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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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3444
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Lorenzo
Cappellari
Claudio
Lucifora
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The "Bologna Process" and College Enrolment Decisions
We use survey data on cohorts of high school graduates observed before and after the Italian reform of tertiary education implementing the ‘Bologna process’ to estimate the impact of the reform on ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (6), 638-647)
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I23, I28, J24
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3443
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Lina
Song
Simon
Appleton
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Life Satisfaction in Urban China: Components and Determinants
Survey data from urban China in 2002 show levels of life satisfaction to be low, but not exceptionally so, by international comparison. Many of the determinants of life satisfaction in urban China ...
(published in: World Development, 2008, 36 (11), 2325-2340)
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I31, I38, J18, D63
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3442
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M. Ayhan
Kose
Christopher
Otrok
Eswar
Prasad
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Global Business Cycles: Convergence or Decoupling?
This paper analyzes the evolution of the degree of global cyclical interdependence over the period 1960-2005. We categorize the 106 countries in our sample into three groups – industrial countries, ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2012, 53 (2), 511 - 538)
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C11, C32, E32, F42, F41
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3441
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Guillermina
Jasso
Douglas
S.
Massey
Mark
R.
Rosenzweig
James
P.
Smith
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From Illegal to Legal: Estimating Previous Illegal Experience among New Legal Immigrants to the United States
This paper develops a framework for estimating previous illegal experience among annual cohorts of new legal immigrants to the United States – using public-use administrative microdata alone, survey ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2008, 42 (4), 803-843)
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F22, C42, K42
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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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