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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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4658
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Marcos
Chamon
João
M. P.
de Mello
Sergio
Firpo
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Electoral Rules, Political Competition and Fiscal Expenditures: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities
We exploit a discontinuity in Brazilian municipal election rules to investigate whether political competition has a causal impact on policy choices. In municipalities with less than 200,000 voters ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55 (1),19-38)
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H72, D72, C14, P1
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4657
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Subal
C.
Kumbhakar
Raquel
Ortega-Argilés
Lesley
Potters
Marco
Vivarelli
Peter
Voigt
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Corporate R&D and Firm Efficiency: Evidence from Europe’s Top R&D Investors
The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities on firms' performance, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is ...
(published in: Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2012, 37, 125-140)
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L2, O3
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4656
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Astrid
Kunze
Kenneth
Troske
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Life-Cycle Patterns in Male/Female Differences in Job Search
We investigate whether women search longer for a job than men and whether these differences change over the life cycle. Our empirical analysis exploits German register data on highly attached ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (2), 176-185)
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J31, J63, J64, J71
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4655
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Alpaslan
Akay
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Dynamics of the Employment Assimilation of First-Generation Immigrant Men in Sweden: Comparing Dynamic and Static Assimilation Models with Longitudinal Data
We analyse the dynamics of employment assimilation of first-generation immigrant men in Sweden using a high-quality, register-based panel data set. It is discussed that when there are significant ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Dynamics of Employment Assimilation' in IZA Journal of Migration, 2016, 15:3)
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C33, J15, J61
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4654
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Olivier
Donni
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The Measurement of Child Costs: A Rothbarth-Type Method Consistent with Scale Economies
We propose a new methodology to estimate the share of household income accruing to children (i.e., the cost of children). Following the principle of the Rothbarth approach, the identification of the ...
(published as 'Expenditure on Children: A Rothbarth-Type Method Consistent with Scale Economies and Parents' Bargaining' in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56 (4), 792-813)
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D11, D12, C30, D36, I31, J12
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4652
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Diane
J.
Macunovich
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Older Men: Pushed into Retirement by the Baby Boomers?
The United States has experienced over the past forty years an apparent correspondence between the pattern of retirement among men aged 55-69, and the proportion of workers aged 25-34 working ...
(published in: Monthly Labor Review, 2012, 135 (5), 3-18.)
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J14, J21, J22, J26
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4650
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Marianne
Simonsen
Lars
Skipper
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The Family Gap in Wages: What Wombmates Reveal
We shed new light on the effects of having children on hourly wages by exploiting access to data on the entire population of employed same-sex twins in Denmark. Our second contribution is the use of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (1), 102-112)
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J13, J24, J31, J71
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4648
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Konstantinos
Pouliakas
Deborah
Roberts
Eudokia
Balamou
Demetrios
Psaltopoulos
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Modelling the Effects of Immigration on Regional Economic Performance and the Wage Distribution: A CGE Analysis of Three EU Regions
The paper uses a regional Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to analyse the effects of immigration on three small remote EU regions located within Scotland, Greece and Latvia. Two migration ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2014, 48(2), 318-338)
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D33, D58, R13, R23
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4647
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Rudolf
Kerschbamer
Matthias
Sutter
Uwe
Dulleck
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The Impact of Distributional Preferences on (Experimental) Markets for Expert Services
Credence goods markets suffer from inefficiencies arising from informational asymmetries between expert sellers and customers. While standard theory predicts that inefficiencies disappear if ...
(published with new title "How social preferences shape incentives in (experimental) markets for credence goods" in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127, 393-416.)
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C72, C91, D82
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4645
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Andrew
J.
Oswald
Eugenio
Proto
Daniel
Sgroi
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Happiness and Productivity
The paper provides evidence that happiness raises productivity. In Experiment 1, a randomized trial is designed. Some subjects have their happiness levels increased, while those in a control group do ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33 (4), 789-822)
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D03, J24, C91
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