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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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5952
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Daniele
Fabbri
Chiara
Monfardini
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Opt Out or Top Up? Voluntary Healthcare Insurance and the Public vs. Private Substitution
We investigate whether people enrolled into voluntary health insurance (VHI) substitute public consumption with private (opt out) or just enlarge their private consumption, without reducing reliance ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 78 (1), 75-93)
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C34, C35, D12, H44, I11
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5951
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Stephan
Kampelmann
François
Rycx
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Are Occupations Paid What They Are Worth? An Econometric Study of Occupational Wage Inequality and Productivity
Labour economists typically assume that pay differences between occupations can be explained with variations in productivity. The empirical evidence on the validity of this assumption is surprisingly ...
(published in: De Economist, 2012, 160 (3), 257-287)
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J24, J31, J44
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5949
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Naci
Mocan
Duha
T.
Altindag
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Is Leisure a Normal Good? Evidence from the European Parliament
Prior to July 2009, salaries of the members of the European Parliament were paid by their home country and there were substantial salary differences between parliamentarians representing different EU ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123, 1130-1167.)
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D73, P16, J22, J45
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5948
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Andrew
McGee
Peter
McGee
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Search, Effort, and Locus of Control
We test the hypothesis that locus of control – one's perception of control over events in life – influences search by affecting beliefs about the efficacy of search effort in a laboratory ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 126 (Part A), 89 - 101)
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J64, D83, C91
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5947
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Alejandra
Mizala
Hugo
R.
Nopo
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Teachers' Salaries in Latin America: How Much Are They (Under or Over) Paid?
This paper documents the extent to which teachers are underpaid vis-à-vis workers in other professional and technical occupations in Latin America circa 2007. These labor earnings differences, ...
(published in: International Journal of Educational Development, 2016, 47, 20-32)
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J31, J44, J8, O54
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5946
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Vikesh
Amin
Petter
Lundborg
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Mothers Do Matter: New Evidence on the Effect of Parents' Schooling on Children's Schooling Using Swedish Twin Data
Behrman and Rosenzweig (2002) used data on a small sample of MZ (monozygotic, identical) twin parents and their children to show that father's schooling is more important than mother's schooling for ...
(published as 'The intergenerational transmission of schooling: Are mothers really less important than fathers?' in: Economics of Education Review, 2015, 47, 100–117 )
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J0, I0, J1
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5945
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Jeff
E.
Biddle
Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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Cycles of Wage Discrimination
Using CPS data from 1979-2009 we examine how cyclical downturns and industry-specific demand shocks affect wage differentials between white non-Hispanic males and women, Hispanics and ...
(published as 'Wage discrimination over the business cycle' in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2013, 2:7)
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E29, J71
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5944
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Giorgio
Brunello
Margherita
Fort
Nicole
Schneeweis
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?
In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2016, 25 (3), 314-336)
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J1, I12, I21
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5943
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Stefanie
Schurer
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The Stability of Big-Five Personality Traits
We use a large, nationally-representative sample of working-age adults to demonstrate that personality (as measured by the Big Five) is stable over a four-year period. Average personality changes are ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 115 (1), 11-15)
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J24, C18
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5942
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Mirco
Tonin
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Underreporting of Earnings and the Minimum Wage Spike
This paper documents a positive correlation within European labour markets between the proportion of full-time employees with earnings on the minimum wage and the extent of underreporting of earnings ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:2)
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J38, H26
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