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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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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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5254
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Ian
Walker
Yu
Zhu
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Differences by Degree: Evidence of the Net Financial Rates of Return to Undergraduate Study for England and Wales
This paper provides estimates of the impact of higher education qualifications on the earnings of graduates in the UK by subject studied. We use data from the recent UK Labour Force Surveys which ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (6), 1177-1186)
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I23, I28
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5253
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Elena
G. F.
Stancanelli
Leslie
S.
Stratton
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Her Time, His Time, or the Maid's Time: An Analysis of the Demand for Domestic Work
This paper analyzes households' demand for time inputs to domestic services, modeling simultaneously the decision to purchase services in the market and the time spent on weekend and weekday days by ...
(published as 'Maids, Appliances and Couples' Housework: The Demand for Inputs to Domestic Production' in: Economica, 2014, 81 (323), 445-467)
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J22, J16
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5252
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Roger
Bandick
Holger
Görg
Patrik
Karpaty
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Foreign Acquisitions, Domestic Multinationals, and R&D
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the causal effect of foreign acquisition on R&D intensity in targeted domestic firms. We are able to distinguish domestic multinationals and non-multinationals, ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2014, 116 (4), 1091-1115)
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F23
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5251
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Fernando
Alexandre
Pedro
Bação
João
Cerejeira
Miguel
Portela
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Manufacturing Employment and Exchange Rates in the Portuguese Economy: The Role of Openness, Technology and Labour Market Rigidity
In this paper, we explore empirically the role of openness, technology and labour market rigidity in the determination of the effect of the exchange rate on employment in Portugal. We develop an ...
(published in: Open Economies Review, 2011, 22 (5), 969-984)
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J23, F16, F41
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5250
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Ana
Lamo
Julián
Messina
Etienne
Wasmer
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Are Specific Skills an Obstacle to Labor Market Adjustment?
This paper shows that specialized education reduces workers' mobility and hence their ability to cope with economic changes. We illustrate this point using labor force data from two countries having ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (2), 240-256)
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J4, J24
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5248
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Dayanand
Manoli
Andrea
Weber
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Intertemporal Substitution in Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Policy Discontinuities
This paper presents new empirical evidence on intertemporal labor supply elasticities. We use administrative data on the census of private sector employees in Austria and variation from mandated ...
(published as "Nonparametric Evidence on the Effects of Financial Incentives on Retirement Decisions" in: American Economic Journal Economic Policy, 2016)
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J22, J26, E24
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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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