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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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4183
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Ken
Clark
Nick
Kanellopoulos
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Low Pay Persistence in European Countries
Using panel data for twelve European countries over the period 1994-2001 we estimate the extent of state dependence in low pay. Controlling for observable and unobservable heterogeneity as well as ...
(revised version published in Labour Economics 2013, 23, 122-134.)
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C23, C25, J31, J69
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4181
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Nava
Kahana
Yosef
Mealem
Shmuel
Nitzan
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The Efficient and Fair Approval of "Multiple-Cost - Single-Benefit" Projects under Unilateral Information
This paper focuses on indivisible multiple-cost–single-benefit projects that must be approved by the government. A simple mechanism is proposed that ensures an efficient and fair implementation of ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2009, 11 (6), 947 - 960)
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D61, D62, D78
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4180
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Michael
Fertig
Christoph
M.
Schmidt
Mathias
Sinning
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The Impact of Demographic Change on Human Capital Accumulation
This paper investigates whether and to what extent demographic change has an impact on human capital accumulation. The effect of the relative cohort size on educational attainment of young adults in ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2009 (6), 16, 659-668)
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J11, J24, C25
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4179
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Alessandro
Cigno
Annalisa
Luporini
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Optimal Family Policy in the Presence of Moral Hazard, When the Quantity and Quality of Children Are Stochastic
We examine the second-best family policy under the assumption that both the number and the future earning capacities of the children born to a couple are random variables with probability ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2011, 57 (2), 349-364)
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D13, D78, D82. H31, J13
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4178
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Ruth
Uwaifo Oyelere
Willie
Belton
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Coming to America: Does Immigrant's Home Country Economic Status Impact the Probability of Self-Employment in the U.S.?
This paper examines the impact of home country economic status on immigrant self-employment probability in the U.S. We estimate a probability model and find that, consistent across race, immigrants ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102(3), 538-542)
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J21, E24, J61, J40
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4177
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Falko
Juessen
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A Distribution Dynamics Approach to Regional GDP Convergence in Unified Germany
This paper uses nonparametric techniques to study GDP convergence across German labor market regions and counties during the period 1992-2004. The main result is that regional convergence in unified ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2009, 37 (3), 627 - 652)
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O47, R11, C14
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4176
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Simon
W.
Bowmaker
Patrick
M.
Emerson
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Still Waiting for Mister Right? Asymmetric Information, Abortion Laws and the Timing of Marriage
Previous studies have suggested that more liberal abortion laws should lead to a decrease in marriage rates among young women as 'shotgun weddings' are no longer necessary. Empirical evidence from ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2013, 45 (22), 3151-3169)
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J12, J13, K0
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4174
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Anabela
Carneiro
Paulo
Guimaraes
Pedro
Portugal
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Real Wages and the Business Cycle: Accounting for Worker and Firm Heterogeneity
Using a longitudinal matched employer-employee data set for Portugal over the 1986-2005 period, this study analyzes the heterogeneity in wages responses to aggregate labor market conditions for newly ...
(published as 'Real Wages and the Business Cycle: Accounting for Worker, Firm and Job-Title Heterogeneity' in American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2012, 4(2))
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J31, E24, E32
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4173
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Leo
Kaas
Jun
Lu
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Equal-Treatment Policy in a Random Search Model with Taste Discrimination
We consider a search model of the labor market with two types of equally productive workers and two types of firms, discriminators and non-discriminators. Without policy intervention, there is wage ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (4), 699-709)
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J41, J71, J78
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4172
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Peter
Rupert
Etienne
Wasmer
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Housing and the Labor Market: Time to Move and Aggregate Unemployment
The Mortensen-Pissarides model with unemployment benefits and taxes has been able to account for the variation in unemployment rates across countries but does not explain why geographical mobility is ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, Carnegie-NYU-Rochester Conference Issue, 2012, 59 (1), 24-36)
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J30, J60, R20
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