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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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557
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Gianna
Claudia
Giannelli
Cristina
Braschi
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Reducing Hours of Work: Does Overtime Act as a Brake Upon Employment Growth? An Analysis by Gender for the Case of Italy
In recent years the question of overtime work has become increasingly relevant as part of
the wider issue of the reduction in the working day. A direct relation between policies aiming
at reducing ...
(published in: Revue de l’IRES, 2005, http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/rdli.049.0093)
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J21, J22, J23
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556
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Sandra
E.
Black
Elizabeth
Brainerd
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Importing Equality? The Impact of Globalization on Gender Discrimination
While researchers have long held that discrimination cannot endure in an increasingly
competitive environment, there has been little work testing this dynamic process. This paper
tests the ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2004, 57 (4), 540-598)
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J31, J70
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553
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Stephen
Machin
Patrick
A.
Puhani
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Subject of Degree and the Gender Wage Differential: Evidence from the UK and Germany
We show that controlling for subject of degree explains a significant part of the male/female
gender wage differential amongst graduates. Using data from the labour force surveys of the
United ...
(published in: Economics Letters; 2003, 79 (3), 393-400)
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J16, J31, J71
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552
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René
Fahr
Uwe
Sunde
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Estimations of Occupational and Regional Matching Efficiencies Using Stochastic Production Frontier Models
By applying a stochastic production frontier approach to the matching process of unemployed
and vacancies, this paper provides novel detailed insights into the process of job creation.
For ...
(substantially revised and rewritten version available as IZA DP No. 1660)
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J64, C24
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551
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Thomas
K.
Bauer
Gil
S.
Epstein
Ira
N.
Gang
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Herd Effects or Migration Networks? The Location Choice of Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.
This paper addresses the question: Why and where do immigrants cluster? We examine the
relative importance and interaction of two alternative explanations of immigrant clustering: (1)
network ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 26, 199-229)
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F22, J61
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549
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Etienne
Wasmer
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Interpreting Europe and US Labor Markets Differences: The Specificity of Human Capital Investments
This paper suggests that in the US context, workers tend to invest in general human capital
especially since they face little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while
the European ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (3), 811-831)
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J63, J30
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548
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Markus
Frölich
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What is the Value of Knowing the Propensity Score for Estimating Average Treatment Effects?
Propensity score matching is widely used in treatment evaluation to estimate average
treatment effects. Nevertheless, the role of the propensity score is still controversial. Since
the propensity ...
(published in: Econometric Reviews, 2004, 23 (2), 167-174)
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C13, C14
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546
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Alfred
M.
Stiglbauer
Florian
Stahl
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
Josef
Zweimüller
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Job Creation and Job Destruction in a Regulated Labor Market: The Case of Austria
We study Austrian job reallocation in the period of 1978 to 1998, using a large administrative dataset
where we correct for “spurious” entries and exits of firms. We find that on average 9 out of ...
(published in: Empirica 30, 2003, 127-148.)
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D21, J23, L11
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544
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Pedro
Portugal
Ana Rute
Cardoso
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Disentangling the Minimum Wage Puzzle: An Analysis of Worker Accessions and Separations
Changes in the legislation in the mid-80s in Portugal provide remarkably good conditions for
analysis of the employment effects of mandatory minimum wages, as the minimum wage
increased sharply for ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2006, 4 (5), 988-1013. Reprinted in J. T. Addison (ed.) Recent Developments in Labor Economics, Vol. I, UK, 2007, 179-204)
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D21, J23, J38
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543
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Julia
Darby
Robert
A.
Hart
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Wages, Productivity, and Work Intensity in the Great Depression
This paper reviews the mains identification and estimation strategies for microeconomic
policy evaluation. Particular emphasis is laid on evaluating policies consisting of multiple
programmes, ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2008, 75 (1), 91-103)
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J24, J31, N62
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