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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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3968
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Mehtabul
Azam
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India's Increasing Skill Premium: Role of Demand and Supply
The tertiary-secondary (college-high school) wage premium has been increasing in India over the past decade, but the increase differs across age groups. The increase in wage premium has been driven ...
(revised version published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy. Volume 10, Issue 1, ISSN (Online) 1935-1682, October 2010)
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J20, J23, J31
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3967
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Lídia
Farré
Roger
Klein
Francis
Vella
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Does Increasing Parents' Schooling Raise the Schooling of the Next Generation? Evidence Based on Conditional Second Moments
This paper investigates the degree of intergenerational transmission of education for individuals from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Rather than identifying the causal effect of ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 74 (5), 676–690)
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C31, J62
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3966
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Xavier
de Luna
Per
Johansson
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Non-Parametric Inference for the Effect of a Treatment on Survival Times with Application in the Health and Social Sciences
In this paper we perform inference on the effect of a treatment on survival times in studies where the treatment assignment is not randomized and the assignment time is not known in advance. Two such ...
(published in: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 2010, 140 (7), 2122-2137)
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C12, C13, C14
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3965
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Herwig
Immervoll
Henrik
Jacobsen
Kleven
Claus
Thustrup
Kreiner
Nicolaj
Verdelin
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An Evaluation of the Tax-Transfer Treatment of Married Couples in European Countries
This paper presents an evaluation of the tax-transfer treatment of married couples in 15 EU countries using the EUROMOD microsimulation model. First, we show that many tax-transfer schemes in Europe ...
(completely different version published as 'Optimal tax and transfer programs for couples with extensive labor supply responses' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (11-12), 1485-1500)
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H20
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3964
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Fabrice
Murtin
Martina
Viarengo
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American Education in the Age of Mass Migrations 1870-1930
This paper derives original series of average years of schooling in the United States 1870-1930, which take into account the impact of mass migrations on the US educational level. We reconstruct the ...
(published in: Cliometrica, 2010, 4(2), 113-139)
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I2, J24, N70, O1
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3963
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Mehtabul
Azam
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Changes in Wage Structure in Urban India 1983-2004: A Quantile Regression Decomposition
This paper examines changes in the wage structure in urban India during the past two decades (1983-2004) across the entire wage distribution using the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition approach. ...
(revised version published in: World Development, 2012, 40 (6), 1135-1150)
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J30, J31, C15
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3960
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Patrik
Hesselius
Per
Johansson
Peter
Nilsson
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Sick of Your Colleagues' Absence?
We utilize a large-scale randomized social experiment to identify how coworkers affect each other's effort as measured by work absence. The experiment altered the work absence incentives for half of ...
(published in: Journal of European Economic Association, 2009, 7 (2–3), 1–12)
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J24
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3959
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Sebastian
J.
Goerg
Sebastian
Kube
Ro'i
Zultan
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Treating Equals Unequally: Incentives in Teams, Workers' Motivation and Production Technology
The importance of fair and equal treatment of workers is at the heart of the debate in organizational management. In this regard, we study how reward mechanisms and production technologies affect ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2010, 28 (4), 747 - 772)
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C92, D23, D63, J31, J33, J41, M12, M52
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3958
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J. David
Brown
John
S.
Earle
Scott
Gehlbach
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Helping Hand or Grabbing Hand? State Bureaucracy and Privatization Effectiveness
Why have economic reforms aimed at reducing the role of the state been successful in some cases but not others? Are reform failures the consequence of leviathan states that hinder private economic ...
(published in: American Political Science Review, 2009, 103(2), 264-283)
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H11, L33, P23, P26, P37, P48
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3957
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Marie
Drolet
Karen
A.
Mumford
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The Gender Pay Gap for Private Sector Employees in Canada and Britain
This paper uses British and Canadian linked employer-employee data to investigate the importance of the workplace for the gender wage gap. Implementing a novel decomposition approach, we find high ...
(revised version published in British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2012, 50 (3), 529-553)
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J16, J0
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