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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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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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7400
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Patrick
Hullegie
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Seek and Ye Shall Find: How Search Requirements Affect Job Finding Rates of Older Workers
Unemployment insurance recipients in the Netherlands were for a long time exempted from the requirement to actively search for a job when they reached the age of 57.5. We study how this exemption ...
(published in De Economist, 2014, 162 (4), 377 - 395)
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C41, H55, J64, J65
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7399
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Petri
Böckerman
Mika
Maliranta
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Outsourcing, Occupational Restructuring, and Employee Well-Being: Is There a Silver Lining?
This paper examines the relationship between outsourcing and various aspects of employee well-being by devoting special attention to the role of occupational restructuring as a conveying mechanism. ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2013, 52 (4), 878-914)
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J28, F23
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7397
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Alfred
Lameli
Volker
Nitsch
Jens
Suedekum
Nikolaus
Wolf
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Same Same But Different: Dialects and Trade
Language is a strong and robust determinant of international trade patterns: Countries sharing a common language trade significantly more with each other than countries using different languages, ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2015, 16 (3), 290-306)
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F14, F15, Z10
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7396
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Jason
M.
Lindo
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Aggregation and the Estimated Effects of Local Economic Conditions on Health
This paper considers the relationship between local economic conditions and health with a focus on different approaches to geographic aggregation. After reviewing the tradeoffs associated with more- ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 40, 83-96)
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I10, J20, E32
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7395
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Ana
C.
Dammert
Jose
C.
Galdo
Virgilio
Galdo
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Digital Labor-Market Intermediation and Job Expectations: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Subjective expectations are fundamental for understanding individual behavior. Yet, little is known about how individuals use new information to formulate and update their subjective expectations. In ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 120 (1), 112-116)
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I3, J2
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7394
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Ana
C.
Dammert
Jose
C.
Galdo
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Program Quality and Treatment Completion for Youth Training Programs
This paper analyzes the effects of training quality on the likelihood of treatment completion by estimating dose-response functions via a generalized propensity score. Results show a statistically ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 119 (3), 243-246)
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I3, J2, C8
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