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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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9636
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Milena
Nikolova
Boris
Nikolaev
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Does Joining the EU Make You Happy? Evidence from Bulgaria and Romania
We examine the effect of joining the European Union on individual life satisfaction in Bulgaria and Romania in the context of the 2007 EU enlargement. Although EU membership is among the most ...
(published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2017, 18, 1593 - 1623)
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I31, I39, P20
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9635
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Boris
Hirsch
Elke
J.
Jahn
Michael
Oberfichtner
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The Urban Wage Premium in Imperfect Labour Markets
Using administrative data for West Germany, this paper investigates whether part of the urban wage premium stems from fierce competition in thick labour markets. We first establish that employers ...
(substantially revised version coauthored with Alan Manning published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57, S111-S136)
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R23, J42, J31
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9633
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Lixin
Cai
Kostas
Mavromaras
Peter J.
Sloane
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Low Paid Employment in Britain: Estimating State-Dependence and Stepping Stone Effects
Using 18 waves of the British Household Panel Study, this paper examines state dependence and stepping stone effects of low pay. A distinguishing feature is that five types of transition- not in the ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80 (2), 283 - 326)
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J24, J31, I21
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9632
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Petri
Böckerman
Per
Skedinger
Roope
Uusitalo
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Seniority Rules, Worker Mobility and Wages: Evidence from Multi-Country Linked Employer-Employee Data
We construct a multi-country employer-employee data to examine the consequences of employment protection. We identify the effects by comparing worker exit rates between units of the same firm that ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 48-62)
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K31, J63, J32, J08, L51
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9631
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Barry
Hirsch
Muhammad
M.
Husain
John
V.
Winters
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The Puzzling Fixity of Multiple Job Holding across Regions and Labor Markets
Multiple job holding rates differ substantially across U.S. regions, states, and metropolitan areas. Rates decrease markedly with respect to labor market size. These patterns have been largely ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2017, 84 (1), 26-51)
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J21, R23
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9630
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Barry
Hirsch
Muhammad
M.
Husain
John
V.
Winters
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Multiple Job Holding, Local Labor Markets, and the Business Cycle
About 5 percent of U.S. workers hold multiple jobs, which can exacerbate or mitigate employment changes over the business cycle. Theory is ambiguous and prior literature is not fully conclusive. We ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 5:4)
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J21
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9629
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Christina
Patterson
Aysegül
Sahin
Giorgio
Topa
Giovanni L.
Violante
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Working Hard in the Wrong Place: A Mismatch-Based Explanation to the UK Productivity Puzzle
The UK experienced an unusually prolonged stagnation in labor productivity in the aftermath of the Great Recession. This paper analyzes the role of sectoral labor misallocation in accounting for this ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 84, 42-56)
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E24, E32, J24
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9628
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Marco
Caliendo
Steffen
Künn
Martin
Weißenberger
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Personality Traits and the Evaluation of Start-Up Subsidies
Many countries support business start-ups to spur economic growth and reduce unemployment with different programmes. Evaluation studies of such programmes commonly rely on the conditional ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 86, 87-108)
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C14, L26, H43, J68
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9627
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Bert
van Landeghem
Frank
Cörvers
Andries
de Grip
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Is There a Rationale to Contact the Unemployed Right from the Start? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
Active Labour Market Policies often exclusively target towards the long-term unemployed. Although it might be more efficient to intervene earlier in order to prevent long-term unemployment rather ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 45, 158-168 )
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D04, D61, J64, J68
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9626
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Barbara
Hofmann
Arne
Uhlendorff
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The Role of Sickness in the Evaluation of Job Search Assistance and Sanctions
Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during ...
(revised version published as 'Evaluating Vacancy Referrals and the Roles of Sanctions and Sickness Absenc' in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129, 3292-3322)
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J64, J65, C41, C21
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