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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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6895
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David
McKenzie
Christopher
Woodruff
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What Are We Learning from Business Training and Entrepreneurship Evaluations around the Developing World?
Business training programs are a popular policy option to try to improve the performance of enterprises around the world. The last few years have seen rapid growth in the number of evaluations of ...
(revised version published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2014, 29(1), 48-82)
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O12, J16, L26, M53
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6894
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Vanessa
Dräger
Paul
Marx
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Do Firms Demand Temporary Workers When They Face Workload Fluctuation? Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence on the Conditioning Effect of Employment Protection
Although the negative economic effects of temporary employment are widely discussed, cross-country research on firms’ demand for temporary employment is rare. National studies indicate that workload ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2017, 70 (4), 942-975)
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J23, J28, J21, J63, J68, J82
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6893
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Philippe
Belley
Nathalie
Havet
Guy
Lacroix
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Wage Growth and Job Mobility in the Early Career: Testing a Statistical Discrimination Model of the Gender Wage Gap
The paper focuses on the early career patterns of young male and female workers. It investigates potential dynamic links between statistical discrimination, mobility, tenure and wage profiles. The ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2015, 42, 231-260)
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J16, J71, J41
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6890
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Costanza
Biavaschi
Werner
Eichhorst
Corrado
Giulietti
Michael
Jan
Kendzia
Alexander
Muravyev
Janneke
Pieters
Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
Ricarda
Schmidl
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Youth Unemployment and Vocational Training
This paper focuses on the determinants of the labor market situation of young people in developed countries and the developing world, with a special emphasis on the role of vocational training and ...
(substantially revised version published in: Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2013, 9 (1-2), 1-157 )
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J24, I25, O17
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6889
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Marc
Piopiunik
Guido
Schwerdt
Ludger
Woessmann
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Central School Exit Exams and Labor-Market Outcomes
Many countries use centralized exit exams as a governance devise of the school system. While abundant evidence suggests positive effects of central exams on achievement tests, previous research on ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2013, 31, 93-108)
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I20, J24, J31, J64
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6887
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John
T.
Giles
Irina
Murtazashvili
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A Control Function Approach to Estimating Dynamic Probit Models with Endogenous Regressors, with an Application to the Study of Poverty Persistence in China
This paper proposes a parametric approach to estimating a dynamic binary response panel data model that allows for endogenous contemporaneous regressors. Such a model is of particular value for ...
(published as 'A Control Function Approach to Estimating Dynamic Probit Models with Endogenous Regressors' in: Journal of Econometric Methods, 2013, 2 (1), 69-87)
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C13, C33, O15, P25
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6885
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Jennifer
Hunt
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Why Do Women Leave Science and Engineering?
I use the 1993 and 2003 National Surveys of College Graduates to examine the higher exit rate of women compared to men from science and engineering relative to other fields. I find that the higher ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2016, 69 (1), 199-22)
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J16, J44
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6884
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Sandra
Hentschel
Gerd
Muehlheusser
Dirk
Sliwka
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The Impact of Managerial Change on Performance: The Role of Team Heterogeneity
When a key responsibility of a manager is to allocate more or less attractive tasks to subordinates, these subordinates have an incentive to work hard and demonstrate their talents. As a new manager ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry 54(2), 1128-119, 2016)
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D22, J44, J63
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6883
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Niaz
Asadullah
Rupa
Chakrabarti
Nazmul
Chaudhury
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What Determines Religious School Choice? Theory and Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
This paper looks at the determinants of school selection in rural Bangladesh, focusing on the choice between registered Islamic and non-religious schools. We consider a two period framework where ...
(published in: Bulletin of Economic Research, 2015, 67(2), 186–207)
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D04, I21, O15
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6881
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Nauro
F.
Campos
Jeffrey
B.
Nugent
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The Dynamics of the Regulation of Labor in Developing and Developed Countries since 1960
This paper examines both the determinants and the effects of changes in the rigidity of labor market legislation across countries over time. Recent research identifies the origin of the legal system ...
(published in in N. Campos, P. De Grauwe and Y. Ji (eds.), The Political Economy of Structural Reforms in Europe, Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. 75-88.)
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J41, J65, J33, K31, O21
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