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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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2713
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Erzo
F.P.
Luttmer
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Does the Minimum Wage Cause Inefficient Rationing?
This paper investigates whether the minimum wage leads to inefficient job rationing. By not allowing wages to clear the labor market, the minimum wage could cause workers with low reservation wages ...
(published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2007, 7(1), Article 49)
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J30, J21, D61
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2712
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Atanas
Christev
Allen
Featherstone
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A Note on Allen-Uzawa Partial Elasticities of Substitution: The Case of the Translog Cost Function
This note provides a useful property of the Allen-Uzawa partials for the translog cost function. It also suggests how the main results extend to any functional form with certain properties. The ...
(revised version published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2009, 16 (11), 1165 - 1169)
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C13, C52, D20
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2711
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Sebastián
Calónico
Hugo
R.
Nopo
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Returns to Private Education in Peru
The private provision of educational services has been representing an increasing fraction of the Peruvian schooling system, especially in recent last decades. While there have been many claims about ...
(published as 'Where Did You Go to School? Private-Public Differences in Schooling Trajectories and Their Role on Earnings' in: Well-Being and Social Policy, 2007, 3 (1), 25-46)
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J31, I2
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2710
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Panu
Poutvaara
Mikael
Priks
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Unemployment and Gang Crime: Could Prosperity Backfire?
Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that ...
(published as 'Unemployment and gang crime: can prosperity backfire?' in: Economics of Governance, 2011, 12 (3), 259 - 273)
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K42, D71, D74
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2709
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Wang-Sheng
Lee
Umut
Oguzoglu
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Are Youths on Income Support Less Happy? Evidence from Australia
The central research question addressed in this paper is how receipt of income support payments affects the well-being of youths. Using 1997-2004 panel data from a nationally representative survey of ...
(published in: Australian Economic Review, 2007, 40 (4), 369-384)
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I31, I38, C33
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2708
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Arnaud
Dupuy
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Will the Skill-Premium in the Netherlands Rise in the Next Decades?
While the skill-premium has been rising sharply in the US and the UK for 20 years, the Dutch skill-premium decreased for much of that period and only started to rise in the early 90s. In this paper, ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2007, 39 (21), 2723-31)
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D33, J11, J38
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2706
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Manuela
Angelucci
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Love on the Rocks: Alcohol Abuse and Domestic Violence in Rural Mexico
What causes alcohol abuse and domestic violence and how can we stop them? These behaviors have multiple determinants, making the effects of changes in wife's and husband's income ambiguous. This ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2008, 8(1), Article 43)
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D13, I18, O12
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2705
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Michael
C.
Burda
Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
Philippe
Weil
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Total Work, Gender and Social Norms
Using time-diary data from 25 countries, we demonstrate that there is a negative relationship between real GDP per capita and the female-male difference in total work time per day – the sum of work ...
(published as 'Total Work and Gender: Facts and Possible Explanations' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (1), 239-261)
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J22, J16, D13
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2704
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Ryan
Kellogg
Hendrik
Wolff
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Does Extending Daylight Saving Time Save Energy? Evidence from an Australian Experiment
Several countries are considering extending Daylight Saving Time (DST) in order to conserve energy, and the U.S. will extend DST by one month beginning in 2007. However, projections that these ...
(published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2008, 56 (3), 207-220)
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Q48, C21
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2703
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Belton
M.
Fleisher
Haizheng
Li
Min Qiang
Zhao
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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Regional Inequality in China
We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth patterns can be understood as a function of several interrelated factors, which ...
(substantially revised version published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 92(2), 215-231)
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O15, O18, O47, O53
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