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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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2363
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Michael
Lechner
Conny
Wunsch
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Active Labour Market Policy in East Germany: Waiting for the Economy to Take Off
We investigate the effects of the most important East German active labour market programmes on the labour market outcomes of their participants. The analysis is based on a large and informative ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2009, 17 (4), 661-702)
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J68
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2362
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Jeffrey
M.
Hirsch
Barry
Hirsch
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The Rise and Fall of Private Sector Unionism: What Next for the NLRA?
In this Article, we ask whether the National Labor Relations Act, enacted over 70 years ago, can remain relevant in a competitive economy where nonunion employer discretion is the dominant form of ...
(published in: Florida State University Law Review, 2007, 34 (4), 1133-1180)
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K31, J5, J88
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2361
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Guy
Navon
Ilan
Tojerow
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The Effects of Rent-Sharing on the Gender Wage Gap in the Israeli Manufacturing Sector
This paper analyzes the impact of workplace characteristics on individual wages based on a unique cross-section matched employer-employee dataset for the Israeli private manufacturing sector in 1995; ...
(published in: Labour, 2013, 27 (3), 331-349)
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D31, J16, J31, J70
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2360
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Leif
Danziger
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The Elasticity of Labor Demand and the Optimal Minimum Wage
Contrary to widespread belief, we show that low-pay workers might not generally prefer that the minimum wage rate be increased to a level where the labor demand is unitary elastic. Rather, there ...
(Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22, (3), 757-772)
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J38
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2359
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Richard
Akresh
Philip
Verwimp
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Civil War, Crop Failure, and the Health Status of Young Children
Economic shocks at birth have lasting impacts on children’s health several years after the shock. We calculate height for age z-scores for children under age five using data from a Rwandan nationally ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2011, 59(4), 777-810)
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I12, J13, O12, O15
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2358
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Maarten
Lindeboom
France
Portrait
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Conjugal Bereavement Effects on Health and Mortality at Advanced Ages
We specify a model for the lifetimes of spouses and the dynamic evolution of health, allowing spousal death to have causal effects on the health and mortality of the survivor. We estimate the model ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (4), 774-794)
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I12, I11, J14, J12, C41
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2357
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Juanna
Schrøter
Joensen
Helena
Skyt
Nielsen
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Is there a Causal Effect of High School Math on Labor Market Outcomes?
Outsourcing of jobs to low-wage countries has increased the focus on the accumulation of skills – such as Math skills – in high-wage countries. In this paper, we exploit a high school pilot scheme to ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44 (1), 171-198)
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I20, J24
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2356
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Nicola
Coniglio
Giuseppe
De Arcangelis
Laura
Serlenga
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Intentions to Return of Undocumented Migrants: Illegality as a Cause of Skill Waste
In this paper we show that highly skilled undocumented migrants are more likely to return home than migrants with low or no skills when illegality causes “skill waste”, i.e. when illegality reduces ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 13 (4), 2009, 641 - 657)
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F22, C25
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2355
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Michael
Lechner
Conny
Wunsch
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Are Training Programs More Effective When Unemployment Is High?
We estimate short, medium, and long-run individual labor market effects of training programs for unemployed by following program participation on a monthly basis over a ten-year period. Since ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2009, 27 (4), 653-692)
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J68
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2354
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Lennart
Flood
N. Anders
Klevmarken
Andreea
Mitrut
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The Income of the Swedish Baby Boomers
This paper studies the income of Swedish households belonging to the baby boom generation, i.e. those born in the 1940-50. An international comparison as well as an historical presentation of income ...
(published in A. Klevmarken and B. Lindgren (eds.), Simulating an Ageing Population. A microsimulation approach to Sweden, Contributions to Economic Analysis No 285, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Bingley, U.K. 2008)
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H24, H31, H55
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12990Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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