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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
6020 Timm Bönke
Giacomo Corneo
Holger Lüthen
Lifetime Earnings Inequality in Germany
This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large sample of earning biographies from social security records, we show that the ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33 (1), 171-208)
D31, D33, H24
6018 Almas Heshmati
Nabaz T. Khayyat
Statistical Analysis of Landmine Fatalities in Kurdistan
This study analyzes mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) victim data in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq during the period of the 1960s to 2005. In addition to descriptive analysis of the data, we use ...
(published as 'Analysis of Landmine Fatalities and Injuries in the Kurdistan Region' in: Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 30(5), 2015, 2591-2615.)
C23, C42, H56, J15, N45
6017 Graziella Bertocchi
Arcangelo Dimico
Race v. Suffrage: The Determinants of Development in Mississippi
We investigate the long term determinants of political and economic outcomes over a new data set composed of Mississippi counties. We analyze the effect of disfranchisement on voting registration at ...
(revised version published as 'De Jure and De Facto Determinants of Power: Evidence from Mississippi' in: Constitutional Political Economy, 2017, 28, 321-345)
E25, H52, J15, N31, O11, P16
6016 Octávio Figueiredo
Paulo Guimaraes
Douglas Woodward
Firm-Worker Matching in Industrial Clusters
In this paper we use a novel approach and a large Portuguese employer-employee panel data set to study the hypothesis that industrial agglomeration improves the quality of the firm-worker matching ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2014, 14 (1), 1 - 19)
R12, R39, J31
6015 Margherita Fort
Nicole Schneeweis
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
More Schooling, More Children: Compulsory Schooling Reforms and Fertility in Europe
We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Is Education Always Reducing Fertility? Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms' in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (595), 1823 - 1855 )
I2, J13
6014 David W. Johnston
Stefanie Schurer
Michael A. Shields
Evidence on the Long Shadow of Poor Mental Health across Three Generations
Individuals suffering from mental health problems are often severely limited in their social and economic functioning. Mental health problems can develop early in life, are frequently chronic in ...
(published as "Exploring the intergenerational persistence of mental health: Evidence from three generations" in: Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 32 (6), 1077-1089)
I12, I14, J62
6012 Lídia Farré
Francesco Fasani
Media Exposure and Internal Migration: Evidence from Indonesia
This paper investigates the impact of television on internal migration in Indonesia. We exploit the differential introduction of private television throughout the country and the variation in signal ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 102, 48–61)
J61, L82, O15
6010 Stephan Kampelmann
François Rycx
Does Institutional Diversity Account for Pay Rules in Germany and Belgium?
This paper examines the relationship between institutions and the remuneration of different jobs by comparing the German and Belgian labour markets with respect to a typology of institutions (social ...
(published in: Socio-Economic Review, 2013, 11 (1), 131-157)
J31, J51, J52, J53
6009 Joachim Wagner
Exports, Foreign Direct Investments and Productivity: Are Services Firms Different?
This paper contributes to the literature on international firm activities and firm performance by providing the first evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct ...
(published in: Service Industries Journal, 2014, 34 (1), 24-37)
F14, F21
6007 Patricia Apps
Ngo Van Long
Ray Rees
Optimal Piecewise Linear Income Taxation
Given its significance in practice, piecewise linear taxation has received relatively little attention in the literature. This paper offers a simple and transparent analysis of its main ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2014, 16 (4), 523-545)
H21, H31, J22
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