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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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1001
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Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Advising Policymakers Through the Media
In the information age an exchange with the media is part of the duties the economics
profession has to deliver to educate the public and to ensure its position in society. A key
issue is the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Education, 2004, 35 (4), 395-405)
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A11, A20
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1000
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Jan
Boone
Abdolkarim
Sadrieh
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Experiments on Unemployment Benefit Sanctions and Job Search Behavior
This paper presents the results of an experimental study on unemployment benefit sanctions.
The experimental set-up allows us to distinguish between the effect of benefit sanctions once
they are ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2009, 53 (8), 937-951 )
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C91, J64, J65
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999
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Thomas
K.
Bauer
Astrid
Kunze
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The Demand for High-Skilled Workers and Immigration Policy
This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the demand for high-skilled workers using a
new firm data set, the IZA International Employer Survey 2000. Our results suggest that while
workers from ...
(published in: Brussels Economic Review / Cahiers Economique de Bruxelles, 2004, 47 (1), 1-19)
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F22, J61
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997
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M. Daniele
Paserman
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Job Search and Hyperbolic Discounting: Structural Estimation and Policy Evaluation
This paper estimates the structural parameters of a job search model with hyperbolic
discounting and endogenous search effort. It estimates quantitatively the degree of
hyperbolic discounting, and ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (531), 1418–1452)
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C11, C41
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995
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Giorgio
Brunello
Massimo
Giannini
Kenn
Ariga
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The Optimal Timing of School Tracking
We develop a simple model which determines the optimal timing of school tracking as the
outcome of the trade off between the advantages of specialization, which call for early
tracking, and the ...
(published in: L. Woessmann and P. Petersen (eds.), Schools and the Equal Opportunity Problem, MIT 2007, 129-156)
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H52, H73
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994
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Michael
Fertig
Robert
E.
Wright
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School Quality, Educational Attainment and Aggregation Bias
Data from 31 countries participating in the Programme for International Student Assessment
(PISA) is used to estimate education production functions for reading literacy. The analysis
suggests that ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2005, 88 (1), 109-114)
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I2
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992
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Axel
Heitmueller
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Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials in Scotland: An Endogenous Switching Model
The public-private sector wage gap in Scotland in 2000 is analysed using the extension
sample of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). Employing an endogenous switching
model, and testing for ...
(published as 'Public-private sector pay differentials in a devolved Scotland' in: Journal of Applied Economics, 2006, 9, 295-323)
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J71, J31, C24
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990
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Holger
Bonin
Concepció
Patxot
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Generational Accounting as a Tool to Assess Fiscal Sustainability: An Overview of the Methodology
The paper surveys the methodology of generational accounting, a tool for gauging
intertemporal imbalance in government finances facing demographic transition. Starting from
the fiscal balance rule ...
(published in: E. Berenguer (ed.), Generational Accounting in Spain, Madrid: IFS, 2005, 27-66)
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H61, E62, B41
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989
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Joachim
Wagner
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Are Young and Small Firms Hothouses for Nascent Entrepreneurs? Evidence from German Micro Data
Using a large recent representative sample of the German population this paper contributes
to the entrepreneurship literature by empirically testing the hypothesis that young and small
firms are ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2004, 50 (4), 379-391)
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J23, R12
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988
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Marcel
Jansen
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Can Job Competition Prevent Hold-Ups?
We consider an economy in which firms need to invest in capital before they can advertise a
job, while applicants may have to compete for jobs. Our aim is to investigate how this
competition ...
(published as "Job auctions and hold-ups" in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (3), 608-619)
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C78, D44, D83
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12990Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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