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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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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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5056
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Odelia
Heizler (Cohen)
Ayal
Kimhi
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Who Will Be Idol? The Importance of Social Networks for Winning on Reality Shows
This paper examines, both theoretically and empirically, the effect of social networks and belonging to minority groups (or race) on the probability of winning in reality television shows. We develop ...
(published in: Journal of Socio-Economics, 2012, 41 (1), 18-25)
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J15, D71, P16
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5055
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Bas
van der Klaauw
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Carrot and Stick: How Reemployment Bonuses and Benefit Sanctions Affect Job Finding Rates
To increase their transition from welfare to work, benefit recipients in the municipality of Rotterdam were exposed to various financial incentives, including both carrots to sticks. Once their ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2013, 28 (2), 275–296)
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J64, C21, C41
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5054
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Lisa
B.
Kahn
Fabian
Lange
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Employer Learning, Productivity and the Earnings Distribution: Evidence from Performance Measures
Two ubiquitous empirical regularities in pay distributions are that the variance of wages increases with experience, and innovations in wage residuals have a large, unpredictable component. The ...
(Published in Review of Economic Studies, 2014, 81 (4), 1575-1613.)
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D21, D83, J24, J33
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5053
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Saul
Estrin
Tomasz
Mickiewicz
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Shadow Economy and Entrepreneurial Entry
We analyze theoretically and empirically the impact of the shadow economy on entrepreneurial entry, utilising 1998-2005 individual-level Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data merged with macro level ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2012, 16 (4), 559-578)
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O17, D2, L26, P14
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5052
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Ruta
Aidis
Saul
Estrin
Tomasz
Mickiewicz
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Size Matters: Entrepreneurial Entry and Government
We explore the country-specific institutional characteristics likely to influence an individual's decision to become an entrepreneur. We focus on the size of the government, on freedom from ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2012, 39 (1), 119-139)
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L26, P14, P51, P37
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5051
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Yosef
Mealem
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Interactions between Local and Migrant Workers at the Workplace
In this paper we consider the interaction between local workers and migrants in the production process of a firm. Both local workers and migrants can invest effort in assimilation activities in order ...
(published in: Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 193-203)
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D74, F23, I20, J61, L14
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5050
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Flavio
Cunha
James
J.
Heckman
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Investing in Our Young People
This paper reviews the recent literature on the production of skills of young persons. The literature features the multiplicity of skills that explain success in a variety of life outcomes. ...
(published in: Arthur Reynolds, Arthur Rolnick, Michelle M. Englund, and Judy A. Temple (eds.), Cost-Effective Programs in Children's First Decade: A Human Capital Integration, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 381-414)
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J13, J24, D91
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