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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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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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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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