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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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1652
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Giorgina
Brown
John
Micklewright
Sylke
V.
Schnepf
Robert
Waldmann
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Cross-National Surveys of Learning Achievement: How Robust are the Findings?
International surveys of learning achievement and functional literacy are increasingly common. We consider two aspects of the robustness of their results. First, we compare results from four surveys: ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2007, 170 (3), 623-646)
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I21, J13
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1651
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Paul
J.
Devereux
Robert
A.
Hart
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Real Wage Cyclicality of Job Stayers, Within-Company Job Movers, and Between-Company Job Movers
Using the British New Earnings Survey Panel Data (NESPD) for the period 1975 to 2001 we estimate the wage cyclicality of job stayers (those remaining within single jobs in a given company), within ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2006, 60 (1), 105-119)
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E32, J31
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1650
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Michael
L.
Bognanno
Lisa
Delgado
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Job Displacement Penalties in Japan
The costs of job displacement are examined on a sample of Japanese workers successfully provided job placement services from 2000 to 2003, a period of economic stagnation and structural change in ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 28, 225-250)
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J31, J41, J63, J65
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1649
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Alison
L.
Booth
Melvyn
Coles
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Education, Matching and the Allocative Value of Romance
Societies are characterized by customs governing the allocation of non-market goods such as marital partnerships. We explore how such customs affect the educational investment decisions of young ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2010, 8(4), 744-775)
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I21, J12, J16, J41
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1646
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Martijn
Egas
Arno
Riedl
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The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation
Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that ...
(published as 'The economics of altruistic punishment and the maintenance of cooperation' in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B -Biological Sciences, 2008, 275 (1637), 871-878)
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C72, C91, C93, D01, D70, H41
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1645
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Jörn-Steffen
Pischke
Till
von
Wachter
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Zero Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany: Evidence and Interpretation
We estimate the impact of compulsory schooling on earnings using the changes in compulsory schooling laws for secondary schools in West German states during the period from 1948 to 1970. While our ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008, 90 (2), 592-598)
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I21, J24, J31
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1644
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Wolter
Hassink
Pierre
Koning
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Do Financial Bonuses to Employees Reduce Their Absenteeism? Outcome of a Lottery
This paper investigates the effectiveness of a monthly lottery in reducing sick leave among workers in a manufacturing firm. Conditions of participation are not having reported sick in the previous ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2009, 62 (3), 327 - 342)
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J22, J32, M52
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1643
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Florian
Englmaier
Achim
Wambach
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Optimal Incentive Contracts under Inequity Aversion
We analyze the Moral Hazard problem, assuming that agents are inequity averse. Our results differ from conventional contract theory and are more in line with empirical findings than standard results. ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2010, 69 (2), 312-328)
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D23, D63, J31, J33, M12, Z13
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1642
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Manuela
Angelucci
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U.S. Border Enforcement and the Net Flow of Mexican Illegal Migration
This paper investigates the effect of U.S. border enforcement on the net flow of Mexican undocumented migration. It shows how this effect is theoretically ambiguous, given that increases in border ...
(revised version published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2012, 60 (2), 311-357)
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F22, J61, K42, O15
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1641
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Ernst
Fehr
Urs
Fischbacher
Michael
Kosfeld
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Neuroeconomic Foundations of Trust and Social Preferences
This paper discusses recent neuroeconomic evidence related to other-regarding behaviors and the decision to trust in other people's other-regarding behavior. This evidence supports the view that ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2005, 95 (2), 346-351)
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A13, C90
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12986Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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