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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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2569
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Veneta
Andonova
Luis
Diaz-Serrano
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Political Institutions and the Development of Telecommunications
It has traditionally been argued that the development of telecommunications infrastructure is dependent on the quality of countries’ political institutions. We estimate the effect of political ...
(published as 'Political Institutions and the Development of Telecommunications', Journal of Development Economics, 2009, 89, 77-83)
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O1, O3
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2568
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Bernard
M. S.
van Praag
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Perspectives from the Happiness Literature and the Role of New Instruments for Policy Analysis
After having been ignored for a long time by economists, happiness is becoming an object of serious research in 21st century economics. In Section 2 we sketch the present status of happiness ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2007, 53, 42-68)
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B21, B41, D63, I31, I38
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2567
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Robert
J.
Oxoby
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Skill Uncertainty and Social Inference
Research in psychology indicates that individuals often make inferences regarding unknown individual qualities based on potentially irrelevant (but socially observable) information. This paper ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (3), 422-427)
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D63, D83, J64, J70
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2566
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Alicia
Robb
Robert
W.
Fairlie
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Determinants of Business Success: An Examination of Asian-Owned Businesses in the United States
Using confidential and restricted-access microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we find that Asian-owned businesses are 16.9 percent less likely to close, 20.6 percent more likely to have profits of ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (4), 827-858)
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J15, L26
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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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