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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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1662
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John
W.
Budd
Karen
A.
Mumford
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Family-Friendly Work Practices in Britain: Availability and Perceived Accessibility
Using linked data for British workplaces and employees we find a low base rate of workplace-level availability for five family-friendly work practices – parental leave, paid leave, job sharing, ...
(revised version published in: Human Resource Management , 2006, 45 (1), 23-42)
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J13, J32, J70
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1661
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Alexander
K.
Koch
Albrecht
Morgenstern
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From Team Spirit to Jealousy: The Pitfalls of Too Much Transparency
Free riding in team production arises because individual effort is not perfectly observable. It seems natural to suppose that greater transparency would enhance incentives. Therefore, it is puzzling ...
(substantially revised version available as 'Coordination under the Shadow of Career Concerns', IZA DP No. 4039)
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D82, J30, L14
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1660
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René
Fahr
Uwe
Sunde
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Regional Dependencies in Job Creation: An Efficiency Analysis for Western Germany
This paper investigates the efficiency of the matching process between job seekers and vacancy posting firms in West-Germany, using variation across labor market regions and across time. The results ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2006, 38 (10), 1193-1206)
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J61, J64, J21, R12
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1659
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Peter
Fredriksson
Björn
Öckert
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Is Early Learning Really More Productive? The Effect of School Starting Age on School and Labor Market Performance
In Sweden, children typically start compulsory school the year they turn seven. Hence, individuals born just before or just after the new year, have about the same date of birth but start school at ...
(published as: 'Life-cycle Effects of Age at School Start' in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124, 977-1004)
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J24, I21
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1658
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Claus
Schnabel
Joachim
Wagner
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Who Are the Workers Who Never Joined a Union? Empirical Evidence from Germany
Using representative data from the German social survey ALLBUS 2002 and the European Social Survey 2002/03, this paper provides the first empirical analysis of trade union never-membership in ...
(published in: Industrielle Beziehungen, 2006, 13 (2), 118-131)
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J51
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1657
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Alison
L.
Booth
Melvyn
Coles
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Increasing Returns to Education and the Skills Under-Investment Trap
We model educational investment and labor supply in a competitive economy with home and market production. Heterogeneous workers are assumed to have different productivities both at home and in the ...
(published as 'A Microfoundation for Increasing Returns in Human Capital Accumulation and the Under-Participation Trap' in: European Economic Review, 2007, 51 (7), 1661-1681)
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H24, J13, J24, J31, J42
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1656
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Dolores
Messer
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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Are Student Exchange Programs Worth It?
The number of university students participating in exchange programs has risen sharply over the last decade, but a survey of Swiss university graduates (class of 1999 and 2001) shows that ...
(published in: Higher Education, 2007, 54 (5), 647-663)
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I23, J24, J31, J44
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1655
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
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Revolutionary Effects of New Information Technologies
In markets with imperfect information and heterogeneity, the information technology affects the rate at which agents meet, which in turn affects the distribution of production technologies across ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (509), F10-F28)
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D43, D83, L11, L15, O33, J42, L86
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1654
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Heather
Antecol
Kelly
Bedard
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Unhealthy Assimilation: Why Do Immigrants Converge to American Health Status Levels?
It is well documented that immigrants are in better health upon arrival in the United States than their American counterparts, but that this health advantage erodes over time. We study the potential ...
(published in: Demography, 2006, 43 (2), 337-360 )
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I1, J1
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1653
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Marco
Caliendo
Reinhard
Hujer
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The Microeconometric Estimation of Treatment Effects - An Overview
The need to evaluate the performance of active labour market policies is not questioned any longer. Even though OECD countries spend significant shares of national resources on these measures, ...
(published in: Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv / Journal of the German Statistical Society, 2006, 90 (1), 197-212)
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C40, H43, J68
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