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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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1336
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Giorgio
Brunello
Lorenzo
Rocco
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Diploma No Problem: Can Private Schools Be of Lower Quality than Public Schools?
Motivated by anecdotal as well as econometric evidence from Italy, we ask whether private
schools can provide lower quality than public schools. Using a stylized model of the
education market with ...
(published as 'Educational standards in private and public schools' in: The Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (533), 1866-1887)
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H52, H73
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1335
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Jan
Boone
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Effective Active Labor Market Policies
We present a theoretical and empirical analysis of different types of active labor market
policies (ALMP). In our empirical analysis we use data on 20 OECD countries covering the
time period ...
(published as 'Bringing Unemployed Back to Work: Effective Active Labor Market Policies' in: De Economist, 2007, 157 (3), 293-313)
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H55, J65, J68
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1334
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Solomon
Polachek
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How Outsourcing Affects Bilateral Political Relations
One issue the literature neglects is how outsourcing stimulates trade (imports, exports and
foreign direct investment), thereby affecting political relations. However, at least as far back
as 1750, ...
(published in: Indian Journal of Economics and Business, 2004, 3 (special issue), 29-42.)
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F1, F2, J61, M55, O24
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1333
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Uwe
Blien
Jens
Suedekum
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Local Economic Structure and Industry Development in Germany, 1993-2001
This paper analyses the impact of dynamic MAR- and Jacobs-externalities on local
employment growth in Germany between 1993 and 2001. In order to facilitate a comparison
between the neighbouring ...
(published in: Economics Bulletin, 2005, 17 (15), 1-8)
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R11, O40
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1332
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Klara
Sabirianova
Peter
Jan
Svejnar
Katherine
Terrell
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Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and FDI Spillovers
We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging market
economies, the Czech Republic and Russia, have not been converging to the technological
frontier set by ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2005, 3 (2-3), 291–302)
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C33, D20, F23, G32, L20, O33
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1331
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Alexander
K.
Koch
Eloic
Peyrache
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Mixed Up? That's Good for Motivation
An essential ingredient in models of career concerns is ex ante uncertainty about an agent's
type. This paper shows how career concerns can arise even in the absence of any such ex
ante ...
(published in : Economic Theory, 2008, 34 (1), 107-125)
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D80, J33, L14, M12
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1330
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Jeffrey
P.
Carpenter
Jessica
Holmes
Peter
Hans
Matthews
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Charity Auctions: A Field Experimental Investigation
Auctions are a popular way to raise money for charities, but relatively little is known, either
theoretically or empirically, about the properties of charity auctions. The small ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (525), 92-113)
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C93, D44, D64
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1329
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Thomas
Raferzeder
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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Who is on the Rise in Austria: Wage Mobility and Mobility Risk
In this paper we investigate earnings mobility in Austria from the angle of individual persons:
earnings mobility over time has two aspects: positional changes and the volatility of earnings
over ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2007, 5 (1), 39-51)
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I32, J31
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1328
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Alison
Currie
Michael A.
Shields
Stephen
Wheatley Price
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Is the Child Health / Family Income Gradient Universal? Evidence from England
In an influential study Case et al. (2002) documented a positive relationship between family
income and child health in the US, with the slope of the gradient being larger for older than
younger ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2007, 26 (2), 213-232)
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I1
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1327
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Peter
T.
Gottschalk
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Downward Nominal Wage Flexibility: Real or Measurement Error?
This paper presents a new method to correct for measurement error in wage data and
applies this method to address an old question. How much downward wage flexibility is there
in the U.S? We apply ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2005, 87 (3), 556-568)
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J38
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