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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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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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1219
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Almas
Heshmati
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Inequalities and Their Measurement
This paper is a review of the recent advances in the measurement of inequality. Inequality
can have several dimensions. Economists are mostly concerned with the income and
consumption dimensions of ...
(published in: A. Heshmati (Ed), Global Trends in Income Inequality, Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2007, 11-25)
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D31, I30, N30
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1218
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Bruce
Headey
Ruud
Muffels
Mark
Wooden
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Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness… Or Does It? A Reconsideration Based on the Combined Effects of Wealth, Income and Consumption
The accepted view among psychologists and economists alike is that economic well-being
has a statistically significant but only weak effect on happiness/subjective well-being (SWB).
This view is ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2008, 87(1), 65-82. )
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D19, D31, I31
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1217
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Don
J.
DeVoretz
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Immigration Policy: Methods of Economic Assessment
This paper outlines a set of economic criteria to assess an immigrant receiving country’s
immigration policy from three perspectives. These three perspectives include the resident
population, the ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2006, 40 (2), 390-418)
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J68
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1216
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Yew
Liang
Lee
Paul
W.
Miller
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Parents and Children Talk: The Family Dynamics of English Language Proficiency
This paper extends the analysis of the acquisition of destination language proficiency among
immigrants by explicitly incorporating dynamics among family members – mother, father and
children. ...
(published as 'Parents and Children Talk: English Language Proficiency within Immigrant Families' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2005, 3 (3), 243-268)
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J15, J16, J24, J61
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1215
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Yann
Bramoullé
Gilles
Saint-Paul
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Social Networks and Labor Market Transitions
We study the influence of social networks on labor market transitions. We develop the first
model where social ties and job status coevolve through time. Our key assumption is that the
probability ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 188-195)
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E24, J6, Z13
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