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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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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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1291
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Winfried
Koeniger
Marco
Leonardi
Luca
Nunziata
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Labour Market Institutions and Wage Inequality
In this paper we investigate the importance of labor market institutions such as unemployment insurance, unions, firing regulation and minimum wages for the evolution of wage inequality across ...
(revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (3), 340-356)
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E24, J31, J51, J65
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1290
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Kirsten
Daniel
W. Stanley
Siebert
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Does Employment Protection Reduce the Demand for Unskilled Labor?
Perhaps it does. We propose a model in which workers with little education or in the tails of the age distribution – the inexperienced and the old – have more chance of job failure (mismatch). ...
(published in: International Economic Journal, 2005, 19 (2), 197-222)
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J21, J83
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1288
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Monika
Merz
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Women's Hours of Market Work in Germany: The Role of Parental Leave
This paper investigates trends and changes in the structural composition of women’s weekly market hours worked in former West-Germany using aggregate time-series data from the German micro census ...
(published in: R. Goméz-Salvador et al. (eds.), Labour Supply and Incentive to Work in Europe, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005)
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J13, J22
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1287
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Thomas
Fuchs
Ludger
Woessmann
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What Accounts for International Differences in Student Performance? A Re-Examination Using PISA Data
We use the PISA student-level achievement database to estimate international education production functions. Student characteristics, family backgrounds, home inputs, resources, teachers and ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2007, 32 (2-3), 433-464)
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I28, J24, H52, L33
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1286
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Maarten
Lindeboom
Eddy
van Doorslaer
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Cut-Point Shift and Index Shift in Self-Reported Health
There is a concern that ordered responses on health questions may differ across populations or even across subgroups of a population. This reporting heterogeneity may invalidate group comparisons and ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2004, 23 (6), 1083-1099)
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D30, D31, I10, I12
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1284
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Ludger
Woessmann
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How Equal Are Educational Opportunities? Family Background and Student Achievement in Europe and the United States
This paper estimates the effects of family-background characteristics on student performance in the US and 17 Western European school systems. Family background has strong effects both in Europe and ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, 2008, 78 (1), 45-70)
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I21, J62, H52
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1282
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Francois
Fontaine
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Do Workers Really Benefit From Their Social Networks?
This paper provides a simple matching model in which unemployed workers and employers in large firms can be matched together through social networks or through more "formal" methods of search. We ...
(published in: Recherches Économique de Louvain / Louvan Economic Reivew, 2008, 74 (1), 5-31)
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E24, J64, J68, Z13
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1281
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Doreen
Au
Thomas
F.
Crossley
Martin
Schellhorn
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The Effect of Health Changes and Long-Term Health on the Work Activity of Older Canadians
Using longitudinal data from the Canadian National Population Health Survey (NPHS), we study the relationship between health and employment among older Canadians. We focus on two issues: (1) the ...
(revised version published in: Health Economics, 2005, 14 (10), 999-1018)
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I12, J26
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1280
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Pernilla
Andersson Joona
Eskil
Wadensjö
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Why Do Self-Employed Immigrants in Denmark and Sweden Have Such Low Incomes?
When studying income differences and income distribution, the self-employed are often excluded from the population studied. There are several good reasons for this, for example that incomes from ...
(published in: Brussels Economic Review / Cahiers Economique de Bruxelles, 2006, 48 (1-2), 43-71)
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J15, J23, J61
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