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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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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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987
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Andrea
Ichino
Gerd
Muehlheusser
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How Often Should You Open the Door? Optimal Monitoring to Screen Heterogeneous Agents
This paper shows that monitoring too much a partner in the initial phase of a relationship may
not be optimal if the goal is to determine his loyalty to the match and if the cost of ending ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 67 (3-4), 820-831)
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D2, D8, M5
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986
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Herbert
Brücker
Parvati
Trübswetter
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Do the Best Go West? An Analysis of the Self-Selection of Employed East-West Migrants in Germany
Since the inequality of earnings in East Germany has approached West German levels in the
late 1990s, the standard Roy model predicts that a positive selection bias of East-West
migrants should ...
(published in: Empirica, 2007, 34 (4), 371-395)
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R23, J61, P23
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985
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Štepán
Jurajda
Heike
Harmgart
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When Are ‘Female’ Occupations Paying More?
We compare the importance of occupational gender segregation for the gender wage gap in
East and West Germany in 1995 using a sample of social-security wage records of full-time
workers. East ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2007, 35 (1), 170-187)
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J16, J21, J71
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