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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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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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3985
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Lex
Borghans
Bart
H.H.
Golsteyn
James
J.
Heckman
Huub
Meijers
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Gender Differences in Risk Aversion and Ambiguity Aversion
This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing literature relating economic preference parameters to psychological measures by ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 649-658)
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J24, D03, D80
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3982
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Annette
Bergemann
Regina
T.
Riphahn
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Female Labor Supply and Parental Leave Benefits: The Causal Effect of Paying Higher Transfers for a Shorter Period of Time
We study the labor supply effects of a change in child-subsidy policy designed to both increase fertility and shorten birth-related employment interruptions. The reform yields most of the intended ...
(published in: Applied Economic Letters, 2011, 18 (1), 17 - 20)
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J13, J21
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3981
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Sarah
Brown
Karl
Taylor
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Reservation Wages, Expected Wages and the Duration of Unemployment: Evidence from British Panel Data
In this paper we analyse the role of wage expectations in an empirical model of incomplete spells of unemployment and reservation wages. To be specific, we model the duration of unemployment, ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 119 (3), 276-279)
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J13, J24, J64
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3980
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James
J.
Heckman
Sergio
Urzua
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Comparing IV with Structural Models: What Simple IV Can and Cannot Identify
This paper compares the economic questions addressed by instrumental variables estimators with those addressed by structural approaches. We discuss Marschak's Maxim: estimators should be selected on ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2010, 156 (1), 27-37)
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C31
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3977
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Philipp
C.
Bauer
Regina
T.
Riphahn
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Age at School Entry and Intergenerational Educational Mobility
We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children first enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2009, 103 (2), 87-90)
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I2, I21, J24, D30
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3976
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Horst
Entorf
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Crime and the Labour Market: Evidence from a Survey of Inmates
In this paper data from a survey of 1,771 inmates conducted in 31 German prisons provide microeconometric evidence on the relationship between individual anticipated labour market opportunities and ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2009, 229 (2+3), 254-269)
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C83, J38, J68, K42
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