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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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4140
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Petter
Lundborg
Paul
Nystedt
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Critical Periods During Childhood and Adolescence: A Study of Adult Height Among Immigrant Siblings
We identify the ages that constitute critical periods in children's development towards their adult health status. For this we use data on families migrating into Sweden from countries that are ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2014, 12 (6), 1521-1557.)
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I10, I12, I18, F22, I20, I30, J10, N30
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4139
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Fredrik
Carlsson
Peter
Martinsson
Ping
Qin
Matthias
Sutter
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Household Decision Making and the Influence of Spouses' Income, Education, and Communist Party Membership: A Field Experiment in Rural China
We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then jointly. We ...
(revised version published as 'The Influence of Spouses on Household Decision Making Under Risk: An Experiment in Rural China' in: Experimental Economics, 2013, 16(3), 383-403)
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C91, C92, C93, D10
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4137
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Erling
Barth
Bernt
Bratsberg
Torbjørn
Haegeland
Oddbjørn
Raaum
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Performance Pay and Within-Firm Wage Inequality
This paper examines the impact of performance-related pay on wage differentials within firms. Our theoretical framework predicts that, compared to a fixed pay system, pay schemes based on individual ...
(published as 'Performance Pay, Union Bargaining and Within-Firm Wage Inequality' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 74 (3), 327 - 362)
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J31, J33
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4136
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Devashish
Mitra
Priya
Ranjan
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Offshoring and Unemployment: The Role of Search Frictions and Labor Mobility
In a two-sector, general-equilibrium model with labor-market search frictions, we find that wage increases and sectoral unemployment decreases upon offshoring in the presence of perfect intersectoral ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2010, 81 (2), 219-229)
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F11, F16, J64
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4134
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Guy
Lacroix
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Assessing the Impact of a Wage Subsidy for Single Parents on Social Assistance in Canada
In 2002 the Quebec government implemented the "Action Emploi" (AE) program aimed at making work pay for long-term social assistance recipients (SA). AE offered a generous wage subsidy that could last ...
(published - as joint work with Dany Brouillette - in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2011, 44 (4), 1195–1221)
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I38, J31, J64
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4133
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M. Ayhan
Kose
Eswar
Prasad
Ashley
D.
Taylor
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Thresholds in the Process of International Financial Integration
The financial crisis has re-ignited the fierce debate about the merits of financial globalization and its implications for growth, especially for developing countries. The empirical literature has ...
(published in: Journal of International Money and Finance, 2011, 30(1), 147-179)
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F3, F4, O4
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4131
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Josh
Ederington
Jenny
Minier
Kenneth
Troske
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Where the Girls Are: Trade and Labor Market Segregation in Colombia
Gary Becker's theory of discrimination argues that increasing competition will reduce discrimination in the labor market. We use the Colombian trade liberalization episode over the period 1984–91 to ...
(published as 'Trade and labor market segregation in Colombia' in: Review of International Economics, 2024, 32 (4), 645-1670)
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J7
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4129
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Simona
Iammarino
Mariacristina
Piva
Marco
Vivarelli
Nick
Von Tunzelmann
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Technological Capabilities and Patterns of Cooperation of UK Firms: A Regional Investigation
This paper focuses on the relationship between firms' technological capabilities and different forms of cooperation for innovation by combining the analysis of both micro and meso levels, i.e. the ...
(published as 'Technological Capabilities and Patterns of Innovative Cooperation of Firms in the UK Regions' in: Regional Studies, 2012, 46 (10), 1283-1301)
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O30, R12
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4128
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Stefano
Gagliarducci
M. Daniele
Paserman
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Gender Interactions within Hierarchies: Evidence from the Political Arena
This paper studies gender interactions within hierarchical organizations using a large data set on the duration of Italian municipal governments elected between 1993 and 2003. A municipal government ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2012, 79 (3), 1021-1052)
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D74, J16, H72, M54
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4127
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Magali
Beffy
Denis
Fougère
Arnaud
Maurel
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Choosing the Field of Study in Post-Secondary Education: Do Expected Earnings Matter?
This paper examines the determinants of the choice of the major when the length of studies is uncertain, by using a framework in which students entering post-secondary education are assumed to ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94 (1), 334–347)
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J24, C35, D84
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