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No.
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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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15695
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David
G.
Blanchflower
Alex
Bryson
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Recession and Deflation?
Central bankers are raising interest rates on the assumption that wage-push inflation may lead to stagflation. This is not the case. Although unemployment is low, the labor market is not 'tight'. On ...
(published in: Review of Keynesian Economics, 2023, 11 (2), 234-251 )
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E31, E43, J2, J3, J64
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15694
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Christian
Eggenberger
Uschi
Backes-Gellner
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IT Skills, Occupation Specificity and Job Separations
This paper examines how workers' earnings change after involuntary job separations depending on the workers' acquired IT skills and the specificity of their occupational training. We categorize ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 92, 102333 )
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J24, J63, M53
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15691
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Astrid
Kunze
Katrin
Scharfenkamp
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Gender Diversity, Labour in the Boardroom and Gender Quotas
This study investigates boards of (non-executive) directors and whether employee representation has a positive effect on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board–director ...
(substantially changed version published online as 'The Importance of Codetermination for Gender Diversity in the Boardroom' in: Industrial Relations, 16 June 2025 )
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G3, J16, K3, L21, L25, M54
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15689
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Tobias
Schultheiss
Uschi
Backes-Gellner
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Does Updating Education Curricula Accelerate Technology Adoption in the Workplace? Evidence from Dual Vocational Education and Training Curricula in Switzerland
In an environment of accelerating technological change and increasing digitalization, firms need to adopt new technologies faster than ever before to stay competitive. This paper examines whether ...
(published in: Journal of Technology Transfer, 2024, 49, 191–235)
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O33, I25, J23
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15688
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Tobias
Schultheiss
Uschi
Backes-Gellner
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Different Degrees of Skill Obsolescence across Hard and Soft Skills and the Role of Lifelong Learning for Labor Market Outcomes
This paper examines the role of lifelong learning in counteracting skill depreciation and obsolescence. We build on findings showing that different skill types have structurally different ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2023, 62 (3), 257 - 287)
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M53, J24, I2
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15687
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Tobias
Schultheiss
Curdin
Pfister
Ann-Sophie
Gnehm
Uschi
Backes-Gellner
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Education Expansion and High-Skill Job Opportunities for Workers: Does a Rising Tide Lift All Boats?
We examine how education expansions affect the job opportunities for workers with and without the new education. To identify causal effects, we exploit a quasi-random establishment of Universities of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 82, 102354)
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I23, J23, J24
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15686
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Colin
P.
Green
Ole
Henning
Nyhus
Kari
Vea
Salvanes
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How Does Testing Young Children Influence Educational Attainment and Well-Being?
How much young children should be tested and graded is a highly contentious issue in education policy. Opponents consider it detrimental to child mental health, leading to misaligned incentives in ...
(published as 'Does testing young children influence educational attainment and wellbeing?' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2025, 38 (1), 20)
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I28, I24
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15684
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Hai-Anh
H
Dang
Gbemisola
Oseni
Alberto
Zezza
Kseniya
Abanokova
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Learning Inequalities during COVID-19: Evidence from Longitudinal Surveys from Sub-Saharan Africa
There is hardly any study on learning inequalities during the COVID-19 pandemic in a low-income, multi-country context. Analyzing 34 longitudinal household and phone survey rounds from Burkina Faso, ...
(published as 'Educational Inequalities during COVID-19: Results from Longitudinal Surveys in Sub-Saharan Africa' in: International Journal of Education Development, 2025, 112, 103174 (without A. Zezza))
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D0, H0, I2, O1
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15681
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Anzelika
Zaiceva
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Multitasking
This chapter reviews economic studies on multitasking in household production. Whereas multitasking or task juggling in the workplace has been analyzed more widely, economic literature on ...
(published in: K.F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, Cham, 2023, 1-29)
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D13, J22, J16
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15678
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Daniel
Kühnle
Guy
Johnson
Yi-Ping
Tseng
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Making It Home? Evidence on the Long-Run Impact of an Intensive Support Program for the Chronically Homeless on Housing, Employment and Health
Interventions that combine unconditional permanent housing with support services, known as Housing First approaches, generally improve housing outcomes for people who have experienced chronic ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2023, 133, 103511)
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R28, I38, I12
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15672
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Jorge
Luis
García
James
J.
Heckman
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Parenting Promotes Social Mobility Within and Across Generations
This paper compares early childhood enrichment programs that promote social mobility for disadvantaged children within and across generations. Instead of conducting a standard meta-analysis, we ...
(published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2023, 15, 349 - 388)
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J18, J13, J24, J31, D13
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15671
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Jeff
DeSimone
Daniel
Grossman
Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
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Regression Discontinuity Evidence on the Effectiveness of the Minimum Legal E-cigarette Purchasing Age
Increases in youth vaping rates and concerns of a new generation of nicotine addicts recently prompted an increase in the federal minimum legal purchase age (MLPA) for tobacco products, including ...
(published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 9 (3), 461 – 485)
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I12, I18, H51, H75
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15669
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Francesco
Sarracino
Kelsey
J.
O'Connor
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A Measure of Well-Being Efficiency Based on the World Happiness Report
We estimate a measure of well-being efficiency that assesses countries' ability to transform inputs into subjective well-being (Cantril ladder). We use the six inputs (real GDP per capita, healthy ...
(published in: International Productivity Monitor, 2022, 43, 10-40. )
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I31, E23, D60, O47, O15
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15668
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Adrian
Lerche
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Investment Tax Credits and the Response of Firms
This paper estimates the direct effects of investment tax credits on firms' production behavior and the additional indirect effects arising from agglomeration economies. Exploiting a change in tax ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2025, 115 (8), 2781–2818)
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D22, H25, H32, J23, R11
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15666
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Leila
Ben
Salem
Ridha
Nouira
Khaled
Jeguirim
Christophe
Rault
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The Determinants of Crude Oil Prices: Evidence from ARDL and Nonlinear ARDL Approaches
This paper is an innovative attempt to empirically investigate the determinants of crude oil prices. The main objective is to distinguish between short- and long-term effects of some covariates on ...
(published in: Resources Policy, 2022, 79, 103085)
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C5, Q4, Q43
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15663
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Michael
S.
Hayes
Jing
Liu
Seth
Gershenson
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Who Refers Whom? The Effects of Teacher Characteristics on Disciplinary Office Referrals
Teachers affect a wide range of students' educational and social outcomes, but how they contribute to students' involvement in school discipline is less understood. We estimate the impact of teacher ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 93, 102376)
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I2, J7
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15662
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Adrian
Adermon
Lisa
Laun
Patrik
Lind
Martin
Olsson
Jan
Sauermann
Anna
Sjögren
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Earnings Losses and the Role of the Welfare State during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Sweden
Many governments introduced temporary adjustments to counter the economic and health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. We study the importance of already existing government transfers and ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2024, 70 (4), 981 - 1010)
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D31, E24, H20, H12, C23
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15661
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Ignacio
Belloc
José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto
Molina
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Weather Conditions and Daily Commuting
Climate change and global warming are problems that currently affect the daily lives of the world population and, to the extent that climate projections are less than optimistic, understanding how ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2025, 65, 818-842)
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R4, J22
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15660
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Henri
Haapanala
Ive
Marx
Zachary
Parolin
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Decent Wage Floors in Europe: Does the Minimum Wage Directive Get It Right?
The Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages represents a watershed initiative adding substance to the EU's social dimension. It contains two ambitious objectives: establishing the minimum level of ...
(published in: Journal of European Social Policy, 2023, 33 (4), 421 - 435)
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J38, E24, J50, C23
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15659
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Ainoa
Aparicio Fenoll
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Naturalization and Immigrants' Health
The "healthy immigrant effect" refers to the well-documented fact that immigrants are healthier than natives upon arrival, but their health level converges to that of natives over time. ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2024, 33 (2), 310 - 332)
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J15, J61, I14
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15657
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Sherajum
Monira
Farin
Lauren
Hoehn-Velasco
Michael
Pesko
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The Impact of Legal Abortion on Maternal Mortality
Legal abortion has recently been suggested as an essential healthcare service. In this study, we consider whether abortion legalization over 1969-1973 improved women's health, measured by maternal ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2024, 16 (3), 174 - 216)
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I18, J13, K38, H75
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15656
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Lauren
Hoehn-Velasco
Michael
Pesko
Serena
Phillips
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The Long-Term Impact of In-Utero Cigarette Taxes on Adult Prenatal Smoking
This study examines the long-term link between in-utero cigarette taxes and adult prenatal smoking. We use U.S. birth certificate records to demonstrate that exposure to higher in-utero cigarette ...
(published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 9 (4), 605–648)
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I12, I18, H71, H75
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15655
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Rahi
Abouk
Charles
Courtemanche
Dhaval
M.
Dave
Bo
Feng
Abigail S.
Friedman
J. Catherine
Maclean
Michael
Pesko
Joseph
J.
Sabia
Samuel
Safford
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Intended and Unintended Effects of E-cigarette Taxes on Youth Tobacco Use
Over the past decade, rising youth use of e-cigarettes and other electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) has contributed to aggressive regulation by state and local governments. Between 2010 and ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 87, 102720)
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H2, I1, I18
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15654
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Conchita
D'Ambrosio
Anthony
Lepinteur
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Marriage as Insurance: Job Protection and Job Insecurity in France
Job insecurity is one of the risks that workers face on the labour market. As with any risk, individuals can choose to insure against it, and we here consider marriage as one potential source of this ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2023, 21 (4), 1157-1190)
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I38, J13, J18
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15653
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Anthony
Lepinteur
Andrew
E.
Clark
Ada
Ferrer-i-Carbonell
Alan
Piper
Carsten
Schröder
Conchita
D'Ambrosio
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Gender, Loneliness and Happiness during COVID-19
We analyse a measure of loneliness from a representative sample of German individuals interviewed in both 2017 and at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Both men and women felt lonelier ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2022, 101, 101952)
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I10, I14, I18, I30
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15652
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Maria
Zumbuehl
Stefanie
Hof
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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Private Tutoring and Academic Achievement in a Selective Education System
Decisions about admission to selective schools usually rely on performance measures. To reach a required achievement threshold students may make use of additional resources, such as private tutoring. ...
(published online in: Education Economics, 25 July 2024)
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D82, I21, I24
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15651
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Matthew
Fisher-Post
Nicolas
Herault
Roger
Wilkins
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Distributional National Accounts for Australia, 1991-2018
We produce estimates of the full distribution of all national income in Australia for the period 1991 to 2018, by combining household survey with administrative tax microdata and adjusting to match ...
(published online in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 18 July 2024)
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D31, I31, C81
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15650
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Tom
Krebs
Martin
Scheffel
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Optimal Allocations in Growth Models with Private Information
This paper considers a class of growth models with idiosyncratic human capital risk and private information about individual effort choices (moral hazard). Households are infinitely-lived and have ...
(published in: Economic Theory, 2024, 78, 125 - 154)
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D51, D82, E20
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15649
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Henri
Bussink
Bas
ter Weel
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Costs and Benefits of an Individual Learning Account (ILA): A Simulation Analysis for the Netherlands
This study analyses costs and benefits of a public-private funded individual learning account (ILA) for the labour force in the Netherlands. We consider an ILA that is funded by subsidies targeted at ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2023, 118, 106085)
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J24, J33
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15648
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Sarah
Gust
Eric
A.
Hanushek
Ludger
Woessmann
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Global Universal Basic Skills: Current Deficits and Implications for World Development
How far is the world away from ensuring that every child obtains the basic skills needed to be internationally competitive? And what would accomplishing this mean for world development? Based on the ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 166, 103205)
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I25, O15, O47
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15645
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Petri
Böckerman
Mika
Haapanen
Edvard
Johansson
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Lost Mind, Lost Job? Unequal Effects of Corporate Downsizings on Employees
We analyze whether employees with diagnosed mental health disorders have a higher probability of being laid off during corporate downsizing. Our analysis is based on nationwide administrative data on ...
(published in: German Journal of Human Resource Management, 2024, 38 (4), 413—429)
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I10, I12, J64
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15643
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Ellam
Kulati
Michal
Myck
Giacomo
Pasini
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Temporal Discounting in Later Life
We explore intertemporal decision-making in later life by looking at temporal preference heterogeneity among older individuals. Using choice tasks responses from Poland collected as part of the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2023, 213, 87-101)
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D12, D15, C83, J14
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15641
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Satoshi
Araki
Andrea
Bassanini
Andrew
Green
Luca
Marcolin
Cristina
Volpin
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Labor Market Concentration and Competition Policy across the Atlantic
Drawing upon data from the largest cross-country study of labor market concentration to date, this paper analyzes the level of concentration of labor input markets in Europe and North America and ...
(published in: The University of Chicago Law Review, 2023, 90 (2), 339-378)
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J31, J41, J42, L40
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15640
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Alena
Bicakova
Klara
Kaliskova
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Is Longer Maternal Care Always Beneficial? The Impact of a Four-Year Paid Parental Leave
We study the impact of an extension of paid family leave from 3 to 4 years on child long- term outcomes. Using a difference-in-differences design and comparing the first-affected with the ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2024, 37, 36 )
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J13, J18, J21, J24
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15639
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Damian
Clarke
Selma
Walther
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Women's Careers and Family Formation
This paper discusses research on the relationship between fertility and women's labour force participation. It surveys methods used to obtain causal identification, and provides an overview of the ...
(published in: Klaus. F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer Nature, 2023)
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J01, J13, O15
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15638
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Giuseppe
Moscelli
Melisa
Sayli
Marco
Mello
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Staff Engagement, Coworkers' Complementarity and Employee Retention: Evidence from English NHS Hospitals
Retention of skilled workers is essential for labour-intensive organisations like hospitals, where an excessive turnover of doctors and nurses can reduce the quality and quantity of services to ...
(published in: Economica, 2025, 92 (365), 42 - 83 (with Alberto Vesperoni))
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C33, C36, I11, J22, J28, J63
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15637
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Oriana
Bandiera
Ahmed
Elsayed
Anton
Heil
Andrea
Smurra
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Economic Development and the Organisation of Labour: Evidence from the Jobs of the World Project
The Jobs of the World Project is a public resource designed to enable research on jobs and poverty across and within countries over the entire development spectrum. At its core is a new data set ...
(published in: the Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022, 20 (6), 2226 - 2270)
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O11, O12, J01, J20
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15636
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Joan
Costa-Font
Cristina
Vilaplana-Prieto
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Health Shocks and Housing Downsizing: How Persistent Is 'Ageing in Place'?
Individual preferences for 'ageing in place' (AIP) in old age are not well understood. One way to test the strength of AIP preference is to investigate the effect of health shocks on residential ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, 2022, 204, 490-508 )
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I18, G51, J61, R31
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15634
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Kjell
G.
Salvanes
Barton
Willage
Alexander
Willén
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The Effect of Labor Market Shocks across the Life Cycle
Adverse economic shocks occur frequently and may cause individuals to reevaluate key life decisions in ways that have lasting consequences for themselves and the economy. These life decisions are ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (1), 121–160)
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I20, J63
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15629
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Yarine
Fawaz
Pedro
Mira
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Social Isolation, Health Dynamics, and Mortality: Evidence across 21 European Countries
We provide a comprehensive picture of the health effects of social isolation using longitudinal data over 21 European countries (SHARE). First, using Cox regressions, we find a significant, strong ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36, 2483–2518)
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I10, C41
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15628
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Octave
De Brouwer
Ilan
Tojerow
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Old-Age Unemployment and Labor Supply: An Application to Belgium
Over the last two decades, most OECD countries have reformed their social security in order to make early departures from the labor market increasingly difficult. Despite the fiscal gains that are ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2024, 67, 253 - 587)
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J26, J65
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15621
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Andreas
Kuhn
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The Times Have Changed: Tracking the Evolution of Gender Norms over Time
Data on job advertisements from 1950 up to 2020 reveal that there was a significant change among Swiss employers' stated preferences regarding their prospective employees' gender. More specifically, ...
(revised and partially expanded version published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2024, 52B, 131-170)
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D91, J16
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15620
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Ben
Lockwood
Nattavudh
Powdthavee
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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Are Environmental Concerns Deterring People from Having Children?
Are 'green' environmental concerns -- about climate change, biodiversity, pollution -- deterring today's citizens from having children? This paper, which we believe to be the first of its kind, ...
(published in: Ecological Economics, 2024, 220, 108184)
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J1, Q50
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15619
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Stefan
Denzler
Jens
Ruhose
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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'The Double Dividend of Training' – Labor Market Effects of Work-Related Continuous Education in Switzerland
This paper presents the first longitudinal estimates of the effect of work-related training on labor market outcomes in Switzerland. Using a novel dataset that links official census data on adult ...
(published as 'Labour market effects of work-related continuous education in Switzerland – evidence from administrative data' in: Economics of Education Review, 2025, 107, 102683)
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I21, I26, J24, M53
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15618
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Felix
Poege
Fabian
Gaessler
Karin
Hoisl
Dietmar
Harhoff
Matthias
Dorner
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Filling the Gap: The Consequences of Collaborator Loss in Corporate R&D
We examine how collaborator loss affects knowledge workers in corporate R&D. We argue that such a loss affects the remaining collaborators not only by reducing their team-specific capital (as argued ...
(heavily revised version published online in: Management Science, 27 June 2025)
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J62, O32, J24
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15617
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Francesco
Devicienti
Elena
Grinza
Alessandro
Manello
Davide
Vannoni
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Employer Cooperation, Productivity, and Wages: New Evidence from Inter-Firm Formal Network Agreements
Using uniquely rich administrative matched employer-employee data, we investigate the impact of formal network agreements (FNAs) among firms under two perspectives. First, we assess the impact of ...
(published in: Economica, 2025, 92 (365), 1 - 41)
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L14, D24, J31
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15616
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Can
Tang
Zhong
Zhao
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Informal Institution Meets Child Development: Clan Culture and Child Labor in China
Using a national representative sample, the China Family Panel Studies, this paper explores the influences of clan culture, a hallmark of Chinese cultural history, on the prevalence of child labor in ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics 2023, 51 (1), 277-294)
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J22, J81, O15
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15615
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Dean
Jolliffe
Samuel
Kofi
Tetteh-Baah
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Identifying the Poor – Accounting for Household Economies of Scale in Global Poverty Estimates
Estimates of the number of people living in extreme poverty, as reported by the World Bank, figure prominently in international development dialogue and policy. An assumption underpinning these ...
(published in: World Development, 2024, 179, 106593)
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I32, O10, O20
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15614
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Tiziano
Ropele
Yuriy
Gorodnichenko
Olivier
Coibion
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Inflation Expectations and Corporate Borrowing Decisions: New Causal Evidence
We match survey data of Italian firms that includes a repeated experiment in which information about inflation is randomly provided to firms over time with detailed credit data that covers the ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2023, 77, 102316)
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E02, E03
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15613
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Krzysztof
Makarski
Joanna
Tyrowicz
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Preference for Redistribution during Structural Change with Labor Mobility Frictions
Thorough structural change occurs periodically across world economies. In a parsimonious overlapping generation setup with political economy, we present a novel result: structural change not only ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2023, 77, 102316)
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H10, Z1
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