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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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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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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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