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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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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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542
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Markus
Frölich
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Programme Evaluation with Multiple Treatments
This paper reviews the main identification and estimation strategies for microeconomic policy
evaluation. Particular emphasis is laid on evaluating policies consisting of multiple
programmes, which ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2004, 18 (2), 181-224)
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C13, C14
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540
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Astrid
Kunze
Melanie
E.
Ward-Warmedinger
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High Skilled Migration and the Exertion of Effort by the Local Population
The design of optimal immigration policy, particularly in the face of the spiralling demand for
highly skilled workers, such as IT workers and engineers, is a topical issue in the policy
debate as ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2009, 56 (3), 332–352)
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F22, J41, J61, L20
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539
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Yu-Fu
Chen
Dennis
J.
Snower
Gylfi
Zoega
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Labour-Market Institutions and Macroeconomic Shocks
Macroeconomic shocks and labour-market institutions jointly determine employment growth
and economic performance. The effect of shocks depends on the nature of these institutions
and the effect of ...
(published in: Labour, 2003, 17(2), 247-270)
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E32, J23, J24, J54
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537
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Mike
Orszag
Dennis
J.
Snower
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Unemployment Vouchers versus Low-Wage Subsidies
The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing
unemployment and working poverty: unemployment vouchers and low-wage subsidies. The
unemployment vouchers are ...
(published in: Edmund S. Phelps (ed.), Designing Inclusion: Tools to Raise Low-end Pay and Employment in Private Enterprise, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 131 - 160)
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J23, J32, J38, J64, J65, J68
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533
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Stefan
Fölster
Robert
Gidehag
Mike
Orszag
Dennis
J.
Snower
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Assessing Welfare Accounts
The paper examines the possible effects of introducing a large-scale welfare reform in
Sweden, namely, the introduction of comprehensive welfare accounts. Under this policy,
individuals make ...
(published in: Torben Andersen and Per Molander (eds,): Alternatives for Welfare Policy: Coping with Internationalisation and Demographic Change, Cambridge, 2003, 255 - 275)
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H11, H21, H23, H51, H52, H53, H55
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