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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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4289
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Michelle
Tan
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Noncognitive Skills, Occupational Attainment, and Relative Wages
This paper examines whether men's and women's noncognitive skills influence their occupational attainment and, if so, whether this contributes to the disparity in their relative wages. We find that ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (1), 1-13)
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J16, J24, J31
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4288
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Guillermina
Jasso
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Linking Individuals and Societies
How do individuals shape societies? How do societies shape individuals? This paper develops a framework for studying the connections between micro and macro phenomena. The framework builds on two ...
(published in: Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 2010, 34 (1), 1-51 )
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C02, C16, D31, D6, D7, D8, J71
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4287
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Florin
Vadean
Matloob
Piracha
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Circular Migration or Permanent Return: What Determines Different Forms of Migration?
This paper addresses the following questions: To what extent do the socio-economic characteristics of circular/repeat migrants differ from migrants who return permanently to the home country after ...
(published in: Gil Epstein and Ira N. Gang (eds.): Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 467-495)
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C35, F22, J61
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4286
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Prudence
Magejo
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The Informal Sector Wage Gap: New Evidence Using Quantile Estimations on Panel Data
Most emerging economies are characterized by the presence of informal salary employment, often argued to be caused by stringent labor market regulation and to result in wage penalties compared to the ...
(revised version published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2015, 63 (1), 117-153)
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J21, J23, J24, J31, C14, O17
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4285
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Bruce
A.
Weinberg
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A Model of Overconfidence
People use information about their ability to choose tasks. If more challenging tasks provide more accurate information about ability, people who care about and who are risk averse over their ...
(published in: Pacific Economic Review, 2009, 14(4), 502-515)
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D03, D08
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4282
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Vincenzo
Galasso
Tommaso
Nannicini
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Competing on Good Politicians
Is electoral competition good for political selection? To address this issue, we introduce a theoretical model in which ideological parties select candidates between party loyalists and experts, and ...
(published in: American Political Science Review, 2011, 105 (1), 79-99)
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D72, H00
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4281
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
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Flexible Labor Supply Models
Discrete-choice models of labor supply have become very popular for ex ante evaluations of policy reforms as they easily account for non-convex budget sets. We test the constraints imposed in ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2009, 105 (1), 103-105)
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H31, J22
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4280
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Paul
W.
Miller
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Educational Mismatch: Are High-Skilled Immigrants Really Working at High-Skilled Jobs and the Price They Pay If They Aren't?
This paper examines the incidence of the mismatch of the educational attainment and the occupation of employment, and the impact of this mismatch on the earnings, of high-skilled adult male ...
(published in: Barry R. Chiswick (ed.), High Skilled Immigration in a Global Labor Market, Washington D.C.: American Enterprise Institute Press, 2010, 111-154)
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I21, J24, J31, J61, F22
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4279
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Evelyn
L.
Lehrer
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Religion, Human Capital Investments and the Family in the United States
This paper critically reviews what is known, based on analyses of micro-level U.S. data, about the role of religion in various interrelated decisions that people make over the life cycle, including ...
(published in: Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Religion, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010)
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J1, J2
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4278
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Sven
Jung
Claus
Schnabel
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Paying More than Necessary? The Wage Cushion in Germany
Using a representative establishment data set for Germany, we show that more than 40 percent of plants covered by collective agreements pay wages above the level stipulated in the agreement, which ...
(published in: Labour, 2011, 25 (2), 182-197)
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J30, J31
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