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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
8148 Marco Vivarelli
Structural Change and Innovation as Exit Strategies from the Middle Income Trap
This paper is intended to provide an updated discussion on a series of issues that the relevant literature suggests to be crucial in dealing with the challenges a middle income country may encounter ...
(published in: Economic Change and Restructuring , 2016, 49, 159-193)
O14, O33
8146 Michael Grimm
Robert Sparrow
Luca Tasciotti
Does Electrification Spur the Fertility Transition? Evidence from Indonesia
We analyse various pathways through which access to electricity affects fertility, using a pseudo-panel of Indonesian districts covering the period 1993-2010. Identification of causal effects relies ...
(published in: Demography, 2015, 52 (5), 1773-1796, )
H43, H54, J13, J22, O18, Q40
8145 Shahrouz Abolhosseini
Almas Heshmati
Jörn Altmann
A Review of Renewable Energy Supply and Energy Efficiency Technologies
Electricity consumption will comprise an increasing share of global energy demand during the next two decades. In recent years, the increasing prices of fossil fuels and concerns about the ...
(published as 'Alternative Renewable Energy Production Technologies' in: The Development of Renewable Energy Sources and its Significance for the Environment, 2015, 31-64)
D61, D62, H23, N50, O13, Q52, Q55
8144 Deniz Ozabaci
Daniel J. Henderson
Liangjun Su
Additive Nonparametric Regression in the Presence of Endogenous Regressors
In this paper we consider nonparametric estimation of a structural equation model under full additivity constraint. We propose estimators for both the conditional mean and gradient which are ...
(published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2014, 32, 555-575)
C14, C36, I21, J13
8143 Corrado Andini
Persistence Bias and Schooling Returns
A well-established empirical literature suggests that individual wages are persistent. Several theoretical arguments support this empirical finding. Yet, the standard approach to the estimation of ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Studies, 2024, 51 (2), 319-337)
C23, I21, J31
8142 Charlene M. Kalenkoski
Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia
Does High School Homework Increase Academic Achievement?
Although previous research has shown that homework improves students' academic achievement, the majority of these studies use data on students' homework time from retrospective questionnaires, which ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2017, 25 (1), 45-59 )
I2, J22, J24
8141 Nils Saniter
Thomas Siedler
Door Opener or Waste of Time? The Effects of Student Internships on Labor Market Outcomes
This paper studies the causal effect of student internship experience on labor market choices and wages later in life. We use variation in the introduction and abolishment of mandatory internships at ...
(revised version published as 'Do Internships Pay Off? The Effects of Student Internships on Earnings' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (4), 1242-1275 (joint with Shushanik Margaryan and Mathias Schumann))
I23, J01, J31
8140 Paolo Naticchioni
Michele Raitano
Claudia Vittori
La Meglio Gioventù: Earnings Gaps across Generations and Skills in Italy
This paper documents the evolution of the experience-earnings profiles of private employees in Italy over the first six years of working career across three birth cohorts (1965-1969, 1970- 1974, ...
(published in: Economia Politica, 2016, 33 (2), 233-264)
J24, J31
8138 Steffen Ahrens
Inske Pirschel
Dennis J. Snower
A Theory of Price Adjustment under Loss Aversion
We present a new partial equilibrium theory of price adjustment, based on consumer loss aversion. In line with prospect theory, the consumers' perceived utility losses from price increases are ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 134, 78-95)
D03, D21, E31, E50
8136 Andrew E. Clark
Conchita D'Ambrosio
Attitudes to Income Inequality: Experimental and Survey Evidence
We review the survey and experimental findings in the literature on attitudes to income inequality. We interpret the latter as any disparity in incomes between individuals. We classify these findings ...
(published in: A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (Eds.): Handbook of Income Distribution, 2A, 2015, 1147-1208)
C91, D31, D63, I31
8135 Ghazala Azmat
Barbara Petrongolo
Gender and the Labor Market: What Have We Learned from Field and Lab Experiments?
We discuss the contribution of the experimental literature to the understanding of both traditional and previously unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 32-40)
J16, J24, J71, C91, C92, C93
8134 L. Rachel Ngai
Barbara Petrongolo
Gender Gaps and the Rise of the Service Economy
This paper investigates the role of the rise of services in the narrowing of gender gaps in hours and wages in recent decades. We document the between-industry component of the rise in female work ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2017, 9, 1-44)
E24, J22, J16
8131 Nattavudh Powdthavee
Alois Stutzer
Economic Approaches to Understanding Change in Happiness
Are people condemned to an inherent level of experienced happiness? A review of the economic research on subjective well-being gives reason to the assessment that happiness can change. First, ...
(published in: K. Sheldon and R.E. Lucas (eds.): Stability of Happiness, 2014)
D03, D60, I31
8130 Thomas Buser
Hessel Oosterbeek
Erik Plug
Juan Ponce
José Rosero
The Impact of Positive and Negative Income Changes on the Height and Weight of Young Children
We estimate the impact of changes in unearned income on the height and weight of young children in a developing country. As source of variation we use changes in the eligibility criteria for receipt ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2017, 31 (3), 786–808)
I14, H51, C31
8129 John H. Pencavel
The Productivity of Working Hours
Observations on munition workers, most of them women, are organized to examine the relationship between their output and their working hours. The relationship is nonlinear: below an hours threshold, ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (589), 2052-2076)
J24, J22, N34
8128 Roy E. Bailey
Timothy J. Hatton
Kris Inwood
Health, Height and the Household at the Turn of the 20th Century
We examine the health and height of men born in England and Wales in the 1890s who enlisted in the army at the time of the First World War. We take a sample of the army service records and use this ...
(published in: Economic History Review, 2016, 69(1), 35–53)
I12, J13, N33
8127 Nattavudh Powdthavee
Mark Wooden
What Can Life Satisfaction Data Tell Us About Discrimination Against Sexual Minorities? A Structural Equation Model for Australia and the United Kingdom
Very little is known about how the differential treatment of sexual minorities could influence subjective reports of overall well-being. This paper seeks to fill this gap. Data from two large surveys ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Life Satisfaction and Sexual Minorities: Evidence from Australia and the United Kingdom' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 116, 107-126)
I31, J71
8126 Naci Mocan
Christian Raschke
Economic Well-being and Anti-Semitic, Xenophobic, and Racist Attitudes in Germany
The fear and hatred of others who are different has economic consequences because such feelings are likely to translate into discrimination in labor, credit, housing, and other markets. The ...
(published in: European Journal of Law and Economics, 2016, 41 (1), 1-63)
J15, I30, Z10
8125 John T. Addison
Pedro Portugal
José Varejão
Labour Demand Research: Towards a Better Match between Better Theory and Better Data
At first blush, most advances in labour demand were achieved by the late 1980s. Since then progress might appear to have stalled. We argue to the contrary that significant progress has been made in ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 4-11)
J23, J3, J4, J5, D4, F66
8123 Eliav Danziger
Leif Danziger
A Pareto-Improving Minimum Wage
This paper shows that a graduated minimum wage, in contrast to a constant minimum wage, can provide a strict Pareto improvement over what can be achieved with an optimal income tax. The reason is ...
(published in: Economica, 2015, 82(326), 236–252)
J30
8122 Ritashree Chakrabarti
Junfu Zhang
Unaffordable Housing and Local Employment Growth: Evidence from California Municipalities
It is widely believed that unaffordable housing could drive businesses away and thus impede job growth. However, there is little evidence to support this view. This paper presents a simple model to ...
(shorter version published in: Urban Studies, 2015, 52(6), 1134-1151)
R11, R12, R13
8120 Mthuli Ncube
Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski
Zorobabel Bicaba
Can Dreams Come True? Eliminating Extreme Poverty in Africa by 2030
With the year 2015 – the MDG finishing line – approaching, post-2015 goals as they impact Africa need to be firmed. The goal of ending extreme poverty remains paramount. Globally, the World Bank ...
(revised version published as 'Can Extreme Poverty be Eliminated in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030?' in: Journal of African Development, 2017, 19 (2), 93 - 110)
I32, E21, J11, C63
8118 Orley Ashenfelter
The Early History of Program Evaluation and the U.S. Department of Labor
This paper contains a review of the early history of program evaluation research at the US Department of Labor. Some broad lessons for successful evaluation research are summarized.
(published in: ILR Review, 2014, 63 (3S), 574 - 577)
B4, C21, J8
8116 Miki Kobayashi
Emiko Usui
Breastfeeding Practices and Parental Employment in Japan
Much research shows that breastfeeding provides short- and long-term health benefits for both mothers and their children. However, few studies have yet investigated the factors which may promote or ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 15 (2), 579–596)
J13
8115 Jochen Kluve
Sebastian Schmitz
Social Norms and Mothers' Labor Market Attachment: The Medium-Run Effects of Parental Benefits
Increasing mothers' labor supply is a key policy challenge in many OECD countries. Germany recently introduced a generous parental benefit that allows for strong consumption smoothing after ...
(revised version published as 'Back to Work: parental benefits and mothers' labor market outcomes in the medium-run' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review 2018, 71 (1), 143 - 173 )
H31, J13, J22
8113 Astrid Kunze
Are All of the Good Men Fathers? The Effect of Having Children on Earnings
This study reconsiders the empirical question of whether men's earnings increase because of children. Large Norwegian register data are used for brother and twin pairs who are followed over their ...
(revised version published as 'The effect of children on male earnings and inequality' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 18, 683 - 710, 2020)
J22, J24, J31, J13, J16
8112 Christian Grund
Gender Pay Gaps among Highly Educated Professionals: Compensation Components Do Matter
Making use of panel data from a survey of highly educated professionals, gender pay gaps are explored with regard to total compensation as well as to individual compensation components. The results ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 34, 118-126)
M52, J31, J33
8111 Andrew Henley
Is Religion Associated with Entrepreneurial Activity?
This paper provides a quantitative investigation of the strength of the potential relationship between entrepreneurial activity and religious affiliation. The relationship between religion and ...
(published as 'Does Religion Influence Entrepreneurial Behaviour?' in: International Small Business Journal, 2017, 35 (5), 597 - 617)
L26, M13, O43, Z12
8110 Joop Hartog
Luis Diaz-Serrano
Why Do We Ignore the Risk in Schooling Decisions?
While uncertainty abounds in almost any decision on investment in schooling, it is mostly ignored in research and virtually absent in labour economics text books. This paper documents the scope for ...
(published in: De Economist, 2015, 163, 125-153)
I21, J22, J24, J31
8109 Tim Friehe
Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
Crime and Self-Control Revisited: Disentangling the Effect of Self-Control on Risk and Social Preferences
In economic models, risk and social preferences are major determinants of criminal behavior. In criminology, low self-control is considered a fundamental cause of crime. Relating the arguments from ...
(published in: International Review of Law and Economics, 2017, 49, 23–32.)
K42, H23, C91
8108 Wendelin Schnedler
Christoph Vanberg
Playing 'Hard to Get': An Economic Rationale for Crowding Out of Intrinsically Motivated Behavior
Anecdotal, empirical, and experimental evidence suggests that offering extrinsic rewards for certain activities can reduce people's willingness to engage in those activities voluntarily. We propose a ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 68, 106–115)
D1, M5, D8, D4, C9
8107 Michal Bauer
Nathan Fiala
Ian Levely
Trusting Former Rebels: An Experimental Approach to Understanding Reintegration after Civil War
The stability of many post-conflict societies rests on the successful reintegration of former soldiers. We examine social capital of former soldiers in Northern Uganda, where the Lord's Resistance ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128, 1786-1819.)
C93, D03, D74, O12
8106 Teresa Randazzo
Matloob Piracha
Remittances and Household Expenditure Behaviour in Senegal
This paper analyses the impact of remittances on household expenditure behaviour in Senegal. We use propensity score matching and OLS methods to assess the average impact of remittances on several ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Remittances and household expenditure behaviour: Evidence from Senegal' in: Economic Modelling, 2019, 79, 141-153)
F24, O12, O15
8105 Michela Ponzo
Vincenzo Scoppa
Does the Home Advantage Depend on Crowd Support? Evidence from Same-Stadium Derbies
We investigate to what extent crowd support contributes to the home advantage in soccer, disentangling this effect from other mechanisms such as players' familiarity with the stadium and travel ...
(published in: Journal of Sports Economics, 2018, 19 (4), 562-582)
D89, L83, D81
8104 Gary Charness
Francesco Feri
Miguel A. Meléndez-Jiménez
Matthias Sutter
Experimental Games on Networks: Underpinnings of Behavior and Equilibrium Selection
In this paper, we describe a series of laboratory experiments that implement specific examples of a more general network structure and we examine equilibrium selection. Specifically, actions are ...
(slightly revised version published in: Econometrica, 2014, 82(5), 1615-1670)
C71, C91, D03, D85
8102 Marco Alberto De Benedetto
Maria De Paola
Candidates' Quality and Electoral Participation: Evidence from Italian Municipal Elections
We analyze the impact of the quality of candidates running for a mayor position on turnout using a large data set on Italian municipal elections held from 1993 to 2011. We firstly estimate a ...
(published as 'Candidates' Education and Turnout: Evidence from Italian Municipal Elections' in: German Economic Review, 2017, 18 (1), 22 - 50)
D72, D78, J45
8101 Katja Görlitz
Sylvi Rzepka
Does Regional Training Supply Determine Employees' Training Participation?
Using data from the National Educational Panel Study of 2009/2010, this paper investigates the relationship between regional training supply and employees' training participation. Controlling for ...
(published in: The Annals of Regional Science, 2017, 59 (1), 281-296)
J24, R12
8100 Nils Saniter
Thomas Siedler
The Effects of Occupational Knowledge: Job Information Centers, Educational Choices, and Labor Market Outcomes
This study examines the causal link between individuals' occupational knowledge, educational choices, and labor market outcomes. We proxy occupational knowledge with mandatory visits to job ...
(revised version published as 'Occupational Knowledge and Educational Mobility: Evidence from the Introduction of Job Information Centers' (with D. Schnitzlein) in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 69, 108-124)
I2, J24, J31
8098 John W. Budd
Aaron Sojourner
Jaewoo Jung
Are Voluntary Agreements Better? Evidence from Baseball Arbitration
This paper empirically examines the widespread belief that voluntarily negotiated agreements produce better long-run relationships than third-party imposed settlements, such as arbitrator decisions ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2017, 70 (4), 865 - 893)
J52, M12, M5
8097 Olivier Godart
Holger Görg
Aoife Hanley
Trust-Based Work-Time and Product Improvements: Evidence from Firm Level Data
We explore whether the introduction of trust based working hours is related to the subsequent innovation performance of firms. Employing a panel data set of over 5,000 German establishments, we ...
(published in: Industrial & Labor Relations Review, 2017, 70(4), 894-918)
M54, M12
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