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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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4222
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Stefanie
Behncke
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How Do Shocks to Non-Cognitive Skills Affect Test Scores?
This paper investigates the extent to which test performance is affected by shocks to non-cognitive skills. 440 students took a low stakes mathematics test. About half of them were exposed to ...
(published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 107/108, 155 - 173)
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C15, C21, C93, I20
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4221
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Susanne
Prantl
Alexandra
Spitz-Oener
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How Does Entry Regulation Influence Entry into Self-Employment and Occupational Mobility?
We analyze how an entry regulation that imposes a mandatory educational standard affects entry into self-employment and occupational mobility. We exploit the German reunification as a natural ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2009, 17 (4), 769-802)
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J24, J62, K20, L11, L51, M13
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4219
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Jay
Stewart
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The Timing of Maternal Work and Time with Children
I use data from the American Time Use Survey to examine how maternal employment affects when during the day that mothers of pre-school-age children spend doing enriching childcare and whether they ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2010, 64(1), 181-200)
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J22, J13
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4218
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Yuanyuan
Chen
Shuaizhang
Feng
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Parental Education and Wages: Evidence from China
Using nationally representative data in China, we find substantial positive partial correlations of both parents' education with one's wage. In addition, returns to father's education are higher in ...
(published in: Frontiers of Economics in China, 2011, 6 (4), 568-591)
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J30, J62
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4217
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Fernando
A.
Lozano
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The Flexibility of the Workweek in the United States: Evidence from the FIFA World Cup
In this paper I explore the flexibility of the work week in the United States, using the FIFA Soccer World Cup as a natural experiment. My empirical strategy exploits the exogenous variation that ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2011, 49(2), 512-529)
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J22, L83
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4215
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Ken
Burdett
Carlos
Carrillo-Tudela
Melvyn
Coles
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Human Capital Accumulation and Labour Market Equilibrium
We analyse an equilibrium labour market with on-the-job search and experience effects (where workers learn-by-doing). The analysis yields a standard Mincer wage equation with worker fixed effects and ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2011, 52 (3), 657 - 677)
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J24, J42, J64
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4214
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Matthias
Doepke
Fabrizio
Zilibotti
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Do International Labor Standards Contribute to the Persistence of the Child Labor Problem?
In recent years, a number of governments and consumer groups in rich countries have tried to discourage the use of child labor in poor countries through measures such as product boycotts and the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2010, 15(1), 1-31)
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J20, J88, O10
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4213
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Bruno
Cesar
Araújo
Francesco
Bogliacino
Marco
Vivarelli
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The Role of "Skill Enhancing Trade" in Brazil: Some Evidence from Microdata
Brazil was characterised by a marked process of trade liberalisation in the 1990s, resulting in a dramatic increase in the volumes of exports and imports since the year 2000. Over the same period, ...
(published in: CEPAL Review, 2012, 105, 157-171)
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O33, O54, F16
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4212
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Giorgio
Di Pietro
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Military Conscription and University Enrolment: Evidence from Italy
Given that a growing number of countries have abolished or are considering the abolition of military conscription, understanding the consequences of this measure is of increased importance. In this ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (2), 619-644)
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I20, J24
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4210
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Andreas
Knabe
Steffen
Rätzel
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Boon or Bane? Others' Unemployment, Well-being and Job Insecurity
The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the well-being of the employed, but has a far smaller effect on the unemployed. We use German panel data to reproduce this ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 52-61)
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I31, D84, J60
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