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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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2065
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Winfried
Koeniger
Marco
Leonardi
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Capital Deepening and Wage Differentials: Germany vs. US
Capital deepening may affect the evolution of the wage differential between skilled and unskilled workers differently in countries with different labor market institutions. If labor market ...
(revised version published in: Economic Policy, 2007, 22 (49), 71-116)
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E22, E24, J31, J64
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2064
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Alois
Stutzer
Lorenz
Götte
Michael
Zehnder
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Active Decisions and Pro-social Behavior: A Field Experiment on Blood Donation
In this paper, we propose a decision framework where people are individually asked to either actively consent or dissent to some pro-social behavior. We hypothesize that confronting individuals with ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2011, 121 (556), 476-493)
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C93, D64, I18
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2063
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Janet
Currie
Erdal
Tekin
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Does Child Abuse Cause Crime?
Child maltreatment, which includes both child abuse and child neglect, is a major social problem. This paper focuses on measuring the effects of child maltreatment on crime using data from the ...
(revised version published as 'Understanding the Cycle: Childhood Maltreatment and Future Crime?' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2012, 47 (2), 509-549)
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I1, K4
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2062
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Oriana
Bandiera
Iwan
Barankay
Imran
Rasul
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Incentives for Managers and Inequality Among Workers: Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment
We present evidence from a firm level experiment in which we engineered an exogenous change in managerial compensation from fixed wages to performance pay based on the average productivity of ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007, 122 (2), 729-773)
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J33, M52
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2061
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Gadi
Barlevy
H. N.
Nagaraja
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Identification of Search Models with Initial Condition Problems
This paper extends previous work on the identification of search models in which observed worker productivity is imperfectly observed. In particular, it establishes that these models remain ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2010, 13(4), 780-99)
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J64, C14
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2060
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
Caitlin
Knowles
Myers
Mark
L.
Pocock
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Cues for Coordination: Light, Longitude and Letterman
Market productivity is often greater, and leisure and other household activities more enjoyable, when people perform them simultaneously. Beyond pointing out the positive externalities of ...
(published as 'Cues for Timing and Coordination: Latitude, Letterman and Longitude' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2008, 26 (2), 223-246)
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J22, E61
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2059
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Matthias
Kräkel
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Doping and Cheating in Contest-Like Situations
Individuals who compete in a contest-like situation (for example, in sports, in promotion tournaments, or in an appointment contest) may have an incentive to illegally utilize resources in order to ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2007, 23 (4), 988-1006)
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J3, K42, M5
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2058
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Jean
Kimmel
Rachel
Connelly
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Is Mothers' Time With Their Children Home Production or Leisure?
As mothers have increased their paid work efforts, conflicts between employment and family responsibilities have grown. This evolution has led researchers to explore more fully the role that ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2007, 42(3), 643-81)
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J13, J22
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2057
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Arie
Kapteyn
James
P.
Smith
Arthur
van Soest
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Dynamics of Work Disability and Pain
This paper investigates the role of pain in affecting self-reported work disability and employment of elderly workers in the US. We investigate pain and its relationship to work disability and work ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27(2), 496-509)
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J28, I12, C81
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2056
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Pieter
A.
Gautier
Ronald
P.
Wolthoff
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Simultaneous Search with Heterogeneous Firms and Ex Post Competition
We study a search model where workers can send multiple applications to high and low productivity firms. Firms that compete for the same candidate can increase their wage offers as often as they ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (3), 311-319)
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D83, E24, J23, J24, J64
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