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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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7758
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William
Fuchs
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Subjective Evaluations: Discretionary Bonuses and Feedback Credibility
We provide a new rationale for the use of discretionary bonuses. In a setting with unknown match qualities between a worker and a firm and subjective evaluations by the principal, bonuses are useful ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2015, 7 (1), 99–108)
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D82, D83, D86, M5
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7756
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Daniel S. J.
Lechmann
Claus
Schnabel
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Absence from Work of the Self-Employed: A Comparison with Paid Employees
Utilising a large representative data set for Germany, this study contrasts absenteeism of self-employed individuals and paid employees. We find that absence from work is clearly less prevalent among ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2014, 67 (3), 368-390)
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I19, J22, J23
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7755
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Giorgio
Brunello
Simona
Lorena
Comi
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The Side Effect of Pension Reforms on Training: Evidence from Italy
Due to pension reforms, minimum retirement age increased substantially in Italy between the second part of the 1990s and the early 2000s. We compare the training participation of pre- and post-reform ...
(published in: Journal of Economics of Aging, 2015, 6, 113 - 122)
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J24, J26
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7754
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Mika
Haapanen
Petri
Böckerman
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Does Higher Education Enhance Migration?
This paper examines the causal impact of education on within-country migration. A major higher education reform took place in Finland in the 1990s. It gradually transformed former vocational colleges ...
(published as "More Educated, More Mobile? Evidence from Post-secondary Education Reform" in: Spatial Economic Analysis, 2017, 12 (1), 8-26)
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J10, J61, I20, R23
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7753
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Rania
Gihleb
Osea
Giuntella
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Nuns and the Effects of Catholic Schools: Evidence from Vatican II
This paper examines the causal effects of Catholic schooling on educational attainment. Using a novel instrumental-variable approach that exploits an exogenous shock to the Catholic school system, we ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 137, 191-213)
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I20, J24, N3
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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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