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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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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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3802
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Simen
Gaure
Knut
Røed
Lars
Westlie
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The Impacts of Labor Market Policies on Job Search Behavior and Post-Unemployment Job Quality
We examine empirically the impacts of labor market policies – in terms of unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market programs (ALMP) – on the duration and outcome of job search and on the ...
(revised version published as 'Job search incentives and job match quality' in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (3), 438-450)
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C14, C15, C41, J64, J65, J68
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3801
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Anders
Björklund
Jesper
Roine
Daniel
Waldenström
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Intergenerational Top Income Mobility in Sweden: A Combination of Equal Opportunity and Capitalistic Dynasties
This paper presents new evidence on intergenerational income and earnings mobility in the top of the distributions. Using a large dataset of matched father-son pairs in Sweden we are able to obtain ...
(revised version published as 'Intergenerational top income mobility in Sweden: Capitalist dynasties in the land of equal opportunity?' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2012, 96 (5-6), 474-484)
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D31, J62
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3800
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Richard
Blundell
Monica
Costa Dias
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Alternative Approaches to Evaluation in Empirical Microeconomics
This paper reviews some of the most popular policy evaluation methods in empirical microeconomics: social experiments, natural experiments, matching, instrumental variables, discontinuity design, and ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44 (3), 565-640)
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C52, J24
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3799
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Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Automatically Activated Stereotypes and Differential Treatment Against the Obese in Hiring
This study provides empirical support for automatically activated associations inducing unequal treatment against the obese among recruiters in a real-life hiring situation. A field experiment on ...
(revised version published (with Jens Agerström) as 'The Role of Automatic Obesity Stereotypes in Real Hiring Discrimination ' in: Journal of Applied Psychology, 2011, 96 (4), 790 - 805)
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J64, J71
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