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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
7707 Gordon B. Dahl
Katrine Vellesen Loken
Magne Mogstad
Kari Vea Salvanes
What Is the Case for Paid Maternity Leave?
Paid maternity leave has gained greater salience in the past few decades as mothers have increasingly entered the workforce. Indeed, the median number of weeks of paid leave to mothers among OECD ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 98(4), 655-670)
J13, J18, H42
7705 Fabian Slonimczyk
Anna Yurko
Assessing the Impact of the Maternity Capital Policy in Russia Using a Dynamic Model of Fertility and Employment
With declining population and fertility rates below replacement levels, Russia is currently facing a demographic crisis. Starting in 2007, the federal government has pursued an ambitious pro-natalist ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 265-281)
J13, C61
7704 Claudia Olivetti
Eleonora Patacchini
Yves Zenou
Mothers, Friends and Gender Identity
This paper explores a novel mechanism of gender identity formation. Specifically, we explore how the work behavior of a teenager's own mother, as well as that of her friends' mothers, affect her work ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18(1), 266-301. )
J22, Z13
7703 Fabian Slonimczyk
Vladimir Gimpelson
Informality and Mobility: Evidence from Russian Panel Data
Informality is a defining characteristic of labor markets in developing and transition countries. This paper analyzes patterns of mobility across different forms of formal and informal employment in ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Transition, 2015, 23(2), 299–341)
J6
7702 Andrey Stoyanov
Nick Zubanov
Money on the Table? Firms' and Workers' Gains from Productivity Spillovers through Worker Mobility
We estimate how much of the gains from productivity spillovers through worker mobility is retained by the hiring firms, by the workers who bring spillovers, and by the other workers. Using linked ...
(revised version published as 'The Distribution of the Gains from Spillovers through Worker Mobility between Workers and Firms' in: European Economic Review, 2014, 70, 17-35)
D24, J31, J60
7701 Sandra Nieto
Alessia Matano
Raul Ramos
Skill Mismatches in the EU: Immigrants vs. Natives
The objective of this paper is to analyse and explain the factors behind the observed differences in skill mismatches (vertical and horizontal) between natives and immigrants in EU countries. Using ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2015, 36(4), 540-561)
J15, J24, J31
7700 Raul Ramos
Jordi Surinach
A Gravity Model of Migration between ENC and EU
Due to ageing population and low birth rates, the European Union (EU) will need to import foreign labour in the next decades. In this context, the EU neighbouring countries (ENC) are the main ...
(published in: Tijdschrift Voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 2017, 108 (1), 21-35)
J11, J15, J61, C23, C53
7699 Alois Kneip
Monika Merz
Lidia Storjohann
Aggregation and Labor Supply Elasticities
The aggregate Frisch elasticity of labor supply has played a key role in business cycle analysis. This paper develops a statistical aggregation procedure which allows for worker heterogeneity in ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18, 2315-2358)
C51, E10, J22
7698 Olivier B. Bargain
Andreas Peichl
Steady-State Labor Supply Elasticities: A Survey
Previous reviews of static labor supply estimations concentrate mainly on the evidence from the 1980s and 1990s, Anglo-Saxon countries and early generations of labor supply modeling. This paper ...
(published as 'Own-wage labor supply elasticities: variation across time and estimation methods' in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 5, 10 (2016) )
C25, C52, H31, J22
7697 Guido Cozzi
Noemi Mantovan
Robert M. Sauer
Does It Pay to Work for Free? Wage Returns and Gender Differences in the Market for Volunteers
Working as a volunteer is a widespread phenomenon that has both individual and societal benefits. In this paper, we identify the wage returns to working for free by exploiting exogenous variation in ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 79(6), 1018-1045)
C26, D64, H41, J16, J31, J71
7696 Jacques Poot
Matthew Roskruge
Internationalisation of Education and Returns in the Labour Market
The education services provided in any given country increasingly contribute to human capital that is employed in another country. On the one hand, graduates may seek to obtain the highest return to ...
(published in: Studies in Regional Science, 2013, 43(1), 61-78)
F22, I24, J24, J31
7695 Junghee Han
Almas Heshmati
Determinants of Financial Rewards from Industry-University Collaboration in South Korea
The external circumstances for universities have been changing rapidly. In order to be competitive, survive, and flourish, universities have shown a growing enthusiasm to generate financial revenues ...
(published in: International Journal of Innovation Management, 2016, 20(7), 235-257. )
A20, D45, I22, L24, P12
7694 Heather Antecol
Ozkan Eren
Serkan Ozbeklik
Peer Effects in Disadvantaged Primary Schools: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
We examine the effect of peer achievement on students' own achievement and teacher performance in primary schools in disadvantaged neighborhoods using data from a well-executed randomized experiment ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2016, 51 (1), 95 - 132)
I21, J24
7692 Rey Hernández-Julián
Hani Mansour
Christina Peters
The Effects of Intrauterine Malnutrition on Birth and Fertility Outcomes: Evidence from the 1974 Bangladesh Famine
This paper uses the Bangladesh famine of 1974 as a natural experiment to estimate the impact of intrauterine malnutrition on sex of the child and infant mortality. In addition, we estimate the impact ...
(published in: Demography, 2014, 51(5), 1775-1796)
I15, J13
7691 Jan Goebel
Christian Krekel
Tim Tiefenbach
Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Natural Disaster, Policy Action, and Mental Well-Being: The Case of Fukushima
We study the impact of the Fukushima disaster on people's mental well-being in another industrialized country, more than 5000 miles distant. The meltdown significantly increased environmental ...
(published as 'How Natural Disasters Can Affect Environmental Concerns, Risk Aversion, and Even Politics: Evidence from Fukushima and Three European Countries' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28(4), 1137-1180 )
I18, I31, Z13, Q54
7690 Michael Lechner
Paul Downward
Heterogeneous Sports Participation and Labour Market Outcomes in England
Based on a unique composite dataset measuring heterogeneous sports participation, labour market outcomes and local facilities provision, this paper examines for the first time the association between ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2016, 49 (4), 335–348. )
I12, I18, J24, L83, C21
7689 Stefan Boes
Michael Gerfin
Does Full Insurance Increase the Demand for Health Care?
We estimate the causal effect of having full health insurance on health care expenditures. We take advantage of a unique quasi-experimental setup in which deductibles and co-payments were zero in a ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2016, 25 (11), 1483-1496)
I11, C14
7685 Wang-Sheng Lee
Cahit Guven
Engaging in Corruption: The Influence of Cultural Values and Contagion Effects at the Micro Level
Previous empirical work on corruption has generally been cross-country in nature and focused on utilizing country-level corruption ratings. By using micro-level data for over 20 European countries ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2013, 39, 287-300)
K42, O17
7682 Richard Layard
Andrew E. Clark
Francesca Cornaglia
Nattavudh Powdthavee
James Vernoit
What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being
If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124 (580), F720- F738)
A12, D60, H00, I31
7681 Daniela Del Boca
Christopher Flinn
Household Behavior and the Marriage Market
There is some controversy in the field of household economics regarding the efficiency of household decisions. We make the point that a flexible specification of spousal preferences and the household ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2014, 150, 137-155)
D13, J12, J22
7679 Marco Bertoni
Giorgio Brunello
Laterborns Don't Give Up: The Effects of Birth Order on Earnings in Europe
While it is well known that birth order affects educational attainment, less is known about its effects on earnings. Using data from eleven European countries for males born between 1935 and 1956, we ...
(published in: Demography, 2016, 53 (2), 449-470)
D13, J12, J24
7678 Pierpaolo Parrotta
Nina Smith
Why So Few Women on Boards of Directors? Empirical Evidence from Danish Companies 1997-2007
This paper analyzes the determinants of women on the boards of directors based on a panel sample of all Danish companies in the private sector with more than 50 employees. The share of women on the ...
(published in: Journal of Business Ethics, 2018, 147 (2), 445-467 )
G34, J16, L25
7676 Brian Stacy
Cassandra M. Guarino
Mark D. Reckase
Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
Does the Precision and Stability of Value-Added Estimates of Teacher Performance Depend on the Types of Students They Serve?
This paper investigates how the precision and stability of a teacher's value-added estimate relates to the characteristics of the teacher's students. Using a large administrative data set and a ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 64, 50-74)
I0, I20, I21, I28, J01, J08, J24, J44, J45
7675 Giorgio Di Pietro
Do Study Abroad Programs Enhance the Employability of Graduates?
Despite the great popularity of international educational mobility schemes, relatively little research has been conducted to explore their benefits. Using data on a large sample of recent Italian ...
(revised version published in: Education, Finance & Policy, 2015, 10 (2), 223-243)
I2, J6
7673 Carlos Lamarche
Industry-Wide Work Rules and Productivity: Evidence from Argentine Union Contract Data
In the early 1990's, the Argentine government promoted a framework for productivity-based negotiations between firms and unions at low levels of organization. The policy weakened the industry-wide ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2013, 2:11)
J52, O14, O43, O54
7672 Tanja Hethey-Maier
Johannes F. Schmieder
Does the Use of Worker Flows Improve the Analysis of Establishment Turnover? Evidence from German Administrative Data
Economists have long been interested in analyzing entries and exits of establishments. In many countries administrative datasets provide an excellent source for detailed analysis on a fine and ...
(published in: Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, 2013, 133 (4), 477–510)
L1, M1, J6
7671 Andrea Conte
Marco Vivarelli
Succeeding in Innovation: Key Insights on the Role of R&D and Technological Acquisition Drawn from Company Data
This paper discusses the relationship between a company's investment in innovation and its success in introducing new product and/or process innovations. In doing so, this analysis departs from the ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2014, 47(4), 1317-1340)
O31
7670 Anabela Carneiro
Pedro Portugal
José Varejăo
Catastrophic Job Destruction
In this article we study the resilience of the Portuguese labor market, in terms of job flows, employment and wage developments, in the context of the current recession. We single out the huge ...
(published as 'Catastrophic job Destruction during the Portuguese Economic Crisis' in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2014, 39 (Part B), 444-457)
E24, J23, J63
7669 Robert W. Fairlie
Magnus Lofstrom
Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created ...
(published in: Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller (eds.), Handbook on the Economics of International Immigration, 1B, Elsevier, 2015)
J15, J18, J31, J38, J61, L26, M13
7668 Niall O'Higgins
Christian Brüggemann
The Consequences of Cumulative Discrimination: How Special Schooling Influences Employment and Wages of Roma in the Czech Republic
Unequal labour market outcomes between Roma and non-Roma have typically been explained by either the low level of educational attainment on the one hand or labour marked discrimination on the other – ...
(published in: European Educational Research Journal, 2014, 13(3), 282-294 )
J15, I24
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