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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
4793 Christer Gerdes
Patrik Gränsmark
Strategic Behavior across Gender: A Comparison of Female and Male Expert Chess Players
This paper aims to measure differences in risk behavior among expert chess players. The study employs a panel data set on international chess with 1.4 million games recorded over a period of 11 ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (5), 766-775)
J16, J70, J71, D03
4791 Anders Frederiksen
Odile Poulsen
Increasing Income Inequality: Productivity, Bargaining and Skill-Upgrading
In recent decades most developed countries have experienced an increase in income inequality. In this paper, we use an equilibrium search framework to shed additional light on what is causing an ...
(published as 'Income Inequality: The Consequences of Skill-Upgrading - When Firms Have Hierarchical Organizational Structures' in Economic Inquiry, 2016, 54 (2), 1224-1239)
J3, J6, M5
4790 Marco Caliendo
Steffen Künn
Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed: Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity
Turning unemployment into self-employment has become an increasingly important part of active labor market policies (ALMP) in many OECD countries. Germany is a good example where the spending on ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (3-4), 311-331)
J68, C14, H43
4789 John Micklewright
Sylke V. Schnepf
Chris Skinner
Non-Response Biases in Surveys of School Children: The Case of the English PISA Samples
We analyse response patterns to an important survey of school children, exploiting rich auxiliary information on respondents' and non-respondents' cognitive ability that is correlated both with ...
(revised version published as 'Non-response biases in surveys of schoolchildren: the case of the English Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) samples' in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2012, 175 (4), 915-938)
C83, I21
4788 Christer Gerdes
Does Immigration Induce 'Native Flight' from Public Schools? Evidence from a Large Scale Voucher Program
Recent studies point to a positive correlation between ethnic heterogeneity due to immigration and the propensity of opting out from public schools for private alternatives. However, immigration ...
(published in: The Annals of Regional Science, 2013, 50, 645-666)
H7, I28, J15, J78, R5
4787 Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Joachim R. Frick
Revisiting the Income-Health Nexus: The Importance of Choosing the
We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health ...
(revised version published as 'Welfare-Related Health Inequality: Does the Choice of Measure Matter?' in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 14 (3), 431-442)
D31, I10, I12
4786 Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Monika Schnitzer
Financial Constraints and Innovation: Why Poor Countries Don't Catch Up
This paper examines micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11(5), 1115-1152)
O3, O16, F1, G3
4785 Ana Rute Cardoso
Paulo Guimaraes
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Trends in Economic Research: An International Perspective
Given the recent efforts in several countries to reorganize the research institutional setting to improve research productivity, our analysis addresses the following questions: To which extent has ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2010, 63 (4), 479-494; cited in The Economist, February 2011)
A10, I20
4784 Almas Heshmati
Subal C. Kumbhakar
Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth: The Case of Chinese Provinces
In the literature technical change is mostly assumed to be exogenous and specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affect technical change. In ...
(published in: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2011, 78 (4), 575-590)
C33, C43, D24, O18, O47
4783 Matteo Picchio
Chiara Mussida
Gender Wage Gap: A Semi-Parametric Approach with Sample Selection Correction
Sizeable gender differences in employment rates are observed in many countries. Sample selection into the workforce might therefore be a relevant issue when estimating gender wage gaps. This paper ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (5), 564-578)
C21, C41, J16, J31, J71
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