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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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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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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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