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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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3440
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Tor
Eriksson
Anders
Poulsen
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Feedback and Incentives: Experimental Evidence
This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (6), 679-688)
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C70, J16, J24, M52, J33, J31, C91
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3439
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David
A.
Jaeger
Esteban
F.
Klor
Sami
H.
Miaari
M. Daniele
Paserman
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The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds: Violence and Public Opinion in the Second Intifada
This paper examines how violence in the Second Intifada influences Palestinian public opinion. Using micro data from a series of opinion polls linked to data on fatalities, we find that Israeli ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2012, 96 (3-4), 354-368)
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D72, D74, H56
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3438
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Milan
Vodopivec
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How Viable Are Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts: Simulation Results for Slovenia
By simulating the working of the unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) in Slovenia using a methodology similar to Feldstein and Altman (1998), the paper examines two questions: how viable ...
(published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2010, 52, 225–247)
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J65, C23
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3437
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Stefanie
Behncke
Markus
Frölich
Michael
Lechner
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A Caseworker Like Me: Does the Similarity between Unemployed and Caseworker Increase Job Placements?
This paper examines whether the chances of job placements improve if unemployed persons are counselled by caseworkers who belong to the same social group, defined by gender, age, education, and ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120(549), 1430-1459)
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J64, J68, C31
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3436
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David
G.
Blanchflower
Alex
Bryson
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Union Decline in Britain
This paper investigates the demise of unionisation in British private sector workplaces over the last quarter century. We show that dramatic union decline has occurred across all types of workplace. ...
(published in: Brown, W. et al. (eds.) - The Evolution of the Modern Workplace, Cambridge University Press, 2009)
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J51
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3435
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Armin
Falk
David
B.
Huffman
W. Bentley
MacLeod
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Institutions and Contract Enforcement
We provide evidence on how two important types of institutions – dismissal barriers, and bonus pay – affect contract enforcement behavior in a market with incomplete contracts and repeated ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33 (3), 571-590)
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J41, J3, C9, D01
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3434
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Leo
Kaas
Paul
Madden
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Minimum Wages and Welfare in a Hotelling Duopsony
Two firms choose locations (non-wage job characteristics) on the interval [0,1] prior to announcing wages at which they employ workers who are uniformly distributed; the (constant) marginal revenue ...
(published in: Economic Theory, 2010, 43 (2), 167 - 188)
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D43, E24, J48
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3433
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Badi
H.
Baltagi
Uwe
Blien
Katja
Wolf
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New Evidence on the Dynamic Wage Curve for Western Germany: 1980–2004
In 1994, Blanchflower and Oswald reported that they have found an ‘empirical law of economics’ – the Wage Curve. According to their empirical results, the elasticity of wages with respect to regional ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (1), 47-51)
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J30, C23, R10
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3432
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Ofer
Malamud
Abigail
Wozniak
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The Impact of College Graduation on Geographic Mobility: Identifying Education Using Multiple Components of Vietnam Draft Risk
College-educated workers are twice as likely as high school graduates to make lasting long-distance moves, but little is known about the role of college itself in determining geographic mobility. ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2012. 47(4), 913-950.)
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J61, J24, I23
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3431
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Sarmistha
Pal
Robert
Palacios
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Understanding Poverty among the Elderly in India: Implications for Social Pension Policy
The Government of India is implementing a new policy which dramatically increases funding for a cash transfer program targeted to the poor elderly. The expansion of this ‘social pension’ in terms of ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2011, 47 (7), 1017 - 1037)
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J14, I31
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