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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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6356
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Florencia
López Bóo
Martín A.
Rossi
Sergio
Urzua
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The Labor Market Return to an Attractive Face: Evidence from a Field Experiment
We provide new evidence on the link between beauty and hiring practices in the labor market. Specifically, we study if people with less attractive faces are less likely to be contacted after ...
(published in: Economic Letters, 2013, 118 (1), 170–172.)
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J71, J78
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6355
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Michael
Jan
Kendzia
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Celebrating 150 Years of Analyzing Fertility Trends in Germany
Ever since the very beginning of the Journal of Economics and Statistics, population economics has featured prominently in the Journal. Fertility naturally plays an important role in population ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 233 (3), 406-422)
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J10, J11, J13
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6353
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Arnaud
Chevalier
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To Be or Not to Be... a Scientist?
Policy makers generally advocate that to remain competitive countries need to train more scientists. Employers regularly complain of qualified scientist shortages blaming the higher wages in other ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2017, 45, 1 - 39 )
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I21, J24, J44
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6352
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Kristian
Giesen
Jens
Suedekum
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The Size Distribution Across All “Cities”: A Unifying Approach
In this paper we show that the double Pareto lognormal (DPLN) parameterization provides an excellent fit to the overall US city size distribution, regardless of whether "cities" are administratively ...
(substantially revised version pubslished as 'City age and city size' in: European Economic Review, 2014, 71,193-208)
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R11, R12, O4
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6350
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Guido
Friebel
Sergei
Guriev
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Human Smuggling
Despite its importance in global illegal migration, there is little, and mostly theoretical research on human smuggling. We suggest an analytical framework to understand the micro structure of the ...
(published in: A. F. Constant, K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, pp. 121-133)
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J15, J61
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6349
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Daniel
Fackler
Claus
Schnabel
Joachim
Wagner
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Establishment Exits in Germany: The Role of Size and Age
Using comprehensive data for West Germany, this paper investigates the determinants of establishment exit. We find that between 1975 and 2006 the average exit rate has risen considerably. In order to ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2013, 41 (3), 683-700)
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L2
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6348
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Annalisa
Cristini
Federica
Origo
Sara
Pinoli
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The Healthy Fright of Losing a Good One for a Bad One
In this paper we study the effect of different degrees of employment protection on absenteeism, paying attention to differences between workers moving from protected jobs to insecure jobs, on the one ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 59, 129-144)
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J22, J41
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6346
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Christopher K.
Hsee
Yuval
Rottenstreich
Alois
Stutzer
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Suboptimal Choices and the Need for Experienced Individual Well-Being in Economic Analysis
Standard economic analysis assumes that people make choices that maximize their utility. Yet both popular discourse and other fields assume that people sometimes fail to make optimal choices and thus ...
(published in: International Journal of Happiness and Development, 2012, 1 (1), 63-85)
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D01, D11, D60, D91
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6345
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Simon
Gächter
Daniele
Nosenzo
Martin
Sefton
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Peer Effects in Pro-Social Behavior: Social Norms or Social Preferences?
We compare social preference and social norm based explanations for peer effects in a three-person gift-exchange game experiment. In the experiment a principal pays a wage to each of two agents, who ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (3), 548-573)
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A13, C92, D03
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6344
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Marc
Blatter
Samuel
Mühlemann
Samuel
Schenker
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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Hiring Costs of Skilled Workers and the Supply of Firm-Provided Training
This paper analyzes how the costs of hiring skilled workers from the external labor market affect a firm's supply of training. Using administrative survey data with detailed information on hiring and ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2016, 68 (1), 238-257)
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J23, J24, J32
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