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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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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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2498
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John
Ermisch
Chiara
D.
Pronzato
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Intra-Household Allocation of Resources: Inferences from Non-Resident Fathers’ Child Support Payments
A large proportion of divorced and separated fathers form new partnerships. The new partner’s preferences are not likely to put much weight on expenditures on the man’s children from his previous ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (527), 347-362)
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D12, D13
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2497
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T. H.
Gindling
Katherine
Terrell
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Minimum Wages, Globalization and Poverty in Honduras
To be competitive in the global economy, some argue that Latin American countries need to reduce or eliminate labor market regulations such as minimum wage legislation because they constrain job ...
(revised version published in: World Development, 2010, 38(6), 908-918)
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J23, J31, J38
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2496
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Benoit
Dostie
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Wages, Productivity and Aging
In this article, we estimate age based wage and productivity differentials using linked employer-employee Canadian data from the Workplace and Employee Survey 1999-2003. Data on the firm side is used ...
(published in: De Economist, 2011, 159 (2), 139 - 158)
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J31
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2495
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Ken
Clark
Stephen
Drinkwater
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Changing Patterns of Ethnic Minority Self-Employment in Britain: Evidence from Census Microdata
The over-representation of certain ethnic minority and immigrant groups in self-employment is, in common with other developed countries, a notable feature of the UK labour market. Compared to ...
(revised version published as 'Patterns of Ethnic Self-Employment in Time and Space: Evidence from British Census Microdata' in: Small Business Economics, 2010, 34 (3), 323-338)
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J23, J7
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2494
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Richard
A.
Easterlin
Anke
Zimmermann
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Life Satisfaction and Economic Outcomes in Germany Pre- and Post-Unification
Throughout Germany real income has trended upward since 1991, but life satisfaction has risen in the East, fallen in the West, and been fairly stable for Germany as a whole. By 1997 the initial ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 68 (3-4), 433-444)
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D60, I31, D1, O52
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2493
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Peter
J.
Kuhn
Carol
McAusland
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The International Migration of Knowledge Workers: When Is Brain Drain Beneficial?
We consider the welfare effects of the emigration of workers who produce a public good (knowledge). We distinguish between the knowledge diversion and knowledge creation effects of such emigration, ...
(revised version published as 'Consumers and the brain drain: Product and process design and the gains from emigration' in: Journal of International Economics, 2009, 78 (2), 287–291)
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F22, J61
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2492
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Barbara
Hanel
Regina
T.
Riphahn
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Financial Incentives and the Timing of Retirement: Evidence from Switzerland
We use reforms in the Swiss public retirement system to identify the responsiveness of retirement timing to financial incentives. A permanent reduction of retirement benefits by 3.4 percent induces ...
(published as 'The Timing of Retirement - New Evidence from Swiss Female Workers' in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19(5), 718-728)
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J26, H55, J14
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2491
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Juan
J.
Dolado
Eduardo
Morales
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Which Factors Determine the Grades of Undergraduate Students in Economics? Some Evidence from Spain
This paper analyses the determinants of grades achieved in three core subjects by first-year Economics undergraduate students at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, over the period 2001-2005. Gender, ...
(published in: Investigaciones Económicas (2009), 23, 179-210.)
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I21, I29
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2488
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Wiji
Arulampalam
Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
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Persistence in Infant Mortality: Evidence for the Indian States
This paper investigates the high correlation in infant mortality across siblings using micro-data for each of the fifteen major states of India. The main finding is that, in thirteen of the fifteen ...
(published in: Population Studies, 2008, 62 (2), 171-190.)
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J1, C1, I1, O1
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