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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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477
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Melissa
A.
Clark
David
A.
Jaeger
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Natives, the Foreign-Born and High School Equivalents: New Evidence on the Returns to the GED
In this paper we explore the labor market returns to the General Education Development
exam, or GED. Using new data from the Current Population Survey, we examine how the
return to the GED varies ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2006, 19 (4), 769-793)
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J31, J61, I2
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476
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Wayne
A.
Cornelius
Takeyuki
Tsuda
Zulema
Valdez
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Human Capital versus Social Capital: A Comparative Analysis of Immigrant Wages and Labor Market Incorporation in Japan and the United States
The most commonly used model of labor market incorporation among immigrants in the
United States analyzes their earnings largely as a function of human capital variables such
as education, language ...
(published in: Migraciones Internacionales, 2004, 2 (1), 5-35)
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J15, J24, J31, J61, D63
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474
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John
T.
Addison
Lutz
Bellmann
Arnd
Kölling
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Unions, Works Councils and Plant Closings in Germany
This paper present paper provides the first results for Germany on the impact of works
councils and collective agreements on plant closings, using data from the IAB establishment
panel. We find ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2004, 42 (1), 125-148)
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J51, J53, J58, J65
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473
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Jan
C.
van Ours
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A pint a day raises a man's pay; but smoking blows that gain away
This paper studies the wage effects of the use of alcohol and tobacco. The analysis based on
a recent survey in the Netherlands shows that for males the use of tobacco has a negative
wage effect of ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2004, 23 (5), 863-886)
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C41, D12, I19
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472
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Reto
Foellmi
Josef
Zweimüller
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Structural Change and the Kaldor Facts of Economic Growth
We present a model in which two of the most important features of the long-run growth
process are reconciled: the massive changes in the structure of production and employment;
and the Kaldor facts ...
(published as 'Structural change, Engel's consumption cycles and Kaldor's facts of economic growth' in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2008, 55 (7), 1317-1328)
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O40, O11, O31, L16, D91
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471
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Yew
Liang
Lee
Paul
W.
Miller
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Immigrants' Language Skills and Visa Category
This paper is concerned with the determinants of English language proficiency among
immigrants in a longitudinal survey for Australia. It focuses on both visa category and
variables derived from an ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2006, 40 (2), 419-450)
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J61, J24, J18
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470
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Alessandro
Cigno
Furio
C.
Rosati
Lorenzo
Guarcello
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Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?
There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade
theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to
indicate that trade ...
(published in: World Development, 2002, 30 (9), 1579-1589)
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D13, F12, I20, J13, J24, O15
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469
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Rafael
Lalive
Jan
C.
van Ours
Josef
Zweimüller
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The Effect of Benefit Sanctions on the Duration of Unemployment
This paper investigates the effectiveness of benefit sanctions in reducing unemployment
duration. Data from the Swiss labor market allow making a distinction between the effect of a
warning that a ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2005, 3 (6), 1386-1417)
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J64, J65, J68
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468
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Joachim
Wagner
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The Impact of Risk Aversion, Role Models, and the Regional Milieu on the Transition from Unemployment to Self-Employment: Empirical Evidence for Germany
The focus of this paper is on the choice of the unemployed between becoming an
entrepreneur or not. It contributes to the literature by empirically investigating two hitherto
neglected issues: What ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2003, 223 (2), 204-221)
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J23, R12
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467
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Alessandra
Venturini
Claudia
Villosio
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Are Immigrants Competing with Natives in the Italian Labour Market? The Employment Effect
Gavosto, Venturini, Villosio (1999) find that the impact of foreign workers on the wage of
natives was positive. Such a result was partly to be expected, and therefore the effect of
immigrants on ...
(revised version published in: International Labour Review, 2006, 145 (1-2), 91-118)
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J61, F22
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