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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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4802
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Mehtabul
Azam
Aimee
Chin
Nishith
Prakash
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The Returns to English-Language Skills in India
India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has expanded due to globalization in recent decades. It is widely believed that there are ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2013, 61 (2), 335-367)
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J31, J24, O15
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4801
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Pierre
Koning
Carolyn
J.
Heinrich
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Cream-Skimming, Parking and Other Intended and Unintended Effects of Performance-Based Contracting in Social Welfare Services
In a growing number of countries, the delivery of social welfare services is contracted out to private providers, and increasingly, using performance-based contracts. Critics of performance-based ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2013, 32 (3), 461-483)
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I38, H11, H53
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4800
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Joshua
Angrist
Jörn-Steffen
Pischke
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The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics: How Better Research Design Is Taking the Con out of Econometrics
This essay reviews progress in empirical economics since Leamer's (1983) critique. Leamer highlighted the benefits of sensitivity analysis, a procedure in which researchers show how their results ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2010, 24 (2), 3-30)
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C01
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4799
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Olivier
Charlot
Franck
Malherbet
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Education and the Welfare Gains from Employment Protection
This paper studies the impact of an European-like labor market regulation on the return to schooling, equilibrium unemployment and welfare. We show that firing costs and temporary employment have ...
(published as 'Education and Employment Protection' in: Labour Economics, 2013, 20, 3-23)
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I20, J20, J60
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4798
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Eva
Gutiérrez-i-Puigarnau
Jos
van Ommeren
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Labour Supply and Commuting
A new paradigm for transport economists has been established: revenues of a welfare-maximising road tax should be employed to reduce the level of a distortionary income tax. An essential modelling ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2010, 68 (1), 82-89)
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J22, R41
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4797
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Maarten
van Ham
Allan
M.
Findlay
David
Manley
Peteke
Feijten
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Social Mobility: Is There an Advantage in Being English in Scotland?
This paper seeks to unpick the complex effects of migration, country of birth, and place of residence in Scotland on individual success in the labour market. We pay specific attention to the labour ...
(published as 'Migration, Occupational Mobility, and Regional Escalators in Scotland' in: [Urban Studies Research], 2012 (2012), Article ID 827171)
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J24, J61, J62, R23
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4796
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Pierre
Koning
Dinand
Webbink
Nicholas
G.
Martin
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The Effect of Education on Smoking Behavior: New Evidence from Smoking Durations of a Sample of Twins
This paper analyses the effect of education on starting and quitting smoking, using longitudinal data of Australian twins. The endogeneity of education, censoring of smoking durations and the timing ...
(revised version published in: Empirical Economics, 2015, 48 (4), 1479-1497)
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C41, I21
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4795
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Axel
Ockenfels
Dirk
Sliwka
Peter
Werner
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Bonus Payments and Reference Point Violations
We investigate how bonus payments affect satisfaction and performance of managers in a large, multinational company. We find that falling behind a naturally occurring reference point for bonus ...
(published in: Management Science, 2015, 61 (7), 1496-1513)
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D03, M52
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4793
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Christer
Gerdes
Patrik
Gränsmark
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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)
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J16, J70, J71, D03
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4791
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Anders
Frederiksen
Odile
Poulsen
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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)
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J3, J6, M5
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