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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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5505
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Morris
M.
Kleiner
Alan
B.
Krueger
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Analyzing the Extent and Influence of Occupational Licensing on the Labor Market
This study examines the extent and influence of occupational licensing in the U.S. using a specially designed national labor force survey. Specifically, we provide new ways of measuring occupational ...
(published in: Labor Economics, 2013, 31 (S1, Part 2), S173–S202)
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J08, J44, J58, J80, K23, K31, L38, L5, L51
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5504
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Randolph
Luca
Bruno
Maria
Bytchkova
Saul
Estrin
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Institutions and Entry: A Cross-Regional Analysis in Russia
We analyse a micro-panel data set to investigate the effect of regional institutional environment and economic factors on Russian new firm entry rates across time, industries and regions. The paper ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (5), 1740-1749 )
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D22, L26, P31
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5502
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Alberto
Alesina
Paola
Giuliano
Nathan
Nunn
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Fertility and the Plough
The current study finds that societies which historically engaged in plough agriculture today have lower fertility. We argue, and provide ethnographic evidence, that the finding is explained by the ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (3), 499-503)
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J13, O13
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5501
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Esteban
F.
Klor
Sebastian
Kube
Eyal
Winter
Ro'i
Zultan
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Can Higher Bonuses Lead to Less Effort? Incentive Reversal in Teams
Conventional wisdom suggests that an increase in monetary incentives should induce agents to exert higher effort. In this paper, however, we demonstrate that this may not hold in team settings. In ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014, 97, 72-83)
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C92, D23, J31, J33, J41, M12, M52
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5500
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Mathilde
Almlund
Angela
Lee
Duckworth
James
J.
Heckman
Tim
Kautz
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Personality Psychology and Economics
This paper explores the power of personality traits both as predictors and as causes of academic and economic success, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a ...
(published in: E.A. Hanushek, S. Machin and S. Woessman (eds). Handbook of the Economics of Education, Amsterdam: Elsevier. 2011)
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I2, J24
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5499
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Alexander
M.
Danzer
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Labor Supply and Consumption Smoothing When Income Shocks Are Non-Insurable
The paper investigates how employees use secondary employment to smooth out consumption shortfalls from non-anticipated wage shocks in their main employment. The identification strategy exploits ...
(revised version published as 'Can Secondary Jobs Smooth Consumption? Evidence from Unanticipated Wage Arrears' in: Economic Development and Cultural Changes, 2019, 67 (3), 571-594. )
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J22, J33, P36, O17
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5497
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Jürgen
Meckl
Benjamin
Weigert
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Occupational Choice, Aggregate Productivity, and Trade
We propose occupational decisions of heterogeneous individuals as an alternative mechanism of explaining the distribution of firm productivities emphasized by empirical studies. Thus, we integrate ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2013, 17 (3), 549-558)
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F12, F16, J24
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5496
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Frédéric
Docquier
Elisabetta
Lodigiani
Hillel
Rapoport
Maurice
Schiff
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Emigration and Democracy
Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel ...
(strongly revised version published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 120, 209-223)
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O1, F22
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5495
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James
J.
Heckman
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The American Family in Black and White: A Post-Racial Strategy for Improving Skills to Promote Equality
In contemporary America, racial gaps in achievement are primarily due to gaps in skills. Skill gaps emerge early before children enter school. Families are major producers of those skills. Inequality ...
(published in: Daedalus, 2011, 140 (2): 70-89)
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J15, J24
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5494
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Luc
Behaghel
Eve
Caroli
Emmanuelle
Walkowiak
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Information and Communication Technologies and Skill Upgrading: The Role of Internal vs. External Labour Markets
Following the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT), firms are likely to face increasing skill requirements. They may react either by training or hiring the new skills, or by a ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2012, 64 (3), 490-517.)
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J23, J24, J41
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