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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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250
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Timothy
J.
Hatton
Jeffrey
G.
Williamson
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Demographic and Economic Pressure on Emigration out of Africa
Two of the main forces driving European emigration in the late nineteenth century were real wage gaps between sending and receiving regions and demographic booms in the low-wage sending regions ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2003, 105 (3), 465-486)
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F22, J11, J61, O15
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248
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Pierre
M.
Picard
Eric
Toulemonde
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The Impact of Labor Markets on Emergence and Persistence of Regional Asymmetries
This paper investigates the impact of labor markets and economies of agglomeration on firms location. We show that the existence of a lower bound on wage (e.g. a minimum wage or a reservation wage) ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2004, 55 (3), 458-477)
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J23 R30
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247
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Erik
Plug
Wim
P.
Vijverberg
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Schooling, Family Background, and Adoption: Is it Nature or is it Nurture?
When parents are more educated, their children tend to receive more schooling as well. Does this occur because parental ability is passed on genetically or because more educated parents provide a ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2003, 111 (3), 611-641)
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I21 J13 J24
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246
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Erik
Plug
Wim
P.
Vijverberg
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Schooling, Family Background, and Adoption: Does Family Income Matter?
One would expect that family income is an important positive factor in the school attainment of children. However, evidence on this relationship is often tainted by the lack of control for parental ...
(published as 'Does Family Income Matter for Schooling Outcomes? Using Adoptees as a Natural Experiment' in: Economic Journal, 2005, 115 (506), 879-906)
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D31 I21 J13 J24
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245
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Fredrik W.
Andersson
Kai
A.
Konrad
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Globalization and Human Capital Formation
This paper compares education investment in closed and open economies without government and with a benevolent government. The fact that the time consistency problem in taxation can make labor ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2003, 10(3), 211-228)
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H21 H23
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243
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Elizabeth
Brainerd
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Economic Reform and Mortality in the Former Soviet Union: A Study of the Suicide Epidemic in the 1990s
Male suicide rates in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and the Baltic countries increased substantially in the early 1990s and are now the highest in the world. To what extent is this suicide epidemic ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2001, 45 (4-6), 1007-1019)
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I12 P20
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242
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Giulia
Faggio
Jozef
Konings
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Job Creation, Job Destruction and Employment Growth in Transition Countries in the 90's
In this paper we document and analyse gross job flows in five transition countries, Poland, Estonia, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Romania. Using comparable firm level data over the years 1993- 1997, we ...
(published in: Economic Systems, 2003 (27), 129-154)
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J6 P2
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240
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Winfried
Koeniger
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Labor and Financial Market Interactions: The Case of Labor Income Risk and Car Insurance in the UK 1969-95
Microeconomic theory predicts that under certain regularity conditions higher idiosyncratic risk increases the propensity to insure against independent marketable risks. We apply these predictions to ...
(revised version published in: Geneva Papers of Risk and Insurance Theory, 2004, 29 (1), 55-74.)
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D12 D81 G22 J31
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239
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Fredrik W.
Andersson
Kai
A.
Konrad
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Human Capital Investment and Globalization in Extortionary States
This paper considers education investment and public education subsidies in closed and open economies with an extortionary government. The extortionary government in a closed economy has incentives ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2003, 87 (7-8), 1539-1555)
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H21 H23
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238
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Rob
Euwals
Axel
H.
Börsch-Supan
Angelika
Eymann
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The Saving Behaviour of Two Person Households: Evidence from Dutch Panel Data
As wives generally are younger than their husbands, and as they also have a higher life expectancy, wives generally have larger incentives to save for old age than their husbands. This paper analyses ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2004, 25 (2), 195-211)
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C33 C35 D19 D91
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