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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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2179
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Katalin
Balla
János
Köllő
András
Simonovits
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Transition with Heterogeneous Labor
We extend the benchmark model of Aghion and Blanchard (1994), assuming two segments of the emerging private sector that differ in workers’ productivity. We look at the paths of employment, wages, ...
(published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2008, 19 (3), 203-220. )
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J64, P31, H53
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2178
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Hervé
Boulhol
Sabien
Dobbelaere
Sara
Maioli
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Imports as Product and Labor Market Discipline
This paper tests the pro-competitive effect of trade in the product and labor markets of UK manufacturing sectors between 1988 and 2003 using a two-stage estimation procedure. In the first stage, we ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2011, 49(2): 331-361)
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C23, F16, J51, L13
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2177
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Miguel
Malo
Fernando
Muñoz-Bullón
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The Role of Temporary Help Agencies in Facilitating Temp-to-Perm Transitions
This paper evaluates the impact of agency work on temporary workers’ posterior likelihood of being hired on a permanent basis. We use administrative data on two groups of temporary workers for whom ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2008, 29 (2), 138-161 )
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J2, J4
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2176
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Francine
D.
Blau
Lawrence
M.
Kahn
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The U.S. Gender Pay Gap in the 1990s: Slowing Convergence
Using Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) data, we study the slowdown in the convergence of female and male wages in the 1990s compared to the 1980s. We find that changes in human capital ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2006, 60 (1), 45-66)
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J16, J31
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2175
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Peter J.
Sloane
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Rottenberg and the Economics of Sport after 50 Years: An Evaluation
Simon Rottenberg’s seminal 1956 article in the Journal of Political Economy, 1956, is generally accepted as the starting point for the development of the economics of sport. While he recognised that ...
(published in Rodriguez P., Kesenne S. and Garcia J (eds.), Sports Economics after Fifty Years: Essays in Honour of Simon Rottenberg, University of Oviedo Press: 2006)
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J0, L0, L8
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2173
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Thai-Thanh
Dang
Herwig
Immervoll
Daniela
Mantovani
Kristian
Orsini
Holly
Sutherland
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An Age Perspective on Economic Well-Being and Social Protection in Nine OECD Countries
This paper quantifies the economic well-being of different age groups and the extent of their reliance on incomes from public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the ...
(also available as OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper)
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C81, D31, H22, H55
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2171
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Jan
C.
van Ours
Milan
Vodopivec
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Shortening the Potential Duration of Unemployment Benefits Does Not Affect the Quality of Post-Unemployment Jobs: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
This paper investigates how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects the quality of post-unemployment jobs. It takes advantage of a natural experiment introduced by a change in ...
(revised version published as 'Does reducing unemployment insurance generosity reduce job match quality?' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (3-4), 684-695)
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C41, H55, J64, J65
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2170
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Solomon
Polachek
Carlos
Seiglie
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Trade, Peace and Democracy: An Analysis of Dyadic Dispute
At least since 1750 when Baron de Montesquieu declared "peace is the natural effect of trade," a number of economists and political scientists espoused the notion that trade among nations leads to ...
(published in: T. Sandler and K. Hardley (eds.), Handbook of Defense Economics Vol. 2, Elsevier 2007)
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F01, F51, F59, D74
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2169
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Andrew
E.
Clark
David
Masclet
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Effort and Comparison Income: Experimental and Survey Evidence
This paper considers the effect of status or relative income on work effort combining experimental evidence from a gift-exchange game with ISSP survey data. We find a consistent negative effect of ...
(revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2010, 63 (3), 407-426.)
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M54, J33, A13, C92, D63
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2168
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Marco
Caliendo
Frank
M.
Fossen
Alexander
S.
Kritikos
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Risk Attitudes of Nascent Entrepreneurs: New Evidence from an Experimentally-Validated Survey
The influence of risk aversion on the decision to become self-employed is a much discussed topic in the entrepreneurial literature. Conventional wisdom asserts that the role model of an entrepreneur ...
(revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2009, 32 (2), 153-167)
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D81, J23, M13
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