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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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2431
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Vincenzo
Caponi
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Intergenerational Transmission of Abilities and Self Selection of Mexican Immigrants
Building on Borjas (1993) I develop an intergenerational model of self-selection of migration and education that allows for a complex selection mechanism. In particular, it allows for the possibility ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2011, 52 (2), 523 - 547)
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F22, J24, J61
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2430
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W. Stanley
Siebert
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Labour Market Regulation in the EU-15: Causes and Consequences – A Survey
Why should floors be set under wages and working conditions by labour market regulations? This paper finds that efficiency arguments are questionable, because of the disemployment effects of strict ...
(published in: R. Vaubel and P. Bernholz (eds.), Political Competition and Economic Regulation, London: Routledge 2007)
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J38, J41, J58, J68, J83, K31
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2429
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Lex
Borghans
Huub
Meijers
Bas
ter Weel
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The Role of Noncognitive Skills in Explaining Cognitive Test Scores
This paper examines whether noncognitive skills – measured both by personality traits and economic preference parameters – influence cognitive tests performance. The basic idea is that noncognitive ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2008, 46 (1), 2-12)
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J20, J24
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2428
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Rainald
Borck
Marco
Caliendo
Viktor
Steiner
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Fiscal Competition and the Composition of Public Spending: Theory and Evidence
In this paper, we consider fiscal competition between jurisdictions. Capital taxes are used to finance a public input and two public goods, one which benefits mobile skilled workers and one which ...
(published in: FinanzArchiv, 2007, 63 (2), 264-277)
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H77, J24, J61
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2427
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Myeong-Su
Yun
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Revisiting Inter-Industry Wage Differentials and the Gender Wage Gap: An Identification Problem
We propose a measure of the industrial gender wage gap which is free from an identification problem by using inter-industry wage differentials, or industrial wage premia. We draw on a recent ...
(see DP9381 for extended and revised version published in: Pacific Economic Review, 2015, 20(4), 569-587)
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C20, J70
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2426
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Valerie
Smeets
Kathryn
Ierulli
Michael
Gibbs
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Mergers of Equals and Unequals
We examine the dynamics of post-merger organizational integration. Our basic question is whether there is evidence of conflict between employees from the two merging firms. Such conflict can arise ...
(published as 'An Empirical Analysis of Post-Merger Organizational Integration' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2016, 118 (3), 463-493)
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M5, G34, J63, M14
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2425
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Maarten
Lindeboom
Marta
López
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Inequality in Individual Mortality and Economic Conditions Earlier in Life
We analyze the effect of being born in a recession on the mortality rate later in life in conjunction with social class. We use individual data records from Dutch registers of birth, marriage, and ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2009, 69 (9), 1360–1367)
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I12, J14, E32, N33, N13, C41
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2423
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Bernd
Irlenbusch
Gabriele
K.
Ruchala
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Relative Rewards within Team-Based Compensation
How to design compensation schemes to motivate team members appears to be one of the most challenging problems in the economic analysis of labour provision. We shed light on this issue by ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (2), 141-167)
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C72, C91, H41, J33, L23, M52
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2422
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Magnus
Lofstrom
Chunbei
Wang
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Mexican-Hispanic Self-Employment Entry: The Role of Business Start-Up Constraints
This paper examines causes of the low self-employment rates among Mexican-Hispanics by studying self-employment entry utilizing the 1996 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation ...
(published in: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2007, 613 (1), 32-46)
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J15, J23
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2421
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Leo
Kaas
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Does Equal Pay Legislation Reduce Labour Market Inequality?
This paper considers a labour market model of monopsonistic competition with taste-based discrimination against minority workers to study the effect of equal pay legislation on labour market ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2009, 111(1), 51 - 71)
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D43, J71, J78
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