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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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3999
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Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Labor Mobility and the Integration of European Labor Markets
This paper outlines the importance of labor mobility for the improvement in allocating and distributing economic resources. We are faced with an increasing lack of skilled workers and a growing ...
(published in: E. Nowotny, P. Mooslechner and D. Ritzberger-Grünwald (eds.), The Integration of European Labour Markets, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009, 9-23)
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F22, J15, J61
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3998
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Matias
Busso
John
DiNardo
Justin
McCrary
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New Evidence on the Finite Sample Properties of Propensity Score Matching and Reweighting Estimators
Currently available asymptotic results in the literature suggest that matching estimators have higher variance than reweighting estimators. The extant literature comparing the finite sample ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 96 (5), 885-897)
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C14, C21, C52
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3997
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Magnus
Lofstrom
Timothy
Bates
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Latina Entrepreneurship
We utilize individual panel data from the 1996 and 2001 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to analyze the relative success of self-employed female Hispanics. To allow for a meaningful ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2009, 33 (4), 427-439)
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J15, J16, J31, L26
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3995
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Guido
W.
Imbens
Karthik
Kalyanaraman
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Optimal Bandwidth Choice for the Regression Discontinuity Estimator
We investigate the problem of optimal choice of the smoothing parameter (bandwidth) for the regression discontinuity estimator. We focus on estimation by local linear regression, which was shown to ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2012, 79 (3), 933-959)
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C14
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3994
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Florencia
López Bóo
Lucia
Madrigal
Carmen
Pagés
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Part-Time Work, Gender and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from a Developing Country
This paper investigates the relationship between part-time work and job satisfaction using a recent household survey from Honduras. In contrast to previous work for developed countries, this paper ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2010, 46 (9), 1543-1571)
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C13, J16, J28
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3992
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Guillaume
Horny
Rute
Mendes
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
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Job Durations with Worker and Firm Specific Effects: MCMC Estimation with Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data
We study job durations using a multivariate hazard model allowing for worker-specific and firm-specific unobserved determinants. The latter are captured by unobserved heterogeneity terms or random ...
(published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statisticsc, 30(3) 2012, 468-480)
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C11, C15, C41, J20, J41, J62
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3991
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Per
Engström
Patrik
Hesselius
Bertil
Holmlund
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Vacancy Referrals, Job Search, and the Duration of Unemployment: A Randomized Experiment
One goal of the public employment service is to facilitate matching between unemployed job seekers and job vacancies; another goal is to monitor job search so as to bring search efforts among the ...
(published in: Labour, 2012, 26 (4), 419–435)
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C99, J64, J68
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3989
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Nabanita
Datta Gupta
Nicolai
Kristensen
Dario
Pozzoli
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External Validation of the Use of Vignettes in Cross-Country Health Studies
Cross-country comparisons of subjective assessments are rendered difficult if not impossible because of sub-population specific response style. To correct for this, the use of vignettes has become ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2010, 27 (4), 854-865)
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C25, I10
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3987
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Lawrence
M.
Kahn
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The Economics of Discrimination: Evidence from Basketball
This Chapter reviews evidence on discrimination in basketball, primarily examining studies on race but with some discussion of gender as well. I focus on discrimination in pay, hiring, and retention ...
(published in: The Oxford Handbook of Sports Economics, Oxford, OUP, 2012)
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J71, L83
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3986
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Sarah
Brown
Steven
McIntosh
Karl
Taylor
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Following in Your Parents' Footsteps? Empirical Analysis of Matched Parent-Offspring Test Scores
In this paper, we explore whether an intergenerational relationship exists between the reading and mathematics test scores, taken at age 7, of a cohort of individuals born in 1958 and the equivalent ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 73 (1), 40-58)
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J13, J24
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