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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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11528
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Paola
Giuliano
Nathan
Nunn
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Ancestral Characteristics of Modern Populations
We construct a database, with global coverage, that provides measures of the cultural and environmental characteristics of the pre-industrial ancestors of the world's current populations. In this ...
(published in: Economic History of Developing Regions, 2018, 33 (1), 1-17)
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N00, Z10, Z13
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11527
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Gregory
Verdugo
Sorana
Toma
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Can Public Housing Decrease Segregation? Lessons and Challenges from Non-European Immigration in France
Recent decades have seen a rapid increase in the share of non-European immigrants in public housing in Europe, which has led to concern regarding the rise of "ghettos" in large cities. Using French ...
(published in: Demography, 2018, 55 (5), 1803-1828)
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J15, R31
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11524
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Sankar
Mukhopadhyay
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Language Assimilation and Performance in Achievement Tests among Immigrant Children: Evidence from a Field Experiment
We provide new evidence about language assimilation and its effect on test scores using data from two rounds (conducted approximately six years apart) of the New Immigrants Survey (NIS). As part of ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 75, 101970)
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J15, I20, Z13
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11523
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Takao
Kato
Antti
Kauhanen
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Performance Pay and Enterprise Productivity: The Details Matter
Much of the empirical literature on PRP (Performance Related Pay) focuses on a question of whether the firm can increase firm performance in general and enterprise productivity in particular by ...
(published in: Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, 2018, 1 (1), 61-73 )
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M52, J33, J24, J53, O53
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11522
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Rolf
Aaberge
Anthony
B.
Atkinson
Sebastian
Königs
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From Classes to Copulas: Wages, Capital, and Top Incomes
Public debates about the rise in top income shares often focus on the growing dispersion in earnings and the soaring pay for top executives and financial-sector employees. But can the change in the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2018, 16 (2), 295–320.)
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C14, D31, D33
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11521
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Farzana
Afridi
Amrita
Dhillon
Sherry
Xin
Li
Swati
Sharma
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Using Social Connections and Financial Incentives to Solve Coordination Failure: A Quasi-Field Experiment in India's Manufacturing Sector
Production processes are often organised in teams, yet there is limited evidence on whether and how social connections and financial incentives affect productivity in tasks that require coordination ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 144, 102445)
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C93, D20, D22, D24, J33
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11520
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Elena
Grinza
Stephan
Kampelmann
François
Rycx
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L'union fait la force? Evidence for Wage Discrimination in Firms with High Diversity
Measuring the economic impact of coworkers from different countries of origin sparked intense scrutiny in labor economics, albeit with an uncomfortable methodological limitation. Most attempts ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2020, 18 (2), 181-211)
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J15, J16, J24, J31, J7
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11519
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Nancy
H.
Chau
Ravi
Kanbur
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Employer Power, Labor Saving Technical Change, and Inequality
How does employer power mediate the impact of labor saving technical change on inequality? This question has largely been neglected in the recent literature on the wage and distributional ...
(published in: Kaushik Basu, Maitreesh Ghatak, Kenneth Kletzer, Sudipto Mundle, and Eric Verhoogen (eds.), Development, Distribution, and Markets, Oxford University Press, 2021)
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J31, J42, D31, O34
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11518
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Tobias
Brändle
Laszlo
Goerke
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The One Constant: A Causal Effect of Collective Bargaining on Employment Growth?
A large number of articles have analysed 'the one constant' in the economic effects of trade unions, namely that collective bargaining reduces employment growth by two to four percentage points per ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economic, 2018, 65 (5), 445 - 478)
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J23 J52, J53, J63
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11516
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Daniel
O.
Gilligan
Naureen
Karachiwalla
Ibrahim
Kasirye
Adrienne
Lucas
Derek
Neal
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Educator Incentives and Educational Triage in Rural Primary Schools
In low-income countries, primary school students often fall far below grade level and primary dropout rates remain high. Further, in some countries, educators encourage their weaker students to drop ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (1), 79-111)
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I0, J3, O1
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