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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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6070
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Patrick
Kampkötter
Dirk
Sliwka
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Differentiation and Performance: An Empirical Investigation on the Incentive Effects of Bonus Plans
It is often claimed that supervisors do not differentiate enough between high and low performing employees when evaluating performance. The purpose of this paper is to study the incentive effects of ...
(revised version published as 'More Dispersion, Higher Bonuses?-The Role of Differentiation in Subjective Performance Evaluations' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36 (2), 511–549)
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M52, D23
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6069
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Francois
Keslair
Eric
Maurin
Sandra
McNally
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Every Child Matters? An Evaluation of "Special Educational Needs" Programmes in England
The need for education to help every child rather than focus on average attainment has become a more central part of the policy agenda in the US and the UK. Remedial programmes are often difficult to ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31(6), 932-948.)
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I2
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6068
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Ive
Marx
Pieter
Vandenbroucke
Gerlinde
Verbist
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Can Higher Employment Levels Bring Lower Poverty in the EU? Regression Based Simulations of the Europe 2020 Target
At the European level and in most EU member states, higher employment levels are seen as key to better poverty outcomes. But what can we expect the actual impact to be? Up until now shift-share ...
(revised version published in: Journal of European Social Policy, 2012, 22 (5) 472– 486)
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I32, J21, R28, J68
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6067
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Ive
Marx
Josefine
Vanhille
Gerlinde
Verbist
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Combating In-Work Poverty in Continental Europe: An Investigation Using the Belgian Case
Recent studies find in-work poverty to be a pan-European phenomenon. Yet in-work poverty has come to the fore as a policy issue only recently in most continental European countries. Policies ...
(published in: Journal of Social Policy, 2012, 41 (1) 19-41)
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I32, J21, R28, J68
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6066
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Mette
Ejrnæs
Astrid
Kunze
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Work and Wage Dynamics around Childbirth
This study investigates how the first childbirth affects the wage processes of highly attached women. We estimate a flexible fixed effects wage regression model extended with post-birth fixed effects ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2013, 115 (3), 856-877)
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C23, J18, J22, J24, J31
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6065
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German
Blanco
Carlos
A.
Flores
Alfonso
Flores-Lagunes
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Bounds on Average and Quantile Treatment Effects of Job Corps Training on Wages
We assess the effectiveness of Job Corps (JC), the largest job training program targeting disadvantaged youth in the United States, by constructing nonparametric bounds for the average and quantile ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2013, 48 (3), 659-701)
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J24, I38, C21
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6064
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Chung
Choe
Alfonso
Flores-Lagunes
Sang-Jun
Lee
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Do Dropouts Benefit from Training Programs? Korean Evidence Employing Methods for Continuous Treatments
Failure of participants to complete training programs is pervasive in existing active labor market programs both in developed and developing countries. The proportion of dropouts in prototypical ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2015, 48, 849 - 881)
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O15, I38, C21
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6063
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Zeynel Abidin
Ozdemir
Mehmet
Balcilar
Aysit
Tansel
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International Labour Force Participation Rates by Gender: Unit Root or Structural Breaks?
This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for ...
(published in: Bulletin of Economic Research, 2013, 65 (S1), s142-s164.)
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C22, E24, J16, J21
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6062
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Darja
Reuschke
Maarten
van Ham
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Testing the 'Residential Rootedness'-Hypothesis of Self-Employment for Germany and the UK
Based on the notion that entrepreneurship is a 'local event', the literature argues that self-employed workers and entrepreneurs are 'rooted' in place. This paper tests the 'residential ...
(published in: Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2013, 45 (5), 1219-1239)
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D22, J61, J62, L26
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6061
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Michael
Kosfeld
Ulrich
Schüwer
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Add-on Pricing, Naive Consumers, and the Hidden Welfare Costs of Education
Previous research shows that firms shroud high add-on prices in competitive markets with naive consumers leading to inefficiency. We analyze the effects of regulatory intervention via educating naive ...
(published as 'Add-on Pricing in Retail Financial Markets and the Fallacies of Consumer Education' in: Review of Finance, 2017, 21 (3), 1189 - 1216)
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D40, D80, L50
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12998Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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