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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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5247
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Simon
Commander
Zlatko
Nikoloski
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Institutions and Economic Performance: What Can Be Explained?
Institutions are now widely believed to be important in explaining performance. In this paper, we analyze whether commonly used measures of institutions have any significant, measurable impact on ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Institutions, 2012, 2 (2), Article 3)
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D24, L21, O12, P48
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5246
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Mayssun
El-Attar
Markus
Poschke
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Trust and the Choice Between Housing and Financial Assets: Evidence from Spanish Households
Trusting behavior has been shown to affect households' portfolio choice between risky and risk-free financial assets. We extend the analysis of the effect of trust on portfolio choice to include the ...
(published in: Review of Finance, 2011, 15 (4), 727-756)
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D1, D8, Z1
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5245
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Jan
Stuhler
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Empirical Strategies to Eliminate Life-Cycle Bias in the Intergenerational Elasticity of Earnings Literature
I argue that the empirical strategies for estimation of the intergenerational elasticity of lifetime earnings that are currently employed in the literature might not eliminate bias arising from ...
(substantially revised version appeared as IZA DP No. 5697)
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J62, C23
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5244
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Joachim
Wagner
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Exports and Firm Characteristics in German Manufacturing Industries
Reliable information on the characteristics of exporting and non-exporting firms is important to guide theorists and policy makers in an evidence based way. This holds true especially for Germany, a ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2011, 57 (2), 107-143 and 145-160)
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F14
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5242
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Stephen
P.
Jenkins
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The British Household Panel Survey and its Income Data
This paper provides a self-contained introduction to the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), concentrating on aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS ...
(published as: Chapter 4 , in: S.P. Jenkins: Changing Fortunes: Income Mobility and Poverty Dynamics in Britain, Oxford University Press, 2011)
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C81, D31, I32
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5240
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Lorenzo
Cappellari
Konstantinos
Tatsiramos
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Friends' Networks and Job Finding Rates
We investigate the effect of social interactions on labor market outcomes using a direct measure of social contacts based on information about individuals’ three best friends and their ...
(substantially revised version published as 'With a Little Help from My Friend? Quality of Social Networks, Job Finding and Job Match Quality' in: European Economic Review, 2015, 78, 55-75)
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J64
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5239
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Dennis
T.
Yang
Xiaodong
Zhu
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Modernization of Agriculture and Long-Term Growth
This paper develops a two-sector model that illuminates the role played by agricultural modernization in the transition from stagnation to growth. When agriculture relies on traditional technology, ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2013, 60 (3), 367–382)
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O41, O33, N13
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5238
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Lina
Bergström
Maarten
van Ham
David
Manley
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Neighbourhood Choice and Neighbourhood Reproduction
Although we know a lot about why households choose certain dwellings, we know relatively little about the mechanisms behind neighbourhood choice. Most studies of neighbourhood choice only focus on ...
(published in: Environment and Planning A, 2011, 43 (6), 1381-1399)
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I30, J60, R23
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5237
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Kusum
Mundra
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Immigrant Networks and U.S. Bilateral Trade: The Role of Immigrant Income
This paper examines the role of immigrant networks on trade, particularly through the demand effect. First, we examine the effect of immigration on trade when the immigrants consume more of the goods ...
(published in: Gil Epstein and Ira Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 357-373)
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F22, F11, J10
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5235
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Tito
Boeri
Vincenzo
Galasso
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Is Social Security Secure with NDC?
The introduction of NDC public pension scheme in few European countries, such as Latvia, Sweden, Italy, and Poland, in the nineties was motivated, among other things, by the need (i) to ensure the ...
(published in: R. Holzmann, E. Palmer and D. Robalino (eds.), 2012, NDC Pension Schemes in a Changing Pension World, Volume 2: Gender, Politics, and Financial Stability, Chapter 6. Financial Stability, Chapter 5. Washington D.C.: The World Bank & Swedish Social Insurance Agency)
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J26, J68
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13003Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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