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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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5981
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Joanne
Lindley
Stephen
Machin
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Rising Wage Inequality and Postgraduate Education
This paper considers what has hitherto been a relatively neglected subject in the wage inequality literature, albeit one that has been becoming more important over time, namely the role played by ...
(published as 'The Rising Postgraduate Wage Premium' in: Economica, 2016, 83, 281-306 )
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J24, J31
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5980
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Stephen
Gibbons
Olmo
Silva
Felix
Weinhardt
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Everybody Needs Good Neighbours? Evidence from Students' Outcomes in England
We estimate the effect of neighbours' characteristics and prior achievements on teenage students' educational and behavioural outcomes using census data on several cohorts of secondary school ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (571), 831-874)
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C21, I20, H75, R23
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5978
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Saibal
Kar
Sugata
Marjit
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Firm Heterogeneity, Informal Wage and Good Governance
We provide an analysis of enforcement policies applicable to formal sector in dual labor markets. We use a framework with heterogeneous firms, endogenous determination of informal wage and ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2012, 16 (4), 527-539)
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J21, J31, J50
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5977
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Divya
Balasubramaniam
Santanu
Chatterjee
David
B.
Mustard
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Got Water? Social Divisions and Access to Public Goods in Rural India
We use data for 436 rural districts from the 2001 Census of India to examine whether different aspects of social divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. ...
(published in: Economica, 2014, 81 (321), 140-160)
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H4, O2
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5976
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Andries
de Grip
Jan
Sauermann
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The Effects of Training on Own and Co-Worker Productivity: Evidence from a Field Experiment
This paper analyses the effects of work-related training on worker productivity. To identify the causal effects from training, we combine a field experiment that randomly assigns workers to treatment ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2012, 122 (559), 376-399)
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J24, M53, C93
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5975
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Raquel
Ortega-Argilés
Mariacristina
Piva
Marco
Vivarelli
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Productivity Gains from R&D Investment: Are High-Tech Sectors Still Ahead?
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between a firm's R&D expenditures considered as an investment in knowledge, and its productivity, looking at sectoral peculiarities which ...
(published in: Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2015, 24(3), 204-222)
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O33, L25
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5974
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Spyros
Konstantopoulos
Min
Sun
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Is the Persistence of Teacher Effects in Early Grades Larger for Lower-Performing Students?
We examined the persistence of teacher effects from grade to grade on lower-performing students using high-quality experimental data from Project STAR, where students and teachers were assigned ...
(published in: American Journal of Education, 2012, 118 (3), 309-339)
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I20
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5972
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António M. S.
Pimenta
Francisco J. F.
Silva
José
António Cabral
Vieira
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Duration of Low Wage Employment: A Study Based on a Survival Model
This paper includes a survival analysis which attempts to explain the duration, as in the number of years a worker remains in a low wage situation. Explanatory variables take into account the ...
(published in: International Journal of Social Economics, 2018, 45 (2), 286-299 )
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J31, J42
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5971
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Eirini
Andriopoulou
Panos
Tsakloglou
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Once Poor, Always Poor? Do Initial Conditions Matter? Evidence from the ECHP
The paper analyzes the effects of individual and household characteristics on current poverty status, while controlling for initial conditions, past poverty status and unobserved heterogeneity in 14 ...
(published in Research on Economic Inequality Vol. 23 "Measurement of Poverty, Deprivation, and Economic Mobility" (eds T.I. Garner and K.S. Short), 2015, pp 23-70 )
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I32, I38
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5970
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David
W.
Johnston
Wang-Sheng
Lee
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Climbing the Job Ladder: New Evidence of Gender Inequity
An explanation for the gender wage gap is that women are less able or less willing to 'climb the job ladder.' However, the empirical evidence on gender differences in job mobility has been mixed. ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2012, 51 (1), 128 - 151)
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J16, J33, J71
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13085Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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