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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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3061
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Maite
Blázquez Cuesta
Silvio
Rendon
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Over-Education in Multilingual Economies: Evidence from Catalonia
Catalonia’s economy is characterized by linguistic diversity and provides a unique opportunity to measure the incidence of language proficiency on over-education, particularly, whether individuals ...
(published online in: International Migration, 2012, [Early View))
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J24, J41, I20, J61, J70
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3057
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John
Micklewright
Sylke
V.
Schnepf
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Who Gives for Overseas Development?
Individuals’ donations to overseas charities are an important source of funding for development assistance from rich industrialised countries. But little is known about the nature of these charitable ...
(published in: Journal of Social Policy, 2009, 38(2), 317-341)
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D12, D64, F35, L31
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3056
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Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Migrant Ethnic Identity: Concept and Policy Implications
With globalization, the size of migration and the value of ethnicity is rising. Also Cyprus undergoes a strong process of change while experiencing large inflows of migration. The paper investigates ...
(published in: Ekonomia, 2007, 10 (1), 1-17)
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F22, J15, J16, Z10
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3055
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David
G.
Blanchflower
Alex
Bryson
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The Wage Impact of Trade Unions in the UK Public and Private Sectors
This paper draws attention to an increase in the size of the union membership wage premium in the UK public sector relative to the private sector. We find the public sector membership wage premium is ...
(published in: Economica, 2010, 77 (305), 92-209)
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J31
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3054
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Kees
Cools
Mirjam
C.
van Praag
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The Value Relevance of Top Executive Departures: Evidence from the Netherlands
On theoretical grounds, monitoring of top executives by the (supervisory) board is expected to be value relevant. The empirical evidence is ambiguous and we analyze three non-competing explanations ...
(published in: Journal of Corporate Finance 13(5), 721-742)
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J32, J33, M12, M51, G3
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3053
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Rute
Mendes
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Maarten
Lindeboom
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An Empirical Assessment of Assortative Matching in the Labor Market
In labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, the matching between firms and workers may be assortative, meaning that the most productive workers and firms team up. We investigate this with ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (6), 919-929)
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J21, J24, D24, J63
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3052
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Astrid
Kunze
Kenneth
Troske
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Comparative Advantage or Discrimination? Studying Male-Female Wage Differentials Using Displaced Workers
In this paper we empirically examine differences in search behavior between men and women. We assess hypotheses regarding duration of search, wages and tenure. The hypotheses are derived from two ...
(revised version published as 'Gender Differences in Job Search Among Young Workers: A Study using Displaced Workers in the United States', Southern Economic Journal, 2015, 82(1), 185-207. )
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J0, J7
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3051
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Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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What Works Best for Getting the Unemployed Back to Work: Employment Services or Small-Business Assistance Programmes? Evidence from Romania
Recent empirical evidence has found that employment services and small-business assistance programmes are often successful at getting the unemployed back to work. One important concern of policy ...
(published as 'Channels Through Which Public Employment Services and Small-Business Assistance Programs Work' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72 (4), 458-485)
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J21, J23, J31, J64, J65, J68
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3050
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Rowan
Roberts
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Ethnic Identity and Immigrant Homeownership
Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper ...
(published in: Urban Studies, 2009, 46 (9), 1879-1898)
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R21, F22, J15, Z10
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3049
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Guido
Ascari
Christian
Merkl
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Real Wage Rigidities and the Cost of Disinflations
This paper analyzes the cost of disinflations under real wage rigidities in a micro-founded New Keynesian model. The consensus is that real wage rigidities can be a useful mechanism to induce the ...
(published in: Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 2009, 41 (2-3), 417-435)
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E31, E50
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12990Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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