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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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595
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Wiji
Arulampalam
Alison
L.
Booth
Mark
L.
Bryan
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Work-Related Training and the New National Minimum Wage in Britain
In this paper we use important new training and wage data from the British Household Panel
Survey to estimate the impact of the national minimum wage (introduced in April 1999) on the
work-related ...
(summary of main results published in: Economic Journal, 2004, 114 (494), C87-C94)
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J24, J31, J41
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593
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Thomas
K.
Bauer
Patrick
J.
Dross
John
de New
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Sheepskin Effects in Japan
Using data for the 1990’s, this paper examines the role of sheepskin effects in the returns to
education for Japan. Our estimations indicate that sheepskin effects explain about 50% of the
total ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2005, 26 (4), 320-335)
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J31, J24, I21
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592
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Joachim
Wagner
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Testing Lazear’s Jack-of-All-Trades View of Entrepreneurship with German Micro Data
This paper tests the theory recently put forward by Edward Lazear that individuals with competence in many skills should have a higher probability of being self-employed than others. The empirical ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2003, 10 (11), 687-689)
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J23, R12
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591
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Holger
Görg
Eric
Strobl
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Spillovers From Foreign Firms Through Worker Mobility: An Empirical Investigation
While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from foreign to
domestic firms this literature treats the channels through which these spillover effects work as
a black ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2005, 107 (4), 693-709)
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F21, F23, J61
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590
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Holger
Görg
Eric
Strobl
Frank
Walsh
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Why Do Foreign-Owned Firms Pay More? The Role of On-the-Job Training
Foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic firms
to what appear to be equally productive workers in both developed and developing countries
alike. Although a ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2007, 143(3), 464-482)
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J24, F23
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589
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Štepán
Jurajda
Katherine
Terrell
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Job Growth in Early Transition: Comparing Two Paths
Small start-up firms are the engine of job creation in early transition and yet little is known
about the characteristics of this new sector. We seek to identify patterns of job growth in ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2003, 11 (2), 291-320)
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O1, O4, P2, P5, J2
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588
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Markus
Frölich
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Nonparametric IV Estimation of Local Average Treatment Effects with Covariates
In this paper nonparametric instrumental variable estimation of local average treatment
effects (LATE) is extended to incorporate confounding covariates. Estimation of local average
treatment ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2007, 139 (1), 35-75)
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C13, C14
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587
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Holger
Bonin
Wolfram
Kempe
Hilmar
Schneider
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Kombilohn oder Workfare? Zur Wirksamkeit zweier arbeitsmarktpolitischer Strategien
Das heutige System der sozialen Mindestsicherung verhindert in Deutschland die Ausbildung
eines Niedriglohnsektors. Dies ist eine wesentliche Ursache für die hohe ...
(published in: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly Journal of Economic Research, 2003, 72 (1), 51-67)
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J68, J38, H24, J22
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586
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Pilar
Diaz-Vazquez
Dennis
J.
Snower
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On-the-Job Training and the Effects of Insider Power
Suppose insiders use their market power to push up their wages, while entrants receive their
reservation wages. How will employment and productivity be affected? In addressing this
question, we ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2006, 13 (3), 317-341)
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E24, J23, J24, J31, J42, J64
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585
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Matteo
Cervellati
Uwe
Sunde
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Human Capital Formation, Life Expectancy and the Process of Economic Development
This paper provides a unified theory of the transition in income, life expectancy, education and population, experienced by the Western world when passing from an environment of economic stagnation ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2005, 95 (5), 1653-1672)
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E10, J10, O10, O40, O41
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