Working Hours, Workplace Hazards, and Health: The Long-Term Impact of the Eight-Hour Day
This study is about a nationwide policy trial from Sweden in 1920 that reduced the standard workweek from 55 to 48 hours.
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Vocational Education and Earnings Growth: Human Capital vs. Firm Sorting
This paper examines how post-16 educational tracking into academic and vocational pathways shapes early-career earnings trajectories.
Refugee Inflows, Task Upgrading, Wages and Productivity in Turkey’s Dual Labor Market
This paper studies how large-scale refugee inflows affect native workers, firms, and aggregate productivity.
Mental Health Challenges Among Teachers: The Role of the Workplace
This study examines the role of schools as workplaces in generating heterogeneity in teachers’ mental health.
A New Horizon? The Effect of a National Education Reform on Student Achievement and the Academic Environment
This study is about the effects of New Horizon, a large-scale national education reform implemented in Israeli elementary schools.
Revisiting the Integration Paradox: Higher Education and Perceived Discrimination Among Jews
Navigating Two Realities: The Gendered Double Bind Between Society and the Workplace
The study examines how the desirability of masculine and feminine traits for men and women varies across societal and occupational settings.
Matching with preferences: Caring who cares for the old
This paper quantifies effects of preferences in home-based long-term care using unique internal data.
The Labor Market Effects of Carbon Pricing
This study is about how carbon prices affect labor market outcomes.
The Effect of Public Sector Relocations on Regional Development in Germany
This paper estimates the causal effect of public employment reallocation on local labor markets.