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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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5225
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Kerry
L.
Papps
Alex
Bryson
Rafael
Gomez
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Heterogeneous Worker Ability and Team-Based Production: Evidence from Major League Baseball, 1920-2009
A detailed longitudinal dataset is assembled containing annual performance and biographical data for every player over the entire history of professional major league baseball. The data are then ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (3), 310-319)
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L23, L25, L83, M51
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5224
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Eugenio
Giolito
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On Population Structure and Marriage Dynamics
I develop an equilibrium, two-sided search model of marriage with endogenous population growth to study the interaction between fertility, the age structure of the population and the age at first ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics: Advances in Macroeconomics, 2010, 10 (1), Article 33)
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J12, D83
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5222
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Laszlo
Goerke
Markus
Pannenberg
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Trade Union Membership and Dismissals
In Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage. Therefore, prima facie, there are strong incentives to free-ride on the benefits ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (6), 810-821)
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C23, H41, J51, J63
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5221
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Claire
Keane
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Tax-Benefit Revealed Redistributive Preferences Over Time: Ireland 1987-2005
By inverting Saez (2002)'s model of optimal income taxation, we characterize the redistributive preferences of the Irish government between 1987 and 2005. The (marginal) social welfare function ...
(published in: Labour, 2010, 24 (s1), 141–167)
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C63, C81, D31, D63, H11, H21, H23, H31
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5220
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Herwig
Immervoll
Andreas
Peichl
Sebastian
Siegloch
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Distributional Consequences of Labor Demand Adjustments to a Downturn: A Model-Based Approach with Application to Germany 2008-09
Macro-level changes can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources at the household level. While it is possible to speculate about which groups are likely to be hardest-hit, detailed ...
(revised version published as 'Distributional consequences of labor-demand shocks: the 2008–2009 recession in Germany' in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2012, 19 (1), 118-138)
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D58, J23, H24, H60
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5219
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Guido
Heineck
Bernd
Süssmuth
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A Different Look at Lenin's Legacy: Trust, Risk, Fairness and Cooperativeness in the Two Germanies
What are the long-term effects of Communism on economically relevant notions such as social trust? To answer this question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2013, 41 (3), 789-803)
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P51, Z31
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5218
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Alan
Barrett
Elish
Kelly
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The Impact of Ireland's Recession on the Labour Market Outcomes of its Immigrants
In the mid 2000s Ireland experienced a large inflow of immigrants, partly in response to strong economic growth but also in response to its decision to allow full access to its labour market when EU ...
(revised version published in: European Journal of Population, 2012, 28 (1), 91-111)
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J61
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5215
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Donka
M.
Mirtcheva
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Religion and Child Health
This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development Supplements (CDS) to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The primary focus is ...
(published in: Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2013, 34 (1), 120-140)
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I1, I18, I12, Z12
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5213
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Jason
M.
Lindo
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Parental Job Loss and Infant Health
Although there exists a large literature documenting various consequences of job loss, this paper is the first to explore the extent to which the health effects of job displacement extend to the ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (5), 869 - 897)
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I10, J13, J63
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5212
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Timothy
Bates
Magnus
Lofstrom
Lisa
Servon
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Why Have Lending Programs Targeting Disadvantaged Small-Business Borrowers Achieved So Little Success in the United States?
Small business lending programs designed to move disadvantaged low-income people into business ownership have been difficult to implement successfully in the U.S. context. Based in part on the ...
(published in: Economic Development Quarterly, 2011, 25 (3), 255 - 266)
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J15, L26
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