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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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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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2702
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José
M.
Labeaga
José Alberto
Molina
Maria
Navarro Paniagua
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Income Satisfaction and Deprivation in Spain
The first objective of our paper is to identify the determinants of income satisfaction in Spain, with one of these being relative deprivation, and the second is to measure this relative deprivation, ...
(published as 'Deprivation using satisfaction measures in Spain' in: Journal of Policy Modeling, 2011, 33 (2), 287-310)
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D31, D63, I31
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2700
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Christoph
M.
Schmidt
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Policy Evaluation and Economic Policy Advice
Arguably, one of the most important developments in the field of applied economics during the last decades has been the emergence of systematic policy evaluation, with its distinct focus on the ...
(published in: AStA: Advances in Statistical Analysis, 2007, 91 (4), 379-389)
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A11, C01, H50
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2699
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Uta
Schönberg
Johannes
Ludsteck
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Maternity Leave Legislation, Female Labor Supply, and the Family Wage Gap
This paper analyzes the impact of expansions in leave coverage on mothers’ labor market outcomes after childbirth. The focus is on Germany, a country that underwent several changes in maternity leave ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 32 (3), 469-505)
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J16, J18, J24
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2698
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Hugo
R.
Nopo
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The Gender Wage Gap in Chile 1992-2003 from a Matching Comparisons Perspective
This paper analyzes the evolution of the gender wage gap in Chile during the period 1992 to 2003 using the decomposition approach developed in Ńopo (2004). This approach, which decomposes the wage ...
(published in: 'New Century, Old Disparities. Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean'. World Bank Publications, 2012)
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C14, D31, J16, O54
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2696
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Charles
Bellemare
Bruce
S.
Shearer
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Gift Exchange within a Firm: Evidence from a Field Experiment
We present results from a field experiment testing the gift-exchange hypothesis inside a tree-planting firm paying its workforce incentive contracts. Firm managers told a crew of tree planters they ...
(published as "Gift giving and worker productivity: Evidence from a firm-level experiment" in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2009, 67 (1), 233-244)
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J33, M52, C93
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2695
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Yves
Zenou
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Endogenous Job Destruction and Job Matching in Cities
We propose a spatial search-matching model where both job creation and job destruction are endogenous. Workers are ex ante identical but not ex post since their job can be hit by a technological ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2009, 65 (3), 323-336)
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D83, J41, J64, R14
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2694
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Arnaud
Dupuy
Philip
S.
Marey
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Shifts and Twists in the Relative Productivity of Skilled Labor
Skill-biased technical change is usually interpreted in terms of the efficiency parameters of skilled and unskilled labor. This implies that the relative productivity of skilled workers changes ...
(published in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2008, 30 (2), 718-35)
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J20, J31, O30, O40
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2692
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Roberto
Alvarez
Holger
Görg
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Multinationals as Stabilizers? Economic Crisis and Plant Employment Growth
This paper examines the link between multinational enterprises and employment growth at the plant-level. We investigate in detail the comparative response of multinationals and domestic firms to an ...
(published as 'Multinationals as Stabilisers? Economic Crisis, Access to Finance, and Employment Growth' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2012, 48 (7), 847-863)
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F2, O1, J2
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