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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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5520
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Andreas
Peichl
Nico
Pestel
Sebastian
Siegloch
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The Politicians' Wage Gap: Insights from German Members of Parliament
Using a unique dataset of German members of parliament with information on total earnings including outside income, this paper analyzes the politicians’ wage gap (PWG). After controlling for ...
(revised version published in: Public Choice, 2013, 156(3-4), 653-676)
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D72, H11, H83, J31, J45
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5519
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Olivier
Charlot
Franck
Malherbet
Cristina
Terra
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Product Market Regulation, Firm Size, Unemployment and Informality in Developing Economies
This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on informality and unemployment in a general framework where formal and informal firms are subject to the same externalities, ...
(published as 'Informality in developing economies: regulation and fiscal policies' in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2015, 51, 1–27)
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E24, E26, J60, L16, O1
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5516
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Alan
Barrett
Corona
Joyce
Bertrand
Maitre
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Immigrants and Welfare Receipt in Ireland
Since 2004, Ireland has included in its system of social welfare payments criteria for receipt which limit the extent to which immigrants can receive welfare payments. In this paper, we compare the ...
(revised version published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (2), 142-154)
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I38, J61
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5515
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Alan
Barrett
Bertrand
Maitre
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Immigrant Welfare Receipt across Europe
The issue of welfare receipt by immigrants is highly controversial across Europe. In this paper, we assess whether immigrants are more likely to receive welfare payments relative to natives across a ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (1), 8-23)
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I38, J61
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5513
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Niclas
Berggren
Henrik
Jordahl
Panu
Poutvaara
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The Right Look: Conservative Politicians Look Better and Their Voters Reward It
Previous research has established that good-looking political candidates win more votes. We extend this line of research by examining differences between parties on the left and on the right of the ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 146, 79–86)
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D72, J45, J70
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5512
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Jungmin
Lee
Sokbae
Lee
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Does It Matter Who Responded to the Survey? Trends in the U.S. Gender Earnings Gap Revisited
Blau and Kahn (JOLE, 1997; ILRR, 2006) decomposed trends in the U.S. gender earnings gap into observable and unobservable components using the PSID. They found that the unobservable part contributed ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2012, 65 (1), 148 - 160)
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J3
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5510
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Stephen
P.
Jenkins
Philippe
Van Kerm
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Trends in Individual Income Growth: Measurement Methods and British Evidence
Assessments of whose income growth is the greatest and whose is the smallest are typically based on comparisons of income changes for income groups (e.g. rich versus poor) or income values (e.g. ...
(published in: Economica, 2016, 83 (332), 679 - 703. )
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D31, D63, I32
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5509
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Mirco
Tonin
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Too Low to Be True: The Use of Minimum Thresholds to Fight Tax Evasion
The enforcement of compliance with tax regulation is a complex task. This is particularly the case when the administrative capacity of the tax authority is low, as it often happens in developing and ...
(published in: Clemens Fuest and George R. Zodrow (eds.), Critical Issues in Taxation and Development, Cambridge (MA), MIT press, 2013)
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H26, K35, K42, P37
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5507
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Yves
Zenou
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Spatial versus Social Mismatch: The Strength of Weak Ties
The aim of this paper is to provide a new mechanism based on social interactions explaining why distance to jobs can have a negative impact on workers' labor-market outcomes, especially ethnic ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2013, 74,113-132.)
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A14, J15, R14, Z13
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5506
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Robert
W.
Helsley
Yves
Zenou
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Social Networks and Interactions in Cities
We examine how interaction choices depend on the interplay of social and physical distance, and show that agents who are more central in the social network, or are located closer to the geographic ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2014, 150, 426-466)
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D85, R14, Z13
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