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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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1445
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Kristian
Orsini
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In-Work Policies in Europe: Killing Two Birds with One Stone?
Earning an income is probably the best way of avoiding poverty and social exclusion, hence the recent trend of promoting employment through in-work transfers in OECD countries. Yet, the relative ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2006, 13 (6), 667-693)
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C25, C52, H31, J22
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1444
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James
J.
Heckman
Dimitriy
V.
Masterov
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Skill Policies for Scotland
This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful ...
(published in: D. Coyle, W. Alexander and B. Ashcroft, eds., New Wealth for Old Nations: Scotland's Economic Prospects, Princeton University Press: 2005)
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J31, I21, I22, I28
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1443
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Michael
Lechner
Ruth
Miquel
Conny
Wunsch
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Long-Run Effects of Public Sector Sponsored Training in West Germany
Between 1991 and 1997 West Germany spent on average about 3.6 bn Euro per year on public sector sponsored training programmes for the unemployed. We base our empirical analysis on a new ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (4), 742-784)
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J68
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1442
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Felix
FitzRoy
Kornelius
Kraft
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Co-Determination, Efficiency, and Productivity
We present the first panel estimates of the productivity effects of the unique German institution of parity, board-level co-determination. Although our data span two severe recessions when labour ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2005, 43 (2), 233-248)
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D2, J5, L2
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1441
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
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Normative Evaluation of Tax Policies: From Households to Individuals
We analyze the impact on French couples of a tax policy change – the introduction of a family tax credit – using jointly a collective model of household labor supply and a tax-benefit microsimulation ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2008, 21 (2), 339-371)
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C71, D13, D31, D63, H21, H31, J22
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1440
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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The Making of Entrepreneurs in Germany: Are Native Men and Immigrants Alike?
This paper uses a state of the art three-stage technique to identify the characteristics of the self-employed immigrant and native men in Germany and to understand their underlying drive into ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2006, 26 (3), 279-300)
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J23, M13, J24, J61, J31
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1439
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Ansgar
H.
Belke
Jens
M.
Heine
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Specialisation Patterns and the Synchronicity of Regional Employment Cycles in Europe
This paper examines the degree of correlation of EU regional employment cycles and attempts to show whether these cycles reflect changing patterns of specialisation. By focusing on the regional level ...
(published in: International Economics and Economic Policy, 2006, 3 (2), 91-104)
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E32, F15, R23
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1438
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Claudia
Senik
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The (Unexpected) Structure of "Rents" on the French and British Labour Markets
This paper considers the allocation of labour on the French and British markets, using objective wage and subjective satisfaction data. We show that, in some sectors, workers enjoy both higher wages ...
(published in: Journal of Socio-Economics, 2006, 35 (2), 180-196)
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C30, J28, J31, J41, M51
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1437
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Flavio
Cunha
James
J.
Heckman
Salvador
Navarro
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Separating Uncertainty from Heterogeneity in Life Cycle Earnings
This paper develops and applies a method for decomposing cross section variability of earnings into components that are forecastable at the time students decide to go to college (heterogeneity) and ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2005, 57 (2), 191-261)
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C33, D84, I21
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1435
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Christian
Dustmann
Uta
Schönberg
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Training and Union Wages
This paper tests the hypothesis that unions, through imposing wage floors that lead to wage compression, increase on-the-job training. Our analysis focuses on Germany which provides an interesting ...
(revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 91 (2), 363-376)
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J24, J40, J51, I2
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