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7628 James J. Heckman
Rodrigo Pinto
Causal Analysis after Haavelmo
Haavelmo's seminal 1943 paper is the first rigorous treatment of causality. In it, he distinguished the definition of causal parameters from their identification. He showed that causal parameters are ...
(revised version published in: Econometric Theory, 2015, 31(1), 115-151)
C10, C18
7627 Gaetano D'Adamo
Riccardo Rovelli
The Role of the Exchange Rate Regime in the Process of Real and Nominal Convergence
During the last decade, economists have intensively searched for evidence on the importance of the Balassa-Samuelson (B-S) hypothesis in explaining nominal convergence. One general result is that B-S ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2015, 43, 21-37)
C34, E52, F31
7626 Natalia Danzer
Victor Lavy
Parental Leave and Children's Schooling Outcomes: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Large Parental Leave Reform
This paper investigates the question whether long-term human capital outcomes are affected by the duration of maternity leave, i.e. by the time mothers spend at home with their newborn before ...
(published as 'Paid Parental Leave and Children's Schooling Outcomes' in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (608), 81-117)
J13, J24, J22
7625 Heike Hennig-Schmidt
Bernd Irlenbusch
Rainer Michael Rilke
Gari Walkowitz
Self-Serving Use of Equity Rules in Bargaining with Asymmetric Outside Options
We experimentally investigate multiple notions of equity in ultimatum bargaining with asymmetric outside options. Building on the generalized equity principle formulated by Selten (1978), we derive ...
(completely revised and extended version published as 'Designing Feedback in Voluntary Contribution Games: The Role of Transparency" in: Experimental Economics 2019, 22(2), 552–576)
C71, C72, C78, C91, D63
7624 Hanna Brenzel
Hermann Gartner
Claus Schnabel
Wage Posting or Wage Bargaining? Evidence from the Employers' Side
Using a representative establishment dataset, this paper is the first to analyze the incidence of wage posting and wage bargaining in the matching process from the employer's side. We show that both ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 29, 41-48)
E24, J30, J63, M51
7623 Lawrence M. Kahn
The Structure of the Permanent Job Wage Premium: Evidence from Europe
Using longitudinal data on individuals from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) for thirteen countries during 1995-2001, I investigate the wage premium for permanent jobs relative to ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2016, 55 (1), 149-178)
J31, J42
7622 Raquel Fonseca
Pierre-Carl Michaud
Arie Kapteyn
Titus Galama
Accounting for the Rise of Health Spending and Longevity
We estimate a stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement to investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and longevity in the U.S. ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19 (1), 536–579)
I10, I38, J26
7619 Magnus Carlsson
Luca Fumarco
Dan-Olof Rooth
Artifactual Evidence of Discrimination in Correspondence Studies? A Replication of the Neumark Method
The advocates of correspondence testing (CT) argue that it provide the most clear and convincing evidence of discrimination. The common view is that the standard CT can identify what is typically ...
(revised version published as 'Does the design of correspondence studies influence the measurement of discrimination?' in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2014, 3, 11 )
J71
7618 Martin Guzi
Pablo de Pedraza
A Web Survey Analysis of the Subjective Well-being of Spanish Workers
This paper makes use of a large sample of individual data obtained from web surveys in the WageIndicator project. Data includes extensive information on the quality of working conditions together ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2015, 36 (1), 48-67)
J28, J81
7617 Thomas Cornelissen
Christian Dustmann
Uta Schönberg
Peer Effects in the Workplace
Existing evidence on peer effects in a work environment stems from either laboratory experiments or from real-word studies referring to a specific firm or specific occupation. Yet, it is unclear to ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2017, 107(2), 425-56)
J24, J31
7615 Andriana Bellou
Emanuela Cardia
Occupations after WWII: The Legacy of Rosie the Riveter
WWII induced a dramatic increase in female labor supply, which persisted over time, particularly for women with higher education. Using Census micro data we study the qualitative aspects of this long ...
(published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2016, 62, 124-142)
J24, J31, N42
7612 Marco Alberto De Benedetto
Maria De Paola
The Impact of Incumbency on Turnout: Evidence from Italian Municipalities
We analyze how having an incumbent among candidates affects electoral turnout. We use a rich data set providing information on the electoral results of Italian municipal elections over the period ...
(published in: Electoral Studies, 2016, 44, 98-108)
D72, D78, J71, J16
7610 Steffen Altmann
Armin Falk
Andreas Grunewald
Incentives and Information as Driving Forces of Default Effects
The behavioral relevance of non-binding default options is well established. While most research has focused on decision makers' responses to a given default, we argue that this individual decision ...
(substantially revised version forthcoming in: Review of Economics and Statistics)
D03, D18, D83, C92
7609 Werner Eichhorst
Verena Tobsch
Has Atypical Work Become Typical in Germany?
This paper gives an overview of the transformation of the German labor market since the mid-1990s with a special focus on the changing patterns of labor market segmentation or 'dualization' of ...
(also available as: ILO Employment Working Paper 145 and DIW SOEP Paper 596)
J21, J31, J58
7608 Mehtabul Azam
Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in India
In this paper, we examine the intergenerational occupational mobility in India among men born during 1945-85. Following Long and Ferrie (2013, American Economic Review), we not only distinguish ...
(published as 'Intergenerational Occupational Mobility among Men in India' in: Journal of Development Studies , 2015, 51(10), 1389-1408)
J62
7607 Shelly Lundberg
Robert Pollak
Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the U.S., 1950-2010
Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women overtook and surpassed that of men and the ratio of men's to women's wage rates fell, ...
(published in: Leah Platt Boustan, Carola Frydman and Robert A. Margo (eds.), Human Capital in History: The American Record, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014, 241-272.)
J12, J13
7606 Benedikt Herrmann
Alexander S. Kritikos
Growing out of the Crisis: Hidden Assets to Greece's Transition to an Innovation Economy
Greece's currently planned institutional reforms will help to get the country going with limited economic growth. With an economy based primarily on tourism, trade, and agriculture, Greece lacks an ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:14)
L2, L26, O3, O4
7604 Hannes Schwandt
Unmet Aspirations as an Explanation for the Age U-shape in Human Wellbeing
A large literature in behavioral and social sciences has found that human wellbeing follows a U-shape over age. Some theories have assumed that the U-shape is caused by unmet expectations that are ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 122, 75-87)
A12, I30, D84
7602 Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Erick Gong
Motivating Agents: How Much Does the Mission Matter?
Economic theory predicts that agents will work harder if they believe in the "mission" of the organization. Well-identified estimates of exactly how much harder they will work have been elusive, ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 35 (1 Part 1), 211-236 )
C91, J22, J33, M52
7600 Joanne Lindley
Stephen Machin
Spatial Changes in Labour Market Inequality
We study spatial changes in labour market inequality for US states and MSAs using Census and American Community Survey data between 1980 and 2010. We report evidence of significant spatial variations ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2014, 79, 121-138)
J31, R11
7599 Afsin Sahin
Aysit Tansel
Hakan Berument
Output-Employment Relationship across Sectors: A Long- versus Short-Run Perspective
This paper investigates the nature of the output-employment relationship by using the Turkish quarterly data for the period 1988-2008. Even if we fail to find a long-run relationship between ...
(published in: Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies, 2013, 2, 1-23.)
C32, E24, E32
7598 Jakub Cerveny
Jan C. van Ours
Unemployment of Non-western Immigrants in the Great Recession
This paper examines whether unemployment of non-western immigrant workers in the Netherlands was disproportionally affected by the Great Recession. We analyze unemployment data covering the period ...
(published in: De Economist, 2013, 161, 463-480.)
J15, J64
7597 Stephan Klasen
Janneke Pieters
What Explains the Stagnation of Female Labor Force Participation in Urban India?
We study the surprisingly low level and stagnation of female labor force participation rates in urban India between 1987 and 2009. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Revew, 2015, 29 (3), 449-478)
J20, J16, I25, O15
7596 Alan Barrett
Irene Mosca
Brendan J. Whelan
(Lack of) Pension Knowledge
Governments are increasingly concerned about the capacity of pensions systems to meet demands in the coming years. According to the OECD, one part of the policy response in many countries will be ...
(published as 'How Well-informed are Pension Scheme Members on their Future Pension Benefits?: Evidence from Ireland' in: Journal of Aging and Social Policy, 2015, 27(4), 295-313)
I38, J14
7594 Alexander Hijzen
Leopoldo Mondauto
Stefano Scarpetta
The Perverse Effects of Job-Security Provisions on Job Security in Italy: Results from a Regression Discontinuity Design
This paper analyses the impact of employment protection (EP) on the composition of the workforce and worker turnover using a unique firm-level dataset for Italy. The impact of employment protection ...
(published as "The Impact of Employment Protection on Temporary Employment: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design" in: Labour Economics, 2017 , 46 (C), 65 - 76)
J42, J63, J65
7592 David Card
Ana Rute Cardoso
Patrick Kline
Bargaining and the Gender Wage Gap: A Direct Assessment
An influential recent literature argues that women are less likely to initiate bargaining with their employers and are (often) less effective negotiators than men. We use longitudinal wage data from ...
(published as 'Bargaining, sorting, and the gender wage gap: Quantifying the impact of firms on the relative pay of women' in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2016, 131 (2), 633-686)
J16, J31, J71
7591 Todd J. Kumler
Eric Verhoogen
Judith A. Frias
Enlisting Employees in Improving Payroll-Tax Compliance: Evidence from Mexico
Non-compliance of firms with tax regulations is a major constraint on state capacity in developing countries. We focus on an arguably under-appreciated dimension of non-compliance: under-reporting of ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (5), 881–896. )
O17, H26, H55
7590 Hielke Buddelmeyer
Duncan McVicar
Mark Wooden
Non-Standard 'Contingent' Employment and Job Satisfaction: A Panel Data Analysis
It is widely assumed that contingent forms of employment, such as fixed-term contracts, labour-hire and casual employment, are associated with low quality jobs. This hypothesis is tested using data ...
(Published in: Industrial Relations, 2015, 54(2), 256-275. doi:10.1111/irel.12090)
J28, J41, J81
7587 Pramod N. (Raja) Junankar
Abu S. Shonchoy
The Informal Labour Market in India: Transitory or Permanent Employment for Migrants?
This paper studies the characteristics of the workers in the informal economy and whether migrants treat this sector as a temporary location before moving on to the organised or formal sector to ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2014, 3:9)
O17, J15, J61, J42
7586 Eibhlin Hudson
Alan Barrett
Peer Groups, Employment Status and Mental Well-being among Older Adults in Ireland
Research has shown that employment status, such as being unemployed or retired, can be related to well-being. In addition, the direction and size of these relationships can be influenced by the ...
(published as 'Peer Groups, Employment Status and Depressive Symptoms among Older Adults in Ireland' in: Journal of Population Ageing, 2014, 7 (1), 43-54)
I10, J26, C21
7585 Karthik Muralidharan
Nishith Prakash
Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India
We study the impact of an innovative program in the Indian state of Bihar that aimed to reduce the gender gap in secondary school enrollment by providing girls who continued to secondary school with ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017, 9 (3), 321- 350)
H42, I2, O15
7584 John V. Winters
Weineng Xu
Geographic Differences in the Earnings of Economics Majors
Economics has been shown to be a relatively high earning college major, but geographic differences in earnings have been largely overlooked. This paper uses the American Community Survey to examine ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Education, 2014, 45 (3), 262-276)
I23, J24, J31, R23
7583 Mark L. Bryan
Stephen P. Jenkins
Regression Analysis of Country Effects Using Multilevel Data: A Cautionary Tale
Cross-national differences in outcomes are often analysed using regression analysis of multilevel country datasets, examples of which include the ECHP, ESS, EU-SILC, EVS, ISSP, and SHARE. We review ...
(published in: European Sociological Review, 2016, 32 (1), 3–22 )
C52, C81, O57
7582 Matloob Piracha
Teresa Randazzo
Florin Vadean
Remittances and Occupational Outcomes of the Household Members Left-Behind
This paper analyses the role of remittances and migration on the occupational outcomes of the household members left behind in Tajikistan. Using the control function approach, we show that, contrary ...
(substantially revised version published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55 (2), 278 - 293)
F22, J24
7581 Kostas Mavromaras
Rong Zhu
Labour Force Participation of Mature Age Men in Australia: The Role of Spousal Participation
In this paper we estimate the interdependence of labour force participation decisions made by Australian couples from 2001 to 2011. We focus on couples with a mature age husband, and estimate the ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2015, 67, 310–333)
J14, J21
7580 Gianna Claudia Giannelli
Ursula Jaenichen
Thomas Rothe
Doing Well in Reforming the Labour Market? Recent Trends in Job Stability and Wages in Germany
The German "employment miracle", with a weak decline in employment and low unemployment during the great recession, seems to be a good example for a successful labour market reform. Nevertheless, ...
(published as 'The evolution of job stability and wages after the implementation of the Hartz reforms 'in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2016, 49, 269-294)
C34, C41, J31, J62, J68
7579 Ernesto Reuben
Matthew Wiswall
Basit Zafar
Preferences and Biases in Educational Choices and Labor Market Expectations: Shrinking the Black Box of Gender
Standard observed characteristics explain only part of the differences between men and women in education choices and labor market trajectories. Using an experiment to derive students' levels of ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127, 2153-2186)
D81, D84, I21, I23, J10
7577 Wenjin Long
Simon Appleton
Lina Song
Job Contact Networks and Wages of Rural-Urban Migrants in China
In nationally representative household data from the 2008 wave of the Rural to Urban Migration in China survey, nearly two thirds of rural-urban migrants found their employment through family ...
(Published with a revised title “The Impacts of job contact network on wages of rural-urban migrants in China: a switching regression approach”, in Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 2017, 15 (1) 81-101)
J24, J31, O15
7576 Annalisa Cristini
Almudena Sevilla
Do House Prices Affect Consumption? A Re-assessment of the Wealth Hypothesis
This paper undertakes a comparison exercise to disentangle what drives the opposite findings regarding the effect of house prices on consumption documented in two papers using the same data set for ...
(published in: Economica, 2014, 81, 601-625.)
D13
7575 Anne C. Gielen
Jessica Holmes
Caitlin Knowles Myers
Testosterone and the Gender Wage Gap
Testosterone, which induces sexual differentiation of the male fetus, is believed to transfer from males to their littermates in placental mammals. Among humans, individuals with a male twin have ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2016, 51 (1), 30-61)
J16, J31
7573 Ragui Assaad
Making Sense of Arab Labor Markets: The Enduring Legacy of Dualism
It is well-established that Arab labor markets share certain common characteristics, including an oversized public sector, high unemployment for educated youth, weak private sector dependent on ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2014, 3:6)
I25, J21, J24, J31, J45, O53, P52
7571 Robert Holzmann
A Provocative Perspective on Population Aging and Old-Age Financial Protection
Population aging is typically associated with economic challenges for productivity and financial threats for the old-age financial protection system of a country. This paper takes an optimistic ...
(published in: Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies 2013 50 (2), 107-137)
H55, J11, J14, J26
7570 Hans Bloemen
Stefan Hochguertel
Jochem Zweerink
The Causal Effect of Retirement on Mortality: Evidence from Targeted Incentives to Retire Early
This paper identifies and estimates the impact of early retirement on the probability to die within five years, using administrative micro panel data covering the entire population of the ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2017, 26 (12), e204-e218)
C26, I1, J26
7569 Elvire Guillaud
Paul Marx
Preferences for Employment Protection and the Insider-Outsider Divide
Insider-outsider theory suggests that in dual labour markets two groups have opposing preferences regarding protection against dismissals: insiders defend employment protection, because it increases ...
(revised version published in: West European Politics, 2014, 37 (5), 1177-1185)
J08, J41, K31
7568 Alberto Alesina
Johann Harnoss
Hillel Rapoport
Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity
We use recent immigration data from 195 countries and propose an index of population diversity based on people's birthplaces. This new index is then decomposed into a size (share of foreign born) and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2016, 21 (2), 101-138)
O1, O4, F22, F43
7567 Byung-Yeon Kim
Syngjoo Choi
Jungmin Lee
Sokbae Lee
Kyunghui Choi
Do Institutions Affect Social Preferences? Evidence from Divided Korea
The Cold War division of Korea, regarded as a natural experiment in institutional change, provides a unique opportunity to examine whether institutions affect social preferences. We recruited North ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017, 45 (4), 865 - 888)
C92, C93, D03, P20
7566 Stephane Mahuteau
Kostas Mavromaras
An Analysis of the Impact of Socioeconomic Disadvantage and School Quality on the Probability of School Dropout
PISA scores are an internationally established indicator of student and school performance. This paper builds on the evidence that better PISA scores are known to be associated with better later life ...
(published in Education Economics, 2014, 22 (4), 389-411)
I24, I21
7565 Helmuth Cremer
Kerstin Roeder
Long-Term Care and Lazy Rotten Kids
This paper studies the determination of informal long-term care (family aid) to dependent elderly in a worst case scenario concerning the "harmony" of family relations. Children are purely selfish, ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 19, 2017, 583-602)
D13, H21, I13
7564 Christoph Rothe
Sergio Firpo
Semiparametric Estimation and Inference Using Doubly Robust Moment Conditions
We study semiparametric two-step estimators which have the same structure as parametric doubly robust estimators in their second step, but retain a fully nonparametric specification in the first ...
(published in: Econometric Theory, 2019, 35 (5), 1048-1087)
C14, C21, C31, C51
7563 David E. Bloom
Elizabeth T. Cafiero
Mark E. McGovern
Klaus Prettner
Anderson Stanciole
Jonathan Weiss
Samuel Bakkila
Larry Rosenberg
The Economic Impact of Non-communicable Disease in China and India: Estimates, Projections, and Comparisons
This paper provides estimates of the economic impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in China and India for the period 2012-2030. Our estimates are derived using WHO's EPIC model of economic ...
(published as 'The macroeconomic impact of non-communicable diseases in China and India: Estimates, projections, and comparisons' in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2014, 4, 100-111)
E13, I15, O40
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