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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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491
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Ralph
Rotte
Christoph
M.
Schmidt
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On the Production of Victory: Empirical Determinants of Battlefield Success in Modern War
Using a data set of historical battles from 1600 to 1973, this paper analyzes the empirical
determinants of tactical success in modern war. Based on a reduced form approach we
consider key elements ...
(published in: Defence and Peace Economics, 2003, 14 (3), 175-192)
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C25, D29, H56, N40, O39
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490
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Wolfram
F.
Richter
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Social Security and Taxation of Labour Subject to Subsidiarity and Freedom of Movement
In Europe, the competence for social security and the right to levy income tax lie with the
country of employment in cross-border matters. This has two disadvantages. First, the
Employment ...
(published in: Swedish Economic Policy Review, 2002 (9), 47-74)
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H21, H70, J61
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489
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Daniela
Del Boca
Silvia
Pasqua
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Employment Patterns of Husbands and Wives and Family Income Distribution in Italy (1977-1998)
The pattern of employment among men and women has changed remarkably over the past
decades. While the employment rate of women has risen, that of men has continued to
decline. Disproportionate ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2003, 49 (2), 221-245)
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D31, J22
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488
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Antonio
Ciccone
Giovanni
Peri
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Identifying Human Capital Externalities: Theory with an Application to US Cities
Identification of the strength of human capital externalities at the aggregate level is still not
fully understood. The existing method may yield positive or negative externalities even if
wages ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 73 (2), 2006, 381-412)
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O0, O4, R0, J3
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487
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Robin
L.
Lumsdaine
Eswar
Prasad
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Identifying the Common Component of International Economic Fluctuations: A New Approach
In this paper, we develop an aggregation procedure using time-varying weights for
constructing the common component of international economic fluctuations. The
methodology for deriving time-varying ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2003, 113 (484), 101-127)
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E32, C51, E37
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486
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Alison
L.
Booth
Mark
L.
Bryan
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Who Pays for General Training? New Evidence for British Men and Women
We use important new training information from waves 8-10 of the British Household Panel Survey to document the various forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period ...
(revised version published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 26, 85-123)
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J24, J31, I2
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485
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Ludger
Woessmann
Martin
R.
West
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Class-Size Effects in School Systems Around the World: Evidence from Between-Grade Variation in TIMSS
We estimate the effect of class size on student performance in 18 countries, combining
school fixed effects and instrumental variables to identify random class-size variation
between two adjacent ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2006, 50 (3), 695-736)
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I2
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484
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John
H.
Bishop
Ludger
Woessmann
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Institutional Effects in a Simple Model of Educational Production
The paper presents a model of educational production which tries to make sense of recent
evidence on effects of institutional arrangements on student performance. In a simple
principal-agent ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2004, 12 (1), 17-38)
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I20, L32, H52
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483
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Hillel
Rapoport
Avi
Weiss
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In-Group Cooperation in a Hostile Environment: An Economic Perspective on Some Aspects of Jewish Life in (Pre-Modern) Diaspora
The demographic history of the Jews in the Middle Ages may be characterized by two main
phenomena: i) a sharp drop in the number of Jews until the beginning of the modern period,
due mainly to ...
(published in: C. Chiswick, T. Lecker and N. Kahana (eds.): Jewish Society and Culture: An Economic Perspective, Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2007, 103-28.)
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D64, J15, J61
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482
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Peter
J.
Kuhn
Catherine
Weinberger
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Leadership Skills and Wages
American business seems to be infatuated with its workers’ “leadership” skills. Is there such
a thing, and is it rewarded in labor markets? Using the Project Talent, NLS72 and High
School and ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2005, 23 (3), 395-436)
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I21, J24, J31
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