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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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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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3809
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Albert
Saiz
Uri
Simonsohn
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Downloading Wisdom from Online Crowds
The internet and other large textual databases contain billions of documents: is there useful information in the number of documents written about different topics? We propose, based on the premise ...
(revised version published as 'Proxying for Unobservable Variables with Internet Document-Frequency' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (1), 137–165)
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J11, C81, B40
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3808
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Alessandra
Guariglia
Xiaoxuan
Liu
Lina
Song
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Internal Finance and Growth: Microeconometric Evidence on Chinese Firms
Does the availability of internal finance constrain firm growth? Or does it foster it? To answer these questions, we use a panel of 407,096 Chinese firms over the period 2000?2005. We estimate ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2011, 96 (1), 79 - 94)
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D92
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3806
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Martin
Nordin
Inga
Persson
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Education-Occupation Mismatch: Is There an Income Penalty?
This paper adds to the small literature on the consequences of education-occupation mismatches. It examines the income penalty for field of education-occupation mismatches for men and women with ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (6), 1047-1059)
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I21, J24, J31
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3805
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Louis
N.
Christofides
Michael
Hoy
Ling
Yang
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The Determinants of University Participation in Canada (1977?2003)
The decision to attend university is influenced by the balance of the expected returns and costs of attending university, by liquidity constraints and capital market imperfections that may modify ...
(published as "Participation in Canadian Universitites: The Gender Imbalance (1977-2005)" in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29(3), 400-410)
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I21, J01, J24
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3804
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Etienne
Lehmann
Alexis
Parmentier
Bruno
Van der Linden
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Optimal Income Taxation with Endogenous Participation and Search Unemployment
This paper characterizes the optimal redistributive taxation when individuals are heterogeneous in two exogenous dimensions: their skills and their values of non-market activities. Search-matching ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (11-12), 1523-1537)
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D82, H21, J64
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