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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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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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3956
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William
Breit
Barry
Hirsch
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Lessons from the Laureates
This paper uses as source material twenty-three autobiographical essays by Nobel economists presented since 1984 at Trinity University (San Antonio, Texas) and published in Lives of the Laureates ...
(published in: William Breit and Barry T. Hirsch (eds.), Lives of the Laureates: Twenty-three Nobel Economists, 5th ed., Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009)
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B3, B2, A1
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3955
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Michael
C.
Burda
Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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Unemployment, Market Work and Household Production
Using time-diary data from four countries we show that the unemployed spend most of the time not working for pay in additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 107 (2), 131-133)
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E24, J22, D13
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3954
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Tim
Callan
Claire
Keane
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Non-Cash Benefits and the Distribution of Economic Welfare
Non-cash benefits can have substantial effects on the distribution of economic welfare. Standard approaches to the inclusion of non-cash benefits in broader measures of resources have failed to take ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2009, 40 (1), 49-72)
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D31, H23, I31, I32
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3952
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Gulcin
Gumus
Tracy
L.
Regan
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Self-Employment and the Role of Health Insurance
We investigate the effect of health insurance on labor market transitions in and out of self-employment as well as on the likelihood of being self-employed. We consider the role of individual health ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2015, 30 (3), 357-374)
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J32, J48, I11
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3951
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Delia
Furtado
Nikolaos
Theodoropoulos
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I'll Marry You If You Get Me a Job: Marital Assimilation and Immigrant Employment Rates
Marriage to a native has a theoretically ambiguous impact on immigrant employment rates. Utilizing 2000 U.S. Census data, this paper empirically tests whether and how marriage choice affects the ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1+2), 116-126)
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J12, J61
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3950
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Guillermina
Jasso
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Ethnicity and the Immigration of Highly Skilled Workers to the United States
This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic components of ethnicity – country of birth, race, skin color, language, and ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1+2), 26-42)
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F22, F24, J15, J24, J61, J68, K42, O15
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3948
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Charles
Bellemare
Patrick
Lepage
Bruce
S.
Shearer
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Peer Pressure, Incentives, and Gender: An Experimental Analysis of Motivation in the Workplace
We present results from a real-effort experiment, simulating actual work-place conditions, comparing the productivity of workers under fixed wages and piece rates. Workers, who were paid to enter ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 276-283)
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M52, C91
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3945
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Raquel
Ortega-Argilés
Mariacristina
Piva
Lesley
Potters
Marco
Vivarelli
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Is Corporate R&D Investment in High-Tech Sectors More Effective? Some Guidelines for European Research Policy
This paper discusses the link between R&D and productivity across the European industrial and service sectors. The empirical analysis is based on both the European sectoral OECD data and on a unique ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2010, 28 (3), 353-365)
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O33
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3943
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Alpaslan
Akay
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The Wooldridge Method for the Initial Values Problem Is Simple: What About Performance?
The Wooldridge method is based on a simple and novel strategy to deal with the initial values problem in the nonlinear dynamic random-effects panel data models. This characteristic of the method ...
(revised version published as 'Finite-sample comparison of alternative methods for estimating dynamic panel data models' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2011, 27 (7), 1189-1204 )
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C23, C25
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12990Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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