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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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1301
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Boris
Augurzky
Jochen
Kluve
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Assessing the Performance of Matching Algorithms When Selection into Treatment Is Strong
This paper investigates the method of matching regarding two crucial implementation choices, the distance measure and the type of algorithm. We implement optimal full matching – a fully efficient ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2006, 22 (3), 533-557)
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C14, C61
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1300
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Michael
Rosholm
Michael
Svarer
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Estimating the Threat Effect of Active Labour Market Programmes
We combine two techniques to consistently estimate the effect of active labour market programmes and, in particular, active labour market policy regimes. Our aim is to explicitly estimate the threat ...
(Published as: 'The Threat Effect of Active Labour Market Programmes' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 110 (2), 385 - 401)
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C41, J64
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1299
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Giorgio
Brunello
Charlotte
Lauer
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Are Wages in Southern Europe More Flexible? The Effects of Cohort Size on European Earnings
We exploit the cross-country and time variation in the demographics and education structure in 11 European countries to study how cohort size has affected real earnings in Europe. When we pool the ...
(published as "The Effects of Cohort Size on European Earnings" in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (1), 273 - 290)
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J11, J31
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1298
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Andreas
Roider
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Delegation of Authority as an Optimal (In)complete Contract
The present paper aims to contribute to the literature on the foundations of incomplete contracts by providing conditions under which simple delegation of authority is the solution to the ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2006, 162(3), 391-411)
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D82, D23, L14, L22
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1297
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Peter
F.
Orazem
Milan
Vodopivec
Ruth
Wu
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Worker Displacement during the Transition: Experience from Slovenia
The transition to market in Slovenia created labor displacements that were on par or greater than that experienced in North America in the 1980s. A simple theoretical model suggests that factors ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2005, 13 (2), 311-340)
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J63, P2
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1296
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Robert
W.
Fairlie
Alicia
Robb
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Families, Human Capital, and Small Business: Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey
An important finding in the rapidly growing literature on self-employment is that the probability of self-employment is substantially higher among the children of business owners than among the ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (2), 225-245)
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J23
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1295
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Regina
T.
Riphahn
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The Enrollment Effect of Secondary School Fees in Post-War Germany
This study utilizes the heterogeneity of the fee abolition for West German secondary schools to identify its effect on enrollment and to obtain an estimate of the price elasticity of demand for ...
(published as 'Effect of Secondary School Fees on Educational Attainment' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (1), 147 - 176)
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I20, H52, H71, C21
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1294
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Pierre-Carl
Michaud
Frederic
Vermeulen
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A Collective Retirement Model: Identification and Estimation in the Presence of Externalities
We study the labor supply dynamics of elderly couples by means of a structural collective model. The model allows for general externalities with respect to spouses' leisure. Preferences and the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (2), 159-167)
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D13, H31, J22, J26
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1293
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Joachim
Wagner
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Nascent Entrepreneurs
Nascent entrepreneurs are people who are engaged in creating new ventures. This chapter reviews the international evidence on how many of them are there around the world, what they are doing, who ...
(published in: Simon C. Parker (ed.), The Life Cycle of Entrepreneurial Ventures (International Handbook Series on Entrepreneurship, Vol. 3), New York: Springer 2006, 15-37)
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J23
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1292
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Robert
W.
Fairlie
Alicia
Robb
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Why Are Black-Owned Businesses Less Successful than White-Owned Businesses? The Role of Families, Inheritances, and Business Human Capital
Four decades ago, Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan made the argument that the black family "was not strong enough to create those extended clans that elsewhere were most helpful for ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2007, 25 (2), 289-323)
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J15, J23
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12990Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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