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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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670
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Maristella
Botticini
Zvi
Eckstein
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From Farmers to Merchants: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish Economic History
Since the Middle Ages the Jews have been engaged primarily in urban, skilled occupations,
such as crafts, trade, finance, and medicine. This distinctive occupational selection occurred
between the ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2007, 5 (5), 885-926,)
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N3, O1, J1, J2, Z1
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668
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Jürgen
Meckl
Stefan
Zink
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Solow and Heterogeneous Labor: A Neoclassical Explanation of Wage Inequality
The paper analyzes the effect of human-capital investments of heterogeneous individuals on the dynamics of the wage structure within a neoclassical growth model. The accumulation of
physical capital ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2004, 114 (498), 835-854)
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I21, J31, O15
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667
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Pascal
Arnds
Holger
Bonin
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Arbeitsmarkteffekte und finanzpolitische Folgen der demographischen Alterung in Deutschland
Die deutsche Bevölkerung durchläuft in den nächsten Jahrzehnten einen demographischen
Alterungsprozess, der als erstes die Erwerbsbevölkerung erfasst. Dieser Beitrag diskutiert
die ökonomischen ...
(published in: M. Herfurth, M. Kohli and K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), Arbeit in einer alternden Gesellschaft (Labor in an Aging Society), Leverkusen: Leske+Budrich, 2003, 131-177)
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N30, E66, J00, H55
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666
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Pascal
Arnds
Holger
Bonin
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Frühverrentung in Deutschland: Ökonomische Anreize und institutionelle Strukturen
Das durchschnittliche Rentenzugangsalter in Deutschland liegt erheblich unter der gesetzlichen Regelaltersgrenze. Dieser Beitrag analysiert die arbeitsmarkt- und rentenpolitischen Ursachen der ...
(published in: M. Herfurth, M. Kohli and K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), Arbeit in einer alternden Gesellschaft (Labor in an Aging Society), Leverkusen: Leske+Budrich, 2003, 65-91)
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J26, H55
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665
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Holger
Görg
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Fancy a Stay at the 'Hotel California'? Foreign Direct Investment, Taxation and Firing Costs
This paper looks at the trade off between investment incentives and exit costs for the location of foreign direct investment (FDI). This issue does not appear to have been tackled in much detail in ...
(revised version published as 'Fancy a stay at the 'Hotel California'? in: Kyklos, 2005, 58 (4), 519-535)
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F23, H25, J65
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664
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Jan
Rose
Skaksen
Anders
Sorensen
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Skill Upgrading and Rigid Relative Wages: The Case of Danish Manufacturing
Relative wages have been remarkably rigid for the last two decades in Danish manufacturing despite large shifts in relative employment from unskilled labor towards skilled and educated labor. ...
(published as 'Skill Upgrading and Rigid Relative Wages' in: B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics: Contributions to Macroeconomics, 2005, 5(1), Art. 7)
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J31, J51, E32, F02, O39
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663
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Alan
B.
Krueger
Pei
Zhu
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Another Look at the New York City School Voucher Experiment
This paper reexamines data from the New York City school choice program, the largest and best implemented private school scholarship experiment yet conducted. In the experiment, low-income public ...
(published in: American Behavioral Scientist, 2004, 47 (5), 658-698)
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I2
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662
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Eric
Strobl
Frank
Walsh
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Getting It Right: Employment Subsidy or Minimum Wage?
In monopsony models of the labour market either a minimum wage or an employment subsidy financed by a lump sum tax on profits can achieve the efficient level of employment and output. Incorporating ...
(revised version published as "Dealing with Monopsony Power: the Case for Employment Subsidies" in: Economics Letters, 2007, 94 (1), 83-89 )
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J2, J3
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661
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Eric
Strobl
Frank
Walsh
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Efficiency Wages and Effort: Are Hard Jobs Better?
Efficiency wage theory predicts that the wage per unit of effort will be lower in intensively
monitored sectors. This wage differential will increase in effort. Using employer-employee
matched data ...
(revised version published as "Estimating the Shirking Model with Variable Effort" in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (3), 623-647)
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J41
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660
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Eric
Strobl
Robert
Thornton
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Do Large Employers Pay More in Developing Countries? The Case of Five African Countries
Using comparable data sets for five African countries we estimate, and evaluate possible
explanations for, the employer size wage effect across these. Our results indicate, just as has
been ...
(revised version published as "A Comparative Study of the Employer Size Wage Effect in Africa" in: Journal of Economic Development, 2004, 29 (1), 137-161)
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J3, O1
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12991Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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