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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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2468
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Rolf
Aaberge
Ugo
Colombino
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Designing Optimal Taxes with a Microeconometric Model of Household Labour Supply
The purpose of this paper is to present an exercise where we identify optimal income tax rules under the constraint of fixed tax revenue. To this end, we estimate a microeconomic model with 78 ...
(revised version published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2013, 115 (2), 449-475)
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H21, H31, J22
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2467
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Martin
Salm
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Can Subjective Mortality Expectations and Stated Preferences Explain Varying Consumption and Saving Behaviors among the Elderly?
This study investigates how subjective mortality expectations and heterogeneity in time and risk preferences affect the consumption and saving behavior of the elderly. Previous studies find that the ...
(revised version published in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2010, 43(3), 1040-1057 )
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D81, D91, J14
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2466
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Lex
Borghans
Bas
ter Weel
Bruce
A.
Weinberg
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Interpersonal Styles and Labor Market Outcomes
This paper develops a framework to understand the role of interpersonal interactions in the labor market including task assignment and wages. Effective interpersonal interactions involve caring, to ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2008, 43 (4), 815-858)
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J21, J24, J31
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2465
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Fei
Peng
W. Stanley
Siebert
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Real Wage Cyclicality in Italy
This paper analyzes the cyclical behaviour of male real wages in Italy using the European Community Household Panel 1994-2001. We distinguish between job stayers (remaining in the same job), and ...
(published in: Labour, 22 (4), 2008, 569 - 591)
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E32, J31, K31
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2464
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Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
Jacob
Benus
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Evaluating Active Labor Market Programs in Romania
We evaluate the presence of effects from joining one of four active labour market programs in Romania in the late 1990s compared to the no-program state. Using rich survey data and propensity score ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2010, 38 (1), 65-84)
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J68
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2463
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Alexander
K.
Koch
Eloic
Peyrache
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Moral Hazard Contracts: Does One Size Fit All?
Incentive theory predicts that contract terms should respond to differences in agents’ productivities. Firms’ practice of anonymous contracts thus appears puzzling. We show that such a ...
(published in:Economics Letters, 2008, 100 (3), 399-401.)
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D80, J33, L14, M12
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2462
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Reza
Arabsheibani
Altay
Mussurov
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Returns to Schooling in Kazakhstan: OLS and Instrumental Variables Approach
This paper examines rates of return to schooling in Kazakhstan using OLS and instrumental variable (IV) methodologies. We use spouse’s education and smoking as instruments. We find that spouse’s ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2007, 15 (2), 342-364)
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C13, I21, J24
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2461
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Xin
Meng
Dominique
Meurs
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Intermarriage, Language, and Economic Assimilation Process: A Case Study of France
Lack of economic assimilation of immigrants often results in social and political unrest of a society. The increased desire to understand better the nature of the assimilation process of immigrants ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1-2), 127-144)
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J61, J12
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2459
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Marcello
Estevão
Filipa
Sa
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Are the French Happy with the 35-Hour Workweek?
Legally mandated reductions in the workweek can be either a constraint on individuals’ choice or a tool to coordinate individuals’ preferences for lower work hours. We confront these two hypotheses ...
(revised version published as 'The 35-hour workweek in France: Straightjacket or welfare improvement? ' in: Economic Policy, 2008, 23 (55), 417-463)
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E24, J22, C21
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2458
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John
F.
Geweke
Joel
L.
Horowitz
M. Hashem
Pesaran
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Econometrics: A Bird's Eye View
As a unified discipline, econometrics is still relatively young and has been transforming and expanding very rapidly over the past few decades. Major advances have taken place in the analysis of ...
(published in: Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume (eds.), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition, Palgrave MacMillan: 2008, 609-642)
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C1, C2, C3, C4, C5
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13088Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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