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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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1063
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Kalena
E.
Cortes
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Are Refugees Different from Economic Immigrants? Some Empirical Evidence on the Heterogeneity of Immigrant Groups in the United States
This paper analyzes how the implicit difference in time horizons between refugees and
economic immigrants affects subsequent human capital investments and wage assimilation.
The analysis uses the ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2004, 86(2), 465-480)
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C81, F22, J24, J31
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1062
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Peter
Fredriksson
Per
Johansson
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Dynamic Treatment Assignment – The Consequences for Evaluations Using Observational Data
This paper discusses the evaluation problem using observational data when the timing of
treatment is an outcome of a stochastic process. We show that the duration framework in
discrete time ...
(published in: Journal of Business and Economics Statistics, 2008, 26 (4), 435–445)
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C14, C41
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1061
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Pierre-Philippe
Combes
Thierry
Magnac
Jean-Marc
Robin
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The Dynamics of Local Employment in France
We study the impact of local economic structure on employment dynamics. Local
employment is decomposed into the product of the average plant size and the number of
plants in the area and industry. ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2004, 56 (2), 217-43)
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J21, C33, R23, J23
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1059
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Irwin
Collier
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Can Gerhard Schröder Do It? Prospects for Fundamental Reform of the German Economy and a Return to High Employment
The year 2003 has witnessed several major reform policy initiatives in Germany intended to
contribute to a solution to Germany's high unemployment problem and to improve the longrun
sustainability ...
(published in: David P. Conradt et al., A Precarious Victory: Schroeder and the German Elections of 2002, New York, Berghahn Books, 2005)
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J68, E65, O52
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1057
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Claude
Montmarquette
Jean-Louis
Rullière
Marie Claire
Villeval
Romain
Zeiliger
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Redesigning Teams and Incentives in a Merger: An Experiment with Managers and Students
After a merger, company officials face the challenge of making compensation schemes
uniform and of redesigning teams with managers from companies with different incentives,
work habits and ...
(revised version published in: Management Science, 2004, 50 (10), 1379-1389.)
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C81, C92, J33, M52
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1056
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Janet
Currie
Matthew
Neidell
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Air Pollution and Infant Health: What Can We Learn From California's Recent Experience?
We examine the impact of air pollution on infant death in California over the 1990s. Our work offers several innovations: First, many previous studies examine populations subject to far greater ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2004, 120 (3), 1003-1030)
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Q53, I12, I18
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1055
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Giorgio
Brunello
Francesca
Gambarotto
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Agglomeration Effects on Employer-Provided Training: Evidence from the UK
Recent empirical evidence suggests that the density of local economic activity – measured as
the number of employees per squared kilometer – positively affects local average
productivity. In this ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2007, 37 (1), 1-22)
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J24, R12
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1054
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Ekkehart
Schlicht
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Estimating the Smoothing Parameter in the So-Called Hodrick-Prescott Filter
This note gives a fairly complete statistical description of the Hodrick-Prescott Filter (1997)
which has been proposed in the context of my seasonal adjustment method (Schlicht 1981,
1984). A ...
(published in: Journal of the Japan Statistical Society, 2005, 35 (1), 99-119)
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C22
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1053
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Ronald
G.
Ehrenberg
Randy
A.
Ehrenberg
Christopher
L.
Smith
Liang
Zhang
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Why Do School District Budget Referenda Fail?
Our paper analyzes historical data for New York State on the percentage of school board
budget proposals that are defeated each year and panel data that we collected for individual
school districts ...
(published in: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2004, 26 (1), 111-125)
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I22, H71
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1052
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Giuseppe
Bertola
Winfried
Koeniger
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Consumption Smoothing and the Structure of Labor and Credit Markets
Smoother labor incomes alleviate credit constraints by reducing workers' desire to borrow,
and prospects of upward income mobility have smaller beneficial effects for currently poor
workers when ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2007, 51 (8), 1941-1958)
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E21, E24, E61
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