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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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2877
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Knut
Røed
Lars
Westlie
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Unemployment Insurance in Welfare States: Soft Constraints and Mild Sanctions
Based on a sequence of reforms in the Norwegian unemployment insurance (UI) system, we show that activity-oriented UI regimes – i.e., regimes with a high likelihood of required participation in ...
(published as 'Unemployment Insurance in Welfare States: The Impacts of Soft Duration Constraints' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10 (3), 518-554)
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C14, C15, C41, J64, J65, J68
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2876
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Daniele
Checchi
Luca
Flabbi
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Intergenerational Mobility and Schooling Decisions in Germany and Italy: The Impact of Secondary School Tracks
Intergenerational mobility in income and education is affected by the influence of parents on children’s school choices. Our focus is on the role played by different school systems in reducing or ...
(published in: Rivista di Politica Economica ,2013, 3, 7 - 57)
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I2, J1
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2875
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James
J.
Heckman
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The Economics, Technology and Neuroscience of Human Capability Formation
This paper begins the synthesis of two currently unrelated literatures: the human capital approach to health economics and the economics of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation. A lifecycle ...
(published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2007, 104 (33), 13250-13255)
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I12, I21
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2874
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Raquel
Fonseca
Pierre-Carl
Michaud
Thepthida
Sopraseuth
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Entrepreneurship, Wealth, Liquidity Constraints and Start-up Costs
We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model ...
(published in: Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, 2007, 28 (4), 637-674)
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E20, D31, J62
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2873
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Frédéric
Docquier
Hillel
Rapoport
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Skilled Migration: The Perspective of Developing Countries
This chapter focuses on the effects of skilled migration on developing countries. We first present new evidence on the magnitude of the “brain drain” at the international level. Using a stylized ...
(published in: J. Baghwati and G. Hanson (eds.), Skilled Immigration Today: Prospects, Problems and Policies, Oxford University Press, 2009)
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F22, J61
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2872
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Bernt
Bratsberg
Oddbjørn
Raaum
Knut
Røed
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When Minority Labor Migrants Meet the Welfare State
We find that the lifecycle employment profiles of nonwestern male labor migrants who came to Norway in the early 1970s diverge significantly from those of native comparison persons. During the first ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2010, 28 (3), 633-676)
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F22, H55, J21, J61
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2870
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Supriya
Sarnikar
Todd
A.
Sorensen
Ronald
L.
Oaxaca
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Do You Receive a Lighter Prison Sentence Because You Are a Woman? An Economic Analysis of Federal Criminal Sentencing Guidelines
The Federal criminal sentencing guidelines struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2005 required that males and females who commit the same crime and have the same prior criminal record be sentenced ...
(research from this working paper published separately as 'Race and Gender Differences under Federal Sentencing Guidelines' in: American Economic Review , 2012, 102 (3), 256–260 and as 'Do you receive a lighter prison sentence because you are a woman or a white? An economic analysis of the federal criminal sentencing guidelines' in: BE Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2014, 14 (1), 1-54)
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J78, K14, K42
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2869
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Ana
C.
Dammert
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Child Labor and Schooling Response to Changes in Coca Production in Rural Peru
Coca eradication and interdiction are the most common policies aimed at reducing the production and distribution of cocaine in the Andes, but little is known about their impact on households. This ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2008, 86 (1), 164-180)
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J13, J22, O15, R23
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2868
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Pierre-Carl
Michaud
Arthur
van Soest
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How Did the Elimination of the Earnings Test above the Normal Retirement Age Affect Retirement Expectations?
We look at the effect of the 2000 repeal of the earnings test above the normal retirement age (NRA) on retirement expectations of male workers in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Using ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2008, 29 (2), 197-231)
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H55, J22
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2867
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Umut
Oguzoglu
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Dynamics of Work Limitation and Work in Australia
This paper examines the impact of self-reported work limitation on the labour force participation of the Australian working age population. Five consecutive waves of the Household, Income and Labour ...
(revised version published in: Health Economics, 2010, 19 (6), 656-669)
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J28, I12, C81
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