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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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2298
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Abdurrahman
B.
Aydemir
Arthur
Sweetman
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First and Second Generation Immigrant Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes: A Comparison of the United States and Canada
The educational and labor market outcomes of the first, first-and-a-half, second and third generations of immigrants to the United States and Canada are compared. These countries’ immigration flows ...
(published as ''First and Second Generation Immigrant Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes: A Comparison of the United States and Canada' in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 27, 215-70.)
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J61, J62, I29
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2297
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Björn
Brügemann
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Employment Protection: Tough to Scrap or Tough to Get?
Differences in employment protection across countries appear to be quite persistent over time. One mechanism that could explain this persistence is the so called constituency effect: high employment ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (521), F386 - F415)
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E24, J41, J65
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2296
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Antonio
Cabrales
Gary
Charness
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Competition, Hidden Information and Efficiency: An Experiment
We devise an experiment to explore the effect of different degrees of competition on optimal contracts in a hidden-information context. In our benchmark case, each principal is matched with one agent ...
(revised version published as 'Hidden information, bargaining power, and efficiency: an experiment' in: Experimental Economics, 2011, 14, (2), 133-159.)
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A13, B49, C91, C92, D21, J41
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2295
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Adama
Konseiga
Eliya
Msiyaphazi
Zulu
Yazoumé
Yé
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Assessing the Effect of Mother’s Migration on Childhood Mortality in the Informal Settlements of Nairobi
Between one and two million migrants reside in cramped conditions in Nairobi’s slums without proper access to sanitation or affordable clean water. Children in such areas are exposed to enormous ...
(published in: M. Collinson, K. Adazu, M. White, S. Findley, (eds.), The Dynamics of Migration, Health and Livelihoods: INDEPTH Network Perspectives, Ashgate, 2009, 128 - 138)
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C24, C41, I12, R23
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2294
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Rakesh
Basant
Simon
Commander
Rupert
Harrison
Naercio
Menezes-Filho
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ICT Adoption and Productivity in Developing Countries: New Firm Level Evidence from Brazil and India
This paper uses a unique new data set on nearly a thousand manufacturing firms in Brazil and India to investigate the determinants of ICT adoption and its impact on performance in both countries. The ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011)
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J2, E20, L20, L60, O33
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2293
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Dirk
Sliwka
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Trust as a Signal of a Social Norm and the Hidden Costs of Incentive Schemes
An explanation for motivation crowding-out phenomena is developed in a social preferences framework. Besides selfish and fair or altruistic types a third type of agents is introduced: These ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2007, 97 (3), 999-1012)
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M52, J33, D23
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2292
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Alexandre
Mas
Enrico
Moretti
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Peers at Work
We investigate how and why the productivity of a worker varies as a function of the productivity of her co-workers in a group production process. In theory, the introduction of a high productivity ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2009, 99 (1), 112-145)
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J01
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2288
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Michael
Kosfeld
Akira
Okada
Arno
Riedl
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Institution Formation in Public Goods Games
Centralized sanctioning institutions are of utmost importance for overcoming free-riding tendencies and enforcing outcomes that maximize group welfare in social dilemma situations. However, little is ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2009, 99 (4), 1335-1355)
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C72, C92, D72
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2287
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Nil Demet
Güngör
Aysit
Tansel
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Brain Drain from Turkey: An Investigation of Students' Return Intentions
The emigration of skilled individuals from Turkey attracted greater media attention and the interest of policymakers in Turkey, particularly after the experience of recurrent economic crises that ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 40 (23), 2008, 3069 - 3087)
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F20, F22
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2286
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Björn
Brügemann
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Does Employment Protection Create Its Own Political Support?
This paper investigates the ability of employment protection to generate its own political support. A version of the Mortensen-Pissarides model is used for this purpose. Under the standard assumption ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10 (2), 369 - 416)
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E24, J41, J65
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