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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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2957
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Mathias
Hungerbühler
Etienne
Lehmann
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On the Optimality of a Minimum Wage: New Insights from Optimal Tax Theory
We build a theoretical model to study whether a minimum wage can be welfare-improving if it is implemented in conjunction with an optimized nonlinear income tax. We consider this issue in a framework ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (3-4), 464-481)
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D86, H21, H23, J64, J68
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2956
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Andries
de Grip
Hans
Bosma
Dick
Willems
Martin
van Boxtel
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Job-Worker Mismatch and Cognitive Decline
We have used longitudinal test data on various aspects of people’s cognitive abilities to analyze whether overeducated workers are more vulnerable to a decline in their cognitive abilities, and ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2008, 60 (2), 237-253 )
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J24, I19, I29
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2955
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Pierre
Cahuc
Guy
Laroque
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Optimal Taxation and Monopsonistic Labor Market: Does Monopsony Justify the Minimum Wage?
We analyze optimal taxation in an economy with monopsonistic labor markets. The individuals, whose only decisions are whether to work, or not, have heterogeneous productivities and opportunity costs ...
(pubished in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2014, 16 (2), 259–273.)
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H31, J30, J42
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2954
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Michael
L.
Bognanno
Ryo
Kambayashi
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Trends in Worker Displacement Penalties in Japan: 1991-2005
We examine the period from 1991 to 2005 to document the effects of a changing Japanese labor market on trends in the cost of job change. During this period, job change penalties and the extent to ...
(published in: Japan and the World Economy, 2013, 27 (C), 41-57)
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J31, J41, J63, J6
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2953
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Magnus
Lofstrom
John
Tyler
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Modeling the Signaling Value of the GED with an Application to an Exogenous Passing Standard Increase in Texas
In this paper we develop a simple model of the signaling value of the GED credential. The model illustrates necessary assumptions for a difference-in-difference estimator, which uses a change in the ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 28, 305-352)
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I2, J31
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2952
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Shelly
Lundberg
Jennifer
Romich
Kwok
P.
Tsang
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Decision-Making by Children
In this paper, we examine the determinants of decision-making power by children and young adolescents. Moving beyond previous economic models that treat children as goods consumed by adults rather ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2009, 7 (1), 1-30)
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D1, J13
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2951
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Tom
Bundervoet
Philip
Verwimp
Richard
Akresh
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Health and Civil War in Rural Burundi
We combine household survey data with event data on the timing and location of armed conflicts to examine the impact of Burundi’s civil war on children’s health status. The identification strategy ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44(2), 536-563)
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I12, J13, O12
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2950
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John
Bennett
Saul
Estrin
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Informality as a Stepping Stone: Entrepreneurial Entry in a Developing Economy
We model decisions with respect to formality or informality for entrepreneurs in a new industry for a developing economy. We show that informality allows a leader to explore, without significant sunk ...
(published as 'Informal firms in developing countries: entrepreneurial stepping stone or consolation prize?' in Small Business Economics, 2010, 34 (1), 53-63 )
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O17, L10
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2949
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Matthias
Doepke
Fabrizio
Zilibotti
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Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism
The British Industrial Revolution triggered a reversal in the social order whereby the landed elite was replaced by industrial capitalists rising from the middle classes as the economically dominant ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008, 123 (2), 747-793)
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J24, N2, N3, O11, O15, O40
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2948
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David
McKenzie
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A Profile of the World's Young Developing Country Migrants
Individual level census and household survey data are used to present a rich profile of the young developing migrants around the world. Youth are found to comprise a large share of all migrants, ...
(published as 'A Profile of the World's Young Developing Country International Migrants' in: Population and Development Review, 2008, 34 (1), 115 - 135)
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O12, O15
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