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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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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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1213
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Michael
Fertig
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The Societal Integration of Immigrants in Germany
This paper investigates whether and to what extent immigrants in Germany are integrated
into German society by utilizing a variety of qualitative information and subjective data
collected in the ...
(published in: Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang. (eds.): Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 375-400)
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J15, J61
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1209
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Jörgen
Hansen
Roger
Wahlberg
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Poverty Persistence in Sweden
This paper analyzes the persistence of poverty in Sweden using a hazard rate model based
on multiple spells. The model also accounts for unobserved heterogeneity and possibly
endogenous initial ...
(revised version published as 'Poverty and its Persistence: A Comparison of Natives and Immigrants in Sweden' in: Review of the Economics of the Household, 2009, 7 (2), 105-132)
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C23, C41, D31, I32, J15, J61
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