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Poverty Imputation in Contexts Without Consumption Data : A Revisit with Further Refinements

Dang, Hai-Anh; Kilic, Talip; Abanokova, Kseniya; … - 2023

Household consumption data are often unavailable, not fully collected, or incomparable over time in poorer countries. Survey-to-survey imputation has been increasingly employed to address these data gaps for poverty measurement, but its effective use requires standardized protocols. We refine...

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Unions, Tripartite Competition and Innovation

Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2023

We present theoretical and empirical evidence challenging results from early studies that found unions were detrimental to workplace innovation. Under our theoretical model, which extends the Cournot duopoly innovation model, local union wage bargaining is more conducive to innovation -...

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Schools as Safety Nets : Break-Downs and Recovery in Reporting of Violence Against Children

Clarke, Damian; Larroulet, Pilar; Pailañir, Daniel; … - 2023

Schools are a key channel in formal reporting of violence against children, but this channel broke down with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We study how widespread such reporting declines are, and to what extent they were recovered once re-openings begin. Examining the universe of all...

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Month-of-Birth Effects on Skills and Skill Formation

Yamaguchi, Shintarō; Ito, Hirotake; Nakamuro, Makiko - 2023

We estimate month-of-birth effects on cognitive and noncognitive skills, as well as factors relevant to skill formation. Our estimates indicate that younger students in a given grade cohort have lower cognitive and noncognitive skills. To shed light on the underlying mechanisms, we also examine...

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Train Drain? Access to Foreign Workers and Firms' Provision of Training

Oswald-Egg, Maria; Siegenthaler, Michael - 2023

Does better access to foreign workers reduce firms' willingness to provide general skills training to unskilled workers? We analyze how the opening of the Swiss labor market to workers from the European Union affected the number of apprenticeship positions that firms provide. We exploit that the...

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Unions as Insurance : Employer-Worker Risk Sharing and Workers' Outcomes During COVID-19

Braakmann, Nils; Hirsch, Boris - 2023

We investigate to what extent workplace unionisation protects workers from external shocks as predicted by models of implicit contracts. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as a plausibly exogenous shock hitting the whole economy, we compare workers who worked in unionised and non-unionised workplaces...

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Complex Job Design and Layers of Hierarchy

Russo, Giovanni; Houten, Gijs van - 2023

The main function of hierarchies is to coordinate activities within an organisation, but a hierarchical structure also provides work incentives, by offering the prospect of hierarchical mobility. An alternative way for organisations to motivate workers is through job design. In organisations...

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Explaining Happiness Trends in Europe

Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023

In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal...

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The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies

Karademir, Sencer; Laliberté, Jean-William; Staubli, Stefan - 2023

The disproportionate impact of children on women's earnings constitutes the primary factor contributing to persistent gender inequality in many countries. This paper examines the multigenerational impact of children and whether the public provision of formal childcare lessens the earnings and...

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Gender-Segmented Labor Markets and Trade Shocks

Góes, Carlos; López Acevedo, Gladys; Robertson, Raymond - 2023

This paper focuses on how gender segmentation in labor markets shapes the local effects of international trade. We first develop a theoretical framework that embeds trade and gender-segmented labor markets to show that foreign demand shocks may either increase or decrease the female-to-male...

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