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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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1706
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Pierre-Carl
Michaud
Konstantinos
Tatsiramos
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Employment Dynamics of Married Women in Europe
We use eight waves from the European Community Household Panel (1994-2001) to analyze the intertemporal labor supply behavior of married women in six European countries (Netherlands, France, Spain, ...
(substantially revised paper appeared as DP No. 3853 )
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C23, C25, D91, J22
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1705
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Lucia
Foster
John
C.
Haltiwanger
Chad
Syverson
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Reallocation, Firm Turnover, and Efficiency: Selection on Productivity or Profitability?
There is considerable evidence that producer-level churning contributes substantially to aggregate (industry) productivity growth, as more productive businesses displace less productive ones. ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2008, 98 (1), 394-425)
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L10, J63
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1704
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Beatrice
d'Hombres
Giorgio
Brunello
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Does Obesity Hurt Your Wages More in Dublin than in Madrid? Evidence from ECHP
We use data from the European Community Household Panel to investigate the impact of obesity on wages in 9 European countries, ranging from Ireland to Spain. We find that the common impact of obesity ...
(published as 'Does body weight affect wages? Evidence from Europe' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2007, 5 (1), 1-19 )
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I12, J3
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1703
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Alexander
K.
Koch
Hans-Theo
Normann
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Giving in Dictator Games: Regard for Others or Regard by Others?
Recent bargaining experiments demonstrated an impact of anonymity and incomplete information on subjects' behavior. This has rekindled the question whether "fair" behavior is inspired by regard for ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2008, 75 (1), 223-231. revised working paper version )
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A13, C91, D64
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1702
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Luojia
Hu
Christopher
Taber
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Layoffs, Lemons, Race and Gender
This paper expands on Gibbons and Katz (1991) by looking at how the difference in wage losses across plant closing and layoff varies with race and gender. We find that the differences between white ...
(substantially revised version published as `Displacement, Asymmetric Information and Heterogeneous Human Capita' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2011, 29 (1), 113-152.)
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J6, J7
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1700
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James
J.
Heckman
Lance
John
Lochner
Petra
E.
Todd
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Earnings Functions, Rates of Return and Treatment Effects: The Mincer Equation and Beyond
Numerous studies regress log earnings on schooling and report estimated coefficients as "Mincer rates of return". A more recent literature uses instrumental variables. This chapter considers the ...
(published in: E. Hanushek and F. Welch, eds., Handbook of the Economics of Education, North Holland: Amsterdam, 2006, 307-458)
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C31
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1698
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Ken
Clark
Stephen
Drinkwater
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Dynamics and Diversity: Ethnic Employment Differences in England and Wales, 1991-2001
This paper uses microdata from the 1991 and 2001 Population Censuses to examine differences in the employment experiences of ethnic minorities living in England and Wales. It focuses on two main ...
(revised version published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2009, 29, 299-333)
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J15, J21, J7
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1696
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Axel
Heitmueller
Kostas
Mavromaras
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On the Post-Unification Development of Public and Private Pay in Germany
German post-unification in the 1990s is a period that was marked by substantial economic change, part of which was East German wages building towards the much higher West German levels. This paper ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2007, 75 (4), 422–444)
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J78, J31
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1695
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Roland
Benabou
Jean
Tirole
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Incentives and Prosocial Behavior
We develop a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns for social reputation or self-respect. Rewards or punishments (whether material or ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (5), 1652-1678)
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D64, D82, H41, Z13
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1694
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Subhayu
Bandyopadhyay
Howard
J.
Wall
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Immigration and Outsourcing: A General Equilibrium Analysis
This paper analyzes the issues of immigration and outsourcing in a general-equilibrium model of international factor mobility. In our model, legal immigration is controlled through a quota, while ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2010, 14(3), 433-446)
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F1, F2, O1, J1, J3
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12987Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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