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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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5070
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Örn
B.
Bodvarsson
Jack
W.
Hou
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The Effects of Aging on Migration in a Transition Economy: The Case of China
China has been experiencing two major demographic sea changes since the late 1970s: (i) Internal migration, primarily rural-to-urban, on a scale that dwarfs all other countries at any time in ...
(substantially revised version available as IZA DP No. 8351)
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J61, J11
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5068
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Carmel
U.
Chiswick
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How Economics Helped Shape American Judaism
This chapter discusses the strong impact of economic forces, and changes in the economic environment, on American Jewish observance and American Jewish religious institutions in the 20th century. ...
(published in: Aaron Levine (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Judaism and Economics, New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 646-662)
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Z12, N32, J12
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5067
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Tilman
Brück
Patricia
Justino
Philip
Verwimp
Alexandra
Avdeenko
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Identifying Conflict and Violence in Micro-Level Surveys
The overall goal of the report is to increase the capacity of researchers and policy makers to identify comparatively, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by ...
(revised version published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2015, 31 (1), 29-58.)
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C81, D74, F52, O12
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5065
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Oliver
Falck
Michael
Fritsch
Stephan
Heblich
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The Phantom of the Opera: Cultural Amenities, Human Capital, and Regional Economic Growth
We analyze the extent to which endogenous cultural amenities affect the spatial equilibrium share of high-human-capital employees. To overcome endogeneity, we draw on a quasi-natural experiment in ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (6), 755-766)
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H41, R11, J24
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5064
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Raj
Arunachalam
Manisha
Shah
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The Prostitute's Allure: Examining Returns to Beauty, Productivity and Discrimination
We estimate the earnings premium for beauty in an occupation where returns to physical attractiveness are likely to be important: commercial sex work. In the commercial sex market, perhaps more so ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2012, 12 (1))
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J01, J71
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5062
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Martin
Biewen
Andos
Juhasz
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Understanding Rising Income Inequality in Germany
We examine the causes for rising income inequality in Europe’s most populous economy. From 2000 to 2006, Germany experienced an unprecedented rise in net equivalized income inequality and poverty. At ...
(revised version published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2012, 58 (4), 622-647)
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D31, C14, I30
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5061
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Deniz
Gevrek
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Migration and Loving
This paper explores the relationship between anti-miscegenation laws, interracial marriage and black males' geographical distribution in the U.S. during and after the Great Migration. The U.S. ...
(revised version published as 'Interracial Marriage, Migration and Loving' in: Review of Black Political Economy, 2014, 41 (1), 25-60)
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J12, J15
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5059
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Ira
N.
Gang
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A Political Economy of the Immigrant Assimilation: Internal Dynamics
Within immigrant society different groups wish to help the migrants in different ways – immigrant societies are multi-layered and multi-dimensional. We examine the situation where there exists a ...
(published in: Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 325-339)
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F22, J0
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5058
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James
B.
Rebitzer
Lowell
J.
Taylor
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Extrinsic Rewards and Intrinsic Motives: Standard and Behavioral Approaches to Agency and Labor Markets
Employers structure pay and employment relationships to mitigate agency problems. A large literature in economics documents how the resolution of these problems shapes personnel policies and labor ...
(published in: O. Ashenfelter and D. Card (eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 4A, Chapter 8, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011)
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D2, J0, M5
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5057
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Shuaizhang
Feng
Yingyao
Hu
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Misclassification Errors and the Underestimation of U.S. Unemployment Rates
Using recent results in the measurement error literature, we show that the official U.S. unemployment rates substantially underestimate the true levels of unemployment, due to misclassification ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (2), 1054-70)
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J21, J64, C14
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