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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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3027
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Patrick
M.
Emerson
André
Portela Souza
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Is Child Labor Harmful? The Impact of Working Earlier in Life on Adult Earnings
This paper explores the question: is working as a child harmful to an individual in terms of adult outcomes in earnings? Though an extremely important question, little is known about the effect of ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2011, 59 (2), 345 - 385)
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J31, O12, O54
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3026
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Peter
Berkhout
Joop
Hartog
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Starting Wages Respond to Employer’s Risk
Firms hiring fresh graduates face uncertainty on the future productivity of workers. Intuitively, one expects starting wages to reflect this. Formal analysis supports the intuition. We use the ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 61 (3), 229-260)
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J31
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3025
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Nava
Kahana
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The Effect of Emigration on Child Labor
We present a general model of child labor that incorporates the various components presented in the literature as explanations for its existence. Our proposal is to mitigate the phenomenon by ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 99 (3), 545-548)
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D62, F22, I30, J13, J20, J24, O15
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3023
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Panu
Poutvaara
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The Expansion of Higher Education and Time-Consistent Taxation
This paper analyzes educational choices and political support for subsidies to higher education in the presence of a time-consistency problem in income redistribution. There may be political support ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 27 (2), 257-267)
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H52, I22, D72
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3022
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Charles
Bellemare
Sabine
Kröger
Arthur
van Soest
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Preferences, Intentions, and Expectations: A Large-Scale Experiment with a Representative Subject Pool
We specify and estimate an econometric model which separately identifies distributional preferences and the effects of perceived intentions on responder behavior in the ultimatum game. We allow the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2011, 78 (3), 349-365)
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C93, D63, D84
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3021
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Jeffrey
P.
Carpenter
Caitlin
Knowles
Myers
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Why Volunteer? Evidence on the Role of Altruism, Reputation, and Incentives
Volunteering plays a prominent role in the charitable provision of goods and services, yet we know relatively little about why people engage in such prosocial acts. The list of possible motivations ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (11-12), 911-920)
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C93, D12, J22, D64, D82
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3020
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Alison
L.
Booth
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness: The Part-time Work Puzzle
Using fixed effects ordered logit estimation, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and working hours satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account for ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (526) , F77–F99 )
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J22, I31, J16
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3018
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Shibao
Guo
Don
J.
DeVoretz
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The Changing Face of Chinese Immigrants in Canada
This paper analyzes the changing characteristics of Chinese immigrants to Canada between 1980 and 2001. It reveals that recent Chinese immigrants to Canada constitute a substantially different group ...
(published in: Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2006, 7 (4), 425-447)
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J15, J60, J61
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3017
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Christian
Grund
Dirk
Sliwka
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Individual and Job-Based Determinants of Performance Appraisal: Evidence from Germany
We investigate the use of performance appraisal (PA) in German Firms. First, we derive hypotheses on individual and job based determinants of PA usage. Based on a representative German data set on ...
(published as "The Anatomy of Performance Appraisals in Germany" in: International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2009, 20 (10), 2049-2065)
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J33, M52
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3016
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John
T.
Addison
Pedro
Portugal
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How Do Different Entitlements to Unemployment Benefits Affect the Transitions from Unemployment into Employment?
In Portugal duration of benefits is exclusively age determined while replacement rates are to all intents and purposes uniform. We exploit differences in potential maximum duration of benefits for ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 101 (3), 206-209)
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J64, J65
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