Increase Further After 2005?” in: German Economic Review, 2019, 20, 471 - 504)
C14, D31, I30
10449 Arnaud Dupuy
Alfred Galichon
Yifei Sun
Estimating Matching Affinity Matrix under Low-Rank Constraints
In this paper, we address the problem of estimating transport surplus (a.k.a. matching affinity) in high dimensional optimal transport problems. Classical optimal transport theory species the ...
(published in: Information and Inference: A Journal of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, 2019, 8(4), 677–689..)
C5, D3
10447 Nikolas Mittag
A Simple Method to Estimate Large Fixed Effects Models Applied to Wage Determinants and Matching
Models with high dimensional sets of fixed effects are frequently used to examine, among others, linked employer-employee data, student outcomes and migration. Estimating these models is ...
(published as 'A Simple Method to Estimate Large Fixed Effects Models Applied to Wage Determinants' in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, 101766)
J31, J63, C23, C63
10446 José-Ignacio Antón
René Böheim
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
The Effects of International Migration on Native Workers' Unionisation in Austria
We analyze the effects of increased immigration of foreign workers on the unionisation rates of native workers in Austrian firms over the period 2002–2012. Our results suggest that lower union ...
(published as 'The effect of migration on unionization in Austria' in: Empirical Economics, 2022, 63, 2693–2720)
J51, J61, J63
10444 Garance Genicot
Anna Maria Mayda
Mariapia Mendola
The Impact of Migration on Child Labor: Theory and Evidence from Brazil
This paper investigates the impact of internal migration on child labor outcomes in Brazil. We develop a theoretical model and evaluate it on children aged 10 to 14 using two decades of Census data. ...
(published in: Markets, Governance and Institutions in the Process of Economic Development, Oxford: OUP, 2017.)
F22, J61, O12
10443 Martin Kahanec
Martin Guzi
How Immigrants Helped EU Labor Markets to Adjust during the Great Recession
The economic literature starting with Borjas (2001) suggests that immigrants are more flexible than natives in responding to changing sectoral, occupational, and spatial shortages in the labor ...
(published in:International Journal of Manpower, 2017, 38 (7), 996-1015 )
J24, J61, J68
10439 Christopher Boone
Arindrajit Dube
Lucas Goodman
Ethan Kaplan
Unemployment Insurance Generosity and Aggregate Employment
This paper examines the impact of unemployment insurance (UI) on aggregate employment by exploiting cross-state variation in the maximum benefit duration during the Great Recession. Comparing ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2021, 13 (2), 58–99)
J65, E62, E32
10438 Getinet Astatike Haile
Men, Women and Unions
The paper re-examines the question of why unions might have declined despite the 'influx' of women, their risk-averse constituents, into British workplaces. It argues that given unions' role in ...
(published in: Industrial Relations Journal, 2021, 52 (3), 201 - 217)
J51, J16, J82
10437 Gabriel Burdin
Virginie Pérotin
Employee Representation and Flexible Working Time
This paper provides evidence on the effect of employee representation on working time flexibility in private-sector European establishments. A 2002 European Union directive granted information, ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, 101755)
D23, J22, J50
10436 Alexander Muravyev
Boards of Directors in Russian Publicly Traded Companies in 1998-2014: Structure, Dynamics and Performance Effects
This paper provides new evidence on the structure, dynamics and performance effects of corporate boards in publicly traded companies in Russia. It takes advantage of a new and unique longitudinal ...
(published in: Economic Systems, 2017, 41(1), 5-25)
G34, L22
10435 Alex Bryson
Harald Dale-Olsen
Kristine Nergaard
Gender Differences in the Union Wage Premium? A Comparative Case Study
Trade unions have transformed from male-dominated organisations rooted in manufacturing to majority-female organisations serving predominantly white-collar workers, often in the public sector. ...
(published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 26 (2), 173 - 190 )
J28, J51, J81, L23, O31
10434 John de New
Syed Hasan
Nikhil Jha
Mathias Sinning
Unawareness and Selective Disclosure: The Effect of School Quality Information on Property Prices
The Australian Government launched the My School website in 2010 to provide standardised information about the quality of schools to the Australian public. This paper combines data from this website ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 145, 449-464)
D82, D84, I24, R31
10430 Martin Fischer
Martin Karlsson
Therese Nilsson
Nina Schwarz
The Sooner the Better? Compulsory Schooling Reforms in Sweden
This paper evaluates the impact on earnings, pensions, and other labor market outcomes of two parallel educational reforms increasing instructional time in Swedish primary school. The reforms ...
(published as 'The Long-Term Effects of Long Terms – Compulsory Schooling Reforms in Sweden' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18 (6), 2776 - 2823)
J24, J31, I28
10429 Atila Abdulkadiroglu
Joshua Angrist
Yusuke Narita
Parag A. Pathak
Research Design Meets Market Design: Using Centralized Assignment for Impact Evaluation
A growing number of school districts use centralized assignment mechanisms to allocate school seats in a manner that reflects student preferences and school priorities. Many of these assignment ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2017, 85 (5), 1373-1432)
C14, C21, C36, C90, D47, I21, I28
10428 Roy E. Bailey
Timothy J. Hatton
Kris Inwood
Atmospheric Pollution and Child Health in Late Nineteenth Century Britain
Atmospheric pollution was an important side effect of coal-fired industrialisation in the nineteenth century. In Britain emissions of black smoke were on the order of fifty times as high as they were ...
(published in: Journal of Economic History, 2018, 78(4), 1210-1247)
I15, N13, Q53
10427 Michael Grimm
Luciane Lenz
Jörg Peters
Maximiliane Sievert
Demand for Off-Grid Solar Electricity: Experimental Evidence from Rwanda
Providing electricity to the unconnected 1.1 billion people in developing countries is one of the top political priorities of the international community, yet the costs of reaching this objective are ...
(published in: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2020, 7 (3), 417-454.)
D12, O12, O13, Q28, Q41
10426 Gautam Hazarika
The Plough, Gender Roles, and Corruption
Cross-national empirical studies of corruption commonly find that nations in which women play a greater role in economic and public life suffer less corruption. This finding has been controversial in ...
(published in: Economics of Governance, 2018, 19 (2), 141 -163 )
J16, D73
10425 Wei Huang
Chuanchuan Zhang
The Power of Social Pensions
This paper examines the impacts of social pension provision among people of different ages. Utilizing the county-by-county rollout of the New Rural Pension Scheme in rural China, we find that, among ...
(published as 'The Power of Social Pensions: Evidence from China's New Rural Pension Scheme' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021, 13 (2), 179 - 205)
E21, H55, I38, O22
10424 Zhaopeng (Frank) Qu
Zhong Zhao
Glass Ceiling Effect in Urban China: Wage Inequality of Rural-Urban Migrants during 2002-2007
The paper studies the levels and changes in wage inequality among Chinese rural-urban migrants during 2002-2007. Using data from two waves of national household surveys, we find that wage inequality ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2017, 42, 118-144 )
J30, J45, J61
10423 Björn Anders Gustafsson
Hanna Mac Innes
Torun Österberg
Age at Immigration Matters for Labor Market Integration: The Swedish Example
This paper analyses how age at immigration to Sweden and getting a first foothold in the labor market is related. We estimate hazard rate models using registry data on all persons who arrived in each ...
(published in IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2017, 7:1)
C41, J15, J61
10422 Michael M. H. Tse
Sholeh A. Maani
The Labour Market Effect of Immigration: Accounting for Effective Immigrant Work Experience in New Zealand
This guide, updated for the 2016-17 job market season, describes the U.S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports ...
(published as 'Effective Work Experience and Labour Market Impacts of New Zealand Immigration' in: J. Poot, M. Roskruge (eds.), Population Change and Impacts in Asia and the Pacific, Springer, 2020, 221-246)
J61, J62, J31, J3, J24
10421 Mariacristina Piva
Massimiliano Tani
Marco Vivarelli
Business Visits, Knowledge Diffusion and Productivity
The aim of this paper is to investigate the productivity impact of business visits, relative to traditional drivers of productivity enhancement, namely capital formation and R&D. To carry out the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31, 1321-1338)
O33
10420 Giovanni Facchini
Yotam Margalit
Hiroyuki Nakata
Countering Public Opposition to Immigration: The Impact of Information Campaigns
Popular sentiment toward immigration is often antagonistic, making the integration of migrants one of the most important yet daunting challenges facing societies in advanced economies. Can ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2022, 141, 103959 )
F12, F16, L11
10419 Alexis Grigorieff
Christopher Roth
Diego Ubfal
Does Information Change Attitudes Towards Immigrants? Representative Evidence from Survey Experiments
We study whether providing information about immigrants affects people's attitude towards them. First, we use a large representative cross-country experiment to show that, when people are told the ...
(published in: Demography, 2020, 57, 1111-1143)
C9, J15, Z1, Z13
10417 Tommaso Colussi
Ingo E. Isphording
Nico Pestel
Minority Salience and Political Extremism
This paper studies electoral effects of exposure to religious minorities in the context of Muslim communities in Germany. Using unique data on mosques' construction and election results across ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021, 13 (3), 237-271)
D72, D74, J15
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