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7849 Tiziano Razzolini
Roberto Leombruni
Giovanni Mastrobuoni
Mario Pagliero
Beneath the Surface: The Decline in Gender Injury Gap
Despite its policy relevance there is little evidence on the joint evolution of gender differences in wages and workplace safety. Between 1994 and 2002 Italian micro-level data show a decline in both ...
(substantially revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 282-288)
J16, J28, J31
7848 Hani Mansour
Terra McKinnish
Couples' Time Together: Complementarities in Production versus Complementarities in Consumption
Economists have previously suggested that gains from marriage can be generated by complementarities in production (gains from specialization and exchange) or by complementarities in consumption ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27, 1127-1144)
J12, J13, J16
7847 Stijn Baert
Lynn Decuypere
Better Sexy than Flexy? A Lab Experiment Assessing the Impact of Perceived Attractiveness and Personality Traits on Hiring Decisions
In this letter we present a laboratory experiment to assess the relative and independent effect of perceived attractiveness and personality traits on hiring decisions. Our results indicate that ...
(revised version published in: Applied Economics Letters , 2014, 21 (9), 597 - 601)
C91, J24, J71
7846 Chris M. Herbst
Universal Child Care, Maternal Employment, and Children's Long-Run Outcomes: Evidence from the U.S. Lanham Act of 1940
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the Lanham Act of 1940, a heavily-subsidized and universal child care program that was administered throughout the U.S. during World War II. I begin by ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35 (2), 519–564)
J13
7845 Stijn Baert
Elsy Verhofstadt
Labour Market Discrimination against Former Juvenile Delinquents: Evidence from a Field Experiment
We identify hiring discrimination against former juvenile delinquents in a direct way. To this end we conduct a field experiment in the Belgian labour market. We find that labour market ...
(revised version published in: Applied Economics, 2015, 47 (11), 1061 - 1072)
C93, J2, J71
7844 Hartmut Lehmann
Anzelika Zaiceva
Re-defining Informal Employment and Measuring its Determinants: Evidence from Russia
Informal activities impact countries' economic development and overall growth. However, studying informal employment is not easy and it is crucial to provide a valid definition of it. This paper ...
(published in: Journal of International Development, 2015, 27 (4), 464 - 488)
J31, J40, P23
7842 Sarah Bohn
Todd Pugatch
U.S. Border Enforcement and Mexican Immigrant Location Choice
We provide the first evidence on the causal effect of border enforcement on the full spatial distribution of Mexican immigrants to the United States. We address the endogeneity of border enforcement ...
(published in: Demography, 2015, 52 (5), 1543-1570)
J15, J61
7841 Alfonso Miranda
Yu Zhu
The Causal Effect of Deficiency at English on Female Immigrants' Labor Market Outcomes in the UK
We investigate the extent to which deficiency at English as measured by English as Additional Language (EAL), contribute to the immigrant-native wage gap for female employees in the UK, controlling ...
(published as 'The Effect of Deficiency at English on Female Immigrants' Wage in the UK: Correcting for measurement error, endogenous treatment, and sample selection bias' in: Applied Economics Letters, 2021, 28 (5), 349-353 )
J15, J31, J61, C21
7840 Lídia Farré
New Evidence on the Healthy Immigrant Effect
This paper provides new empirical evidence on the contribution of selective migration to the health advantage of immigrants upon arrival to the new destination (i.e. the Healthy Immigrant Effect). It ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29 (2), 365-394)
J61, I14, C14
7839 Catia Batista
Gaia Narciso
Migrant Remittances and Information Flows: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Do information flows matter for remittance behavior? We design and implement a randomized control trial to quantitatively assess the role of communication between migrants and their contacts abroad ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2018, 32(1), 203–219.)
F22, J61, O15
7838 Magnus Lofstrom
Steven Raphael
Incarceration and Crime: Evidence from California's Public Safety Realignment Reform
We evaluate the effect of perhaps the largest exogenous decline in a state's incarceration rate in U.S. history on local crime rates. We assess the effects of a recent reform in California that ...
(published in: The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2016, 664 (1), 196-220 )
K40, K42, H11
7837 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Sonja C. de New
Mathias Sinning
Locus of Control and Savings
This paper analyzes the relationship between individuals' locus of control and their savings behavior, i.e. wealth accumulation, savings rates, and portfolio choices. Locus of control is a ...
(published in: Journal of Banking and Finance, 2016, 73, 113-130)
G02, G11, I31, R21
7836 Masaru Sasaki
Fumio Ohtake
Corporate Sports Activity and Work Morale: Evidence from a Japanese Automobile Maker
This paper estimates the factors affecting the relationship between the wins and losses of corporate sports club teams and the work morale of employees, using an original survey of employees from a ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral Economics and Finance, 2013, 6, 37-46)
L62, M52, M54
7835 Damien Échevin
Bernard Fortin
Physician Payment Mechanisms, Hospital Length of Stay and Risk of Readmission: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
We provide an analysis of the effect of physician payment methods on their hospital patients' length of stay and risk of readmission. To do so, we exploit a major reform implemented in Quebec ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 36, 112-124)
J33, I10, I12, I18, C41
7833 Sonia R. Bhalotra
Atheendar Venkataramani
Cognitive Development and Infectious Disease: Gender Differences in Investments and Outcomes
We exploit exogenous variation in the risk of waterborne disease created by implementation of a major water reform in Mexico in 1991 to investigate impacts of infant exposure on indicators of ...
(revised version available from authors)
I38, J16, I12, I14, I15, I24, I25, H51
7832 Alan Barrett
Vincent O'Sullivan
The Wealth, Health and Wellbeing of Ireland's Older People Before and During the Economic Crisis
The economic crisis of 2008/9 was felt more acutely in Ireland relative to elsewhere and culminated in the international bailout in 2010. Given the economic collapse, Ireland provides an ideal ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2014, 21 (10), 675-678)
D31, J14
7831 Daniel L. Millimet
Environmental Federalism: A Survey of the Empirical Literature
Environmental federalism refers to the debate over the 'optimal' level of government at which to delegate environmental policymaking. Although this issue receives widespread attention across the ...
(published in: Case Western Reserve Law Review, 2014, 64 (4), 1669-1757)
H77, Q58
7830 John V. Winters
STEM Graduates, Human Capital Externalities, and Wages in the U.S.
Previous research suggests that the local stock of human capital creates positive externalities within local labor markets and plays an important role in regional economic development. However, there ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2014, 48, 190-198)
J24, R23
7829 Werner Eichhorst
Tito Boeri
An De Coen
Vincenzo Galasso
Michael Jan Kendzia
Nadia Steiber
How to Combine the Entry of Young People in the Labour Market with the Retention of Older Workers?
This paper provides an overview of the employment situation of young and old workers in the EU Member States, setting out the most recent development during the crisis and dealing with policies ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3(19))
J11, J14, J18, J13, J63, J64
7828 Etienne Lehmann
Paola L. Montero Ledezma
Bruno Van der Linden
Inefficient Equilibrium Unemployment in a Duocentric Economy with Matching Frictions
This article examines unemployment disparities and efficiency in a densely populated economy with two job centers and workers distributed between them. We introduce commuting costs and ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2016, 91, 26-44. )
J64, R13, R23
7826 Michael Jetter
Volatility and Growth: Governments are Key
There exists a persistent disagreement in the literature over the effect of business cycles on economic growth. This paper offers a solution to this disagreement, suggesting that volatility carries a ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 36, 71-88)
E32, H11, O43, P16
7824 Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Jan Svejnar
Katherine Terrell
When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Transition Market Economies
We use rich firm-level data and national input-output tables from 17 countries over the 2002-2005 period to test new and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the ...
(published in : Journal of Comparative Economics, 2014, 42(4), 954-969)
F23, M16, O16, P23
7823 Sirma Demir ?eker
Stephen P. Jenkins
Poverty Trends in Turkey
This paper provides new evidence about poverty trends in Turkey between 2003 and 2011 and the factors accounting for them. We give particular attention to issues of statistical inference, and the ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2015, 13 (3), 401 - 424 )
I32, D31, C12
7822 Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski
Balázs Égert
Thouraya Hadj Amor Essid
The Real Exchange Rate and External Competitiveness in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia
Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia face challenges competing on the global markets, as shown by their relatively low and stagnant export shares. The limited export competitiveness has hampered external ...
(published in: Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, 2014, 10 (1), 25 - 51)
F3, F41, F63, C5, O1
7820 Getinet Astatike Haile
Ilina Srour
Marco Vivarelli
The Impact of Globalization and Technology Transfer on Manufacturing Employment and Skills in Ethiopia
There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change on employment in the context of least developed countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization, which enhances the prospect of direct ...
(published in: Eurasian Business Review, 2017, 7, 1-23)
O33, F16, L60, O55, C33
7819 Christian Dreger
Tongsan Wang
Yanqun Zhang
Understanding Chinese Consumption: The Impact of Hukou
The Chinese growth miracle was based on exports and investment in recent years. While strong output growth has been maintained even during the financial crisis, the imbalances within the country ...
(publlished in: Development and Change, 2015, 46 (6), 1331 -1344)
E21, O15, R23
7817 Torben M. Andersen
Jonas Maibom
Michael Svarer
Allan Sørensen
Do Business Cycles Have Long-Term Impact for Particular Cohorts?
Will the current employment crisis produce lost generations with permanently lower labour market attachment? Taking an explicit cohort perspective and based on Danish data we do not find strong ...
(published in: LABOUR, 2017, 31 (3), 309 - 336)
J6, E32
7816 Brindusa Anghel
Sara de la Rica
Aitor Lacuesta
Employment Polarization in Spain along the Cycle 1997-2012
This article analyzes changes in the occupational employment share in Spain for the period 1997-2012 and the way particular sociodemographic adapt to those changes. There seems to be clear evidence ...
(published as 'The Impact of the Great Recession on Employment Polarization in Spain' in: SERIEs, 2014, 5 (2-3), 143-171 )
E24, J24, J62, O33
7815 Maarten van Ham
David Manley
Occupational Mobility and Living in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Housing Tenure Differences in 'Neighbourhood Effects'
The literature on neighbourhood effects suggests that the lack of social mobility of some groups has a spatial dimension. It is thought that those living in the most deprived neighbourhoods are the ...
(published in: Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 2015, 8, 309 - 324)
I30, J60, R23
7814 Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger
Corrado Macchiarelli
Transitions in Labour Market Status in the EU
This paper presents information on labour market mobility in 23 EU countries, using Eurostat's Labour Force Survey (LFS) data over the period 1998-2008. More specifically, it discusses alternative ...
(published as 'Transitions in labour market status in EU labour markets' in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2014, 3, 17 (2014))
J21, J60, J82, E24
7813 Tony Fang
Carl Lin
Minimum Wages and Employment in China
Since China promulgated new minimum wage regulations in 2004, the magnitude and frequency of changes in the minimum wage have been substantial, both over time and across jurisdictions. This paper ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2015, 4:22, 1-30)
J38
7812 Badi H. Baltagi
Bartlomiej Rokicki
The Polish Wage Curve: Micro Panel Data Analysis Based on the Polish Labor Force Survey
This paper analyzes the Polish wage curve using individual data from the Polish Labor Force Survey (LFS) at the 16 NUTS2 regions over the period 1999 - 2010. This survey does not gather information ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2014,49, 36-47.)
C26, J30, J60
7811 Alessia Matano
Paolo Naticchioni
What Drives the Urban Wage Premium? Evidence along the Wage Distribution
This paper aims at disentangling the role played by different explanations on the urban wage premium along the wage distribution. We analyze the wage dynamics of migrants from lower to higher density ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2016, 56 (2), 191 - 209)
J31, J61, R23
7810 Olena Y. Nizalova
Tamara Sliusarenko
Motherhood Wage Penalty in Times of Transition
Motherhood is usually associated with lower wages due to a number of reasons such as career interruptions, potentially decreased productivity/effort, and discrimination. Earlier literature provides a ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2016, 44 (1), 56-75)
J31, J13, J71
7809 Bertil Holmlund
What Do Labor Market Institutions Do?
The past couple of decades have seen a huge increase in research on various labor market institutions. This paper offers a brief overview and discussion of research on the labor market impacts of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 62-69)
J01, J08
7808 Luc Behaghel
Adrien Lorenceau
Simon Quantin
Replacing Churches and Mason Lodges? Tax Exemptions and Rural Development
This paper uses regression discontinuity design to provide quasi-experimental estimates of the impact of a tax credit program targeted at rural areas in France, including corporate and payroll tax ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 125, 1–15)
J23, J32, H32
7806 Giuseppe Bertola
Winfried Koeniger
Hidden Insurance in a Moral Hazard Economy
We consider an economy where individuals privately choose effort and trade competitively priced securities that pay off with effort-determined probability. We show that if insurance against a ...
(revised version published in: RAND Journal of Economics, 2015, 46 (4), 777-790)
E21, D81, D82
7804 Nico Pestel
Eric Sommer
Shifting Taxes from Labor to Consumption: Efficient, but Regressive?
Shifting taxes from labor income to consumption is regularly suggested as a measure to induce work incentives. We investigate the effect of increases in the Value Added Tax on labor supply and the ...
(revised version published as 'Shifting Taxes from Labor to Consumption: More Employment and more Inequality?' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2017, 63 (3), 524-563)
H21, H23, C63, D31
7803 Tim Barmby
John G. Sessions
Alexandros Zangelidis
Looking After Number Two? Competition, Cooperation and Workplace Interaction
We build a model of worker interdependence in which two workers can either compete or cooperate and compare performance under either scenario to that of a single worker working in isolation. We show ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 131 (Part A), 166-182)
J33, J41, J54
7800 Hein Bogaard
Jan Svejnar
Incentive Pay and Performance: Insider Econometrics in a Multi-Unit Firm
We exploit organizational reforms in a foreign-owned bank in Central-East Europe to study the implementation of modern HRM policies in an emerging market context. We have branch-level data and use ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 54, 100 - 115)
F23, G21, M52
7799 Maria De Paola
Francesca Gioia
Vincenzo Scoppa
Are Females Scared of Competing with Males? Results from a Field Experiment
We conducted a field experiment involving 720 Italian undergraduate students to investigate the existence of gender differences in performance in competitive settings and whether performance is ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2015, 48, 117-128)
J16, J24, J70, C93
7798 Belton M. Fleisher
William H. McGuire
Adam Nicholas Smith
Mi Zhou
Intangible Knowledge Capital and Innovation in China
Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) – technology produced by workers but not embodied in them – can offset the "middle income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology ...
(published as 'Knowledge capital, innovation, and growth in China' in: Journal of Asian Economics, 2015, 39, 31-42.)
O31, O33, O34, O43, P33
7797 Riccardo Crescenzi
Max Nathan
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
Do Inventors Talk to Strangers? On Proximity and Collaborative Knowledge Creation
This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors ...
(published in: Research Policy, 2016, 45 (1), 177–194)
O31, O33, R11, R23
7796 Seçil Hülya Danakol
Saul Estrin
Paul Reynolds
Utz Weitzel
Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Entrepreneurship: Blessing or Curse?
This paper explores the effects of foreign direct investment, measured by mergers and acquisitions, on domestic entrepreneurial entry. We use a micro-panel of more than two thousand individuals ...
(published as 'Foreign direct investment via M&A and domestic entrepreneurship: blessing or curse?' in: Small Business Economics, 2017, 48 (3), 599 - 612)
F23, M13, L26
7795 Nora Stel
Wim Naudé
Public-Private Entanglement: Entrepreneurship in a Hybrid Political Order, the Case of Lebanon
The instability and informality that characterize hybrid political orders and its effects on entrepreneurs remains largely unexplored in the scholarly literatures. In this paper we provide initial ...
(published as 'Public–Private Entanglement’: Entrepreneurship in Lebanon’s Hybrid Political Order' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2016, 52 (2), 254–268)
L26, M48, O17, O53
7794 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Sonja C. de New
Trinh Le
Duncan McVicar
Rong Zhang
Is There an Educational Penalty for Being Suspended from School?
Suspension from school is a commonly-used, yet controversial, school disciplinary measure. This paper uses unique survey data to estimate the impact of suspension on the educational outcomes of those ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2015, 23 (4), 376-395)
I24, I28
7792 Giuseppina Autiero
Niall O'Higgins
Jailer of Freedom and Enemy of Growth? The Role of Personal and Social Identities in Educational Choices
This paper develops a theoretical and empirical model on the influence of identity on educational choices which extends the existing literature in several directions. The theoretical model proposed ...
(published in: International Review of Applied Economics, 2016, 30(5), 591-604)
D01, I21, J24
7791 Giorgio Brunello
Maria De Paola
The Costs of Early School Leaving in Europe
The reduction of early school leaving to less than 10 percent of the relevant population by 2020 is a headline target in the Europe 2020 strategy and one of the five benchmarks of the strategic ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2014)
J24
7790 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Sonja C. de New
Trinh Le
Duncan McVicar
Rong Zhang
"High"-School: The Relationship between Early Marijuana Use and Educational Outcomes
We use unique survey data linked to nearly a decade of administrative welfare data to examine the relationship between early marijuana use (at age 14 or younger) and young people's educational ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2015, 91(293), 247-266)
I20, I24, I10, I18
7789 Andrea Garnero
Stephan Kampelmann
François Rycx
Part-time Work, Wages and Productivity: Evidence from Belgian Matched Panel Data
The authors use matched employer-employee panel data on Belgian private-sector firms to estimate the relationship between wage/productivity differentials and the firm's labor composition in terms of ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2014, 67 (3), 926-954)
J22, J24, J31
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