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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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1969
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Jens
Suedekum
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Human Capital Externalities and Growth of High- and Low-Skilled Jobs
In this paper I analyze the impact of human capital on local employment growth for the case of West Germany (1977-2002). I find robust evidence that skilled cities grow faster than unskilled ones, ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik (Journal of Economics and Statistics), 2010, 230 (1), 92-114)
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R11, O40
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1968
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John
T.
Addison
Paulino
Teixeira
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Does the Quality of Industrial Relations Matter for the Macro Economy? A Cross-Country Analysis Using Strikes Data
Using international data, we investigate whether the quality of industrial relations matters for the macro economy. We measure industrial relations inversely by strikes – which proxy we cross-check ...
(published as 'Are Good Industrial Relations Good for the Economy?' in: German Economic Review, 2009, 10 (3), 253 - 269)
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E24, J52, J53, J64, J65
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1967
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Alessandro
Cigno
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Is There a Social Security Tax Wedge?
A Beveridgean pension scheme invariably introduces a wedge between the wage rate and the marginal take-home pay. A Bismarckian one can do so only if it is not actuarially fair, or in the presence of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (1), 68-77)
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H31, H55, J38
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1966
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Marcel
Fafchamps
Jackline
Wahba
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Child Labor, Urban Proximity and Household Composition
Using detailed survey data from Nepal, this paper examines the determinants of child labor with a special emphasis on urban proximity. We find that children residing in or near urban centers attend ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2006, 79 (2), 374-397)
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J10, J22, J24, J40, N35
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1965
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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Time to Eat: Household Production under Increasing Income Inequality
Eating requires the food materials that make up meals and also time devoted to buying food, preparing meals and eating them, and cleaning up afterwards. Using time-diary and expenditure data for the ...
(published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2007, 89 (4), 852-863; excerpts also publishd in Economics Letters, 2008, 98 (1), 31-34)
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J22, Q11
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1964
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Simon
Luechinger
Stephan
Meier
Alois
Stutzer
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Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction
The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe ...
(published in: Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2008, 24 (2), 476-488)
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D72, D73, I31, J30, J45, K42, H11, H83
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1963
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René
Böheim
Ulrike
Muehlberger
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Dependent Forms of Self-employment in the UK: Identifying Workers on the Border between Employment and Self-employment
We analyse the characteristics of workers who provide work on the basis of a civil or commercial contract, but who are dependent on or integrated into the firm for which they work. We argue that ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung/Journal for Labour Market Research, 2009, 42 (2), 182-95)
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K31, J21, L22
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1962
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Charlotte
Christiansen
Juanna
Schrøter
Joensen
Helena
Skyt
Nielsen
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The Risk-Return Trade-Off in Human Capital Investment
In this paper we analyze investments in human capital assets in a way which is standard for financial assets, but not (yet) for human capital assets. We study mean-variance plots of human capital ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (6), 971-986)
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I21, J24
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1961
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J. David
Brown
John
S.
Earle
Vladimir
Gimpelson
Rostislav
Kapeliushnikov
Hartmut
Lehmann
Álmos
Telegdy
Irina
Vantu
Ruxandra
Visan
Alexandru
Voicu
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Nonstandard Forms and Measures of Employment and Unemployment in Transition: A Comparative Study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia
Studies of transition economy labor markets have typically relied on standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics. This paper analyzes microdata on detailed labor force survey ...
(published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2006, 48 (3), 435-457)
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C81, J21, J64, P23
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1960
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Winfried
Koeniger
Julien
Prat
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Employment Protection, Product Market Regulation and Firm Selection
This paper analyzes the effect of labor and product market regulation in a dynamic stochastic equilibrium with search frictions. Modeling multiple-worker firms allows us to distinguish between the ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (521), F302 - F332)
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E24, J63, J64, J65
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