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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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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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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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