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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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1229
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Axel
Engellandt
Regina
T.
Riphahn
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Incentive Effects of Bonus Payments: Evidence from an International Company
This study uses panel data describing about 6,500 employees in a large international
company to study the incentive effects of performance related pay. The company uses two
performance related ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2011, 64 (2), 241-257)
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J33, M12, J24, J41, M50, C25
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1228
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Paola
Manzini
Marco
Mariotti
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A Vague Theory of Choice over Time
We propose a novel approach to modelling time preferences, based on a cognitive
shortcoming of human decision makers: the perception of future events becomes
increasingly ‘blurred’ as the events ...
(published in:B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics: Advances in Theoretical Economics , 2006, 6 (1), 1265-1265)
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A12, C70, D90
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1227
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Ira
N.
Gang
Gil
S.
Epstein
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Understanding the Development of Fundamentalism
We use economic theory to examine the intensity of fundamentalist sects. Leaders work to
enhance their followers’ observance level. We model three stylized situations under which
fundamentalist ...
(published in: Public Choice, 2007, 132 (3-4), 257-271)
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Z12, D72, D74
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1226
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Noyna
DebBurman
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Pre-School Enrollment: An Analysis by Immigrant Generation
There has been minimal research on the pre-school enrollment of immigrant children. Using
1990 U.S. Census data, this paper investigates pre-school enrollment of child immigrants,
those who ...
(published in: Social Science Research, 2006, 35 (1), 60-87)
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I21, J15, J13
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1225
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Sarit
Cohen Goldner
Zvi
Eckstein
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Estimating the Return to Training and Occupational Experience: The Case of Female Immigrants
Do government provided training programs benefit the participants and the society? We
address this question in the context of female immigrants who first learn the new language
and then choose ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2010, 156 (1), 86-105)
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J31, J68
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1224
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Maristella
Botticini
Zvi
Eckstein
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Jewish Occupational Selection: Education, Restrictions, or Minorities?
This paper documents the major features of Jewish economic history in the first millennium to
explain the distinctive occupational selection of the Jewish people into urban, skilled
occupations. We ...
(published in: Journal of Economic History, 2005, 65 (4), 922-948)
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J10, J20, N30, O10
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1223
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Gianluca
Grimalda
Marco
Vivarelli
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One or Many Kuznets Curves? Short and Long Run Effects of the Impact of Skill-Biased Technological Change on Income Inequality
We draw on a dynamical two-sector model and on a calibration exercise to study the impact
of a skill-biased technological shock on the growth path and income distribution of a
developing economy. ...
(published in: Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2010, 20 (2), 265-306)
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O33, O41
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1222
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David
L.
Dickinson
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Does Monitoring Decrease Work Effort? The Complementarity Between Agency and Crowding-Out Theories
Agency theory assumes that tighter monitoring by the principal should motivate the agent to
raise his effort level whereas the “crowding-out” literature suggests that it may reduce the
overall work ...
(revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2008, 63 (1), 56-76.)
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M5, J24, C92
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1221
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Almas
Heshmati
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A Review of Decomposition of Income Inequality
This paper is a review of recent developments of parametric and non-parametric approaches
to decompose inequality by subgroups, income sources, causal factors and other unit
characteristics. ...
(revised version published in: A. Heshmati (Ed), Global Trends in Income Inequality, Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2007, 27-48)
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C10, D31, I32, N30
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1220
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Maarten
van Ham
Felix
Büchel
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Females' Willingness to Work and the Discouragement Effect of a Poor Local Childcare Provision
We analyze the effects of regional structures on females’ willingness to work as well as on
the probability that non-employed women who are willing to work actually will engage in job
search. ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2004, 50 (4), 363 - 378)
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R23, J13, J64
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