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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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5742
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Pablo
Agnese
Pablo
F.
Salvador
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More Alike than Different: The Spanish and Irish Labour Markets Before and After the Crisis
This paper analyses the labour markets of Spain and Ireland, which have experienced a severe downturn in the recent global crisis as reflected by the largest increases in their unemployment rates ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, December 2012, 1:9)
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E24, J21, E22, C32
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5741
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Thong
Le
Pham
Peter
Kooreman
Ruud
H.
Koning
Doede
Wiersma
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Gender Patterns in Vietnam's Child Mortality
We analyze child mortality in Vietnam focusing on gender aspects. Contrary to several other countries in the region, mortality rates for boys are substantially larger than for girls. A large ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (1), 303-322)
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C13, C31, C35, C41, I12
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5740
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Björn
Bartling
Ernst
Fehr
Daniel
Schunk
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Health Effects on Children's Willingness to Compete
The formation of human capital is important for a society's welfare and economic success. Recent literature shows that child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's ...
(published online in: Experimental Economics, 2012, 15(1), 58-70)
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C90, I10, J24
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5739
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Katherine
Grace
Carman
Peter
Kooreman
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Flu Shots, Mammograms, and the Perception of Probabilities
We study individuals' decisions to decline or accept preventive health care interventions such as flu shots and mammograms. In particular, we analyze the role of perceptions of the effectiveness of ...
(published as 'Probability Perceptions and Preventive Health Care' in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2014, 49(1), 43-71)
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I10
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5738
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Oluwarotimi
Owolabi
Sarmistha
Pal
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The Value of Business Networks in Emerging Economies: An Analysis of Firms' External Financing Opportunities
The paper argues that networked firms are likely to have an advantage in securing external finance in countries with weak legal and judicial institutions since it helps financial institutions to ...
(published as 'Does business networking boost firms' external financing opportunities? Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe' in: Applied Financial Economics, 2013, 23 (5), 415-432)
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G21, G30, L14, M20, P21
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5737
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Almas
Heshmati
Ilham
Haouas
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Economies of Scale in the Tunisian Industries
To date, empirical investigations of trade liberalization under the conditions of increasing returns to scale (IRS) and imperfect competition (IC) have either assumed or imposed the market and ...
(published in: International Journal of Economics and Finance, 2013, 5(1), 48-64. )
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C32, C52, D24, F12, L00
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5736
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Hugo
R.
Nopo
Nancy
Daza
Johanna
Ramos
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Gender Earnings Gaps in the World
This paper documents gender disparities in labor earnings for sixty-four countries around the world. Disparities are partially attributed to gender differences in observable socio-demographic and job ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2012, 33 (5), 464-513)
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C14, D31, J16, O57
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5735
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Alberto
Alesina
Paola
Giuliano
Nathan
Nunn
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On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough
This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional ...
(published in: The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2013, 128 (2), 469-530)
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D03, J16, N30
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5732
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Nick
Drydakis
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Roma Women in Athenian Firms: Do They Face Wage Bias?
In the current study, we analyze the effect of having a Roma background on women's wages. By utilizing the Athens Area Study random sample (2007-08) drawn from 16 multiethnic municipalities in which ...
(published in: Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2012, 35 (12), 2054-2074)
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J31, J71, J15, C13, C81
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5731
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Robert
Holzmann
Yann
Pouget
Milan
Vodopivec
Michael
Weber
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Severance Pay Programs around the World: History, Rationale, Status, and Reforms
The paper examines severance pay programs around the world by providing the first ever overview of existing programs, examining their historic development, assessing their economic rationale and ...
(published in: Robert Holzmann and Milan Vodopivec (eds), Reforming Severance Pay: An International Perspective,Washington, D.C.: The World Bank., 2012)
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J33, J65, K31
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