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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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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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3082
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Ruth
Uwaifo Oyelere
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Disparities in Labor Market Outcomes across Geopolitical Regions in Nigeria: Fact or Fantasy?
Differences in geopolitical regions of Nigeria are not debatable. However, there is no clear consensus on the dimension of these disparities. In this paper, claims of geopolitical region disparities ...
(published in: Journal of African Development, 2008, 10 (1), 11-31)
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O5, I0, J70, O18
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3080
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Christian
Dustmann
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Return Migration, Investment in Children, and Intergenerational Mobility: Comparing Sons of Foreign and Native Born Fathers
This paper studies parental investment in education and intergenerational earnings mobility for father-son pairs with native and foreign born fathers. We illustrate within a simple model that for ...
(Published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2008, 43(2), 299 - 324)
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J15, J24, J62
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3079
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Yuriy
Gorodnichenko
Jan
Svejnar
Katherine
Terrell
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When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Emerging Market Economies
We use firm-level data and national input-output tables from 17 countries over the 2002-2005 period to test new and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the ...
(published in: Klaus Liebscher, Josef Christl, Peter Mooslechner (eds.), Foreign Direct Investment in Europe: A Changing Landscape, 2007)
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F23, M16, O16, P23
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3078
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Tim
Callan
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Analysing the Effects of Tax-Benefit Reforms on Income Distribution: A Decomposition Approach
To assess the impact of tax-benefit policy changes on income distribution over time, we suggest a methodology based on counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposing changes in ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2010, 8 (1), 1 -21)
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H23, H53, I32
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3077
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Wendelin
Schnedler
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You Don't Always Get What You Pay For
Consider a principal-agent relationship in which more effort by the agent raises the likelihood of success. Does rewarding success, i.e., paying a bonus, increase effort in this case? I find that ...
(published as ' You Don't Always Get What You Pay For: Bonuses, Perceived Income and Effort ' in: German Economic Review, 2011, 12 (1), 1 - 10)
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D8, J3, M5
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3076
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Giovanna
Aguilar
Silvio
Rendon
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Matching Bias in Labor Demand Estimation
Using a matched firm-worker dataset, we show both theoretically and empirically that positive assortative matching between firms and workers leads to an underestimation of the absolute value of wage ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 100 (2), 297-299)
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J23, J32
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3075
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David
G.
Blanchflower
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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Is Well-Being U-Shaped over the Life Cycle?
We explore the idea that happiness and psychological well-being are U-shaped in age. The main difficulty with this argument is that there are likely to be omitted cohort effects (earlier generations ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2008, 66 (8), 1733-49)
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D1, I3
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3074
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Teresa
Casey
Christian
Dustmann
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Intergenerational Transmission of Language Capital and Economic Outcomes
This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of language capital amongst immigrants, and the effect of language deficiencies on the economic performance of second generation immigrants. ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2008, 43 (3), 660 - 687)
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J15, J24, J62
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3073
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Nicolai
Kristensen
Niels
C.
Westergård-Nielsen
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Job Satisfaction and Co-worker Wages: Status or Signal?
This paper uses matched employer-employee panel data to show that individual job satisfaction is higher when other workers in the same establishment are better-paid. This runs contrary to a large ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (536), 430–447)
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C23, C25, D84, J28, J31, J33
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