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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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1493
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Lihui
Tian
Saul
Estrin
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Retained State Shareholding in Chinese PLCs: Does Government Ownership Reduce Corporate Value?
The role of government shareholding in corporate performance is central to an understanding of China’s newly privatized large firms. In this paper, we analyze shareholders as agents that can both ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2008, 36 (1), 74-89)
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G32, G34, G15, L33
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1492
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Christoph
Knoppik
Thomas
Beissinger
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Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity in Europe: An Analysis of European Micro Data from the ECHP 1994-2001
This paper substantially extends the limited available evidence on existence and extent of downward nominal wage rigidity in the European Union and the Euro Area. For this purpose we develop an ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2009, 36 (2), 321 - 338)
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J30, E24
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1491
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Pieter
A.
Gautier
Michael
Svarer
Coen
Teulings
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Marriage and the City
Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In cities singles can meet more potential partners than in rural areas. Singles are therefore prepared to pay a premium in terms of ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2010, 67 (2), 206-218)
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J12, J64
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1490
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Hilmar
Schneider
Holger
Bonin
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Wohlfahrts- und Verteilungseffekte eines allgemeinen Freibetrags bei den Sozialabgaben
Der Beitrag untersucht die Arbeitsmarktwirkungen einer vom Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbund vorgeschlagenen Subventionierung der Sozialbeiträge über einen allgemeinen Freibetrag. Im Rahmen eines mit ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung / Journal for Labour Market Research, 2005, 38 (4), 475-492)
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J68, J38, H24, J22
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1489
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Fabien
Postel-Vinay
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Job Security and Job Protection
We construct indicators of the perception of job security for various types of jobs in 12 European countries using individual data from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). We then consider ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2009, 61 (2), 207-239)
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J28, J65, I31
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1488
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Paul
Frijters
John
de New
Michael A.
Shields
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Socio-Economic Status, Health Shocks, Life Satisfaction and Mortality: Evidence from an Increasing Mixed Proportional Hazard Model
The socio-economic gradient in health remains a controversial topic in economics and other social sciences. In this paper we develop a new duration model that allows for unobserved persistent ...
(revised version published as 'The Increasingly Mixed Proportional Hazard Model: An Application to Socioeconomic Status, Health Shocks, and Mortality' in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2011, 29 (2), 271-281)
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I1, C23
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1487
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Johannes
Schwarze
Rainer
Winkelmann
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What Can Happiness Research Tell Us About Altruism? Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel
Much progress has been made in recent years on developing and applying a direct measure of utility using survey questions on subjective well-being. In this paper we explore whether this new type of ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (3), 1033-1051)
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D6, D64, C25, J10
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1485
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Andrew
T.
Newell
Mieczyslaw
Socha
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The Distribution of Wages in Poland, 1992-2002
This paper analyses the changes in the size distribution of wages in Poland over a decade of transition. Until about 1998 there were some forces tending to increase wage inequality and other forces ...
(published as Chapter 11 of World Bank, "Poland: Growth, Employment and Living Standards in Pre-Accession Poland", Volume 2, 2004)
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J31, P23
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1484
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Sumon
K.
Bhaumik
Saul
Estrin
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How Transition Paths Differ: Enterprise Performance in Russia and China
We use enterprise data to analyse and contrast the determinants of enterprise performance in China and Russia. We find that in China, enterprise growth and efficiency is associated with rapid ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 82(2): 374-392, 2007)
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D23, L22, O12, P31
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1483
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Sara
de la Rica
Juan
J.
Dolado
Vanesa
Llorens
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Ceiling and Floors: Gender Wage Gaps by Education in Spain
This paper analyses the gender wage gaps by education throughout the wage distribution in Spain using individual data from the ECHP (1999). Quantile regressions are used to estimate the wage returns ...
(published in Journal of Population Economics, 2008, 21 (3), 751-776)
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J16, J71
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