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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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2486
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Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Ximing
Yue
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Rural People’s Perception of Poverty in China
Subjective Poverty Line methodology is applied to rural China 2002 using a sample from 22 provinces. Respondents were asked two questions: one on amount of food necessary and another on amount of ...
(Revised version published as "Rural People's Perception of Income Adequacy in China" in: China Agricultural Economic Review, 2012, 4 (3), 264-280.)
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I32, O15, P36
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2485
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Christina
Gathmann
Uta
Schönberg
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How General Is Specific Human Capital?
Previous studies assume that labor market skills are either fully general or specific to the firm. This paper uses patterns in mobility and wages to analyze how portable specific skills are in the ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2020, 28 (1), 1 - 49)
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J24, J41, J62
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2484
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Robert
Drago
Mark
Wooden
David
Black
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Long Work Hours: Volunteers and Conscripts
Panel data from Australia are used to study the prevalence of work hours mismatch among long hours workers and, more importantly, how that mismatch persists and changes over time, and what factors ...
(Published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2009, 47(3), 571-600. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8543.2009.00717.x)
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J22
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2483
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Bas
ter Weel
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Does Manager Turnover Improve Firm Performance? New Evidence Using Information from Dutch Soccer, 1986-2004
This research examines the impact of manager turnover on firm performance using information from the Dutch soccer league in the period 1986-2004. The advantage of using sports data is that both ...
(published in: De Economist, 2011, 159 (3), 279-303)
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J24
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2481
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Pia
M.
Orrenius
Madeline
Zavodny
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Does Immigration Affect Wages? A Look at Occupation-Level Evidence
Previous research has reached mixed conclusions about the effect of higher levels of immigration on the wages of natives. This paper reexamines this question using data from the Current Population ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (5), 757-773)
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J61
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2480
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Marika
Karanassou
Hector
Sala
Dennis
J.
Snower
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The Macroeconomics of the Labor Market: Three Fundamental Views
We distinguish and assess three fundamental views of the labor market regarding the movements in unemployment: (i) the frictionless equilibrium view; (ii) the chain reaction theory, or prolonged ...
(published in: Portuguese Economic Journal, 2007, 6 (3), 151-180)
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E22, E24, J21, J30
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2479
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Eran
Yashiv
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The Beveridge Curve
The Beveridge curve depicts a negative relationship between unemployed workers and job vacancies, a robust finding across countries. The position of the economy on the curve gives an idea as to the ...
(published in: L. Blume and S. N. Durlauf (eds), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
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E24, E32, J63, J64
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2478
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Panu
Poutvaara
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Public Education in an Integrated Europe: Studying to Migrate and Teaching to Stay?
This paper analyzes public provision of internationally applicable and country-specific education, when job opportunities available to those with internationally applicable education are uncertain. ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 110 (3), 591–608)
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H52, I28, F22, J24, J61
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2477
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Iwan
Barankay
Ben
Lockwood
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Decentralization and the Productive Efficiency of Government: Evidence from Swiss Cantons
Advocates of fiscal decentralization argue that amongst other benefits, it can increase the efficiency of delivery of government services. This paper is one of the first to evaluate this claim ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91 (5-6), 1197-1218)
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H40, H52, H70, I20
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2475
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Enrico
Santarelli
Marco
Vivarelli
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Entrepreneurship and the Process of Firms’ Entry, Survival and Growth
This survey paper aims at critically discussing the recent literature on firm formation and survival and the growth of new-born firms. The basic purpose is to single out the microeconomic ...
(published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2007, 16(3), 455-488)
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L10, M13
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