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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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1312
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Pierre-Carl
Michaud
Arthur
van Soest
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Health and Wealth of Elderly Couples: Causality Tests Using Dynamic Panel Data Models
A positive relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and health, the so-called
"health-wealth gradient", is repeatedly found in most industrialized countries with similar
levels of health ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27 (5), 1312-1325)
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C33, D31, I12, J14
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1311
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Ana Rute
Cardoso
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Jobs for Young University Graduates: Is It Worth Having a Degree?
This study addresses the question: Are workers who hold a university degree increasingly
filling job openings meant for people with lower levels of schooling? It focuses on Portugal,
where the ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2007, 94 (2), 271-277)
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J21, J31, J24, I20
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1309
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Joyce
P.
Jacobsen
Peter
Kooreman
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Timing Constraints and the Allocation of Time: The Effects of Changing Shopping Hours Regulations in the Netherlands
A 1996 change in shopping hours regulations in the Netherlands provides an opportunity to study the effects of timing constraints on total time spent in shopping, working, and other activities as ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2005, 49 (1), 9-27)
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D12, J22
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1308
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Robert
Drago
David
Black
Mark
Wooden
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Female Breadwinner Families: Their Existence, Persistence and Sources
We develop a typology for understanding couple households where the female is the major earner – what we term female breadwinner households – and test it using data from the first two waves of the ...
(published in: Journal of Sociology, 2005, 41 (4), 343-362)
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J12, J16
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1307
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Almas
Heshmati
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Regional Income Inequality in Selected Large Countries
Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at the national level but the ...
(published in: A. Heshmati (ed.), Global Trends in Income Inequality, Hauppauge and New York, 2007, 121-155)
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C10, D31, D63, I30, N30
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1306
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Magnus
Lofstrom
John
Tyler
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Measuring the Returns to the GED: Using an Exogenous Change in GED Passing Standards as a Natural Experiment
In this paper, we exploit an exogenous change in the passing standard required to obtain a General Educational Development (GED) credential to identify the impact of the GED on the quarterly earnings ...
(published as 'Modeling the signaling value of the GED with an application to an exogenous passing standard increase in Texas' in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 28, 305-352.)
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I2, J31
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1305
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Menzie
D.
Chinn
Robert
W.
Fairlie
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The Determinants of the Global Digital Divide: A Cross-Country Analysis of Computer and Internet Penetration
To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a panel of 161 countries over the 1999-2001 period. Our candidate variables include ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2007, 59 (1), 16-44)
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O30, L96
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1304
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Timothy
J.
Hatton
Jeffrey
G.
Williamson
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International Migration in the Long-Run: Positive Selection, Negative Selection and Policy
Most labor scarce overseas countries moved decisively to restrict their immigration during the first third of the 20th century. This autarchic retreat from unrestricted and even publicly-subsidized ...
(published in: D. Snower (ed.) Labour Mobility and the World Economy, Kiel: Kiel Institute for World Economics, 2005)
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F22, J1, O1
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1303
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Maarten
Lindeboom
Peter
Dolton
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Survey Non-Response and Unemployment Duration
Social surveys are often used to estimate unemployment duration distributions. Survey non-response may then cause a bias. We study this using a unique dataset that combines survey information of ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 2006, 169 (3), 585-604)
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J64, C41, C81, C23, C14, C42
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1302
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Craig
A.
Gallet
John
A.
List
Peter
F.
Orazem
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Cyclicality and the Labor Market
Using a unique sample of new Ph.D. economists in 1987 and 1997, we examine how job seekers and their employers alter their search strategies in strong versus weak markets. The 1987 academic market ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2005, 72 (2), 284-304)
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J44, J60
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