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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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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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2487
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William
T.
Dickens
Lorenz
Götte
Erica
L.
Groshen
Steinar
Holden
Julián
Messina
Mark
E.
Schweitzer
Jarkko
Turunen
Melanie
E.
Ward-Warmedinger
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How Wages Change: Micro Evidence from the International Wage Flexibility Project
How do the complex institutions involved in wage setting affect wage changes? The International Wage Flexibility Project provides new microeconomic evidence on how wages change for continuing ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2007, 21 (2), 195-214)
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E3, J3, J5
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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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