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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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5335
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Marco
Leonardi
Giovanni
Pica
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Who Pays for It? The Heterogeneous Wage Effects of Employment Protection Legislation
Theory predicts that the wage effects of government-mandated severance payments depend on workers' and firms' relative bargaining power. This paper estimates the effect of employment protection ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123, 1236-1278. )
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E24, J3, J65
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5334
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Nauro
F.
Campos
Ralitza
Dimova
Ahmad
Saleh
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Whither Corruption? A Quantitative Survey of the Literature on Corruption and Growth
Does corruption grease or sand the wheels of economic growth? This paper uses meta-analysis techniques to systematically evaluate the evidence addressing this question. It uses a data set comprising ...
(published as 'Corruption and Economic Growth: An Econometric Survey of the Evidence' in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2016, 172 (3), 521-543)
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O1
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5333
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Elke
J.
Jahn
Jan
Bentzen
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What Drives the Demand for Temporary Agency Workers?
Temporary agency employment has grown steadily in most European countries over the past three decades as part of the general trend towards increased employment flexibility. Yet to this day, it ...
(published in: LABOUR, 2012, 26 (3), 341-355)
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C41, J23, J40, J48, K31
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5332
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Jens
Großer
Ernesto
Reuben
Agnieszka
Tymula
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Tacit Lobbying Agreements: An Experimental Study
We experimentally study the common wisdom that money buys political influence. In the game, one lobbyist has the opportunity to influence redistributive tax policies in her favor by transferring ...
(published in: American Journal of Political Science, 2013, 57 (3), 582-597)
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D72, H10, K42
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5331
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Marcos
Chamon
Kai
Liu
Eswar
Prasad
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Income Uncertainty and Household Savings in China
China's household saving rate has increased markedly since the mid-1990s and the age-saving profile has become U-shaped. Using a panel of urban Chinese households covering 1989-2006, we document a ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 105, 164-177)
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D91, J3, E21
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5330
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Tom
McKenzie
Dirk
Sliwka
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Universities as Stakeholders in their Students' Careers: On the Benefits of Graduate Taxes to Finance Higher Education
We examine ways of funding higher education, comparing upfront tuition fees with graduate taxes. The tax dominates, as volatility in future income is transferred from risk-averse students to the ...
(published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2011, 167 (4), 726-742)
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H42, H52, I22, M52
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5329
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Graziella
Bertocchi
Arcangelo
Dimico
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Slavery, Education, and Inequality
We investigate the impact of slavery on the current performances of the US economy. Over a cross section of counties, we find that the legacy of slavery does not affect current income per capita, but ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 70, 197-209)
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E02, D02, H52, J15, O11
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5328
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Fernando
A.
Lozano
Michael
D.
Steinberger
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Empirical Methods in the Economics of International Immigration
In this chapter we provide a brief overview of the main empirical tools used by economists to study international migration. We begin by exploring the three broad research areas that economists ...
(published in: Carlos Vargas-Silva et al. (eds.) Handbook on Research Methods on Migration, Edward Elgar, 2012)
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F22
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5327
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Pedro
Maia
Gomes
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Labour Market Flows: Facts from the United Kingdom
This paper documents a number of facts about worker gross flows in the United Kingdom for the period between 1993 and 2010. Using Labour Force Survey data, I examine the size and cyclicality of the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (2), 165-175.)
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E24, J60
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5326
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Richard
Akresh
Emilie
Bagby
Damien
de Walque
Harounan
Kazianga
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Child Ability and Household Human Capital Investment Decisions in Burkina Faso
Using data we collected in rural Burkina Faso, we examine how children's cognitive abilities influence resource constrained households' decisions to invest in their education. We use a direct measure ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2012, 61 (1), 157-186)
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O15, J12, I21, J13
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