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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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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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2691
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Daniele
Checchi
Jelle
Visser
Herman
G.
van de Werfhorst
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Inequality and Union Membership: The Impact of Relative Earnings Position and Inequality Attitudes
In this paper we examine the connection between union membership and economic inequality. Using several surveys from the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) covering the period 1985-2002, we ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2009, 48 (1), 84-108)
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J51
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2690
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Iván
Fernández-Val
Francis
Vella
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Bias Corrections for Two-Step Fixed Effects Panel Data Estimators
This paper introduces bias-corrected estimators for nonlinear panel data models with both time invariant and time varying heterogeneity. These include limited dependent variable models with both ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2011, 163 (2), 144-162)
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C23, J31, J51
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2689
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Carlos
Pestana
Barros
Antonio
Menezes
José
António Cabral
Vieira
Nicolas
Peypoch
Bernardin
Solonandrasana
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An Analysis of Hospital Efficiency and Productivity Growth Using the Luenberger Productivity Indicator
We analyze the efficiency and productivity growth of a representative sample of Portuguese hospitals from 1997 to 2004, using an innovative approach by employing the directional distance function and ...
(published in: Health Care Management Science, 2008, 11 (4), 373-381)
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I11, I18, L5
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2687
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Marco
Caliendo
Alexander
S.
Kritikos
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Is Entrepreneurial Success Predictable? An Ex-Ante Analysis of the Character-Based Approach
This paper empirically analyzes whether the character-based approach, which is based on the personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction of entrepreneurial ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2008, 61(2), 189-214)
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M13, J23, C13
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2686
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Yoram
Amiel
Frank
A.
Cowell
Xavier
Ramos
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On the Measurement of Polarisation: A Questionnaire Study
Starting from the axiomatisation of polarisation contained in Esteban and Ray (1994) and Chakravarty and Majumdar (2001) we investigate whether people's perceptions of income polarisation is ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2010, 56 (1), 23-46)
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D63
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