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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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6536
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Getinet
Astatike
Haile
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Union Decline in Britain: Is Chauvinism Also to Blame?
The paper examines if workplace gender diversity offers some explanation for the decline of unions in Britain. Using the WERS2004 linked employer-employee data and alternative econometric estimators ...
(published as 'Union decline in Britain: does gender have anything to do with it?' in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 64 (1), 25 - 49 )
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J51, J16, J82
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6535
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Andrea
Bassanini
Andrea
Garnero
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Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in OECD Countries: Evidence from Cross-Country/Cross-Industry Data
Exploiting a unique dataset including cross-country comparable hiring and separation rates by type of transition for 24 OECD countries, 23 business-sector industries and 13 years, we study the effect ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 21 (1), 25-41)
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J23, J24, J62, J63
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6534
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Andrew
Kerr
Francis
J.
Teal
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The Determinants of Earnings Inequalities: Panel Data Evidence from South Africa
In this paper we analyse the relative importance of individual ability and labour market institutions, including public sector wage setting and trade unions, in determining earnings differences ...
(published as 'The Determinants of Earnings Inequalities: Panel Data Evidence from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa' in: Journal of African Economics, 2015, 24 (4), 530- 558)
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J31, J51, J45, O12
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6533
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Robert
J.
McCann
Xianwen
Shi
Aloysius
Siow
Ronald
P.
Wolthoff
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Becker Meets Ricardo: Multisector Matching with Social and Cognitive Skills
This paper presents a tractable framework for studying frictionless matching in school, work, and marriage when individuals have heterogeneous social and cognitive skills. In the model, there are ...
(published in: Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2015, 31 (4), 690-720)
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E24, J12, J24, J31
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6532
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Aysit
Tansel
Nil Demet
Güngör
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Gender Effects of Education on Economic Development in Turkey
Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady-state level of output using the much exploited, familiar cross-country data in order to ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Studies, 2013, 40 (6), 794-821. )
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O11, O15, I21, J16
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6531
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Dana
Burde
Leigh
L.
Linden
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The Effect of Village-Based Schools: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Afghanistan
We conduct a randomized evaluation of the effect of village-based schools on children's academic performance using a sample of 31 villages and 1,490 children in rural northwestern Afghanistan. The ...
(published as "Bringing Education to Afghan Girls: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Village-Based Schools" in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5(3), 27-40)
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I21, I25, I28, O12, O22
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6530
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Stéphane R.
Robin
Agnieszka
Rusinowska
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Ingratiation and Favoritism: Experimental Evidence
We provide experimental evidence of workers' ingratiation by opinion conformity and of managers' discrimination in favor of workers with whom they share similar opinions. In our Baseline, managers ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 66, 16-38.)
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C7, C92, D03, D86, M51
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6529
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Melinda
Sandler
Morrill
Sabrina
Wulff
Pabilonia
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What Effects Do Macroeconomic Conditions Have on Families' Time Together?
We examine family time together using data from the 2003-2010 American Time Use Survey combined with Bureau of Labor Statistics data on state-level unemployment rates. Couple time together is ...
(published as 'What Effects do Macroeconomic Conditions Have on the Time Couples with Children Spend Together?' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2015, 13(4), 791-814 )
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D1, J22, J12, E32
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6528
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Hong
Liu
Hai
Fang
Zhong
Zhao
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Urban-Rural Disparities of Child Health and Nutritional Status in China from 1989 to 2006
This paper analyzes urban–rural disparities of China's child health and nutritional status using the China Health and Nutrition Survey data from 1989 to 2006. We investigate degrees of health and ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2013, 11 (3), 294–309)
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I14, I15
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6527
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Klaus
Prettner
David
E.
Bloom
Holger
Strulik
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Declining Fertility and Economic Well-Being: Do Education and Health Ride to the Rescue?
It is widely argued that declining fertility slows the pace of economic growth in industrialized countries through its negative effect on labor supply. There are, however, theoretical arguments ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 22, 70 - 79)
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I15, I25, J24, O47
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