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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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2934
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Suresh
de Mel
David
McKenzie
Christopher
Woodruff
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Returns to Capital in Microenterprises: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Small and informal firms account for a large share of employment in developing countries. The rapid expansion of microfinance services is based on the belief that these firms have productive ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008, 123 (4), 1329-1372)
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O12, O17
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2933
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Annika
Alexius
Bertil
Holmlund
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Monetary Policy and Swedish Unemployment Fluctuations
A widely spread belief among economists is that monetary policy has relatively short-lived effects on real variables such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the ...
(published in: Economics E-Journal, 2008, 2008-4.)
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J60, E24
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2932
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Anne
C.
Gielen
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Performance Pay, Training and Labor Mobility
Market imperfections may cause firms and workers to under-invest in specific training. This paper shows that profit sharing may be a suitable instrument to enhance specific training investments, ...
(revised version published as 'Profit Sharing for Increased Training Investments' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations. 2011, 49 (4), 643-665.)
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M52, M53, J24, J62
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2930
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Barry
Hirsch
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Sluggish Institutions in a Dynamic World: Can Unions and Industrial Competition Coexist?
During the 1930s and 1940s, collective bargaining emerged as the workplace governance norm in much of the U.S. industrial sector. Following its peak in the 1950s, union density in the U.S. private ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2008, 22 (1), 153-176)
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J5, J31, J2
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2929
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Pedro
S.
Martins
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Heterogeneity in Real Wage Cyclicality
This paper presents evidence that real wage cyclicality can be a particularly heterogeneous parameter, depending on different worker characteristics and also on the specific stage of the business ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 54(5), 684-698, 2007)
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J31, E24, E32
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2928
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Pieter
Bevelander
Ravi
Pendakur
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Minorities, Social Capital and Voting
It is widely held that voter turnout among immigrants and ethnic minorities is lower than among the native born. The goal of our paper is to explore the determinants of voting, comparing immigrant, ...
(published as 'Social capital and Voting participation of Immigrants and Minorities in Canada' in: Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2009, 32(8), 1406-1430)
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D72, J15, J61
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2927
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Michael
Kosfeld
Ferdinand
von Siemens
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Competition, Cooperation, and Corporate Culture
Teamwork and cooperation between workers can be of substantial value to a firm, yet the level of worker cooperation often varies between individual firms. We show that these differences can be the ...
(published in: RAND Journal of Economics, 2011, 42 (1), 23–43)
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D23, D82, L23, M54
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2925
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Alois
Stutzer
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Limited Self-Control, Obesity and the Loss of Happiness
Obesity has become a major health issue. Research in economics has provided important insights as to how technological progress reduced the relative price of food and contributed to the increase in ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2015, 25, 1409–1424)
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D12, D91, I12, I31
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2924
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Shuming
Bao
Örn
B.
Bodvarsson
Jack
W.
Hou
Yaohui
Zhao
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Interprovincial Migration in China: The Effects of Investment and Migrant Networks
Since the 1980s, China’s government has eased restrictions on internal migration. This easing, along with rapid growth of the Chinese economy and substantial increases in foreign and domestic ...
(published in: Chinese Economy, 2009, 42 (4), 7-29)
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J61
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2923
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Dave
E.
Marcotte
Steven
W.
Hemelt
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Unscheduled School Closings and Student Performance
Do students perform better on statewide assessments in years in which they have more school days to prepare? We explore this question using data on math and reading assessments taken by students in ...
(published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2008, 3 (3), 316-338)
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I2, I21
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