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7509 Daniel Fernández-Kranz
Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Can Parents' Right to Work Part-Time Hurt Childbearing-Aged Women? A Natural Experiment with Administrative Data
Using a differences-in-differences approach and controlling for individual unobserved heterogeneity, we evaluate the impact of a 1999 law that granted all workers with children younger than 7 years ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Too Family Friendly? The Consequences of Parents' Right to Request Part-Time Work' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 197, 104407 )
C23, C25, C33, J16, J22, J62
7508 Olivier B. Bargain
Karina Doorley
Putting Structure on the RD Design: Social Transfers and Youth Inactivity in France
Natural experiments provide explicit and robust identifying assumptions for the estimation of treatment effects. Yet their use for policy design is often limited by the difficulty in extrapolating on ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52 (4), 1032-1059.)
C52, H31, J22
7506 Michal Myck
Anna Kurowska
Micha? Kundera
Financial Support for Families with Children and its Trade-offs: Balancing Redistribution and Parental Work Incentives
Financial support for families with children implies inherent trade-offs some of which are less obvious than others. In the end these trade-offs determine the effectiveness of policy with respect to ...
(published in: Baltic Journal of Economics, 2013, 13 (2), 61-85 )
J22, J13, J18
7504 Bridget Daldy
Jacques Poot
Matthew Roskruge
Perception of Workplace Discrimination among Immigrants and Native Born New Zealanders
Despite considerable research on differences in labour market outcomes between native born New Zealanders and immigrants, the extent of discrimination experienced by the foreign born in the workplace ...
(published in: Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 2013, 16 (1), 137-154)
F22, J01, J71
7502 Gilbert Cette
Valérie Chouard
Gregory Verdugo
Minimum Wage and the Average Wage in France: A Circular Relationship?
This paper investigates whether increases in the minimum wage in France have the same impact on the average wage when intended to preserve the purchasing power of the minimum wage as when intended to ...
(published in: Economics Bulletin, 2013, 33 (3), 1832-1839)
E24, J31, J58
7501 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Almudena Sevilla
Low-Skilled Immigration and Parenting Investments of College-Educated Mothers in the United States: Evidence from Time-Use Data
This paper uses several decades of US time-diary surveys to assess the impact of low-skilled immigration, through lower prices for commercial child care, on parental time investments. Using an ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49(3), 509-539)
J01, J13, J61
7500 Alessandro Fedele
Paolo Naticchioni
Moonlighting Politicians: Motivation Matters!
In this paper we study optimal choices of self-selection into politics and commitment once in office on the part of citizens with heterogeneous abilities and heterogeneous motivations. Politicians ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2016, 17 (2), 127 - 156)
P16, J45, J24, J32
7498 Werner Eichhorst
J. Timo Weishaupt
Mit Neo-Korporatismus durch die Krise? Die Rolle des Sozialen Dialogs in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz
Dieser Artikel untersucht die Rolle der Sozialpartner bei der Bewältigung der Wirtschaftskrise 2008/09 in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Die Fallstudien zeigen, dass zu Beginn der Krise ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für Sozialreform, 2013, 59 (3), 313-335)
J52, J53, J58
7497 James T. Bang
Aniruddha Mitra
Phanindra V. Wunnava
Financial Liberalization and Remittances: Recent Longitudinal Evidence
This paper investigates the impact of financial liberalization on remittances to 84 countries over five-year intervals from 1990-2005 based on the difference-GMM method of Arellano and Bond (1991). ...
(revised version published in: Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, 2015, 24(8), 1077-1102)
F22, O15, P48
7496 Jacobus de Hoop
Furio C. Rosati
Cash Transfers and Child Labour
Cash transfer programs are widely used in settings where child labour is prevalent. Even if many of these programs are explicitly implemented to improve children's welfare, in theory their impact on ...
(published in: World Bank Reserach Observer, 2014, 29 (2), 202-234)
I28, I38, O20
7495 Michalis Drouvelis
Nattavudh Powdthavee
Are Happier People Less Judgmental of Other People's Selfish Behaviors? Laboratory Evidence from Trust and Gift Exchange Games
What determines people's moral judgments of selfish behaviors? Here we study whether people's normative views in trust and gift exchange games, which underlie many situations of economic and social ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2015, 58, 111-123.)
C91
7494 Andreas Lichter
Andreas Peichl
Sebastian Siegloch
Exporting and Labor Demand: Micro-Level Evidence from Germany
It is widely believed that globalization increases the volatility of employment and decreases the bargaining power of workers. One mechanism explaining this relationship is given by the long-standing ...
(revised version published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2017, 50 (4), 1161-1189)
F16, F66, J23
7493 Laurent Gobillon
Thierry Magnac
Regional Policy Evaluation: Interactive Fixed Effects and Synthetic Controls
In this paper, we investigate the use of interactive effect or linear factor models in regional policy evaluation. We contrast treatment effect estimates obtained by Bai (2009)'s least squares method ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 98 (3), 535-551 )
C21, C23, H53, J64, R11
7492 Juan A. Lacomba
Francisco Miguel Lagos
Ernesto Reuben
Frans van Winden
On the Escalation and De-Escalation of Conflict
We introduce three variations of the Hirshleifer-Skaperdas conflict game to study experimentally the effects of post-conflict behavior and repeated interaction on the allocation of effort between ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2014, 86, 40-57)
C92, D72, D74
7491 Lorenzo Cappellari
Stephen P. Jenkins
Earnings and Labour Market Volatility in Britain
We provide new evidence about earnings and labour market volatility in Britain over the period 1992-2008, and for women as well as men. (Most research about volatility refers to earnings volatility ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 201-211)
J31
7490 Pierre Cahuc
Stéphane Carcillo
Ulf Rinne
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Youth Unemployment in Old Europe: The Polar Cases of France and Germany
France and Germany are two polar cases in the European debate about rising youth unemployment. Similar to what can be observed in Southern European countries, a "lost generation" may arise in France. ...
(revised version published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:18 )
J24, J38, J68
7488 Sebastian Koehne
Moritz Kuhn
Should Unemployment Insurance Be Asset-Tested?
We study asset-tested unemployment insurance in an incomplete markets model with moral hazard during job search. Asset testing has two counteracting effects on welfare. On the one hand, it improves ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2015, 18 (3), 575-592)
E21, E24, J65
7487 Almas Heshmati
Flávio Lenz-Cesar
Determinants and Policy Simulation of Firms Cooperation in Innovation
This research introduces an agent-based simulation model representing the dynamic processes of cooperative R&D in the manufacturing sector of South Korea. Firms' behavior is defined according to ...
(published in: Research Evaluation, 2015, 24(3), 293-311. )
C15, C71, D21, D85, L20, O31
7486 Mike Pottenger
Andrew Leigh
Long Run Trends in Australian Executive Remuneration: BHP 1887-2012
Outside the US, little is known of long-run trends in executive compensation. We fill this gap by studying BHP, a resources giant that has long been one of the largest companies on the Australian ...
(published in: Australian Economic History Review, 2016, 56 (1), 2-20 )
D31, J31
7485 George S Naufal
Ismail H. Genc
Structural Change in MENA Remittance Flows
After independence, the GCC countries relied heavily on foreign workers from fellow Arab countries. Thus, remittances flowed from GCC to other countries in MENA. In the 1980s-1990s labor source ...
(published in: Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2015, 51(6), 1175-1178)
F16, F22, F24, C22
7484 Nicole M. Fortin
Andrew J. Hill
Jeff Huang
Superstition in the Housing Market
We provide the first solid evidence that Chinese superstitious beliefs can have significant effects on house prices in a North American market with a large immigrant population. Using real estate ...
(publiished in: Economic Inquiry, 2014, 52(3), 974-993.)
D03, J15, R2, Z1
7483 Vincenzo Galasso
Tommaso Nannicini
Men Vote in Mars, Women Vote in Venus: A Survey Experiment in the Field
This paper investigates the differential response of male and female voters to competitive persuasion in political campaigns. During the 2011 municipal elections in Milan, a sample of eligible voters ...
(updated and expanded as IZA DP 'Persuasion and Gender: Experimental Evidence from Two Political Campaigns')
D72, J16, M37
7482 Jaan Masso
Raul Eamets
Pille Mőtsmees
The Effect of Migration Experience on Occupational Mobility in Estonia
The existing literature on return migration has resulted in several studies analysing the impact of foreign work experience on the returnees' earnings or their decision to become self-employed; ...
(revised version published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2014, 35 (6), 753-775)
F22, J62
7481 Tim Callan
Brian Nolan
Claire Keane
Michael Savage
John R. Walsh
Crisis, Response and Distributional Impact: The Case of Ireland
Ireland is one of the countries most severely affected by the Great Recession. National income fell by more than 10 per cent between 2007 and 2012, as a result of the bursting of a remarkable ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3:9)
D31, D78
7480 Daniel Avdic
Per Johansson
Gender Differences in Preferences for Health-Related Absences from Work
Women are on average more absent from work for health reasons than men. At the same time, they live longer. This conflicting pattern suggests that part of the gender difference in health-related ...
(published as 'Absenteeism, Gender and the Morbidity–Mortality Paradox' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2017, 32 (2), 440 - 462)
I13, J22, D13
7479 Fabrice Defever
Jens Suedekum
Financial Liberalization and the Relationship-Specificity of Exports
We investigate the causal impact of equity market liberalizations in the period 1980-1997 on sectoral export performance across 91 countries. The increased availability of external finance has ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2014, 122 (3), 375-379)
F14, F36, G20
7478 Martin Guzi
An Empirical Analysis of Welfare Dependence in the Czech Republic
Paper demonstrates the existence of a welfare trap in the Czech Republic, created by the tax and social security systems. Combining individual data from the Czech Labor Force Survey and the Czech ...
(published in: Czech Journal of Economics and Finance, 2014, 64 (5), 407- 431)
J22, J31, I38
7477 Anastasia Danilov
Dirk Sliwka
Can Contracts Signal Social Norms? Experimental Evidence
We investigate whether incentive schemes signal social norms and thus affect behavior beyond their direct economic consequences. A principal-agent experiment is studied in which prior to contract ...
(revised version published in: Management Science, 2017, 63 (2), 459–476)
D03, C91, D86
7476 Maria Zumbühl
Thomas Dohmen
Gerard A. Pfann
Parental Investment and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Preferences and Attitudes
We study empirically whether there is scope for parents to shape the economic preferences and attitudes of their children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust ...
(published as 'Parental Involvement and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Preferences, Attitudes, and Personality Traits' in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (638), 2642–2670)
D1, D8, J13, J62, Z13
7475 Almut Balleer
Britta Gehrke
Wolfgang Lechthaler
Christian Merkl
Does Short-Time Work Save Jobs? A Business Cycle Analysis
In the Great Recession most OECD countries used short-time work (publicly subsidized working time reductions) to counteract a steep increase in unemployment. We show that short-time work can actually ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 84, 99–122)
E24, E32, E62, J08, J63
7474 John T. Addison
Paulino Teixeira
Katalin Evers
Lutz Bellmann
Indicative and Updated Estimates of the Collective Bargaining Premium in Germany
This study provides updated evidence on the union contract differential in Germany using establishment-wide wage data and two estimation strategies. It provides pairwise estimates of the union ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2014, 53 (1), 125-157.)
J31, J51
7473 Sonia R. Bhalotra
Irma Clots-Figueras
Guilhem Cassan
Lakshmi Iyer
Religion, Politician Identity and Development Outcomes: Evidence from India
This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes, both for citizens of their religious group and for the population as a whole. To ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 2014, 104, 4-17)
I15, J13, H41, P16
7471 Laszlo Goerke
Inga Hillesheim
Relative Consumption, Working Time, and Trade Unions
Status considerations with respect to consumption give rise to negative externalities because individuals do not take into account that their decisions affect the relative consumption position of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24, 170-179)
D62, J22, J51
7470 Ann-Kathrine Ejsing
Ulrich Kaiser
Hans Christian Kongsted
Keld Laursen
The Role of University Scientist Mobility for Industrial Innovation
Scientific knowledge is an important ingredient in the innovation process. Drawing on the knowledge-based view of the firm and the literature on the relationship between science and technology, this ...
(published as 'Experience Matters: The Role of Academic Scientist Mobility for Industrial Innovation' in: Strategic Management Journal, 2018, 39 (7), 1935-1958)
O33, O34, C23
7469 Benjamin Crost
Joseph Felter
Hani Mansour
Daniel I. Rees
Election Fraud and Post-Election Conflict: Evidence from the Philippines
Previous studies have documented a positive association between election fraud and the intensity of civil conflict. It is not clear, however, whether this association is causal or due to unobserved ...
(published in the World Bank Economic Review, 2020, 34 (3), 767-789)
D72, D73, D74
7468 Kusum Mundra
Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
Determinants of Immigrant Homeownership: Examining their Changing Role during the Great Recession and Beyond
The Great Recession had significant economic effects both in the U.S. and around the world. There is evidence that homeownership rates declined during this period, though some immigrants were less ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2018, 52(3), 648-694)
R20, R23, J11, J15
7467 Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski
Thierry Kangoye
Youth Employment in Africa: New Evidence and Policies from Swaziland
Drawing on the 2007 and 2010 Swaziland Labor Force Surveys, this paper provides first systematic evidence on recent youth employment challenges in Swaziland, a small, land-locked, middle-income ...
(published in: M. A. Malo and D. Sciulli (eds.), Disadvantaged Workers: Empirical Evidence and Labour Policies, AIEL Series in Labour Economics, Springer, 2014)
J11, J08, L26, O11
7466 Ren Mu
Alan de Brauw
Migration and Young Child Nutrition: Evidence from Rural China
The unprecedented large scale rural-to-urban migration in China has left many rural children living apart from their parents. In this study, we examine the impact of parental migration on the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28, 631-657)
I1, J6, O1
7465 Michael Grossman
Erdal Tekin
Roy Wada
Food Prices and Body Fatness among Youths
In this paper, we examine the effect of food prices on clinical measures of obesity, including body mass index (BMI) and percentage body fat (PBF) measures derived from bioelectrical impedance ...
(revised version published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2014, 12, 4-19)
I1, I18
7464 Yann Algan
Pierre Cahuc
Trust, Growth and Well-being: New Evidence and Policy Implications
This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and growth. It discusses the various measures of trust and documents the substantial heterogeneity of trust across space and time. The ...
(published in: S.N. Durlauf and P. Aghion (eds.): Handbook of Economic Growth, Vol.2 , 2014, 49-120)
O11, O43, Z13
7463 Ian Davidoff
Andrew Leigh
How Do Stamp Duties Affect the Housing Market?
Land transfer taxes are a substantial portion of the cost of moving house in many developed countries. Since stamp duties are endogenous with respect to the house price, we create an instrumental ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2013, 89 (286), 396-410)
H22, H24, H71, R21, R23, R28
7462 Emma Tominey
Maternity Leave and the Responsiveness of Female Labor Supply to a Household Shock
Female labor supply can insure households against shocks to paternal employment. The paper estimates whether the female labor supply response to a paternal employment shock differs by eligibility to ...
(published as 'Female labour supply and household employment shocks: Maternity leave as an insurance mechanism' in: European Economic Review, 2016, 87, 256-271)
I30, J13, J20, J64
7461 Francesco Pastore
Sarosh Sattar
Erwin R. Tiongson
Gender Differences in Earnings and Labor Supply in Early Career: Evidence from Kosovo's School-to-Work Transition Survey
Very little is known about gender wage disparities in Kosovo and, to date, nothing is known about how such wage disparities evolve over time, particularly during the first few years spent by young ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2013, 2:5 )
I21, J13, J15, J16, J24, J31, J7, P30
7460 Marco Caliendo
Steffen Künn
Regional Effect Heterogeneity of Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed
Recent microeconometric evaluation studies have shown that start-up subsidies for unemployed individuals are an effective policy tool to improve long-term employment and income prospects of ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2014, 48 (6), 1108-1134)
J68, R11, C14, H43, L26
7459 Matthias Doepke
Fabrizio Zilibotti
Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth
We discuss the two-way link between culture and economic growth. We present a model of endogenous technical change where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship ...
(published in: Handbook of Economic Growth, Vol. 2, 1-48, December 2013)
J20, O10, O40
7458 Randolph Luca Bruno
Nauro F. Campos
Reexamining the Conditional Effect of Foreign Direct Investment
The prevailing consensus is that foreign direct investment (FDI) effects are conditional. At the macro level, they depend upon minimum levels of human capital or financial development, while at the ...
(published in: Multinational Business Review, 2018, 26 (2), 126-144)
C83, F23, O12
7457 Daniel L. Millimet
Manan Roy
Partial Identification of the Long-Run Causal Effect of Food Security on Child Health
Food security and obesity represent two of the most significant public health issues. However, little is known about how these issues are intertwined. Here, we assess the causal relationship between ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2015, 48, 83-141)
C14, C21, I12, I32
7456 Briggs Depew
Peter Norlander
Todd A. Sorensen
Flight of the H-1B: Inter-Firm Mobility and Return Migration Patterns for Skilled Guest Workers
Critics of the H-1B program for high-skilled workers argue that the program restricts immigrant job mobility and lacks a vehicle for adjusting the number of visas during a recession. We study the job ...
(published as "Inter-firm mobility and return migration patterns of skilled guest workers" in Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30 (2), 681-721)
F22, J42, E32
7454 Jesper Bagger
Javier A. Birchenall
Hani Mansour
Sergio Urzua
Education, Birth Order, and Family Size
We introduce a general framework to analyze the trade-off between education and family size. Our framework incorporates parental preferences for birth order and delivers theoretically consistent ...
(published in Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (633), 33-69)
E20, E24, D52
7453 Daniel L. Millimet
Rusty Tchernis
Anthropometric Mobility During Childhood
While childhood obesity has become a significant public health concern over the last few decades, knowledge concerning the origins of or persistence in childhood anthropometric measures is ...
(published as 'Persistence in Body Mass Index in a Recent Cohort of US Children' in: Economics an Human Biology, 2015, 17, 157-176)
C23, I12, I18
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