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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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785
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Rita
K.
Almeida
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The Effects of Foreign Owned Firms on the Labor Market
Cross sectional evidence shows that foreign firms have a more educated workforce and pay
higher wages than domestic firms. These results do not necessarily imply that foreign direct
investment ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2007, 72 (1), 75-96)
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C31, F23, J31
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784
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Olivier
Pierrard
Henri
R.
Sneessens
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Low-Skilled Unemployment, Biased Technological Shocks and Job Competition
The unemployment rise in EU countries has been particularly strong for low-skilled workers.
This observation has often been explained in terms of biased technical change and relative
wage ...
(revised version published as "Biased Technological Shocks, Relative Wage Rigidities and Low-Skilled Unemployment”in Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2008, 55(3), 330-352)
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E24, J21, J23
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783
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Barry
Hirsch
Edward
J.
Schumacher
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Match Bias in Wage Gap Estimates Due to Earnings Imputation
About 30% of workers in the CPS have earnings imputed. Wage gap estimates are biased
toward zero when the attribute being studied (e.g., union status) is not a criterion used to
match donors to ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2004, 22 (3), 689-722)
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J3, J5, C81
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782
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Maia
Güell
Barbara
Petrongolo
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How Binding Are Legal Limits? Transitions from Temporary to Permanent Work in Spain
In the mid-1980s, several European countries, characterized by high levels of employment
protection, introduced fixed-term contracts. Since then most accessions to employment have
been through ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (2), 153-183 )
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C41, J41, J60
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780
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Axel
Engellandt
Regina
T.
Riphahn
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Temporary Contracts and Employee Effort
Temporary contracts provide employers with a tool to screen potential new employees and
have been shown to provide "stepping stones" into permanent employment for workers. For
both reasons workers ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2005, 12 (3), 281-299)
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J24, J41, M50, C25
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779
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Martin
Biewen
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Who Are the Chronic Poor? Evidence on the Extent and the Composition of Chronic Poverty in Germany
Based on a multiple spells approach, this paper studies the extent and the composition of
chronic poverty in Germany. The results indicate that about one third of cross-sectional
poverty in a given ...
(published in: Research on Economic Inequality, 2006, 13 (1), 31-62)
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C23, D31, I32
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777
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Armin
Falk
Michael
Kosfeld
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It's all about Connections: Evidence on Network Formation
We present an economic experiment on network formation, in which subjects can decide to
form links to one another. Direct links are costly but being connected is valuable. The gametheoretic
basis ...
(published in: Review of Network Economics: 2012, 11 (3), Article 2)
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C92, C72, D63, Z13
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776
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Laura
Arranz-Aperte
Almas
Heshmati
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Determinants of Profit Sharing in the Finnish Corporate Sector
This study investigates the role of factors that determine individual employees’ and firms’
participation in profit sharing schemes. Using a large panel data of Finnish employees for the
period ...
(published in: Indian Economic Review, 2004, 39 (1), 55-79)
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C23, E24, J30, J41
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775
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James
J.
Heckman
Lance
John
Lochner
Petra
E.
Todd
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Fifty Years of Mincer Earnings Regressions
The Mincer earnings function is the cornerstone of a large literature in empirical economics.
This paper discusses the theoretical foundations of the Mincer model and examines the
empirical support ...
(updated version published as 'Earnings Functions and Rates of Return' in: Journal of Human Capital, 2008, 2 (1), 1-31 )
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C31
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774
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Douglas
S.
Massey
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Labor Market Segmentation and the Earnings of German Guestworkers
In this paper we study the occupational progress and earnings attainment of immigrants in
Germany over time and compare them to native Germans. Our analysis is guided by the
human capital and ...
(published in: Population Research and Policy Review, 2005, 24 (6), 5-30)
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J2, J3, J4, J6, J7
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