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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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8337
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Marco
Caliendo
Robert
Mahlstedt
Oscar
A.
Mitnik
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Unobservable, but Unimportant? The Influence of Personality Traits (and Other Usually Unobserved Variables) for the Evaluation of Labor Market Policies
Many commonly used treatment effects estimators rely on the unconfoundedness assumption ("selection on observables") which is fundamentally non-testable. When evaluating the effects of labor market ...
(substantially revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 46, 14-25.)
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C21, D04, J68
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8336
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Nynke
De Groot
Bas
van der Klaauw
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The Effects of Reducing the Entitlement Period to Unemployment Insurance Benefits
This paper exploits a substantial reform of the Dutch UI law to study the effect of the entitlement period on job finding and subsequent labor market outcomes. Using detailed administrative data ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 57, 195-208)
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J64, J65, C21, C41
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8335
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Nezih
Guner
Martin
Lopez-Daneri
Gustavo
Ventura
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Heterogeneity and Government Revenues: Higher Taxes at the Top?
We evaluate the effectiveness of a more progressive tax scheme in raising government revenues. We develop a life-cycle economy with heterogeneity and endogenous labor supply. Households face a ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2016, 80, 69-85.)
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E6, H2
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8334
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Horst
Entorf
Philip
Sieger
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Does the Link between Unemployment and Crime Depend on the Crime Level? A Quantile Regression Approach
Two alternative hypotheses – referred to as opportunity- and stigma-based behavior – suggest that the relationship between unemployment and crime also depends on preexisting local crime levels. In ...
(published in: International Journal of Conflict and Violence, 2014, 8(2), 262-283)
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C21, E24, C33
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8333
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Nadia
Campaniello
Theodoros
Diasakos
Giovanni
Mastrobuoni
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Rationalizable Suicides: Evidence from Changes in Inmates' Expected Length of Sentence
Is there a rational component in the decision to commit suicide? Economists have been trying to shed light on this question by studying whether suicide rates are related to contemporaneous ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2017, 15 (2), 388 - 428)
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I1, D1, K4
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8332
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Brian
Bell
Anna
Bindler
Stephen
Machin
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Crime Scars: Recessions and the Making of Career Criminals
Recessions lead to short-term job loss, lower levels of happiness and decreasing income levels. There is growing evidence that workers who first join the labour market during economic downturns ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100, 392-404)
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J64, K42
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8331
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Giorgio
Brunello
Monica
Langella
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Local Agglomeration, Entrepreneurship and the Great Recession: Evidence from Italian Industrial Districts
We ask whether local agglomeration affects how recessions impact on entrepreneurship by comparing the probability of being an entrepreneur before and after the Great 2008 Recession in local labour ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics; 2016, 58, 104 - 114)
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J21, J24
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8329
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Andrew
Mountford
Hillel
Rapoport
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Migration Policy, African Population Growth and Global Inequality
According to recent UN projections more than 50 percent of the growth in world population over the next half century will be due to population growth in Africa. Given this, any policy that influences ...
(published in: World Economy, 2016, 39 (4), 543-556)
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O40, F11, F43
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8328
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Daniela
Del Boca
Alessandra
Venturini
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Migration in Italy is Backing the Old Age Welfare
Our research analyzes the effect of changes in migration policies and the accession to the European Union of former countries of emigration, considering the crucial role played by migrants in an ...
(published in: M. Kahanec and K.F. Zimmermann (eds.), Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession, 2016)
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J6, J15, F66
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8327
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Madeline
Zavodny
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Do Immigrants Work in Worse Jobs than U.S. Natives? Evidence from California
In the debate over immigration reform, it is frequently asserted that immigrants take jobs that U.S. natives do not want. Using data from the 2000 Census merged with O*NET data on occupation ...
(published in: Industrial Relations 2015, 54, 276-293)
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J81, J15
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