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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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2509
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Stephan
Klasen
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Poverty, Undernutrition, and Child Mortality: Some Inter-Regional Puzzles and their Implications for Research and Policy
This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition, and child mortality in developing countries. While there is, as expected, a close ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2008, 6(1), 89-115)
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I1, I3, O1
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2508
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Christoph
Wunder
Johannes
Schwarze
Gerhard
Krug
Bodo
Herzog
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Welfare Effects of the Euro Cash Changeover
Using merged data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper applies a parametric difference-in-differences approach to assess the real ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2008, 24 (3), 571-586)
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E31, I31
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2507
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Ekkehart
Schlicht
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Selection Wages: An Example
Offering higher wages may enable firms to attract more applicants and screen them more carefully. If firms compete in this way in the labor market, "selection wages" emerge. This note illustrates ...
(substantially enlarged version published as 'Wage Dispersion, Over-Qualification, and Reder Competition' in: Economics e-Journal, 2007, 2007-13)
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J31, J41, J62, J63
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2506
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Holger
Görg
Michael
Henry
Eric
Strobl
Frank
Walsh
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Multinational Companies, Backward Linkages and Labour Demand Elasticities
This paper investigates the link between nationality of ownership and wage elasticities of labour demand at the level of the plant. In particular, we examine whether labour demand in multinationals ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2009, 42( 1), 332-348)
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F23, J23, L23
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2505
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Bernhard
Ebbinghaus
Werner
Eichhorst
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Employment Regulation and Labor Market Policy in Germany, 1991-2005
The paper provides an overview of institutional provisions and reforms regarding employment protection, active and passive labor market policies in Germany as well as of actors' responsibilities in ...
(published in: Paul de Beer and Trudie Schils (eds.), The Labour Market Triangle Employment Protection, Unemployment Compensation and Activation in Europe, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2009, 119-144)
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J60, J68
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2504
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Brian
Krogh
Graversen
Jan
C.
van Ours
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How to Help Unemployed Find Jobs Quickly: Experimental Evidence from a Mandatory Activation Program
This paper investigates how a mandatory activation program in Denmark affects the job finding rate of unemployed workers. The activation program was introduced in an experimental setting where about ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (10-11), 2020-2035)
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C41, H55, J64, J65
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2503
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Albert
Saiz
Susan
M.
Wachter
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Immigration and the Neighborhood
What impact does immigration have on neighborhood dynamics? Within metropolitan areas, we find that housing values have grown relatively more slowly in neighborhoods of immigrant settlement. We ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2011, 3 (2), 169-188)
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J61, R23, R31
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2502
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John
Beirne
Nauro
F.
Campos
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Educational Inputs and Outcomes Before the Transition from Communism
Conventional wisdom suggests that the stocks of human capital were one of the few positive legacies from communism. However, if factories under communism were so inefficient, why would the education ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2007, 15 (1), 57-76)
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O11, J24, P27, P39
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2500
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Johannes
Abeler
Steffen
Altmann
Sebastian
Kube
Matthias
Wibral
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Reciprocity and Payment Schemes: When Equality Is Unfair
A growing literature stresses the importance of reciprocity, especially for employment relations. In this paper, we study the interaction of different payment modes with reciprocity. In particular, ...
(substantially revised version appeared as DP No. 4262)
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C92, J33, J41, M12, M52
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2499
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Graziella
Bertocchi
Chiara
Strozzi
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The Age of Mass Migration: Economic and Institutional Determinants
We study the determinants of 19th century mass migration with special attention to the role of institutional factors beside standard economic fundamentals. We find that economic forces associated ...
(revised version published as "International Migration and the Role of Institutions" in: Public Choice, 2008, 137(1), 81-102)
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F22, P16, N33, O15, K40, F54
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