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7050 Christian Pfeifer
Joachim Wagner
Is Innovative Firm Behavior Correlated with Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce? Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises
This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities ...
(published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2014, 47 (3), 223-231)
D22, D24, J21, J24, L25
7049 Costanza Biavaschi
The Labor Demand Was Downward Sloping: Disentangling Migrants' Inflows and Outflows, 1929-1957
This paper studies in- and out-migration from the U.S. during the first half of the twentieth century and assesses how these flows affected state-level labor markets. It shows that out-migration ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 118 (3), 531–534)
F22, J01, J61, N32
7048 D. Mark Anderson
Daniel I. Rees
Per Se Drugged Driving Laws and Traffic Fatalities
The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) recently announced a goal of reducing drugged driving by 10 percent within three years. In an effort to achieve this goal, ONDCP is encouraging all ...
(published in: International Review of Law and Economics, 2015, 42, 122 - 134)
I10, I18
7047 Bodo Aretz
Melanie Arntz
Terry Gregory
The Minimum Wage Affects Them All: Evidence on Employment Spillovers in the Roofing Sector
This paper contributes to the sparse literature on employment spillovers on minimum wages by exploiting the minimum wage introduction and subsequent increases in the German roofing sector that gave ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2013, 14 (3), 282-315.)
J38, J21, J23
7045 Arnaud Lefranc
Fumiaki Ojima
Takashi Yoshida
Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in Japan among Sons and Daughters: Levels and Trends
This paper estimates the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Japan among sons and daughters born between 1935 and 1975. Our estimates rely on a two-sample instrumental variables approach ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27 (1), 91-134)
D1, D3, J3
7044 Sander M. Hoogendoorn
Simon C. Parker
Mirjam C. van Praag
Ability Dispersion and Team Performance: A Field Experiment
This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We conduct a large field experiment in which teams start up and manage real companies ...
(published online in: Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, 30 November 2017)
C93, D83, J24, L25, L26, M13, M54
7043 José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto Molina
Regional Unemployment, Gender and Time Allocation of the Unemployed
This paper analyzes the relationship between time allocation decisions of the unemployed, gender, and regional unemployment rates. Using the Spanish Time Use Survey 2002-2003 and 2009-2010, we find ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2014, 12 (1), 105-127)
D13, J16, J22
7040 James J. Heckman
Rodrigo Pinto
Peter A. Savelyev
Understanding the Mechanisms Through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes
A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children have substantial impacts on later life outcomes. Little is known about the ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (6), 2052-86)
I21, I28, I29, J13, J15, J16, J24, O15
7039 Chris M. Herbst
The Impact of Non-Parental Child Care on Child Development: Evidence from the Summer Participation
Although a large literature examines the effect of non-parental child care on preschool-aged children's cognitive development, few studies deal convincingly with the potential endogeneity of child ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 105, 86–105)
J13
7038 Helmuth Cremer
Pierre Pestieau
Kerstin Roeder
United but (Un-)Equal: Human Capital, Probability of Divorce and the Marriage Contract
This paper studies how the risk of divorce affects the human capital decisions of a young couple. We consider a setting where complete specialization (one of the spouses uses up all the education ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28 (1), 195-217)
D13, J24, K36
7035 Hartmut Lehmann
Alexander Muravyev
Labor Market Institutions and Informality in Transition and Latin American Countries
This paper analyzes, using country-level panel data from transition economies and Latin America, the impact of labor market institutions on informal economic activity. The measure of informal ...
(published in: Froelich, M., Kaplan, D., Pages, C., Rigolini, J. and D. Robalino (Eds.): Social Insurance ad Labor Markets: How to Protect Workers while Creating Good Jobs, Oxford University Press, 2014, 375-410.)
E24, J21, J42, O17, P20
7034 Daniel I. Rees
Joseph J. Sabia
Migraine Headache and Labor Market Outcomes
While migraine headache can be physically debilitating, no study has attempted to estimate its effects on labor market outcomes. Using data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2015, 24 (6), 659-671)
I10, J30
7033 Jan-Emmanuel De Neve
Andrew J. Oswald
Estimating the Influence of Life Satisfaction and Positive Affect on Later Income Using Sibling Fixed-Effects
The question of whether there is a connection between income and psychological well-being is a long-studied issue across the social, psychological, and behavioral sciences. Much research has found ...
(published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012, 109 (49), 19953-19958)
I13, I31, J31
7032 Gil S. Epstein
Yosef Mealem
Shmuel Nitzan
Lotteries vs. All-Pay Auctions in Fair and Biased Contests
The form of contests for a single fixed prize can be determined by a designer who maximizes the contestants' efforts. This paper establishes that, under common knowledge of the two asymmetric ...
(published in: Economics and Politics, 2013, 25(1), 48–60)
D70, D71, D72
7031 Gil S. Epstein
Yosef Mealem
Shmuel Nitzan
The Efficacy and Efforts of Interest Groups in Post Elections Policy Formation
This paper presents a new model of interest groups and policy formation in the legislature. In our setting, the already given party ideological predispositions and power distribution determine the ...
(published in: Economics of Governance, 2013, 14(1), 77-105)
D70, D72, D74, D78
7030 Ernst Fehr
Holger Herz
Tom Wilkening
The Lure of Authority: Motivation and Incentive Effects of Power
Authority and power permeate political, social, and economic life, but empirical knowledge about the motivational origins and consequences of authority is limited. We study the motivation and ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (4), 1325-59)
C92, D83, D23
7028 Michael A. Clemens
Erwin R. Tiongson
Split Decisions: Family Finance when a Policy Discontinuity Allocates Overseas Work
Labor markets are increasingly global. Overseas work can enrich households but also split them geographically, with ambiguous net effects on decisions about work, investment, and education. These net ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 99 (3), 531-543)
J61, O15, R23
7027 Pierre-Philippe Combes
Gilles Duranton
Laurent Gobillon
The Costs of Agglomeration: Land Prices in French Cities
We develop a new methodology to estimate the elasticity of urban costs with respect to city population using French land price data. Our preferred estimate, which handles a number of estimation ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2019, 86(4), 1556-1589)
R14, R21, R31
7026 Suqin Ge
Dennis T. Yang
Junsen Zhang
Population Policies, Demographic Structural Changes, and the Chinese Household Saving Puzzle
Using combined data from population censuses and Urban Household Surveys, we study the effects of demographic structural changes on the rise in household saving in China. Variations in fines across ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 101, 181 - 209)
E21, J11, J13
7025 Joop Hartog
Michael Sattinger
Nash Bargaining and the Wage Consequences of Educational Mismatches
The paper provides a theoretical foundation for the empirical regularities observed in estimations of wage consequences of overeducation and undereducation. Workers with more education than required ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 23, 50-56)
J31, J24, C78, C51
7024 Daniel Sgroi
Andrew J. Oswald
How Should Peer-Review Panels Behave?
Many governments wish to assess the quality of their universities. A prominent example is the UK's new Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014. In the REF, peer-review panels will be provided with ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (570), 255-278)
I23, C11, O30
7023 Gil S. Epstein
Employer's Information and Promotion-Seeking Activities
This paper presents a model in which promotion of employees within the internal firm hierarchy is determined by the individuals' allocation of time between promotion/rent-seeking and productive ...
(published in: Economics and Business Letters, 2012, 1(4), 21-32)
D2, D72, J2
7022 Rafael Gralla
Kornelius Kraft
Separating Introduction Effects from Selectivity Effects: The Differences in Employment Patterns of Co-Determined Firms
This study examines differences in employment growth between firms with and without works councils by separating introduction effects from potential selectivity effects. Using a difference in ...
(published in: Labour, 2018, 32 (1), 93-111)
J53, J63, C23, M54
7020 Amelie F. Constant
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Immigrants, Ethnic Identities and the Nation-State
In the Western world, multiculturalism has become the way to view and form "nationhood," igniting the interest to understand and model identity. The complexity of identity formation, however, has ...
(published in: A. F. Constant, K. F. Zimmermann (eds), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, Chapter 14, 259-275)
F22, F52, F54, F59, J15, J16, Z10
7019 Alfonso Miranda
Yu Zhu
English Deficiency and the Native-Immigrant Wage Gap
We focus on the effect of English deficiency on the native-immigrant wage gap for male employees in the UK using the first wave of the UK Household Longitudinal Survey. We show that the wage gap is ...
(revised version published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 118 (1), 38-41)
J15, J61
7017 Stefanie Schurer
Daniel Kühnle
Anthony Scott
Terence Chai Cheng
One Man's Blessing, Another Woman's Curse? Family Factors and the Gender-Earnings Gap of Doctors
Using data from a new longitudinal survey of doctors from Australia, the authors test whether observed large gender-pay gaps among general practitioners (GPs) are the result of women's larger ...
(published in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2016, 55(3), 385-414 )
J24
7015 Todd Pugatch
Safety Valve or Sinkhole? Vocational Schooling in South Africa
As an alternative to traditional academic schooling, vocational schooling in South Africa may serve as a safety valve for students encountering difficulty in the transition from school to work. Yet ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2014, 3:8)
I25, J24, J31, O12
7014 Tony Atkinson
Peter G. Backus
John Micklewright
Charitable Bequests and Wealth at Death
Charitable bequests are a major source of income for charities but surprisingly little is known about them. The aim of this paper is to propose a multi-stage framework for analysing the bequest ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (605), F1-F23)
D12, D31, D64, L31
7013 Sylvie Blasco
Barbara Pertold-Gebicka
Employment Policies, Hiring Practices and Firm Performance
In this paper we investigate how active labour market policy programmes affect firms' hiring strategies and, eventually, firms' performance. We focus on counseling and monitoring which may reduce ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 25, 12-24)
C21, J63, J68
7012 R?ta Ubarevi?ien?
Donatas Burneika
Maarten van Ham
Socio-Spatial Transformations, Suburbanisation, and Voting Behaviour in the Vilnius Urban Region
This paper analyses the interrelationship between the process of suburbanization and a changing political and ethnic landscape in the Vilnius urban region. The region surrounding Vilnius city is ...
(published as: 'Ethno-political Effects of Suburbanization in the Vilnius Urban Region. An Analysis of Voting Behaviour' in: Journal of Baltic Studies, 2015, 46 (2), 217 - 242)
D72, J15, R11, R14, R23
7010 Gerard J. van den Berg
Petter Lundborg
Johan Vikström
The Economics of Grief
We study the short-run and long-run economic impact of one of the largest losses that an individual can face; the death of a child. We utilize unique merged registers on the entire Swedish ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (604), 1794 - 1832)
I12, I11, J14, J12, C41
7009 Alexander Weiss
James E. King
Miho Inoue-Murayama
Tetsuro Matsuzawa
Andrew J. Oswald
Evidence for a ‘Midlife Crisis’ in Great Apes Consistent with the U-Shape in Human Well-Being
Recently, economists and behavioral scientists have studied the pattern of human well-being over the lifespan. In dozens of countries, and for a large range of well-being measures, including ...
(published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012, 109 (49), 19949-19952)
I31
7008 Donal O'Neill
Olive Sweetman
The Consequences of Measurement Error when Estimating the Impact of BMI on Labour Market Outcomes
This paper uses data on both self-reported and true measures of individual Body Mass Index (BMI) to examine the nature of measurement error in self-reported BMI and to look at the consequences of ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 2:3)
C13, C26, I14
7007 Patricia Apps
Jan Kabátek
Ray Rees
Arthur van Soest
Labor Supply Heterogeneity and Demand for Child Care of Mothers with Young Children
This paper introduces a static structural model of hours of market labor supply, time spent on child care and other domestic work, and bought in child care for married or cohabiting mothers with ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2016, 51, 1641-1677)
J22, J13, H24
7006 Prashant Bharadwaj
Julian V. Johnsen
Katrine Vellesen Loken
Smoking Bans, Maternal Smoking and Birth Outcomes
An important externality of smoking is the harm it might cause to those who do not smoke. This paper examines the impact on birth outcomes of children of female workers who are affected by smoking ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 115, 72-93)
D62, J13, I38
7005 Cecilia Machado
Selection, Heterogeneity and the Gender Wage Gap
Selection correction methods usually make assumptions about selection itself. In the case of gender wage gap estimation, those assumptions are specially tenuous because of high female ...
(published as 'Unobserved selection heterogeneity and the gender wage gap' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2017, 32 (7), 1348 - 1366)
J31, J16, J24
7004 Timothy J. Hatton
Refugee and Asylum Migration to the OECD: A Short Overview
This paper provides an overview of asylum migration from poor strife-prone countries to the OECD since the 1950s. I examine the political and economic factors in source countries that generate ...
(published in: A. F. Constant, K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, Chapter 24, 453-469)
F22, F55, J61
7002 Robert G. Valletta
House Lock and Structural Unemployment
A recent decline in geographic mobility in the United States may have been caused in part by falling house prices, through the "lock in" effects of financial constraints faced by households whose ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 25, 86–97)
J6, R31
7001 Dina Shatnawi
Ronald L. Oaxaca
Michael R. Ransom
Movin' on Up: Hierarchical Occupational Segmentation and Gender Wage Gaps
Our study evaluates and extends existing wage decomposition methodologies that seek to measure the contributions of endowments, pure wage discrimination, and job segregation. Of particular interest ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2014, 12(3), 315-338.)
J71
7000 Peter Arcidiacono
Esteban Aucejo
Patrick Coate
V. Joseph Hotz
Affirmative Action and University Fit: Evidence from Proposition 209
Proposition 209 banned using racial preferences in admissions at California's public colleges. We analyze unique data for all applicants and enrollees within the University of California (UC) system ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 3, 7 (2014))
I23, J15
6998 Ernesto Reuben
Matthew Stephenson
Nobody Likes a Rat: On the Willingness and Consequences of Reporting Lies
We investigate the intrinsic motivation of individuals to report, and thereby sanction, fellow group members who lie for personal gain. We further explore the changes in lying and reporting behavior ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2013, 93, 384-391)
D03, K42, M42, M14, C92
6997 Alison L. Booth
Pamela Katic
Cognitive Skills, Gender and Risk Preferences
In this paper we utilise data from a unique new birth-cohort study to see how the risk preferences of young people are affected by cognitive skills and gender. We find that cognitive ability ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2013, 89 (284),19-30)
D01, D80, J16, J24
6994 Chris Rohlfs
Ryan Sullivan
Thomas J. Kniesner
New Estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life Using Air Bag Regulations as a Quasi-Experiment
Due to Federal regulations, automobile air bag availability was a model-specific discontinuous function of model year for used vehicles in the 1990s and early 2000s. We use these discontinuities and ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2015, 7(1), 331-354)
J17, R41, I18, K32, L62, D12, D61, H40
6992 Mario Centeno
Alvaro A. Novo
Do Low-Wage Workers React Less to Longer Unemployment Benefits? Quasi-Experimental Evidence
The fact that unemployed workers have different abilities to smooth consumption entails heterogeneous responses to extended unemployment benefits. Our empirical exercise explores a quasi-experimental ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 76(2), 185–207)
J65, J64, J22
6990 Jihui Susan Chen
Qihong Liu
Sherrilyn M. Billger
Where Do New Ph.D. Economists Go? Evidence from Recent Initial Job Placements
We use data from the 2007-2008 Ph.D. economist job market to investigate initial job placement in terms of job location, job type, and job rank. Our results suggest gender differences in all three ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2013, 34, 312 - 338)
A11, A23, J44
6989 Margherita Fort
Francesco Manaresi
Serena Trucchi
Banks Information Policies, Financial Literacy and Household Wealth
We investigate the causal effect of financial literacy on financial assets, exploiting banks information policies for identification. In Italy, banks who belong to the PattiChiari consortium have ...
(revised version published in: Economic Policy, 2016, 31 (88), 743-782 )
D14, G11
6988 Ian Gazeley
Andrew T. Newell
Urban Working-Class Food Consumption and Nutrition in Britain in 1904
This article re-examines the food consumption of working class households in 1904 and compares the nutritional content of these diets with modern measures of adequacy. We find a fairly steep gradient ...
(published in: Economic History Review, 2015, 68, (1), 101-122)
I14, I32, N34
6987 Paul Bingley
Lorenzo Cappellari
Alike in Many Ways: Intergenerational and Sibling Correlations of Brothers' Earnings
We model the correlations of brothers' life-cycle earnings separating for the first time the effect of paternal earnings from additional residual sibling effects. We identify the two effects by ...
(revised version circulated as IZA DP 10761)
D31, J62
6986 Nina Drange
Tarjei Havnes
Astrid M. J. Sandsør
Kindergarten for All: Long Run Effects of a Universal Intervention
Theory and evidence point towards particularly positive effects of high-quality child care for disadvantaged children. At the same time, disadvantaged families often sort out of existing programs. To ...
(published in Economics of Education Review, 2016, 53, 164-181)
J13, H40, I28
6985 Kostas Mavromaras
Stephane Mahuteau
Peter J. Sloane
Zhang Wei
The Effect of Overskilling Dynamics on Wages
We use a random effects dynamic probit model to estimate the effect of overskilling dynamics on wages. We find that overskilling mismatch is common and more likely among those who have been ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2013, 21 (3), 281-303)
J24, J31
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