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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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7854
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Gabriel
Burdin
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Equality under Threat by the Talented: Evidence from Worker-Managed Firms
Are high-ability individuals more likely to quit egalitarian regimes? Does the threat of exit by talented individuals restrict the redistributive capacity of democratic organizations? This paper ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126(594), 1372-1403)
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H00, J54, J62, M52, P0
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7853
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Sylvi
Rzepka
Marcus
Tamm
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Local Employer Competition and Training of Workers
The new training literature suggests that in a monopsonistic market employers will not only pay for firm-specific training but also for general training if the risk of poaching is limited. This ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2016, 48 (35), 3307-3321)
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I24, J24, J42
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7852
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Michael
Fritsch
Alexander
S.
Kritikos
Katharina
Pijnenburg
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Business Cycles, Unemployment and Entrepreneurial Entry: Evidence from Germany
We investigate whether people are more willing to become self-employed during boom periods or during recessions and to what extent business cycles or unemployment levels influence entries into ...
(published in: International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 2015, 11(2), 267-286)
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L26, E32
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7851
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Almas
Heshmati
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The Effect of Credit Guarantees on R&D Investment of SMEs in Korea
Korean government has invested significant amount of resources through credit guarantee funds to promote SMEs survival, performance and R&D investment. This study attempts to identify determinants of ...
(published in: Asian Journal of Technology Innovation, 2015, 23 (3), 407-421. )
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C13, D92, G28, L25, O32, O38
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7850
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Eric
A.
Hanushek
Guido
Schwerdt
Simon
Wiederhold
Ludger
Woessmann
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Returns to Skills around the World: Evidence from PIAAC
Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2015, 73, 103-130)
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J31, I20
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7849
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Tiziano
Razzolini
Roberto
Leombruni
Giovanni
Mastrobuoni
Mario
Pagliero
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Beneath the Surface: The Decline in Gender Injury Gap
Despite its policy relevance there is little evidence on the joint evolution of gender differences in wages and workplace safety. Between 1994 and 2002 Italian micro-level data show a decline in both ...
(substantially revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 282-288)
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J16, J28, J31
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7848
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Hani
Mansour
Terra
McKinnish
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Couples' Time Together: Complementarities in Production versus Complementarities in Consumption
Economists have previously suggested that gains from marriage can be generated by complementarities in production (gains from specialization and exchange) or by complementarities in consumption ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27, 1127-1144)
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J12, J13, J16
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7847
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Stijn
Baert
Lynn
Decuypere
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Better Sexy than Flexy? A Lab Experiment Assessing the Impact of Perceived Attractiveness and Personality Traits on Hiring Decisions
In this letter we present a laboratory experiment to assess the relative and independent effect of perceived attractiveness and personality traits on hiring decisions. Our results indicate that ...
(revised version published in: Applied Economics Letters , 2014, 21 (9), 597 - 601)
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C91, J24, J71
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7846
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Chris
M.
Herbst
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Universal Child Care, Maternal Employment, and Children's Long-Run Outcomes: Evidence from the U.S. Lanham Act of 1940
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the Lanham Act of 1940, a heavily-subsidized and universal child care program that was administered throughout the U.S. during World War II. I begin by ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35 (2), 519–564)
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J13
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7845
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Stijn
Baert
Elsy
Verhofstadt
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Labour Market Discrimination against Former Juvenile Delinquents: Evidence from a Field Experiment
We identify hiring discrimination against former juvenile delinquents in a direct way. To this end we conduct a field experiment in the Belgian labour market. We find that labour market ...
(revised version published in: Applied Economics, 2015, 47 (11), 1061 - 1072)
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C93, J2, J71
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