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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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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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4683
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Catia
Batista
Jacques
Potin
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International Specialization and the Return to Capital
How does factor accumulation affect the pattern of international specialization and returns to capital? We provide a new integrated treatment to this question using a panel of 44 developing and ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (Advances), 2015, 15 (2), 467-508)
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F11, F21, O40
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4682
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Dennis
Coates
T. H.
Gindling
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Are Hispanic Immigrant Families Reviving the Economies of America's Small Towns?
In the 1990s, rural areas and small towns in the United States, which had been losing population, became the destinations for an increasing number of Hispanic immigrants and their families, slowing ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2013, 31 (4), 649-668)
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R11, R23, O4
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4681
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Gonzalo
Reyes Hartley
Jan
C.
van Ours
Milan
Vodopivec
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Incentive Effects of Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts: Evidence from Chile
This study examines the determinants of job-finding rates of unemployment benefit recipients under the Chilean program. This is a unique, innovative program that combines social insurance through a ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (6), 798-809)
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C41, H55, J64, J65
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4680
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James
J.
Heckman
Bas
Jacobs
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Policies to Create and Destroy Human Capital in Europe
Trends in skill bias and greater turbulence in modern labor markets put wages and employment prospects of unskilled workers under pressure. Weak incentives to utilize and maintain skills over the ...
(published in: Hans-Werner Sinn and Edmund Phelps (eds.), Perspectives on the Performance of the Continental Economies, MIT Press, 2011, 253-322)
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H2, H5, I2, I3, J2, J3
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4679
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Danny
Cohen-Zada
Mark
Gradstein
Ehud
Reuven
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Class Size and the Regression Discontinuity Design: The Case of Public Schools
Using a rich individual-level dataset on secondary public schools in Israel, we find strong evidence for discontinuities in the relationship between enrollment and household characteristics at cutoff ...
(published as 'Allocation of students in public schools: Theory and new evidence' in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 34, 96-106)
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I20
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4676
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Melanie
Khamis
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A Note on Informality in the Labor Market
This paper provides a detailed analysis of various dimensions of informality in the Mexican labor market. To understand the nature of informality in terms of regulations and compliance, the ...
(published in: Journal of International Development, 2012, 24 (7), 894-908)
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J40, O17
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