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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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830
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Timothy
J.
Hatton
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Emigration from the UK, 1870-1913 and 1950-1998
The international labour market has not been ‘globalised’ to the same degree over the last 40
years as have international markets for goods and capital. Immigration policies in developed
economies ...
(published in: European Review of Economic History, 2004, 8 (2), 149-171)
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F2, J6, N3
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829
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James
J.
Heckman
Xuesong
Li
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Selection Bias, Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Returns to Education: Evidence from China in 2000
This paper uses newly available Chinese micro data to estimate the return to college
education for late 20th century China when allowing for heterogeneous returns among
individuals selecting into ...
(published in: Pacific Economic Review, 2004, 9(3), 155-171)
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C31
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828
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Daniele
Checchi
Tullio
Jappelli
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School Choice and Quality
The 1993 Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a representative survey of the Italian
population covering 24,000 individuals, reports detailed information on children attendance of
public and ...
(published as "The Impact of Perceived Public-School Quality on Private-School Choice in Italy" in: L. Woessmann and P. Petersen (eds.), Schools and the Equal Opportunity Problem, MIT 2007, 293-310)
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I21, I22
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826
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Karsten
T.
Hansen
James
J.
Heckman
Kathleen
Mullen
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The Effect of Schooling and Ability on Achievement Test Scores
This paper develops two methods for estimating the effect of schooling on achievement test
scores that control for the endogeneity of schooling by postulating that both schooling and
test scores ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2004, 121 (1-2), 39-98)
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C35, C15, I21
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825
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Antonio
Filippin
Andrea
Ichino
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Gender Wage Gap in Expectations and Realizations
This paper explores the extent to which the gender wage gap is anticipated by workers'
expectations. Data collected among second year students of Bocconi University convey
information about their ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2005, 12 (1), 125-145)
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J3, J7
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822
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Doris
Weichselbaumer
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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The Effects of Competition and Equal Treatment Laws on the Gender Wage Differential
This paper evaluates the impact of economic and legal variables on wage differentials
between men and women. Since Becker (1957) economists have argued that competitive
markets eliminate ...
(published in: Economic Policy, 2007, 22 (50), 235-287)
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J16, J31, J71
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821
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Pedro
Carneiro
James
J.
Heckman
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Human Capital Policy
This paper considers alternative policies for promoting skill formation that are targeted to
different stages of the life cycle. We demonstrate the importance of both cognitive and
noncognitive ...
(published in: J. Heckman and A. Krueger, Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policy?, MIT Press, 2003)
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J31
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819
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Michel
Beine
Frédéric
Docquier
Hillel
Rapoport
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Brain Drain and LDCs' Growth: Winners and Losers
We present an empirical evaluation of the growth effects of the brain drain for the source
countries of migrants. Using recent US data on migration rates by education levels
(Carrington and ...
(new version entitled "Brain drain and human capital formation in developing countries: winners and losers" published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (528), 515-843 )
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F22, J24, O15
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818
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John
H.
Pencavel
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The Surprising Retreat of Union Britain
After expanding in the 1970s, unionism in Britain contracted substantially over the next two
decades. This paper argues that the statutory reforms in the 1980s and 1990s were of less
consequence in ...
(published in: David Card, Richard Blundell, and Richard B. Freeman (eds.), Seeking a Premier Economy: The Economic Effects of British Economic Reforms, 1980-2000, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2004, 181-232)
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J5
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817
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Torben
M.
Andersen
Tryggvi Thor
Herbertsson
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Measuring Globalization
The multivariate technique of factor analysis is used to combine several indicators of
economic integration and international transactions into a single measure or index of
globalization. The index ...
(published as 'Quantifying Globalization' in: Applied Economics, 37 (10), 2005, 1089 - 1098 )
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F02, C82
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