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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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4406
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Nancy
H.
Chau
Hideaki
Goto
Ravi
Kanbur
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Middlemen, Non-Profits, and Poverty
In many markets in developing countries, especially in remote areas, middlemen are thought to earn excessive profits. Non-profits come in to counter what is seen as middlemen's market power, and rich ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2016, 14, 81 - 108)
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F15, I32, L3
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4405
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Ghazala
Azmat
Libertad
González
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Targeting Fertility and Female Participation Through the Income Tax
We evaluate the effect of a 2003 reform in the Spanish income tax on fertility and the employment of mothers with small children. The reform introduced a tax credit for working mothers with children ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (3), 487-502)
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J22, J13, H31
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4404
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Holger
Görg
Aoife
Hanley
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Services Outsourcing and Innovation: An Empirical Investigation
We provide a comprehensive empirical analysis of the links between international services outsourcing, domestic outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2011, 49(2), 321-333)
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F19, O31
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4403
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Hermann
Gartner
Christian
Merkl
Thomas
Rothe
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They Are Even Larger! More (on) Puzzling Labor Market Volatilities
This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the ...
(revised version published as 'Sclerosis and Large Volatilities: Two Sides of the Same Coin' in: Economics Letters, 2012, 117 (1), 106–109)
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J6, E24, E32
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4402
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Christian
Bayer
Falko
Juessen
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The Life-Cycle and the Business-Cycle of Wage Risk: A Cross-Country Comparison
This paper provides a cross-country comparison of life-cycle and business-cycle fluctuations in the dispersion of household-level wage innovations. We draw our inference from household panel data ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 117 (3), 831-833)
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E20, D31, D91, J31
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4401
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Margaretha
Buurman
Robert
Dur
Seth
van den Bossche
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Public Sector Employees: Risk Averse and Altruistic?
We assess whether public sector employees have a stronger inclination to serve others and are more risk averse than employees in the private sector. A unique feature of our study is that we use ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 83 (3), 279-291)
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H1, J45, M52
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4400
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Stefano
Gagliarducci
Tommaso
Nannicini
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Do Better Paid Politicians Perform Better? Disentangling Incentives from Selection
The wage paid to politicians affects both the choice of citizens to run for an elective office and the performance of those who are appointed. First, if skilled individuals shy away from politics ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (2), 369-398)
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M52, D72, J45, H70
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4399
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Katarina
Keller
Panu
Poutvaara
Andreas
Wagener
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Does Military Draft Discourage Enrollment in Higher Education? Evidence from OECD Countries
Using data from 1960-2000 for OECD countries, we analyze the impact of compulsory military service on the demand for higher education, measured by students enrolled in tertiary education as a share ...
(published in: FinanzArchiv, 2010, 66 (2), 97-120)
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H56, I20
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4398
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Helena
Holmlund
Helmut
Rainer
Thomas
Siedler
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Meet the Parents? The Causal Effect of Family Size on the Geographic Distance between Adult Children and Older Parents
An emerging question in demographic economics is whether there is a link between family size and the geographic distance between adult children and elderly parents. Given current population trends, ...
(revised version published as 'Meet the Parents? Family Size and the Geographic Proximity Between Adult Children and Older Mothers in Sweden' in: Demography, 2013, 50 (3), 903-931)
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J10, C10
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4396
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Saul
Estrin
Julia
Korosteleva
Tomasz
Mickiewicz
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Better Means More: Property Rights and High-Growth Aspiration Entrepreneurship
This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period ...
(substantially revised and rewritten version available as IZA DP No. 5481)
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D23, D84, G21, J23, J24, K11, L26, P51
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13087Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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