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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8313 Brian Clark
Clement Joubert
Arnaud Maurel
The Career Prospects of Overeducated Americans
In this paper we analyze career dynamics for the large share of U.S. workers who have more schooling than their peers in the same occupation. We use data from the NLSY79 combined with the CPS to ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 6:3)
J24, I21
8312 Stijn Baert
Dieter Verhaest
Unemployment or Overeducation: Which is a Worse Signal to Employers?
This study aims at estimating the stigma effect of unemployment and overeducation within one framework. To this end, we conduct a field experiment in the Belgian labour market. We send out trios of ...
(revised version published in: De Economist, 2019, 167, 1 - 21)
J24, J60, C93
8311 Christiane Bradler
Robert Dur
Susanne Neckermann
Arjan Non
Employee Recognition and Performance: A Field Experiment
This paper reports the results from a controlled field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of unannounced, public recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 ...
(published in: Management Science, 2016, 62(11), 3085-3099)
C93, M52
8308 Maria Cubel
Ana Nuevo-Chiquero
Santiago Sanchez-Pages
Marian Vidal-Fernandez
Do Personality Traits Affect Productivity? Evidence from the Lab
While survey data supports a strong relationship between personality and labor market outcomes, the exact mechanisms behind this association remain unexplored. In this paper, we take advantage of a ...
(published in: Economic Journal , 2016, 126 (592). 654–681 )
C91, D03, J3, M5
8307 Anne-Kathrin Bronsert
Amihai Glazer
Kai A. Konrad
Old Money, the Nouveaux Riches and Brunhilde's Marriage Strategy
A woman assessing the wealth of a potential husband may observe some, but not all, of his wealth. She may screen, leading to status consumption and wasteful gift giving. The screening activity is ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30 (1), 163-188)
J12, D82
8306 Karina Doorley
Eva Sierminska
Cross-National Differences in Wealth Portfolios at the Intensive Margin: Is There a Role for Policy?
Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach in this literature, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European ...
(published in: Research on Economic Inequality, 2014, 22, 43-85)
G11, G21, J10
8305 Marco Caliendo
Wang-Sheng Lee
Robert Mahlstedt
The Gender Wage Gap: Does a Gender Gap in Reservation Wages Play a Part?
This paper focuses on re-examining the gender wage gap and the potential role that reservation wages play. Based on two waves of rich data from the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey we examine the ...
(substantially revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 136, 161-173.)
J16, J31
8304 Mark L. Bryan
Almudena Sevilla
Flexible Working and Couples' Coordination of Time Schedules
Using previously unexploited data on time scheduling in the employment and household contexts, we investigate the effect of flexible working on couples' coordination of their daily work time ...
(published as 'Flexible working in the UK and its impact on couples’ time coordination' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 15, 1415–1437)
J12, J22, J32
8303 Nezih Guner
Remzi Kaygusuz
Gustavo Ventura
Childcare Subsidies and Household Labor Supply
What would be the aggregate effects of adopting a more generous and universal childcare subsidy program in the U.S.? We answer this question in a life-cycle equilibrium model with joint labor-supply ...
(published as 'Child-Related Transfers, Household Labor Supply and Welfare' in: Review of Economic Studies, 2020, 87 (5), 2290–2321)
E62, H24, H31
8302 Francesco Mariotti
Karen A. Mumford
Yolanda Pena-Boquete
Household Asset Holding Diversification in Australia
We explore asset holding diversification by Australian households, in particular, the household asset diversification participation decision (whether or not to diversify at all) is jointly estimated ...
(published in: Australian Economic Review, 2015, 48(1), 43-64)
J3, J7
8301 Sarah Brown
Pulak Ghosh
Karl Taylor
Household Finances and Social Interaction: Bayesian Analysis of Household Panel Data
We investigate the relationship between social interaction and household finances using data from the British Household Panel Survey. We contribute to the existing literature by exploring the ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2016, 62 (3), 467-488)
D12, D14, C11
8300 Eugenio Proto
Andrew J. Oswald
National Happiness and Genetic Distance: A Cautious Exploration
This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for instance, regularly tops the league table of rich nations' well-being; Great ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (604), 2127-2152)
I30, I31
8299 Eve Caroli
Mathilde Godard
Does Job Insecurity Deteriorate Health? A Causal Approach for Europe
This paper estimates the causal effect of perceived job insecurity – i.e. the fear of involuntary job loss – on health in a sample of men from 22 European countries. We rely on an original ...
(revised version published in: Health Economics, 25(2), 131-147, 2016.)
I19, J63
8298 Hannes Schwandt
Wealth Shocks and Health Outcomes: Evidence from Stock Market Fluctuations
Do wealth shocks affect the health of the elderly in developed countries? The economic literature is skeptical about such effects which have so far only been found for poor retirees in poor ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (4), 349-77)
G10, I10, J14
8297 Martin Huber
Michael Lechner
Conny Wunsch
Workplace Health Promotion and Labour Market Performance of Employees
This paper investigates the average effects of (firm-provided) workplace health promotion measures in form of the analysis of sickness absenteeism and health circles/courses on labour market ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015,43, 170-189)
I10, I19, J32
8295 Nkechi S. Owoo
Wim Naudé
Non-Farm Enterprise Productivity and Spatial Autocorrelation in Rural Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria
The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially proximate farm and non-farm enterprises. To test for the presence and significance ...
(published as 'Spatial proximity and firm performance: evidence from non-farm rural enterprises in Ethiopia and Nigeria' in: Regional Studies, 2016, 51 (5), 688–700)
L26, C21, M13, O55
8293 Nishith Prakash
Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati
Girls for Sale? Child Sex Ratio and Girls Trafficking in India
Illegal trafficking of women is a result of their disadvantageous position in the society that is often reflected in increasing preference for son and neglect for daughters. Multiple reports point to ...
(published in: Feminist Economics, 2019, 25 (4), 267 - 308)
J10, O12, R23, Z12
8292 Bernt Bratsberg
Oddbjørn Raaum
Knut Røed
Immigrants, Labor Market Performance, and Social Insurance
Using longitudinal data from the date of arrival, we study long-term labor market and social insurance outcomes for all major immigrant cohorts to Norway since 1970. Immigrants from high-income ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124 (580), F644-F683)
F22, H55, J22
8291 Bernt Bratsberg
Oddbjørn Raaum
Knut Røed
Labour Migrant Adjustments in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis
Based on individual longitudinal data, we examine the evolution of employment and earnings of post-EU accession Eastern European labour immigrants to Norway for a period of up to eight years after ...
(published in: Tarmo Valkonen and Vesa Vihriälä (eds.): The Nordic model – challenged but capable of reform, TemaNord 2014:531)
F22, H55, J22
8290 Lutz Bellmann
Olaf Hübler
Skill Shortages in German Establishments
This paper investigates the development of skill shortage during the period 2007-2012. Using the IAB establishment panel, we find differences for the years before, during and after the Great ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 234 (6), 800-826)
D21, D22, E32, J63
8289 Peter J. Kuhn
Kailing Shen
Do Employers Prefer Undocumented Workers? Evidence from China's Hukou System
We study urban Chinese employers' preferences between workers with and without a local residence permit (hukou) using callback information from an Internet job board serving private sector employers. ...
(published as 'Do Employers Prefer Migrant Workers? Evidence from a Chinese Job Board' in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 4(2), 2015,)
O15, R23
8287 Gonne Beekman
Stephen L. Cheung
Ian Levely
The Effect of Conflict History on Cooperation Within and Between Groups: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment
We study cooperation within and between groups in the laboratory, comparing treatments in which two groups have previously been (i) in conflict with one another, (ii) in conflict with a different ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 63, 168-183)
C92, D64, D74, H41
8286 Bradley Ruffle
Yossef Tobol
Screening for Honesty
We report the results of a field experiment on honesty conducted on 427 Israeli soldiers fulfilling their mandatory military service. Each soldier rolled a six-sided die in private and reported the ...
(substantially revised version available as IZA DP No. 9860)
C93, M51
8285 Manzur Quader
Karl Taylor
Corporate Efficiency, Credit Status and Investment
Using a panel of 1122 UK firms listed on the London Stock Exchange over the period of 1981 to 2009, endogenous switching regression models (SRM) incorporating a predicted corporate efficiency index ...
(published in: European Journal of Finance, 2018, 24 (6), 439-457)
C34, D92, G14, L21
8284 Sarah Brown
Daniel Gray
Jolian McHardy
Karl Taylor
Employee Trust and Workplace Performance
We explore the relationship between employee trust of managers and workplace performance. We present a theoretical framework which serves to establish a link between employee trust and firm ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 116, 361-378)
J20, J50
8282 Peter Ganong
Simon Jäger
A Permutation Test and Estimation Alternatives for the Regression Kink Design
The Regression Kink (RK) design is an increasingly popular empirical method, with more than 20 studies circulated using RK in the last 5 years since the initial circulation of Card, Lee, Pei and ...
(revised version published as 'A Permutation Test for the Regression Kink Design' in: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2018, 113 (522), 494-504)
C12, C13, C14, C31
8281 Max Löffler
Andreas Peichl
Sebastian Siegloch
Structural Labor Supply Models and Wage Exogeneity
There is still considerable dispute about the magnitude of labor supply elasticities. While differences in micro and macro estimates are recently attributed to frictions and adjustment costs, we show ...
(revised version available as IZA Discussion Paper No. 11425)
C25, C52, H31, J22
8280 Markus Frölich
Martin Huber
Direct and Indirect Treatment Effects: Causal Chains and Mediation Analysis with Instrumental Variables
This paper discusses the nonparametric identification of causal direct and indirect effects of a binary treatment based on instrumental variables. We identify the indirect effect, which operates ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 2017, 79 (5), 1645 - 1666)
C14, C21
8279 Vladimir Gimpelson
Rostislav Kapeliushnikov
Between Light and Shadow: Informality in the Russian Labour Market
Economic growth in Russia in the first decade of this century almost doubled the country's GDP but was accompanied by substantial reallocation of labor to the unregulated sector while formal ...
(published in: S.Oxenstierna (ed.), The Challenges for Russia's Politicized Economic System: Routledge, 2015 )
J31, J40, P2
8277 Yann Algan
Pierre Cahuc
Marc Sangnier
Trust and the Welfare State: The Twin Peaks Curve
We show the existence of a twin peaks relation between trust and the size of the welfare state that stems from two opposing forces. Uncivic people support large welfare states because they expect to ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (593), 861-883)
H1, Z1
8276 Etienne Lehmann
Claudio Lucifora
Simone Moriconi
Bruno Van der Linden
Beyond the Labour Income Tax Wedge: The Unemployment-Reducing Effect of Tax Progressivity
In this paper we argue that, for a given overall level of labour income taxation, a more progressive tax schedule increases employment. From a theoretical point of view, higher progressivity ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2015, 1-36.)
E24, H22, J68
8275 Yuri Andrienko
Patricia Apps
Ray Rees
Optimal Taxation, Inequality and Top Incomes
In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and at the same time a shift in the burden of taxation from the top to the middle of ...
(published as "Optimal Taxation and Top Incomes" in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2016, 23, 918-1003)
H21, H24, D31, D63
8274 Carol Corrado
Jonathan Haskel
Cecilia Jona-Lasinio
Knowledge Spillovers, ICT and Productivity Growth
This paper looks at the channels through which intangible assets affect productivity. The econometric analysis exploits a new dataset on intangible investment (INTAN-Invest) in conjunction with ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 79 (4), 592 - 618)
O47, E22, E01
8270 Sarmistha Pal
Bibhas Saha
In 'Trusts' We Trust: Socially Motivated Private Schools in Nepal
We study school choice and school efficiency in terms of secondary school completion test scores by utilizing a unique database from Nepal. There are two novel features of our analysis: firstly we ...
(published as 'Enhancing Excellence: Socially Motivated Private Schools of Nepal' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55 (5), 765-785)
H44, I22
8269 Silvia Mendolia
Ian Walker
The Effect of Personality Traits on Subject Choice and Performance in High School: Evidence from an English Cohort
This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and performance in high school using a large and recent cohort study. In particular, we investigate the impact of ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 43 , 47-65)
I10, I21
8268 Pedro Maia Gomes
Zoë Kuehn
Human Capital and the Size Distribution of Firms
Countries that have relatively fewer workers with a secondary education have smaller firms. The shortage of skilled workers limits the growth of more productive firms. Two factors influence the ...
(Published in Review of Economic Dynamics, 2017, 26 , pp. 164-179. )
J24, J45, E24, H30, O11
8266 Marianne Bertrand
Sandra E. Black
Sissel Jensen
Adriana Lleras-Muney
Breaking the Glass Ceiling? The Effect of Board Quotas on Female Labor Market Outcomes in Norway
In late 2003, Norway passed a law mandating 40 percent representation of each gender on the board of publicly limited liability companies. The primary objective of this reform was to increase the ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2019, 86 (1), 191-239)
J1, J3
8265 Gordon B. Dahl
Andreas Ravndal Kostøl
Magne Mogstad
Family Welfare Cultures
Strong intergenerational correlations in various types of welfare use have fueled a long-standing debate over whether welfare receipt in one generation causes welfare participation in the next ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014, 129 (4), 1711-1752)
I38, J62, H53
8264 Helmuth Cremer
Kerstin Roeder
Transfers within a Three Generations Family: When the Rotten Kids Turn into Altruistic Parents
We study exchanges between three overlapping generations with non-dynastic altruism. The middleaged choose informal care provided to their parents and education expenditures for their children. The ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2014,124, 392-395)
Dl, D7, D9
8263 Thomas Dohmen
Behavioural Labour Economics: Advances and Future Directions
In the past decades, behavioural economics has become an influential and important field of economics. Interest in behavioural economics derives from unease with standard economic models that are ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 71-85)
J00, J01, D03
8262 Aysit Tansel
Deniz Karao?lan
Health Behaviors and Education in Turkey
This is the first study which provides empirical analysis of the variation in health behaviors for adult men and women in Turkey which is a developing country. The health behaviors considered are ...
(revised version is published as 'Determinants of Health Behaviors and Obesity in Turkey' in: Sosyoekonomi, 2020, 27 (41), 11–40.)
I10, I12, I19
8261 Jacob LaRiviere
Hendrik Wolff
The Power of the Little Blue Pill: Innovations and Implications of Life Style Drugs in an Aging Population
The launch of Viagra in April 1998 led to a historically unprecedented high usage of erectile dysfunction (ED) drugs. We test whether Viagra's introduction significantly influenced outcomes for its ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2015, 53(1), 540-556)
I1, J1, O33, J31
8260 Daniel Hallberg
Per Johansson
Malin Josephson
Early Retirement and Post Retirement Health
This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to army employees 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented in the ...
(published as 'Is an early retirement offer good for your health? Quasi-experimental evidence from the army' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 44, 274–285)
J22, J26, I18
8259 Arindrajit Dube
Ethan Kaplan
Owen Thompson
Nurse Unions and Patient Outcomes
We estimate the impact of nurse unions on health care quality using patient discharge data and the universe of hospital unionizations in California between 1996 and 2005. We find that hospitals with ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2016, 69 (4), 803 - 833)
I12, J51
8258 Javier Ordóñez
Hector Sala
José I. Silva
Real Unit Labour Costs in Eurozone Countries: Drivers and Clusters
We examine the trajectories of the real unit labour costs (RULCs) in a selection of Eurozone economies. Strong asymmetries in the convergence process of the RULCs and its components – real wages, ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2015, 4:15, 1-19)
F43, F62, O47, O52
8257 John T. Addison
Paulino Teixeira
Jens Stephani
Lutz Bellmann
Union Decline and the Coverage Wage Gap in Germany
Using linked employer-employee data, this paper estimates the effect of collective bargaining coverage on wages over an interval of continuing decline in unionism. Unobserved firm and worker ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2015, 36 (3), 301-317.)
J31, J51, J53
8256 Xavier D'Haultfoeuille
Arnaud Maurel
Yichong Zhang
Extremal Quantile Regressions for Selection Models and the Black-White Wage Gap
We consider the estimation of a semiparametric location-scale model subject to endogenous selection, in the absence of an instrument or a large support regressor. Identification relies on the ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2018, 203 (1), 129-142)
C21, C24, J31
8253 T. H. Gindling
Nadwa Mossaad
Juan Diego Trejos
The Consequences of Increased Enforcement of Legal Minimum Wages in a Developing Country: An Evaluation of the Impact of the Campaña Nacional de Salarios Mínimos in Costa Rica
In August 2010 the Costa Rican government implemented a comprehensive program to increase compliance with legal minimum wages, the Campaign for Minimum Wages. To evaluate the impact of the Campaign, ...
(slightly revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68(3), 666-707)
J3, J33, J38, O17, O53
8252 Alessio J. G. Brown
Christian Merkl
Dennis J. Snower
The Minimum Wage from a Two-Sided Perspective
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2014, 124 (3), 389–391.)
J3, J6, J2
8251 Daniel Arribas-Bel
Peter Nijkamp
Jacques Poot
How Diverse Can Spatial Measures of Cultural Diversity Be? Results from Monte Carlo Simulations of an Agent-Based Model
Cultural diversity is a complex and multi-faceted concept. Commonly used quantitative measures of the spatial distribution of culturally-defined groups – such as segregation, isolation or ...
(published in: Environment and Planning A, 2016, 48(10), 2046-2066)
C63, J15, R23, Z13
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