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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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2565
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Flavio
Cunha
James
J.
Heckman
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A New Framework for the Analysis of Inequality
This paper presents a new framework for analyzing inequality that moves beyond the anonymity postulate. We estimate the determinants of sectoral choice and the joint distributions of outcomes across ...
(published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2008, 12 (Supplement 2), 315-354)
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I30, D80
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2564
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Robert
M.
Hutchens
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Worker Characteristics, Job Characteristics, and Opportunities for Phased Retirement
This paper uses a telephone survey of 950 employers to examine employer-side restrictions on phased retirement. Not only did the survey collect information on establishment level policies, it also ...
(substantially revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (6), 1010-1021)
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J26, J23, J14
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2562
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Mariacristina
Piva
Marco
Vivarelli
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Corporate Skills as an Ex-Ante Incentive to R&D Investment
Using a balanced panel of 215 Italian manufacturing firms over the 1995-2000 period, this paper investigates the determinants of R&D investment at the level of the firm. While finding further support ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (8), 835-852)
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O31
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2560
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Matthew
D.
Rablen
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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Mortality and Immortality
It has been known for centuries that the rich and famous have longer lives than the poor and ordinary. Causality, however, remains trenchantly debated. The ideal experiment would be one in which ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27 (6), 1462-1471)
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I12
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2559
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Marko
Koethenbuerger
Panu
Poutvaara
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Rent Taxation in a Small Open Economy: The Effect on Transitional Generations
We show that taxation of rents may yield an intergenerational Pareto-improvement in a small open economy provided tax revenues are earmarked to reduce wage taxes. Previous literature has shown that ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2009, 16 (5), 697-709)
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H22, E62, F02
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2558
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Volker
Grossmann
Thomas
M.
Steger
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Growth, Development, and Technological Change
The theory of endogenous technical change has deeply contributed to our understanding of the fundamental sources of economic growth and development. In this chapter we survey important contributions ...
(published in: Wei-Bin Zhang (ed.), UNESCO Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (Mathematical Models in Economics), Eolss Publishers, Oxford, UK: 2007)
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O10, O30, O40
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2557
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Xin
Meng
Jim
Ryan
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Does a Food for Education Program Affect School Outcomes? The Bangladesh Case
The Food for Education (FFE) program was introduced to Bangladesh in 1993. This paper evaluates the effect of this program on school participation and duration of schooling using a household survey ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (2), 415-447)
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J38, I28
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2556
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Torben
M.
Andersen
Allan
Sørensen
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Product Market Integration and Labour Markets: Aggregate Gains at the Cost of More Inequality?
Important labour market consequences of globalization may arise via product market integration which affects the room for wage negotiations and generates job creation and destruction through ...
(published as 'Product Market Integration, Rents and Wage Inequality' in: Review of International Economics, 2011, 19 (4), 595 - 608)
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F15, F16, J39, J50, J63
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2555
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Herwig
Immervoll
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Minimum Wages, Minimum Labour Costs and the Tax Treatment of Low-Wage Employment
International comparisons of minimum-wage levels have largely focused on the gross value of minimum wages, ignoring the effects of taxation on both labour costs and the net income of employees. This ...
(corrected and updated version published in OECD (2007), Taxing Wages 2005/2006)
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J2, J3, H2, H3
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2554
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Jo
Blanden
Paul
Gregg
Lindsey
Macmillan
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Accounting for Intergenerational Income Persistence: Noncognitive Skills, Ability and Education
We analyse in detail the factors that lead to intergenerational persistence among sons, where this is measured as the association between childhood family income and later adult earnings. We seek to ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (519), C43-C60)
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J62, J13, J31
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