Labour

2025 28/04/2026

Making Subsidies Work: Rules versus Discretion

by Federico Cingano, Filippo Palomba, Paolo Pinotti and Enrico Rettore

Econometrica (2025)

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Federico Cingano, Filippo Palomba, Paolo Pinotti and Enrico Rettore

Keywords: Public subsidies, Investment, Employment, Political discretion, Regression discontinuity

2025 16/04/2026

Politics at work

by Emanuele Colonnelli, Valdemar Pinho Neto and Edoardo Teso

American Economic Review (2025)

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Emanuele Colonnelli, Valdemar Pinho Neto and Edoardo Teso

Keywords: Field Experiments, Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis, Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior, Labor Demand, Personnel Economics: Firm Employment Decisions, Promotions, Formal and Informal Sectors, Shadow Economy, Institutional Arrangements, Economic Sociology, Economic Anthropology, Language, Social and Economic Stratification

2025 13/04/2026

Promotions and Productivity: The Role of Meritocracy and Pay Progression in the Public Sector

by Erika Deserranno, Philipp Kastrau and Gianmarco León-Ciliotta

American Economic Review: Insights (2025)

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Erika Deserranno, Philipp Kastrau and Gianmarco León-Ciliotta

Keywords: Promotions, Meritocracy, Pay Progression, Worker Productivity

2025 24/04/2026

SMEs and Workers during Crises: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Uganda

by Selim Gulesci, Francesco Loiacono, Andreas Madestam and Miri Stryjan

AEA Papers and Proceedings (2025)

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Selim Gulesci, Francesco Loiacono, Andreas Madestam and Miri Stryjan

Keywords: Firms, Workers, Gender, Credit, Covid-19

2025 27/04/2026

Talent Poaching and Job Rotation

by Diego Battiston, Miguel Espinosa and Shuo Liu

Management Science (2025)

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Diego Battiston, Miguel Espinosa and Shuo Liu

Keywords: Talent poaching, Job rotation, Outsourcing

2025 28/04/2026

Taxes Today, Benefits Tomorrow

by Thomas Le Barbanchon

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2025)

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Thomas Le Barbanchon

Keywords: Tax-benefit linkage, Bunching, Unemployment insurance

2025 13/04/2026

The Inverted U-Shaped Relationship between Female Entrepreneurship and Economic Development

by Ashraf Nava, Alexia Delfino, Edward L. Glaeser and Irene Solmone

AEA Papers and Proceedings (2025)

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Ashraf Nava, Alexia Delfino, Edward L. Glaeser and Irene Solmone

Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Gender, Firms

2024 10/04/2026

Breaking Gender Barriers: Experimental Evidence on Men in Pink-Collar Jobs

by Alexia Delfino

American Economic Review (2024)

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Alexia Delfino

Keywords: Recruitment experiment, Gender barriers, Beliefs

2024 16/04/2026

Can gamified online training make high school students more entrepreneurial? Experimental evidence from Rwanda

by Jeanne Lafortune, Todd Pugatch, José Tessada and Diego Ubfal

Economics of Education Review (2024)

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Jeanne Lafortune, Todd Pugatch, José Tessada and Diego Ubfal

Keywords: Gamification, Online education, Entrepreneurship education, Soft skills training, Youth business training, Rwanda, Randomized controlled trials

2024 28/04/2026

Job search, unemployment insurance, and active labor market policies

by Thomas Le Barbanchon, Johannes Schmieder and Andrea Weber

Handbook of Labour Economics (2024)

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Thomas Le Barbanchon, Johannes Schmieder and Andrea Weber

Keywords: Job search, Unemployment insurance, Active labor market policies

2024 28/04/2026

Soft-skills, networking, and workforce entry: Impacts of a training program for recent graduates in Rwanda

by Andrew Brudevold-Newman and Diego Ubfal

Labour Economics (2024)

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Andrew Brudevold-Newman and Diego Ubfal

Keywords: Soft skills, Labor market entry, Transition from school to work, Networks, RCT

2024 16/04/2026

Supporting Women-Led Businesses: Narrative Review of Recent Causal Evidence

by Diego Ubfal

World Bank Research Observer (2024)

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Diego Ubfal

Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Gender, Literature review, Women-led businesses

2024 17/04/2026

Team size and diversity

by Shan Aman-Rana, Brais Álvarez Pereira and Alexia Delfino

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2024)

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Shan Aman-Rana, Brais Álvarez Pereira and Alexia Delfino

Keywords: Gender, Diversity, Team performance, Information, Communication

2024 28/04/2026

Technology Adoption and Productivity Growth: Evidence from Industrialization in France

by Réka Juhász, Mara Squicciarini and Nico Voigtländer

Journal of Political Economy (2024)

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Réka Juhász, Mara Squicciarini and Nico Voigtländer

Keywords: Industrialization, Technology Adoption, Productivity

2023 28/04/2026

Estimating the Demand for Business Training: Evidence from Jamaica

by Alessandro Maffioli, David McKenzie and Diego Ubfal

Economic Development and Cultural Change (2023)

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Alessandro Maffioli, David McKenzie and Diego Ubfal

Keywords: Business training, Entrepreneurs, Programmes, Jamaica, Payments

2023 27/04/2026

Reporting Peers’ Wrongdoing: Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Financial Incentives on Morally Controversial Behavior

by Stefano Fiorin

Journal of the European Economic Association (2023)

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Stefano Fiorin

Keywords: Absence, Financial Incentives, Morality, Peer Reporting, Whistleblowing

2023 14/04/2026

The Effects of Working while in School: Evidence from Employment Lotteries

by Thomas Le Barbanchon, Diego Ubfal and Federico Araya

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2023)

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Thomas Le Barbanchon, Diego Ubfal and Federico Araya

Keywords: Randomized lottery, Student employment

2022 28/04/2026

The impact of soft-skills training for entrepreneurs in Jamaica

by Diego Ubfal, Irani Arraiz, Diether Beuermann, Michael Frese, Alessandro Maffioli and Daniel Verch

World Development (2022)

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Diego Ubfal, Irani Arraiz, Diether Beuermann, Michael Frese, Alessandro Maffioli and Daniel Verch

Keywords: Business Training, Entrepreneurship, Soft skills

2022 27/04/2026

Unwilling to Train?—Firm Responses to the Colombian Apprenticeship Regulation

by Santiago Caicedo, Miguel Espinosa and Arthur Seibold

Econometrica (2022)

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Santiago Caicedo, Miguel Espinosa and Arthur Seibold

Keywords: Apprenticeships, Vocational training, Firms

2021 17/04/2026

Antitrust Policies and Profitability in Nontradable Sectors

by Timothy Besley, Nicola Fontana and Nicola Limodio

American Economic Review: Insights (2021)

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Timothy Besley, Nicola Fontana and Nicola Limodio

Keywords: Competition, Antitrust, Institutions

2021 17/04/2026

Bureaucrat Allocation in the Public Sector: Evidence from the World Bank

by Nicola Limodio

The Economic Journal (2021)

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Nicola Limodio

Keywords: Personnel Management, Public Sector, International Organizations

2021 16/04/2026

Gender Differences in Job Search: Trading off Commute against Wage

by Thomas Le Barbanchon, Roland Rathelot and Alexandra Roulet

The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2021)

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Thomas Le Barbanchon, Roland Rathelot and Alexandra Roulet

Keywords: Gender wage gap, Commute

2021 28/04/2026

Job Search during the COVID-19 Crisis

by Lena Hensvik, Thomas Le Barbanchon and Roland Rathelot

Journal of Public Economics (2021)

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Lena Hensvik, Thomas Le Barbanchon and Roland Rathelot

Keywords: Coronavirus, Search Intensity, Search direction, Labour demand shock, Job vacancies, Online job board

2020 15/04/2026

The Distinctive Values of Bankers

by Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera and Alexia Delfino

AEA Papers and Proceedings (2020)

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Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera and Alexia Delfino

Keywords: Banking, Values, Corporate culture, Personnel policies

2019 28/04/2026

The Effectiveness of Hiring Credits

by Pierre Cahuc, Stéphane Carcillo and Thomas Le Barbanchon

The Review of Economic Studies (2019)

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Pierre Cahuc, Stéphane Carcillo and Thomas Le Barbanchon

Keywords: Hiring credit, Labor demand, Search and matching model

2019 28/04/2026

Unemployment Insurance and Reservation Wages: Evidence from Administrative Data

by Thomas Le Barbanchon, Roland Rathelot and Alexandra Roulet

Journal of Public Economics (2019)

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Thomas Le Barbanchon, Roland Rathelot and Alexandra Roulet

Keywords: Unemployment insurance, Reservation wage

2017 24/04/2026

Labor Markets and Poverty in Village Economies

by Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Narayan Das, Selim Gulesci, Imran Rasul and Munshi Sulaiman

The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2017)

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Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Narayan Das, Selim Gulesci, Imran Rasul and Munshi Sulaiman

Keywords: Poverty, Rural labor market, Policy evaluation

2016 28/04/2026

The Effect of the Potential Duration of Unemployment Benefits on Unemployment Exits to Work and Match Quality in France

by Thomas Le Barbanchon

Labour Economics (2016)

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Thomas Le Barbanchon

Keywords: Unemployment benefits, Job match quality, Regression discontinuity

2016 28/04/2026

Trust, firm organization, and the pattern of comparative advantage

by Federico Cingano and Paolo Pinotti

Journal of International Economics (2016)

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Federico Cingano and Paolo Pinotti

Keywords: Trust, Delegation, Comparative advantage, Firm size