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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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2311
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Niclas
Berggren
Henrik
Jordahl
Panu
Poutvaara
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The Looks of a Winner: Beauty, Gender and Electoral Success
We study the role of beauty in politics. For the first time, focus is put on differences in how women and men evaluate female and male candidates and how different candidate traits relate to success ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (1-2), 8-15)
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D72, J45, J7
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2310
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Armin
Falk
David
B.
Huffman
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Studying Labor Market Institutions in the Lab: Minimum Wages, Employment Protection and Workfare
A central concern in economics is to understand the interplay between institutions and labor markets. In this paper we argue that laboratory experiments are a powerful tool for studying labor market ...
(published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2007, 163 (1), 30-45)
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J9, I38, K31, J3
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2309
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Steffen
Habermalz
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The Speed of Employer Learning and Job Market Signaling Revisited
This paper discusses the claim made in Altonji and Pierret (1997) and Lange (2005) that a high speed of employer learning indicates a low value of job market signaling. The claim is first discussed ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2011, 18 (7), 607-610)
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I20, D8, J41
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2308
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Sarit
Cohen Goldner
Chemi
Gotlibovski
Nava
Kahana
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The Role of Marriage in Immigrants’ Human Capital Investment under Liquidity Constraints
This paper presents a two-period human capital investment model of married and single immigrants under binding liquidity constraints, which explains alternative patterns in the host country's labor ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (4), 983-1003)
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D10, J24, J61
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2307
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Andrew
Burke
Felix
FitzRoy
Michael
A.
Nolan
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What Makes a Die-Hard Entrepreneur? Beyond the ‘Employee or Entrepreneur’ Dichotomy
The paper makes three contributions to the economics literature on entrepreneurship. We offer a new measure of entrepreneurship which accounts for variations in persistence in self-employment and as ...
(published in: Small Business Economics 2008, 31, 93 - 115)
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J23, C25
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2305
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David
L.
Dickinson
Ronald
L.
Oaxaca
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Statistical Discrimination in Labor Markets: An Experimental Analysis
Statistical discrimination occurs when distinctions between demographic groups are made on the basis of real or imagined statistical distinctions between the groups. While such discrimination is ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2009, 76 (1), 16-31)
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J31, J71, C92
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2304
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Olivier
L'Haridon
Franck
Malherbet
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Employment Protection Reform in Search Economies
The design of the employment protection legislation (EPL) is of a particular acuity in the European debate on the contours of the EPL reform. In this article we used an equilibrium unemployment model ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2009, 53 (3), 255-273)
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J41, J48, J60
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2303
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Štepán
Jurajda
Teodora
Paligorova
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Female Managers and their Wages in Central Europe
This paper examines the gender gaps in employment and wages among top- and lower-level managerial employees in a recent sample of Czech firms. Unlike the existing analyses of managerial gender pay ...
(published as "Czech Female Managers and their Wages" in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (3), 342-351)
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J31, J71, P31
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2302
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Suzanne
Grazier
Peter J.
Sloane
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Accident Risk, Gender, Family Status and Occupational Choice in the UK
Many studies show that women are more risk averse than men. In this paper, following DeLeire and Levy (2004) for the US, we use family structure as a proxy for the degree of risk aversion to test the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15(5), 938-957)
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J0, J2, K2
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2301
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Jidong
Huang
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The Earnings of American Jewish Men: Human Capital, Denomination and Religiosity
This paper analyzes the determinants of the earnings of American Jewish men using the 2000/01 National Jewish Population Survey. Non-response to the question on earnings is analyzed. Earnings are ...
(published in: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 2008, 47 (4), 694-709)
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J31, J15, Z12, C81
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