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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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2277
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Volker
Grossmann
Panu
Poutvaara
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Pareto-Improving Bequest Taxation
Altruistic parents may transfer resources to their offspring by providing education, and by leaving bequests. We show that in the presence of wage taxation, a small bequest tax may improve efficiency ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2009, 16 (5), 647-669)
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H21, H31, D64, I21
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2276
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Filipe
Almeida-Santos
Karen
A.
Mumford
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Employee Training, Wage Dispersion and Equality in Britain
We use British household panel data to explore the wage returns to training incidence and intensity (duration) for 6924 employees. We find these returns differ greatly depending on the nature of the ...
(substantially rewritten - see 'Employee Training and Wage Dispersion: White and Blue Collar Workers in Britain', IZA DP No. 4821)
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J24, J31, J41
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2274
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Mark
Ellis
Jamie
Goodwin-White
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1.5 Generation Internal Migration in the US: Dispersion from States of Immigration?
The issue of immigrant spatial concentration and the possibilities for immigrant dispersion through migration features in at least three interrelated debates about immigration. First, the ethnic ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2006, 40 (4), 899-926)
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J61
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2273
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Eskil
Wadensjö
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Part-Time Pensions and Part-Time Work in Sweden
Sweden had a special partial pension scheme between 1976 and 2001. It was one of three part-time pension schemes in the social security system. The other two were a partial early old-age pension, and ...
(published in: European Papers on the New Welfare, 2006, 6, 29-45)
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H55, J22, J26, J14
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2272
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James
P.
Habyarimana
Macartan
Humphreys
Daniel
N.
Posner
Jeremy
Weinstein
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Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision? An Experimental Approach
A large and growing literature links high levels of ethnic diversity to low levels of public goods provision. Yet while the empirical connection between ethnic heterogeneity and the underprovision of ...
(published as 'Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision?' in: American Political Science Review, 2007, 101 (4), 709 - 725 )
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D71, H41, J15, O10, Z13
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2271
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Helena
Skyt
Nielsen
Michael
Svarer
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Educational Homogamy: Preferences or Opportunities?
Individuals match on length and type of education. We investigate whether the systematic relationship between educations of partners is explained by opportunities (e.g. low search frictions) or ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44(4), 1066-86)
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J12, J24
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2270
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Michael
C.
Burda
Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
Philippe
Weil
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The Distribution of Total Work in the EU and US
Using two time-diary data sets each for Germany, Italy the Netherlands and the U.S. from 1985-2003, we demonstrate that Americans work more than Europeans: 1) in the market; 2) in total (market and ...
(published in: Tito Boeri, Michael Burda, Francis Kramarz (eds.), Working Hours and Job Sharing in the EU and USA: Are Americans Crazy? Are Europeans Lazy? Oxford Univ. Press, 2008)
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J22, E24, D13
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2269
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Jamie
Goodwin-White
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Dispersion or Concentration for the 1.5 Generation? Destination Choices of the Children of Immigrants in the US
This paper examines determinants of inter-metropolitan destination choice for foreign-born and 1.5 generation adult children of immigrants in the US. An immigrant concentration-weighted accessibility ...
(published in: Population, Space and Place, 2007, 13 (5), 313 - 331)
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J61
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2268
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Alison
L.
Booth
Margi
Wood
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Back-to-front Down-under? Part-time/Full-time Wage Differentials in Australia
In 2003, part-time employment in Australia accounted for over 42% of the Australian female workforce, nearly 17% of the male workforce, and represented 28% of total employment. Of the OECD countries, ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2008, 47 (1), 114-135)
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J16, J22, J31
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2267
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Sourafel
Girma
Yundan
Gong
Holger
Görg
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Can You Teach Old Dragons New Tricks? FDI and Innovation Activity in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by Chinese State owned enterprises (SOEs). We use a comprehensive firm level panel data ...
(revised version published as 'What determines innovation activity in Chinese state-owned enterprises? The role of foreign direct investment' in: World Development, 2009, 37 (4), 866-873)
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F23, O31
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