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8669 Aysit Tansel
Basak Dalgic
Aytekin Güven
Wage Inequality and Wage Mobility in Turkey
This paper investigates wage inequality and wage mobility in Turkey using the Surveys on Income and Living Conditions (SILC). This is the first paper that explores wage mobility for Turkey. It ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2019, 142 (1), 107-129.)
D31, D63, J31, J60
8668 Anders Stenberg
Olle Westerlund
The Long-term Earnings Consequences of General vs. Specific Training of the Unemployed
Training programs for the unemployed typically involve teaching specific skills in demand amongst employers. In 1997, Swedish unemployed could also choose general training at the upper secondary ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015, 4:22.)
I21, J62, J68
8666 Winfried Koeniger
Julien Prat
Human Capital and Optimal Redistribution
We characterize optimal redistribution in a dynastic family model with human capital. We show how a government can improve the trade-off between equality and incentives by changing the amount of ...
(revised version published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2018, 27, 1-26.)
E24, H21, I22, J24
8665 Bruce Headey
Ruud Muffels
Two-way Causation in Life Satisfaction Research: Structural Equation Models with Granger-Causation
Two-way causation issues are the bete noire of life satisfaction research. As acknowledged in several landmark reviews, many variables routinely reported as causes or determinants of life ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2016, 129, 937 - 960)
J01, I12, I31
8662 Max Nathan
Anna Rosso
Francois Bouet
Mapping 'Information Economy' Businesses with Big Data: Findings for the UK
Governments around the world want to develop their ICT and digital industries. Policymakers thus need a clear sense of the size and characteristics of digital businesses, but this is hard to do with ...
(published in: Research Policy, 2015, 44 (9), 1714 - 1733)
C55, C81, L63, L86, O38
8661 Badi H. Baltagi
Georges Bresson
Anoop Chaturvedi
Guy Lacroix
Robust Linear Static Panel Data Models Using ?-Contamination
The paper develops a general Bayesian framework for robust linear static panel data models using ?-contamination. A two-step approach is employed to derive the conditional type-II maximum likelihood ...
(Published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2018, 202(1), 108-123)
C11, C23, C26
8659 Dayanand Manoli
Kathleen Mullen
Mathis Wagner
Policy Variation, Labor Supply Elasticities, and a Structural Model of Retirement
This paper exploits a combination of policy variation from multiple pension reforms in Austria and administrative data from the Austrian Social Security Database. Using the policy changes for ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2015, 53 (4), 1702-1717)
J26, H55
8658 Luc Bissonnette
Michael D. Hurd
Pierre-Carl Michaud
Individual Survival Curves Comparing Subjective and Observed Mortality Risks
In this paper, we compare individual survival curves constructed from objective (actual mortality) and elicited subjective information (probability of survival to a given target age). We develop a ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2017, 26 (12), e285-e303)
C81, D84, I10
8656 Andrew E. Clark
Conchita D'Ambrosio
Simone Ghislandi
Adaptation to Poverty in Long-Run Panel Data
We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to poverty. We use panel data on almost 54,000 individuals living in Germany from 1985 ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 98 (3), 591–600)
I31, D60
8654 Nauro F. Campos
Menelaos G. Karanasos
Bin Tan
From Riches to Rags, and Back? Institutional Change, Financial Development and Economic Growth in Argentina since the 1890s
Argentina is the only country in the world that was "developed" in 1900 and "developing" in 2000. The various competing explanations highlight, mainly, the roles of trade openness, political ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2016, 52(2), 206 - 223)
C14, O40, E23, D72
8653 Gil S. Epstein
Ira N. Gang
Making Aid Work: Governance and Decentralization
Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to find solutions to problems for countries, investing staff resources and effort ...
(published in: in Mak Arvin (ed.): Handbook on the Economics of Foreign Aid, Edward Elgar, 2015, 488 - 502)
O10, O19, F35
8651 Alina Sorgner
Michael Fritsch
Alexander S. Kritikos
Do Entrepreneurs Really Earn Less?
Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our results show that the median self-employed entrepreneur with employees earns ...
(revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2017, 49 (2), 251–272)
L26, D22
8649 Antonio Cabrales
Juan J. Dolado
Ricardo Mora
Dual Labour Markets and (Lack of) On-the-Job Training: PIAAC Evidence from Spain and Other EU Countries
Using the Spanish micro data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), we first document how the excessive gap in employment protection between indefinite and ...
(published in SERIEs Journal of the Spanish Economic Association (2017), 8, 345-371.)
C14, C52, D24, J24
8648 Werner Eichhorst
Michael Jan Kendzia
Workforce Segmentation in Germany: From the Founding Era to the Present Time
Despite a more recent debate about ever deeper segmentation, we argue that since industrialization, Germany has continually experienced a dual labor market. One segment contains the primary segment ...
(published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2016, 49 (4), 297–315)
N34, J42
8647 Stefano Gagliarducci
M. Daniele Paserman
The Effect of Female Leadership on Establishment and Employee Outcomes: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
In this paper we use a large linked employer-employee data set on German establishments between 1993 and 2012 to investigate how the gender composition of the top layer of management affects a ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2015, 41, 341-372)
D22, J16, J70, M50
8645 Alex Bryson
Rafael Gomez
Tingting Zhang
All-Star or Benchwarmer? Relative Age, Cohort Size and Career Success in the NHL
We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as a function of the demographic conditions into which they were born. We have ...
(published in: Frick, B. (ed.) Breaking the Ice: The Economics of Hockey, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer, 2017)
J1, J24, J31
8644 János Köllő
Bence Czafit
Labor Market Careers Before and After Incarceration
We study the entry to formal employment and earnings of a large sample of convicts released from Hungarian prisons in 2002-2008. We identify the effect of the prison service on post-release careers ...
(published as 'Employment and wages before and after incarceration - evidence from Hungary' in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies. 2015, 4:21)
K42, J64, J39
8643 Grégory Jolivet
Hélčne Turon
Consumer Search Costs and Preferences on the Internet
We analyse consumers' search and purchase decisions on an Internet platform. Using a rich dataset on all adverts posted and transactions made on a major French Internet platform (PriceMinister), we ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2019, 86 (3), 1258-1300.)
C13, D12, D81, D83, L13
8642 Xi Chen
Gift-giving and Network Structure in Rural China: Utilizing Long-term Spontaneous Gift Records
The tradition of keeping written records of gift received during household ceremonies in many countries offers researchers an underutilized means of data collection for social network analysis. This ...
(PLoS ONE, 2014, 9 (8): e102104)
C8, D1, R2, Z1
8640 Stephan Heblich
Alfred Lameli
Gerhard Riener
The Effect of Perceived Regional Accents on Individual Economic Behavior: A Lab Experiment on Linguistic Performance, Cognitive Ratings and Economic Decisions
Does it matter if you speak with a regional accent? Speaking immediately reveals something of one's own social and cultural identity, be it consciously or unconsciously. Perceiving accents involves ...
(published in: PLOS ONE, 2015, 10 (2), e0124732.)
C90, J70, Z10
8639 Lorenz Götte
Annette Cerulli-Harms
Charles Sprenger
Randomizing Endowments: An Experimental Study of Rational Expectations and Reference-Dependent Preferences
An important advance in the study of reference-dependent preferences is the discipline provided by coherent accounts of reference point formation. K?szegi and Rabin (2006) provide such discipline by ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2019, 11 (1), 185–207))
D81, D84, D12, D03
8638 Jeroen van de Ven
Marie Claire Villeval
Dishonesty under Scrutiny
We investigate how different forms of scrutiny affect dishonesty, using Gneezy's (2005) deception game. We add a third player whose interests are aligned with those of the sender. We find that lying ...
(published in: Journal of the Economic Science Association, 2015, 1, 86-99)
C91, D83
8637 Wang-Sheng Lee
Is the BMI a Relic of the Past?
The most widely used measure of adiposity is to express weight adjusted for height using the body mass index (BMI). However, its limitations such as its inability to distinguish muscle weight from ...
(revised version published as 'Body Fatness Charts Based on BMI and Waist Circumference" in: Obesity, 2016, 24 (1), 245–249)
I10
8636 Lorenzo Cappellari
Anna De Paoli
Gilberto Turati
Do Market Incentives in the Hospital Industry Affect Subjective Health Perceptions? Evidence from the Italian PPS-DRG Reform
We exploit time variation across Italian Regions in the implementation of a prospective pay systems (PPS) for hospitals based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) to assess their impact on ...
(revised version published as 'Do market incentives for hospitals affect health and service utilization? Evidence from prospective pya system-diagnosis-related groups tariffs in Italian regions' in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series A, 2016, 179 (4), 885-905 )
I11, I18
8635 Dimitris Christelis
Dimitris Georgarakos
Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano
The Impact of Health Insurance on Stockholding: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Using data from the US Health and Retirement Study, we study the causal effect of increased health insurance coverage through Medicare and the associated reduction in health-related background risk ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 69, 102246.)
D14, I13, G11
8634 José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto Molina
Health Status and the Allocation of Time: Cross-Country Evidence from Europe
This paper analyzes the relationship between reported health status and time allocation decisions in six European countries. Using the Multinational Time Use Study, we find that a better perception ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2015, 46 (2), 188-203)
D13, J16, J22
8633 Nezih Guner
Yuliya Kulikova
Joan Llull
Does Marriage Make You Healthier?
We use the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) to study the relationship between marriage and health for working-age (20 to 64) individuals. In both ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 109, 162-190)
I10, I12, J10
8632 Luca Nunziata
Immigration and Crime: New Empirical Evidence from European Victimization Data
We exploit the increase in immigration flows into western European countries that took place in the 2000s to assess whether immigration affects crime victimization and the perception of criminality ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28 (3), 697-736)
J15, J61, K42, F22, R23, O15
8631 Johannes Koettl
Olga Kupets
Anna Olefir
Indhira Santos
In Search of Opportunities? The Barriers to More Efficient Internal Labor Mobility in Ukraine
Ukraine's economy lacks dynamism, and this is both the cause and the effect of people not moving across the regions. The rate at which Ukrainians move from one region to another within the country is ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2014, 3:21)
J61, J68, P25
8630 John T. Giles
Ren Mu
Village Political Economy, Land Tenure Insecurity, and the Rural to Urban Migration Decision: Evidence from China
This paper investigates the impact of land tenure insecurity on the migration decisions of China's rural residents. A simple model first frames the relationship among these variables and the ...
(published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2017, 100 (2), 521-544)
O12, O15, J61, Q15, R23
8629 Gregory Verdugo
Public Housing Magnets: Public Housing Supply and Immigrants' Location Choices
This paper investigates how a reform allowing immigrants with children in France access to public housing during the 1970s influenced their initial location choices across local labour markets. We ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2016, 16 (1), 237-265)
J15, R50
8627 Govert Bijwaard
Jackline Wahba
Immigrants' Wage Growth and Selective Out-Migration
This paper examines immigrant wage growth taking into account selective out-migration using administrative data from the Netherlands. We also take into account the potential endogeneity of the ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 81, 1065-1094)
F22, J61, C41
8626 Delia Furtado
Tao Song
Trends in the Returns to Social Assimilation: Earnings Premiums among U.S. Immigrants that Marry Natives
Previous studies show that immigrants married to natives earn higher wages than immigrants married to other immigrants. Using data from the 1980-2000 U.S. censuses and the 2005-2010 American ...
(published in: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2015, 662 (1), 207-222)
J12, J24, J31, J61
8625 Gil S. Epstein
Odelia Heizler (Cohen)
Ethnosizing Immigrants: A Theoretical Framework
Recently, Constant, Gataullina, and Zimmermann (2009) established a new method to measure ethnic identity which they called the "ethnosizer". Using information on an individual's language, culture, ...
(published as 'Ethnic identity: a theoretical framework' in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2016, 4:9 )
F22, J15, Z10
8624 Alisher Aldashev
Alexander M. Danzer
Economic Returns to Speaking the Right Language(s)? Evidence from Kazakhstan's Shift in State Language and Language of Instruction
This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan, a multi-ethnic country with complex ethnic settlement patterns that has ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2020, 56 (12), 2308-2326)
J24, I21, P23, O15
8623 Stephan L. Thomsen
Friederike von Haaren
Did Tuition Fees in Germany Constrain Students' Budgets? New Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Less than a decade ago, several German states introduced tuition fees for university education. Despite their comparatively low level, fees were perceived by the public to increase social injustice, ...
(revised version published in: IZA Journal or European Labor Studies, 2016, 5:6)
I22, I28, H75
8622 Mehtabul Azam
Geeta G. Kingdon
Assessing Teacher Quality in India
Using administrative data from linked private schools from one of districts in India that matches 8,319 pupils to their subject specific teachers at the senior secondary level, we estimate the ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2015, 117, 74–83)
I21, O15
8621 Todd Pugatch
Elizabeth Schroeder
Teacher Pay and Student Performance: Evidence from the Gambian Hardship Allowance
We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school teachers in remote locations, on student performance. A geographic discontinuity ...
(published in: Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2018, 10(2): 249-276.)
I25, I28, J38, J45, O12, O15
8620 Nicholas Bloom
Renata Lemos
Raffaella Sadun
John Van Reenen
Does Management Matter in Schools?
We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (584), 647-674)
L2, M2, I2
8618 Audrey Light
Andrew McGee
Does Employer Learning Vary by Schooling Attainment? The Answer Depends on How Career Start Dates Are Defined
We demonstrate that empirical evidence of employer learning is sensitive to how one defines the career start date and, in turn, measures cumulative work experience. Arcidiacono, Bayer, and Hizmo ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 32, 57-66)
I21, J24, J31
8617 Damon Clark
Emilia Del Bono
The Long-Run Effects of Attending an Elite School: Evidence from the UK
This paper estimates the impact of elite school attendance on long-run outcomes including completed education, income and fertility. Our data consists of individuals born in the 1950s and educated in ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016, 8 (1), 150-176)
I2, J24, C31, C36
8616 John V. Winters
Estimating the Returns to Schooling Using Cohort-Level Maternal Education as an Instrument
Formal education is widely thought to be a major determinant of individual earnings. This paper uses the American Community Survey to examine the effect of formal schooling on worker wages. Given the ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 126 (1), 25-27)
J24, J31
8615 Cheti Nicoletti
Birgitta Rabe
Sibling Spillover Effects in School Achievement
We provide the first empirical evidence on direct sibling spillover effects in school achievement using English administrative data. Our identification strategy exploits the variation in school test ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2019, 34 (4), 482-501)
I22, I24
8614 Delia Furtado
Can Immigrants Help Women "Have it All"? Immigrant Labor and Women's Joint Fertility and Labor Supply Decisions
This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2015, 4 (19))
D10, F22, J13, J22, R23
8613 Javier García-Manglano
Natalia Nollenberger
Almudena Sevilla
Gender, Time-Use, and Fertility Recovery in Industrialized Countries
This paper explores gendered patterns of time use as an explanatory factor behind fertility trends in the developed world. We review the theoretical foundations for this link, and assess the existing ...
(published in: International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition, 2015)
J1, J11, J13
8612 Wolfgang Auer
Natalia Danzer
Fixed-Term Employment and Fertility: Evidence from German Micro Data
We study the short- to medium-run effects of starting a career on a fixed-term contract on subsequent fertility outcomes. We focus on the career start since we expect that temporary contracts and ...
(revised version published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2016, 62 (4), 595-623)
J13, J18, J41
8610 Matthias Doepke
Gary Becker on the Quantity and Quality of Children
This paper reviews Gary Becker's contributions to the economic analysis of fertility, from his 1960 paper introducing the quantity-quality tradeoff to later work linking the economics of fertility to ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2015, 81(1), 59-66)
J13, O10, O40
8609 Petter Lundborg
Erik Plug
Astrid Würtz Rasmussen
Fertility Effects on Female Labor Supply: IV Evidence from IVF Treatments
This paper introduces a new IV strategy based on IVF induced fertility variation in childless families to estimate the causal effect of having children on female labor supply using IVF treated women ...
(published as "Can Women Have Children and a Career? IV Evidence from IVF Treatments" in: American Economic Review, June 2017, 107 (6), 1611-37)
J13, J22
8608 Emilia Del Bono
Marco Francesconi
Yvonne Kelly
Amanda Sacker
Early Maternal Time Investment and Early Child Outcomes
Using large longitudinal survey data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study, this paper estimates the effect of maternal time inputs on early child development. We find that maternal time is a ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126(596), F96-F135)
J24, J15, I20
8607 Delia Furtado
Fertility Responses of High-Skilled Native Women to Immigrant Inflows
While there is debate regarding the magnitude of the impact, immigrant inflows are generally understood to depress wages and increase employment in immigrant-intensive sectors. In light of the ...
(published in: Demography, 2016, 53 (1), 27-53)
D10, F22, J13, J22, R23
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