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8205 Petri Böckerman
Ohto Kanninen
Ilpo Suoniemi
A Kink that Makes You Sick: The Incentive Effect of Sick Pay on Absence
This paper examines the effect of the replacement rule of the Finnish sickness insurance system on the duration of sickness absence. A pre-determined, piecewise linear policy rule in which the ...
(published as "A Kink that Makes You Sick: The Effect of Sick Pay on Absence" in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2018, 33 (4), 568-579)
I13, I18, J22
8204 Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia
The Effects of the Great Recession on Teenagers' Risky Health Behaviors and Time Use
This paper uses individual-level data from both the 2003-2011 American Time Use Survey and Youth Risk Behavior Survey and state-level unemployment rates to examine the effects of the Great Recession ...
(published as 'Teenagers’ Risky Health Behaviors and Time Use During the Great Recession' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 15 (3), 945–964)
J22, J11
8203 Stefanie Schurer
Bouncing Back from Health Shocks: Locus of Control, Labor Supply, and Mortality
Policy-makers worldwide are embarking on school programmes aimed at boosting students' resilience. One facet of resilience is a belief about cause and effect in life, locus of control. I test whether ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,133, 1-20, 2017)
I12, J24
8201 Bart H.H. Golsteyn
Trudie Schils
Gender Gaps in Primary School Achievement: A Decomposition into Endowments and Returns to IQ and Non-cognitive Factors
In elementary school, girls typically outperform boys in languages and boys typically outperform girls in math. The determinants of these differences have remained largely unexplored. Using rich data ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 41, 176-187)
I21, I24
8199 David Wildasin
Human Capital Mobility: Implications for Efficiency, Income Distribution, and Policy
Mobility of highly-skilled workers affects and is affected by labor market conditions, taxes, and other policies. This paper documents the demographic and fiscal importance of international ...
(published in: M. Gérard and S. Uebelmesser (eds.), The Mobility of Students and the Highly Skilled: Implications for Education Financing and Economic Policy, MIT Press, 2014)
J11, J24, J61, H2, H5
8198 Marcelo Bergolo
Guillermo Cruces
Work and Tax Evasion Incentive Effects of Social Insurance Programs: Evidence from an Employment-Based Benefit Extension
This article studies how social insurance programs shape individual's incentives to take up registered employment and to report earnings to the tax authorities. The analysis is based on a social ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 117, 211-228)
J22, H26, O17
8196 Bhanu Gupta
Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay
Local Funds and Political Competition: Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India
This paper examines how local politics affects public fund allocations. It uses the context of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India which was introduced by the Indian ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 41 (1), 14-30)
D72, J08, H53, H75
8195 Catia Batista
Tara McIndoe Calder
Pedro C. Vicente
Return Migration, Self-Selection and Entrepreneurship in Mozambique
Does return migration affect entrepreneurship? This question has important implications for the debate on the economic development effects of migration for origin countries. The existing literature ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 79, 797–821.)
F22, L26, O15
8194 Rachel Connelly
Michael Iannotti
Margaret Maurer-Fazio
Dandan Zhang
Coresidency, Ethnicity, and Happiness of China's Rural Elders
As China moves into the ranks of aged societies, coresidency of elders with their adult children has become an increasingly important policy concern. This article utilizes data from the 2000 ...
(published in: Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2015, 56 (1), 70 - 88 )
D13, J12, J14, J15
8193 Michael Grimm
Anna Luisa Paffhausen
Do Interventions Targeted at Micro-Entrepreneurs and Small and Medium-Sized Firms Create Jobs? A Systematic Review of the Evidence for Low and Middle Income Countries
Worldwide 600 million jobs are needed over the next 15 years to keep employment rates at their current level. Governments, non-governmental organizations and donors spend on targeted programs and ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 32, 67-85)
D22, G21, J21, O10
8192 Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski
Mthuli Ncube
Zorobabel Bicaba
Skills and Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa: Analysis with Evidence from Swaziland
The shortages of entrepreneurial skills have lowered search effectiveness of potential young entrepreneurs and the rate of youth start-ups. Our paper contributes to closing a gap in the ...
(revised version published in: World Development, 2015, 67 (3), 11 - 26)
J11, J08, L26, O11
8191 Florencia López Bóo
Maria Eugenia Canon
Reversal of Gender Gaps in Child Development: Evidence from Young Children in India
This paper provides unique evidence of a reversal of gender gaps in cognitive development in early childhood. We find steep caste and gender gradients and few substantive changes once children enter ...
(published in:Economics Letters, 2014, 124(1), 55-59)
I2, J1, J7
8189 Takao Kato
Naomi Kodama
Labor Market Deregulation and Female Employment: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Japan
This paper provides novel evidence on the causal effect on female employment of labor market deregulation by using the 1985 amendments to the Labor Standards Law (LSL) in Japan as a natural ...
(revised version published as 'Deregulating Overtime Hours Restrictions on Women and Its Effects on Female Employment: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Japan' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80 (4), 804-821)
J16, J78, J81, J82, J88
8188 Marike Knoef
Jan C. van Ours
How to Stimulate Single Mothers on Welfare to Find a Job: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
We present the results from a natural experiment in which single mothers on welfare were stimulated to find a job. Two policy instruments were introduced: an earnings disregard and job creation. The ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29, 1025-1061.)
C41, C93, I38, J64
8187 Laura Dague
Thomas DeLeire
Lindsey Leininger
The Effect of Public Insurance Coverage for Childless Adults on Labor Supply
This study provides plausibly causal estimates of the effect of public insurance coverage on the employment of non-elderly, non-disabled adults without dependent children ("childless adults"). We use ...
(published in: American Econonomic Review, 2017, 9 (2), 124 - 154)
I13, J22
8185 Lutz C. Kaiser
The Gender-Career Estimation Gap
The paper discusses gender differences with regard to the self- and reciprocal estimation of career expectations. Firstly, the theoretical background and the literature are identified. Within this ...
(published in: M. Connerley, J. Wu (eds.), The Handbook on Well-Being of Working Women, Springer 2016, 429-448)
J16, J24, J4, J71, J78
8184 Antonio Filippin
Paolo Crosetto
A Reconsideration of Gender Differences in Risk Attitudes
This paper reconsiders the wide agreement that females are more risk averse than males providing a leap forward in its understanding. Thoroughly surveying the experimental literature we first find ...
(published in: Management Science, 2016, 62 (11), 3138 - 3160)
C81, C91, D81
8183 Ruohong Cai
Shuaizhang Feng
Mariola Pytlikova
Michael Oppenheimer
Climate Variability and International Migration: The Importance of the Agricultural Linkage
While there is considerable interest in understanding the climate-migration relationship, particularly in the context of concerns about global climatic change, little is known about underlying ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2016, 79, 135-151.)
Q54, J10
8182 Shahrouz Abolhosseini
Almas Heshmati
The Main Support Mechanisms to Finance Renewable Energy Development
Considering that the major part of greenhouse gases is carbon dioxide, there is a global concern aimed at reducing carbon emissions. Additionally, major consumer countries are looking for alternative ...
(published as 'Financing Renewable Energy Development' in: The Development of Renewable Energy Sources and its Significance for the Environment, 2015, 85-106)
H23, L71, O13, O31, Q27, Q42
8181 Ming-Jen Lin
Elaine M. Liu
Does in utero Exposure to Illness Matter? The 1918 Influenza Epidemic in Taiwan as a Natural Experiment
This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic in Taiwan as a natural experiment to test whether in utero conditions affect long-run developmental outcomes. Combining several historical and current ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 37, 152-163)
I12, N35, I19
8180 Hendrik Wolff
Keep Your Clunker in the Suburb: Low Emission Zones and Adoption of Green Vehicles
Spatial distribution and leakage effects are of great policy concern and increasingly discussed in the economics literature. Here we study Europe's most aggressive recent air pollution regulation: ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124(578), F481–F512)
Q58, R48
8179 Jennifer Alix-Garcia
Hendrik Wolff
Payment for Ecosystem Services from Forests
Every year between 2000 and 2010, our planet lost native forests roughly the size of Costa Rica. (FAO, 2010). This rapid deforestation has dramatically changed the chemical composition of the world's ...
(published in: Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2014, 6, 361-380)
H23, H43, J43, Q23
8178 Arnaud Dupuy
Alfred Galichon
Marc Henry
Entropy Methods for Identifying Hedonic Models
This paper contributes to the literature on hedonic models in two ways. First, it makes use of Queyranne's reformulation of a hedonic model in the discrete case as a network flow problem in order to ...
(published in: Mathematics and Financial Economics, 2014, 8 (4), 405-416)
D12, J3, L11
8177 Alex Bryson
Arnaud Chevalier
What Happens When Employers are Free to Discriminate? Evidence from the English Barclays Premier Fantasy Football League
Research on employers' hiring discrimination is limited by the unlawfulness of such activity. Consequently, researchers have focused on the intention to hire. Instead, we rely on a virtual labour ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 34, 51-63)
J15, J23, J24, J71, M51
8176 Daniel Borowczyk-Martins
Jake Bradley
Linas Tarasonis
Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Labor Market: Employment and Wage Differentials by Skill
In the US labor market the average black worker is exposed to a lower employment rate and earns a lower wage compared to his white counterpart. Lang and Lehmann (2012) argue that these mean ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 49, 106-127)
J31, J64, J71
8175 Meta Brown
Elizabeth Setren
Giorgio Topa
Do Informal Referrals Lead to Better Matches? Evidence from a Firm's Employee Referral System
Using a new firm-level dataset that includes explicit information on referrals by current employees, we investigate the hiring process and the relationships among referrals, match quality, wage ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 34 (1 Part 1), 161–209)
J30, J63, J64
8174 Perihan Saygin
Andrea Weber
Michèle Weynandt
Coworkers, Networks, and Job Search Outcomes
Social networks are an important channel of information transmission in the labor market. This paper studies the mechanisms by which social networks have an impact on labor market outcomes of ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2021, 74 (1), 95-130)
J63, J64, M51
8173 Pierre Cahuc
Search, Flows, Job Creations and Destructions
This paper presents a short overview of dynamic models of labor markets with transaction costs. It shows that these models have deeply renewed the understanding of job search, job flows, job ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 22-29)
J6, J31, J38
8172 Edmund Cannon
Giam Pietro Cipriani
Katia Bazar-Rosen
Surprising Selection Effects in the UK Car Insurance Market
We document a large and persistent anomaly in the UK car insurance market over the period 2012-13: insurance companies charged a higher premium for third-party (liability) insurance than ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2016, 68 (4), 879-897)
D82, G22
8171 Nicola Lacetera
Mario Macis
Angelo Mele
Viral Altruism? Generosity and Social Contagion in Online Networks
How do the social media affect the success of charitable promotional campaigns? We use individual-level longitudinal data and experimental data from a social-media application that facilitates ...
(published as 'Viral Altruism? Charitable Giving and Social Contagion in Online Networks' in: Sociological Science, 2016, 3, 202 - 289)
D64, C93
8170 Luca Corazzini
Antonio Filippin
Paolo Vanin
Economic Behavior under Alcohol Influence: An Experiment on Time, Risk, and Social Preferences
We report results from an incentivized laboratory experiment to provide controlled evidence on the causal effects of alcohol consumption on risk preferences, time perception and altruism. Our design ...
(published in: PloS ONE, 10(4), e0121530)
D03, I10, C91
8169 Stephan Meier
Lamar Pierce
Antonino Vaccaro
Trust and In-Group Favoritism in a Culture of Crime
We use experiments in high schools in two neighborhoods in the metropolitan area of Palermo, Italy to experimentally demonstrate that the historical informal institution of organized crime can ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 132 (Part A), 78-92)
C91, C92
8168 David Akerlund
Bart H.H. Golsteyn
Hans Grönqvist
Lena Lindahl
Time Preferences and Criminal Behavior
One main motive behind lengthy prison terms for serious crime is to deter potential offenders from engaging in crime. Yet, economic theory predicts that the scope for punishment as acting as a ...
(published as 'Time Discounting and Criminal Behavior' in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), 2016, 133, 22)
K4, D03, D90
8167 Ana C. Dammert
Sarah Mohan
A Survey of the Economics of Fair Trade
Fair Trade has spread in developing countries as an initiative aimed at lifting poor smallholder farmers out of poverty by providing them with premium prices, availability of credit, and improved ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2015, 29(5), 855-868)
O19, P46
8165 Verena Dill
Uwe Jirjahn
Stephen C. Smith
Do Foreign Owners Favor Short-Term Profit? Evidence from Germany
Comparing domestic- and foreign-owned firms in Germany, this paper finds that foreign-owned firms are more likely to focus on short-term profit. This influence is particularly strong if the local ...
(published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2016, 40(1), 123-140)
F23, G34, M16, P10
8164 Pablo Agnese
Jana Hromcová
Low-Skill Offshoring: Labor Market Policies and Welfare Effects
We analyze the effect of low-skill workers offshoring on the welfare of the economy. In the context of a matching model with different possible equilibria, we discuss two policies that could ...
(published as 'Low-skill offshoring and welfare compensation policies' in: Economic Modelling, 2016, 52, part B, 408 - 426)
J68, F66
8163 Arno Tausch
Almas Heshmati
Testing an EU-Candidate's Place on the Maps of Global Economic, Political and Social Values: The Case of Turkey
Following the attempt by Alesina and Guiliano (2013) to measure global culture and to project these measurements onto real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World ...
(published as 'Testing Turkey’s Place Within the Maps of Global Economic, Political and Social Values' in: Polish Political Science Review, 2017, 5 (1), 73 - 110)
C43, F50, Z12, D73
8162 Nauro F. Campos
Fabrizio Coricelli
Luigi Moretti
Economic Growth and Political Integration: Estimating the Benefits from Membership in the European Union Using the Synthetic Counterfactuals Method
This paper presents new estimates of the economic benefits from economic and political integration. Using the synthetic counterfactuals method, we estimate how GDP per capita and labour productivity ...
(published as 'Institutional integration and economic growth in Europe' in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2019, 103, 88-104)
C33, F15, F43, O52
8161 Wolfgang Dauth
Jens Suedekum
Globalization and Local Profiles of Economic Growth and Industrial Change
We analyze how globalization has affected the sectoral anatomy of regional growth in Germany over the period 1978-2008. The aggregate German economy is characterized by a secular decline of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2016, 16 (5), 1007-1034 )
R11, O14, F16
8160 Nava Kahana
Doron Klunover
Rent Seeking and the Excess Burden of Taxation
The social costs of rent seeking are generally evaluated with respect to rent dissipation. A common assumption is complete rent dissipation so that the value of a contested rent is the value of ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 35,158 - 167)
H2
8159 Matt Dickson
Fabien Postel-Vinay
Hélène Turon
The Lifetime Earnings Premium in the Public Sector: The View from Europe
In a context of widespread concern about budget deficits, it is important to assess whether public sector pay is in line with the private sector. Our paper proposes an estimation of differences in ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 31, 141–161)
J45, J31, J62
8158 Raul Ramos
Esteban Sanromá
Hipólito Simón
Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials by Type of Contract: Evidence from Spain
The article examines public-private sector wage differentials in Spain using microdata from the Structure of Earnings Survey (Encuesta de Estructura Salarial). When applying various decomposition ...
(published in: Hacienda Pública Española/Review of Public Economics, 2014, 208 (1), 107-141)
C2, E3, J3, J4
8157 Jesper Roine
Daniel Waldenström
Long-Run Trends in the Distribution of Income and Wealth
This paper reviews the long run developments in the distribution of personal income and wealth. It also discusses suggested explanations for the observed patterns. We try to answer questions such as: ...
(published in: A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (eds.): Handbook of Income Distribution, 2, 2015, 469-592)
D31, H2, J3, N3
8156 Daiji Kawaguchi
Tetsushi Murao
Labor Market Institutions and Long-Term Effects of Youth Unemployment
Graduating from a school during a time of adverse economic conditions has a persistent, harmful effect on workers' subsequent employment opportunities. An analysis of panel data from OECD countries ...
(published in: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2014, 46(S2), 95–116)
E24, J64, J65, K31
8155 Werner Eichhorst
Verena Tobsch
Not So Standard Anymore? Employment Duality in Germany
This paper gives an overview of the transformation of the German labour market since the mid-1990s with a special focus on the changing patterns of labour market segmentation or 'dualization' of ...
(published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2015, 48 (2), 81-95)
J21, J31, J42
8154 Ive Marx
Brian Nolan
Javier Olivera
The Welfare State and Anti-Poverty Policy in Rich Countries
This paper is prepared as a chapter for the Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume 2 (edited by A. B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon, Elsevier-North Holland, forthcoming). Like the other chapters in ...
(published in: A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (eds.): Handbook of Income Distribution, 2, 2015, 2063-2139)
I3, I38, D63
8153 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Susan L. Averett
Cynthia Bansak
Welfare Reform and Immigrant Fertility
Immigration policy continues to be at the forefront of policy discussions, and the use of welfare benefits by immigrants has been hotly debated. In 1996, Congress enacted welfare reform legislation ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29(3), 757-779.)
J13, I38
8151 Carlo Devillanova
Francesco Fasani
Tommaso Frattini
Employment of Undocumented Immigrants and the Prospect of Legal Status: Evidence from an Amnesty Program
This paper estimates the causal effect of the prospect of legal status on the employment outcomes of undocumented immigrants. Our identification strategy exploits a natural experiment provided by the ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2018, 71 (4), 853-881 )
F22, J61, K37
8150 Pierre-Philippe Combes
Bruno Decreuse
Morgane Laouénan
Alain Trannoy
Customer Discrimination and Employment Outcomes: Theory and Evidence from the French Labor Market
The paper investigates the link between the over-exposure of African immigrants to unemployment in France and their under-representation in jobs in contact with customers. We build a two-sector ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 34 (1 Part 1), 107 - 160)
J15, J61, R23
8149 Raven Molloy
Christopher L. Smith
Abigail Wozniak
Declining Migration within the US: The Role of the Labor Market
Interstate migration has decreased steadily since the 1980s. We show that this trend is not primarily related to demographic and socioeconomic factors, but instead appears to be connected to a ...
(published in: Demography, 2017, 54 (2), 631-653.)
J6, J1
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