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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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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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5325
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Wendelin
Schnedler
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Hidden Action, Identification, and Organization Design
Incentives often fail in inducing economic agents to engage in a desirable activity; implementability is restricted. What restricts implementability? When does re-organization help to overcome this ...
(improved version is available here)
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D86, M52, J33, D82, M41
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5324
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Tsunao
Okumura
Emiko
Usui
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Do Parents' Social Skills Influence Their Children's Sociability?
This paper examines the effect of parents' social skills on children's sociability, using the U.S. National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79). This survey, like some other national surveys, ...
(published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2014, 14 (3), 1081-1116)
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J24, J62
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5323
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Julien
Prat
Boyan
Jovanovic
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Dynamic Incentive Contracts under Parameter Uncertainty
We analyze a long-term contracting problem involving common uncertainty about a parameter capturing the productivity of the relationship, and featuring a hidden action for the agent. We develop an ...
(revised version published as 'Dynamic Contracts When the Agent's Quality is Unknown' in: Theoretical Economics, 2014, 9 (3), 865-914)
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D82, D83, E24, J41
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5322
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António
Afonso
Pedro
Maia
Gomes
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Interactions between Private and Public Sector Wages
We examine the interactions between public and private sector wages per employee in OECD countries. The growth of public sector wages and of public sector employment positively affects the growth of ...
(published in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2014, 39, 97-112.)
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E24, E62, H50
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5321
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Pedro
Maia
Gomes
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Fiscal Policy and the Labour Market: The Effects of Public Sector Employment and Wages
I build a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with search and matching frictions and two sectors in order to study the labour market effects of public sector employment and wages. Public ...
(published as 'Optimal public sector wages' in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (587), 1425-1451.)
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E24, E32, E62, J31, J45
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5320
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Werner
Eichhorst
Veronica
Escudero
Paul
Marx
Steven
Tobin
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The Impact of the Crisis on Employment and the Role of Labour Market Institutions
The paper takes a comparative perspective on the labour market impact on G20 and EU countries of the financial and economic crisis that began in 2008. It starts from the observation that the decline ...
(also available as: International Institute for Labour Studies Discussion Paper 202. Geneva.)
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J58, J65, J21
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5319
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Andreas
Kuhn
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The Public Perception and Normative Valuation of Executive Compensation: An International Comparison
This paper describes individuals' perceptions and normative valuations of executive compensation using comparable survey data for fifteen OECD member countries. An overwhelming majority of ...
(revised version, using updated and expanded data, published as `International Evidence on the Perception and Normative Valuation of Executive Compensation' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 55(1), 112-136)
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D31, D63, J31
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