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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
7738 Rolf Aaberge
Tarjei Havnes
Magne Mogstad
A Theory for Ranking Distribution Functions
When is one distribution (of income, consumption, or some other economic variable) more equal or better than another? This question has proven difficult to answer in situations where distribution ...
(published as 'Ranking intersecting distribution functions' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2021,36 (6), 639 - 662)
D30, D63, I31
7737 Olivier B. Bargain
Tim Callan
Karina Doorley
Claire Keane
Changes in Income Distributions and the Role of Tax-Benefit Policy During the Great Recession: An International Perspective
This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely France, Germany, the UK and Ireland, and the contribution of tax and benefit policy ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2017, 38 (4), 559-585)
H23, H53, I32
7736 Gil S. Epstein
Yosef Mealem
Politicians, Governed vs. Non-Governed Interest Groups and Rent Dissipation
Government intervention often gives rise to contests and the government can influence their outcome by choosing their type. We consider a contest with two interest groups: one that is governed by a ...
(published in: Theory and Decision, 2014, 79, 133 -149)
D70, D71, D72
7735 Patrick Kline
Enrico Moretti
People, Places and Public Policy: Some Simple Welfare Economics of Local Economic Development Programs
Most countries exhibit large and persistent geographical differences in wages, income and unemployment rates. A growing class of "place based" policies attempt to address these differences through ...
(published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2014, 6, 629-662 ()
H2, R1, J2
7734 Eva Sierminska
Karina Doorley
To Own or Not to Own? Household Portfolios, Demographics and Institutions in a Cross-National Perspective
Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and ...
(published in: Journal of Income Distribution, 2018, 25 (1), 1-43)
G11, G21, J10
7733 Sutirtha Bagchi
Jan Svejnar
Does Wealth Inequality Matter for Growth? The Effect of Billionaire Wealth, Income Distribution, and Poverty
A fundamental question in social sciences relates to the effect of wealth inequality on economic growth. Yet, in tackling the question, researchers have had to use income as a proxy for wealth. We ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2015, 43 (3), 505-530)
D31, O40, O43
7732 Govert Bijwaard
Jackline Wahba
Do High-Income or Low-Income Immigrants Leave Faster?
We estimate the impact of the income earned in the host country on return migration of labor migrants from developing countries. We use a three-state correlated competing risks model to account for ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2014, 108, 54-68 )
F22, J61, C41
7731 Almas Heshmati
Robert Rudolf
Income vs. Consumption Inequality in South Korea: Evaluating Stochastic Dominance Rankings by Various Household Attributes
Using four rounds (1999, 2002, 2005, 2008) of the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study (KLIPS), this article examines determinants of household income and consumption levels and inequalities. ...
(published in: Asian Economic Journal, 2014, 28(4), 413-436. )
D63, D31, I31, C14
7730 Markus Jäntti
Stephen P. Jenkins
Income Mobility
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: AB Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (eds), Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume 2A, North-Holland Elsevier, 2015, Chapter 10, 807–935.)
D31, I30
7728 Linguère Mously Mbaye
'Barcelona or Die': Understanding Illegal Migration from Senegal
Fatalities from illegal immigration from Africa is an important issue, representing a major challenge for both major migrant sending and receiving countries. Nonetheless, almost nothing is known ...
(revised version published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2014, 3, 21 (2014))
F22, O15
7727 Sylvie Démurger
Hui Xu
Left-Behind Children and Return Decisions of Rural Migrants in China
This paper examines how left-behind children influence return migration in China. We first present a simple illustrative model based on Dustmann (2003) that incorporates economic and non-economic ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2015, 4:10)
J61, J13, C41, C25, O53
7726 Manuela Angelucci
Migration and Financial Constraints: Evidence from Mexico
Using data collected for the evaluation of the rural component of Oportunidades, Mexico's flagship anti-poverty program, I show that poor households' entitlement to an exogenous, temporary but ...
(revised version published in: The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97(1), 224-228)
J61, O12, O15, F22
7725 Costanza Biavaschi
Corrado Giulietti
Zahra Siddique
The Economic Payoff of Name Americanization
We examine the impact of the Americanization of names on the labor market outcomes of migrants. We construct a novel longitudinal data set of naturalization records in which we track a complete ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35 (4), 1089-1116)
J61, J62, Z1, N32
7724 Antonio Di Paolo
Aysit Tansel
Returns to Foreign Language Skills in a Developing Country: The Case of Turkey
Foreign language skills represent a form of human capital that can be rewarded in the labor market. Drawing on data from the Adult Education Survey of 2007, this is the first study estimating returns ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2015, 51(4), 407-421)
I25, J24, J31, O15, O53
7723 Todd Pugatch
Elizabeth Schroeder
Incentives for Teacher Relocation: Evidence from the Gambian Hardship Allowance
We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school teachers in remote locations, on the distribution and characteristics of teachers ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 41, 120-136)
I25, I28, J38, J45, J61, O12, O15
7722 Massimiliano Bratti
Daniele Checchi
Re-testing PISA Students One Year Later: On School Value Added Estimation Using OECD-PISA
Thanks to the effort of two local educational authorities, in two regions of North Italy (Valle d'Aosta and the autonomous province of Trento) the PISA 2009 test was re-administered to the same ...
(revised version published in: Rivista di Politica Economica, 2016, 105, 145-189 )
I21, J24
7721 Eleni Kalfa
Matloob Piracha
Immigrants' Educational Mismatch and the Penalty of Over-Education
This paper analyses immigrants' education-occupation mismatch as well as its impact on their wages in Spain. Using cross-sectional data from the National Immigrant Survey of Spain 2007, we estimate a ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2017, 22(5), 462-481)
C34, J24, J61
7720 Asako Ohinata
Jan C. van Ours
Spillover Effects of Studying with Immigrant Students: A Quantile Regression Approach
We analyze how the share of immigrant children in the classroom affects the educational attainment of native Dutch children in terms of their language and math performance at the end of primary ...
(published as 'Quantile Peer Effects of Immigrant Children at Primary Schools' in: Labour, 2016, 30 (2), 135 - 157)
I21, J15
7719 Matteo Picchio
Stefano Staffolani
Does Apprenticeship Improve Job Opportunities? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
In Italy the reforms of the last twenty years shaped a dual labour market with different levels of employment protection for permanent jobs, on one side, and temporary jobs like apprenticeships and ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2019, 56 (1), 23-60)
C36, C41, J24, J41
7718 A. Kerem Cosar
Nezih Guner
James Tybout
Firm Dynamics, Job Turnover, and Wage Distributions in an Open Economy
This paper explores the combined effects of reductions in trade frictions, tariffs, and firing costs on firm dynamics, job turnover, and wage distributions. It uses establishment-level data from ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (3), 625-63.)
F12, F16, E24, J64, L11
7717 Pramod N. (Raja) Junankar
Is there a Trade-off between Employment and Productivity?
The aim of this paper is to analyse the possible trade-off between employment and productivity using panel data on world economies, developed and developing. We begin with the importance of ...
(published as 'Macroeconomic and Sectoral Issues in Youth Employment Policy' in: O'Higgins, N., Ebell, M.; Junankar, P.N. (eds.), Rising to the Youth Employment Policy, Geneva, 2017, Ch.2)
O11, O47, O17
7716 Giovanni S. F. Bruno
Floro Ernesto Caroleo
Orietta Dessy
Temporary Contracts and Young Workers' Job Satisfaction in Italy
The Italian process of flexibilization of the labour market has created a dual market populated by protected permanent employees and unprotected temporary workers. The latter comprises not only ...
(published in: M.A. Malo and D. Sciulli (eds.), Disadvantaged Workers, AIEL Series in Labour Economics, Springer, 2014, 95-120)
J28, J81
7715 Olivier Coibion
Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Dmitri Koustas
Amerisclerosis? The Puzzle of Rising U.S. Unemployment Persistence
The persistence of U.S. unemployment has risen with each of the last three recessions, raising the specter that future U.S. recessions might look more like the Eurosclerosis experience of the 1980s ...
(published in: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2013, 47 (2), 193-26)
E24, E32, E52, J64, R11, R23
7714 Loukas Balafoutas
Rudolf Kerschbamer
Matthias Sutter
Second-Degree Moral Hazard in a Real-World Credence Goods Market
Empirical literature on moral hazard focuses exclusively on the direct impact of asymmetric information on market outcomes, thus ignoring possible repercussions. We present a field experiment in ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127, 1-18.)
C93, D82
7713 Iris Kesternich
Bettina M. Siflinger
James P. Smith
Joachim Winter
Individual Behavior as a Pathway between Early-Life Shocks and Adult Health: Evidence from Hunger Episodes in Post-War Germany
We investigate long-run effects of episodes of hunger experienced as a child on health status and behavioral outcomes in later life. We combine self-reported data on hunger experiences from ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (588), F372-F393)
I10
7712 Arnaud Chevalier
Olivier Marie
Economic Uncertainty, Parental Selection, and the Criminal Activity of the 'Children of the Wall'
We explore the link between parental selection and criminality of children in a new context. After the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, East Germany experienced a very large, but temporary, drop ...
(revised version publisehd as 'Risky moms, risky kids? fertility and crime after the fall of the wal' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 230, 105048)
J13, K42
7711 Christian Dustmann
Francesco Fasani
The Effect of Local Area Crime on Mental Health
This paper analyses the effect of local crime rates on the mental well-being of residents. Our identification strategy addresses the problem of sorting, and endogenous moving behaviour. We find that ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (593), 978-1017)
I18, K42, R23
7710 Angela Cipollone
Eleonora Patacchini
Giovanna Vallanti
Women Labor Market Participation in Europe: Novel Evidence on Trends and Shaping Factors
We investigate the changes in women's participation patterns across 15 EU countries over the last 20 years using individual data from ECHP and EUSILC databases. Our findings reveal a role of social ...
(published as 'Female labour market participation in Europe: novel evidence on trends and shaping factors' in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3, 18 (2014))
J11, J21, J2
7709 Nicolas Moreau
Elena G. F. Stancanelli
Household Consumption at Retirement: A Regression Discontinuity Study on French Data
Earlier literature has investigated the drop in household consumption upon retirement of the head of the household, the so-called "retirement consumption puzzle". Here, we expand on these studies by ...
(published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 117-118, 253-276)
D12, J22, J14, C1
7708 Sungwook Cho
Almas Heshmati
What If You Had Been Less Fortunate: The Effects of Poor Family Background on Current Labor Market Outcomes
This study examines the correlation between childhood poverty and its influence on adulthood wage distribution, where childhood poverty refers to experience of poverty or poor family background ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Studies, 2015, 42 (1), 20-33. )
C21, E24, J13, J31, J62, O15
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