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7145 Stijn Baert
Bart Cockx
Niels Gheyle
Cora Vandamme
Do Employers Discriminate Less If Vacancies Are Difficult to Fill? Evidence from a Field Experiment
We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the occupation. To this end, we conduct a correspondence test in the youth labour ...
(revised version published as 'Is There Less Discrimination in Occupations Where Recruitment Is Difficult?' in: Industrial and Labor Relations, 2015, 68 (3), 467 - 500)
C93, J15, J21, J24, J42, J71
7144 Giam Pietro Cipriani
Population Ageing and PAYG Pensions in the OLG Model
This paper shows the effects on a pay-as-you-go pension system of the demographic change in the standard overlapping generations model. Firstly, we consider a setting with exogenous fertility and ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27 (1), 251-256)
J13, H55
7143 Jay Stewart
Early to Bed and Earlier to Rise: School, Maternal Employment, and Children's Sleep
School-age children need 10-11 hours of sleep per night. It has been well-documented that lack of sleep leads to diminished cognitive performance and that people who sleep less are more likely to be ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2014, 12 (1), 29-50)
J22
7142 Qingjie Xia
Lina Song
Shi Li
Simon Appleton
The Effects of the State Sector on Wage Inequality in Urban China: 1988–2007
This paper examines the effects of state sector domination on wage inequality in urban China. Using Chinese Household Income Project surveys, we conduct two exercises: with quantile regression ...
(published in: Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 2014, 12(1), 29-45)
J31, J42, O15, P23
7141 Gary S. Fields
Aid, Growth, and Jobs
Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important ...
(published in: African Development Review, 2015, 27 (S1), 5 -16)
I3, J2, O1, O19
7140 Francine D. Blau
Lawrence M. Kahn
Female Labor Supply: Why is the US Falling Behind?
In 1990, the US had the sixth highest female labor participation rate among 22 OECD countries. By 2010, its rank had fallen to 17th. We find that the expansion of "family-friendly" policies including ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 251-256)
J16, J22
7139 Felix Weinhardt
Neighborhood Quality and Student Performance
Children who grow up in deprived neighborhoods underperform at school and later in life but whether there is a causal link remains contested. This study estimates the effect of very deprived ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2014, 82, 12-31)
J18, I21, J24
7138 Alberto Bayo-Moriones
Jose Enrique Galdon-Sanchez
Ricard Gil
'Make-or-Buy' of Peripheral Services in Manufacturing: Evidence from Spanish Plant-Level Data
In this paper we empirically explore the 'make-or-buy' decisions of peripheral services in manufacturing plants using detailed information on a data set from a new plant-level survey from 926 plants ...
(published as 'Outsourcing of Peripheral Services: Evidence from Spanish Manufacturing Plant-Level Data' in: European Economic Review, 2015, 78, 328-344)
L23, L22, L60, J29, J59
7137 Elisabeth Fevang
Inés Hardoy
Knut Røed
Getting Disabled Workers Back to Work: How Important Are Economic Incentives?
We investigate the impacts of economic incentives on the duration and outcome of temporary disability insurance (TDI) spells. The analysis is based on a large quasi-experiment in Norway, with a ...
(revised version published as: 'Temporary disability and economic incentives' in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (603), 1410–1432.)
H55, I38, J22
7136 Harriet Duleep
U.S. Immigration Policy at a Crossroads
Two issues have taken center stage in the recent debates about U.S. immigration policy: one, illegal immigration and more generally the entrance of poorly educated individuals into the U.S. economy ...
(published as 'U.S. Immigration Policy at a Crossroads: Should the U.S. Continue Its Family-Friendly Policy?' in: International Migration Review, 2014, 48 (3), 823-845)
J15, J24, J39, J61, L26
7135 Massimiliano Bratti
Laura Cavalli
Delayed First Birth and New Mothers' Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Biological Fertility Shocks
We investigate the impact of delaying the first birth on Italian mothers' labor market outcomes around childbirth. The effect of postponing motherhood is identified using biological fertility shocks, ...
(revised version published in: European Journal of Population, 2014, 30 (1), 35-63)
J13, J22
7134 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Thitima Puttitanun
Ana Martinez-Donate
How Do Tougher Immigration Measures Impact Unauthorized Immigrants?
The recent impetus of tougher immigration-related measures passed at the state-level raises concerns about the impact of such measures on the migration experience, trajectory and future plans of ...
(published in: Demography, 2013, 50(3), 1067-91)
F22, O15
7133 Nikolaj Malchow-Møller
Jakob R. Munch
Claus Aastrup Seidelin
Jan Rose Skaksen
Immigrant Workers and Farm Performance: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
Many developed countries have recently experienced a significant inflow of immigrants in the agricultural sector. At the same time, the sector is still in a process of structural transformation ...
(published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2013, 95 (4), 819-841)
J61, J43
7132 Matteo Cervellati
Alireza Naghavi
Farid Toubal
Trade Liberalization, Democratization and Technology Adoption
We study the role of trade liberalization, democratization and their interaction for technology adoption. A general equilibrium theory with heterogeneous skills predicts a complementarity between ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2018, 23 (2), 145-173 )
F16, J24, O14, P51, F59
7130 Benjamin Elsner
Klaus F. Zimmermann
10 Years After: EU Enlargement, Closed Borders, and Migration to Germany
We study how the EU enlargement in 2004 and the Great Recession in the late 2000s have shaped the scale and composition of migration flows from the New Member States to Germany. We demonstrate that ...
(published as 'Migration 10 Years After: EU Enlargement, Closed Borders, and Migration to Germany' in: M. Kahanec and K.F. Zimmermann (eds.): Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession, Springer: Berlin, et al. 2016, 85 - 101)
F22
7129 Ceren Ozgen
Peter Nijkamp
Jacques Poot
Measuring Cultural Diversity and its Impact on Innovation: Longitudinal Evidence from Dutch Firms
To investigate econometrically whether cultural diversity of a firm's employees boosts innovation, we create a unique linked employer-employee dataset that combines data from two innovation surveys ...
(published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2017, 96 (S1), S29-S50)
D22, F22, O31
7128 Paul Bingley
Lorenzo Cappellari
Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen
Unemployment Insurance, Wage Dynamics and Inequality over the Life Cycle
We investigate the relationship between life cycle wages and individual membership of unemployment insurance schemes in Denmark. We separate permanent from transitory wages and characterise them ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (568), 341–372)
J31, J65
7126 Francesco Pastore
Primum vivere… Industrial Change, Job Destruction and the Geographical Distribution of Unemployment
This paper aims to provide a frame of mind to understand the link between structural change and regional unemployment, and, based on it, to survey the most recent literature. An overly optimistic ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2012, 1:7)
J6, P2, R1, R23
7125 Maria Bigoni
Margherita Fort
Information and Learning in Oligopoly: An Experiment
This paper presents an experiment on learning in repeated games, which complements the analysis of players' actual choices with data on the information acquisition process they follow. Subjects play ...
(revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2013, 81, 192-214)
L13, C92, C72
7124 Carlos Carrillo-Tudela
Ludo Visschers
Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation over the Business Cycle
We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous labor markets. Facing search frictions within markets and reallocation frictions ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2023, 91 (3), 1119 - 1153)
E24, E30, J62, J63, J64
7123 Matt Dickson
Paul Gregg
Harriet Robinson
Early, Late or Never? When Does Parental Education Impact Child Outcomes?
We study the intergenerational effects of parents' education on their children's educational outcomes. The endogeneity of parental education is addressed by exploiting the exogenous shift in ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126, F184-F231)
I20, J62, J24
7122 Simen Markussen
Knut Røed
Ole J. Røgeberg
The Changing of the Guards: Can Physicians Contain Social Insurance Costs?
Based on administrative data from Norway, we examine the extent to which family doctors influence their clients' propensity to claim sick pay and disability benefits. The analysis is based on ...
(revised version published as 'The Changing of the Guards: Can Family Doctors Contain Worker Absenteeism?' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 32 (6), 1230–1239)
H55, I13
7121 Knut Røed
Jens Fredrik Skogstrøm
Unemployment Insurance and Entrepreneurship
Based on administrative registers from Norway, we examine how unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market programs (ALMP) affect the transition rates from unemployment to regular employment ...
(revised version published in: Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 2014, 26 (4), 430-448)
L26, J65, M13
7120 Gilles Saint-Paul
Economic Science and Political Influence
When policymakers and private agents use models, the economists who design the model have an incentive to alter it in order to influence outcomes in a fashion consistent with their own preferences. I ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (5), 1004 - 1031)
A11, E6
7119 Shoshana Grossbard
Sankar Mukhopadhyay
Children, Spousal Love, and Happiness: An Economic Analysis
In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique questions in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth's 1997 cohort. We find that (a) ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2013, 11 (3), 447-467)
J13, D10
7117 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereux
Kjell G. Salvanes
Losing Heart? The Effect of Job Displacement on Health
Job reallocation is considered to be a key characteristic of well-functioning labor markets, as more productive firms grow and less productive ones contract or close. However, despite its potential ...
(revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68(4), 833-861)
I18, C14, J64, J65
7116 Pierre Koning
Arthur van de Meerendonk
The Impact of Scoring Weights on Price and Quality Outcomes: An Application to the Procurement of Welfare-to-Work Contracts
This paper assesses the effects of changes in scoring weights in auctions, using a unique sample of biddings of private Welfare-to-Work (WTW) organizations to reintegrate groups of unemployed and ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 71, 1–14)
D44, I38
7115 Niaz Asadullah
Nazmul Chaudhury
Peaceful Coexistence? The Role of Religious Schools and NGOs in the Growth of Female Secondary Schooling in Bangladesh
BRAC, a non-governmental organization (NGO), runs a large number of non-formal primary schools in Bangladesh which target out-of-school children from poor families. These schools are well-known for ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2013, 49 (2), 223-237)
I21, Z12, O12, O15
7114 David Neumark
Matthew Thompson
Leslie Koyle
The Effects of Living Wage Laws on Low-Wage Workers and Low-Income Families: What Do We Know Now?
We provide updated evidence on the effects of living wage laws in U.S. cities, relative to the earlier research covering only the first six or seven years of existence of these laws. There are some ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2012, 1:11)
J23, J38
7113 David Neumark
Matthew Thompson
Francesco Brindisi
Leslie Koyle
Clayton Reck
Simulating the Economic Impacts of Living Wage Mandates Using New Public and Administrative Data: Evidence for New York City
Policy researchers often have to estimate the future effect of imposing a policy in a particular location. There is often evidence on the effects of similar policies in other jurisdictions, but no ...
(pubished in: Economic Development Quarterly, 2013, 27 (4), 271 - 283)
J23, J38, R51
7112 Steven G. Dieterle
Cassandra M. Guarino
Mark D. Reckase
Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
How do Principals Assign Students to Teachers? Finding Evidence in Administrative Data and the Implications for Value-added
The federal government's Race to the Top competition has promoted the adoption of test-based performance measures as a component of teacher evaluations throughout many states, but the validity of ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2015, 34 (1), 461-480)
I0, I20, I21, I28, J01, J08, J24, J44, J45
7111 Anzelika Zaiceva
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Returning Home at Times of Trouble? Return Migration of EU Enlargement Migrants during the Crisis
The eastern enlargements of the EU in 2004 and 2007 have stimulated the mobility of workers from the new EU8 and EU2 countries. A significant proportion of these migrants stayed abroad only ...
(published in: M. Kahanec and K.F. Zimmermann (eds.), Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession, Springer: Berlin, et al., 2016 : 397-418)
F22, J61
7110 Werner Eichhorst
Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Ricarda Schmidl
Klaus F. Zimmermann
A Roadmap to Vocational Education and Training Systems Around the World
With young people among the big losers of the recent financial crisis, vocational education and training (VET) is often seen as the silver bullet to the problem of youth joblessness. This paper ...
(published as 'A Roadmap to Vocational Education and Training in Industrialized Countries' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68 (2), 314-337 )
J24, I25, O17
7109 Ana Rute Cardoso
Paulo Guimaraes
Pedro Portugal
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex Discrimination
Earlier literature on the gender pay gap has taught us that occupations matter and so do firms. However, the role of the firm has received little scrutiny; occupations have most often been coded in a ...
(published as 'What drives the gender wage gap? A look at the role of firm and job-title heterogeneity' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2016, 68 (2), 506-524)
J31, J16, J24, J71
7108 Matthias Doepke
Fabrizio Zilibotti
Parenting with Style: Altruism and Paternalism in Intergenerational Preference Transmission
We construct a theory of intergenerational preference transmission that rationalizes the choice between alternative parenting styles (related to Baumrind 1967). Parents maximize an objective function ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2017, 85 (5), 1331-1371 )
D10, J10, O10, O40
7107 Annabelle Krause-Pilatus
Don't Worry, Be Happy? Happiness and Reemployment
Subjective well-being is primarily treated as an outcome variable in the economic literature. However, is happiness also a driver of behavior and life's outcomes? Rich survey data of recent entrants ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 96, 1-20)
J60, J64, I31
7106 Saibal Kar
Shrabani Saha
Corruption, Shadow Economy and Income Inequality: Evidence from Asia
A number of recent studies for Latin America show that as the size of the informal economy grows, corruption is less harmful to inequality. We investigate if this relationship is equally compelling ...
(published in: Economic Systems, 2021, 45 (2), 100774)
J48, K42, O17, O53
7105 Daniel W. Sacks
Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers
The New Stylized Facts about Income and Subjective Well-Being
In recent decades economists have turned their attention to data that asks people how happy or satisfied they are with their lives. Much of the early research concluded that the role of income in ...
(published in: Emotion, 2012, 12(6), 1181-1187 (lead article))
D6, I3, J1, O1
7103 Le Wang
Estimating Returns to Education when the IV Sample is Selective
The literature estimating returns to education has often utilized spousal education and parental education as instrument variables (IV). However, due to usual survey designs, both IVs are available ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 21, 74-85)
J24, I21, C14, C31, P52
7102 Fortuna Casoria
Arno Riedl
Experimental Labor Markets and Policy Considerations: Incomplete Contracts and Macroeconomic Aspects
This survey focuses on experimental labor markets investigating two aspects that deem us important for a better understanding of labor market relations and the consequences for labor market policies. ...
(published in: Charles N. Noussair, Steven Tucker (eds.), A Collection of Surveys on Market Experiments, Wiley, 2014. )
C90, C92, C93, D01, D51, E24, E62, F41, J01, J08
7101 Simon Appleton
Lina Song
Qingjie Xia
Understanding Urban Wage Inequality in China 1988-2008: Evidence from Quantile Analysis
This paper examines change in wage gaps in urban China by estimating quantile regressions on CHIPS data. It applies the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition, finding sharp increases in inequality ...
(published in: World Development, 2014, 62, 1-13)
J31, J42, O15, P23
7098 Arindrajit Dube
Oeindrila Dube
Omar García-Ponce
Cross-Border Spillover: U.S. Gun Laws and Violence in Mexico
To what extent, and under what conditions, does access to arms fuel violent crime? To answer this question, we exploit a unique natural experiment: the 2004 expiration of the U.S. Federal Assault ...
(published in: American Political Science Review, 2013, 107 (3), 397-417)
K14, D72, D73
7097 Christian Grund
Johannes Martin
Monetary Reference Points of Managers: An Empirical Investigation of Status Quo Preferences and Social Comparisons
We assemble two reference point based concepts of utility in our empirical study: the own previous status quo and social comparisons. We explore the relative relevance of these concepts for total ...
(revised version published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 64, 70-84)
M5, J28, J31
7096 Annabelle Krause-Pilatus
Ulf Rinne
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Anonymous Job Applications in Europe
Numerous empirical studies find a substantial extent of discrimination in hiring decisions. Anonymous job applications have gained attention and popularity to identify and combat this form of ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2012, 1:5 )
M51, J71, J78
7095 John S. Earle
Álmos Telegdy
Gábor Antal
FDI and Wages: Evidence from Firm-Level and Linked Employer-Employee Data in Hungary, 1986-2008
We estimate the wage effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) with universal firm-level and linked employer-employee panel data containing 4,926 foreign acquisitions in Hungary. Matching on ...
(published as 'Foreign Ownership and Wages: Evidence from Hungary, 1986 -2008 ' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2017, 71 (2), 458 - 491)
F23, F66, J31
7094 Simone Bertoli
Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga
Visa Policies, Networks and the Cliff at the Border
The scale of international migration flows depends on moving costs that are, in turn, influenced by host-country policies and by the size of migrant networks at destination. This paper estimates the ...
(revised version published as 'The Size of the Cliff at the Border' in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2015, 51, 1-6)
F22, O15, J61
7093 Stephan Kampelmann
François Rycx
The Impact of Educational Mismatch on Firm Productivity: Evidence from Linked Panel Data
We provide first evidence regarding the direct impact of educational mismatch on firm productivity. To do so, we rely on representative linked employer-employee panel data for Belgium covering the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31 (6), 918-931)
I21, J24
7092 William E. Even
David A. Macpherson
The Effect of Tip Credits on Earnings and Employment in the U.S. Restaurant Industry
According to federal law in 2012, employers can take a credit of up to $5.13 for tips received by workers in satisfying the minimum wage requirement of $7.25. This study uses interstate variation in ...
(revised version published as "The Effect of the Tipped Minimum Wage on Employees in the U.S. Restaurant Industry" in: Southern Economic Journal, 2014, 80 (3), 633-655)
J30, J31, J38
7091 Vincenzo Scoppa
Daniela Vuri
Absenteeism, Unemployment and Employment Protection Legislation: Evidence from Italy
Efficiency wages theories argue that the threat of firing, coupled with a high unemployment rate, is a mechanism that discourages employee shirking in asymmetric information contexts. Our empirical ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 3:3)
J41, M51, J45
7090 Hartmut Lehmann
Alexander Muravyev
Klaus F. Zimmermann
The Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey: Towards a Better Understanding of Labor Markets in Transition
The paper presents the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS), which is one of the most widely used household and labor force surveys in Eastern Europe. It is based on a statistically ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2012, 1, Article 9 )
C83, J00, P20
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