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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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7752
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Kristian
Koerselman
Roope
Uusitalo
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The Risk and Return of Human Capital Investments
Investing in human capital increases lifetime income, but these investments may involve substantial risk. In this paper we use a Finnish panel spanning 22 years to predict the mean, the variance and ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 154-163)
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C33, I24, J31
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7751
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Joseph
Menis
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Research and Teaching in Higher Education: Complements or Substitutes?
In this note we use unique data from Bar-Ilan University, over a period of four years (2005-2008), to estimate simultaneous equations with regard to the relationship between publications and teaching ...
(published in: International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Science, 2013, 3 (11), 614-632.)
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D2, L11
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7750
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James
J.
Heckman
Tim
Kautz
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Fostering and Measuring Skills: Interventions That Improve Character and Cognition
This paper reviews the recent literature on measuring and boosting cognitive and noncognitive skills. The literature establishes that achievement tests do not adequately capture character skills – ...
(published in: J. Heckman, J.E. Humphries, and T. Kautz (eds.), The Myth of Achievement Tests: The GED and the Role of Character in American Life, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014)
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D01, I20, J24
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7749
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Simone
Bertoli
Hillel
Rapoport
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Heaven's Swing Door: Endogenous Skills, Migration Networks and the Effectiveness of Quality-Selective Immigration Policies
A growing number of OECD countries are leaning toward adopting quality-selective immigration policies. The underlying assumption behind such policies is that more skill-selection should raise ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2015, 117 (2), 565-591)
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F22, O15, J61
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7748
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Carl
Lin
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How Do Immigrants from Taiwan Fare in the U.S. Labor Market?
This paper presents evidence that since 1980, relative to other immigrants, the earnings of Taiwanese immigrants have grown rapidly as they assimilate into the U.S. economy. Our estimates indicate ...
(published in: Singapore Economic Review, 2016, 61(5), 1-38)
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J31, J61
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7746
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Hector
Sala
Pedro
Trivín
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Labour Market Dynamics in Spanish Regions: Evaluating Asymmetries in Troublesome Times
The Spanish labour market disproportionately booms in expansions and bursts in recessions; meanwhile, its regions' relative position persists: those with the highest unemployment rates in 1996 were ...
(published in: SERIEs, 2014, 5(2), 197-221)
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J20, E24, J61, R11
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7743
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Tavis
Barr
Carl
Lin
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A Detailed Decomposition of Synthetic Cohort Analysis
Social scientists are often interested in assessing relative changes between two groups over time, for example, the convergence of black-white wages from 1940 to 1990. In such situations, we need a ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 127(0), 76-80)
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C20, J70
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7741
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Matthew
Harding
Carlos
Lamarche
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Penalized Quantile Regression with Semiparametric Correlated Effects: Applications with Heterogeneous Preferences
This paper proposes new ?1-penalized quantile regression estimators for panel data, which explicitly allows for individual heterogeneity associated with covariates. We conduct Monte Carlo simulations ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2017, 32, 342-358)
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C21, C23, J22
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7740
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Bas
van der Klaauw
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Structural Empirical Evaluation of Job Search Monitoring
We structurally estimate a novel job search model with endogenous job search effort, job quality dispersion, and effort monitoring, taking into account that monitoring effects may be mitigated by ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2019, 60 (2), 879-903)
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J64, J65, J68, J62, D83, D82, C31, C32
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7739
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Graziella
Bertocchi
Alfonso
Gambardella
Tullio
Jappelli
Carmela A.
Nappi
Franco
Peracchi
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Bibliometric Evaluation vs. Informed Peer Review: Evidence from Italy
A relevant question for the organization of large scale research assessments is whether bibliometric evaluation and informed peer review where reviewers know where the work was published, yield ...
(revised version published in: Research Policy, 2015, 44, 451-466)
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I23, C80, O30
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