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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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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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1959
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Stephen
P.
Jenkins
John
Micklewright
Sylke
V.
Schnepf
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Social Segregation in Secondary Schools: How Does England Compare with Other Countries?
We provide new evidence about the degree of social segregation in England’s secondary schools, employing a cross-national perspective. Analysis is based on data for 27 rich industrialised countries ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Education, 2008, 34(1), 21-38)
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D39, I21, I39
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1958
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Elizabeth
Brainerd
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Reassessing the Standard of Living in the Soviet Union: An Analysis Using Archival and Anthropometric Data
Both Western and Soviet estimates of GNP growth in the USSR indicate that GNP per capita grew in every decade – sometimes rapidly – from 1928 to 1985. While this measure suggests that the standard of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic History, 2010, 70 (1), 83 - 117)
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P23, P36, N34
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1957
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Abigail
Wozniak
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Product Markets and Paychecks: Deregulation's Effect on the Compensation Structure in Banking
This paper asks how deregulation intended to promote competition in the commercial banking industry affected the compensation structure for banking employees. Using establishment-based data from the ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (2), 246-267)
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J31, L11
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1955
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Manuela
Angelucci
Giacomo
De Giorgi
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Indirect Effects of an Aid Program: The Case of Progresa and Consumption
Aid programs in developing countries are likely to affect all households living in the treated areas, both eligible and non-eligible ones. Studies that focus on the treatment effect on the treated ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2009, 99(1), 486-508)
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E21, H43, I38, O12, O17
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1954
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Abigail
Wozniak
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Educational Differences in the Migration Responses of Young Workers to Local Labor Market Conditions
It is unclear whether educational disparities in internal migration levels reflect important economic differences or simply different consumption choices. I answer this question empirically by ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2010, 45 (4), 944-970)
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J6
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1952
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Alois
Stutzer
Bruno
S.
Frey
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What Happiness Research Can Tell Us About Self-Control Problems and Utility Misprediction
Neoclassical economic theory rules out systematic errors in consumption choice. According to the basic view, individuals know what they choose. They are able to predict how much utility an activity ...
(published in: Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer (eds.), Economics and Psychology. A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007, 169-195)
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D00, D11, D12, D84, D91, I12, I31
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1951
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Leslie
S.
Stratton
Dennis
M.
O'Toole
James
N.
Wetzel
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Are the Factors Affecting Dropout Behavior Related to Initial Enrollment Intensity for College Undergraduates?
We use data from the 1990/94 Beginning Post-Secondary Survey to determine whether the factors associated with long-term attrition from higher education differ for students who initially enrolled ...
(published in: Research in Higher Education, 2007, 48 (4), 453-486. )
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I21
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