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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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2353
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James
B.
Rebitzer
Lowell
J.
Taylor
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When Knowledge Is an Asset: Explaining the Organizational Structure of Large Law Firms
We study the economics of employment relationships through theoretical and empirical analysis of an unusual set of firms, large law firms. Our point of departure is the “property rights” approach ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2007, 25(2), 201-229)
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J4, L2, M5
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2352
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Marco
Manacorda
Alan
Manning
Jonathan
Wadsworth
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The Impact of Immigration on the Structure of Male Wages: Theory and Evidence from Britain
Immigration to the UK has risen over time. Existing studies of the impact of immigration on the wages of native-born workers in the UK have failed to find any significant effect. This is something of ...
(updated version published as 'The Impact of Immigration on the Structure of Wages: Theory and Evidence from Britain' in Journal of the American Economic Association, 2012, 10 (1), 120 - 151)
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J6
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2351
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António
Dias da
Silva
Bas
van der Klaauw
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Wage Dynamics and Promotions Inside and Between Firms
We focus on the dynamic relation between wage increases, promotions and job changes. We relate our empirical analyses to the theoretical model of Gibbons and Waldman (1999). In the empirical analyses ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (4), 1513-1548)
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M5, J6, L2
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2349
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Isabel
Günther
Andrey
Launov
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Competitive and Segmented Informal Labor Markets
It has been recently argued that the informal sector of the labor market in a developing economy shows a dual structure with one part of it being competitive to the formal sector and another part ...
(revised version published as 'Informal employment in developing countries: Opportunity or last resort?' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 97 (1), 88-98)
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J42, O17
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2348
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Giorgio
Brunello
Daniele
Checchi
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Does School Tracking Affect Equality of Opportunity? New International Evidence
This paper investigates whether at the interaction between family background and school tracking affects human capital accumulation. Our a priori view is that more tracking should reinforce the role ...
(published in: Economic Policy, 52, 2007, 781-861)
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J24
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2347
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Richard
K.
Crump
V. Joseph
Hotz
Guido
W.
Imbens
Oscar
A.
Mitnik
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Moving the Goalposts: Addressing Limited Overlap in Estimation of Average Treatment Effects by Changing the Estimand
Estimation of average treatment effects under unconfoundedness or exogenous treatment assignment is often hampered by lack of overlap in the covariate distributions. This lack of overlap can lead to ...
(shorter version published as "Dealing with Limited Overlap in Estimation of Average Treatment Effects" in: Biometrika, 2009, 96 (1), 187-199)
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C14, C21, C52
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2346
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Rainer
Winkelmann
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Unemployment, Social Capital, and Subjective Well-Being
It has been shown in past research that unemployment has a large negative impact on subjective well-being of individuals. In this paper, I explore whether and to what extent people with more social ...
(published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2009, 10 (4), 421-430)
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I31, J64, Z13
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2345
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Yew
Liang
Lee
Paul
W.
Miller
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Immigrant Selection Systems and Immigrant Health
This paper is an analysis of the determinants of self-reported health status of immigrants, with a particular focus on type of visa used to gain admission. The concept of “health capital” and an ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 26 (4), 555 - 578)
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I12, J15, J61, F22
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2344
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Dwayne
Benjamin
Loren
Brandt
John
T.
Giles
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Inequality and Growth in Rural China: Does Higher Inequality Impede Growth?
We explore the relationship between the level of village inequality in 1986, and the subsequent growth of household incomes from 1986 to 1999. Using a detailed household-level data set from rural ...
(published as 'Did Higher Inequality Impede Growth in Rural China?' in: Economic Journal, 2011, 121 (557), 1281-1309)
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O12, O15, P20
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2343
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Manfred
Antoni
Elke
J.
Jahn
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Do Changes in Regulation Affect Employment Duration in Temporary Work Agencies?
Over the past three decades Germany has repeatedly deregulated the law on temporary agency work by stepwise increasing the maximum period for hiring-out employees and allowing temporary work agencies ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2009, 62 (2), 226-251)
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C41, J23, J40, J48, K31
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