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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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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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2480
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Marika
Karanassou
Hector
Sala
Dennis
J.
Snower
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The Macroeconomics of the Labor Market: Three Fundamental Views
We distinguish and assess three fundamental views of the labor market regarding the movements in unemployment: (i) the frictionless equilibrium view; (ii) the chain reaction theory, or prolonged ...
(published in: Portuguese Economic Journal, 2007, 6 (3), 151-180)
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E22, E24, J21, J30
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2479
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Eran
Yashiv
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The Beveridge Curve
The Beveridge curve depicts a negative relationship between unemployed workers and job vacancies, a robust finding across countries. The position of the economy on the curve gives an idea as to the ...
(published in: L. Blume and S. N. Durlauf (eds), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
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E24, E32, J63, J64
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2478
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Panu
Poutvaara
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Public Education in an Integrated Europe: Studying to Migrate and Teaching to Stay?
This paper analyzes public provision of internationally applicable and country-specific education, when job opportunities available to those with internationally applicable education are uncertain. ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 110 (3), 591–608)
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H52, I28, F22, J24, J61
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2477
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Iwan
Barankay
Ben
Lockwood
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Decentralization and the Productive Efficiency of Government: Evidence from Swiss Cantons
Advocates of fiscal decentralization argue that amongst other benefits, it can increase the efficiency of delivery of government services. This paper is one of the first to evaluate this claim ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91 (5-6), 1197-1218)
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H40, H52, H70, I20
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2475
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Enrico
Santarelli
Marco
Vivarelli
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Entrepreneurship and the Process of Firms’ Entry, Survival and Growth
This survey paper aims at critically discussing the recent literature on firm formation and survival and the growth of new-born firms. The basic purpose is to single out the microeconomic ...
(published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2007, 16(3), 455-488)
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L10, M13
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2474
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John
T.
Addison
Paulino
Teixeira
Thomas
Zwick
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Works Councils and the Anatomy of Wages
This paper provides the first full examination of the effect of German works councils on wages using matched employer-employee data (specifically, the LIAB for 2001). We find that works councils are ...
(published as 'German Work Councils and the Anatomy of Wages' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2010, 63(2), 247-270)
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J31, J50
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2473
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Andrew
Henley
Reza
Arabsheibani
Francisco
G.
Carneiro
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On Defining and Measuring the Informal Sector
A range of alternative empirical definitions of informal activity have been employed in the literature. Choice of definition is often dictated by data availability. Different definitions may imply ...
(published in: World Development, 2009, 37(5), 992-1003)
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J21, J42
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2470
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René
Fahr
Uwe
Sunde
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Did the Hartz Reforms Speed-Up Job Creation? A Macro-Evaluation Using Empirical Matching Functions
Starting in January 2003, Germany implemented the first two so-called Hartz reforms, followed by the third and fourth packages of Hartz reforms in January 2004 and January 2005, respectively. The aim ...
(revised version published in: German Economic Review, 2009, 10 (3), 284 - 316)
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J6, J63, J64, J65
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2469
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Ralitza
Dimova
François-Charles
Wolff
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Do Downward Private Transfers Enhance Maternal Labor Supply? Evidence from around Europe
Drawing on a theoretical model of downward private transfers with endogenous labor supply and recursive econometric models based on 2317 mother-daughter pairs from the 2003 SHARE data on 10 European ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (3), 911-933)
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D64, J13, J22
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13088Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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