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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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5267
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Steffen
Huck
Imran
Rasul
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Matched Fundraising: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
We present evidence from a natural field experiment designed to shed light on the efficacy of fundraising schemes in which donations are matched by a lead donor. In conjunction with the Bavarian ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (5-6), 351-362)
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C93, D12, D64
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5264
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Steffen
Huck
Dorothea
Kübler
Jörgen
W.
Weibull
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Social Norms and Economic Incentives in Firms
This paper studies the interplay between economic incentives and social norms in firms. We introduce a general framework to model social norms arguing that norms stem from agents’ desire for, or peer ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2012, 83 (2), 173-185)
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D23
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5263
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David
Neumark
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Detecting Discrimination in Audit and Correspondence Studies
Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear identical to employers. Correspondence studies address this criticism by using ...
(published in: JHR Journal of Human Resources, 2012, 47 (4), 1128 - 1157)
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J7
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5261
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Jens
Arnold
Andrea
Bassanini
Stefano
Scarpetta
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Solow or Lucas? Testing Speed of Convergence on a Panel of OECD Countries
We test whether the growth experience of a sample of 21 OECD countries over the past three decades is more consistent with the augmented Solow model or the Uzawa-Lucas model, by exploiting the ...
(published in: Research in Economics, 2011, 65 (2), 110-123)
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O11, O15, O41
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5260
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Sherrilyn
M.
Billger
Carlos
Lamarche
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Immigrant Heterogeneity and the Earnings Distribution in the United Kingdom and United States: New Evidence from a Panel Data Quantile Regression Analysis
In this paper we use a relatively new panel data quantile regression technique to examine native-immigrant earnings differentials 1) throughout the conditional wage distribution, and 2) controlling ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2015, 49, 705-750.)
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J31, J61, C21, C23
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5259
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Alexander
Hijzen
Pedro
S.
Martins
Thorsten
Schank
Richard
Upward
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Do Foreign-Owned Firms Provide Better Working Conditions Than Their Domestic Counterparts? A Comparative Analysis
This paper analyses to what extent working conditions in foreign-owned firms differ from those in their domestic counterparts. It makes three main contributions. First, we replicate the consensus in ...
(published as 'Foreign-owned firms around the world: A comparative analysis of wages and employment at the micro-level' in: European Economic Review, 2013, 60, 170-188)
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F14, F16, F23
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5258
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Benoit
Dostie
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Estimating the Returns to Firm-Sponsored On-the-Job and Classroom Training
In this paper, we estimate returns to classroom and on-the-job firm-sponsored training in terms of value-added per worker using longitudinal linked employee-employer Canadian data from 1999 to 2006. ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2013, 7 (2), 161-189)
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C23, D24, J31, J63
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5257
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Lutz
Bellmann
Christian
Hohendanner
Reinhard
Hujer
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Determinants of Employer-Provided Further Training: A Multi-Level Approach
We analyse the influence of regional determinants on the decision of employers to provide within-firm further training. We estimate the effects of the regional population density, the unemployment ...
(published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch, 2011, 131 (4), 581-598)
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J24, I21, C33, R12
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5256
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William
E.
Even
David
A.
Macpherson
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What Do Unions Do to Pension Performance?
This study argues that the promotion of union goals could have positive, negative, or neutral effects on risk adjusted return performance. Moreover, the union's ability and incentive to use pension ...
(revised version published in: Economic Inquiry, 2014, 52 (3), 1173-1189)
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J32, J51
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5255
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Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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Mentoring, Educational Services, and Incentives to Learn: What Do We Know About Them?
This paper reviews recent studies on the effectiveness of services and incentives offered to disadvantaged youth. We focus our analysis on three types of interventions: mentoring, educational ...
(substantially revised version published in: Evaluation and Program Planning, 2012, 35 (4), 481-490)
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C93, I21, I22, I28, J24
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