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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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2637
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Simon
Commander
Jan
Svejnar
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Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance? Evidence from 26 Transition Countries
We analyze a large stratified random sample of firms that provide us with measures of performance and each firm’s top manager’s perception of the severity of business environment constraints faced by ...
(revised version published as 'Business Environment, Exports, Ownership, and Firm Performance' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93 (1), 309 - 337)
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D24, L21, O12, O57
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2636
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Ioannis
Cholezas
Panos
Tsakloglou
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Earnings Inequality in Europe: Structure and Patterns of Inter-Temporal Changes
The paper provides an analysis of the level, the structure and the patterns of inter-temporal change in hourly earnings inequality in Europe. For the purposes of static inequality decomposition ...
(published in: P. Dolton, R. Asplund and E. Barth (eds), Education and Inequality across Europe, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham: 2009, 122-146)
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J31
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2635
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Laszlo
Goerke
Markus
Pannenberg
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Trade Union Membership and Works Councils in West Germany
The fraction of works councillors belonging to a trade union in Germany is much higher than union density among employees. If works councils represent the face of unions, union membership of ...
(published in: Industrielle Beziehungen, 2007, 14 (2), 154-175)
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J51, J53
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2634
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Adrian
Pagan
M. Hashem
Pesaran
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On Econometric Analysis of Structural Systems with Permanent and Transitory Shocks and Exogenous Variables
This paper considers the implications of the permanent/transitory decomposition of shocks for identification of structural models in the general case where the model might contain more than one ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2008, 32 (10), 3376-3395)
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C30, C32, E10
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2633
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David
G.
Blanchflower
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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Hypertension and Happiness across Nations
A modern statistical literature argues that countries such as Denmark are particularly happy while nations like East Germany are not. Are such claims credible? The paper explores this by building on ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27, 218-233)
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I1, I3
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2632
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Pieter
A.
Gautier
Michael
Svarer
Coen
Teulings
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Sin City?
Is moving to the countryside a credible commitment device for couples? We investigate whether lowering the arrival rate of potential alternative partners by moving to a less populated area lowers the ...
(published as 'Sin City? Why is the Divorce Rate Higher in Urban Areas' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2009, 111 (3), 439 - 456)
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J12, J64
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2630
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Bernd
Fitzenberger
Robert
Völter
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Long-Run Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed in East Germany
Public sector sponsored training was implemented at a large scale during the transition process in East Germany. Based on new administrative data, we estimate the differential effects of three ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (4), 730-755)
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C14, J68, H43
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2629
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Ying
Wang
Dave
E.
Marcotte
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Golden Years? The Labor Market Effects of Caring for Grandchildren
The number of Americans raising grandchildren has been rising steadily. In this paper, we add to what is known about the implications of this trend by focusing on the economic effects of raising a ...
(published in: Journal of Marriage and Family, 2007, 69 (5), 1283-1297)
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J13, J14, J22, J26
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2628
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Erkki
Koskela
Rune
Stenbacka
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Equilibrium Unemployment with Outsourcing under Labour Market Imperfections
We study both the various consequences and the incentives of outsourcing. We argue that the wage elasticity of labour demand is increasing as a function of the share of outsourcing, which is ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (3), 284-290)
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E23, E24, J51, J64
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2627
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Antonio
Menezes
Dario
Sciulli
José
António Cabral
Vieira
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Wage Persistence and Labour Market Institutions: An Analysis of Young European Workers
This paper investigates the effects of labour market institutions on wage persistence among young European workers at the beginning of their careers. We use ECHP data from 1995 to 2001 for 13 EU ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2011, 18 (9), 823 - 828)
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J31, C23, J5
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