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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 Varejão
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
7667 Niall O'Higgins
Ethnicity and Gender in the Labour Market in Central and South East Europe
The Roma are both the largest 'minority' ethnic group in Central and South Eastern Europe and the one which suffered most from transition to the market. Still today, nearly forty years after the ...
(published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics 2015, 39 (2), 631-654)
J16, J15
7665 Ken Clark
Stephen Drinkwater
UK Migration Policy and Migration from Eastern Partnership Countries
This paper examines UK migration policy and recent migration flows from Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries to the UK. Although inflows of migrant workers were relatively large in the mid-2000s, ...
(revised version published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3(1), Article 15)
J61, F22
7663 Indermit Gill
Johannes Koettl
Truman Packard
Full Employment: A Distant Dream for Europe
Today, Europe is a continent of low participation, low employment labor markets. Many observers would like to blame poor employment outcomes on the Euro or on austerity. But these are dangerous ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:19)
I38, J08, J21, J24, J32, J42
7662 Werner Eichhorst
Paul Marx
Verena Tobsch
Non-Standard Employment across Occupations in Germany: The Role of Replaceability and Labour Market Flexibility
The share of non-standard jobs in total employment has increased in Germany over recent decades. Research tends to attribute this in particular to labour market re-forms and socio-economic change. ...
(published in: Werner Eichhorst and Paul Marx (eds.), Non-Standard Employment in Post-Industrial Labour Markets, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2015)
J24, J21, J41
7659 Andrey Launov
Klaus Wälde
Thumbscrews for Agencies or for Individuals? How to Reduce Unemployment
To which extent does an increase in operating effectiveness of public employment agencies on the one hand and a reduction of unemployment benefits on the other reduce unemployment? Using the recent ...
(substantially revised version published as 'The Employment Effect of Reforming a Public Employment Agency' in: European Economic Review, 2016, 84, 140-164)
E24, J65, J68
7658 Eskil Wadensjö
Labor Market Transparency
The labor market differs from other markets in many respects. Most important is that those who supply labor also have to deliver it in person. It means firstly that the work environment and ...
(published in: Jens Forssbaeck and Lars Oxelheim (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Economic and Institutional Transparency, New York: Oxford University Press, 2015)
F22, J22, J23, J30
7657 Daniel L. Millimet
Rusty Tchernis
The Origins of Early Childhood Anthropometric Persistence
Rates of childhood obesity have increased dramatically in the last few decades. Non-causal evidence suggests that childhood obesity is highly persistent over the life cycle. However little is known ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2019, 56, 2185-2224)
C23, I12, I18
7656 Samuel Mühlemann
Harald Pfeifer
The Structure of Hiring Costs in Germany: Evidence from Firm-Level Data
This paper analyzes the structure of hiring costs of skilled workers in Germany. Using detailed and representative firm-level data on recruitment and adaptation costs of new hires, we find that ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2016, 55 (2), 193–218)
J32, J63
7655 Adrian Hille
Jürgen Schupp
How Learning a Musical Instrument Affects the Development of Skills
Despite numerous studies on skill development, we know little about the causal effects of music training on cognitive and non-cognitive skills. This study examines how long-term music training during ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2015, 44, 56-8)
I21, J24, Z11
7654 Christian von Scheve
Frederike Esche
Jürgen Schupp
The Emotional Timeline of Unemployment: Anticipation, Reaction, and Adaptation
Unemployment continues to be one of the major challenges in industrialized societies. Aside from its economic dimensions and societal repercussions, questions concerning the individual experience of ...
(published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2017, 18(4), 1231-1254.)
A14, D63, J17
7653 Max Nathan
The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration 2014, 3:4)
G23, G24, J15, J61, L5, L26, M12, M13, O31, O32, R11
7652 Josse Delfgaauw
Robert Dur
Arjan Non
Willem Verbeke
Dynamic Incentive Effects of Relative Performance Pay: A Field Experiment
We conduct a field experiment among 189 stores of a retail chain to study dynamic incentive effects of relative performance pay. Employees in the randomly selected treatment stores could win a bonus ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 28, 1-13)
C93, M52
7651 Iván Fernández-Val
Yevgeniya Savchenko
Francis Vella
Evaluating the Role of Individual Specific Heterogeneity in the Relationship Between Subjective Health Assessments and Income
This paper investigates the impact of income on an individual's subjective self-assessment of own health. We employ recently developed methods in the non linear panel data literature to account for ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2017, 25, 85-98)
I12, C33, C35
7650 Rafael Lalive
Camille Landais
Josef Zweimüller
Market Externalities of Large Unemployment Insurance Extension Programs
This paper offers quasi experimental evidence of the existence of spillover effects of UI extensions using a unique program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2015, 105 (12), 3564-3596)
J65, J21, J22
7649 Lex Borghans
Bart H.H. Golsteyn
Anders Stenberg
Does Expert Advice Improve Educational Choice?
This paper reports evidence that an individual meeting with a study counselor at high school significantly improves the quality of choice of tertiary educational field, as self-assessed 18 months ...
(published in: PLOS ONE, 2015, 10 (12))
I2, J24, J31
7648 Govert Bijwaard
Hans van Kippersluis
Justus Veenman
Education and Health: The Role of Cognitive Ability
We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality using a structural equation model suggested by Conti et al. (2010). We extend ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 42, 29–43 )
C41, I14, I24
7646 Etienne Lehmann
Laurent Simula
Alain Trannoy
Tax Me If You Can! Optimal Nonlinear Income Tax between Competing Governments
We investigate how potential tax-driven migrations modify the Mirrlees income tax schedule when two countries play Nash. The social objective is the maximin and preferences are quasilinear in income. ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014, 129 (4), 1995-2030 )
D82, H21, H87
7645 Krisztina Kis-Katos
Robert Sparrow
Poverty, Labour Markets and Trade Liberalization in Indonesia
We measure the effects of trade liberalization over the period of 1993-2002 on regional poverty levels in 259 Indonesian regions, and investigate the labour market mechanisms behind these effects. ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2015, 117, 94-106)
J13, O24, O15
7644 Natalia Danzer
Job Satisfaction and Self-Selection into the Public or Private Sector: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Are public sector jobs better than private sector jobs? To answer this question, this paper investigates observed differences in job satisfaction between public- and private-sector workers and ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 57(C), 46-62. )
J28, J45, J31, J32
7643 Yuanyuan Ma
Patrick Paul Walsh
Party Membership and State Jobs in Urban China
The "dual-track approach" for transition would have to be facilitated by an endogenous movement of workers away from the state into private jobs. Yet, using the Chinese Household Income Project ...
(published in: Asian Economic Papers, 2017, 16(2), 167-184)
J42, J62, O15, P23, R23
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