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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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1675
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Flavio
Cunha
James
J.
Heckman
Lance
John
Lochner
Dimitriy
V.
Masterov
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Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation
This paper presents economic models of child development that capture the essence of recent findings from the empirical literature on skill formation. The goal of this essay is to provide a ...
(published in: E. Hanushek; F. Welch (eds.): Handbook of the Economics of Education, North Holland: Amsterdam, 2006, 697-812)
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J31, I21, I22, I28
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1674
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Caitlin
Knowles
Myers
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A Cure for Discrimination? Affirmative Action and the Case of California Proposition 209
Proposition 209, enacted in California in 1996 and made effective the following year, ended state affirmative action programs not only in education, but also for public employment and government ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (3), 379-396)
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J71, J78
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1673
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Christopher
J.
Ruhm
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Maternal Employment and Adolescent Development
This study investigates how maternal employment is related to the outcomes of 10 and 11 year olds, controlling for a wide variety of child, mother and family characteristics. The results suggest that ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15(5), 958-983)
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I20, J13, J18, J22
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1672
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Bertrand
Koebel
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Exports and Labour Demand: Searching for Functional Structure in Multi-Output Multi-Skill Technologies
In order to simplify the representation of a technological relationship between inputs and outputs, a production unit's technology must typically satisfy some restrictive conditions, some of them ...
(published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2006, 24 (1), 91-103)
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C33, D24, E10, J23, L60
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1671
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Jean
Kimmel
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Moonlighting Behavior over the Business Cycle
Using data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we examine the cyclicality by sex of moonlighting and moonlighting hours. We find that, once we account for the sample selection into ...
(published as 'Moonlighting over the Business Cycle' in: Economic Inquiry, 2009, 47 (4), 754 - 765)
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J2
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1670
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Anne
C.
Gielen
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Age-Specific Cyclical Effects in Job Reallocation and Labor Mobility
We present an empirical analysis of job reallocation and labor mobility using matched worker-firm data for the Netherlands to investigate how firms adjust their workforce over the cycle. Our data ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2006, 13 (4), 493-504)
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J23, J62, J63
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1669
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Marisa
Ratto
Wendelin
Schnedler
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Division of Labour and Directed Production
We examine a situation where efforts on different tasks positively affect production but are not separately verifiable and where the manager (principal) and the worker (agent) have different ideas ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy , 2008, 8 (1), Article 27)
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L23, M52, D82, J24
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1668
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Frédéric
Docquier
Olivier
Lohest
Abdeslam
Marfouk
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Brain Drain in Developing Regions (1990-2000)
In this paper, we analyze the distribution of the brain drain in the LAC region (Latin America and the Caribbean), Asia and Africa. We rely on an original data set on international migration by ...
(revised version published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2007, 21 (2), 193-218)
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F22, O15, J11, J24
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1666
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Charles
Bellemare
Sabine
Kröger
Arthur
van Soest
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Actions and Beliefs: Estimating Distribution-Based Preferences Using a Large Scale Experiment with Probability Questions on Expectations
We combine the choice data of proposers and responders in the ultimatum game, their expectations elicited in the form of subjective probability questions, and the choice data of proposers ...
(published as ' Measuring Inequity Aversion in a Heterogeneous Population using Experimental Decisions and Subjective Probabilities' in: Econometrica, 2008, 76 (4), 815-839)
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C93, D63, D84
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1664
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José
António Cabral
Vieira
Joăo Pedro Almeida
Couto
Maria Teresa
Borges Tiago
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Inter-Regional Wage Dispersion in Portugal
This paper examines the size o inter-regional wage dispersion in Portugal. For this purpose, we estimate a Mincer-type human capital wage equation, including controls for a large number of regions, ...
(published in: Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies, 2006, 6 (1))
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J31, R10
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