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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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1475
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Giorgio
Brunello
Daniele
Checchi
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School Vouchers Italian Style
School vouchers introduced recently in some Italian regions have lowered the cost of private schools. On one side, we provide evidence that Italian private schools may be selected for different ...
(published in: Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, 2005, 357-399)
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I22
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1474
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Massimiliano
Bratti
Stefano
Staffolani
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Effort-Based Career Opportunities and Working Time
In this paper we describe the hypothesis of effort-based career opportunities as a situation in which profit maximizing firms create incentives for employees to work longer hours than the bargained ...
(revised version published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2007, 28 (6), 489-512)
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J22, J23, J50, M12
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1473
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John
T.
Addison
Thorsten
Schank
Claus
Schnabel
Joachim
Wagner
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Do Works Councils Inhibit Investment?
Theory suggests that firms confront a hold-up problem in dealing with workplace unionism: unions will appropriate a portion of the quasi rents stemming from long-lived capital. As a result, firms may ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (2), 187-203)
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J50
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1472
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Elizabeth
Brainerd
David
M.
Cutler
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Autopsy on an Empire: Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union
Male life expectancy at birth fell by over six years in Russia between 1989 and 1994. Many other countries of the former Soviet Union saw similar declines, and female life expectancy fell as well. ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2005, 19 (1), 107 - 130)
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I12, J10, P36
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1471
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Richard
Akresh
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Risk, Network Quality, and Family Structure: Child Fostering Decisions in Burkina Faso
Researchers often assume household structure is exogenous, but child fostering, the institution in which parents send their biological children to live with another family, is widespread in ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44(4), 976-997)
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O15, J12, D10
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1470
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Avner
Ahituv
Robert
I.
Lerman
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Job Turnover, Wage Rates, and Marital Stability: How Are They Related?
This study examines the interplay between job stability, wage rates, and marital instability. We use a Dynamic Selection Control model in which young men make sequential choices about work and ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (2), 221-249)
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C15, C33, J12, J31, J63
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1469
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Christian
Dreger
Hans-Eggert
Reimers
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Health Care Expenditures in OECD Countries: A Panel Unit Root and Cointegration Analysis
This paper investigates the link between health care expenditures and GDP for a sample of 21 OECD countries using recent developed panel cointegration techniques. In contrast to previous studies, the ...
(published in: International Journal of Applied Econometrics and Quantitative Studies, 2005, 2(2), 5-20 )
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C23, I10
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1468
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Giovanni
Russo
Wolter
Hassink
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The Part-Time Wage Penalty: A Career Perspective
Part-time employment has become an extremely popular work arrangement in the Netherlands because it renders employment compatible with non-work activities. We posit that there may be a downside to ...
(published as "The Part-Time Wage Gap: a Career Perspective" in: De Economist, 2008, 156 (2), 145-174)
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J31, J24, J22
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1467
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Marc
Gurgand
David
N.
Margolis
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Does Work Pay in France? Monetary Incentives and the Guaranteed Minimum Income
Most welfare programs generate high marginal tax rates on labor income. This paper uses a representative sample of individuals on France's main welfare program (the Revenu Minimum d'Insertion, or ...
(published as 'Does work pay in France? Monetary incentives, hours constraints, and the guaranteed minimum' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (7), 1669-1697)
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I38, J31, C34
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1466
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Sabien
Dobbelaere
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Joint Estimation of Price-Cost Margins and Union Bargaining Power for Belgian Manufacturing
This paper extends Hall's (1988) methodology to analyse imperfections in both the product and the labour market for firms in the Belgian manufacturing industry over the period 1988-1995. We ...
(published in: International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2004, 22(10), 1381-1398)
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C23, D21, J50, L13
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