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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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1148
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Armin
Falk
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Charitable Giving as a Gift Exchange: Evidence from a Field Experiment
This study reports data from a field experiment that was conducted to investigate the
relevance of gift-exchange for charitable giving. Roughly 10,000 solicitation letters were sent
to potential ...
(revised version published as 'Gift Exchange in the Field' in: Econometrica, 2007, 75 (5), 1501-1511)
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C93, D63, H41
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1147
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Raul
Eamets
Jaan
Masso
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Labour Market Flexibility and Employment Protection Regulation in the Baltic States
There is increasing pressure for the flexibility of labour markets both in current EU member
states and candidate countries. The paper aims to estimate the strictness of employment
protection ...
(revised version published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2005, 11 (1), 71-90)
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J23, J32, J8, K31
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1146
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Joshua
Angrist
Victor
Lavy
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The Effect of High Stakes High School Achievement Awards: Evidence from a School-Centered Randomized Trial
In many countries, college-bound high school seniors must pass a test or series of tests. In
Israel, this requirement is known as the “Bagrut”, or matriculation certificate, obtained by
passing a ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2009, 99 (4), 1384-1414)
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I21, I28, C93
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1145
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Charles
Bellemare
Sabine
Kröger
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On Representative Social Capital
This paper analyzes data for a random sample drawn from the Dutch population who reveal
their propensity to invest and reward investments in building up social capital by means of an
economic ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2007, 51 (1), 183-202)
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Z13, C90, C10
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1144
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Reamonn
Lydon
Ian
Walker
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Welfare-to-Work, Wages and Wage Growth
This paper attempts to uncover the effects of a welfare-to-work programme that acts as a wage subsidy on wage growth by exploiting an expansion to this welfare programme in the UK. The conventional ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2005, 26 (3), 335–370)
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J30, I38
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1143
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Hans
Gersbach
Amihai
Glazer
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High Compensation Creates a Ratchet Effect
We consider a firm which pays a worker for his effort over several periods. The more the firm
pays in one period, the wealthier the worker is in the following periods, and so the more he
must be ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (539), 1208 - 1224)
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D80, J30, J60
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1141
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Stephen
P.
Jenkins
Philippe
Van Kerm
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Accounting for Income Distribution Trends: A Density Function Decomposition Approach
This paper develops methods for decomposing changes in the income distribution using
subgroup decompositions of the income density function. Overall changes are related to
changes in subgroup ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2005, 3(1), 43–61)
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C14, D31, D33
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1140
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Francesco
Pastore
Alina
Verashchagina
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The Distribution of Wages in Belarus
This paper uncovers evidence on the distribution of wages in Belarus in the second half of
the 1990s. The returns to education and work experience are high and stable, which is
atypical for a ...
(published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2006, 48 (3), 351-376)
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D31, J31, P2
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1139
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Anna Maria
Ferragina
Francesco
Pastore
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Factor Endowment and Market Size in EU-CEE Trade: Would Human Capital Change the Actual Quality Trade Patterns?
This paper aims to test several hypotheses on the determinants of the quality of trade in
cross-country regressions, taking a sample of trade competitors in EU markets. The
hypotheses are those ...
(published in: Eastern European Economics, 2005, 43 (1), 5-33)
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F10, J30, P23
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1138
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Martin
Biewen
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Measuring State Dependence in Individual Poverty Status: Are There Feedback Effects to Employment Decisions and Household Composition?
Using a sample of prime-aged men from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this
paper examines the effects of past poverty experience on future poverty status, future
employment status and ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2009, 24 (7) 1095-1116 )
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C33, D31, I32, J12
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