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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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947
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Uwe
Sunde
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Potential, Prizes and Performance: Testing Tournament Theory with Professional Tennis Data
This paper tests two hypotheses from the theory of elimination tournaments: (i) that uneven
tournaments, where the contestants are ex ante heterogeneous, entail lower effort exertion;
this is a ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Heterogeneity and Performance in Tournaments: A Test for Incentive Effect using Professional Tennis Data' in: Applied Economics, 2010, 41 (25), 3199-3208)
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J41, J33, M12
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946
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Marco
Leonardi
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Earnings Instability of Job Stayers and Job Changers
I use the PSID to decompose the rise in wage inequality into a permanent and a transitory
component. I consider separately job stayers and job changers. I find that earnings instability
(the ...
(revised version published in: Economic Inquiry, 2017, 55(1), 260-280)
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J21, J31
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945
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Ronnie
Schöb
David
Wildasin
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Economic Integration and Labor Market Institutions: Worker Mobility, Earnings Risk, and Contract Structure
This paper investigates the effects of labor market integration, in the form of worker mobility,
in a model with long-term labor contracts that lead to wage rigidities and unemployment.
Reflecting ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2007, 37(2), 141-164)
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R0, J1, J6
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944
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Holger
Görg
David
Greenaway
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Much Ado About Nothing? Do Domestic Firms Really Benefit from Foreign Direct Investment?
Governments the world over offer significant inducements to attract inward investment,
motivated by the expectation of spillover benefits to augment the primary benefits of a boost
to national ...
(published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2004, 19(2), 171-197)
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F21, F23
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943
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John
T.
Addison
Paulino
Teixeira
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What Have We Learned About the Employment Effects of Severance Pay? Further Iterations of Lazear et al.
In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and
unemployment development using data on industrialized OECD countries. Our starting point
is Lazear’s (1990) empirical ...
(published in: Empirica, 2005, 32 (3-4), 345-368)
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E24, J23, J64, J65
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941
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Richard
V.
Burkhauser
J. S.
Butler
Gulcin
Gumus
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Option Value and Dynamic Programming Model Estimates of Social Security Disability Insurance Application Timing
This paper develops dynamic structural models - an option value model and a dynamic
programming model - of the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) application timing
decision. We estimate ...
(revised version published as 'Dynamic programming model estimates of Social Security Disability Insurance application timing" in Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2004, 19 (6), 671-685)
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H31, H55
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940
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Yochanan
Shachmurove
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does It Pay? Native Men, Turks, and Other Migrants in Germany
This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany.
We pay closer attention to Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong
entrepreneurial ...
(published in: International Migration, 2007, 45 (4), 69-98)
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J23, M13, J24, J61, J31
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939
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Eric
Toulemonde
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Acquisition of Skills, Education Subsidies, and Agglomeration of Firms
An analytically solvable model of new economic geography is developed. Acquisition of skills
is costly for workers but it allows them to earn wages that are larger than those of the
unskilled. ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2006, 59 (3), 420-439)
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F12, F15, J51, R12
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938
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Daniela
Del Boca
Alessandra
Venturini
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Italian Migration
Italy is a country with a long history of emigration and a very short experience of immigration.
The paper first surveys the Italian emigration pattern describing the characteristics of the
Italian ...
(published in: K. F. Zimmermann (ed.), European Migration - What Do We Know?, Oxford University Press, 2005)
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F22, J61
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937
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Wolfgang
Eggert
Laszlo
Goerke
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Fiscal Policy, Economic Integration and Unemployment
In this paper fiscal policy is examined for an open economy characterised by unemployment
due to efficiency wages. We allow for capital and firm mobility in a model where the
government chooses the ...
(published in: Journal of Economics/Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, 2004, 82 (2), 137-167)
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H21, J41, J65
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