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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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2437
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Alison
L.
Booth
Hiau
Joo
Kee
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Intergenerational Transmission of Fertility Patterns in Britain
Recent studies by economists exploring the nexus between culture and fertility have focused on cultural transmission from the origin country rather than the origin family. Our paper extends this ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 71 (2), 183–208)
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F22, J15, J16, Z10
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2436
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Charlene
M.
Kalenkoski
David
C.
Ribar
Leslie
S.
Stratton
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The Influence of Wages on Parents’ Allocations of Time to Child Care and Market Work in the United Kingdom
We use time-diary data on couples with children from the 2000 United Kingdom Time Use Survey to examine the impacts of own and partner’s wages on parents’ provision of child care and market work on ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (2), 399-419)
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J1, J2
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2434
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Edwin
Leuven
Mikael
Lindahl
Hessel
Oosterbeek
Dinand
Webbink
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Expanding Schooling Opportunities for 4-Year-Olds
This study presents quasi-experimental estimates of the effect of expanding early schooling enrollment possibilities on early achievement. It exploits two features of the school system in Holland. ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (3), 319-328, revised version available here)
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I21, I28, J24
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2432
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Bart
Cockx
Stéphane R.
Robin
Christian
Goebel
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Income Support Policies for Part-Time Workers: A Stepping-Stone to Regular Jobs? An Application to Young Long-Term Unemployed Women in Belgium
We verify whether an income support policy for part-time workers in Belgium increases the transition from unemployment to non-subsidised, “regular” employment. Using a sample of 8630 long-term ...
(revised version published in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 44 (1), 189 - 229 )
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J64, J68, C41
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2431
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Vincenzo
Caponi
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Intergenerational Transmission of Abilities and Self Selection of Mexican Immigrants
Building on Borjas (1993) I develop an intergenerational model of self-selection of migration and education that allows for a complex selection mechanism. In particular, it allows for the possibility ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2011, 52 (2), 523 - 547)
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F22, J24, J61
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2430
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W. Stanley
Siebert
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Labour Market Regulation in the EU-15: Causes and Consequences – A Survey
Why should floors be set under wages and working conditions by labour market regulations? This paper finds that efficiency arguments are questionable, because of the disemployment effects of strict ...
(published in: R. Vaubel and P. Bernholz (eds.), Political Competition and Economic Regulation, London: Routledge 2007)
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J38, J41, J58, J68, J83, K31
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2429
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Lex
Borghans
Huub
Meijers
Bas
ter Weel
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The Role of Noncognitive Skills in Explaining Cognitive Test Scores
This paper examines whether noncognitive skills – measured both by personality traits and economic preference parameters – influence cognitive tests performance. The basic idea is that noncognitive ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2008, 46 (1), 2-12)
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J20, J24
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2428
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Rainald
Borck
Marco
Caliendo
Viktor
Steiner
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Fiscal Competition and the Composition of Public Spending: Theory and Evidence
In this paper, we consider fiscal competition between jurisdictions. Capital taxes are used to finance a public input and two public goods, one which benefits mobile skilled workers and one which ...
(published in: FinanzArchiv, 2007, 63 (2), 264-277)
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H77, J24, J61
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2427
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Myeong-Su
Yun
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Revisiting Inter-Industry Wage Differentials and the Gender Wage Gap: An Identification Problem
We propose a measure of the industrial gender wage gap which is free from an identification problem by using inter-industry wage differentials, or industrial wage premia. We draw on a recent ...
(see DP9381 for extended and revised version published in: Pacific Economic Review, 2015, 20(4), 569-587)
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C20, J70
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2426
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Valerie
Smeets
Kathryn
Ierulli
Michael
Gibbs
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Mergers of Equals and Unequals
We examine the dynamics of post-merger organizational integration. Our basic question is whether there is evidence of conflict between employees from the two merging firms. Such conflict can arise ...
(published as 'An Empirical Analysis of Post-Merger Organizational Integration' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2016, 118 (3), 463-493)
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M5, G34, J63, M14
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13081Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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