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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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3836
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Chris
M.
Herbst
Erdal
Tekin
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Child Care Subsidies and Child Development
Child care subsidies are an important part of federal and state efforts to move welfare recipients into employment. One of the criticisms of the current subsidy system, however, is that it ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (4), 618-638)
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I18, I2, J13
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3835
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Steffen
Altmann
Armin
Falk
Matthias
Wibral
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Promotions and Incentives: The Case of Multi-Stage Elimination Tournaments
Promotion tournaments play an important role for the provision of incentives in firms. In this paper, we extend research on single-stage rank-order tournaments and analyze behavior in multi-stage ...
(revised and extended version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2012, 30 (1), 149-174)
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M51, M52, J33, C92
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3834
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Eberhard
Feess
Michael
Gerfin
Gerd
Muehlheusser
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Contracts as Rent Seeking Devices: Evidence from German Soccer
Recent theoretical research has identified many ways how contracts can be used as rent seeking devices vis-à-vis third parties, but there is no empirical evidence on this issue so far. To test some ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2015, 53(1), 714-730)
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L14, J63, L40, L83
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3833
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Barry
Hirsch
Edward
J.
Schumacher
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Underpaid or Overpaid? Wage Analysis for Nurses Using Job and Worker Attributes
The nursing labor market presents an apparent puzzle. Hospitals report chronic shortages, yet standard wage analysis shows that nursing wages have increased over time and greatly exceed those ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2012, 78 (4), 1096-1119.)
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I12, J31, J44
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3832
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Juan
J.
Dolado
Rodolfo
Stucchi
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Do Temporary Contracts Affect TFP? Evidence from Spanish Manufacturing Firms
This paper evaluates the impact of the widespread use of fixed-term contracts in Spain on firms' TFP, via its effect on workers' effort. We propose a simple analytical framework showing that, under ...
(published in: SERIEs Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, 2016, 7, 421-459.)
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C14, C52, D24, J24, J41
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3831
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Timothy
Brezina
Erdal
Tekin
Volkan
Topalli
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"Might Not Be a Tomorrow": A Multi-Methods Approach to Anticipated Early Death and Youth Crime
A number of researchers point to the anticipation of early death, or a sense of "futurelessness," as a contributing factor to youth crime and violence. Young people who perceive a high probability of ...
(published in: Criminology, 2009, 47 (4), 1091-1129)
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K0, K42
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3830
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Iga
Magda
François
Rycx
Ilan
Tojerow
Daphné
Valsamis
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Wage Differentials across Sectors in Europe: An East-West Comparison
This study compares the structure and determinants of inter-industry wage differentials in Eastern and Western European countries (namely Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Spain ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2011, 19 (4), 749-769)
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J31, J51
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3829
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Wen-Hao
Chen
Jean-Yves
Duclos
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Testing for Poverty Dominance: An Application to Canada
The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2011, 44 (3), 781-803)
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C12, C15, D31, D63, I30
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3828
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Heather
Antecol
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
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The Effect of Community-Level Socio-Economic Conditions on Threatening Racial Encounters
This paper contributes to the emerging literature on racial and ethnic tension by analyzing the relationship between local socio-economic conditions and the propensity for outsiders to have ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2010, 40 (6), 517-529)
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D74, J15
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3827
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Steven
W.
Hemelt
Dave
E.
Marcotte
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Rising Tuition and Enrollment in Public Higher Education
In this paper we review recent trends in tuition at public universities and estimate impacts on enrollment. We use data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System on all public four-year ...
(published in: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2011, 33 (4), 435-457)
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I2, I21, I23
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