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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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1740
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David
Neumark
Donna
Rothstein
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Do School-to-Work Programs Help the "Forgotten Half"?
This paper tests whether school-to-work (STW) programs are particularly beneficial for those less likely to go to college in their absence – often termed the "forgotten half" in the STW literature. ...
(published in: David Neumark (ed.), Improving School-to-Work Transitions. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2007, pp. 87-133)
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I28, J15, J24
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1739
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Anders
Björklund
Mikael
Lindahl
Erik
Plug
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The Origins of Intergenerational Associations: Lessons from Swedish Adoption Data
We use unique Swedish data to estimate intergenerational associations between adoptees and their biological and adoptive parents. We argue that the impact from biological parents captures broad ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2006, 121 (3), 999-1028)
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I20, J30 J62
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1736
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
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The Occupational Attainment of American Jewry: 1990 to 2000
This paper compares the occupational distributions in 1990 and 2000 of adult white men and women for American Jews and non-Jews, after adjusting for the changes in occupational classifications. The ...
(published in: Contemporary Jewry, 2007, 27 (1), 80-111)
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J15, J16, J22, Z1
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1735
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Solomon
Polachek
Jun
Xiang
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The Effects of Incomplete Employee Wage Information: A Cross-Country Analysis
In this paper, we define a tractable procedure to measure worker incomplete information in the labor market. The procedure, which makes use of earnings distribution skewness, is based on econometric ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2006, 24, 35-75)
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J3, J6
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1734
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Almas
Heshmati
Jong-Eun
Oh
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Alternative Composite Lisbon Development Strategy Indices
This study addresses the measurement of two composite Lisbon strategy indices that quantifies the level and patterns of development for ranking countries. The first index is nonparametric labelled as ...
(published in: European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2006, 3(2), 133-170)
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O10, C43, F15, O57
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1732
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Herbert
Buscher
Christian
Dreger
Raul
Ramos
Jordi
Surinach
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The Impact of Institutions on the Employment Performance in European Labour Markets
This paper investigates the role of institutions for labour market performance across European countries. As participation rates have been rather stable over the past, the unemployment problem is ...
(published in: Economic Issues, 2009, 14 (1), 17-34)
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E24, J23, J51
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1731
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Paul
W.
Miller
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Why Is the Payoff to Schooling Smaller for Immigrants?
This paper is concerned with why immigrants appear to have consistently lower partial effects of schooling on earnings than the native born, both across destinations and in different time periods ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (6),1317-1340)
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F22, I21, J24, J31, J61
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1730
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Thomas
Dohmen
Armin
Falk
David
B.
Huffman
Uwe
Sunde
Jürgen
Schupp
Gert
G.
Wagner
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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey
This paper presents new evidence on the distribution of risk attitudes in the population, using a novel set of survey questions and a representative sample of roughly 22,000 individuals living in ...
(revised version published as 'Individual Risk Attitudes: Measurement, Determinants, and Behavioral Consequences' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (3), 522–550)
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D0, D1 D80, D81, C91, C93
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1729
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Panu
Poutvaara
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Social Security Incentives, Human Capital Investment and Mobility of Labor
Migration between countries with earnings-related and flat-rate pay-as-you-go social security systems may change human capital investments in both countries. The possibility of emigration boosts ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91 (7-8), 1299-1325)
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H55, I2, F22
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1728
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Marianne
P.
Bitler
Jonah
B.
Gelbach
Hilary
W.
Hoynes
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What Mean Impacts Miss: Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform Experiments
Labor supply theory predicts systematic heterogeneity in the impact of recent welfare reforms on earnings, transfers, and income. Yet most welfare reform research focuses on mean impacts. We ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (4), 988–1012.)
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J2, I38, H53
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