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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
7399 Petri Böckerman
Mika Maliranta
Outsourcing, Occupational Restructuring, and Employee Well-Being: Is There a Silver Lining?
This paper examines the relationship between outsourcing and various aspects of employee well-being by devoting special attention to the role of occupational restructuring as a conveying mechanism. ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2013, 52 (4), 878-914)
J28, F23
7397 Alfred Lameli
Volker Nitsch
Jens Suedekum
Nikolaus Wolf
Same Same But Different: Dialects and Trade
Language is a strong and robust determinant of international trade patterns: Countries sharing a common language trade significantly more with each other than countries using different languages, ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2015, 16 (3), 290-306)
F14, F15, Z10
7396 Jason M. Lindo
Aggregation and the Estimated Effects of Local Economic Conditions on Health
This paper considers the relationship between local economic conditions and health with a focus on different approaches to geographic aggregation. After reviewing the tradeoffs associated with more- ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 40, 83-96)
I10, J20, E32
7395 Ana C. Dammert
Jose C. Galdo
Virgilio Galdo
Digital Labor-Market Intermediation and Job Expectations: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Subjective expectations are fundamental for understanding individual behavior. Yet, little is known about how individuals use new information to formulate and update their subjective expectations. In ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 120 (1), 112-116)
I3, J2
7394 Ana C. Dammert
Jose C. Galdo
Program Quality and Treatment Completion for Youth Training Programs
This paper analyzes the effects of training quality on the likelihood of treatment completion by estimating dose-response functions via a generalized propensity score. Results show a statistically ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 119 (3), 243-246)
I3, J2, C8
7393 Vincent O'Sullivan
Brian Nolan
Alan Barrett
Income and Wealth in the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing
Between 2009 and 2011, data were collected under the first wave of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). Over 8,500 people aged 50 and over and living in Ireland were interviewed on a wide ...
(revised version published in: Economic and Social Review, 2014, 45 (3), 329-348, with Cara Dooley added as fourth author)
D31, J14
7392 Albrecht Glitz
Coworker Networks in the Labour Market
This paper studies the effect of coworker-based networks on individual labour market outcomes. I analyse how the provision of labour market relevant information by former coworkers affects the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 44, 218–230)
J63, J64
7391 David E. Bloom
David Canning
Günther Fink
Disease and Development Revisited
Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) present evidence that improvements in population health do not promote economic growth. We show that their result depends critically on the assumption that initial health ...
(pubished in: Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 122 (6), 1355-1366 )
I10, O40
7390 Clemens Fuest
Andreas Peichl
Sebastian Siegloch
Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages? Micro Evidence from Germany
Because of endogeneity problems very few studies have been able to identify the incidence of corporate taxes on wages. We circumvent these problems by using an 11-year panel of data on 11,441 German ...
(substantially revised version available as IZA DP 9606)
H2, H7, J3
7389 Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
Negative and Positive Assimilation By Prices and By Quantities
This paper considers the labor market assimilation of immigrants in terms of earnings and employment (employment probability, unemployment probability, and hours worked per week). Using the 2006 ...
(published in: Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 2015, 18 (1))
J61, J31, F22
7387 Alain Jousten
Mathieu Lefèbvre
Retirement Incentives in Belgium: Estimations and Simulations Using SHARE Data
The paper studies retirement behavior of wage-earners in Belgium – for the first time using rich survey data to explore retirement incentives as faced by individuals. Specifically, we use SHARE data ...
(published in: De Economist, 2013, 161 (3), 253-276)
H55, J21, J26, J14
7385 Eva Spring
Volker Grossmann
Does Bilateral Trust Affect International Movement of Goods and Labor?
Trust in the citizens of a potential partner country may affect the decision to trade with or to migrate to a foreign country. This paper employs panel data to examine the causal impact of such ...
(published as "Does Bilateral Trust Across Countries Really Affect International Trade and Factor Mobility?" in: Empirical Economics, 2016, 50 (1), 103-136)
F10, F22, Z10
7382 Stephen V. Burks
Bo Cowgill
Mitchell Hoffman
Michael Housman
The Value of Hiring through Referrals
Employee referrals are a very common means by which firms hire new workers. Past work suggests that workers hired via referrals often perform better than non-referred workers, but we have little ...
(revised version published as 'The Value of Hiring through Employee Referrals' in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2015, 130(2), 805-839)
M51, J24, O32, J63, L84, L86, L92
7381 David L. Sjoquist
John V. Winters
State Merit-Aid Programs and College Major: A Focus on STEM
Since 1991 more than two dozen states have adopted merit-based student financial aid programs, intended at least in part to increase the stock of human capital by improving the knowledge and skills ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33 (4), 973-1006. )
I23, J24
7380 Jan Feld
Nicolás Salamanca
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Endophilia or Exophobia: Beyond Discrimination
The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relative: One group suffers compared to another. But does a difference arise because agents discriminate against others – are exophobic – ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (594), 1503-1527)
J71, I24, B40
7377 Avner Greif
Murat Iyigun
Social Organizations, Violence & Modern Growth
Although social institutions permeate the world in which we live, they are all but absent from our analyses of economic growth and development. This paper argues the need to mitigate this omission by ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (3), 534-538)
O10, N10, N13
7376 Alberto Alesina
Paola Giuliano
Family Ties
We study the role of the most primitive institution in society: the family. Its organization and relationship between generations shape values formation, economic outcomes and influences national ...
(published in Philippe Aghion and Steven Durlauf (eds.), Handbook of Economic Growth, Vol. 2A, The Netherlands: North Holland, pp. 177-215, 2014)
J2, J6, O4, O5, Z1
7375 Richard Blundell
Monica Costa Dias
Costas Meghir
Jonathan Shaw
Female Labour Supply, Human Capital and Welfare Reform
We consider the impact of tax credits and income support programs on female education choice, employment, hours and human capital accumulation over the life-cycle. We analyze both the short run ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2016, 84 (5), 1705-1753)
J22, J24, H31
7374 Johannes Abeler
Daniele Nosenzo
Self-Selection into Economics Experiments Is Driven by Monetary Rewards
Laboratory experiments have become a wide-spread tool in economic research. Yet, there is still doubt about how well the results from lab experiments generalize to other settings. In this paper, we ...
(revised version published as 'Self-Selection into Laboratory Experiments: Pro-Social Motives versus Monetary Incentives' in: Experimental Economics, 2015, 18(2), 195-214)
C90, D03
7373 Johannes Abeler
Simon Jäger
Complex Tax Incentives: An Experimental Investigation
How does the tax system's complexity affect people's reaction to tax changes? To answer this question, we conduct a real-effort experiment in which subjects receive a piece rate and face a set of ...
(revised version published as 'Complex Tax Incentives' in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2015, 7 (3), 1-28)
C91, D03, H31, J22
7372 Benjamin Enke
Florian Zimmermann
Correlation Neglect in Belief Formation
Many information structures generate correlated rather than mutually independent signals, the news media being a prime example. This paper shows experimentally that in such contexts many people ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2019, 86 (1), 313–33)
C91, D03, D83, D84, D40
7371 Wencke Gwozdz
Alfonso Sousa-Poza
Lucia A. Reisch
Wolfgang Ahrens
Stefaan De Henauw
Gabriele Eiben
Juan M. Fernández-Alvira
Charalampos Hadjigeorgiou
Eva Kovács
Fabio Lauria
Toomas Veidebaum
Garrath Williams
Karin Bammann
Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity: A European Perspective
The substantial increase in female employment rates in Europe over the past two decades has often been linked in political and public rhetoric to negative effects on child development, including ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 32 (4), 728-742)
I12, J13, J22
7370 Alexander M. Danzer
Barbara Dietz
Kseniia Gatskova
Achim Schmillen
Showing Off to the New Neighbors? Income, Socioeconomic Status and Consumption Patterns of Internal Migrants
This paper analyses incomes and socioeconomic status of internal migrants over time and in comparison to their new neighbors and investigates whether status consumption is a way for newly arrived ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2014, 42(1), 230-245)
P36, I31, R23
7369 Nicole B. Simpson
Families, Taxes and the Welfare System
In this paper, I will describe in detail both the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit in the U.S., including their origins, their structure, and the effects they have on the labor ...
(published in: Esther Redmount (eds): The Economics of the Family: How the Household Affects Markets and Economic Growth, 2013, 59-92)
D1, H24, H53
7368 William Betz
Nicole B. Simpson
The Effects of International Migration on the Well-Being of Native Populations in Europe
With worldwide migration becoming increasingly prevalent in policy agendas over the past several decades, understanding the effects that migrants have on a host country's population continues to be ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2013, 2:12.)
F22, I31, O15
7365 Nattavudh Powdthavee
Warn N. Lekfuangfu
Mark Wooden
The Marginal Income Effect of Education on Happiness: Estimating the Direct and Indirect Effects of Compulsory Schooling on Well-Being in Australia
Many economists and educators favour public support for education on the premise that education improves the overall well-being of citizens. However, little is known about the causal pathways through ...
(substantially revised version published as: 'What's the good of education on our overall quality of life? A simultaneous equation model of education and life satisfaction for Australia' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2015, 54 (1), 10-21)
I20, I32, C36
7363 Robert Dur
Jan Tichem
Altruism and Relational Incentives in the Workplace
This paper studies how altruism between managers and employees affects relational incentive contracts. To this end we develop a simple dynamic principal-agent model where both players may have ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2015, 24(3), 485-500)
D23, J33, M52, M55
7362 Giovanni Facchini
Anna Maria Mayda
Mariapia Mendola
South-South Migration and the Labor Market: Evidence from South Africa
Using census data for 1996, 2001 and 2007 we study the labor market effect of immigration to South Africa. The paper contributes to a small but growing literature on the impact of South-South ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2018, 18 (4), 823-853.)
F22, J61
7361 Christian Grund
Andreas Schmitt
Works Councils, Quits and Dismissals in Germany
We examine the relationship between works councils and two different types of employment separation: dismissals by the firm and voluntary quits by employees. Based on representative data from the ...
(revised version published in: German Journal of Human Resource Management, 2016, 30, 53-75, together with Johannes Martin as an additional co-author)
M5, J6
7360 Ingo E. Isphording
Disadvantages of Linguistic Origin: Evidence from Immigrant Literacy Scores
This study quantifies the disadvantage in the formation of literacy skills of immigrants that arises from the linguistic distance between mother tongue and host country language. Combining unique ...
(shortened version published in: Economics Letters, 2014, 123 (2) 236–239)
F22, J15, J24, J31
7359 Daniel L. Millimet
Ian K. McDonough
Dynamic Panel Data Models with Irregular Spacing: With Applications to Early Childhood Development
With the increased availability of longitudinal data, dynamic panel data models have become commonplace. Moreover, the properties of various estimators of such models are well known. However, we show ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2017, 32 (4), 725-743)
C23, C51, I21
7358 Rita K. Almeida
Jennifer P. Poole
Trade and Labor Reallocation with Heterogeneous Enforcement of Labor Regulations
This paper revisits the question of how trade openness affects labor market outcomes in a developing country setting. We explore the fact that plants face varying degrees of exposure to global ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2017, 126, 154-166)
F16, J6, J8
7354 Jan Bergerhoff
Lex Borghans
Philipp K. Seegers
Tom van Veen
International Education and Economic Growth
In recent years international student mobility increased. While net hosting countries are in a better position to win highly educated students for their labour force, they face the additional cost of ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:3)
I25
7353 Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers
Subjective Well?Being and Income: Is There Any Evidence of Satiation?
Many scholars have argued that once "basic needs" have been met, higher income is no longer associated with higher in subjective well-being. We assess the validity of this claim in comparisons of ...
(shorter version published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 598-604)
D6, I3, N3, O1, O4
7352 Mthuli Ncube
Abebe Shimeles
The Making of Middle Class in Africa: Evidence from DHS Data
This paper presents evidence on the making of the middle class in Africa by exploiting a comparable micro data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for thirty-seven countries over two ...
(published in : Journal of Development Studies, 2015, 51 (2), 178 - 193)
D31, J15
7351 Andrea Garnero
Stephan Kampelmann
François Rycx
Sharp Teeth or Empty Mouths? Revisiting the Minimum Wage Bite with Sectoral Data
The paper explores the link between different institutional features of minimum wage systems and the minimum wage bite. We notably address the striking absence of studies on sectoral-level minima and ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2015, 53(4), 760–788)
J31, J33, J51
7350 Andrea Garnero
François Rycx
The Heterogeneous Effects of Workforce Diversity on Productivity, Wages and Profits
We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data. Findings, robust to a large ...
(published in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2014, 53 (3), 430-477.)
D24, J24, J31, M12
7349 Yuling Cui
Daehoon Nahm
Massimiliano Tani
Earnings Differentials and Returns to Education in China, 1995-2008
This paper estimates the returns to education of rural-urban migrants during the period of transition of China's economy between 1995 and 2008. Using data from CHIP and RUMiC, we find that rural ...
(revised version published in : Australian Economic Review, 2015, 48, 382 –399)
C31, J24, J61, O15
7347 Henry S Farber
Robert G. Valletta
Do Extended Unemployment Benefits Lengthen Unemployment Spells? Evidence from Recent Cycles in the U.S. Labor Market
In response to the Great Recession and sustained labor market downturn, the availability of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits was extended to historical highs in the United States. We exploit ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50(4), 873-909)
J64, J65
7345 Thomas Deckers
Armin Falk
Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
Nominal or Real? The Impact of Regional Price Levels on Satisfaction with Life
We study the effect of real versus nominal income on life satisfaction. According to economic theory real income, i.e., nominal income adjusted for purchasing power, should be the relevant source of ...
(published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2016, 16, 1337–1358.)
D60, C23, D31
7343 Douglas A. Webber
Firm-Level Monopsony and the Gender Pay Gap
Using a dynamic labor supply model and linked employer-employee data, I find evidence of substantial search frictions, with females facing a higher level of frictions than males. However, the ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2016, 55(2), 323-345.)
J42, J71
7342 Douglas A. Webber
Firm Market Power and the Earnings Distribution
Using linked employer-employee data, I compute firm-level measures of the labor supply elasticity facing each private non-farm firm in the US. I provide the first direct evidence of the positive ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 35, 123-134)
J42, J21
7341 Richard A. Easterlin
Cross Sections Are History
Although cross section relationships are often taken to indicate causation, and especially the important impact of economic growth on many social phenomena, they may, in fact, merely reflect ...
(published in: Population and Development Review, 2012, 38, 302-308 )
C2, O10, O57, J11, N0, I0
7340 Chad Kendall
Tommaso Nannicini
Francesco Trebbi
How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign
Rational voters update their subjective beliefs about candidates' attributes with the arrival of information, and subsequently base their votes on these beliefs. Information accrual is, however, ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2015, 105 (1), 322-353)
D72, D83
7339 David Albouy
Walter Graf
Ryan Kellogg
Hendrik Wolff
Climate Amenities, Climate Change, and American Quality of Life
We present a hedonic framework to estimate U.S. households' preferences over local climates, using detailed weather and 2000 Census data. We find that Americans favor an average daily temperature of ...
(published in: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2016, 3 (1), 205–246)
H49, I39, Q54, R10
7337 Andreas Landmann
Markus Frölich
Can Microinsurance Help Prevent Child Labor? An Impact Evaluation from Pakistan
Child labor is a common consequence of economic shocks in developing countries. We show how reducing vulnerability can affect child labor and schooling. We exploit the extension of a health and ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 39, 51-59)
I13, J20, J82, O12
7336 Gustavo Adolfo Garcia
Catia Nicodemo
Job Search Channels, Neighborhood Effects and Wages Inequality in Developing Countries: The Colombian Case
This paper analyses the relationship between social networks and the job search behaviour of individuals. Networking is not only based on friends and relatives but also on neighbourhood. The ...
(published in: Developing Economies, 2015, 53 (2), 75 - 99)
J64, J31, J24, P23, J6, J7, J0
7335 Solomon Polachek
Tirthatanmoy Das
Rewat Thamma-Apiroam
Heterogeneity in the Production of Human Capital
We derive a tractable nonlinear earnings function which we estimate separately for each individual in the NLSY79 data. These estimates yield five important parameters for each individual: three ...
(published as 'Micro and Macro Implications of Heterogeneity in the Production of Human Capital' in: Journal of Political Economy, 2015, 123(6), 1410-1455 )
J24, J29, J31, J39
7334 Matteo Cervellati
Paolo Vanin
"Thou Shalt Not Covet ...": Prohibitions, Temptation and Moral Values
This paper proposes a theory of the relationship between prohibitions and temptation. In presence of self-control problems, moral values may increase individual material welfare (and utility) by ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 103, 15-28)
D03, K42, Z13
7333 Yoon Y. Cho
Maddalena Honorati
Entrepreneurship Programs in Developing Countries: A Meta Regression Analysis
This paper provides a synthetic and systematic review on the effectiveness of various entrepreneurship programs in developing countries. We adopt a meta-regression analysis using 37 impact evaluation ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 28, 110-130)
O12, O16, J24
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