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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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7414
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Ive
Marx
Lina
Salanauskaite
Gerlinde
Verbist
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The Paradox of Redistribution Revisited: And That It May Rest in Peace?
There is a long-standing controversy over the question of whether targeting social transfers towards the bottom part of the income distribution actually enhances or weakens their redistributive ...
(revised version published in: Social Forces, 2016, 95 (1), 1-24)
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H1, H2, H53
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7412
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Gabriel
Burdin
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Are Worker-Managed Firms Really More Likely to Fail?
Different theoretical explanations suggest that worker-managed firms (WMFs) are prone to failure in competitive environments. Using a long panel of Uruguayan firms, the author presents new evidence ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2014, 67(1), 202-238)
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P13, P51, C41
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7411
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Sebastian
Fehrler
Michael
Kosfeld
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Can You Trust the Good Guys? Trust Within and Between Groups with Different Missions
NGOs and other non-profit organizations attract workers who strongly identify themselves with their missions. We study whether these "good guys" are more trustworthy and how such pronounced group ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 121, 400-404)
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C72, C92, M51
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7410
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Jannie
H. G.
Kristoffersen
Nina
Smith
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Gender Differences in the Effects of Behavioral Problems on School Outcomes
Behavioral problems are important determinants of school outcomes and later success in the labor market. We analyze whether behavioral problems affect girls and boys differently with respect to ...
(revised version published as 'Gender Differences in Behavioral Problems and School Outcomes' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 115, 75–93)
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J16, I29, I19
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7409
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Peter
Eibich
Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
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Analyzing Regional Variation in Health Care Utilization Using (Rich) Household Microdata
This paper exploits rich SOEP microdata to analyze state-level variation in health care utilization in Germany. Unlike most studies in the field of the Small Area Variation (SAV) literature, our ...
(published in: Health Policy, 2014, 114 (1), 41-53)
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I12, I14, I18
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7407
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Thierry
Magnac
Nicolas
Pistolesi
Sébastien
Roux
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Post Schooling Human Capital Investments and the Life Cycle Variance of Earnings
We propose an original model of human capital investments after leaving school in which individuals differ in their initial human capital obtained at school, their rate of return, their costs of ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 126(3), 1219-1249.)
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C33, D91, I24, J24, J31
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7406
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Tanika
Chakraborty
Bakhrom
Mirkasimov
Susan
Steiner
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Transfer Behaviour in Migrant Sending Communities
We study how international migration changes the private transfers made between households in the migrant sending communities of developing countries. A priori, it is indeterminate whether migration ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2015, 43(3), 690–705)
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D63, F22, O12, I30
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7403
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Gerhard
Krug
Gesine
Stephan
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Is the Contracting-Out of Intensive Placement Services More Effective than Provision by the PES? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
There is a longstanding debate on the advantages of quasi-markets for placement services compared to their public deliverance. During 2009, the German Public Employment Service (PES) implemented a ...
(revised version published as 'Private and Public Placement Services for Hard-To-Place Unemployed: Results from a Randomized Field Experiment' in: ILR Review, 2016, 69, 471-500)
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J68, J64, J65
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7402
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Gustavo
Henrique
de Andrade
Miriam
Bruhn
David
McKenzie
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A Helping Hand or the Long Arm of the Law? Experimental Evidence on What Governments Can Do to Formalize Firms
Many governments have spent much of the past decade trying to extend a helping hand to informal businesses by making it easier and cheaper for them to formalize. Much less effort has been devoted to ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2016, 30 (1), 24-54)
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O17, O12, C93, D21, L26
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7401
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David
McKenzie
Melissa
Siegel
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Eliciting Illegal Migration Rates through List Randomization
Most migration surveys do not ask about the legal status of migrants due to concerns about the sensitivity of this question. List randomization is a technique that has been used in a number of other ...
(published in: Migration Studies, 2013, 1(3): 276-91)
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F22, C83, J61, K42
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