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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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5755
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Wolfgang
Höchtl
Rudolf
Kerschbamer
Rudi
Stracke
Uwe
Sunde
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Incentives vs. Selection in Promotion Tournaments: Can a Designer Kill Two Birds with One Stone?
This paper studies the performance of promotion tournaments with heterogeneous participants in two dimensions: incentive provision and selection. Our theoretical analysis reveals a trade-off for the ...
(revised version published in: Managerial and Decision Economics, 2015, 36(5), 275–285)
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M52, J33
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5753
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Peter
Kooreman
Erik
W.
Baars
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Patients Whose GP Knows Complementary Medicine Tend to Have Lower Costs and Live Longer
Health economists have largely ignored complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) as an area of research, although both clinical experiences and several empirical studies suggest cost-effectiveness ...
(published in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2012, 13(6), 769-776)
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I11, I12
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5752
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Barbara
Hanel
Regina
T.
Riphahn
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The Employment of Mothers: Recent Developments and their Determinants in East and West Germany
We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2012, 232 (2), 146-176)
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J21, J13, J18
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5750
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Kate
H.
Choi
Marta
Tienda
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Mathias
Sinning
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Immigration and Status Exchange in Australia and the United States
The claim that marriage is a venue for status exchange of achieved traits, like education, and ascribed attributes, notably race and ethnic membership, has regained traction in the social ...
(published in: Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 2012, 30 (1), 49-62)
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F22, I24
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5749
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Silke
Anger
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills During Adolescence and Young Adulthood
This study examines cognitive and non-cognitive skills and their transmission from parents to children as one potential candidate to explain the intergenerational link of socio-economic status. Using ...
(revised version published as 'Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills' in: John Ermisch, Markus Jäntti, and Timothy Smeeding (eds.), From Parents to Children: The Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage, Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2012, 393 - 421 )
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J10, J24, I20
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5748
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Govert
Bijwaard
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Unobserved Heterogeneity in Multiple-Spell Multiple-States Duration Models
In survival analysis a large literature using frailty models, or models with unobserved heterogeneity, exist. In the growing literate on multiple spell multiple states duration models, or multistate ...
(revised version published as 'Multistate event history analysis with frailty' in: Demographic Research, 2014, 30, 1591-1620)
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C41, J61
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5747
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Stefan
Bauernschuster
Oliver
Falck
Ludger
Woessmann
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Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital: Evidence from an Unforeseeable Technological Mistake
Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individual-level data, we ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 117, 73-89)
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Z13, J24
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5746
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Alessandra
Catozzella
Marco
Vivarelli
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Beyond Additionality: Are Innovation Subsidies Counterproductive?
Building on a standard policy evaluation literature mainly aimed at estimating the additional effect of subsidies on either firms' innovative expenditures or innovative outputs only, this paper tries ...
(short version published as ' The possible adverse impact of innovation subsidies: some evidence from a bivariate switching model' in: Economics Bulletin, 2012, 32 (1), 648-661)
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O32, O38
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5745
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Richard
Blundell
Andrew
Shephard
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Employment, Hours of Work and the Optimal Taxation of Low Income Families
The optimal design of low income support is examined using a structural labour supply model. The approach incorporates unobserved heterogeneity, fixed costs of work, childcare costs and the detailed ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2012, 79(2), 481-510)
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J22, I38
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5744
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Thomas
K.
Bauer
Stefan
Bender
Alfredo
R.
Paloyo
Christoph
M.
Schmidt
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Do Guns Displace Books? The Impact of Compulsory Military Service on Educational Attainment
Compulsory military service typically drafts young men when they are at the height of their learning ability. Thus, it can be expected to depress the demand for higher education since skill atrophy ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2014,124 (3), 513–515)
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I28, J24
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