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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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7965
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Alena
Bicakova
Štepán
Jurajda
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The Quiet Revolution and the Family: Gender Composition of Tertiary Education and Early Fertility Patterns
It is well known that highly 'female' fields of study in tertiary education are characterized by higher fertility. However, existing work does not disentangle the selection-causality nexus. We use ...
(revised version published as 'Gender Composition of College Graduates by Field of Study and Early Fertility' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 15 (4), 1323-1343 )
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I23, J13, J16
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7964
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Henry
S
Farber
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Union Organizing Decisions in a Deteriorating Environment: The Composition of Representation Elections and the Decline in Turnout
It is well known that the organizing environment for labor unions in the U.S. has deteriorated dramatically over a long period of time, contributing to the sharp decline in the private sector union ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68(5), 1126-1156)
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J5, J50
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7963
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Ruth
Ben-Yashar
Leif
Danziger
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On the Optimal Composition of Committees
This paper derives a simple characterization of how to optimally divide an organization's experts into different decision-making committees. The focus is on many three-member committees that make ...
(published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2014, 43 (4), 973-980)
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D71
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7962
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Alexander
Muravyev
Oleksandr
Talavera
Charlie
Weir
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Performance Effects of Appointing Other Firms' Executive Directors to Corporate Boards: An Analysis of UK Firms
This paper studies the effect on company performance of appointing non-executive directors that are also executive directors in other firms. The analysis is based on a new panel dataset of UK ...
(published in: Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2016, 46(1), 25-45)
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G34, G39
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7960
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Gabriel
Felbermayr
Giammario
Impullitti
Julien
Prat
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Firm Dynamics and Residual Inequality in Open Economies
Increasing wage inequality between similar workers plays an important role for overall inequality trends in industrialized societies. To analyze this pattern, we incorporate directed labor market ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2018, 16 (5), 1476 - 1539)
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F12, F16, E24
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7959
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Simon
Janssen
Simone
N.
Tuor Sartore
Uschi
Backes-Gellner
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Social Attitudes on Gender Equality and Firms' Discriminatory Pay-Setting
We analyze the relationship between social attitudes on gender equality and firms' pay-setting behavior by combining information about regional votes relative to gender equality laws with a large ...
(published as 'Discriminatory Social Attitudes and Varying Gender Pay Gaps within Firms'. in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2016, 96 (1), 253 - 279 )
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J31, J33, J71, M5
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7958
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Andreas
Lichter
Andreas
Peichl
Sebastian
Siegloch
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The Own-Wage Elasticity of Labor Demand: A Meta-Regression Analysis
Firms' labor demand responses to wage changes are of key interest in empirical research and policy analysis. However, despite extensive research, estimates of labor demand elasticities remain subject ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2015, 80, 94-119)
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J23, C10, C83
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7957
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Alan
B.
Krueger
Andreas
I.
Mueller
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A Contribution to the Empirics of Reservation Wages
This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high-frequency longitudinal data. Using data from our survey of unemployed workers in New ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2016, 8 (1), 142-179)
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J30, J64, J65
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7956
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Edwin
Leuven
Erik
Plug
Marte
Rřnning
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Education and Cancer Risk
There exists a strong educational gradient in cancer risk, which has been documented in a wide range of populations. Yet relatively little is known about the extent to which education is causally ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 43, 106-121)
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I12, I21
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7953
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Nicky
Hoogveld
Nick
Zubanov
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The Power of (No) Recognition: Experimental Evidence from the University Classroom
We study the effect of recognition on performance with a field experiment involving first-year undergraduate students at a Dutch university. Our treatment, given unannounced in randomly selected ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 67, 75-84)
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C93, M52
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