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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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6179
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Alpaslan
Akay
Gökhan
Karabulut
Peter
Martinsson
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The Effect of Religion on Cooperation and Altruistic Punishment: Experimental Evidence from Public Goods Experiments
This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Cooperation and punishment: The effect of religiosity and religious festival' in: Economics Letters, 2015, 130, 43–46)
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C72, C91, H41
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6178
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Alan
Manning
Barbara
Petrongolo
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How Local Are Labor Markets? Evidence from a Spatial Job Search Model
This paper uses data on very small UK geographies to investigate the effective size of local labor markets. Our approach treats geographic space as continuous, as opposed to a collection of ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2017, 107, 2877-2907)
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J61, J63, J64, R12
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6176
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Christian
M.
Dahl
Daniel
le Maire
Jakob
R.
Munch
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Wage Dispersion and Decentralization of Wage Bargaining
This paper studies how decentralization of wage bargaining from sector to firm-level influences wage levels and wage dispersion. We use detailed panel data covering a period of decentralization in ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 31 (3), 501-533)
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J31, J51, C23
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6175
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Claudia
Senik
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The French Unhappiness Puzzle: The Cultural Dimension of Happiness
This article sheds light on the important differences in self-declared happiness across countries of equivalent affluence. It hinges on the different happiness statements of natives and immigrants in ...
(published as 'Why are the French so Unhappy? The Cultural Dimension of Happiness' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 106, 379-401.)
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I31, H52, O15, O52, Z10
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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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