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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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4460
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Samuel
Mühlemann
Stefan
C.
Wolter
Adrian
Wüest
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Apprenticeship Training and the Business Cycle
Dual apprenticeship training is a market-driven form of education at the upper secondary level, taking place in firms as well as in vocational schools. So far, little is known about the impact of the ...
(published in: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2009, 1(2), 173-186)
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E24, I21, J18, J44
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4458
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Nicola
Lacetera
Mario
Macis
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Do All Material Incentives for Prosocial Activities Backfire? The Response to Cash and Non-Cash Incentives for Blood Donations
Experimental studies document that financial rewards discourage the performance of altruistic activities, because they destroy intrinsic altruistic motivations. We set up a randomized-controlled ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2010, 31 (4), 738-748)
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D12, D64, I18
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4457
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Lorenzo
Cappellari
Stephen
P.
Jenkins
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The Dynamics of Social Assistance Benefit Receipt in Britain
We analyze the dynamics of social assistance benefit (SA) receipt among working-age adults in Britain between 1991 and 2005. The decline in the annual SA receipt rate was driven by a decline in the ...
(revised version published in Research in Labor Economics, Volume 39: Safety Nets and Benefit Dependence, 2014, 39 - 77)
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I38, C33, C35
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4456
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Gilles
Saint-Paul
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Genes, Legitimacy and Hypergamy: Another Look at the Economics of Marriage
In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2015, 81 (4), 331-377)
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D1, D13, D3, E24, I2, J12, J13, J16, K36, O15, O43
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4455
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David
N.F.
Bell
David
G.
Blanchflower
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What Should Be Done About Rising Unemployment in the OECD?
There is a growing belief that the recession has run its course and that the goods market has started a period of slow, but sustainable, recovery. Improvement in the labor market may take some time, ...
(published as 'Recession and unemployment in the OECD' in: CESifo Forum, 2010, 1, 14 - 22)
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J64
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4453
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Raul
Ramos
Jordi
Surinach
Manuel
Artís
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Regional Economic Growth and Human Capital: The Role of Overeducation
The paper analyses the link between human capital and regional economic growth in the European Union. Using various indicators of human capital calculated from census microdata, we conclude that the ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2012, 46 (10), 1389-1400)
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O18, O47, R23
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4452
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Andrea
Bassanini
Pascal
Marianna
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Looking Inside the Perpetual-Motion Machine: Job and Worker Flows in OECD Countries
There is an increasing interest in the process of job creation and destruction as well of hirings and separations. Many studies suggest that idiosyncratic firm-level characteristics shape both job ...
(reduced version published as 'Inside the Perpetual-motion Machine: Cross-country Comparable Evidence on Job and Worker Flows at the Industry and Firm Level"' in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2010, 19 (6), 2097-2134)
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J23, J24, J63
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4451
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Carlos
A.
Flores
Oscar
A.
Mitnik
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Evaluating Nonexperimental Estimators for Multiple Treatments: Evidence from Experimental Data
This paper assesses the effectiveness of unconfoundedness-based estimators of mean effects for multiple or multivalued treatments in eliminating biases arising from nonrandom treatment assignment. We ...
(revised version published as 'Comparing Treatments across Labor Markets: An Assessment of Nonexperimental Multiple-Treatment Strategies' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95(5), 1691-1707)
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C13, C14, C21
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4449
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Andreas
Kuhn
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Demand for Redistribution, Support for the Welfare State, and Party Identification in Austria
This paper describes subjective wage inequality and the demand for redistribution in Austria using individuals' estimates of occupational wages from the International Social Survey Program. Although ...
(revised version published in: Empirica, 2010, 37(2), 215-236)
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D31, D63, H50
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4448
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Paul
W.
Miller
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An Explanation for the Lower Payoff to Schooling for Immigrants in the Canadian Labour Market
This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using 2001 Census data. Analyses are presented for males and females. Comparisons are ...
(published in: Ted McDonald et al. (eds.): Canadian Immigration - Economic Evidence for a Dynamic Policy Environment, McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal and Kingston, 2010, 41-75)
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I21, J24, J31, J61, F22
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