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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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6408
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Jon
E.
Anderson
Manjari
Govada
Tricia K.
Steffen
Chris P.
Thorne
Vasileia
Varvarigou
Stefanos N.
Kales
Stephen
V.
Burks
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Health Behavior and Accident Risk: Obesity Is Associated with the Future Risk of Heavy Truck Crashes among Newly Recruited Commercial Drivers
This study estimates the dose-response relationship between Body Mass Index (BMI) and crash risk in commercial motor vehicle operators. Intake data was collected on 744 new truck drivers who were ...
(revised version published as 'Obesity is associated with the future risk of heavy truck crashes among newly recruited commercial drivers,' in: Accident Analysis and Prevention, 2012, 49, 378-384)
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I12, J49, R41
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6407
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Bernd
Fitzenberger
Ute
Leuschner
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Up or Out: Research Incentives and Career Prospects of Postdocs in Germany
Academic careers in Germany have been under debate for a while. We conduct a survey among postdocs in Germany, to analyze the perceptions and attitudes of postdocs regarding their research ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2014, 15 (2), 287-328)
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A11, A29, I21, I23, J24, J49
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6406
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John
Bennett
Matthew
D.
Rablen
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Self-Employment, Wage Employment and Informality in a Developing Economy
We construct a simple model incorporating various urban labour market phenomena obtaining in developing economies. Our initial formulation assumes an integrated labour market and allows for ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2015, 67 (2), 227-244)
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O17, J23
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6405
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Elke
J.
Jahn
Michael
Rosholm
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Is Temporary Agency Employment a Stepping Stone for Immigrants?
We investigate whether agency employment is a bridge into regular employment for immigrants to Denmark using the timing-of-events approach. We provide evidence of large positive in-treatment effects, ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 118 (1), 225-228)
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J61, J64, J68
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6404
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Saibal
Kar
Poulomi
Roy
Sarani
Saha
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Public and Private Sector Jobs, Unreported Income and Consumption Gap in India: Evidence from Micro-Data
This paper tries to document the presence of unreported income among public sector employees in India. We investigate empirically the wage gap as well as consumption expenditure parity between public ...
(published in: North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 2014, 29, 285-300)
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C12, C31, D23, J21
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6403
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Christina
Gathmann
Hendrik
Jürges
Steffen
Reinhold
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Compulsory Schooling Reforms, Education and Mortality in Twentieth Century Europe
Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2015, 127, 74 - 82)
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I12, I21, I28
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6402
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Robert
G.
Valletta
K. Jody
Hoff
Jane
S.
Lopus
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Lost in Translation? Teacher Training and Outcomes in High School Economics Classes
Using data on 24 teachers and 982 students from a 2006 survey of California high school economics classes, we assess the effects of student and teacher characteristics on student achievement. We ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2014, 32(4))
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A21, I21
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6400
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Alison
L.
Booth
Patrick
J.
Nolen
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Salience, Risky Choices and Gender
Risk theories typically assume individuals make risky choices using probability weights that differ from objective probabilities. Recent theories suggest that probability weights vary depending on ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 117 (2), 517 - 520)
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D8, D81, J16
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6399
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Delia
Furtado
Stephen
J.
Trejo
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Interethnic Marriages and their Economic Effects
Immigrants who marry outside of their ethnicity tend to have better economic outcomes than those who marry within ethnicity. It is difficult, however, to interpret this relationship because ...
(published in: Amelie F. Constant and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, Chapter 15, 276-292)
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J12, J15, J61
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6398
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Josefina
Posadas
Marian
Vidal-Fernandez
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Grandparents' Childcare and Female Labor Force Participation
In the U.S., grandparents look after one in five preschool children of employed women. Does this source of informal childcare increase female labor force participation and if so, up to what extent? ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2013, 2:14)
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J2, I3
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