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17757 Tony Fang
Lilac Ge
John Hartley
Hui Ming
Quest for Talents: Attraction and Retention of Highly-Skilled Overseas Chinese in the United States and Canada
Using OLS, probit, and semi-nonparametric regression analysis on survey data, this article examines the factors associated with the successful economic integration of Chinese returnees, as indicated ...
(published in: Asian Economic Papers, 2025, 24 (1), 182–213)
J15, J18, J24, J28, J33, J61
17756 Tony Fang
Morley Gunderson
Viet Hoang Ha
Hui Ming
The Short-Term Effects of COVID-19 on Labour Market Outcomes of Recent Immigrants to Canada
Our difference-in-difference analysis indicates that Covid-19 had a disproportionately adverse effect on the employment of recent immigrants relative to the Canadian-born and this was especially the ...
(forthcoming in: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 2025.)
None
17754 Frédéric Docquier
Hillel Rapoport
The Vicious Circle of Xenophobia: Immigration and Right-Wing Populism
We investigate the relationship between immigration and right-wing populism, which we characterize as a self-reinforcing process. Anti-immigrant rhetoric and populist policies lead to a deterioration ...
(published in: Economic Policy, 2025, 40 (122), 551–573.)
D72, F22, F52, J61
17753 Seamus McGuinness
Paul Redmond
Konstantinos Pouliakas
Lorcan Kelly
Luke Brosnan
Technological Change and the Upskilling of European Workers
Using the second wave of the European Skills and Jobs survey, this paper measures the relationship between technological change that automates or augments workers’ job tasks and their participation ...
(revised version forthcoming in: Journal of Education and Work)
J24, O31, O33
17745 Michael Oberfichtner
Martin Popp
Labor Market Concentration in Germany
Using register data, we document that the average German labor market, defined by hires in combinations of 3-digit occupations, requirement levels, and commuting zones, is highly concentrated ((published in: German Economic Review, 26 (4), 361-393)
J42, L10, J60
17743 Alexander Yarkin
Home-Country Internet and Immigrants' Well-Being
This paper documents the effects of home-country Internet expansion on immigrants' health and subjective well-being (SWB). Combining data on SWB and health from the European Social Survey (ESS) with ...
(published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2025, 115, 432–437)
F22, I31, J15, J61
17733 Sofoklis Goulas
Rigissa Megalokonomou
Panagiotis Sotirakopoulos
Top-Performing Girls Are More Impactful Peer Role Models than Boys, Teachers Say
We examine teachers’ perceptions toward top performing students and their role model influence on others in an online survey-based experiment. We randomly expose teachers to profiles of top ...
(published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2025, 122 (6), e2421436122)
I21, I24, J16, D83, C90
17732 Renske Stans
Laura Ehrmantraut
Malin Siemers
Pia Pinger
The Impact of Higher Education on Employer Perceptions
Do employers seek to attract individuals with more education because it enhances human capital or because it signals higher levels of pre-existing traits? We experimentally vary master's degree ...
(forthcoming in: Economic Journal, 2025)
23, I26, J23, J24, J31
17730 William D. Bradford
Chunbei Wang
Magnus Lofstrom
Michael Verchot
(Mis)Pricing in Loans to Businesses Owned by People of Color
This study uses survey data on small business loans granted 2022 -2023 to explore racial disparities in the terms of loans to small firms. Similar data has not been available since the 2003 Survey of ...
(short version published as 'Are Loans to Minority-Owned Firms Mispriced?' in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2025, 115, 477–482)
D4, G2, J15, L26, M
17729 Deepak Premkumar
Magnus Lofstrom
Joseph Hayes
Brandon Martin
Sean Cremin
Empirical Analysis of Racial Disparities in Policing
Racial disparities within the criminal justice system continue to be a pressing issue in the U.S. In this paper, we analyze data for almost four million stops by California's fifteen largest law ...
(published in: Santa Clara Law Review, 2025, 65, 1)
J15, K42, K14, H41
17728 Simon Calmar Andersen
Bastien Michel
Helena Skyt Nielsen
Coaching and Implementation: Insights from a Field Experiment in Danish Schools
We study the effect of peer coaching separately from the effect of training on teachers' implementation of new teaching techniques. We conducted a preregistered field experiment involving 68 teachers ...
(published online in: Education Economics, 15 April 2025)
I21, J24
17726 Rita Ginja
Julie Riise
Barton Willage
Alexander Willén
Does Your Doctor Matter?
We estimate doctor value-added (VA) combining population-wide patient-doctor register data with exogenous variation in the assignment of patients to GPs. We find substantial variation in the quality ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics)
None
17718 David Butler
Robert Butler
Carl Singleton
Objective Calls Under the Spotlight: Referee Consistency and Behaviour on Football's Biggest Stage
We study the objectivity of officiating under extreme pressure by analysing additional time played at the 2022 FIFA World Cup and 2024 UEFA European Championship. Controlling for within-match events, ...
(published online in: Journal of Sports Economics, 27 November 2025)
D01, D91, L83, Z20
17716 Oded Stark
On a Transformation of the Gini Coefficient into a Well-Behaved Social Welfare Function
Following Sen's (1973) characterization of the Gini coefficient as a ratio between a measure of aggregate income-based stress ("depression" in Sen's terminology) and aggregate income, we transform ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2025, 78 (2), 301-304)
C43, D01, D31, D63, H53, I31, I38, P46
17709 Uwe Jirjahn
Political Spillovers of Worker Representation: With or Without Workplace Democracy?
A series of studies show that unions and works councils have an influence on workers' political activities and attitudes. However, at issue are the transmission channels through which worker ...
(revised version published in: Analyse und Kritik - Journal of Philosophy and Social Theory, 2025, 47 (1), 5-30)
D70, J51, J53, K31, O35
17692 Guillermo Cruces
Dario Tortarolo
Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare
Design of Partial Population Experiments with an Application to Spillovers in Tax Compliance
This paper develops a framework to analyze partial population experiments, a generalization of the cluster experimental design where clusters are assigned to different treatment intensities. The ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 28 January 2025)
C01, C93, H71 , H26 , H21 , O23
17691 Jörg Ankel-Peters
Abel Brodeur
Anna Dreber Almenberg
Magnus Johannesson
Florian Neubauer
Julian Rose
A Protocol for Structured Robustness Reproductions and Replicability Assessments
Robustness reproductions and replicability discussions are on the rise in response to concerns about a potential credibility crisis in economics. This paper proposes a protocol to structure ...
(published in: Q Open, 2025, 5 (3), qoaf004)
A11, C18
17687 Anna Adamecz
Radina Ilieva
Nikki Shure
Revisiting the Dunning-Kruger Effect: Composite Measures and Heterogeneity by Gender
The Dunning-Kruger effect (DKE) states that people with lower levels of the ability tend to self-assess their ability less accurately than people with relatively higher levels of the ability. Thus, ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2025, 116, 102362)
J16, J24, D90
17672 Francisco Campos
Michael Frese
Leonardo Iacovone
Hillary C. Johnson
David McKenzie
Mona Mensmann
Long-Term and Lasting Impacts of Personal Initiative Training on Entrepreneurial Success
A randomized experiment in Togo found that personal initiative training for small businesses resulted in large and significant impacts for both men and women after two years. We revisit these ...
(forthcoming in: American Economic Review: Insights )
O12, O17, L26, J24, J16, D22
17670 Claudio Lucifora
Federica Origo
Rigid Yet Resilient: Firms' Margins of Adjustment to Demand Shocks in Regulated Labour Markets
We investigate how firms adjust to demand shocks when wages and employment determination are regulated. Using firm-level data for the Italian metal engineering industry from 2009 to 2021, we estimate ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2025, 94, 102706)
J30, J58, C81
17669 Santiago Budría
Eduardo Fermé
Diogo Nuno Freitas
Toward Proactive Policy Design: Identifying 'To-Be' Energy-Poor Households Using Shap for Early Intervention
Identifying at-risk populations is essential for designing effective energy poverty interventions. Using data from the HILDA Survey, a longitudinal dataset representative of the Australian ...
(published in: Energy Strategy Reviews, 2025, 62, 101998)
I32, D12, C53
17656 Beyza Ural Marchand
Employment Adjustments to Increased Imports: Evidence from a Developing Country
This paper examines the impact of imports from developed countries on industry-specific employment in India between 1983 and 2010. The identification strategy relies on comparing differential changes ...
(published online in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 15 March 2025)
F16, J21, J23, O33
17642 Tianli Yang
Zhong Zhao
Public Long-Term Care Insurance and Retirement Intentions of Urban Workers: Evidence from China
The Chinese government announced the pilot of public long-term care insurance (LTCI) policy in 2016. While most studies focus on LTCI's effects on labor supply and retirement behavior, its effect on ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2025, 34 (9), 1537-1559)
H55, I28, J14, J26
17639 Stefani Milovanska-Farrington
Dirk Mateer
Does Learning Economics Make You Less Susceptible to the Sunk Cost Fallacy?
The sunk cost fallacy is typically covered in introductory economics courses. It is among the most important biases that influence decision making. Ronayne et al. (2021a,b) find evidence of behavior ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Economics and Finance Education, 2025)
A20, A22, I21
17637 Stefani Milovanska-Farrington
Dirk Mateer
Using Engaging Activities to Enhance Student Mental Wellness in Introductory Economics Classes
Many college students experience symptoms of mental health challenges, with depression and anxiety being among the most common. These problems negatively affect academic performance (Brännlund et al. ...
(forthcoming in: International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, 2025)
A20, A21
17636 Eric Chyn
Brigham R. Frandsen
Emily Leslie
Examiner and Judge Designs in Economics: A Practitioner's Guide
This article provides empirical researchers with an introduction and guide to research designs based on variation in judge and examiner tendencies to administer treatments or other interventions. We ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2025, 63 (2), 401–439)
C21, C26, C31, K14, C54
17619 Eliav Danziger
Leif Danziger
Demand Uncertainty and the Optimal Number of Export Destinations
We study how demand uncertainty affects risk-neutral firms' number of export destinations when uncertainty is resolved after firms choose their export destinations and output. We show that firms' ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2025, 33 (2), 369-379)
F12, F61
17615 Claus Schnabel
Unions and Employers' Associations in Germany: A Survey of Their Membership, Density and Bargaining Coverage
Trade unions and employers' associations play an important role in Germany not only in wage setting, but also in social policy and labour market regulation. While the majority of companies are ...
(published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2025, 59, 7(2025))
J51, J52, J53, J58
17611 Feliciano Chimbutane
Naureen Karachiwalla
Catalina Herrera-Almanza
Jessica Leight
Carlos Lauchande
The Effect of Teacher Training and Community Literacy Programming on Teacher and Student Outcome
Motivated by extremely low levels of basic reading skills in sub-Saharan Africa, we experimentally evaluate two interventions designed to enhance students' early-grade literacy performance in rural ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2026, 178, 103578)
I25, J24, 012, 015
17610 Bernard M. S. van Praag
J. Peter Hop
William H. Greene
Estimation of Linear Models from Coarsened Observations: A Method of Moments Approach
In the last few decades, the study of ordinal data in which the variable of interest is not exactly observed but only known to be in a specific ordinal category has become important. In Psychometrics ...
(published online in: Psychometrika, 10 March 2025)
C13, C15, C24, C25, C26, C33, C34, C35, C361
17607 Konstantinos Pouliakas
Giulia Santangelo
Are Artificial Intelligence (AI) Skills a Reward or a Gamble? Deconstructing the AI Wage Premium in Europe
Understanding the labour market impact of new, autonomous digital technologies, particularly generative or other forms of artificial intelligence (AI), is currently at the top of the research and ...
(published online in: Eurasian Business Review, 11 March 2025)
J24, J31, J71, M52
17605 Johanna Muffert
Regina T. Riphahn
Long-Run Career Outcomes of Multiple Job Holding
Multiple job holding (MJH) is increasingly frequent in industrialized countries. Individuals holding a secondary job add to their experience, skills, and networks. We study the long-run labor market ...
(forthcoming in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review)
J22, J24, C21, M53
17600 Thomas Le Barbanchon
Taxes Today, Benefits Tomorrow
This paper tests whether partially unemployed workers value future preserved benefits when they bunch at the kink of the unemployment insurance benefit-withdrawal schedule. I extend the bunching ...
(forthcoming in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics )
J65, H24, H31
17598 Paul Redmond
Seamus McGuinness
Elish Kelly
Labour Market Dynamics of Minimum Wage Workers
Ireland is the only country in Europe with a direct question in its Labour Force Survey to identify minimum wage employees. By combining this with the longitudinal component of the Labour Force ...
(published online in: Applied Economics, 4 March 2025)
J31, J62, J20
17597 Uwe Jirjahn
Unions and Collective Bargaining in Sub-Saharan Africa: Some Insights from Quantitative Studies
This article reviews quantitative research on unions and collective bargaining in Sub-Saharan Africa. It discusses the consequences of unions for wages, inequality, economic performance and ...
(revised version forthcoming in: Industrielle Beziehungen - German Journal of Industrial Relations)
J51, J52, F66, O10, O55
17590 Vytautas Kuokštis
Muhammad Asali
Simonas Algirdas Spurga
Exchange Rates and Economic Growth During the Global Business Cycle: The Role of Labor Market Institutions
The effect of exchange rate regimes on economic performance is one of the key questions in international economics, both academically and policy-wise. Based on the theory of Optimum Currency Areas ...
((this project received funding from the Research Council of Lithuania, agreement No S-MIP-22-20))
G01, G18, J08, O24, P17
17587 Anna Herget
Regina T. Riphahn
Phasing Out Payroll Tax Subsidies
Many countries subsidize low-income employments or small jobs. These subsidies and their phasing out can generate labor market frictions and distort incentives. The German Minijob program subsidizes ...
(published online in: International Tax and Public Finance, 12 February 2025)
J21, J38, H24
17584 Karan Singhal
Eva Sierminska
Inequality in the Economics Profession
This chapter presents evidence of the challenges faced by women and underrepresented minorities in Economics. It, first, examines the demographics of the economics profession, highlighting ...
(forthcoming in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, Cham.)
A11, A20, J15, J16
17582 Grakolet Gourene
Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski
Jiří Balcar
Lenka Johnson Filipova
How Credit Constrained Are Family-Owned SMEs in Arab Countries?
Family-owned firms account for majority of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Arab countries, but evidence on the impact of this ownership type on access to credit in the region is scarce. ...
(published in: Emerging Markets Review, 2025, 65, 101249)
D22, G21, G32
17571 Jinia Mukerjee
Roy Thurik
Ingrid Verheul
Temporal Focus and Entrepreneurial Orientation of Solo Self-Employed Workers
The temporal dimensions of managerial behavior and their impact on organizational outcomes have garnered increasing attention in the literature. Given the significant role of managers' time ...
(published in: International Review of Entrepreneurship, 2025, 23 (1), 59 - 88)
D22, L26
17560 Gabrielle Pepin
Yulya Truskinovsky
Not Just for Kids: Child and Dependent Care Credit Benefits for Adult Care
As the U.S. population ages, family caregivers face substantial out-of-pocket costs and financial risks while providing the majority of long-term care. The Child and Dependent Care Credit (CDCC), a ...
(forthcoming in: National Tax Journal)
H24, J14
17556 Indraneel Dasgupta
Dhritiman Gupta
On the Relative Sequencing of Internal and External Rent-Seeking Contests
We consider rent-seeking contests between and within two equal-sized groups. Each group adopts one of three sequences: first internal then external contest, first external then internal contest, and ...
(forthcoming in: Public Choice, 2026)
D70, D72, D74
17553 Cevat Giray Aksoy
Barry Eichengreen
Anastasia Litina
Cem Özgüzel
Chan Yu
Corruption Exposure, Political Trust, and Immigrants
Scholars and politicians have expressed concern that immigrants from countries with low levels of political trust transfer those attitudes to their destination countries. Using large-scale survey ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2025, 174, 103440)
Z1, D73
17548 Mathieu Le Moal
Roy Thurik
Olivier Torrès
Guillaume Soenen
Small Business Owners and Daily Recovery Experiences: The Link with Well-Being and Burnout
We analyse the links between daily recovery experiences after work (detachment, relaxation, mastery and control) and mental health (well-being and burnout) based on four surveys of French small ...
(forthcoming in: Small Business Economics, 2026)
I12, I31, L26
17544 Piotr Lewandowski
Wojciech Szymczak
Automation, Trade Unions and Atypical Employment
We study the effect of the adoption of automation technologies – industrial robots, and software and databases – on the incidence of atypical employment in 13 EU countries between 2006 and 2018. We ...
(published online in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 08 December 2025)
J23, J51, O33
17538 Gabrielle Pepin
What Is the Value of the Child and Dependent Care Credit?
The Child and Dependent Care Credit (CDCC) subsidizes child care costs for working families. In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 increased the CDCC's generosity ...
(published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2025, 115, 120-125)
H24, J13
17525 Andrew Leigh
Stephen Robson
The Rise of Social Media and the Fall in Mental Wellbeing among Young Australians
Using multiple sources, we document a substantial worsening in the mental wellbeing of Australians aged 15-24, as measured by surveys, self-harm hospitalisations and suicide deaths. The shift began ...
(published in: Australian Economic Review, 2025, 58 (1), 33-38)
D91, I12, L82
17521 Solomon Polachek
Kenneth Romano
Ozlem Tonguc
Homo-Silicus: Not (Yet) a Good Imitator of Homo Sapiens or Homo Economicus
Do large language models (LLMs)—such as ChatGPT 3.5, ChatGPT 4.0, and Google's Gemini 1.0 Pro—simulate human behavior in the context of the Prisoner's Dilemma (PD) game with varying stake sizes? This ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of the Economic Science Association)
D01, C72, C90
17516 Nick Drydakis
Small Enterprises' Digital Competencies and Financial Performance
In the contemporary business landscape, digital competencies have become a crucial factor for small enterprises to remain competitive and thrive. The present study examines how a business ...
(published in: V. Aranitou, A. Angelakis, and M. Manioudis (eds), The Economic Impact of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Analytical Approaches to Growth and Innovation Challenges Amid Crises in Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2025, 55–68)
D25, O14, M53
17509 Alicia De Quinto
Libertad González
The Short- and Long-Term Effects of Family-Friendly Policies on Mothers' Employment
Countries often encourage part-time work among new parents as part of their family policies, aiming to foster mothers' labor market attachment. However, this approach may unintentionally impede ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2025, 92, 102672)
J08, J13, J16, J18
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