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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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2150
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John
Bennett
Saul
Estrin
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Regulatory Barriers and Entry in Developing Economies
We model entry by entrepreneurs into new markets in developing economies with regulatory barriers in the form of licence fees and bureaucratic delay. Because laissez faire leads to ‘excessive’ entry, ...
(published in Review of Development Economics, 2013, 17, 685-698)
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L50, O14
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2149
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Andrea
Ichino
Fabrizia
Mealli
Tommaso
Nannicini
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From Temporary Help Jobs to Permanent Employment: What Can We Learn from Matching Estimators and their Sensitivity?
The diffusion of Temporary Work Agency (TWA) jobs originated a harsh policy debate and ambiguous empirical evidence. Results for the US, based on quasi-experimental evidence, suggest that a TWA ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2008, 23 (3), 305-327)
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C2, C8, J6
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2148
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Marina
Bakanova
Saul
Estrin
Igor
Pelipas
Sergei
Pukovich
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Enterprise Restructuring in Belarus
We explore the impact of privatization and the entry of new firms on enterprise performance in Belarus, a transition economy in which reform and market-orientated institutional development has been ...
(published in Saul Estrin, Grzegorz Kolodko and Milica Uvalic (eds.), Transition and Beyond: A Tribute to Mario Nuti, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
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P2, P31, L1
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2147
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Anders
Frederiksen
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Gender Differences in Job Separation Rates and Employment Stability: New Evidence from Employer-Employee Data
I analyze the job separation process to learn about gender differences in job separation rates and employment stability. An essential finding is that employer-employee data are required to identify ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15(5), 915-937)
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C23, E24, J63
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2146
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Timothy
J.
Hatton
Jeffrey
G.
Williamson
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A Dual Policy Paradox: Why Have Trade and Immigration Policies Always Differed in Labor-Scarce Economies?
Today's labor-scarce economies have open trade and closed immigration policies, while a century ago they had just the opposite, open immigration and closed trade policies. Why the inverse policy ...
(published in T.J. Hatton. K. H. O'Rourke and A. M. Taylor (eds.), The New Comparative Economic History: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey G. Williamson, Cambridge Mass: MIT Press, 2007)
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F22, J1, O1
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2145
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David
A.
Jaeger
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Green Cards and the Location Choices of Immigrants in the United States, 1971-2000
This paper documents where immigrants who enter the U.S. with different types of visas (“green cards”) choose to live initially and what determines those location choices. Using population data on ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 27, 131-184)
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J61, J18, C35
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2144
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Markus
Frölich
Michael
Lechner
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Exploiting Regional Treatment Intensity for the Evaluation of Labour Market Policies
We estimate the effects of active labour market policies (ALMP) on subsequent employment by nonparametric instrumental variables and matching estimators. Very informative administrative Swiss data ...
(published in: Journal of American Statistical Association, 2010, 105 (491), 1014-1029)
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J68, C14, C21
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2143
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Marco
Francesconi
Abhinay
Muthoo
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Control Rights in Public-Private Partnerships
This paper develops a theory of the allocation of authority between two parties that produce impure public goods. We show that the optimal allocation depends on technological factors, the parties’ ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (3), 551-589)
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D02, D23, H41, L31
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2142
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Erling
Barth
Bernt
Bratsberg
Torbjørn
Haegeland
Oddbjørn
Raaum
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Who Pays for Performance?
Using Norwegian establishment surveys from 1997 and 2003, we show that performance-related pay is more prevalent in firms where workers of the main occupation have a high degree of autonomy in how to ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2008, 20 (1), 8-29)
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J33, M52
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2141
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James
Albrecht
Lucas
Navarro
Susan
Vroman
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The Effects of Labor Market Policies in an Economy with an Informal Sector
In many economies, there is substantial economic activity in the informal sector, beyond the reach of government policy. Labor market policies, which by definition apply only to the formal sector, ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (539), 1105 - 1129)
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E26, J64, J65, O17
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