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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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10297
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Saul
Estrin
Adeline
Pelletier
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Privatisation in Developing Countries: What Are the Lessons of Recent Experience?
This paper reviews recent empirical evidence on privatisation in developing countries. Particular emphasis is placed on new areas of research such as the distributional impacts of privatisation. ...
(published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2018, 33 (1), 65–102, )
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L1, L51, O10
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10296
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Jane
Leer
Florencia
López Bóo
Ana
Perez Expósito
Christine
Powell
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A Snapshot on the Quality of Seven Home Visit Parenting Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean
Although there is ample support for the causal link between home visit parenting programs and child development outcomes, few studies have explored what it is that drives this relationship – to ...
(published as 'Assessing the quality of home visit parenting programs in Latin America and the Caribbean' in: Early Child Development and Care, 2019, 189 (13), 2183 - 2196)
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J13, H53, H75, I38
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10295
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Liqiu
Zhao
Fei
Wang
Zhong
Zhao
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Trade Liberalization and Child Labor in China
This paper exploits a quasi-natural experiment – the U.S. granting of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China after China's accession to the World Trade Organization – to examine whether ...
(revised version published in: China Economic Review, 2021, 65, 101575)
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F14, F16
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10293
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Francesco
Devicienti
Bernardo
Fanfani
Agata
Maida
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Collective Bargaining and the Evolution of Wage Inequality in Italy
In this paper we study the evolution of the Italian wage inequality, and of its determinants, using two decades of matched employer-employee data covering the entire population of private-sector ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2019, 57 (2), 377-407)
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J00, J5, J31, J40
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10292
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Francesco
Devicienti
Alessandro
Manello
Davide
Vannoni
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Technical Efficiency, Unions and Decentralized Labor Contracts
This paper explores the link between the presence of unions in the workplace, the adoption of decentralized labor agreements and technical efficiency, using a large sample of Italian manufacturing ...
(published in: European Journal of Operational Research, 2017, 260 (3), 1129 - 1141)
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J51, D22, D24, C24, C44
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10291
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Nicolás
Salamanca
Jan
Feld
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A Short Note on Discrimination and Favoritism in the Labor Market
We extend Becker's model of discrimination by allowing firms to have discriminatory and favoring preferences simultaneously. We draw the two-preference parallel for the marginal firm, illustrate the ...
(published in: BE Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2017, 17 (1), 20160133.)
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J70, J31
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10289
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Pedro
S.
Martins
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The Diversity of Personnel Practices and Firm Performance
Personnel economics tends be based on single-firm case studies. Here we examine the personnel practices of nearly 5,000 firms, over a period of 20 years, using detailed matched employer-employee ...
(published in: S. W. Polachek, K. Tatsiramos, G. Russo, G. van Houten (eds.), Workplace Productivity and Management Practices', (Research in Labour Economics 49), 2021)
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M51, M52, J31
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10288
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John
S.
Heywood
Uwe
Jirjahn
Cornelia
Chadi
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Locus of Control and Performance Appraisal
This work contributes to the literature demonstrating an important role for psychological traits in labor market decisions. We show that West German workers with an internal locus of control sort ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 142, 205-225)
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D03, J33, M52
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10287
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Daniela
Del Boca
Daniela
Piazzalunga
Chiara
D.
Pronzato
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Early Childcare, Child Cognitive Outcomes and Inequalities in the UK
The objective of this research is to explore the impact of early childcare on child cognitive outcomes. We utilize the Millennium Cohort Survey (MCS) for the United Kingdom, which provides very ...
(published in: H. Blossfeld et al (eds) Child Care and inequalities in an international perspective, Elgar 2017)
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J13, H75
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10286
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Julia
Bredtmann
Nina
Smith
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Inequalities in Educational Outcomes: How Important Is the Family?
In this paper, we investigate sibling correlations in educational outcomes, which serve as a broad measure of the importance of family and community background. Making use of rich longitudinal survey ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80 (6), 1117-1144)
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I21, I24, J13
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