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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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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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4277
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George
S
Naufal
Ali
Termos
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The Responsiveness of Remittances to the Oil Price: The Case of the GCC
We investigate the responsiveness of remittances from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries to the changes in the price of crude oil. Most of the GCC countries rank in the top 20 remitting ...
(published in: OPEC Energy Review, 2009, 33 (3/4), 184-197 )
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F24, P22, N15
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4276
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Joana
Naritomi
Rodrigo
R.
Soares
Juliano
J.
Assunção
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Institutional Development and Colonial Heritage within Brazil
This paper analyzes the determinants of local institutions and distribution of political power within a constant 'macro-institutional' setting. We show that characteristics of Brazilian ...
(published in: Journal of Economic History, 2012, 72 (2), 393-422)
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N26, O17, O40
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4275
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Work and Money: Payoffs by Ethnic Identity and Gender
Upon arrival in the host country, immigrants undergo a fundamental identity crisis. Their ethnic identity being questioned, they can be classified into four states – assimilation, integration, ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2009, 29, 3-30)
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F22, J15, J16, Z10
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4274
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James
P.
Smith
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The Impact of Childhood Health on Adult Labor Market Outcomes
This paper examines impacts of childhood health on SES outcomes observed during adulthood-levels and trajectories of education, family income, household wealth, individual earnings and labor supply. ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 91(3), 478 - 489)
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I10, J00
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4273
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Tito
Boeri
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Immigration to the Land of Redistribution
Negative perceptions about migrants in Europe, the Continent with the largest social policy programmes, are driven by concerns that foreigners are a net fiscal burden. Paradoxically instruments of ...
(published in: Economica, 2010, 77 (308), 651-687)
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J38, J5
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