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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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684
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Patrick
A.
Puhani
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The Rise and Fall of Swiss Unemployment: Relative Demand Shocks, Wage Rigidities, and Temporary Immigrants
Switzerland, traditionally a ‘zero unemployment’ economy, has seen an unprecedented rise
in joblessness in the 1990s although unemployment fell again to a rather low level after 1997.
This paper ...
(published as 'Relative Demand Shocks and Relative Wage Rigidities During the Rise and Fall of Swiss Unemployment' in: Kyklos, 2003, 56 (4),541-562)
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E24, J21, J31, J64
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683
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Eric
Strobl
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Is Education Used as a Signaling Device for Productivity in Developing Countries? Evidence from Ghana
This paper investigates whether education is used as a signaling device for worker
productivity in developing countries. To do such we employ a simple test of employer
learning on Ghana ...
(published as "Do employers use education as a signal for ability in developing countries? Evidence from Ghana" in: Applied Economics Letters, 2004, 11(4), 259-261)
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O12, J30
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682
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Bart
Cockx
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Vocational Training of Unemployed Workers in Belgium
In this paper we estimate, for the 1989-93 period in Belgium, the effect of vocational
classroom training on the rate of transition from unemployment. We propose a “control
function” estimator ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2003, 49 (1), 23-48)
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C41, J24, J64, J68
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681
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Marcus
Hagedorn
Ashok
Kaul
Tim
Mennel
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An Adverse Selection Model of Optimal Unemployment Insurance
We derive the shape of optimal unemployment insurance (UI) contracts when agents can
exert search effort but face different search costs and have private information about their
type. We derive a ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2010, 34 (3), 490-502 )
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C61, D82, E61, J64, J65
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679
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Arnd
Kölling
Claus
Schnabel
Joachim
Wagner
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Establishment Age and Wages: Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data
Research in wage differentials has a long tradition. Prominent reasons why people make
more or less money in the labor market include personal characteristics of the employee
(e.g., human capital ...
(published in: Beiträge zur Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, 2005, 294, 81-99)
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J3
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675
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Jozef
Konings
Olga
Kupets
Hartmut
Lehmann
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Gross Job Flows in Ukraine: Size, Ownership and Trade Effects
This paper documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Ukraine using
a unique data set of more than 2200 Ukrainian firms operating in both the manufacturing and
the ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2003, 11 (2), 321-356)
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E24, F14, J63, P23
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674
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Vincent
A.
Hildebrand
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The Wealth and Asset Holdings of U.S.- Born and Foreign-Born Households: Evidence from SIPP Data
SIPP data are used to analyze the wealth of the U.S. foreign-born population. We find that
the median wealth level of U.S.-born couples is 2.3 times the median of foreign-born couples,
while the ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2006, 51 (1), 17-42)
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J61, G11, J10
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673
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Alison
L.
Booth
Marco
Francesconi
Jeff
Frank
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Labour as a Buffer: Do Temporary Workers Suffer?
In this paper, we investigate whether or not there is an equal opportunities dimension to
regulating equal pay and conditions for temporary work. We develop a “buffer stock” model
of temporary work ...
(published in: Gabriel Fagan, Francesco Paolo Mongelli and Julian Morgan (eds.), Institutions and Wage Formation in the New Europe, Edward Elgar 2003)
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J21, J30, J63
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672
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Douglas
S.
Massey
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Self-Selection, Earnings, and Out-Migration: A Longitudinal Study of Immigrants to Germany
In this paper we seek to deepen understanding of out-migration as a social and economic
process and to investigate whether cross-sectional earnings assimilation results suffer from
selection bias. ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 16 (4), 2003, 631-653)
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J61, J2, C4
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671
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Spyros
Konstantopoulos
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School Effects and Labor Market Outcomes for Young Adults in the 1980s and 1990s
This study examines high school effects on the labor market success of young adults, above
and beyond individual and family characteristics. We employ data from two longitudinal,
nationally ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 49 (1), 2003, 5-22)
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J1, J3, A2, C1, C3
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