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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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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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2139
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Natalia
Catrinescu
Miguel
Leon-Ledesma
Matloob
Piracha
Bryce
Quillin
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Remittances, Institutions and Economic Growth
There is considerable debate regarding the relative contribution of international migrants' remittances to sustainable economic development. While the rates and levels of officially recorded ...
(published in: World Development, 2009, 37(1), 81-92)
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F22, O15, O47
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2137
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Olivier
Donni
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The Intrahousehold Allocation of Private and Public Consumption: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Data
We adopt the collective approach to consumer behavior with egoistic agents, and assume that the household consumption is either private or public. We then show that (i) household demands have to ...
(published as "A Simple Approach to Investigate Intrahousehold Allocation of Private and Public Goods" in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 91 (3), 617-628 )
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D11, D12, H41
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2136
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Gautam
Hazarika
Arjun
S.
Bedi
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Child Work and Schooling Costs in Rural Northern India
It is widely held that work by children obstructs schooling, so that working children in impoverished families will find it difficult to escape poverty. If children’s school attendance and work were ...
(published in: Ravi Kanbur and Jan Svejnar (eds.), Labor Markets and Economic Development, Routledge, 2009)
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J22, O12
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2134
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Badi
H.
Baltagi
Ingo
Geishecker
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Rational Alcohol Addiction: Evidence from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey
Alcohol consumption in Russia is legendary and has been reported to be the third leading cause of death in the former Soviet Union after heart disease and cancer. Are Russian alcohol consumers ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2006, 15 (9), 893-914)
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C23, D12, I10
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