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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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2054
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Matthias
Kräkel
Dirk
Sliwka
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Should You Allow Your Agent to Become Your Competitor? On Non-Compete Agreements in Employment Contracts
We discuss a principal-agent model in which the principal has the opportunity to include a non-compete agreement in the employment contract. We show that not imposing such an agreement can be ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2009, 50(1), 117-141)
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D21, D86, J3, K1, M5
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2052
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Herbert
Brücker
Cécily
Defoort
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The (Self-)Selection of International Migrants Reconsidered: Theory and New Evidence
This paper reconsiders the (self-)selection of international migrants. In an extended Roy-model we analyse the factors which affect the selection bias of migrants. In particular, we find that ...
(published in: Journal of International Manpower, 2009, 30 (7), 742-764.)
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F22
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2051
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Olof
Aslund
John
Östh
Yves
Zenou
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How Important Is Access to Jobs? Old Question – Improved Answer
We study the impact of job proximity on individual employment and earnings. The analysis exploits a Swedish refugee dispersal policy to get exogenous variation in individual locations. Using very ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2010, 10(3), 389-422)
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J15, J18, R23
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2049
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Herbert
Brücker
Philipp
J. H.
Schröder
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International Migration with Heterogeneous Agents: Theory and Evidence
International migration is characterized by two puzzling facts: First, only a small share of the population tends to migrate although substantial and persisting income differences across countries ...
(published in: World Economy , 2012, 35 (2), 152-182.)
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F22, C23, C53
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2048
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Naci
Mocan
Erdal
Tekin
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Ugly Criminals
Using data from three waves of Add Health we find that being very attractive reduces a young adult's (ages 18-26) propensity for criminal activity and being unattractive increases it for a number of ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 92 (1), 15 - 30)
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I1, I2, K4, J2, J3
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2047
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Russell
Davidson
Jean-Yves
Duclos
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Testing for Restricted Stochastic Dominance
Asymptotic and bootstrap tests are studied for testing whether there is a relation of stochastic dominance between two distributions. These tests have a null hypothesis of nondominance, with the ...
(published in: Econometric Review, 2012, 32 (1), 84 - 125)
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C10, C12, C15, I32
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2046
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Eleonora
Patacchini
Yves
Zenou
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Racial Identity and Education
We investigate the sources of differences in school performance between students of different races by focusing on identity issues. We find that having a higher percentage of same-race friends has a ...
(published in: Social Networks, 2016, 44, 85-94.)
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A14, I21, J15, J24
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2045
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Julián
Messina
Giovanna
Vallanti
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Job Flow Dynamics and Firing Restrictions: Evidence from Europe
We exploit homogeneous firm level data of manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors to study the impact of firing restrictions on job flow dynamics across 14 European countries. We find that more ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (521), F279 - F301)
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J23, J63, J68
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2044
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Simonetta
Longhi
Peter
Nijkamp
Jacques
Poot
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The Impact of Immigration on the Employment of Natives in Regional Labour Markets: A Meta-Analysis
Immigration is a phenomenon of growing significance in many countries. Increasing social tensions are leading to political pressure to limit a further influx of foreign-born persons on the grounds ...
(published in: J. Poot, B. Waldorf, and L. van Wissen (eds.), Migration and Human Capital, Edward Elgar, 2008)
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F22, J61
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2043
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Leo
Kaas
Paul
Madden
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Holdup in Oligopsonistic Labour Markets: A New Role for the Minimum Wage
We consider a labour market model of oligopsonistic wage competition and show that there is a holdup problem although workers do not have any bargaining power. When a firm invests more, it pays a ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (3), 356-371)
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D43, J48
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