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No.
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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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3617
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Guido
Schwerdt
Andrea
Ichino
Oliver
Ruf
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
Josef
Zweimüller
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Does the Color of the Collar Matter? Firm Specific Human Capital and Post-Displacement Outcomes
We investigate whether the costs of job displacement differ between blue collar and white collar workers. In the short run earnings and employment losses are substantial for both groups but stronger ...
(published in: Economic Letters, 2010, 108 (2), 137-140)
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J14, J65
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3616
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Georg
Weizsäcker
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Do We Follow Others When We Should? A Simple Test of Rational Expectations
The paper presents a new meta data set covering 13 experiments on the social learning games by Bikhchandani, Hirshleifer, and Welch (1992). The large amount of data makes it possible to estimate the ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (5), 2340-2360)
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C72, C92, D82
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3615
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C.
Katharina
Spieß
Katharina
Wrohlich
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Does Distance Determine Who Attends a University in Germany?
We analyze the role of distance from a university in the decision to attend higher education in Germany. Students who live near a university can avoid moving and the increased living expenses by ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (3), 470-479)
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I2, R1
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3614
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Paul
J.
Devereux
Robert
A.
Hart
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A Good Time to Stay Out? Strikes and the Business Cycle
In this paper, we compile a unique historical dataset that records strike activity in the British engineering industry from 1920 to 1970. These data have the advantage of containing a fairly ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2011, 49 (s1), s70–s92,)
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E32, J31
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3613
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Martin
Halla
Friedrich
Schneider
Alexander
F.
Wagner
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Satisfaction with Democracy and Collective Action Problems: The Case of the Environment
Using modern methods for analyzing multi-level data, we find that, by and large, citizens of OECD countries are more satisfied with the way democracy works in their country if more environmental ...
(revised version published in: Public Choice, 2013, 155 (1-2), 109-137)
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K32, P16, Q21, Q28
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3612
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Benoit
Dostie
Rajshri
Jayaraman
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Organizational Redesign, Information Technologies and Workplace Productivity
Using a large longitudinal, nationally representative workplace-level dataset, we explore the productivity gains associated with computer use and organizational redesign. The empirical strategy ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy: Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy, 2012, 12.1, Article 4.)
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D20, L20, M54, O33
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3611
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Peter
Haan
Michal
Myck
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Multi-Family Households in a Labour Supply Model: A Calibration Method with Application to Poland
The collective model of labour supply opened the household “black box” and allowed for individual treatment of partners in couples. However, the literature on labour supply has so far largely ignored ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2012, 22, 2907 - 2919)
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J22, I38, D13
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3610
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Timothy
J.
Halliday
Sally
Kwak
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Weight Gain in Adolescents and Their Peers
Despite the urgent public health implications, relatively little is yet known about the effect of peers on adolescent weight gain. We describe trends and features of adolescent BMI in a nationally ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2010, 7 (2), 246-262)
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I10, I12
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3609
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Stephen
V.
Burks
Jeffrey
P.
Carpenter
Lorenz
Götte
Aldo
Rustichini
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Cognitive Skills Explain Economic Preferences, Strategic Behavior, and Job Attachment
Economic analysis has said little about how an individual’s cognitive skills (CS's) are related to the individual’s preferences in different choice domains, such as risk-taking or saving, and how ...
(revised version published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2009, 106 (19), 7745-7750)
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C81, C93, L92, J63
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3608
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John
T.
Addison
Lutz
Bellmann
André
Pahnke
Paulino
Teixeira
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A Note on the Determinants and Consequences of Outsourcing Using German Data
Using German data from the Institute for Employment Research Establishment Panel, this paper constructs two main measures of outsourcing and examines their determinants and consequences for ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung/Journal of Labor Market Research, 2011, 44(3), 231-244)
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F16, J23
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