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Macroeconomics: Employment, Income & Informal Economy eJournal

ALL TIME TOP PAPERS for all papers in this SSRN eLibrary subject area
2 Jan 1997 through 17 Nov 2016

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1 5,457 Bank CEO Incentives and the Credit Crisis
Rüdiger Fahlenbrach and René M. Stulz
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance
Date posted to database: 28 Jul 2009
Last Revised: 27 Sep 2010
2 4,499 Generating Skilled Self-Employment in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Uganda
Christopher Blattman, Nathan Fiala and Sebastian Martinez
University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
Date posted to database: 23 May 2013
Last Revised: 30 Apr 2014
3 4,216 Inequality and Institutions in 20th Century America
Frank S. Levy and Peter Temin
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Urban Studies & Planning and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics
Date posted to database: 7 May 2007
Last Revised: 1 Apr 2015
4 3,961 What Explains the 2007-2009 Drop in Employment?
Atif R. Mian and Amir Sufi
Princeton University - Department of Economics and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Date posted to database: 17 Nov 2011
Last Revised: 1 Mar 2014
5 2,640 Human Trafficking and Regulating Prostitution
Samuel Lee and Petra Persson
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business and Stanford University
Date posted to database: 14 May 2012
Last Revised: 30 Nov 2015
6 2,286 Changes in Income Inequality Among U.S. Tax Filers between 1991 and 2006: The Role of Wages, Capital Income, and Taxes
Thomas L. Hungerford
Social Security Administration
Date posted to database: 27 Jan 2013
Last Revised: 25 Feb 2013
7 2,220 Who is Hit Hardest During a Financial Crisis? The Vulnerability of Young Men and Women to Unemployment in an Economic Downturn
Sher Verick
International Labour Organization (ILO)
Date posted to database: 18 Aug 2009
Last Revised: 18 Aug 2009
8 1,953 How Badly Flawed is Chinese Economic Data? The Opening Bid is $1 Trillion
Christopher Balding
Peking University - HSBC School of Business
Date posted to database: 7 Aug 2013
Last Revised: 14 Aug 2013
9 1,727 Are We Approaching an Economic Singularity? Information Technology and the Future of Economic Growth
William D. Nordhaus
Yale University - Department of Economics
Date posted to database: 9 Sep 2015
Last Revised: 9 Sep 2015
10 1,561 Employee Satisfaction, Labor Market Flexibility, and Stock Returns Around the World
Alex Edmans, Lucius Li and Chendi Zhang
London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting, Department of Finance, London School of Economics and University of Warwick - Finance Group
Date posted to database: 2 Jul 2014
Last Revised: 25 Jun 2016

RECENT TOP PAPERS for all papers first announced in the last 60 days
18 Sep 2016 through 17 Nov 2016

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1 676 Occupational Choice in Early Industrializing Societies: Experimental Evidence on the Income and Health Effects of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Work
Christopher Blattman and Stefan Dercon
University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy and University of Oxford - Department of Economics
Date posted to database: 27 Sep 2016
Last Revised: 27 Sep 2016
2 392 Making America Worse: Jobs and Money at Trump Casinos, 1997-2010
Jonathan C. Lipson
Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law
Date posted to database: 29 Sep 2016
Last Revised: 8 Oct 2016
3 214 The Gig Economy & The Future of Employment and Labor Law
Orly Lobel
University of San Diego School of Law
Date posted to database: 10 Oct 2016
Last Revised: 14 Oct 2016
4 198 Movie Piracy and Displaced Sales in Europe: Evidence from Six Countries
Benedikt Herz and Kamil Kiljański
European Union - European Commission and European Union - European Commission
Date posted to database: 28 Sep 2016
Last Revised: 30 Sep 2016
5 194 The Dark Side of Economic Globalisation: Politics, Organised Crime and Corruption in the Pacific
Grant Walton and Sinclair Dinnen
Australian National University - Development Policy Centre and Australian National University (ANU)
Date posted to database: 6 Oct 2016
Last Revised: 6 Oct 2016
6 56 Labor and Capital Dynamics Under Financing Frictions
Ryan Michaels, Beau Page and Toni M. Whited
University of Rochester - Department of Economics, University of Houston - Department of Finance and University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Date posted to database: 11 Oct 2016
Last Revised: 11 Oct 2016
7 55 Who are the Poor in the Developing World?
Raul Andres Castaneda, Dung Doan, David Locke Newhouse, Minh C. Nguyen, Hiroki Uematsu and João Pedro Azevedo
World Bank, Australian National University (ANU) - Crawford School of Public Policy, World Bank, World Bank, World Bank and World Bank
Date posted to database: 6 Oct 2016
Last Revised: 10 Nov 2016
8 54 On Sharing and Quasi-Sharing: The Tension between Sharing-Economy Practices, Public Policy and Regulation
Sofia Ranchordas
Leiden Law School, Department of Public Law
Date posted to database: 18 Oct 2016
Last Revised: 18 Oct 2016
9 48 Boys and Girls Have Different Friends: Gender Differences in CEO Network and Wage Premiums
Herman Sahni
Baldwin Wallace University
Date posted to database: 13 Oct 2016
Last Revised: 13 Oct 2016
10 42 U.S. Wage Growth and Nonlinearities: The Roles of Inflation and Unemployment
Luiggi Donayre and Irina B. Panovska
University of Minnesota - Duluth and Lehigh University
Date posted to database: 11 Sep 2016
Last Revised: 4 Oct 2016





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