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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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9950
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Xiaoming
Cai
Pieter
A.
Gautier
Ronald
P.
Wolthoff
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Search Frictions, Competing Mechanisms and Optimal Market Segmentation
In a market in which sellers compete for heterogeneous buyers by posting mechanisms, we analyze how the properties of the meeting technology affect the allocation of buyers to sellers. We show that a ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2017, 169, 453-473)
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C78, D44, D83
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9949
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Guoqian
Xi
Jörn
Block
Frank
Lasch
Frank
Robert
Roy
Thurik
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Work Experience from Paid Employment and the Path to Entrepreneurship: Business Takeover versus New Venture Start-Up
Our paper investigates how the type of work experience gained from prior paid employment influences the path to entrepreneurship. We distinguish between two distinct entrepreneurship entry modes: ...
(published as 'Work experience from paid employment and entry mode to entrepreneurship: business takeover versus new venture start-up' in: Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat, 2018, 17 (2), 91-112)
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L26
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9947
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S. Nageeb
Ali
Roland
Benabou
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Image versus Information: Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy
We analyze the costs and benefits of using social image to foster virtuous behavior. A Principal seeks to motivate reputation-conscious agents to supply a public good. Each agent chooses how much to ...
(published as 'Image versus Information: Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy' in: American Economic Review, 2020, 13 (3), 116 - 164)
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D62, D64, D82, H41, K42, Z13
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9945
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Guillaume
Daudin
Raphaël
Franck
Hillel
Rapoport
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The Cultural Diffusion of the Fertility Transition: Evidence from Internal Migration in 19th Century France
France experienced the demographic transition before richer and more educated countries. This paper offers a novel explanation for this puzzle that emphasizes the diffusion of culture and information ...
(published as 'Can internal migration foster convergence in regional fertility rates? Evidence from 19th Century France' in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (620), 1618-1692)
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J13, N33, O15
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9944
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Vibeke
Jakobsen
Peder
J.
Pedersen
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Poverty Risk among Older Immigrants in a Scandinavian Welfare State
Focus in the paper is on poverty among immigrants and refugees 50 years and older coming to Denmark from countries outside the OECD, with main emphasis on immigrants coming as guest workers before ...
(published in: European Journal of Social Security, 2017, 19 (3), 242 - 262)
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F22, H55, I32, J14
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9942
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Deepti
Goel
Kevin
Lang
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Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants
In this paper we highlight a specific mechanism through which social networks help in job search. We characterize the strength of a network by its likelihood of providing a job offer. Using a ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2017, 72 (2), 355-381)
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J3
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9941
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Froilan
T.
Malit Jr.
George
S
Naufal
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Asymmetric Information under the Kafala Sponsorship System: Impacts on Foreign Domestic Workers' Income and Employment Status in the GCC Countries
This paper examines the legal and policy implications of information asymmetry on foreign domestic workers employed under the Kafala sponsorship system in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) ...
(published in: International Migration, 2016, 54(5), 76-90)
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D82, F22, G14, N35, N45
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9938
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José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
Miguel
Lafuente
José Alberto
Molina
Jorge
Velilla
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Resampling and Bootstrap to Assess the Relevance of Variables: A New Algorithmic Approach with Applications to Entrepreneurship Data
In this paper, we propose an algorithmic approach based on resampling and bootstrap techniques to measuring the importance of a variable, or a set of variables, in econometric models. This ...
(published as 'Resampling and bootstrap algorithms to asses the relevance of variables: applications to cross-section entrepreneurship data' in: Empirical Economics, 2019, 56, 233-267)
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C21, C52
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9937
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Davide
Castellani
Mariacristina
Piva
Torben
Schubert
Marco
Vivarelli
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The Productivity Impact of R&D Investment: A Comparison between the EU and the US
Using data on the US and EU top R&D spenders from 2004 until 2012, this paper investigates the sources of the US/EU productivity gap. We find robust evidence that US firms have a higher capacity to ...
(published as 'R&D and Productivity in the US and the EU: Sectoral Specificities and Differences in the Crisis', Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2019, 138, 279-291.)
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O33, O51, O52
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9936
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Alexander
M.
Danzer
Peter
Dolton
Chiara
Rosazza Bondibene
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Who Wins? Evaluating the Impact of UK Public Sector Pension Scheme Reforms
Radical changes have been implemented to pension schemes across the UK public sector from April 2015. This paper simulates how these changes will affect the lifetime pension and how the negotiated ...
(published in: National Institute Economic Review, 2016, 237, 38-46)
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J32, H55, J45
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