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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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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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466
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Jan
Erik
Askildsen
Espen
Bratberg
Øivind
Anti
Nilsen
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Unemployment, Labour Force Composition and Sickness Absence: A Panel Data Study
Sickness absence tends to be negatively correlated with unemployment. This may suggest
disciplining effects of unemployment but may also reflect changes in the composition of the
labour force. A ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2005, 14 (11), 1087-1101)
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H55, J22, J28, J32
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465
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John
Ermisch
Marco
Francesconi
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Intergenerational Social Mobility and Assortative Mating in Britain
This paper investigates the links between the socio-economic position of parents and the
socio-economic position of their offspring and, through the marriage market, the socioeconomic
position of ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (513), 659-679 )
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J12, I20, D31, D64
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463
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Etienne
Wasmer
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Labor Supply Dynamics, Umemployment and Human Capital Investments
In the last decades, the OECD labor markets faced important labor supply changes with the
arrival of women and the cohorts of the baby-boom. Using a survey where workers declare
their true ...
(published in:Recherches Economiques de Louvan / Louvain Economic Review, 2004, 70 (4), 461-482)
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E24, J21, J31
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