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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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3906
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Niels-Hugo
Blunch
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Multidimensional Human Capital, Wages and Endogenous Employment Status in Ghana
Previous studies of labor market outcomes such as employment and wages have mostly been limited to investigating the impact of formal schooling only and, as a consequence, have seldom considered ...
(published in: Ravi Kanbur and Jan Svejnar (eds.), Labor Markets and Economic Development, London and New York: Routledge, 2009)
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I31, J24, O15
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3904
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Juan
D.
Barón
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Nisvan
Erkal
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Cultural Transmission of Work-Welfare Attitudes and the Intergenerational Correlation in Welfare Receipt
This paper considers the potential for the cultural transmission of attitudes toward work, welfare, and individual responsibility to explain the intergenerational correlation in welfare receipt. ...
(published as 'Welfare Receipt and the Intergenerational Transmission of Work-Welfare Norms' in: Southern Economics Journal, 2015, 82 (1), 208–234)
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I38, H31, Z1
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3902
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Johannes
Becker
Andreas
Peichl
Johannes
Rincke
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Politicians' Outside Earnings and Political Competition
This paper deals with the impact of electoral competition on politicians' outside earnings. In our framework, politicians face a tradeoff between allocating their time to political effort or to an ...
(published in: Public Choice, 2009, 140 (3-4), 379 - 394)
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D72, J45
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3901
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Ernst
Fehr
Lorenz
Götte
Christian
Zehnder
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A Behavioral Account of the Labor Market: The Role of Fairness Concerns
In this paper, we argue that important labor market phenomena can be better understood if one takes (i) the inherent incompleteness and relational nature of most employment contracts and (ii) the ...
(published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2009, 1, 355 - 384)
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C7, D00, D2, D8, J2, L2
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3899
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Christopher A.
Parsons
Johan
Sulaeman
Michael
C.
Yates
Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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Strike Three: Umpires' Demand for Discrimination
We explore how umpires' racial/ethnic preferences are expressed in their evaluation of Major League Baseball pitchers. Controlling for umpire, pitcher, batter and catcher fixed effects and many other ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (4), 1410-1435)
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J44, J71
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3898
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Ana Rute
Cardoso
Paulo
Guimaraes
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Comparing the Early Research Performance of PhD Graduates in Labor Economics in Europe and the USA
This paper analyzes the early research performance of PhD graduates in labor economics, addressing the following questions: Are there major productivity differences between graduates from American ...
(published in: Scientometrics, 2010, 84 (3), 621-637)
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A23, J44, A11, A14, A10
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3896
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Timothy
J.
Halliday
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Mismeasured Household Size and Its Implications for the Identification of Economies of Scale
We consider the possibility that demographic variables are measured with errors which arise because household surveys measure demographic structures at a point-in-time, whereas household composition ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72 (2), 246-262)
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J12, C14
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3895
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Ernst
Fehr
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On the Economics and Biology of Trust
In recent years, many social scientists have claimed that trust plays an important role in economic and social transactions. Despite its proposed importance, the measurement and the definition of ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 235-266)
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C7, D00, D2, D7, D8
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3894
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Christopher J.
Boyce
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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Do People Become Healthier after Being Promoted?
This paper uses longitudinal data to explore whether greater job status makes a person healthier. Taking the evidence as a whole, promotees do not exhibit a health improvement after promotion. ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2012, 21, 580-596)
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I1
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3893
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Alexander
K.
Koch
Julia
Nafziger
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Self-Regulation through Goal Setting
Goals are an important source of motivation. But little is known about why and how people set them. We address these questions in a model based on two stylized facts from psychology and behavioral ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2011, 113 (1), 212-227;)
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A12, C70, D91
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12989Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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