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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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2668
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Martin
Salm
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The Effect of Pensions on Longevity: Evidence from Union Army Veterans
This study uses changes in pension laws for Union Army veterans as a natural experiment to estimate the causal effect of pensions on longevity, and to examine potential pathways underlying such a ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2011, 212 (552), 595 - 619)
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I12, J14, N41
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2667
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Joachim
Wagner
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Entry, Exit and Productivity: Empirical Results for German Manufacturing Industries
Using panel data from Spain Farinas and Ruano (IJIO 2005) test three hypotheses from a model by Hopenhayn (Econometrica 1992): (H1) Firms that exit in year t were in t-1 less productive than firms ...
(published in: German Economic Review 2010, 11(1), 78-85)
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L11, L60
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2666
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Panu
Poutvaara
Lars
Siemers
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Smoking and Social Interaction
We study the social interaction of non-smokers and smokers as a sequential game, incorporating insights from social psychology and experimental economics into an economic model. Social norms affect ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27 (6), 1503–1515)
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I18, D01, D11
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2665
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Anders
Björklund
Markus
Jäntti
Gary
Solon
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Nature and Nurture in the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status: Evidence from Swedish Children and Their Biological and Rearing Parents
This study uses an extraordinary Swedish data set to explore the sources of the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status. Merging data from administrative sources and censuses, we ...
(published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2007, 7 (2), Article 4)
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I20, J30, J62
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2664
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Paul
W.
Miller
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Occupational Language Requirements and the Value of English in the U.S. Labor Market
This paper is concerned with the English language requirements (both level and importance) of occupations in the United States, as measured by the O*NET database. These scores are linked to microdata ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (1), 353-372)
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J24, J31, J62, F22
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2662
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Sherrilyn
M.
Billger
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Principals as Agents? Investigating Accountability in the Compensation and Performance of School Principals
In this study I examine the relationship between accountability (e.g., state sanctions for poor performance, or the presence of goals required by the district) and public secondary principal pay and ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 61(1), 90-107)
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J3, J48, I22
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2661
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Joachim
Wagner
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Productivity and Size of the Export Market: Evidence for West and East German Plants, 2004
Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality data at the plant level, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2007, 227 (4), 403-408)
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F14, D21
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2660
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Hans
J.
Baumgartner
Marco
Caliendo
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Turning Unemployment into Self-Employment: Effectiveness and Efficiency of Two Start-Up Programmes
Turning unemployment into self-employment has become a major focus of German active labour market policy (ALMP) in recent years. If effective, this would not only reduce Germany’s persistently high ...
(revised version published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2008, 70(3), 347-373)
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J68, C14, H43, M13
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2656
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Joachim
Wagner
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Why More West than East German Firms Export
Using unique new data and a recently introduced non-linear decomposition technique this paper shows that the huge difference in the propensity to export between West and East German plants is to a ...
(published in: International Economics and Economic Policy, 2008, 5 (4), 363-370)
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F14
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2655
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David
A.
Jaeger
Holger
Bonin
Thomas
Dohmen
Armin
Falk
David
B.
Huffman
Uwe
Sunde
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Direct Evidence on Risk Attitudes and Migration
Geographic mobility is important for the functioning of labor markets because it brings labor resources to where they can be most efficiently used. It has long been hypothesized that individuals' ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 92(3), 684–689)
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J61, D81, R23
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