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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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157
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Patricia
Apps
Ray
Rees
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Household Production, Full Consumption and the Costs of Children
Recent work criticises both the logic and relevance of the theoretical basis of the approach to estimating the costs of raising children adopted in much of the economics literature. This tends to be ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2001, 8 (6), 621-648)
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J13 J22 D13
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156
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Christian
Dustmann
Francesca
Fabbri
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Language Proficiency and Labour Market Performance of Immigrants in the UK
This paper uses two recent UK surveys to investigate labour market performance, the determinants of language proficiency, and the effect of language on earnings and employment probabilities of ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2003, 113 (489), 695-717)
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J15 J24 J61 R23
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154
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Michael
Gerfin
Michael
Lechner
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Microeconometric Evaluation of the Active Labour Market Policy in Switzerland
In the second part of the 1990’s Switzerland conducted an ambitious active labour market policy (ALMP) encompassing a wide variety of programmes. We evaluate the effects of these programmes on the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2002, 112 (482), 854-893)
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J64 J68 H43 C14 C40
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153
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Adriaan
Kalwij
Mary
Gregory
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Overtime Hours in Great Britain over the Period 1975-1999: A Panel Data Analysis
Around 40% of the male workforce regularly works 8 to 9 hours a week of paid overtime. This paper investigates the determinants of overtime hours in Britain over the period 1975-1999. For this ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2005, 168 (1), 207-231)
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C23 C33 C44 J00
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152
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Juan
J.
Dolado
Florentino
Felgueroso
Juan
F.
Jimeno
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The Role of the Minimum Wage in the Welfare State: An Appraisal
In order to offer a balanced assessment of the role of minimum wages in the Welfare State, seven basic questions need to be answered: (i) Why is the minimum wage a useful redistributive tool?; (ii) ...
(published in: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie und Statistik / Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 136 (2000), 1-33)
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J31
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151
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Melanie
E.
Ward-Warmedinger
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Gender, Salary and Promotion in the Academic Profession
This paper examines the hypothesis that the gender salary gap observed in the academic labour market is predominantly explained by the differing average characteristics of male and female academics ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2001, 48 (3), 283-302)
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J44 J70
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149
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Rafael
Lalive
Jan
C.
van Ours
Josef
Zweimüller
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The Impact of Active Labor Market Programs and Benefit Entitlement Rules on the Duration of Unemployment
Swiss policy makers created a unique link between unemployment benefits and Active Labor Market Programs (ALMPs) by making benefit payments conditional on program attendance after 7 months of ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (525), 235–257)
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C14 C41 J64 I38
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147
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Michèle
Belot
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Does the Recent Success of Some OECD Countries in Lowering their Unemployment Rates Lie in the Clever Design of their Labour Market Reform?
The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2004, 56 (4), 621-642)
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E24 J68
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146
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Thomas
K.
Bauer
John
de New
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Employer Learning and the Returns to Schooling
We examine the dynamic role of education and experience as determinants of wages. It is hypothesized that an employee’s education is an important signal to the employer initially. Over time, the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2001, 8 (2), 161-180)
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J21 J24 J31
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145
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Myeong-Su
Yun
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Decomposition Analysis for a Binary Choice Model
This paper introduces a new and simple decomposition method for a binary choice model that is equivalent to the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition analysis for wage differentials. The decomposition method ...
(see DP 877 for a revised and general decomposition method)
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J21 C25 C35
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