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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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6173
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Le
Wang
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How Does Education Affect the Earnings Distribution in Urban China?
China's phenomenal growth is accompanied by both relatively low level of standards of living and high inequality. It is widely believe that investing in education could be an effective strategy to ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 75 (3), 435-454)
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J24, J61, J31, J7, J15, C31
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6172
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Alpaslan
Akay
Gökhan
Karabulut
Peter
Martinsson
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The Effect of Religiosity and Religious Festivals on Positional Concerns: An Experimental Investigation of Ramadan
This paper examines the effect of religion on positional concerns using survey experiments. We focus on two of the dimensions of religion – degree of religiosity and religious festivals. By ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2013, 45 (27), 3914-3921)
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C90, D63
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6171
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Hector
Sala
José
I.
Silva
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Labor Productivity and Vocational Training: Evidence from Europe
In this paper we show that vocational training is an important determinant of productivity growth. We construct a multi-country, multi-sectoral dataset, and quantify empirically to what extent ...
(published in: Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2013, 40 (1), 31-41)
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E22, J24, O41
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6170
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Andreas
Peichl
Nico
Pestel
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Multidimensional Well-Being at the Top: Evidence for Germany
This paper employs a multidimensional approach for the measurement of well-being at the top of the distribution using German SOEP micro data. Besides income as traditional indicator for material ...
(revised version published in: Fiscal Studies, 2013, 34 (3), 355-371)
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D31, D63, I31
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6169
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Arno
Tausch
Almas
Heshmati
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Migration, Openness and the Global Preconditions of 'Smart Development'
In this article, we present a first empirical reflection on 'smart development', its measurement, possible 'drivers' and 'bottlenecks'. We first provide cross-national data on how much ecological ...
(published in: Bo?aziçi Journal Review of Social, Economic and Administrative Studies, 2012, 26 (2), 27-89.)
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C43, F22, F24, Q56
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6167
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Christian
Belzil
Jörgen
Hansen
Xingfei
Liu
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Dynamic Skill Accumulation, Comparative Advantages, Compulsory Schooling, and Earnings
We show that a calibrated dynamic skill accumulation model allowing for comparative advantages, can explain the weak (or negative) effects of schooling on productivity that have been recently ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2017, 8, 895–927)
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I2, J1, J3
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6166
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Peter
Berkhout
Joop
Hartog
Mirjam
C.
van Praag
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It's the Opportunity Cost, Stupid! How Self-Employment Responds to Financial Incentives of Return, Risk and Skew
There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision to work in self-employment rather than as a wage earner. In the literature, this is seen as a puzzle. We ...
(published in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 40 (2), 249-268)
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J24, L26
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6165
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Joshua S.
Gans
Andrew
Leigh
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Bargaining Over Labor: Do Patients Have Any Power?
We provide a new method of identifying the level of relative bargaining power in bilateral negotiations using exogenous variation in the degree of conflict between parties. Using daily births data, ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2012, 88 (281), 182 - 194)
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I11, J13
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6164
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Andries
de Grip
Jan
Sauermann
Inge
Sieben
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The Role of Peers in Estimating Tenure-Performance Profiles: Evidence from Personnel Data
In this paper, we estimate tenure-performance profiles using unique panel data that contain detailed information on individual workers' performance. We find that a 10 per cent increase in tenure ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 126, 39-54 )
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J24, D24, L89
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6163
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Alpaslan
Akay
Melanie
Khamis
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The Persistence of Informality: Evidence from Panel Data
Informality is a growing phenomenon in the developing and transition country labor market context. In particular, it is noticeable that working in an informal employment relationship is often not ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2012, 229 - 255)
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D60, I31
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