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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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1530
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Tito
Boeri
Andrea
Brandolini
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The Age of Discontent: Italian Households at the Beginning of the Decade
In the Italian public debate growing attention has been recently paid to “household impoverishment”. Subjective indicators of economic condition show that this concern reflects a common sentiment of ...
(published in: Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, 2004, 63 (3-4), 449-487)
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D31, I3
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1529
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Cindy
Zoghi
Alec
R.
Levenson
Michael
Gibbs
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Why Are Jobs Designed the Way They Are?
In this paper we study job design. Will an organization plan precisely how the job is to be done ex ante, or ask workers to determine the process as they go? We first model this decision and predict ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2010, 30, 107-154)
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M5, M50, J2, J24, L23
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1528
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Miles
Corak
Michael
Fertig
Marcus
Tamm
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A Portrait of Child Poverty in Germany
This paper offers a descriptive portrait of income poverty among children in Germany between the early 1980s and 2001, with a focus on developments since unification in 1991. Data from the German ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2008, 54 (4), 547-571)
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I32, I38, J13
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1527
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Alexander
K.
Koch
Eloic
Peyrache
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Aligning Ambition and Incentives
In many economic situations several principals contract with the same agents sequentially. Asymmetric learning about agents' abilities provides the first principal with an informational advantage and ...
(revised and extended version published in: Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2011, 27 (3): 655-688.)
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D82, J33, L14
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1523
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Thomas
Cornelissen
Olaf
Hübler
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Downward Wage Rigidity and Labour Mobility
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) effects of being individually affected by downward wage rigidity on layoffs, quits and intra-firm mobility are investigated. We measure the ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2008, 34(2), 205-230 )
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J31, J63
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1522
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Joachim
Wagner
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Nascent and Infant Entrepreneurs in Germany: Evidence from the Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM)
Based on data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper documents that the patterns of variables influencing nascent and infant entrepreneurship are quite ...
(published in: Joachim Merz and Reihard Schulte (Hrsg.), Neue Ansätze der MittelstandsForschung, Berlin etc.: Lit-Verlag 2008)
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J23
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1521
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Moshe
Buchinsky
Denis
Fougère
Francis
Kramarz
Rusty
Tchernis
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Interfirm Mobility, Wages, and the Returns to Seniority and Experience in the U.S.
Much of the research in labor economics during the 1980s and the early 1990s was devoted to the analysis of changes in the wage structure across many of the world’s economies. Only recently, has ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2010, 77 (3), 972-1001)
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C11, C15, J31, J63
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1519
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Markus
Frölich
Katharina
Michaelowa
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Peer Effects and Textbooks in Primary Education: Evidence from Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa
As opposed to many other school inputs, textbooks have frequently been demonstrated to significantly foster student achievement. Using the rich data set provided by the 'Program on the Analysis of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (4), 474-486)
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C14, C21, O15
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1517
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Espen
Bratberg
Øivind
Anti
Nilsen
Kjell
Vaage
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Intergenerational Mobility: Trends Across the Earnings Distribution
The analysis, based on register data for Norwegian cohorts born 1950, 1955, and 1960, shows that the intergenerational earnings mobility is high. Using quantile regression, mobility is found to be ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2007, 46 (1), 112-129)
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J62, C23
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1516
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Adama
Konseiga
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Regionalism in West Africa: Do Polar Countries Reap the Benefits? A Role for Migration
In the present globalization era an increasing attention is paid to the ambiguous relationship between international migration, brain drain, and economic growth, but few papers analyzed the growth ...
(published in: Natalia Dinello and Ernest Aryeetey (eds.), Testing Global Interdependence: Issues on Trade, Aid, Migration and Development, Edward Elgar, 2007, Ch. 8)
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E13, F22, J24, C23, O15, C82
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