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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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2377
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Michèle
Belot
Marco
Francesconi
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Can Anyone Be “The” One? Evidence on Mate Selection from Speed Dating
Marriage data show a strong degree of positive assortative mating along a variety of attributes. But since marriage is an equilibrium outcome, it is unclear whether positive sorting is the result of ...
(revised version published as 'Dating Preferences and Meeting Opportunities in Mate Choice Decisions' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2012, 48 (2), 474-507)
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D1, J1
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2376
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William
E.
Even
David
A.
Macpherson
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Pension Investments in Employer Stock
This study examines the consequences of a pension fund investing in the stock of the sponsoring firm. Using a merger of data on pension asset holdings from IRS Form 5500 filings and financial data on ...
(published in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2008, 7 (1), 67-93)
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J30, G20
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2374
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Thomas
Liebig
Patrick
A.
Puhani
Alfonso
Sousa-Poza
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Taxation and Internal Migration: Evidence from the Swiss Census Using Community-Level Variation in Income Tax Rates
We investigate the relationship between income tax rate variation and internal migration for the unique case of Switzerland, whose system of determining tax rates primarily at the community level ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2007, 47 (4), 807-836)
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J61, H73
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2373
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Pieter
A.
Gautier
Bas
van der Klaauw
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Grow Rich While You Sleep: Selection in Experiments with Voluntary Participation
We use data from a promotion campaign of NH-Hoteles to study self-selection of participants in a gift-exchange experiment. The promotion campaign allowed guests to pay any non negative amount of ...
(published as 'Selection in a field experiment with voluntary participation' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2012, 27, 63-84)
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C93
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2372
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C.
Katharina
Spieß
Katharina
Wrohlich
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The Parental Leave Benefit Reform in Germany: Costs and Labour Market Outcomes of Moving towards the Scandinavian Model
Germany is known to have one of the lowest fertility rates among Western European countries and also relatively low employment rates of mothers with young children. Although these trends have been ...
(revised version published as 'Parental Leave Bene t Reform in Germany: Costs and Labour Market Outcomes of Moving towards the Nordic Model' in: Population Research and Policy Review, 2008, 27 (5), 575-591)
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J22, H31, I38
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2371
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Spyros
Konstantopoulos
Larry
Hedges
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How Large an Effect Can We Expect from School Reforms?
Judging the success of school reform requires an interpretative context in which to judge whether effects obtained are large enough to be important or so small as to be a disappointment. The logic of ...
(published in: Teachers College Record, 2008, 110, 1613-1640)
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I20
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2370
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Christian
Belzil
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The Return to Schooling in Structural Dynamic Models: A Survey
This paper contains a survey of the recent literature devoted to the returns to schooling within a dynamic structural framework. I present a historical perspective on the evolution of the literature, ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2007, 51 (5), 1059-1105)
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J2, J3
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2369
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Philippe
Lemistre
Nicolas
Moreau
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Spatial Mobility and Returns to Education: Some Evidence from a Sample of French Youth
The purpose of this article is to reevaluate the returns to geographic mobility and to the level of education, taking into account the interaction between these two variables. We have at our disposal ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2009, 49 (1), 149-176)
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J31, J61, I21
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2367
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Gerd
Muehlheusser
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Regulating Damage Clauses in (Labor) Contracts
We analyze the role of damage clauses in labor contracts using a model in which a worker may want to terminate his current employment relationship and work for another firm. We show that the initial ...
(published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2007, 163 (4), 531-551)
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K12, K31, M12
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2366
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Leif
Danziger
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Extension of Labor Contracts and Optimal Backpay
This paper explains why a union and a firm might settle on a contract duration that may later be extended and characterizes the optimal backpay for the holdout period. It is shown that the choice ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (1), 18-36)
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J41
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12991Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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