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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
7282 Cristina Cattaneo
Carlo V. Fiorio
Giovanni Peri
What Happens to the Careers of European Workers When Immigrants "Take Their Jobs"?
In this paper we use a dataset that follows a representative sample of native Europeans, resident of 11 countries, over the period 1995-2001, in order to identify the effect of inflows of immigrants ...
(revised version published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2013, 2:17)
J61, O15
7279 Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Gert G. Wagner
Top?Down vs. Bottom?Up: The Long?Term Impact of Government Ideology and Personal Experience on Values
This paper studies the long-term impact of societal socialization on values using the example of doping behavior in sports. We apply the German Reunification Approach to the microcosm of Berlin and ...
(published as 'Inevitable? Doping Attitudes among Berliners in 2011: The Role of Socialist State Socialisation and Athlete Experience' in: European Journal of Public Health, 2016, 26 (3), 520-522 )
I18, K40, L83, N34, Z13
7277 Almas Heshmati
Subal C. Kumbhakar
Kai Sun
Estimation of Productivity in Korean Electric Power Plants: A Semiparametric Smooth Coefficient Model
This paper analyzes the impact of load factor, facility and generator types on the productivity of Korean electric power plants. In order to capture important differences in the effect of load policy ...
(published in: Energy Economics, 2014, 45, 491-500.)
C14, C23, C51, D24, L25, L94
7276 Sónia Torres
Pedro Portugal
John T. Addison
Paulo Guimaraes
The Sources of Wage Variation: A Three-Way High-Dimensional Fixed Effects Regression Model
This paper estimates a wage equation with three high-dimensional fixed effects, using a longitudinal matched employer-employee dataset covering virtually all Portuguese wage earners over a little ...
(revised version published as 'The Sources of Wage Variation and the Direction of Assortative Matching: A Three-Way High Dimensional Fixed-Effects Regression Model" in: Labour Economics, 2018, 54, 47-60.)
J2, J41
7275 Ian Gazeley
Andrew T. Newell
Mintewab Bezabih
The Transformation of Hunger Revisited
We examine Trevon Logan's 2009 claim to have found low levels of nutrition among British worker's households in the late 19th century. Using the same data, we conclude that Logan's estimates are ...
(published in: Journal of Economic History, 2015, 75(2), 512 - 552)
I15, I32, N33
7274 Matloob Piracha
Massimiliano Tani
Matias Vaira-Lucero
Social Capital and Immigrants' Labour Market Performance
This paper analyses the role of social capital on immigrants' labour market outcomes. We use the "principal component analysis" (PCA) to build an index of social networks and explore its impact on ...
(published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2016, 95, S107-S126.)
F22, J01, J61, Z13
7273 Michael A. Kuhn
Peter J. Kuhn
Marie Claire Villeval
The Importance of the Cognitive Environment for Intertemporal Choice
We experimentally manipulate two aspects of the cognitive environment, cognitive depletion and recent sugar intake, and estimate their effects on individuals' time preferences in a way that allows us ...
(Revised version published as "Decision-Environment Effects on Intertemporal Financial Choices: How Relevant are Resource-Depletion Models?" in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 137, 72-89, 2017.)
C91, D90
7272 Ignacio González
Hector Sala
Investment Crowding-Out and Labor Market Effects of Financialization in the U.S.
This paper studies the impact of financialization on unemployment in the U.S. We estimate a dynamic multi-equation macro labor model including labor demand, labor supply, wage-setting and capital ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 61 (5), 589-613)
D2, E22, E24, G2
7270 Corrado Giulietti
Jackline Wahba
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Entrepreneurship of the Left-Behind
While there is evidence that return migration promotes entrepreneurship and self-employment of those who migrated, previous studies have not focused on whether migration provides the same benefits to ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2013, 37, 65-92)
J23, J61, O15
7269 Andries de Grip
Didier Fouarge
Raymond Montizaan
How Sensitive Are Individual Retirement Expectations to Raising the Retirement Age?
This paper investigates the causal effects of the announcement of an increase in the statutory pension age on employee retirement expectations. In June 2010, the Dutch government signed a new pension ...
(published in: De Economist, 2013, 161, 225–251)
J14, J26
7268 Abel Brodeur
Mathias Lé
Marc Sangnier
Yanos Zylberberg
Star Wars: The Empirics Strike Back
Journals favor rejection of the null hypothesis. This selection upon tests may distort the behavior of researchers. Using 50,000 tests published between 2005 and 2011 in the AER, JPE, and QJE, we ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016, 8 (1), 1-32)
A11, B41, C13, C44
7266 Bart Cockx
Corinna Ghirelli
Bruno Van der Linden
Monitoring Job Search Effort with Hyperbolic Time Preferences and Non-Compliance: A Welfare Analysis
This paper develops a partial equilibrium job search model to study the behavioral and welfare implications of an Unemployment Insurance (UI) scheme in which job search requirements are imposed on UI ...
(revised version published as 'Is it Socially Efficient to Impose Job Search Requirements on Unemployed Benefit Claimants with Hyperbolic Preferences?' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 113, 80-95 )
D60, D90, J64, J65, J68
7265 Johannes Binswanger
Martin Salm
Does Everyone Use Probabilities? Intuitive and Rational Decisions about Stockholding
We investigate the relationship between subjective probabilities of future stock market returns and decisions about stockholding. Specifically, we examine whether acting upon subjective probabilities ...
(revised version published as 'Does everyone use probabilities? The role of cognitive skills' in: European Economic Review, 2017, 98, 73-85 )
D03, D81, D84, G11
7263 William H. Rogers
Anne E. Winkler
The Relationship between the Housing & Labor Market Crises and Doubling-Up: An MSA-Level Analysis, 2005-2010
It is now well-established that the U.S. housing market crisis preceded the labor market crisis and that, in the wake of these crises, doubling-up and cohabitation increased and homeownership fell. ...
(Published in: Monthly Labor Review, 2013)
R23, J12
7262 Stijn Baert
Bart Cockx
Pure Ethnic Gaps in Educational Attainment and School to Work Transitions: When Do They Arise?
This article decomposes the observed gaps in educational attainment and school-to-work transitions between grandchildren of natives and immigrants in Belgium into (i) differences in observed family ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 35, 276 - 294)
C35, J15, J70
7261 Casey Boyd-Swan
Chris M. Herbst
John Ifcher
Homa Zarghamee
The Earned Income Tax Credit, Health, and Happiness
This paper contributes to the small but growing literature evaluating the health effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). In particular, we use data from the National Survey of Families and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 126, 18-38)
I1, J00
7260 Ulf Rinne
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Is Germany the North Star of Labor Market Policy?
Germany's recovery from an unemployment disease and its resilience to the Great Recession is remarkable. Its success story makes it a showcase for labor policy and labor market reforms. This paper ...
(substantially revised version published in: IMF Economic Review, 2013, 61 (4), 702-729 )
J68, J21, P52, O57
7259 Christine Binzel
Jean-Paul Carvalho
Education, Social Mobility and Religious Movements: A Theory of the Islamic Revival in Egypt
This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (607), 2553 - 2580)
D10, D63, I24, J24, J62, O10, Z12, Z13
7257 Nabanita Datta Gupta
Lene Kromann
An Equilibrium Search Model of the Labor Market Entry of Second-Generation Immigrants and Ethnic Danes
Using a search model for Danish labor market entrants, we are one of the first studies to test whether second-generation immigrants have the same job-offer arrival and layoff rates as ethnic Danes ...
(published as "Differences in the labor market entry of second-generation immigrants and ethnic Danes" in IZA Journal of Migration 2014, 3:16)
J15, J61, J71
7256 Abel Brodeur
Sarah Flèche
Where the Streets Have a Name: Income Comparisons in the US
This paper analyses how neighbors' income affect agents' well-being using unprecedented data from the BRFSS and the City of Somerville. We conduct a multi-scale approach at the county, ZIP code and ...
(published as 'Neighbors' Income, Public Goods and Well-Being' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65(2), 217-238)
C25, D00, J31
7254 Evelyn L. Lehrer
Yu Chen
The Labor Market Behavior of Married Women with Young Children in the U.S.: Have Differences by Religion Disappeared?
Using data from the 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth, conducted in the United States, we study the role of religious affiliation and participation in the labor supply behavior of ...
(published in Keister, L. and Sherkat, D. (eds.): Religion and Inequality in America - Research and Theory on Religion's Role in Stratification. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.)
J22, J24, Z12, Z13
7253 Sabien Dobbelaere
Kozo Kiyota
Jacques Mairesse
Product and Labor Market Imperfections and Scale Economies: Micro-Evidence on France, Japan and the Netherlands
Allowing for three labor market settings (perfect competition or right-to-manage bargaining, efficient bargaining and monopsony), this paper relies on an extension of Hall's econometric framework for ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2015, 43(2): 290-322)
C23, D21, J50, L13
7252 Nicole Bosch
Bas ter Weel
Labour-Market Outcomes of Older Workers in the Netherlands: Measuring Job Prospects Using the Occupational Age Structure
This paper analyses changes in job opportunities of older workers in the Netherlands in the period 1996-2010. The standard human capital model predicts that, as a result of human capital ...
(published in: De Economist, 2013, 161 (2), 199-218)
J24, J60
7251 Hong Liu
Qi Sun
Zhong Zhao
Social Learning and Health Insurance Enrollment: Evidence from China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme
This paper examines the role of social learning in household enrollment decisions for the New Cooperative Medical Scheme in rural China by estimating a static game with incomplete information. Using ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 97, 84–102)
I1, G22
7250 Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Martin Karlsson
The Effects of Expanding the Generosity of the Statutory Sickness Insurance System
This article evaluates an expansion of employer-mandated sick leave from 80 to 100 percent of forgone gross wages in Germany. We employ and compare parametric difference-in-difference (DID), matching ...
(short version published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2014, 29(2), 208-230)
H51, I18, J22, J32
7248 Ulrich Kaiser
Susan J. Méndez
Thomas Rønde
Hannes Ullrich
Regulation of Pharmaceutical Prices: Evidence from a Reference Price Reform in Denmark
Reference prices constitute a main determinant of patient health care reimbursement in many countries. We study the effects of a change from an "external" (based on a basket of prices in other ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 36, 174-187)
I18, C23
7246 Gianna Claudia Giannelli
Lucia Mangiavacchi
Luca Piccoli
Do Parents Drink Their Children's Welfare? A Joint Analysis of Intra-Household Allocation of Time
The aim of this paper is to investigate whether excessive parental alcohol consumption leads to a reduction of child welfare. To this end, we analyse whether alcohol consumption decreases time spent ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2013)
D1, I1, J13, J22
7245 Orley Ashenfelter
David E. Bloom
Gordon B. Dahl
Lawyers as Agents of the Devil in a Prisoner's Dilemma Game: Evidence from Long Run Play
Do the parties in a typical dispute face incentives similar to those in the classic prisoner's dilemma game? In this paper, we explore whether the costs and benefits of legal representation are such ...
(published in: Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 2013, 10 (3), 399-423)
J52, K0
7244 Marika Karanassou
Hector Sala
Distributional Consequences of Capital Accumulation, Globalisation and Financialisation in the US
In this paper we examine the dynamic contributions of capital accumulation, globalisation, and financialisation to the functional-personal income distribution nexus. We analyse the labour share under ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2020, 51 (2), 275-303.)
D33, E25
7243 René Böheim
Mario Lackner
Gender and Competition: Evidence from Jumping Competitions
We analyze if female athletes differ from male athletes in their competitive behavior, using data from high jump and pole vault competitions. We estimate if female athletes use risky strategies as ...
(published as 'Gender and risk taking: evidence from jumping competitions' in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 2015, 178( 4), 883–902)
J16, D81
7242 Cathal O'Donoghue
Jason Loughrey
Karyn Morrissey
Using the EU-SILC to Model the Impact of the Economic Crisis on Inequality
In this paper we attempted to chart the impact of the early part of Ireland's economic crisis from 2008-2010 on the distribution of income. In order to decompose the impact of components of income, ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:23)
I38, C53
7240 Boris Hirsch
Elke J. Jahn
Ott Toomet
Daniela Hochfellner
Does Better Pre-Migration Performance Accelerate Immigrants' Wage Assimilation?
This paper analyzes wage assimilation of ethnic German immigrants to Germany. We use unique administrative data that include a standardized measure of immigrants' pre-migration wage based on ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 212-222)
J61, J31, J24
7239 Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel
Melanie Khamis
Mutlu Yuksel
For Better or for Worse: The Long-Term Effects of Postwar Reconstruction on Family Formation
This paper provides causal evidence on the long-term legacies of postwar reconstruction and mandatory employment on women's family formation outcomes such as marriage, age at first marriage and ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2016, 8(29): 2771-2784.)
J12, J16, J21, J48
7236 T. H. Gindling
Juan Diego Trejos
The Distribution of Income in Central America
We document changes in income and earnings inequality in the five Central American countries from the early 1990s to 2009. In the 1990s Costa Rica had the most equal distribution of income in Central ...
(revised version published in: Salvador Marti i Puig; Diego Sanchez-Ancochea (eds.), The Handbook of Central American Governance, London: Routledge, 2014, 75-94.)
O15, J31, O54
7235 Yeimin Chung
Almas Heshmati
Measurement of Environmentally Sensitive Productivity Growth in Korean Industries
This study measures productivity growth using the Metafrontier Malmquist-Luenberger productivity growth index (MML index) method and decomposes the index. The results are compared with those obtained ...
(published in: Journal of Cleaner Production, 2015, 104, 380-391. )
D24, C61, O31, O44
7233 Olivier Charlot
Franck Malherbet
Mustafa Ulus
Unemployment Compensation and the Allocation of Labor in Developing Countries
This paper studies the effects of the introduction of unemployment compensation (UC) in countries characterized by pervasive informality. We provide a simple framework to analyze the impact of UC on ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2016, 18 (3), 385 - 416)
E24, E26, J60, L16, O1
7232 John H. Pencavel
The Changing Size Distribution of U.S. Trade Unions and Its Description by Pareto's Distribution
The size distribution of trade unions in the United States and changes in this distribution are documented. Because the most profound changes are taking place among very large unions, these are ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2014, 67 (1), 138-170 )
J51
7231 Henry R. Hyatt
James R. Spletzer
The Recent Decline in Employment Dynamics
In recent years, the rate at which workers and businesses exchange jobs has declined in the United States. Between 1998 and 2010, rates of job creation, job destruction, hiring, and separation ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 2:5)
E24, J63
7230 Nicole Schneeweis
Immigrant Concentration in Schools: Consequences for Native and Migrant Students
In this paper, I study the impact of immigrant concentration in primary schools on educational outcomes of native and migrant students in a major Austrian city between 1980-2001. The outcome measures ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 35, 63-76)
I21, J15, J24
7229 Michael Grimm
Renate Hartwig
Jann Lay
Does Forced Solidarity Hamper Investment in Small and Micro Enterprises?
Sharing is a norm in many societies. We present a theoretical model on the trade-off between sharing and investment which we test on data from tailors in Burkina Faso. The empirical results support ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017, 45 (4): 827-846.)
D13, D22, D92, O12, O43
7228 Rasmus Landersø
Helena Skyt Nielsen
Marianne Simonsen
School Starting Age and Crime
This paper investigates the effects of school starting age on crime while relying on variation in school starting age induced by administrative rules; we exploit that Danish children typically start ...
(substantially extended version available as IZA DP#9279)
I21, K42
7225 Volker Grossmann
Andreas Schäfer
Thomas M. Steger
Migration, Capital Formation, and House Prices
We investigate the effects of interregional labor market integration in a two-sector, overlapping-generations model with land-intensive production in the non-tradable goods sector (housing). To ...
(published as 'Reversal of Migration Flows: A Fresh Look at the German Reunification' in: Journal of International Economics, 2016, 109, 1-15)
D90, F20, O10
7224 Graziella Bertocchi
Monica Bozzano
Women, Medieval Commerce, and the Education Gender Gap
We investigate the historical determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in the late nineteenth century, immediately following the country's Unification. We use a comprehensive newly-assembled ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2016, 44, 496-521)
E02, H75, I25, J16, N33, O15
7223 Guonan Ma
Dennis T. Yang
China's High Saving Puzzle
This paper analyzes the causes of rising savings rates for the corporate, government, and household sectors, which have jointly contributed to the upsurge in aggregate savings in China in the past ...
(published in: Shenggen Fan, Ravi Kanbur, Shnag-Yin Wei and Xiaobo Zhang (eds): Oxford Companion to the Economics of China, 2014, 190-193)
E21, O16, F32
7221 Fabian Kosse
Friedhelm Pfeiffer
Quasi-Hyperbolic Time Preferences and their Intergenerational Transmission
This study explores the intergenerational transmission of time preferences and focuses on the question which specific aspects of mother's time preference are related to her preschool child's ability ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters 2013, 20 (10), 983-986)
D90, D10
7220 Gil S. Epstein
Odelia Heizler (Cohen)
Minimum Wages and the Creation of Illegal Migration
In this paper, we explore employers' decisions regarding the employment of legal and illegal immigrants in the presence of endogenous adjustment cost, minimum wages and an enforcement budget. We show ...
(published in: Economics Bulletin, 2013, 33 (1), 434-441)
J3, K42
7218 Pieter Bevelander
Mikael Hjerm
Jenny Kiiskinen
The Religious Affiliation and Anti-Semitism of Secondary School Swedish Youths: A Statistical Analysis of Survey Data from 2003 and 2009
Not only in Sweden, but also in several international studies, it has been shown that a non-negligible proportion of the European population subscribes to classical anti-Semitic notions, and that ...
(published in: Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2015, 38 (15), 2705-2721.)
Z12, F22
7217 Friedhelm Pfeiffer
On the Power of Childhood Impressions for Skill Formation: Initial Evidence and Unsettled Questions
Manifold childhood impressions result from the interactions with adult caregivers and the environment. These impressions, be they beneficial or detrimental, shape individual skill formation and ...
(published in: German Review of Social Policy, 2013, 62 (5), 131-139)
D87, I12, I21, J13
7216 Dorothea Blomeyer
Katja Coneus
Manfred Laucht
Friedhelm Pfeiffer
Early Life Adversity and Children's Competence Development: Evidence from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk
This paper investigates the role of early life adversity and home resources in terms of competence formation and school achievement based on data from an epidemiological cohort study following 364 ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics 2013, 233 (4), 468-485)
D87, I12, I21, J13
7215 Olivier B. Bargain
Mathias Dolls
Dirk Neumann
Andreas Peichl
Sebastian Siegloch
Comparing Inequality Aversion across Countries When Labor Supply Responses Differ
We analyze to which extent social inequality aversion differs across nations when control- ling for actual country differences in labor supply responses. Towards this aim, we estimate labor supply ...
(revised version published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2014, 21(5), 845-873)
H11, H21, D63, C63
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