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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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1156
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Brahim
Boudarbat
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Earnings and Community College Field of Study Choice in Canada
In this paper, we estimate a structural model of choice of field of study by community college
students. We use data from the Canadian Survey of Graduates for 12,871 individuals who
successfully ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2008, 27 (1), 79-93)
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J24, J31
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1154
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Barry
Hirsch
Edward
J.
Schumacher
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Classic Monopsony or New Monopsony? Searching for Evidence in Nursing Labor Markets
The market for hospital registered nurses (RNs) is often offered as an example of "classic" monopsony, while a "new" monopsony literature emphasizes firm labor supply being upward-sloping for reasons ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2005, 24 (5), 969-989)
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J42, I10, J30
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1152
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Armin
Falk
Markus
Knell
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Choosing the Joneses: Endogenous Goals and Reference Standards
A growing economic literature stresses the importance of relative comparisons, e.g., for savings and consumption or happiness. In this literature it is usually assumed that reference standards ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2004, 106 (3), 417-435)
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D62, D63, H31, Z13
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1150
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Vincent
A.
Hildebrand
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The Wealth of Mexican Americans
This paper analyzes the sources of disparities in the relative wealth position of Mexican
Americans. Results reveal that wealth gaps are in large part not the result of differences in
conditional ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2006, 41 (4), 841-868)
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J61, G11, J10
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1149
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Heather
Antecol
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
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Identity and Racial Harassment
In a 1996 survey of U.S. military personnel, more than 65 percent experienced racially
offensive behavior, and approximately one-in-ten reported threatening incidents or careerrelated
racial ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 66(3-4), 529-557)
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J15, J70, J81
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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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