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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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1933
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Simon
Commander
Axel
Heitmueller
Laura
Tyson
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Migrating Workers and Jobs: A Challenge to the European Social Model?
This paper proceeds from two key assumptions. The first is that European countries are likely to face increased immigration of individuals. The second is that the emigration of jobs from Europe to ...
(published in: Giddens, Diamond, Liddle (eds): Global Europe, Social Europe. Polity London, 2006)
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J3, J6, H2, L0
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1932
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Herwig
Immervoll
David
Barber
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Can Parents Afford to Work? Childcare Costs, Tax-Benefit Policies and Work Incentives
Childcare policies play a crucial role in helping parents reconcile care and employment-related tasks. This paper quantifies the net cost of purchasing full-time centre-based childcare in OECD ...
(updated and extended version published in: OECD (2007), Benefits and Wages: OECD Indicators)
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D13, H31, J13, J18, J22
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1931
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Eran
Yashiv
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Evaluating the Performance of the Search and Matching Model
Does the search and matching model fit aggregate U.S. labor market data? While the model has become an important tool of macroeconomic analysis, recent literature pointed to some significant failures ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2006, 50 (4), 909-936)
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E24, E32, J32, J63
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1930
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Holger
Bonin
Thomas
Dohmen
Armin
Falk
David
B.
Huffman
Uwe
Sunde
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Cross-sectional Earnings Risk and Occupational Sorting: The Role of Risk Attitudes
This paper investigates whether risk preferences explain how individuals are sorted into occupations with different earnings variability. We exploit data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, which ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14(6), 926-937)
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J24, J31, D01, D81
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1929
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Alexander
F.
Wagner
Friedrich
Schneider
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Satisfaction with Democracy and the Environment in Western Europe: A Panel Analysis
We construct a panel of satisfaction with democracy (SWD) and economic, institutional, and environmental variables for 1990-2001 for fifteen European countries. In this sample, controlling for a ...
(revised version published as 'The Quality of Institutions and Satisfaction with Democracy in Western Europe: A Panel Analysis', in: European Journal of Political Economy, 25(1) 2009, 30-41)
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K32, P16, Q21, Q28
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1928
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Yann
Algan
Pierre
Cahuc
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Civic Attitudes and the Design of Labor Market Institutions: Which Countries Can Implement the Danish Flexicurity Model?
We argue that the efficiency of the Danish flexicurity Model, which combines high unemployment benefits with low job protection and high participation rate, relies on strong public-spiritedness. We ...
(published as "Civic Virtue and Labor Market Institutions" in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2009, 1(1), 111-145)
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J23, J65, J68
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1927
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Tracy
L.
Regan
Galen
Burghardt
Ronald
L.
Oaxaca
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A Human Capital Model of the Effects of Abilities and Family Background on Optimal Schooling Levels
This paper develops a theoretical model of optimal schooling levels where ability and family background are the central explanatory variables. We derive schooling demand and supply functions based on ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2007, 45 (4), 721-738)
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J24, J31, J22
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1926
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Anabela
Carneiro
Pedro
Portugal
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Wages and the Risk of Displacement
In this paper a simultaneous-equations model of firm closing and wage determination is developed in order to analyse how wages adjust to unfavorable shocks that raise the risk of displacement through ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 28, 251-276)
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J31, J65
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1925
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Eddy
Lee
Marco
Vivarelli
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The Social Impact of Globalization in the Developing Countries
In this paper an ex-post measurable definition of globalization has been used, namely increasing trade openness and FDI. A general result is that the optimistic Heckscher-Ohlin/Stolper-Samuelson ...
(published in: International Labour Review, 2006, 145(3), 167-184)
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F02, O1
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1924
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Peter
J.
Kuhn
Fernando
A.
Lozano
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The Expanding Workweek? Understanding Trends in Long Work Hours Among U.S. Men, 1979-2004
After declining for most of the century, the share of employed American men regularly working more than 50 hours per week began to increase around 1970. This trend has been especially pronounced ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2008, 26 (2), 311-343)
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J22
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12986Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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