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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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4020
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Lawrence
M.
Kahn
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Temporary Jobs and Job Search Effort in Europe
Using longitudinal data on individuals from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) for eight countries during 1995-2001, I investigate temporary job contract duration and job search effort. ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (1), 113-128)
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J21, J23
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4019
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Alicia
Adsera
Alicia
Menendez
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Fertility Changes in Latin America in the Context of Economic Uncertainty
We explore the relation between fertility and the business cycle in Latin American countries taking advantage of the existing cross-country and within-country differences in both fertility and ...
(published as 'Fertility changes in Latin America in periods of economic uncertainty' in: Population Studies, 2011, 65 (1), 37 - 56)
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J13, J16
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4018
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Indraneel
Dasgupta
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Supply Theory sans Profit-Maximization
We utilize the analytical construct of a stochastic supply function to provide an aggregate representation of a finite collection of standard deterministic supply functions. We introduce a ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics: Contributions to Theoretical Economics, 2009, 9 (1), Article 26)
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D21
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4016
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Franz
Hackl
Martin
Halla
Gerald
J.
Pruckner
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Volunteering and the State
This paper explores the capability of the state to affect the individual's decision to work for free. For this purpose we combine individual-level data from the European and World Values Survey with ...
(revised version published in: Public Choice,2012, 151 (3-4), 465 - 495)
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H41, H44, H31, J22, I38, H11, D30, D64
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4015
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Arie
Kapteyn
James
P.
Smith
Arthur
van Soest
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Life Satisfaction
We analyze the determinants of global life satisfaction in two countries (The Netherlands and the U.S.), by using both self-reports and responses to a battery of vignette questions. We find global ...
(published in: E. Diener, J.E. Helliwell and D. Kahneman (eds.), International Differences in Well-Being, Oxford University Press, 2010, 70-104)
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I31, J28, D31
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4014
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Giuseppe
Moscarini
Fabien
Postel-Vinay
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Large Employers Are More Cyclically Sensitive
We provide new evidence that large firms or establishments are more sensitive than small ones to business cycle conditions. Larger employers shed proportionally more jobs in recessions and create ...
(published as 'The Contribution of Large and Small Employers to Job Creation in Times of High and Low Unemployment' in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (6), 2509-39)
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J21, J63, E24, E32
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4013
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Petri
Böckerman
Ulla
Hämäläinen
Roope
Uusitalo
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Labour Market Effects of the Polytechnic Education Reform: The Finnish Experience
This paper evaluates the labour market effects of the introduction of the polytechnic education system in Finland. The polytechnic reform gradually transformed former vocational colleges into ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2009, 28 (6), 672-681)
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I21,I23
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4011
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Stephen
P.
Jenkins
Richard
V.
Burkhauser
Shuaizhang
Feng
Jeff
Larrimore
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Measuring Inequality Using Censored Data: A Multiple Imputation Approach
To measure income inequality with right censored (topcoded) data, we propose multiple imputation for censored observations using draws from Generalized Beta of the Second Kind distributions to ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2011, 174 (1), 63 - 81)
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D31, C46, C81
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4010
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David
G.
Blanchflower
Andrew
J.
Oswald
Bert
van Landeghem
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Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility
If human beings care about their relative weight, a form of imitative obesity can emerge (in which people subconsciously keep up with the weight of the Joneses). Using Eurobarometer data on 29 ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 528 - 538)
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D1, I12, I31
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4009
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Christine
Valente
Arthur
van Soest
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The Puzzle of Muslim Advantage in Child Survival in India
The socio-economic status of Indian Muslims is, on average, considerably lower than that of upper caste Hindus. Muslims have higher fertility and shorter birth spacing and are a minority group that, ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2010, 29 (2), 191-204)
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O12, I12, J15, J16, J18
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