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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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2121
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Bernd
Fitzenberger
Aderonke
Osikominu
Robert
Völter
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Get Training or Wait? Long-Run Employment Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed in West Germany
Long-term public sector sponsored training programs often show little or negative short-run employment effects and often it is not possible to assess whether positive long-run effects exist. Based on ...
(revised version published in Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2008, 91-92, 321-355)
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C14, J68, H43
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2120
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Werner
Eichhorst
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Kombilöhne und Mindestlöhne als Instrumente der Beschäftigungspolitik – Erfahrungen und Handlungsoptionen
Das Papier vergleicht die Wirkung unterschiedlicher Kombinationen von Mindest- und Kombilöhnen auf die Beschäftigung von Geringqualifizierten und Langzeitarbeitslosen in ausgewählten Ländern. Bezogen ...
(published in: Lothar Funk (ed.), Anwendungsorientierte Marktwirtschaftslehre und Neue Politische Ökonomie, Marburg: Metropolis, 2008)
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J38, J48, J68
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2119
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David
Masclet
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Punishment, Inequality and Emotions
Cooperation among people who are not related to each other is sustained by the availability of punishment devices which help enforce social norms (Fehr and Gächter, 2002). However, the rationale for ...
(revised version published as 'Punishment, inequality, and welfare : a public good experiment' in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2008, 31 (3), 475–502.)
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A13, C92, D63
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2118
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Hongbin
Li
Pak-Wai
Liu
Junsen
Zhang
Ning
Ma
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Economic Returns to Communist Party Membership: Evidence from Urban Chinese Twins
This paper estimates the returns to membership of the Chinese Communist Party using unique twins data we collected from China. Our OLS estimate shows that being a Party member increases earnings by ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (523), 1504 - 1520)
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J31, O15, P26
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2117
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Benno
Torgler
Friedrich
Schneider
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What Shapes Attitudes Toward Paying Taxes? Evidence from Multicultural European Countries
Considerable evidence suggests that enforcement efforts cannot fully explain the high degree of tax compliance. To resolve this puzzle of tax compliance several researchers have argued that citizens’ ...
(published in: Social Science Quarterly, 88(2) 2007, 443–470)
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H26, H73
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2116
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Etienne
Lehmann
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Wage Rigidity or Fiscal Redistribution? The Unemployment Bias of Time Consistent Redistributive Policies
Because of Time Inconsistency considerations, policymakers underestimate the drawbacks of wage rigidity as a redistributive tool. Consequently, they redistribute inefficiently income from high to low ...
(revised version published as 'Manon Domingues dos santos and Etienne Lehmann, 'Wage Rigidity or Fiscal Redistribution: The credibility Issue' in: Economics Bulletin, 2012, 32 (4), 2801-2807)
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D78, H2, J68
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2115
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Lutz
C.
Kaiser
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Female Labor Market Transitions in Europe
Using micro panel data, labor market transitions are analyzed for the EU-member states by cumulative year-by-year transition probabilities. As female (non-)employment patterns changed more ...
(published German version: Arbeitsmarktflexibilität, Arbeitsmarktübergänge und Familie: Die Europäische Perspektive, in: Szydlik, Marc (Ed.) (2008), Flexibilisierung – Folgen für Arbeit und Familie. Springer VS, pp. 295-313)
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J21, J22, J78
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2114
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Herwig
Immervoll
Horacio
Levy
José
Ricardo
Nogueira
Cathal
O'Donoghue
Rozane
Bezerra de
Siqueira
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The Impact of Brazil's Tax-Benefit System on Inequality and Poverty
The Brazilian government raises taxes amounting to 35% of GDP and spends more than two thirds of this on social programmes. These shares are in pair with the OECD averages and well in excess of Latin ...
(published in: Klasen, S. and F. Nowak-Lehmann (eds.), Poverty, Inequality, and Policy in Latin America, MIT Press, 2009)
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H22, H23, C81
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2112
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Lorenzo
Cappellari
Stephen
P.
Jenkins
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Calculation of Multivariate Normal Probabilities by Simulation, with Applications to Maximum Simulated Likelihood Estimation
We discuss methods for calculating multivariate normal probabilities by simulation and two new Stata programs for this purpose: -mdraws- for deriving draws from the standard uniform density using ...
(published in: Stata Journal, 2006, 6 (2), 156-189)
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C15, C51, C87
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2111
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Jens
Ludwig
Douglas
L.
Miller
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Does Head Start Improve Children's Life Chances? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
This paper exploits a new source of variation in Head Start funding to identify the program’s effects on health and schooling. In 1965 the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) provided technical ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007, 122 (1), 159-208)
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I18, I20, I38
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