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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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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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2909
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John
Knowles
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Why Are Married Men Working So Much? Home Production, Household Bargaining and Per-Capita Hours
Empirical patterns of labor supply at the micro level tend to reject the unitary model assumption implicit in most macro theories, where households are the deemed to be rational agents. This paper ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2013, 80 (3), 1055-1085)
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E13, J12, J16, J20, J22
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2908
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Govert
Bijwaard
Justus
Veenman
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Unequal Chances on the Transitional Labor Market: The Case of the Netherlands
The emergence of a transitional labor market offers new opportunities to workers, but at the same time bears the risk of (new) inequalities. This paper deals with unequal chances on the transitional ...
(revised version published as 'Exclusionary Risks on the Transitional Labour Market' in: European Sociological Review, 2012, 28 (5), 661-673 )
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C41, J64, J7
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2907
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Rita
K.
Almeida
Ana Margarida
Fernandes
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Openness and Technological Innovations in Developing Countries: Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys
This paper examines international technology transfers using firm-level data across 43 developing countries. Our findings show that exporting and importing activities are important channels for the ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2008, 44 (5), 701-727)
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F1, F2, O3
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2905
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Matteo
Cervellati
Uwe
Sunde
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Human Capital, Mortality and Fertility: A Unified Theory of the Economic and Demographic Transition
This paper argues that accounting for the dynamic interactions between endogenous changes in longevity, the education composition of the population, and the associated fertility differential is ...
(see IZA DP 7199 for a substantially revised and extended version)
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E10, J10, O10, O40, O41
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2904
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Spyros
Konstantopoulos
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Do Small Classes Reduce the Achievement Gap between Low and High Achievers? Evidence from Project STAR
Given that previous findings on the social distribution of the effects of small classes have been mixed and inconclusive, in the present study I attempted to shed light on the mechanism through which ...
(published in: Elementary School Journal, 2008, 108 (3), 1-17)
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I2
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2903
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M. Ayhan
Kose
Eswar
Prasad
Marco
E.
Terrones
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How Does Financial Globalization Affect Risk Sharing? Patterns and Channels
In theory, one of the main benefits of financial globalization is that it should allow for more efficient international risk sharing. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive empirical evaluation of ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2009, 89 (2), 258-270)
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F2, F4
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2902
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Rita
K.
Almeida
Emanuela
Galasso
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Jump-Starting Self-Employment? Evidence among Welfare Participants in Argentina
One important concern of governments in developing countries is on how to phase-out large safety nets programs. This paper evaluates the short run effects of one possible exit strategy, programs that ...
(published as 'Jump-starting Self-employment? Evidence for Welfare Participants in Argentina' in: World Development, 2010, 38 (5), 742-755)
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J21, I38, J31
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2901
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Sylvain
Dessy
John
Knowles
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Why Is Child Labor Illegal?
We present a theory of the emergence of laws restricting child labor or imposing mandatory education that is consistent with the fact that poor parents tend to oppose such laws. We find that if ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2008, 52 (7), 1275 - 1311)
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J82, O11
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2900
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Marika
Karanassou
Hector
Sala
Dennis
J.
Snower
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The Evolution of Inflation and Unemployment: Explaining the Roaring Nineties
This paper analyses the relation between US inflation and unemployment from the perspective of "frictional growth," a phenomenon arising from the interplay between growth and frictions. In ...
(published in: Australian Economic Papers, 2008, 47 (4), 334-354)
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E24, E31, E51, E62
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