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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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8227
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Li
Hao
Daniel
Houser
Lei
Mao
Marie Claire
Villeval
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A Field Study of Chinese Migrant Workers' Attitudes toward Risks, Strategic Uncertainty, and Competitiveness
Using a field experiment in China, we study whether migration status is correlated with attitudes toward risk, ambiguity, and competitiveness. Our subjects include migrants and non-migrants. We find ...
(Revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 131, 126-140)
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C93, D03, D63, J61
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8226
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Ilhom
Abdulloev
Ira
N.
Gang
Myeong-Su
Yun
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Migration, Education and the Gender Gap in Labour Force Participation
Women who want to work often face many more hurdles than men. This is true in Tajikistan where there is a large gender gap in labour force participation. We highlight the role of two factors – ...
(published in: European Journal of Development Research, 2014, 26 (4), 509–526 )
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J01, J16, O15
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8225
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Alina
Botezat
Friedhelm
Pfeiffer
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The Impact of Parents Migration on the Well-being of Children Left Behind: Initial Evidence from Romania
Many children grow up with parents working abroad. Economists are interested in the achievement and well-being of these "home alone" children to better understand the positive and negative aspects of ...
(published as 'The Impact of labour migration on left-behind children's educational and psychosocial outcomes: Evidence from Romania' in: Population, Space and Place 2020, 26 (1), e2277)
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I12, I21, J13
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8224
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David
J.
Bjerk
Caleb
Mason
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The Market for Mules: Risk and Compensation of Cross-Border Drug Couriers
This paper uses a unique dataset to examine the economics of cross-border drug smuggling. Our results reveal that loads are generally quite large (median 30 kg), but with substantial variance within ...
(published in: International Review of Law and Economics, 2014, 39, 58-72.)
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K42
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8223
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Donald
O.
Parsons
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Job Displacement Insurance: An Overview
Earnings losses from permanent job separations are a serious threat to the financial security of long-tenured workers. Job displacement insurance is presumably designed to offset these losses, but ...
(published in: J. Wright (ed.): International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed., 2015, 12. Oxford, 819-832)
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J65, J41, J33, J08
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8222
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Daniele
Checchi
Herman
G.
van de Werfhorst
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Educational Policies and Income Inequality
In this paper we study the associations between educational policies, distributions of educational attainments and income distributions. By matching inequality measures on test scores, years of ...
(published in Socio-Economic Review, 2018, 16 (1), 137 - 160)
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I24, I28
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8221
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Robert
Dixon
Guay
C.
Lim
Jan
C.
van Ours
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The Effect of Shocks to Labour Market Flows on Unemployment and Participation Rates
This paper presents an analysis of labour market dynamics, in particular of flows in the labour market and how they interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2015, 47 (24), 2523-2539)
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E17, E24, J21, J64
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8220
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Wiemer
Salverda
Daniele
Checchi
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Labour-Market Institutions and the Dispersion of Wage Earnings
Considering the contribution of the distribution of individual wages and earnings to that of household incomes we find two separate literatures that should be brought together, and bring 'new ...
(published in: A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (eds.): Handbook of Income Distribution, 2, 2015, 1535–1727)
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D02, D13, D31, J22, J31, J51, J52
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8219
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Jörn
Block
Karsten
Kohn
Danny
Miller
Katrin
Ullrich
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Necessity Entrepreneurship and Competitive Strategy
Many start-ups chose to compete with incumbent firms using one of two generic strategies: cost leadership or differentiation. Our study demonstrates how this choice depends on whether the startup was ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2015, 44 (1), 37-54)
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L10, L26
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8218
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David
L.
Dickinson
David
Masclet
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Norm Enforcement in Social Dilemmas: An Experiment with Police Commissioners
Do individuals trained in law enforcement punish or reward differently from typical student subjects? We analyze norm enforcement behavior of newly appointed police commissioners in both a Voluntary ...
(Revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 126, 74-85)
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C92, H41, D63
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