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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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1973
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Murat
Iyigun
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Ottoman Conquests and European Ecclesiastical Pluralism
This paper emphasizes that the evolution of religious institutions in Europe was influenced by the expansionary threat posed by the Ottoman Empire five centuries ago. This threat intensified in the ...
(published as 'Luther & Suleyman' in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008,123 (4), 1465-1494.)
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C72, D74, N33, N43, O10
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1972
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Andrew
Leigh
Justin
Wolfers
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Competing Approaches to Forecasting Elections: Economic Models, Opinion Polling and Prediction Markets
We review the efficacy of three approaches to forecasting elections: econometric models that project outcomes on the basis of the state of the economy; public opinion polls; and election betting ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2006, 82 (258), 325-340)
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D72, D84
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1971
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Pernilla
Andersson Joona
Eskil
Wadensjö
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Employees Who Become Self-Employed: Do Labour Income and Wages Have an Impact?
This paper analyzes the self-employment decision among Swedish-born male employees. The main objective of the paper is to investigate the impact of the relation between the actual and the predicted ...
(revised version published as 'The Best and the Brightest or the Least Successful? Self-Employment Entry among Male Wage-Earners in Sweden' in: Small Business Economics, 2013, 40(1), 155-172)
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J23, J24, J30, J62
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1970
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W. Bentley
MacLeod
Voraprapa
Nakavachara
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Legal Default Rules: The Case of Wrongful Discharge Laws
One of the most vexing public policy issues is the extent to which governments should intervene into private contractual relationships. The purpose of this paper is to explore both theoretically and ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (521), F218-F278)
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J11, J21, J31, J61, K12, K31
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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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