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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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3821
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Tito
Boeri
Agar
Brugiavini
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Pension Reforms and Women Retirement Plans
We analyse the effects of pension reforms on the planned retirement age of women by exploiting within country variation in pension wealth across cohorts of workers in Italy after the Amato and Dini ...
(published in: Journal of Population Ageing, 2008, 1 (1), 7 - 30)
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J14, J16, J26
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3820
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Patrick
A.
Puhani
Katja
Sonderhof
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The Effects of Maternity Leave Extension on Training for Young Women
Using three representative individual-level datasets for West Germany, we estimate the effect of the extension of maternity leave from 18 to 36 months on young women's participation in job-related ...
(published as 'The Effects of Parental Leave on Training for Young Women' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (2), 731-760)
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J16, J24, J58, J83
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3818
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Martin
R.
West
Ludger
Woessmann
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"Every Catholic Child in a Catholic School": Historical Resistance to State Schooling, Contemporary Private Competition, and Student Achievement across Countries
Nineteenth-Century Catholic doctrine strongly opposed state schooling. We show that countries with larger shares of Catholics in 1900 (but without a Catholic state religion) tend to have larger ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120(546), F229-F255)
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I20, L33, N30, Z12
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3816
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Markus
Poschke
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Who Becomes an Entrepreneur? Labor Market Prospects and Occupational Choice
Why do some people become entrepreneurs (and others don't)? Why are firms so heterogeneous, and many firms so small? To start, the paper briefly documents evidence from the empirical literature that ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2013, 37 (3), 693-710)
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E20, J23, L11, L16
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3815
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Ana Rute
Cardoso
Elsa
Fontainha
Chiara
Monfardini
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Children and Parents Time Use: Empirical Evidence on Investment in Human Capital in France, Italy and Germany
We analyze a mechanism that has been disregarded in the literature on parental investment in children, as little attention has been devoted to the choices made by children themselves. We model ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (4), 479-504)
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J22, J24, J13, C21, C24
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3814
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Pieter
A.
Gautier
Yves
Zenou
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Car Ownership and the Labor Market of Ethnic Minorities
We show how small initial wealth differences between low skilled black and white workers can generate large differences in their labor-market outcomes. This even occurs in the absence of a taste for ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2010, 67 (3), 392-403.)
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D83, J15, J64, R1
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3813
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Nicolai
Kristensen
Niels
C.
Westergård-Nielsen
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Economic Satisfaction and Income Rank in Small Neighbourhoods
We contribute to the literature on well-being and comparisons by appealing to new Danish data dividing the country up into around 9,000 small neighbourhoods. Administrative data provides us with the ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7, (2-3), 519–527)
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C23, C25, D84, J28, J31, J33
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3812
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Alpaslan
Akay
Peter
Martinsson
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Does Relative Income Matter for the Very Poor? Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
We studied whether relative income has an impact on subjective well-being among extremely poor people. Contrary to the findings in developed countries, where relative income has shown a significant ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2011, 110(3), 213-215)
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D10, I31, I32
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3811
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Magnus
Carlsson
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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An Experimental Study of Sex Segregation in the Swedish Labour Market: Is Discrimination the Explanation?
This paper studies whether sex discrimination is the cause of sex segregation in the Swedish labour market. The correspondence testing (CT) method was used, which entails two qualitatively identical ...
(published as 'Does Hiring Discrimination Cause Gender Segregation in the Swedish Labor Market?' in: Feminist Economics, 2011, 17 (3), 71-102)
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J64, J71
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3810
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Magnus
Carlsson
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Is It Your Foreign Name or Foreign Qualifications? An Experimental Study of Ethnic Discrimination in Hiring
This paper contributes to the existing literature on ethnic discrimination of immigrants in hiring by addressing the central question of what employers act on in a job application. The method ...
(revised version published as: "Experimental evidence of discrimination in the hiring of first- and second-generation immigrants", Labour, 2010, 24(3), 263-278 )
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J64, J71
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