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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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4255
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Chris
M.
Herbst
Erdal
Tekin
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Child Care Subsidies and Childhood Obesity
Child care subsidies play a critical role in facilitating the transition of disadvantaged mothers from welfare to work. However, little is known about the influence of these policies on children's ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (3), 349 - 378)
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I12, I18, J13
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4253
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Stefanie
Behncke
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How Does Retirement Affect Health?
This paper investigates the effects of retirement on various health outcomes. Data stem from the first three waves of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). With this informative data, ...
(published as 'Does retirement trigger ill health?' in: Health Economics, 2012, 21 (3), 282 - 300)
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I10, J14, J26
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4252
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Marika
Karanassou
Hector
Sala
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The US Inflation-Unemployment Tradeoff: Methodological Issues and Further Evidence
This paper addresses the various methodological issues surrounding vector autoregressions, simultaneous equations, and chain reactions, and provides new evidence on the long-run ...
(published as 'The US Inflation-Unemployment Trade-off Revisited: New Evidence for Policy Making' in: Journal of Policy Modeling, 2010, 32 (6), 758-777)
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E24, E31, E51
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4251
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Orazio
Attanasio
Adriana
Kugler
Costas
Meghir
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Subsidizing Vocational Training for Disadvantaged Youth in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Randomized Trial
This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized training program for disadvantaged youth introduced in Colombia in 2005. This randomized trial offers a unique opportunity to examine the impact of ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2011, 3 (3), 188-220)
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C21, I38, J24
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4250
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Helge
Berglann
Espen
R.
Moen
Knut
Røed
Jens
Fredrik
Skogstrøm
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Entrepreneurship: Origins and Returns
We examine the origins and outcome of entrepreneurship on the basis of exceptionally comprehensive Norwegian matched worker-firm-owner data. In contrast to most existing studies, our notion of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (2), 180-193)
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L26, M13
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4249
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Christopher
R.
Bollinger
James
P.
Ziliak
Kenneth
Troske
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Down from the Mountain: Skill Upgrading and Wages in Appalachia
Despite evidence that skilled labor is increasingly concentrated in cities, whether regional wage inequality is predominantly due to differences in skill levels or returns is unknown. We compare ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2011, 29 (4), 819-857)
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J31, J4
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4247
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Francisco
Alvarez-Cuadrado
Markus
Poschke
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Structural Change out of Agriculture: Labor Push versus Labor Pull
The process of economic development is characterized by substantial rural-urban migrations and a decreasing share of agriculture in output and employment. The literature highlights two main engines ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2011, 3 (3), 127-158)
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O11, O41
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4246
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James
Albrecht
Anders
Björklund
Susan
Vroman
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Unionization and the Evolution of the Wage Distribution in Sweden: 1968 to 2000
We examine the evolution of the Swedish wage distribution over the periods 1968-1981 and 1981-2000. The first period was the heyday of the Swedish solidarity wage policy with strongly equalization ...
(revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2011, 64(5), 1039-1057)
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J31, J51
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4245
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Mirjam
C.
van Praag
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Who Values the Status of the Entrepreneur?
Parker and Van Praag (2009) showed, based on theory, that the group status of the profession 'entrepreneurship' shapes people's occupational preferences and thus their choice behavior. The current ...
(published in: Handbook of Research on Innovation And Entrepreneurship, Edward Elgar Publishers, 2011)
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J22, J24, L26, M13, M59
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4244
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Qian
Liu
Oskar
Nordström Skans
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The Duration of Paid Parental Leave and Children's Scholastic Performance
We study how the duration of paid parental leave affects the accumulation of cognitive skills among children. We use a reform which extended parental leave benefits from 12 to 15 months for Swedish ...
(Published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2010, 10 (1), Article 3)
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I21, J13, J24
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