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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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7145
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Stijn
Baert
Bart
Cockx
Niels
Gheyle
Cora
Vandamme
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Do Employers Discriminate Less If Vacancies Are Difficult to Fill? Evidence from a Field Experiment
We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the occupation. To this end, we conduct a correspondence test in the youth labour ...
(revised version published as 'Is There Less Discrimination in Occupations Where Recruitment Is Difficult?' in: Industrial and Labor Relations, 2015, 68 (3), 467 - 500)
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C93, J15, J21, J24, J42, J71
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7144
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Giam Pietro
Cipriani
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Population Ageing and PAYG Pensions in the OLG Model
This paper shows the effects on a pay-as-you-go pension system of the demographic change in the standard overlapping generations model. Firstly, we consider a setting with exogenous fertility and ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27 (1), 251-256)
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J13, H55
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7143
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Jay
Stewart
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Early to Bed and Earlier to Rise: School, Maternal Employment, and Children's Sleep
School-age children need 10-11 hours of sleep per night. It has been well-documented that lack of sleep leads to diminished cognitive performance and that people who sleep less are more likely to be ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2014, 12 (1), 29-50)
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J22
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7142
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Qingjie
Xia
Lina
Song
Shi
Li
Simon
Appleton
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The Effects of the State Sector on Wage Inequality in Urban China: 19882007
This paper examines the effects of state sector domination on wage inequality in urban China. Using Chinese Household Income Project surveys, we conduct two exercises: with quantile regression ...
(published in: Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 2014, 12(1), 29-45)
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J31, J42, O15, P23
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7141
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Gary
S.
Fields
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Aid, Growth, and Jobs
Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important ...
(published in: African Development Review, 2015, 27 (S1), 5 -16)
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I3, J2, O1, O19
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7140
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Francine
D.
Blau
Lawrence
M.
Kahn
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Female Labor Supply: Why is the US Falling Behind?
In 1990, the US had the sixth highest female labor participation rate among 22 OECD countries. By 2010, its rank had fallen to 17th. We find that the expansion of "family-friendly" policies including ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 251-256)
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J16, J22
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7139
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Felix
Weinhardt
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Neighborhood Quality and Student Performance
Children who grow up in deprived neighborhoods underperform at school and later in life but whether there is a causal link remains contested. This study estimates the effect of very deprived ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2014, 82, 12-31)
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J18, I21, J24
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7138
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Alberto
Bayo-Moriones
Jose
Enrique
Galdon-Sanchez
Ricard
Gil
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'Make-or-Buy' of Peripheral Services in Manufacturing: Evidence from Spanish Plant-Level Data
In this paper we empirically explore the 'make-or-buy' decisions of peripheral services in manufacturing plants using detailed information on a data set from a new plant-level survey from 926 plants ...
(published as 'Outsourcing of Peripheral Services: Evidence from Spanish Manufacturing Plant-Level Data' in: European Economic Review, 2015, 78, 328-344)
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L23, L22, L60, J29, J59
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7137
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Elisabeth
Fevang
Inés
Hardoy
Knut
Rĝed
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Getting Disabled Workers Back to Work: How Important Are Economic Incentives?
We investigate the impacts of economic incentives on the duration and outcome of temporary disability insurance (TDI) spells. The analysis is based on a large quasi-experiment in Norway, with a ...
(revised version published as: 'Temporary disability and economic incentives' in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (603), 14101432.)
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H55, I38, J22
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7136
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Harriet
Duleep
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U.S. Immigration Policy at a Crossroads
Two issues have taken center stage in the recent debates about U.S. immigration policy: one, illegal immigration and more generally the entrance of poorly educated individuals into the U.S. economy ...
(published as 'U.S. Immigration Policy at a Crossroads: Should the U.S. Continue Its Family-Friendly Policy?' in: International Migration Review, 2014, 48 (3), 823-845)
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J15, J24, J39, J61, L26
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12982Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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