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Title
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JEL Class.
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7105
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Daniel
W.
Sacks
Betsey
Stevenson
Justin
Wolfers
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The New Stylized Facts about Income and Subjective Well-Being
In recent decades economists have turned their attention to data that asks people how happy or satisfied they are with their lives. Much of the early research concluded that the role of income in ...
(published in: Emotion, 2012, 12(6), 1181-1187 (lead article))
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D6, I3, J1, O1
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7103
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Le
Wang
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Estimating Returns to Education when the IV Sample is Selective
The literature estimating returns to education has often utilized spousal education and parental education as instrument variables (IV). However, due to usual survey designs, both IVs are available ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 21, 74-85)
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J24, I21, C14, C31, P52
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7102
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Fortuna
Casoria
Arno
Riedl
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Experimental Labor Markets and Policy Considerations: Incomplete Contracts and Macroeconomic Aspects
This survey focuses on experimental labor markets investigating two aspects that deem us important for a better understanding of labor market relations and the consequences for labor market policies. ...
(published in: Charles N. Noussair, Steven Tucker (eds.), A Collection of Surveys on Market Experiments, Wiley, 2014. )
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C90, C92, C93, D01, D51, E24, E62, F41, J01, J08
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7101
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Simon
Appleton
Lina
Song
Qingjie
Xia
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Understanding Urban Wage Inequality in China 1988-2008: Evidence from Quantile Analysis
This paper examines change in wage gaps in urban China by estimating quantile regressions on CHIPS data. It applies the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition, finding sharp increases in inequality ...
(published in: World Development, 2014, 62, 1-13)
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J31, J42, O15, P23
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7098
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Arindrajit
Dube
Oeindrila
Dube
Omar
García-Ponce
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Cross-Border Spillover: U.S. Gun Laws and Violence in Mexico
To what extent, and under what conditions, does access to arms fuel violent crime? To answer this question, we exploit a unique natural experiment: the 2004 expiration of the U.S. Federal Assault ...
(published in: American Political Science Review, 2013, 107 (3), 397-417)
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K14, D72, D73
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7097
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Christian
Grund
Johannes
Martin
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Monetary Reference Points of Managers: An Empirical Investigation of Status Quo Preferences and Social Comparisons
We assemble two reference point based concepts of utility in our empirical study: the own previous status quo and social comparisons. We explore the relative relevance of these concepts for total ...
(revised version published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 64, 70-84)
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M5, J28, J31
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7096
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Annabelle
Krause-Pilatus
Ulf
Rinne
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Anonymous Job Applications in Europe
Numerous empirical studies find a substantial extent of discrimination in hiring decisions. Anonymous job applications have gained attention and popularity to identify and combat this form of ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2012, 1:5 )
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M51, J71, J78
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7095
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John
S.
Earle
Álmos
Telegdy
Gábor
Antal
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FDI and Wages: Evidence from Firm-Level and Linked Employer-Employee Data in Hungary, 1986-2008
We estimate the wage effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) with universal firm-level and linked employer-employee panel data containing 4,926 foreign acquisitions in Hungary. Matching on ...
(published as 'Foreign Ownership and Wages: Evidence from Hungary, 1986 -2008 ' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2017, 71 (2), 458 - 491)
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F23, F66, J31
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7094
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Simone
Bertoli
Jesús
Fernández-Huertas Moraga
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Visa Policies, Networks and the Cliff at the Border
The scale of international migration flows depends on moving costs that are, in turn, influenced by host-country policies and by the size of migrant networks at destination. This paper estimates the ...
(revised version published as 'The Size of the Cliff at the Border' in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2015, 51, 1-6)
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F22, O15, J61
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7093
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Stephan
Kampelmann
François
Rycx
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The Impact of Educational Mismatch on Firm Productivity: Evidence from Linked Panel Data
We provide first evidence regarding the direct impact of educational mismatch on firm productivity. To do so, we rely on representative linked employer-employee panel data for Belgium covering the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31 (6), 918-931)
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I21, J24
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