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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8854 Isabelle Lebon
Therese Rebiere
How Many Educated Workers for Your Economy? European Targets, Optimal Public Spending, and Labor Market Impact
This paper studies optimal taxation schemes for education in a search-matching model where the labor market is divided between a high-skill and a low-skill sector. Two public policy targets – ...
(published in: Portuguese Economic Journal, 2018, 17 (1), 1 - 44 )
H21, H52, J21, J64
8852 David W. Johnston
Michael A. Shields
Peter Siminski
Long-Term Health Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service: A Quasi-Experiment Using Australian Conscription Lotteries
This paper estimates the long-term health effects of Vietnam-Era military service using Australia's National conscription lotteries for identification. Our primary contribution is the quality and ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2016, 45, 12-26.)
H56, I10, I13
8851 Jan Michael Bauer
Alfonso Sousa-Poza
Impacts of Informal Caregiving on Caregiver Employment, Health, and Family
As the aging population increases, the demand for informal caregiving is becoming an ever more important concern for researchers and policy-makers alike. To shed light on the implications of informal ...
(published in: Journal of Population Ageing, 2015, 8(3), 113-145)
E26, J14, J46
8850 Stefan Pichler
Nicolas R. Ziebarth
The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes: A Method to Test for Contagious Presenteeism and Shirking Behavior
This paper proposes a test for the existence and the degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into ...
(revised version published as 'The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes: Testing for Contagious Presenteeism and Noncontagious Absenteeism Behavior' in:Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 156, 14-33)
I12, I13, I18, J22, J28, J32
8849 Marco Francesconi
Jonathan James
The Cost of Binge Drinking
We estimate the effect of binge drinking on accident and emergency attendances, road accidents, arrests, and the number of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a ...
(revised version published as "Liquid Assets? The Short-Run Liabilities of Binge Drinking" in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129(621), 2090-2136)
I12, I18, K42
8848 Sónia Félix
Pedro Portugal
Drug Decriminalization and the Price of Illicit Drugs
This study is an empirical assessment of the impact of the drug decriminalization policy followed by Portugal in July, 2001. We investigate especially the impact of the policy change on the price of ...
(published in: International Journal of Drug Policy, 2017, 39, 121-129 )
C21, D04
8847 Martin Guzi
Martin Kahanec
Lucia Mýtna Kureková
What Explains Immigrant-Native Gaps in European Labor Markets: The Role of Institutions
The role of institutions in immigrant integration remains underexplored in spite of its essential significance for integration policies. This paper adopts the Varieties of Capitalism framework to ...
(published in: Migration Studies, 2021, 9 (4), 1823 - 1856 )
J15, J18, J61
8846 Andrew Clarke
Ingo E. Isphording
Language Barriers and Immigrant Health Production
We study the impact of language deficiency on the health production of childhood migrants to Australia. Our identification strategy relies on a quasi-experiment comparing immigrants arriving at ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2017, 26 (6), 765 - 778)
F22, I12, J24, J61
8845 Augustin de Coulon
Dragos Radu
Max F. Steinhardt
Pane e Cioccolata: The Impact of Native Attitudes on Return Migration
This paper addresses the link between native attitudes and return migration. We exploit the variation in xenophobia using information on media consumption by migrants in Italy. A widely documented ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2016, 24, 253-281.)
F22, J61
8844 Marianne Frank Hansen
Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen
Torben Tranæs
The Impact of Immigrants on Public Finances: A Forecast Analysis for Denmark
All over Europe, ageing populations threaten nations' financial sustainability. In this paper we examine the potential of immigration to strengthen financial sustainability. We look at a particularly ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30 (3), 925-952)
F22, E62, J61
8843 Paul Frijters
Tao Sherry Kong
Elaine M. Liu
Who Is Coming to the Artefactual Field Experiment? Participation Bias among Chinese Rural Migrants
In this paper, we compare participants in an artefactual field experiment in urban China with the survey population of migrants from which they were recruited. The experimental participants were more ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, 2015, 114 (C), 62-74)
C81, C93, C90
8842 Margaret Maurer-Fazio
Rachel Connelly
Ngoc-Han Thi Tran
Do Negative Native-Place Stereotypes Lead to Discriminatory Wage Penalties in China's Migrant Labor Markets?
China's linguistic and geographic diversity leads many Chinese individuals to identify themselves and others not simply as Chinese, but rather by their native place and provincial origin. Negative ...
(published in Handbook on Migration, Identity and Well-Being in China, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015)
J71, J23, J61, J31, O15, O53, P36
8839 Bettina Drepper
Georgios Effraimidis
Identification of the Timing-of-Events Model with Multiple Competing Exit Risks from Single-Spell Data
This note describes how the (single-spell) identification result of the timing-of-events model by Abbring and Van den Berg (2003b) can be extended to a model that accommodates several competing exit ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2016, 147, 124-126)
C41, C31, J64
8838 Felix Wellschmied
The Welfare Effects of Asset Means-Testing Income Support
This paper quantitatively determines the asset limit in income support programs which minimizes consumption volatility in a lifecycle model with incomplete markets and idiosyncratic earnings risk. An ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2021, 12, 217-249)
D91, I38, J26
8837 Eugenio Proto
Aldo Rustichini
Life Satisfaction, Income and Personality
We use personality traits to better understand the relationship between income and life satisfaction. Personality traits mediate the effect of income on life satisfaction. The effect of neuroticism, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2015, 48, 17-32)
D03, D87, C33
8835 Stephen P. Jenkins
The Income Distribution in the UK: A Picture of Advantage and Disadvantage
This chapter describes the UK income distribution and how it has evolved over the last 50 years. It also includes some comparisons with the income distributions of other rich countries. Multiple ...
(published in: H. Dean and L. Platt (eds.), Social Advantage and Disadvantage, Ch.7, 135 - 160, Oxford University Press, 2016. )
D31, I32
8834 Aysit Tansel
Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir
Emre Aksoy
Unemployment and Labor Force Participation in Turkey
This paper investigates the relationship between labor force participation rate and unemployment rate in Turkey a developing country. Cointegration analysis is carried out for the aggregate and ...
(published in Applied Economics Letters, 2016, 23 (3), 184-187)
E24
8832 Flavia Coda Moscarola
Ugo Colombino
Francesco Figari
Marilena Locatelli
Shifting Taxes from Labour to Property: A Simulation under Labour Market Equilibrium
A tax shifting from labour income to housing taxation is generally advocated on efficiency grounds. However, most of the empirical literature focuses on the distributional implications of property ...
(revised version published as 'Shifting Taxes away from Labour Enhances Equity and Fiscal Efficiency' in: Journal of Policy Modelling, 2020, 42 (2), 367- 384)
C35, C53, D31, J22, H31
8831 Jeremy Greenwood
Nezih Guner
Georgi Kocharkov
Cezar Santos
Technology and the Changing Family: A Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation
Marriage has declined since 1960, with the drop being bigger for non-college educated individuals versus college educated ones. Divorce has increased, more so for the non-college educated. ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2016, 8 (1), 1-41.)
E13, J12, J22, O11
8830 Helmuth Cremer
Jean-Marie Lozachmeur
Dario Maldonado
Kerstin Roeder
Household Bargaining and the Design of Couples' Income Taxation
This paper studies the design of couples' income taxation when consumption and labor supply decisions within the couple are made by maximizing a weighted sum of the spouses' utilities; bargaining ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 89, 454-470)
H21, H31, D10
8828 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Age, Cohort and Co-Authorship
The previously documented trend toward more co- and multi-authored research in economics is partly (perhaps 20 percent) due to different research styles of scholars in different birth cohorts (of ...
(published in: M. Szenberg and L. Ramrattan (eds.): Collaborative Research in Economis, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 65 - 93)
A11, J01, B31
8827 James J. Heckman
Gary Becker: Model Economic Scientist
This paper presents Gary Becker's approach to conducting creative, empirically fruitful economic research. It describes the traits and methodology that made him such a productive and influential ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2015, 105 (5), 74–79)
B31, D13, J13, J24
8826 Andy Feng
Georg Graetz
A Question of Degree: The Effects of Degree Class on Labor Market Outcomes
How does measured performance at university affect labor market outcomes? We show that degree class – a coarse measure of student performance used in the UK – causally affects graduates' industry and ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 61, 140-161)
C26, I24, J24, J31
8825 Ronny Freier
Mathias Schumann
Thomas Siedler
The Earnings Returns to Graduating with Honors: Evidence from Law Graduates
This paper studies the causal effects of graduating from university with an honors degree on subsequent earnings. While a rich body of literature has focused on estimating returns to human capital, ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 34, 39-50 )
J01, J31, J44
8824 Michael Jetter
Jay K. Walker
Good Girl, Bad Boy: Corrupt Behavior in Professional Tennis
This paper identifies matches on the male and female professional tennis tours in which one player faces a high payoff from being “on the bubble” of direct entry into one of the lucrative Grand Slam ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2017, 84 (1), 155-180)
D73, J16, L83, Z13
8823 Jannie H. G. Kristoffersen
Morten Visby Kraegpøth
Helena Skyt Nielsen
Marianne Simonsen
Disruptive School Peers and Student Outcomes
This paper estimates how peers' achievement gains are affected by the presence of potentially disruptive and emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2015, 45, 1-13)
I21, J12
8822 Angus J. Holford
The Labour Supply Effect of Education Maintenance Allowance and its Implications for Parental Altruism
Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) was a UK government cash transfer paid directly to children aged 16-18, in the first two years of post-compulsory full-time education. This paper uses the labour ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2015, 13 (3), 531 - 568)
I38, J22, H53
8821 Stefanie Schurer
Lifecycle Patterns in the Socioeconomic Gradient of Risk Preferences
Who is most likely to change their risk preferences over the lifecourse? Using German nationally representative survey data and methods to separate age from cohort effects, we estimate the lifecycle ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,119, 482-495, 2015)
D81, D01, D63
8820 Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Peter Hans Matthews
Andrea Robbett
Compensating Differentials in Experimental Labor Markets
The theory of compensating differentials has proven difficult to test with observational data: the consequences of selection, unobserved firm and worker characteristics, and the broader macroeconomic ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 69, 50-60)
J31, D01, C92
8819 Corrado Andini
Monica Andini
A Note on Unemployment Persistence and Quantile Parameter Heterogeneity
The standard approach to the estimation of unemployment persistence assumes that quantile parameter heterogeneity does not matter. Using panel quantile autoregression techniques on state-level data ...
(extended version published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2018, 22 (5), 1298-1320)
C23, J64
8818 Michael Fritsch
Alexander S. Kritikos
Alina Sorgner
Why Did Self-Employment Increase so Strongly in Germany?
Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification. Applying the non-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique, we find that the main ...
(published in: Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 2015, 67 (2), 307-333)
L26, D22
8817 Marco Caliendo
Jens Hogenacker
Steffen Künn
Frank Wießner
Subsidized Start-Ups out of Unemployment: A Comparison to Regular Business Start-Ups
Offering unemployed individuals a subsidy to become self-employed is a widespread active labor market policy strategy. Previous studies have illustrated its high effectiveness to help participants ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 45(1), 2015, 165-190)
C14, L26, J68
8816 Frank M. Fossen
Johannes König
Public Health Insurance and Entry into Self-Employment
We estimate the impact of a differential treatment of paid employees versus self-employed workers in a public health insurance system on the entry rate into entrepreneurship. In Germany, the public ...
(revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2017, 49 (3), 647-669)
L26, I13, J2
8815 David Bardey
Helmuth Cremer
Jean-Marie Lozachmeur
The Design of Insurance Coverage for Medical Products under Imperfect Competition
This paper studies the design of health insurance with ex post moral hazard, when there is imperfect competition in the market for the medical product. Various scenarios, such as monopoly pricing, ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 137, 28 -37)
I11, I13, I18
8814 Stefanie Schurer
Michael Alspach
Jayden MacRae
Greg L. Martin
The Medical Care Costs of Mood Disorders: A Coarsened Exact Matching Approach
This paper is the first to use the method of coarsened exact matching (CEM) to estimate the impact of mood disorders on medical care costs in order to address the endogeneity of mood disorders. ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2016, 92 (296), 81–93)
H51, I18
8813 Marco Francesconi
Robert Pollak
Domenico Tabasso
Unequal Bequests
Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we make two contributions to the literature on end-of-life transfers. First, we show that unequal bequests are much more common than generally ...
(publlished in: European Economic Review, 2023, 157, 104513)
D13, J12, K36
8812 Erik Hernaes
Simen Markussen
John Piggott
Knut Røed
Pension Reform and Labor Supply: Flexibility vs. Prescription
We exploit a comprehensive restructuring of the early retirement system in Norway in 2011 to examine labor supply responses to alternative pension reform strategies relying on improved work ...
(revised version published as 'Pension Reform and Labor Supply' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 142, 39–55)
H55, J22, J26
8811 Bernhard Boockmann
Tobias Brändle
Coaching, Counseling, Case-Working: Do They Help the Older Unemployed Out of Benefit Receipt and Back into the Labor Market?
Job search assistance and intensified counseling have been found to be effective for labor market integration by a large number of studies, but the evidence for older and hard-to-place unemployed ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2019, 20 (4), e436-e468)
J68, J14
8810 Ali Termos
Ismail H. Genc
George S Naufal
A Tacit Monetary Policy of the Gulf Countries: Is There a Remittances Channel?
The strong economic ties between the GCC economies and the U.S. are manifested in three ways: currency peg, coupling of monetary policy, and the adoption of the U.S. dollar as the trading currency ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2016, 20 (2), 599-610)
F24, N15
8808 Emanuele Bracco
Maria De Paola
Colin P. Green
Long Lasting Differences in Civic Capital: Evidence from a Unique Immigration Event in Italy
A range of evidence exists demonstrating that social capital is associated with a number of important economic outcomes such as economic growth, trade and crime. A recent literature goes further to ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2015, 120, 160-173)
A13, D72, P16
8807 Barbara A. Butrica
Nadia S Karamcheva
Automatic Enrollment, Employer Match Rates and Employee Compensation in 401(k) Plans
This study uses restricted-access employer-level microdata from the National Compensation Survey to examine the relationship between automatic enrollment and employee compensation. By boosting plan ...
(published in: Monthly Labor Review, May 2015)
J26, J31, J32
8806 James Malcomson
Sophocles Mavroeidis
Bargaining and Wage Rigidity in a Matching Model for the US
The Mortensen and Pissarides (1994) matching model with all wages negotiated each period is shown inconsistent with macroeconomic wage dynamics in the US. This applies even when heterogeneous match ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 79 (6), 997-1017)
E2, J3, J6
8805 Henry R. Hyatt
James R. Spletzer
The Recent Decline of Single Quarter Jobs
Rates of hiring and job separation fell by as much as a third in the U.S. between the late 1990s and the early 2010s. Half of this decline is associated with the declining incidence of jobs that ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 46 (1), 166-176)
J21
8804 Boris Hirsch
Dual Labour Markets at Work: The Impact of Employers' Use of Temporary Agency Work on Regular Workers' Job Stability
Fitting duration models on an inflow sample of jobs in Germany starting in 2002-2010, this paper investigates the impact of employers' use of temporary agency work on regular workers' job stability. ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2016, 69 (5), 1191-1215)
J63, J41, J21
8803 Henna Busk
Elke J. Jahn
Christine Dauth
Do Changes in Regulation Affect Temporary Agency Workers' Job Satisfaction?
This paper evaluates the impact on temporary agency workers’ job satisfaction of a reform that considerably changed regulations covering the temporary help service sector in Germany. We isolate the ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2017, 56 (3), 514-544)
J28, J41, J88
8801 Simon Chang
Criminalization of Homosexuality and Sex Ratios
Sexual activities between consenting adults of the same sex are still criminalized in more than one third of the countries in the world despite a global wave of decriminalization in the past sixty ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2021, 34 (2), 401-430)
J1, K4
8799 Giovanni Mastrobuoni
Police Disruption and Performance: Evidence from Recurrent Redeployments within a City
More policing reduces crime but little is known about the mechanism. Does policing deter crime by reducing its attractiveness, or because it leads to additional arrests of recurrent criminals? This ...
(publilshed in: Journal of Public Economics, 2019, 176, 18-31)
K42, H00
8796 Francisca M. Antman
Gender Discrimination in the Allocation of Migrant Household Resources
This paper considers the relationship between international migration and gender discrimination through the lens of decision-making power over intrahousehold resource allocation. The endogeneity of ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28(3), 565-92)
O15, F22, D13, J16
8795 Peter Glick
Christopher Handy
David E. Sahn
Schooling, Marriage and Age of First Birth in Madagascar
Low female schooling attainment, early marriage and low age at first birth are major policy concerns in developing countries. This paper jointly estimated the determinants of educational attainment, ...
(published in: Population Studies, 2015, 69 (2), 219-236)
J12, J13, I20, C3
8794 José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto Molina
Commuting Time and Household Responsibilities: Evidence Using Propensity Score Matching
The growth in women's participation in the labor force has attracted attention to the gender differences in commuting behavior, and to their implications. This study analyses the relationship between ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2016, 56 (2), 332 - 359)
D13, J16, J22
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