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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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1755
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Paul
W.
Miller
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Computer Skills, Destination Language Proficiency and the Earnings of Natives and Immigrants
Using data from the 2001 Census of Population and Housing in Australia, this paper investigates the determinants, and consequences for earnings, of computer use by both the native born and the ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2007, 5 (2), 129-157)
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F22, D13, J15, J24, J31, J61
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1754
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Jacob
K.
Goeree
Arno
Riedl
Aljaz
Ule
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In Search of Stars: Network Formation among Heterogeneous Agents
This paper reports the results of a laboratory experiment on network formation among heterogeneous agents. The experimental design extends the basic Bala-Goyal (2000) model of network formation with ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2009, 67 (2), 445-466)
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C72, C91, C92, D01, D85
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1753
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Joop
Hartog
Aslan
Zorlu
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How Important Is Homeland Education for Refugees' Economic Position in The Netherlands?
We use data on refugees admitted to the Netherlands that include registration of education in their homeland by immigration officers. Such data are seldom available. We investigate the quality and ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (1), 219-246)
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I21, J31, J61
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1752
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Murat
Iyigun
Randall
P.
Walsh
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Building the Family Nest: Pre-Marital Investments, Marriage Markets and Spousal Allocations
We develop a model of the household in which spousal incomes are determined by pre-marital investments, the marriage market is characterized by assortative matching, and endogenously-determined ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2007, 74 (2), 507-532)
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C78, D61, D70
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1751
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Marcela
Eslava
John
C.
Haltiwanger
Adriana
Kugler
Maurice
Kugler
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Factor Adjustments after Deregulation: Panel Evidence from Colombian Plants
In this paper, we analyze employment and capital adjustments using a panel of plants from Colombia. We allow for nonlinear adjustment of employment to reflect not only adjustment costs of labor but ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 92 (2), 378-391:)
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E22, E24, O11, C14, J63
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1750
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Yew
Liang
Lee
Paul
W.
Miller
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Immigrant Earnings: A Longitudinal Analysis
This paper uses the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia to analyze the determinants of the level and growth in earnings of adult male immigrants in their first 3.5 years in Australia. The ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2005, 51 (4), 485-503)
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F22, J31, J61
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1749
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Spyros
Konstantopoulos
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Trends of School Effects on Student Achievement: Evidence from NLS:72, HSB:82, and NELS:92
The impact of schools on student achievement has been of great interest for the last four decades. This study examines trends of school effects on student achievement employing three national ...
(published in: Teachers College Record, 2006, 108, 2550-2581)
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I2
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1748
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Xavier
Ramos
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Using Efficiency Analysis to Measure Individual Well-Being with an Illustration for Catalonia
This paper shows how distance functions, a tool typically employed in production economics to measure the distance between a set of inputs and a set of outputs, can be employed to approximate a ...
(published in: Nanak Kakwani and Jacques Silver (eds.): Quantitative Approaches to Multidimensional Poverty Measure, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
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D31, D63, I31, I32
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1746
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Sumon
K.
Bhaumik
Jeffrey
B.
Nugent
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Does Economic Uncertainty Affect the Decision to Bear Children? Evidence from East and West Germany
Although economic agents routinely face various types of economic uncertainty, their effects are often unclear and hard to assess, in part due to the absence of suitable measures of uncertainty. ...
(published as 'Real Options and Demographic Decisions: Evidence from East and West Germany' in: Applied Economics, 2011, 43 (21), 2739 - 2749)
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J13, J22, D81
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1745
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William
M.
Rodgers III
Leslie
S.
Stratton
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The Male Marital Wage Differential: Race, Training, and Fixed Effects
Married white men have higher wages and faster wage growth than unmarried white men. Using the NLSY, we examine whether racial differences in intrahousehold specialization and formal training explain ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2010, 48(3), 722-742)
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J31, J12
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