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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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1119
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David
Card
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Is the New Immigration Really So Bad?
This paper reviews the recent evidence on U.S. immigration, focusing on two key questions:
(1) Does immigration reduce the labor market opportunities of less-skilled natives? (2) Have
immigrants ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2005, 115 (507), F300-F323)
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J61
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1118
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James
Banks
Arie
Kapteyn
James
P.
Smith
Arthur
van Soest
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International Comparisons of Work Disability
Self-reported work disability is analyzed in the US, the UK and the Netherlands. Different
wordings of the questions lead to different work disability rates. But even if identical questions
are ...
(published in: David Cutler and David Wise (eds.), Health at Older Ages: The Causes and Consequences of Declining Disability Among the Elderly, University of Chicago Press, 2008, 251-294)
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J28, I12, C81
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1117
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Reinhard
Hujer
Stephan
L.
Thomsen
Christopher
Zeiss
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The Effects of Vocational Training Programmes on the Duration of Unemployment in Eastern Germany
This paper focuses on the effects of vocational training programmes on the duration of
unemployment in Eastern Germany. We use information from administrative data of the
Federal Employment Office. ...
(published in: Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv / Journal of the German Statistical Society, 2006, 90 (2), 299-321)
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J64, J24, I28, J68
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1116
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Alessandro
Cigno
Gianna
Claudia
Giannelli
Furio
C.
Rosati
Daniela
Vuri
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Is There Such a Thing as a Family Constitution? A Test Based on Credit Rationing
The paper aims to ascertain whether voluntary money transfers may be explained by the
existence of self-enforcing family constitutions. We identify a circumstance in which an agent
will behave ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2006, 4, 183 - 204)
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D13, J13, J14
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1115
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Anna Maria
Mayda
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Who Is Against Immigration? A Cross-Country Investigation of Individual Attitudes toward Immigrants
This paper empirically analyzes both economic and non-economic determinants of attitudes
toward immigrants, within and across countries. The two individual-level survey data sets
used, covering a ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2006, 88 (3), 510-530)
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F22, F1, J61
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1114
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Alessandro
Cigno
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The Supply of Child Labour
The paper develops a theoretical framework, and a diagrammatic apparatus, for explaining
the supply of child labour. It examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as
more than ...
(edited version published as Chapter 2 of: A. Cigno and F. C. Rosati (eds.), The Economics of Child Labour, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005)
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D13, I12, J13, J22, J24, J82, O12
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1111
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Massimiliano
Bratti
Emilia
Del Bono
Daniela
Vuri
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New Mothers' Labour Force Participation in Italy: The Role of Job Characteristics
In this paper we use newly available individual-level data from the Longitudinal Survey of
Italian Households to investigate the factors affecting female labour force participation after
the birth ...
(revised version published in: Labour, 2005, 19 (s1), 79–121)
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J13, J21, J23, O17, C3
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1110
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Gueorgui
Kambourov
Iourii
Manovskii
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Rising Occupational and Industry Mobility in the United States: 1968-1993
We analyze the dynamics of worker mobility in the United States over the 1968-1993 period
at various levels of occupational and industry aggregation. We find a substantial overall
increase in ...
(revised version published as 'Rising Occupational and Industry Mobility in the United States, 1968 - 97' in: International Economic Review, 2008, 49 (1), 41-79)
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E20, J21, J24, J44, J45, J62, J63
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1109
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Karen
A.
Mumford
Peter
N.
Smith
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The Gender Earnings Gap in Britain
The earnings gap between male and female employees is substantial and persistent. Using
new data for Britain, this paper shows that an important contribution to this gap is made by
the workplace in ...
(revised version published as 'The Gender Earnings Gap in Britain: Including the Workplace' in: Manchester School, 2007, 75 (6), 653-672)
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J3, J7
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1108
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M. Hashem
Pesaran
Allan
Timmermann
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Real Time Econometrics
This paper considers the problems facing decision makers using econometric models in real
time. It identifies the key stages involved and highlights the role of automated systems in
reducing the ...
(published in: Econometric Theory, 2005, 21 (1), 212-231)
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C51, C52, C53
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