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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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1465
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Etienne
Wasmer
Yves
Zenou
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Equilibrium Search Unemployment with Explicit Spatial Frictions
Assuming that job search efficiency decreases with distance to jobs, workers’ location in a city depends on spatial elements such as commuting costs and land prices and on labour elements such as ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2006, 13 (2), 143-165)
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E24, J41, R14
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1464
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Claus
Schnabel
Joachim
Wagner
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Determinants of Union Membership in 18 EU Countries: Evidence from Micro Data, 2002/03
Using representative individual-level data from the first round of the European Social Survey fielded in 2002/03, this paper provides an empirical analysis of unionization in 18 countries of the ...
(published in: Industrial Relations Journal, 2007, 38 (1), 5-32)
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J51
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1463
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Don
J.
DeVoretz
Sergiy
Pivnenko
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Self-Selection, Immigrant Public Finance Performance and Canadian Citizenship
This paper consists of two parts focusing on the immigrant’s decision to acquire Canadian citizenship, and her subsequent performance as a taxpayer and recipient of public finance transfers. Our ...
(published in: P. Bevelander and D. DeVoretz (eds.), The Economics of Citizenship, IMER Press, Malmo Sweden, 2008)
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J61, J68, F22
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1462
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Jens
Suedekum
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The Home Market Shadow
The home market effect (HME) is a distinguishing feature of the “new” theory of international trade, but it is uncertain whether this effect survives if one moves beyond the simplifying setup with ...
(published in: Journal of Economics, 2007, 92 (3), 208-229)
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F12, F14, R12
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1460
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Mathias
Hungerbühler
Etienne
Lehmann
Alexis
Parmentier
Bruno
Van der Linden
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Optimal Redistributive Taxation in a Search Equilibrium Model
This paper characterizes optimal non-linear income taxation in an economy with a continuum of unobservable productivity levels and endogenous involuntary unemployment due to frictions in the labor ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2006, 73(3), 743-767)
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D82, H21, H24, J64
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1457
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Klara
Sabirianova
Peter
Jan
Svejnar
Katherine
Terrell
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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?
Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94 (4), 981-999)
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C33, D20, G32, L20
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1456
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Carmel
U.
Chiswick
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An Economic Perspective on Religious Education: Complements and Substitutes in a Human Capital Portfolio
This paper models the tradeoffs between education in secular subjects, formal and informal, and the formation of religion-specific human capital. It explores some implications of negative ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2006, 24, 449-467)
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Z12, J20, J15
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1454
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Ricardo
Alonso
Niko
Matouschek
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Relational Delegation
We explore the optimal delegation of decision rights by a principal to a better informed but biased agent. In an infinitely repeated game a long lived principal faces a series of short lived agents. ...
(published in: RAND Journal of Economics, 2007, 38 (4), 1070 - 1089)
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D23, D82, L23
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1453
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Pedro
Carneiro
James
J.
Heckman
Dimitriy
V.
Masterov
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Labor Market Discrimination and Racial Differences in Premarket Factors
We investigate the relative significance of differences in cognitive skills and discrimination in explaining racial/ethnic wage gaps. We show that cognitive test scores taken prior to entering the ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2006, 48(1), 1-39)
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J31
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1452
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Xin
Meng
Bob
Gregory
Youjuan
Wang
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Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in Urban China, 1986-2000
Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality, reduction in social welfare provision, deregulation of grain prices, and increases ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2005, 33 (4), 710-729)
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I31, D31, O40, O15
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