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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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5545
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Badi
H.
Baltagi
Francesco
Moscone
Elisa
Tosetti
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Medical Technology and the Production of Health Care
This paper investigates the factors that determine differences across OECD countries in health outcomes, using data on life expectancy at age 65, over the period 1960 to 2007. We estimate a ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2012, 42 (2), 395-411)
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C31, C33, H51
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5544
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Luc
Behaghel
Eve
Caroli
Muriel
Roger
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Age Biased Technical and Organisational Change, Training and Employment Prospects of Older Workers
We analyse the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the employment prospects of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late ...
(published in: Economica, 2014, 81(322), 368-389)
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J14, J24, J26, O30
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5541
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Michael
P.
Pflüger
Stephan
Russek
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Business Conditions and Default Risks across Countries
The risk of default that business firms face is very significant and differs widely across countries. This paper explores the links between countries' business conditions and international trade ...
(revised version published in: Open Economies Review, 2013, 24 (5), 963-976)
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F12, F13, F15, L25
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5540
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Susanne
Ek Spector
Bertil
Holmlund
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Part-Time Unemployment and Optimal Unemployment Insurance
A significant fraction of the labor force consists of employed workers who are part-time unemployed (underemployed) in the sense that they are unable to work as much as they prefer. This paper ...
(published in International Tax and Public Finance, 2015, 22(2), 201-223)
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J64, J65
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5539
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Szilvia
Hámori
János
Köllő
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Whose Children Gain from Starting School Later? Evidence from Hungary
We look at the effect of school starting age on standardized test scores using data covering all grade four and grade eight students in Hungary. Instrumental variables estimates of the local average ...
(published in: Educational Research and Evaluation, 2012, 18 (5), 459-488)
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I21, I28, J24
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5538
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Patrick
Kampkötter
Dirk
Sliwka
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Wage Premia for Newly Hired Employees: Theory and Evidence
We investigate wage differences between newly hired and incumbent employees. We show in a formal model that when employees care for wages as well as match-specific utility, incumbents earn less than ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 31, 45–60)
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J31, J44, J62
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5536
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Eric
Bonsang
Tobias
J.
Klein
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Retirement and Subjective Well-Being
We provide an explanation for the common finding that the effect of retirement on life satisfaction is negligible. For this we use subjective well-being measures for life and domains of life ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 83 (3), 311-329)
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J26, J14
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5535
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Hani
Mansour
Daniel
I.
Rees
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The Effect of Prenatal Stress on Birth Weight: Evidence from the al-Aqsa Intifada
No previous study has attempted to estimate the effect of intrauterine exposure to armed conflict, a potential source of stress, on pregnancy outcomes. Drawing on data from the 2004 Palestinian ...
(published as 'Armed Conflict and Birth Weight: Evidence from the al-Aqsa Intifada' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 99 (1),190-199)
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I10, I12
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5534
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Gabriele
Doblhammer
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Lambert
H.
Lumey
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Long-term Effects of Famine on Life Expectancy: A Re-analysis of the Great Finnish Famine of 1866-1868
Famines are extreme cases of environmental stress, and have been used by a series of studies to explore the long-term consequences of the fetal or childhood environment. Results are inconsistent and ...
(published as 'A re-analysis of the long-term effects on life expectancy of the Great Finnish Famine of 1866-86', in: Population Studies, 67(3) 2013, 309-322)
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I12, J11, C41
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5532
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Bruce
Chapman
Mathias
Sinning
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Student Loan Reforms for German Higher Education: Financing Tuition Fees
It is generally agreed that the funding base for German universities is inadequate and perhaps the time has come for serious consideration of the imposition of non-trivial tuition charges. Against ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2014, 22 (6), 569-588)
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H52, I22, I28
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