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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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9816
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Britta
Kohlbrecher
Christian
Merkl
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Business Cycle Asymmetries and the Labor Market
This paper shows that the matching function and the Beveridge curve in the United States exhibit strong nonlinearities over the business cycle. These patterns can be replicated by enhancing a search ...
(published in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2022, 73, 103458)
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E24, E32, J63, J64
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9815
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Robert
Dixon
Guay
C.
Lim
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Revisiting Okun's Relationship
Our paper revisits Okun's relationship between observed unemployment rates and output gaps. We include in the relationship the effect of labour market institutions as well as age and gender effects. ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2017, 49 (28), 2749-2765)
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J64
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9812
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Magnus
Lofstrom
Steven
Raphael
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Crime, the Criminal Justice System, and Socioeconomic Inequality
Crime rates in the United States have declined to historical lows since the early 1990s. Prison and jail incarceration rates as well as community correctional populations have increased greatly since ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016, 30 (2), 103 - 126)
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D3, D63, I3
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9811
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Karen
Maguire
John
V.
Winters
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Energy Boom and Gloom? Local Effects of Oil and Natural Gas Drilling on Subjective Well-Being
The United States experienced a considerable increase in oil and natural gas extraction in recent years due to technological advancements including horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. ...
(published in: Growth and Change, 2017, 48 (4), 590-610)
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I10, Q40
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9810
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N. Meltem
Daysal
Mircea
Trandafir
Reyn
van Ewijk
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Heterogeneous Effects of Medical Interventions on the Health of Low-Risk Newborns
We investigate the impact of early-life medical interventions on low-risk newborn health. A policy rule in The Netherlands creates large discontinuities in medical treatments at gestational week 37. ...
(revised version published as 'Low-risk isn't no-risk: Perinatal treatments and the health of low-income newborns' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 64, 55-67. )
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I11, I12, I18, J13
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9809
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Grant
Miller
Christine
Valente
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Population Policy: Abortion and Modern Contraception Are Substitutes
There is longstanding debate in population policy about the relationship between modern contraception and abortion. Although theory predicts that they should be substitutes, the existing body of ...
(published in: Demography, 2016, 53(4), 979–1009)
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J13, N35
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9808
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Pushkar
Maitra
Sarmistha
Pal
Anurag
Sharma
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Absence of Altruism? Female Disadvantage in Private School Enrolment in India
Using two nationally representative datasets from household surveys conducted in India in 2005 and 2012, the present paper examines the causal effect of gender in private school choice. We argue that ...
(published in: World Development, 2016, 86, 105–125)
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C21, I25, O10
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9806
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Steffen
Müller
Renate
Neubäumer
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Size of Training Firms: The Role of Firms, Luck, and Ability in Young Workers' Careers
This paper analyzes how life-cycle unemployment of former apprentices depends on the size of the training firm. We start from the hypotheses that the size of training firms reduces long-run cumulated ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2018, 39 (5), 658-673)
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D21, L10, L25, L26, L29, M13
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9805
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Jutta
Viinikainen
Guido
Heineck
Petri
Böckerman
Mirka
Hintsanen
Olli
Raitakari
Jaakko
Pehkonen
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Born Entrepreneur? Adolescents' Personality Characteristics and Self-Employment in Adulthood
Is there an entrepreneurial personality and does it appear early in life? We provide a new answer on this question by using the so-called Type A behavior traits (Aggression, Leadership, ...
(published in: Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2017, 8, 9-12)
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L26
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9804
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Giorgio
Di Pietro
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The Impact of Television Programmes on Teenage Career Aspirations The 'MasterChef Effect'
In recent years, in Italy, a larger number of students have chosen to attend vocational hospitality and catering schools. This paper investigates the extent to which this increase may have been ...
(revised version published as 'Do media play a role in promoting vocational education and training? The case of MasterChef' in: Policy Studies, 2018, 39 (1), 37-53)
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I21, J44, C23
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13084Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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