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Do Employers Discriminate Less if Vacancies are Difficult to Fill? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart; Gheyle, Niels; Vandamme, Cora - CESifo - 2013

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 market. In line with theoretical expectations, we find that, compared to natives, candidates with a...

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Overeducation at the Start of the Career - Stepping Stone or Trap?

Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart; Verhaest, Dieter - CESifo - 2012

This study investigates whether young unemployed graduates who accept a job below their level of education accelerate … or delay the transition into a job that matches their level of education. We adopt the Timing of Events approach to … started searching for a job right after leaving formal education. We find that overeducation is a trap. This trap is …

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Evaluation of Researchers: A Life Cycle Analysis of German Academic Economists

Rauber, Michael; Ursprung, Heinrich - CESifo - 2006

In this paper we ague that any meaningful bibliometric evaluation of researchers needs to take into account that research productivity follows distinct life cycles. Using an encompassing data set portraying the research behavior of German academic economists, we first show that research...

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Reputation, Price, and Death: An Empirical Analysis of Art Price Formation

Ursprung, Heinrich; Wiermann, Christian - CESifo - 2008

We analyze how an artist’s death influences the market prices of her works of art. Death has two opposing effects on art prices. By irrevocably restricting the artist’s oeuvre, prices, ceteris paribus, increase when the artist dies. On the other hand, an untimely death may well frustrate the...

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Life Cycle and Cohort Productivity in Economic Research: The Case of Germany

Rauber, Michael; Ursprung, Heinrich - CESifo - 2007

We examine the research productivity of German academic economists over their life cycles. It turns out that the career-patterns of research productivity as measured by journal publications are characterized by marked cohort effects. Moreover, the life-cycles of younger German economists are...

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Parenthood and Productivity of Highly Skilled Labor: Evidence from the Groves of Academe

Krapf, Matthias; Ursprung, Heinrich; Zimmermann, Christian - CESifo - 2014

We examine the effect of pregnancy and parenthood on the research productivity of academic economists. Combining the survey responses of nearly 10,000 economists with their publication records as documented in their RePEc accounts, we do not find that motherhood is associated with low research...

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