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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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1536
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Olof
Aslund
Peter
Fredriksson
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Ethnic Enclaves and Welfare Cultures: Quasi-Experimental Evidence
We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy. We distinguish between the quantity of contacts – the number of individuals of ...
(published as: 'Peer Effects in Welfare Dependence: Quasi-experimental Evidence" in: Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44(3), 799–825)
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I38, J15
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1535
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Peter
Kooreman
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The Persistent Segregation of Girls into Lower-Paying Jobs while in School
This paper analyzes gender differences in jobs while in high school. The availability of school class based samples with detailed information on teenage jobs allows for a comparison of the behavior ...
(published as "The early inception of labor market gender differences" in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (2), 135-139 )
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J16, J22
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1534
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Alison
L.
Booth
Nick
Carroll
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The Health Status of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians
We use unique survey data to examine the determinants of self-assessed health of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. We explore the degree to which differences in health are due to differences ...
(shortened version published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 99 (3), 604-606)
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I1, I12
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1533
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Shmuel
Nitzan
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The Struggle over Migration Policy
In this paper we analyze the endogenous determination of migration quota viewing it as an outcome of a two-stage political struggle between two interest groups: those in favor and those against the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2006, 19 (4), 703-723)
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J61, J81
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1532
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Bernard
van den Berg
Wolter
Hassink
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Moral Hazard and Cash Benefits in Long-Term Home Care
This paper tests empirically for ex-post moral hazard in a system based on demand-side subsidies. In the Netherlands, demand-side subsidies were introduced in 1996. Clients receive a cash benefit to ...
(published as "Cash benefits in long-term home care" in: Health Policy, 2008, 88 (2-3), 209-221)
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I10
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1531
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Hillel
Rapoport
Frédéric
Docquier
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The Economics of Migrants’ Remittances
This chapter reviews the recent theoretical and empirical economic literature on migrants' remittances. It is divided between a microeconomic section on the determinants of remittances and a ...
(published in: S. Kolm and J. Mercier Ythier (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Giving, Altruism and Reciprocity Vol. 2, North Holland 2006)
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J61, D31, O15
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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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