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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
7089 Michael S. Delgado
Daniel J. Henderson
Christopher F. Parmeter
Does Education Matter for Economic Growth?
Empirical growth regressions typically include mean years of schooling as a proxy for human capital. However, empirical research often finds that the sign and significance of schooling depends on the ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 76 (3), 334-359)
C14, J24, I20, O10, O40
7088 Christian Pfeifer
Base Salaries, Bonus Payments, and Work Absence among Managers in a German Company
Questions about compensation structures and incentive effects of pay-for-performance components are important for firms' Human Resource Management as well as for economics in general and labor ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 61 (5), 523-536)
J22, J24, J31, J33, M12, M52
7087 Greg J. Duncan
Aaron Sojourner
Can Intensive Early Childhood Intervention Programs Eliminate Income-Based Cognitive and Achievement Gaps?
How much of the income-based gaps in cognitive ability and academic achievement could be closed by a two-year, center-based early childhood education intervention? Data from the Infant Health and ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2013, 48 (4), 945-986.)
I2, J24, I3
7086 Erich Battistin
Antonio Schizzerotto
Threat of Grade Retention, Remedial Education and Student Achievement: Evidence from Upper Secondary Schools in Italy
We use a reform that was recently implemented in Italy to investigate the effects on academic achievement of more stringent requirements for the admission to the next grade at upper secondary school. ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2019, 56 (2), 651-678)
C31, I24, I28
7085 Eline van der Heijden
Tobias J. Klein
Wieland Müller
Jan Potters
Framing Effects and Impatience: Evidence from a Large Scale Experiment
We confront a representative sample of one 1,102 Dutch individuals with a series of incentivized investment decisions and also elicit their time preferences. There are two treatments that differ in ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 84(2), 701-711)
C93, D03, D81
7084 Ann-Sofie Kolm
Mirco Tonin
In-Work Benefits and the Nordic Model
Welfare benefits in the Nordic countries are often tied to employment. We argue that this is one of the factors behind the success of the Nordic model, where a comprehensive welfare state is ...
(published as 'Benefits Conditional on Work and the Nordic Model' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 127, 115–126)
H24, J21, J24
7083 Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado
Mayssun El-Attar
Income Inequality and Saving
Over the last three decades, average income for the bottom half of the US distribution increased by 8% while their average saving rate decreased by eight percentage points. Over the same period the ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80 (6), 1029 - 1061)
D91, E21, C23
7082 Laurent Gobillon
Carine Milcent
Evaluating the Effect of Ownership Status on Hospital Quality: The Key Role of Innovative Procedures
Mortality differences between university, non-teaching public and for-profit hospitals are investigated using a French exhaustive administrative dataset on patients admitted for heart attack. Our ...
(published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 121-122, 161-186)
I12, I18
7081 Daniel Fackler
Claus Schnabel
Joachim Wagner
Lingering Illness or Sudden Death? Pre-Exit Employment Developments in German Establishments
Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear "shadow of death" ...
(published in: Industrial and Corporate Change 2014, 23 (4), 1121-1140)
L2, D22, J65
7078 Alois Stutzer
Bruno S. Frey
Recent Developments in the Economics of Happiness: A Selective Overview
What makes people happy in life? This is a crucial question that has the potential to shake up economics. In recent years, the dissatisfaction with the understanding of welfare in economics together ...
(published in: Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer (eds.), Recent Developments in the Economics of Happiness, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2013, ix-xxiii)
I31
7077 Miki Kohara
Masaru Sasaki
Tomohiro Machikita
Is Longer Unemployment Rewarded with Longer Job Tenure?
This paper examines whether or not a prolonged unemployment period can raise the quality of job matching after unemployment. We focus on job tenure as an indicator of a good quality job match after ...
(published in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2013, 29, 44-56)
J64, J65, J68
7076 Sarmistha Pal
Zaki Wahhaj
Fiscal Decentralisation, Local Institutions and Public Goods Provision: Evidence from Indonesia
Using data from the Indonesian Family Life Surveys, this paper studies the impact of fiscal decentralisation in Indonesia on local public spending across communities with different types of local ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017, 45 (2), 383-409)
D02, H41, O43
7073 Kusum Mundra
Immigration and Trade Creation for the U.S.: The Role of Immigrant Occupation
This paper highlights that the immigrants' effect on trade is not identical across all types of immigrants but it varies with the immigrants' occupation. Using a sample of 63 U.S. trading partners ...
(published in: International Trade Journal, 28 (4), 2014, 311-343.)
F22, F11, J10, J61
7071 Stephen P. Jenkins
Philippe Van Kerm
The Relationship between EU Indicators of Persistent and Current Poverty
The current poverty rate and the persistent poverty rate are both included in the EU's portfolio of primary indicators of social inclusion. We show that there is a near-linear relationship between ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2014, 116(2), 611–638)
I32, D31
7070 Michael C. Burda
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Jay Stewart
Cyclical Variation in Labor Hours and Productivity Using the ATUS
We examine monthly variation in weekly work hours using data for 2003-10 from the Current Population Survey (CPS) on hours/worker, from the Current Employment Survey (CES) on hours/job, and from the ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 99-104)
E23, J22
7069 Matteo Cervellati
Florian Jung
Uwe Sunde
Thomas Vischer
Income, Democracy, and Critical Junctures
Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson, and Yared (2008) document that the cross-country correlation between income per capita and democracy disappears once including country fixed effects. This paper tests the ...
(substantially revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2014, 104 (2), 707-719)
P16, O10
7068 David Autor
David Dorn
The Growth of Low Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market
We offer an integrated explanation and empirical analysis of the polarization of U.S. employment and wages between 1980 and 2005, and the concurrent growth of low skill service occupations. We ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (5), 1553-1597)
E24, J24, J31, J62, O33
7067 Zvi Eckstein
Osnat Lifshitz
Household Interaction and the Labor Supply of Married Women
Changing social norms, as reflected in the interactions between spouses, are hypothesized to affect the employment rates of married women. A model is built in order to estimate this effect, in which ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2015, 56 (2), 427 - 555)
E24, J2, J3
7066 Anders Björklund
Markus Jäntti
Martin Nybom
The Role of Parental Income over the Life Cycle: A Comparison of Sweden and the UK
Research on intergenerational income mobility has shown stronger persistence between parental and offspring's income in the UK than in Sweden. We use similar data sets for the two countries to ...
(published as "The Contribution of Early-life versus Labour Market Factors to Intergenerational Income Persistence: A Comparison of the UK and Sweden" in: The Economic Journal, 2017, 126 (605), F71-F94 )
J24
7065 Bruno Arpino
Chiara D. Pronzato
Lara P. Tavares
Mothers' Labour Market Participation: Do Grandparents Make It Easier?
Childcare arrangements are key in women's ability to juggle motherhood and working outside the home. As such, the study of the access to childcare and its use is of great policy relevance. We focus ...
(published in: European Journal of Population, 2014, 30, 369-390)
J10, J13, C26
7063 W. Bentley MacLeod
Miguel Urquiola
Competition and Educational Productivity: Incentives Writ Large
Friedman (1962) suggested that in general, unfettered markets ensure the efficient provision of goods and services. Applying this logic to Education, he recommended that students be provided with ...
(published in: Paul Glewwe (ed.), Education Policy in Developing Countries, Chapter 7, University of Chicago Press, 2013)
D2, D8, J3, I2
7061 Olivier Godart
Holger Görg
David Greenaway
Domestic Multinationals, Foreign Affiliates, and Labour Demand Elasticities
Using information on a panel of multinational firms operating in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2005, we find that labour demand in domestic multinationals is less sensitive to labour cost changes ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2013, 149 (4), 611-630)
F23, J23, J24
7060 Gabriella Conti
James J. Heckman
The Developmental Approach to Child and Adult Health
Pediatricians should consider the costs and benefits of preventing rather than treating childhood diseases. We present an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers ...
(published in: Pediatrics, 131 (supplement 2), 2013, 133-141)
I12, I18
7058 Robert Dur
Robin Zoutenbier
Working for a Good Cause
A rich literature in public administration has shown that public sector employees have stronger altruistic motivations than private sector employees. Recent economic theories stress the importance of ...
(published in: Public Administration Review, 2014, 74(2), 144-155)
H1, J45, M5
7055 Tilman Brück
Damir Esenaliev
Antje Kroeger
Alma Kudebayeva
Bakhrom Mirkasimov
Susan Steiner
Household Survey Data for Research on Well-Being and Behavior in Central Asia
This paper summarizes the micro-level survey evidence from Central Asia generated and analyzed between 1991 and 2012. We provide an exhaustive overview over all accessible individual and ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2014, 42 (3), 819 - 835 )
O12, I32, J22
7053 Christina Felfe
Natalia Nollenberger
Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Can't Buy Mommy's Love? Universal Childcare and Children's Long-Term Cognitive Development
What happens to children's long-run cognitive development when introducing universal high-quality childcare for 3-year olds mainly crowds out maternal care? To answer this question we exploit a ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28 (2), 393-422)
J13, I28
7052 Simone Schüller
The Effects of 9/11 on Attitudes Toward Immigration and the Moderating Role of Education
The major event of the 9/11 terror attacks is likely to have induced an increase in anti-immigrant and anti-foreigner sentiments, not only among US residents but also beyond US borders. Using ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2016, 69 (4), 604–632. )
F22, I21, J61
7051 Maria Bigoni
Gabriele Camera
Marco Casari
Strategies of Cooperation and Punishment among Students and Clerical Workers
We study the individual behavior of students and workers in an experiment where they repeatedly face the same cooperative task. The data show that clerical workers differ from college students in ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2013, 94, 172-182)
C90, C70, D80
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