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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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4693
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Luis
Diaz-Serrano
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Do Legal Immigrants and Natives Compete in the Labour Market? Evidence from Catalonia
The precondition for labour-market competition between immigrants and natives is that both are willing to accept jobs that do not differ in quality. To test this hypothesis, in this paper we compare ...
(published as 'Immigrants, Natives and Job Quality: Evidence from Spain' in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (7), 753-775)
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J28, J61, J81
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4692
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Florencia
López Bóo
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In School or at Work? Evidence from a Crisis
This paper examines the effect of labor market opportunities on schooling-employment decisions in 12 urban areas in Argentina over 12 years, emphasizing the recession/crisis years 1998-2002. The ...
(published in: Oxford Development Studies, 2012, 40 (3), 381-404)
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I21, J31
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4691
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Jan
C.
van Ours
Sander
Tuit
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How Changes in Unemployment Benefit Duration Affect the Inflow into Unemployment
We study how changes in the maximum benefit duration affect the inflow into unemployment in the Netherlands. Until August 2003, workers who became unemployed after age 57.5 were entitled to ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 109 (2), 105-107)
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H55, J64, J65
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4690
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Alison
L.
Booth
Andrew
Leigh
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Do Employers Discriminate by Gender? A Field Experiment in Female-Dominated Occupations
We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely to receive a callback, with the difference being largest in occupations that are ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 107 (2), 236-238)
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J71, C93
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4689
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Magne
Mogstad
Matthew
Wiswall
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Instrumental Variables Estimation with Partially Missing Instruments
We examine instrumental variables estimation in situations where the instrument is only observed for a sub-sample, which is fairly common in empirical research. Typically, researchers simply limit ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 114 (2), 186-189)
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C31, C34
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4688
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Catia
Batista
Pedro
C.
Vicente
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Do Migrants Improve Governance at Home? Evidence from a Voting Experiment
This paper tests the hypothesis that international migration experiences may promote better institutions at home by raising the demand for political accountability. In order to examine this question, ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2011, 25 (1), 77-104)
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F22, O12, O15, O43, P16
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4687
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Simon
Gächter
Christian
Thöni
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Social Comparison and Performance: Experimental Evidence on the Fair Wage-Effort Hypothesis
We investigate the impact of wage comparisons for worker productivity. We present three studies which all use three-person gift-exchange experiments. Consistent with Akerlof and Yellen's (1990) fair ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2010, 76 (3), 531-543)
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J31, J71, C91, C92
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4686
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Alison
L.
Booth
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Part-Time Jobs: What Women Want?
Part-time jobs are popular among partnered women in many countries. In the Netherlands the majority of partnered working women have a part-time job. Our paper investigates, from a supply-side ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (1), 263-283)
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J22, I31, J16
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4685
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Andrea
Salvatori
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Labour Contract Regulations and Workers' Wellbeing: International Longitudinal Evidence
All industrialized countries have Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) for permanent workers and Restrictions on the use of Temporary Employment (RTE). The (ambiguous) effects of these on the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (4), 667-678)
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J28
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4684
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Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Work Out or Out of Work: The Labor Market Return to Physical Fitness and Leisure Sport Activities
This study is the first to present evidence of the return to leisure sports in the job hiring process by sending fictitious applications to real job openings in the Swedish labor market. In the field ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (3), 399-409)
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J21, J64, J71
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