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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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4090
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Martin
Huber
Michael
Lechner
Conny
Wunsch
Thomas
Walter
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Do German Welfare-to-Work Programmes Reduce Welfare and Increase Work?
Many Western economies have reformed their welfare systems with the aim of activating welfare recipients by increasing welfare-to-work programmes and job search enforcement. We evaluate the three ...
(published as 'Do German Welfare-to-Work Programmes Reduce Welfare Dependency and Increase Employment?' in: German Economic Review, 2011, 12 (2), 182-204)
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J68
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4089
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Stephen
Gibbons
Olmo
Silva
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Faith Primary Schools: Better Schools or Better Pupils?
We provide estimates for the effect of attending a Faith school on educational achievement using a census of primary school pupils in England. We argue that there are no credible instruments for ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2011, 29 (3) , 589-635)
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I20, J24, Z12
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4088
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William
E.
Even
David
A.
Macpherson
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The Growth of Participant Direction in Defined Contribution Plans
Since 1990, most pension plans have shifted the responsibility for directing pension assets to the employee. This study summarizes some of the possible explanations for this rapid shift toward ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2010, 49(2), 190–208)
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J32
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4086
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Glenn
C.
Blomquist
Paul
A.
Coomes
Christopher
Jepsen
Brandon
C.
Koford
Kenneth
Troske
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Estimating the Social Value of Higher Education: Willingness to Pay for Community and Technical Colleges
Much is known about private returns to education in the form of higher earnings. Less is known about social value, over and above the private, market value. Associations between education and ...
(revision published in: Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2014, 5 (1), 3-42)
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I2, H4, H23
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4085
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Anton
Hemerijck
Werner
Eichhorst
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Whatever Happened to the Bismarckian Welfare State? From Labor Shedding to Employment-Friendly Reforms
The paper challenges the widespread view that Bismarckian countries with a strong role of social insurance and labor market regulation are less successful than other employment regimes and hard to ...
(published in: Bruno Palier (ed.), A long good-bye to Bismarck, Amsterdam: AUP, 2010, 301-332)
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J26, J68
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4082
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William
E.
Even
David
A.
Macpherson
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Is Bigger Still Better? The Decline of the Wage Premium at Large Firms
This study shows that the wage premium paid by large firms fell over the past 20 years and that the decline in the size premium has been most pronounced among the least educated work force. Empirical ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2012, 78(4), 1181-1201)
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J31, J32, J33
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4081
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Denis
Conniffe
Donal
O'Neill
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Efficient Probit Estimation with Partially Missing Covariates
A common approach to dealing with missing data is to estimate the model on the common subset of data, by necessity throwing away potentially useful data. We derive a new probit type estimator for ...
(published in: D. Drukker (ed.): Advances in Econometrics, Vol. 27A, Missing Data Methods, 2011, 213-249.)
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C25, G11
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4080
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Martin
G.
Kocher
Ganna
Pogrebna
Matthias
Sutter
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Other-Regarding Preferences and Leadership Styles
We use a laboratory experiment to examine whether and to what extent other-regarding preferences of team leaders influence their leadership style in choice under risk. We find that leaders who prefer ...
(revised and extended version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 88, 109-132)
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C91, C92, D70, D81
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4079
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Brian
Krogh
Graversen
Jan
C.
van Ours
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How a Mandatory Activation Program Reduces Unemployment Durations: The Effects of Distance
In an experimental setting some Danish unemployed workers were assigned to an activation program while others were not. Unemployed who were assigned to the activation program found a job more ...
(published as 'An Activation Program as a Stick to Job Finding' in: Labour, 2011, 25 (2), 167 - 181)
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C41, H55, J64, J65
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4078
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Daniel
L.
Millimet
Le
Wang
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Is the Quantity-Quality Trade-off a Trade-off for All, None, or Some?
Although the theoretical trade-off between the quantity and quality of children is well-established, empirical evidence supporting such a causal relationship ? particularly on child health ? is ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2011, 60 (1), 155-195)
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C14, D10, I12, O12
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12990Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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