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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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2225
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Matteo
Cervellati
Piergiuseppe
Fortunato
Uwe
Sunde
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Consensual and Conflictual Democratization
We study the process of endogenous democratization from inefficient oligarchic systems in an economy where heterogeneous individuals can get involved in predation activities. The features of ...
(revised version published in: B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2012, 12 (1), Article 33)
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H10, O20, N10
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2224
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Augustin
de Coulon
François-Charles
Wolff
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The Location of Immigrants at Retirement: Stay/Return or ‘Va-et-Vient’?
In this paper, we investigate the location choice of immigrants when retiring. In a context where labour considerations no longer matter, the location decisions are expected to depend not only on a ...
(published as: "Location intentions of immigrants at retirement: stay/return or go "back and forth?", in: Applied Economics, 2010, 42 (26), 3319-33)
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J26, O15, R23
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2223
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Marcel
Neutel
Almas
Heshmati
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Globalisation, Inequality and Poverty Relationships: A Cross Country Evidence
In this research, the relationship between globalisation and poverty and income inequality is determined. A whole new globalisation index has been constructed based on data covering a large sample of ...
(published in: Vandana Sjajan (ed.), Globalization and Income Inequality, The ICFAI University Press: Hyderabad, 2010)
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C43, F15, O57
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2221
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René
Böheim
Andrea
Weber
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The Effects of Marginal Employment on Subsequent Labour Market Outcomes
We analyse the consequences of starting a wage subsidised job, “marginal employment”, for unemployed workers. Marginal employment is a type of wage subsidy paid to unemployed workers and they do not ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2011, 12 (2), 165 - 181)
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J22, J64
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2220
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Jens
Suedekum
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Cross-Border Mergers and National Champions in an Integrating Economy
We introduce a simple oligopolistic trade model with international transportation costs, and analyze the profitability and the social desirability of national vs. international mergers in relation to ...
(published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2008, 164 (3), 477-508)
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F12, F23, L13, L52
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2219
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Paul
Frijters
Michael A.
Shields
Stephen
Wheatley Price
Jenny
Williams
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Quantifying the Cost of Passive Smoking on Child Health: Evidence from Children’s Cotinine Samples
Passive smoking is a major public health issue. This paper documents the main risk factors that determine children’s exposure to passive smoke, and then uses econometric techniques to provide a new ...
(revised version published in: Journal of The Royal Statistical Society Series A-Statistics In Society, 174 (1) 2011, 195-212)
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D1, I1
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2218
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Maarten
C.M.
Vendrik
Geert
Woltjer
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Happiness and Loss Aversion: When Social Participation Dominates Comparison
A central finding in happiness research is that a person’s income relative to the average income in her social reference group is more important for her life satisfaction than the absolute level of ...
(published as 'Happiness and loss aversion: Is utility concave or convex in relative income?' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91 (7-8), 1423-1448)
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I31, D6
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2217
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Nauro
F.
Campos
Cheng
Hsiao
Jeffrey
B.
Nugent
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Crises, What Crises?
Recent research convincingly shows that crises beget reform. Although the consensus is that economic crises foster macroeconomic stabilization, it is silent on which types of crises cause which types ...
(published as 'Crises, What Crises? New Evidence on the Relative Roles of Political and Economic Crises in Begetting Reforms' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2010, 46 (10), 1670-1691)
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H11, K20, E32, O40
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2214
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Stephen
Gibbons
Stephen
Machin
Olmo
Silva
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Choice, Competition and Pupil Achievement
Choice and competition in education have found growing support from both policy makers and academics in the recent past. Yet, evidence on the actual benefits of market-oriented reforms is at best ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2008, 6 (4), 912-947)
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I20, H70, R5
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2213
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Jens
Ludwig
Jeffrey
R.
Kling
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Is Crime Contagious?
Understanding whether criminal behavior is “contagious” is important for law enforcement and for policies that affect how people are sorted across social settings. We test the hypothesis that ...
(published in: Journal of Law & Economics, 2007, 50 (3), 491-518 )
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H43, I18, J23
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