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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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1420
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Hilmar
Schneider
Arne
Uhlendorff
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The Transition from Welfare to Work and the Role of Potential Labor Income
It is often argued that the high level of welfare claims in Germany causes little incentive for
workers with low productivity to seek for a job. We examine the influence of the ratio ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Social Sciences Studies, 2005, 125 (1), 51-61)
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I38, J64, C41
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1419
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Paul
W.
Miller
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Language Skills and Immigrant Adjustment: What Immigration Policy Can Do!
This study provides an account of the dynamics of the dominant language adjustment
process among immigrants in Australia using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to
Australia, which comprises ...
(published in: Deborah Cobb-Clark and Siew-Ean Khoo (eds.), Public Policy and Immigrant Settlement, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006, 121-148)
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F22, J61, J15, J24
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1418
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Michael
Rosholm
Michael
Svarer
Bo
Hammer
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A Danish Profiling System
We describe the statistical model used for profiling new unemployed workers in Denmark.
When a worker – during his or her first six months in unemployment – enters the employment
office for the ...
(published in: Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift (Danish Economic Journal), 2006, 144 (2), 209-229 )
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J64, J68
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1417
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Gary
Charness
Peter
J.
Kuhn
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Do Co-Workers’ Wages Matter? Theory and Evidence on Wage Secrecy, Wage Compression and Effort
We study worker and firm behavior in an environment where worker effort could depend on
co-workers’ wages. Theoretically, we show that an increase in workers’ ‘concerns’ with coworkers’
wages ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2007, 25 (4), 693-723)
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C92, J33, M12, M52
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1416
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Sandra
E.
Black
Paul
J.
Devereux
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High? The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Births
Research suggests that teenage childbearing adversely affects both the outcomes of the
mothers as well as those of their children. We know that low-educated women are more likely
to have a teenage ...
(published as 'Staying in the Classroom and out of the maternity ward? The effect of compulsory schooling laws on teenage births' in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (530), 1025–1054)
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I21, J13, J24
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1414
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Joachim
Wagner
John
T.
Addison
Claus
Schnabel
Thorsten
Schank
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Works Councils, Labor Productivity and Plant Heterogeneity: Evidence from Quantile Regressions
Using quantile regressions and a rich cross section data set for German manufacturing
plants, this paper reports that the impact of works councils on labor productivity varies along
the conditional ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik , 2006, 226 (5), 505-518)
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J50
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1413
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Panu
Poutvaara
Andreas
Wagener
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Why Is the Public Sector More Labor-Intensive? A Distortionary Tax Argument
Government-run entities are often more labor-intensive than private companies, even with
identical production technologies. This need not imply slack in the public sector, but may be a
rational ...
(published in: Journal of Economics, 2008, 94 (2), 105–124)
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L33, J45, D24, H21
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1412
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Christiana
Stoddard
Peter
J.
Kuhn
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Incentives and Effort in the Public Sector: Have U.S. Education Reforms Increased Teachers’ Work Hours?
Beyond some contracted minimum, salaried workers’ hours are largely chosen at the
worker’s discretion and should respond to the strength of contract incentives. Accordingly, we
consider the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2008, 27 (1), 1-13)
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I21, I28, J22, J44, J45
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1411
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Melanie
K.
Jones
Paul
L.
Latreille
Peter J.
Sloane
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Crossing the Tracks? More on Trends in the Training of Male and Female Workers in Great Britain
A small number of recent empirical studies for several countries has reported the intriguing
finding that the ‘advantage’ previously enjoyed by men in respect of training incidence and
reported in ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2008, 46 (2), 268-282.)
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J1, J2, J7
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1410
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Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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European Labour Mobility: Challenges and Potentials
European Union economies are pressed by (i) a demographic change that induces
population ageing and a decline of the workforce, and (ii) a split labour market that is
characterized by high levels ...
(published in: De Economist, 2005, 153 (4), 425-450)
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J61, J21, J68, J82, F22
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