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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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2922
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Graziella
Bertocchi
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The Enfranchisement of Women and the Welfare State
We offer a rationale for the decision to extend the franchise to women within a politico-economic model where men are richer than women, women display a higher preference for public goods, and ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2011, 55 (4), 535-553)
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P16, J16, N40, H50, O11
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2921
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Hugo
R.
Nopo
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An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition to a Continuum of Comparison Groups
This paper proposes an extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition from two to a continuum of comparison groups. The proposed decomposition is then estimated for the case of racial wage differences ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 100 (2), 292-296)
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C1, J1, J7, O17
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2919
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Örn
B.
Bodvarsson
Joshua
J.
Lewer
Hendrik
Van den Berg
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Measuring Immigration's Effects on Labor Demand: A Reexamination of the Mariel Boatlift
It is now well known that exogenous immigration shocks tend to have benign effects on native employment outcomes, thanks to various secondary adjustment processes made possible by flexible markets. ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (4), 560-574)
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J23, J61, F22
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2918
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Martina
Zweimüller
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
Doris
Weichselbaumer
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Market Orientation and Gender Wage Gaps: An International Study
Two very different approaches are used to explore the relation between market orientation and gender wage differentials in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2008, 61 (4), 615-635)
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J16, J31, J71
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2917
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Derek
C.
Jones
Takao
Kato
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The Impact of Teams on Output, Quality and Downtime: An Empirical Analysis Using Individual Panel Data
To investigate the size and the timing of the direct impact of participatory arrangements on business performance, we assemble and analyze extraordinary daily data – for rejection, production and ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2011, 64 (2), 215-240)
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M54, J50, J41, D20
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2916
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Ernesto
Reuben
Arno
Riedl
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Public Goods Provision and Sanctioning in Privileged Groups
In public good provision, privileged groups enjoy the advantage that some of its members find it optimal to supply a positive amount of the public good. However, their inherent asymmetric nature may ...
(published in: Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2009, 53 (1), 72-93)
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H41, D01, C92, Z13
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2914
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
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Spending to Save? State Health Expenditure and Infant Mortality in India
There are severe inequalities in health in the world, poor health being concentrated amongst poor people in poor countries. Poor countries spend a much smaller share of national income on health ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2007, 16 (9), 911-928)
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I18, I38, O15, O12
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2913
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Eric
Verhoogen
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Trade, Quality Upgrading and Wage Inequality in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector
This paper proposes a new mechanism linking trade and wage inequality in developing countries – the quality-upgrading mechanism – and investigates its empirical implications in panel data on Mexican ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008, 123 (2), 489-530)
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F16, J31, O12, L11
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2912
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Francesco
Drago
Roberto
Galbiati
Pietro
Vertova
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The Deterrent Effects of Prison: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
In this paper we test for the theory of deterrence. We exploit the natural experiment provided by the Collective Clemency Bill passed by the Italian Parliament in July 2006. As a consequence of the ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2009, 117 (2), 257-280)
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K42
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2910
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Patricia
Apps
Ray
Rees
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The Taxation of Couples
This paper is concerned with the question of how couples should be taxed. One reason for the importance of this issue is simply that the overwhelming majority of individuals live in households formed ...
(published as "Optimal Taxation and Tax Reform for Two-Earner Households" in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2011, 57 (2), 283-304)
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H21, D13, J22
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