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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
7788 Floro Ernesto Caroleo
Francesco Pastore
Overeducation at a Glance: Determinants and Wage Effects of the Educational Mismatch, Looking at the AlmaLaurea Data
This paper provides the first available evidence on overeducation/overskilling based on AlmaLaurea data. We focus on jobs held 5 years after graduation by pre-reform graduates in 2005. ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2018, 137 (3): 999-1032.)
C25, C26, C33, I2, J13, J24
7787 Aedin Doris
Donal O'Neill
Olive Sweetman
Wage Flexibility and the Great Recession: The Response of the Irish Labour Market
There is considerable debate about the role of wage rigidity in explaining unemployment. Despite a large body of empirical work, no consensus has emerged on the extent of wage rigidity. Previous ...
(published in: [IZA Journal of European Labor Studies], 2015, 4(18))
J31, J38, D31
7786 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Laura Juarez
Old-Age Government Transfers and the Crowding Out of Private Gifts: The 70 and Above Program for the Rural Elderly in Mexico
We estimate the crowding out of private transfers caused by 70 y Más – a public assistance program for the rural elderly in Mexico for whom family support is an important source of income. Using data ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2015, 81 (3), 782–802)
H3, H55, J14, J18
7782 James P. Smith
Liam Delaney
Acquiring Human Capital through the Generations by Migration
Our focus will be on the role of migration to the United States from a set of important European sending countries as a device for improving the human capital of the children and grandchildren of ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2015, 9 (4), 564 - 600)
I24, I25
7781 Catia Batista
Janis Umblijs
Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Do more risk loving migrants opt for self-employment? This is a question especially relevant for policymakers designing selective immigration policies in countries of destination. In order to provide ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2014, 3:17)
F22, J01, J15, J61, L26
7780 Marion Mercier
The Return of the Prodigy Son: Do Return Migrants Make Better Leaders?
This paper investigates the impact of political leaders' migration experience on the quality of their leadership. We build up an original database on the personal background of 932 politicians who ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 122, 76-91)
O11, E02, F22, N40
7779 Matloob Piracha
Amrita Saraogi
Remittances and Migration Intentions of the Left-Behind
Migration and the consequent flow of remittances are like a double-edged sword; while keeping many out of poverty, they can also result in further brain drain and demographic imbalance for the ...
(published in: Migration and Development, 2016, 6(1), 102-122)
F22, F24, J1
7778 Sara de la Rica
Albrecht Glitz
Francesc Ortega
Immigration in Europe: Trends, Policies and Empirical Evidence
This chapter summarizes the main trends, policies and empirical evidence regarding immigration in Europe. We start by providing descriptive evidence on long-term immigration trends and current ...
(published in: Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller (eds.): Handbook on the Economics of International Migration, 1B, 2014)
J2, J11, J15, J61
7777 Eswar Prasad
Distributional Effects of Macroeconomic Policy Choices in Emerging Market Economies
Distributional consequences typically receive limited attention in economic models that analyze the effects of monetary and financial sector policies. These consequences deserve more attention since ...
(published in: IMF Economic Review, 2014, 62 (3), 409-429)
E5, E6, F4
7776 Boris Hirsch
Elke J. Jahn
Claus Schnabel
The Cyclical Behaviour of Employers' Monopsony Power and Workers' Wages
This paper investigates the behaviour of employers' monopsony power and workers' wages over the business cycle. Using German administrative linked employer-employee data for the years 1985-2010 and ...
(substantially revised version published as "Do employers have more monopsony power in slack labor markets?" in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2018, 71(3), 676-704)
J42, J31
7775 Mark L. Bryan
Simonetta Longhi
Couples' Labour Supply Responses to Job Loss: Boom and Recession Compared
We examine how couples' labour supply behaviour in the UK responds to a job loss by one partner, using the Labour Force Survey to compare the period of growth of 1995-2007 to the Great Recession and ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2018, 86 (3) 333-357)
J22, J64
7774 Stijn Baert
Freddy Heylen
Daan Isebaert
Does Homeownership Lead to Longer Unemployment Spells? The Role of Mortgage Payments
This paper examines the impact of housing tenure choice on unemployment duration in Belgium using EU-SILC micro data. We contribute to the literature in distinguishing homeowners with mortgage ...
(revised version published in: De Economist, 2014, 152, 263 - 286)
C41, J64, R2
7771 Sonia R. Bhalotra
Irma Clots-Figueras
Lakshmi Iyer
Path-Breakers: How Does Women's Political Participation Respond to Electoral Success?
This paper analyzes the effect of a woman's electoral victory on women's subsequent political participation. Using the regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (614), 1844 -1878)
J16, J71, P16
7770 Linguère Mously Mbaye
Natascha Wagner
Bride Price and Fertility Decisions: Evidence from Rural Senegal
This paper is the first to provide evidence about the relationship between bride price payments and fertility decisions in the African context. Remarkably, the results show that bride price payments ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2017, 53 (6), 891-910 )
O12, Z13
7769 Maria De Paola
Francesca Gioia
Does Patience Matter for Marriage Stability? Some Evidence from Italy
Time preferences can affect divorce probability both affecting the quality of the match and affecting the spouses' reactions to negative shocks. We analyze the relationship between time preferences ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2014, 15, 549 - 577)
I20, D03, D91, J01
7768 Christina Felfe
Michael Lechner
Petra Thiemann
After-School Care and Parents' Labor Supply
Does after-school care provision promote mothers' employment and balance the allocation of paid work among parents of schoolchildren? We address this question by exploiting variation in cantonal ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 42, 62-75)
J13, J22, C14
7767 Stijn Baert
Career Lesbians: Getting Hired for Not Having Kids?
Using a field experiment, we investigate whether discrimination based on women's sexual orientation differs by age and family constraints. We find weakly significant evidence of discrimination ...
(revised version published in: Industrial Relations Journal, 2014, 45 (6), 543 - 561)
C93, J13, J16, J71
7766 Terence Chai Cheng
Guyonne Kalb
Anthony Scott
Public, Private or Both? Analysing Factors Influencing the Labour Supply of Medical Specialists
This paper investigates the factors influencing the allocation of time between public and private sectors by medical specialists. A discrete choice structural labour supply model is estimated, where ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2018, 51 (2), 659-691.)
I10, I11, J22, J24
7765 Catia Batista
Jacques Potin
Stages of Diversification in a Neoclassical World
Recent research has documented a U-shaped industrial concentration curve over an economy's development path. How far can neoclassical trade theory take us in explaining this pattern? We estimate the ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2014, 122 (2), 276–284)
F11, L16, O40
7764 Robert W. Fairlie
Samantha H. Grunberg
Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2014, 52 (3), 1040 - 1059)
I21, J24, O33
7763 Vanessa Lutgen
Bruno Van der Linden
Regional Equilibrium Unemployment Theory at the Age of the Internet
This paper studies equilibrium unemployment in a two-region economy where homogeneous workers and jobs are free to move and the housing market clears. Because of the Internet, searching for a job in ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2015, 53, 50-67)
J61, J64, R13, R23
7762 Anders Akerman
Ingvil Gaarder
Magne Mogstad
The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet
Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological change skill biased or factor neutral? We exploit rich Norwegian data with ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2015, 130 (4), 1781–1824)
J23, J24, J31, O33
7761 D. Mark Anderson
Daniel I. Rees
Deployments, Combat Exposure, and Crime
During the period 2001-2009, four combat brigades and the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment were based at Fort Carson, Colorado. These units were repeatedly deployed during the Iraq War, allowing us to ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2015, 58 (1), 235-267)
K4, H56
7760 Amedeo Piolatto
Matthew D. Rablen
Prospect Theory and Tax Evasion: A Reconsideration of the Yitzhaki Puzzle
The standard expected utility model of tax evasion predicts that evasion is decreasing in the marginal tax rate (the Yitzhaki puzzle). The existing literature disagrees on whether prospect theory ...
(published in: Theory and Decision, 2017, 82 (4), 543-565)
H26, D81, K42
7759 Andrew McGee
Peter McGee
After the Tournament: Outcomes and Effort Provision
Modeling the incentive effects of competitions among employees for promotions or financial rewards, economists have largely ignored the effects of competition on effort provision once the competition ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2019, 57 (4), 2125-2146.)
C90, J30, D03
7758 William Fuchs
Subjective Evaluations: Discretionary Bonuses and Feedback Credibility
We provide a new rationale for the use of discretionary bonuses. In a setting with unknown match qualities between a worker and a firm and subjective evaluations by the principal, bonuses are useful ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2015, 7 (1), 99–108)
D82, D83, D86, M5
7756 Daniel S. J. Lechmann
Claus Schnabel
Absence from Work of the Self-Employed: A Comparison with Paid Employees
Utilising a large representative data set for Germany, this study contrasts absenteeism of self-employed individuals and paid employees. We find that absence from work is clearly less prevalent among ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2014, 67 (3), 368-390)
I19, J22, J23
7755 Giorgio Brunello
Simona Lorena Comi
The Side Effect of Pension Reforms on Training: Evidence from Italy
Due to pension reforms, minimum retirement age increased substantially in Italy between the second part of the 1990s and the early 2000s. We compare the training participation of pre- and post-reform ...
(published in: Journal of Economics of Aging, 2015, 6, 113 - 122)
J24, J26
7754 Mika Haapanen
Petri Böckerman
Does Higher Education Enhance Migration?
This paper examines the causal impact of education on within-country migration. A major higher education reform took place in Finland in the 1990s. It gradually transformed former vocational colleges ...
(published as "More Educated, More Mobile? Evidence from Post-secondary Education Reform" in: Spatial Economic Analysis, 2017, 12 (1), 8-26)
J10, J61, I20, R23
7753 Rania Gihleb
Osea Giuntella
Nuns and the Effects of Catholic Schools: Evidence from Vatican II
This paper examines the causal effects of Catholic schooling on educational attainment. Using a novel instrumental-variable approach that exploits an exogenous shock to the Catholic school system, we ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 137, 191-213)
I20, J24, N3
7752 Kristian Koerselman
Roope Uusitalo
The Risk and Return of Human Capital Investments
Investing in human capital increases lifetime income, but these investments may involve substantial risk. In this paper we use a Finnish panel spanning 22 years to predict the mean, the variance and ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 154-163)
C33, I24, J31
7751 Gil S. Epstein
Joseph Menis
Research and Teaching in Higher Education: Complements or Substitutes?
In this note we use unique data from Bar-Ilan University, over a period of four years (2005-2008), to estimate simultaneous equations with regard to the relationship between publications and teaching ...
(published in: International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Science, 2013, 3 (11), 614-632.)
D2, L11
7750 James J. Heckman
Tim Kautz
Fostering and Measuring Skills: Interventions That Improve Character and Cognition
This paper reviews the recent literature on measuring and boosting cognitive and noncognitive skills. The literature establishes that achievement tests do not adequately capture character skills – ...
(published in: J. Heckman, J.E. Humphries, and T. Kautz (eds.), The Myth of Achievement Tests: The GED and the Role of Character in American Life, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014)
D01, I20, J24
7749 Simone Bertoli
Hillel Rapoport
Heaven's Swing Door: Endogenous Skills, Migration Networks and the Effectiveness of Quality-Selective Immigration Policies
A growing number of OECD countries are leaning toward adopting quality-selective immigration policies. The underlying assumption behind such policies is that more skill-selection should raise ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2015, 117 (2), 565-591)
F22, O15, J61
7748 Carl Lin
How Do Immigrants from Taiwan Fare in the U.S. Labor Market?
This paper presents evidence that since 1980, relative to other immigrants, the earnings of Taiwanese immigrants have grown rapidly as they assimilate into the U.S. economy. Our estimates indicate ...
(published in: Singapore Economic Review, 2016, 61(5), 1-38)
J31, J61
7746 Hector Sala
Pedro Trivín
Labour Market Dynamics in Spanish Regions: Evaluating Asymmetries in Troublesome Times
The Spanish labour market disproportionately booms in expansions and bursts in recessions; meanwhile, its regions' relative position persists: those with the highest unemployment rates in 1996 were ...
(published in: SERIEs, 2014, 5(2), 197-221)
J20, E24, J61, R11
7743 Tavis Barr
Carl Lin
A Detailed Decomposition of Synthetic Cohort Analysis
Social scientists are often interested in assessing relative changes between two groups over time, for example, the convergence of black-white wages from 1940 to 1990. In such situations, we need a ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 127(0), 76-80)
C20, J70
7741 Matthew Harding
Carlos Lamarche
Penalized Quantile Regression with Semiparametric Correlated Effects: Applications with Heterogeneous Preferences
This paper proposes new ?1-penalized quantile regression estimators for panel data, which explicitly allows for individual heterogeneity associated with covariates. We conduct Monte Carlo simulations ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2017, 32, 342-358)
C21, C23, J22
7740 Gerard J. van den Berg
Bas van der Klaauw
Structural Empirical Evaluation of Job Search Monitoring
We structurally estimate a novel job search model with endogenous job search effort, job quality dispersion, and effort monitoring, taking into account that monitoring effects may be mitigated by ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2019, 60 (2), 879-903)
J64, J65, J68, J62, D83, D82, C31, C32
7739 Graziella Bertocchi
Alfonso Gambardella
Tullio Jappelli
Carmela A. Nappi
Franco Peracchi
Bibliometric Evaluation vs. Informed Peer Review: Evidence from Italy
A relevant question for the organization of large scale research assessments is whether bibliometric evaluation and informed peer review where reviewers know where the work was published, yield ...
(revised version published in: Research Policy, 2015, 44, 451-466)
I23, C80, O30
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