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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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7579
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Ernesto
Reuben
Matthew
Wiswall
Basit
Zafar
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Preferences and Biases in Educational Choices and Labor Market Expectations: Shrinking the Black Box of Gender
Standard observed characteristics explain only part of the differences between men and women in education choices and labor market trajectories. Using an experiment to derive students' levels of ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127, 2153-2186)
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D81, D84, I21, I23, J10
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7577
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Wenjin
Long
Simon
Appleton
Lina
Song
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Job Contact Networks and Wages of Rural-Urban Migrants in China
In nationally representative household data from the 2008 wave of the Rural to Urban Migration in China survey, nearly two thirds of rural-urban migrants found their employment through family ...
(Published with a revised title “The Impacts of job contact network on wages of rural-urban migrants in China: a switching regression approach”, in Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 2017, 15 (1) 81-101)
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J24, J31, O15
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7576
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Annalisa
Cristini
Almudena
Sevilla
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Do House Prices Affect Consumption? A Re-assessment of the Wealth Hypothesis
This paper undertakes a comparison exercise to disentangle what drives the opposite findings regarding the effect of house prices on consumption documented in two papers using the same data set for ...
(published in: Economica, 2014, 81, 601-625.)
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D13
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7575
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Anne
C.
Gielen
Jessica
Holmes
Caitlin
Knowles
Myers
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Testosterone and the Gender Wage Gap
Testosterone, which induces sexual differentiation of the male fetus, is believed to transfer from males to their littermates in placental mammals. Among humans, individuals with a male twin have ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2016, 51 (1), 30-61)
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J16, J31
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7573
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Ragui
Assaad
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Making Sense of Arab Labor Markets: The Enduring Legacy of Dualism
It is well-established that Arab labor markets share certain common characteristics, including an oversized public sector, high unemployment for educated youth, weak private sector dependent on ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2014, 3:6)
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I25, J21, J24, J31, J45, O53, P52
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7571
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Robert
Holzmann
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A Provocative Perspective on Population Aging and Old-Age Financial Protection
Population aging is typically associated with economic challenges for productivity and financial threats for the old-age financial protection system of a country. This paper takes an optimistic ...
(published in: Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies 2013 50 (2), 107-137)
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H55, J11, J14, J26
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7570
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Hans
Bloemen
Stefan
Hochguertel
Jochem
Zweerink
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The Causal Effect of Retirement on Mortality: Evidence from Targeted Incentives to Retire Early
This paper identifies and estimates the impact of early retirement on the probability to die within five years, using administrative micro panel data covering the entire population of the ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2017, 26 (12), e204-e218)
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C26, I1, J26
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7569
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Elvire
Guillaud
Paul
Marx
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Preferences for Employment Protection and the Insider-Outsider Divide
Insider-outsider theory suggests that in dual labour markets two groups have opposing preferences regarding protection against dismissals: insiders defend employment protection, because it increases ...
(revised version published in: West European Politics, 2014, 37 (5), 1177-1185)
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J08, J41, K31
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7568
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Alberto
Alesina
Johann
Harnoss
Hillel
Rapoport
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Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity
We use recent immigration data from 195 countries and propose an index of population diversity based on people's birthplaces. This new index is then decomposed into a size (share of foreign born) and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2016, 21 (2), 101-138)
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O1, O4, F22, F43
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7567
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Byung-Yeon
Kim
Syngjoo
Choi
Jungmin
Lee
Sokbae
Lee
Kyunghui
Choi
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Do Institutions Affect Social Preferences? Evidence from Divided Korea
The Cold War division of Korea, regarded as a natural experiment in institutional change, provides a unique opportunity to examine whether institutions affect social preferences. We recruited North ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017, 45 (4), 865 - 888)
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C92, C93, D03, P20
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