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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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2126
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Markus
Frölich
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A Note on Parametric and Nonparametric Regression in the Presence of Endogenous Control Variables
This note argues that nonparametric regression not only relaxes functional form assumptions vis-a-vis parametric regression, but that it also permits endogenous control variables. To control for ...
(published in: International Statistical Review, 2008, 76 (2), 214-227)
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C13, C14
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2124
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Wendelin
Schnedler
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Task Difficulty, Performance Measure Characteristics, and the Trade-Off between Insurance and Well-Allocated Effort
When designing incentives for a manager, the trade-off between insurance and a “good” allocation of effort across various tasks is often identified with a trade-off between the responsiveness ...
(published as "When is it foolish to reward for A while benefiting from B" in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2008, 26 (4), 595-619)
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M41, M52, J33, D82
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2123
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Christian
Belzil
Marco
Leonardi
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Can Risk Aversion Explain Schooling Attainments? Evidence from Italy
Using unique Italian panel data, in which individual differences in behavior toward risk are measured from answers to a lottery question, we investigate if (and to what extent) risk aversion can ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (6), 657-970)
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J24
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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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