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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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9539
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Ken
Clark
Stephen
Drinkwater
Catherine
Robinson
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Self?Employment amongst Migrant Groups in England and Wales: New Evidence from Census Microdata
Self-employment constitutes a vital part of the economy since entrepreneurs can provide not only employment for themselves but also for others. The link between self-employment and immigration is, ...
(revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2017, 48 (4), 1047-1069)
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J61, F22, J21
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9538
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Simone
Bertoli
Vianney
Dequiedt
Yves
Zenou
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Can Selective Immigration Policies Reduce Migrants' Quality?
Destination countries can adopt selective immigration policies to improve migrants' quality. Screening potential migrants on the basis of observable characteristics also influences their ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 119, 100-109)
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F22, K37, J61
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9537
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Khalid
Sekkat
Ariane
Szafarz
Ilan
Tojerow
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Women at the Top in Developing Countries: Evidence from Firm-Level Data
This paper uses worldwide firm-level data to scrutinize the governance factors that favor gender diversity in leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is ...
(published as 'Female corporate owners and female CEOs' in: Economics Letters, 2023, 232, 111285)
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O15, J71, G32, M51, D22
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9536
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Stijn
Baert
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Hiring a Homosexual, Taking a Risk? A Lab Experiment on Employment Discrimination and Risk Aversion
We investigate risk aversion as a driver of labour market discrimination against homosexual men. We show that more hiring discrimination by more risk-averse employers is consistent with taste-based ...
(revised version published as 'Hiring a Gay Man, Taking a Risk?: A Lab Experiment on Employment Discrimination and Risk Aversion' in: Journal of Homosexuality, 2018, 65 (8), 1015 - 1031)
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C91, J15, J71
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9535
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Julie
Moschion
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Gender Gaps in Early Educational Achievement
This paper analyzes the source of the gender gap in third grade numeracy and reading. We adopt an Oaxaca-Blinder approach and decompose the gender gap in educational achievement into endowment and ...
(published in Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30 (4), 1093–1134)
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J16, I21, I24
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9534
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Francine
D.
Blau
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Immigrants and Gender Roles: Assimilation vs. Culture
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women's behavior in the United States – looking both over time with immigrants' ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2015, 4)
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J13, J16, J22, J24, J61
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9533
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Karin
Hederos Eriksson
Anders
Stenberg
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Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households: Evidence from Sweden
Bertrand et al. (2015) show that among married couples in the US, the distribution of the share of the household income earned by the wife exhibits a sharp drop just to the right of .50. They argue ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2022, 124 (3), 744 - 772)
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D10, J12, J16
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9532
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Wei
Huang
Yi
Zhou
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One-Child Policy, Marriage Distortion, and Welfare Loss
Using plausibly exogenous variations in the ethnicity-specific assigned birth quotas and different fertility penalties across Chinese provinces over time, we provide new evidence for the transferable ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 29 May 2023)
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H20, I31, J12, J13, J18
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9531
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Anna
Kurowska
Michal
Myck
Katharina
Wrohlich
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Making Work Pay: Increasing Labour Supply of Secondary Earners in Low Income Families with Children
In-work support through the tax-benefit system has proved to be an effective way of increasing labour supply of lone mothers and first earners in couples in a number of OECD countries. At the same ...
(published in: Contemporary Economics, 2017, 11(2), 161-170)
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J22, J13, J18
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9530
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Ann
P.
Bartel
Maya
Rossin-Slater
Christopher
J.
Ruhm
Jenna
Stearns
Jane
Waldfogel
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Paid Family Leave, Fathers' Leave-Taking, and Leave-Sharing in Dual-Earner Households
This paper provides quasi-experimental evidence on the impact of paid leave legislation on fathers' leave-taking, as well as on the division of leave between mothers and fathers in dual-earner ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2018, 37 (1), 10-37)
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J2, J13, J18
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9529
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David
Neumark
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Policy Levers to Increase Jobs and Increase Income from Work after the Great Recession
The depth of the Great Recession, the slow recovery of job creation, the downward trend in labor force participation, high long-term unemployment, stagnant or declining wages for low-to-medium skill ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2015, 5, 6 (2016) )
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J2, J3, J6
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9528
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Jan
Kabátek
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Happy Birthday, You're Fired! The Effects of Age-Dependent Minimum Wage on Youth Employment Flows in the Netherlands
This paper investigates the effects of the age-dependent minimum wage on youth employment flows in the Netherlands. The Dutch minimum wage for workers aged 15-23 is defined as a step-wise increasing ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2021,74 (4), 1008 - 1035)
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J23, J31, J38, M51
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9527
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Robert
E.
Hall
Andreas
I.
Mueller
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Wage Dispersion and Search Behavior
We use a rich new body of data on the experiences of unemployed job-seekers to determine the sources of wage dispersion and to create a search model consistent with the acceptance decisions the ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 126 (4), 1594-1637)
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J31, J32, J64
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9526
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Abel
Brodeur
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Terrorism and Employment: Evidence from Successful and Failed Terror Attacks
This paper examines the economic consequences of terror attacks and the channels through which terrorism affects local economies. I rely on an exhaustive list of terror attacks over the period ...
(published as 'The Effect of Terrorism on Employment and Consumer Sentiment: Evidence from Successful and Failed Terror Attacks' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (4), 246-82)
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D72, D74, C13, P16
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9525
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Carlos
Carrillo-Tudela
Michael
Graber
Klaus
Wälde
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Unemployment and Vacancy Dynamics with Imperfect Financial Markets
This paper proposes a simple general equilibrium model with labour market frictions and an imperfect financial market. The aim of the paper is to analyse the transitional dynamics of unemployment and ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 50, 128-143)
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J63, J64, G10
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9522
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Sriya
Iyer
Anand
Shrivastava
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Religious Riots and Electoral Politics in India
The effect of ethnic violence on electoral results provides useful insights into voter behaviour in democratic societies. Religious riots have claimed more than 14,000 lives in India since 1950. We ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2018, 131, 104-122)
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Z12, D72, D74
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9519
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Xi
Chen
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Status Concern and Relative Deprivation in China: Measures, Empirical Evidence, and Economic and Policy Implications
Status concern and the feelings of relative deprivation affect individual behavior and well-being. Traditional norms and the alarming inequality in China have made relative deprivation more and more ...
(published in: China: An International Journal, 2016, 14 (1), 151-170.)
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I14, I18, I32, B41
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9518
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Mehtabul
Azam
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Intergenerational Educational Persistence among Daughters: Evidence from India
We examine educational transmission between fathers (mothers) and daughters in India for daughters born during 1962-1991. We find that educational persistence, as measured by the regression ...
(revised version published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2016, 16 (4), 201601146)
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J6, I28
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9517
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Laurent
Gobillon
Matthieu
Solignac
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Homeownership of Immigrants in France: Selection Effects Related to International Migration Flows
We investigate the difference in homeownership rates between natives and first-generation immigrants in France, and how this difference evolves over the 1975-1999 period, by using a large ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2020, 20(2), 355-396)
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J15, R21
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9516
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Remus
Gabriel
Anghel
Matloob
Piracha
Teresa
Randazzo
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Migrants' Remittances: Channelling Globalization
In the past twenty years the ever-growing levels of migrants' remittances made state agencies, international organizations, scholars and practitioners to increasingly consider remittances as one of ...
(revised version published in: Leila Simona Talani and Simon McMahon (eds.), Handbook of the International Political Economy of Migration, Edward Elgar 2015, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, Chapter 11, 234-258.)
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F22, F24
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9515
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Barbara
Dietz
Kseniia
Gatskova
Artjoms
Ivlevs
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Emigration, Remittances and the Education of Children Staying Behind: Evidence from Tajikistan
We study the relationship between migration and children's education in Tajikistan – one of the poorest and most remittance-dependent economies in the world. The analysis of a unique three-wave ...
(published in: Feminist Economics, 2019, 25 (3), 96-118)
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I26, J61, O15
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9514
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Mariana
Saenz
Joshua
J.
Lewer
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Colombian Emigration by Administrative Regions
This article contributes to immigration literature by applying a Random Utility Maximization model to derive a migration gravity model that explains factors affecting migration outflows per ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Insight, 2017, 43 (2), 17-48.)
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F22, C25, H11
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9513
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Artjoms
Ivlevs
Michail
Veliziotis
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Local-Level Immigration and Life Satisfaction: The EU Enlargement Experience in England and Wales
The 2004 European Union enlargement resulted in an unprecedented wave of 1.5 million workers relocating from Eastern Europe to the UK. We study how this migrant inflow affected life satisfaction of ...
(published in: Environment and Planning A, 2018, 50 (1), 175-193)
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F22, J15, I31
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9512
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John
V.
Winters
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Do Earnings by College Major Affect Graduate Migration?
College graduates are considerably more mobile than non-graduates, and previous literature suggests that the difference is at least partially attributable to college graduates being more responsive ...
(published in: Annals of Regional Science, 2017, 59 (3), 629-649)
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J24, J61, R23
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9511
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Xuan
Chen
Carlos
A.
Flores
Alfonso
Flores-Lagunes
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Going Beyond LATE: Bounding Average Treatment Effects of Job Corps Training
We derive nonparametric sharp bounds on average treatment effects with an instrumental variable (IV) and use them to evaluate the effectiveness of the Job Corps (JC) training program for ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2018, 63 (4), 1050-1099)
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J30, C13, C21
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9510
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David
C.
Maré
Dean
R.
Hyslop
Richard
Fabling
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Firm Productivity Growth and Skill
This paper examines the relationship between firm multifactor productivity growth (mfp) and changing skill levels of labour in New Zealand, over the period 2001-12, using longitudinal data from ...
(published in: New Zealand Economic Papers, 2017, 51 (3), 302-326)
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D24, J24
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9509
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Michael
Coelli
Domenico
Tabasso
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Where Are the Returns to Lifelong Learning?
We investigate the labour market determinants and outcomes of adult participation in formal education (lifelong learning) in Australia, a country with high levels of adult education. Employing ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2019, 57 (1), 205-237)
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J24, J28, I23, I28
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9508
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Peter
B.
Berg
Mary
K.
Hamman
Matthew
Piszczek
Christopher
J.
Ruhm
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The Relationship Between Establishment Training and the Retention of Older Workers: Evidence from Germany
In the coming years, a substantial portion of Germany's workforce will retire, making it difficult for businesses to meet human capital needs. Training older workers may be a successful strategy for ...
(published as 'The relationship between employer-provided training and the retention of older workers: Evidence from Germany' in: International Labour Review, 2017, 156 (3-4), 495-523)
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J20, J24, J26
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9507
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Tobias
Meyer
Stephan
L.
Thomsen
Heidrun
Schneider
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New Evidence on the Effects of the Shortened School Duration in the German States: An Evaluation of Post-Secondary Education Decisions
Most German states have reformed university preparatory schooling during the last decade by reducing its duration from 13 to 12 years without changing the graduation requirements. In this paper, we ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2019, 20 (4), e201-e253. )
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I21, J18, C21
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9506
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Robert
Feicht
Veronika
Grimm
Holger
A.
Rau
Gesine
Stephan
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On the Impact of Quotas and Decision Rules in Ultimatum Collective Bargaining
We conduct multi-person one-shot ultimatum games that reflect important aspects of collective bargaining. In all treatments a proposer has to divide a pie among herself and two groups of three ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 100, 175-192. )
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C92, C72, C78, J31, J52
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9505
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Semih
Tumen
Tugba
Zeydanli
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Social Interactions in Job Satisfaction
The literature documents that job satisfaction is positively correlated with worker performance and productivity. We examine whether aggregate job satisfaction in a certain labor market environment ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2016, 37(3), 426-455)
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C31, D62, J28
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9504
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Armin
Falk
Anke
Becker
Thomas
Dohmen
Benjamin
Enke
David
B.
Huffman
Uwe
Sunde
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The Nature and Predictive Power of Preferences: Global Evidence
This paper presents the Global Preference Survey, a globally representative dataset on risk and time preferences, positive and negative reciprocity, altruism, and trust. We collected these preference ...
(revised version published as 'Global Evidence on Economic Preferences' in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2018, 133 (4), 1645-1692)
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D01, D03, F00
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9503
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Nikos
Askitas
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Predicting Road Conditions with Internet Search
Traffic jams are an important problem both on an individual and on a societal level and much research has been done on trying to explain their emergence. The mainstream approach to road traffic ...
(published in: PLoS ONE, 2016, 11 (8), e0162080 )
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R41
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9501
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Alan
Benson
Aaron
Sojourner
Akhmed
Umyarov
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Can Reputation Discipline the Gig Economy? Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market
In two experiments, we examine the effects of employer reputation in an online labor market (Amazon Mechanical Turk) in which employers may decline to pay workers while keeping their work product. ...
(published in: Management Science, 2020, 66 (5), 1802-1825 )
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L14, M55, J41, J2, L86, D82, K12, K42
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9500
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Nicholas
Larsen
Barry
R.
Chiswick
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The Impact of Missionary Type on the English Language Proficiency and Earnings of Immigrants
This paper analyzes the impact of missionary activity on English language proficiency and labor market earnings of all immigrants to the United States by using the pooled files of the American ...
(published as 'The impact of exposure to missionaries on the English language proficiency and earnings of immigrants in the USA' in: International Journal of Manpower, 2019, 40 (4), 574 - 590)
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F22, J61, J31, J24, Z12
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9499
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Alicia
Adsera
Ana
Ferrer
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The Effect of Linguistic Proximity on the Occupational Assimilation of Immigrant Men in Canada
This paper contributes to the analysis of the integration of immigrants in the Canadian labour market by focusing in two relatively new dimensions. We combine the large samples of the restricted ...
(published as 'Linguistic Proximity and the Labour Market Performance of Immigrant Men in Canada' in: Labour, 2021, 35 (1), 1 - 23)
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F22, J24, J31, J5
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9497
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Michaela
Slotwinski
Alois
Stutzer
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The Deterrent Effect of Voting Against Minarets: Identity Utility and Foreigners' Location Choice
This paper uses the vote on the Swiss minaret initiative as a natural experiment to identify the causal effect of negative attitudes towards immigrants on foreigners' location choices and thus ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2019, 32 (3), 1043–1095)
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D83, J61, R23, Z13
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9495
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Neeraj
Kaushal
Yao
Lu
Nicole
Denier
Julia
Shu-Huah
Wang
Stephen
J.
Trejo
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Immigrant Employment and Earnings Growth in Canada and the U.S.: Evidence from Longitudinal Data
We study the short-term trajectories of employment, hours worked, and real wages of immigrants in Canada and the U.S. using nationally representative longitudinal datasets covering 1996-2008. Models ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29 (4), 1249-1277.)
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J15, J3, J18
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9494
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Teresa
Molina Millán
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Regional Migration, Insurance and Economic Shocks: Evidence from Nicaragua
To test whether transfers sent and received by regional migrants serve an insurance role, this paper estimates the causal impact of income shocks at a migrant's origin and destination location on the ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2020, 56 (11), 2000-2029 )
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O12, O15, F24, R23
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9493
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Eleni
Kalfa
Matloob
Piracha
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Social Networks and the Labour Market Mismatch
This paper assesses the extent to which social contacts and ethnic concentration affect the education-occupation mismatch of natives and immigrants. Using Australian panel data and employing a ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31(3), 877-914)
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F22, J61, Z13
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9492
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John
Gibson
David
McKenzie
Halahingano
Rohorua
Steven
Stillman
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The Long-Term Impacts of International Migration: Evidence from a Lottery
We examine the long-term impacts of international migration by comparing immigrants who had successful ballot entries in a migration lottery program, and first moved almost a decade ago, with people ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2018, 32(1), 127-47)
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F22, O15
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9491
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Tymon
Sloczynski
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New Evidence on Linear Regression and Treatment Effect Heterogeneity
It is standard practice in applied work to rely on linear least squares regression to estimate the effect of a binary variable ("treatment") on some outcome of interest. In this paper I study the ...
(superseded by IZA Discussion Paper No. 11866)
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C21, C52, D72, F14, O17
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9490
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Michael
Lechner
Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
Daniel
Fernández-Kranz
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Difference?in?Difference Estimation by FE and OLS when there is Panel Non?Response
We show that the OLS and fixed-effects (FE) estimators of the popular difference-in-differences model may deviate when there is time varying panel non-response. If such non-response does not affect ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Statistics, 2016, 43 (11), 2044-2052)
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C21, C31
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9489
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J. David
Brown
John
S.
Earle
Yana
Morgulis
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Job Creation, Small vs. Large vs. Young, and the SBA
Analyzing a list of all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans in 1991 to 2009 linked with annual information on all U.S. employers from 1976 to 2012, we apply detailed matching and regression ...
(published in: John Haltiwanger, Erik Hurst, Javier Miranda, and Antoinette Schoar (eds.), Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges, University of Chicago Press, 2017, 371 - 410.)
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H81
|
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9488
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Marco
Caliendo
Ricarda
Schmidl
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Youth Unemployment and Active Labor Market Policies in Europe
Since the economic crisis in 2008, European youth unemployment rates have been persistently high at around 20% on average. The majority of European countries spends significant resources each year on ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2016, 5 (1), 1-30 )
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J13, J68, J64
|
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9487
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David
McKenzie
Nabila
Assaf
Ana
Paula
Cusolito
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The Demand for, and Impact of, Youth Internships: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Yemen
This paper evaluates a youth internship program in the Republic of Yemen that provided firms with a 50 percent subsidy to hire recent graduates of universities and vocational schools. The first round ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 5:1, 2016)
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O12, O15, J08, J16
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9486
|
Manisha
Shah
Bryce
Millett Steinberg
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Workfare and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from India
We examine the effect of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), one of the largest workfare programs in the world, on human capital investment. Since NREGS increases labor ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2021, 56 (2) 380-405; )
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O12, I2, I38, J1
|
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9485
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Ashwini
Deshpande
Deepti
Goel
Shantanu
Khanna
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Bad Karma or Discrimination? Male-Female Wage Gaps among Salaried Workers in India
We use nationally representative data from the Employment-Unemployment Surveys in 1999-2000 and 2009-10 to explore gender wage gaps among Regular Wage/Salaried (RWS) workers in India, both at the ...
(published in: World Development, 2018, 102, 331-344)
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J31, J71, O53
|
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9484
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Milena
Nikolova
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Minding the Happiness Gap: Political Institutions and Perceived Quality of Life in Transition
Along with political and economic changes, the fall of the socialist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union brought about fundamental institutional reforms. Several studies ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 45 (Suppl.), 129 - 148)
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D02, E02, I31, P20
|
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9483
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Hans
Bloemen
Stefan
Hochguertel
Jochem
Zweerink
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Job Loss, Firm?Level Heterogeneity and Mortality: Evidence from Administrative Data
This paper estimates the effect of job loss on mortality for older male workers with strong labor force attachment. Using Dutch administrative data, we find that job loss due to sudden firm closure ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 59, 78-90)
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C21, I10, J63
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