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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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3096
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Eric
D.
Gould
Eyal
Winter
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Interactions Between Workers and the Technology of Production: Evidence from Professional Baseball
This paper examines how the effort choices of workers within the same firm interact with each other. In contrast to the existing literature, we show that workers can affect the productivity of their ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, February 2009, 91(1), 188–200)
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J2
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3095
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Jose
C.
Galdo
Jeffrey
A.
Smith
Dan
A.
Black
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Bandwidth Selection and the Estimation of Treatment Effects with Unbalanced Data
This paper addresses the selection of smoothing parameters for estimating the average treatment effect on the treated using matching methods. Because precise estimation of the expected counterfactual ...
(published in: Annales d'Economie et Statistique, 2008, 91-92, 189-216)
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C13, C14
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3094
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Rita
K.
Almeida
Pedro
Carneiro
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Inequality and Employment in a Dual Economy: Enforcement of Labor Regulation in Brazil
This paper studies the impact of an increase in the enforcement of labor regulations on unemployment and inequality, using city level data from Brazil. We find that stricter enforcement (affecting ...
(substantially revised and extended version available as IZA DP No. 5902)
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J23, J30, K31, D63
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3093
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Rachel
Connelly
Jean
Kimmel
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The Role of Nonstandard Work Hours in Maternal Caregiving for Young Children
This paper examines the effect of the timing of mothers’ daily work schedules on the amount of maternal caregiving she engages in on that same day. We look at total caregiving time on weekdays, early ...
(published as 'The Role of Non-standard Work Status in Parental Caregiving for Young Children ' in Eastern Economic Journal, 2011, 37 (2), 248-269 )
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J13, J22
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3090
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Tim
Callan
Arthur
van Soest
John
R.
Walsh
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Tax Structure and Female Labour Market Participation: Evidence from Ireland
How great an effect does the structure of income taxes have on women’s labour market participation? This issue is investigated using a discrete choice static labour supply model for married couples ...
(published in: Labour, 2009, 23(1), 1-35)
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H31, J22
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3088
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Bertil
Holmlund
Martin
Söderström
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Estimating Income Responses to Tax Changes: A Dynamic Panel Data Approach
Recent research on the behavioral effects of income taxes has to a large extent focused on the elasticity of taxable income with respect to the net-of-tax rate, i.e., one minus the marginal tax rate. ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2011, 11 (1))
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H24, H31, J22
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3087
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Nauro
F.
Campos
Menelaos
G.
Karanasos
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Growth, Volatility and Political Instability: Non-Linear Time-Series Evidence for Argentina, 1896–2000
What is the relationship between economic growth and its volatility? Does political instability affect growth directly or indirectly, through volatility? This paper tries to answer such questions ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 100 (1), 135-137)
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C14, O40, E23, D72
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3086
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
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Fatal Fluctuations? Cyclicality in Infant Mortality in India
This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India and investigates likely mechanisms. A recent OECD-dominated literature shows that mortality at most ages is ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 93 (1), 7-19)
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I12, J10, O49
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3085
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Stefanie
Behncke
Markus
Frölich
Michael
Lechner
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Targeting Labour Market Programmes: Results from a Randomized Experiment
We evaluate a randomized experiment of a statistical support system developed to assist caseworkers in Swiss employment offices in choosing appropriate active labour market programmes for their ...
(published in: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik / Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 145 (3), 221-268)
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J68
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3084
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Jaan
Masso
Raul
Eamets
Hanna
Kanep
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Estimating the Need for PhDs n the Academic Sector via a Survey of Employers
The aim of the current paper is to estimate the need for new PhDs in the Estonian academic sector for the 5-year period 2007-2012 using a survey of employers, such as universities, institutions of ...
(revised version is published in: Baltic Journal of Economics, 2009, 9 (1), 5-29)
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I2, J4, O3
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