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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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3682
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Kristian
Behrens
Giordano
Mion
Yasusada
Murata
Jens
Suedekum
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Trade, Wages, and Productivity
We develop a new general equilibrium model of trade with heterogeneous firms, variable demand elasticities and endogenously determined wages. Trade integration favors wage convergence, intensifies ...
(substantially revised version published in: International Economic Review, 2014, 55 (4), 1305-1348. [Final version])
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F12, F15, F17
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3681
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Christian
Merkl
Dennis
J.
Snower
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Escaping the Unemployment Trap: The Case of East Germany
This paper addresses the question of why high unemployment rates tend to persist even after their proximate causes have been reversed (e.g., after wages relative to productivity have fallen). We ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2008, 36 (4), 542-556)
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E24, J30, J31, J64
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3680
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Philippe
Aghion
Yann
Algan
Pierre
Cahuc
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Can Policy Interact with Culture? Minimum Wage and the Quality of Labor Relations
Can public policy interfere with culture, such as beliefs and norms of cooperation? We investigate his question by evaluating the interactions between the State and the Civil Society, focusing on the ...
(revised version published as 'Civil Society and the State: The Interplay Between Cooperation and Minimum Wage Regulation' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (1), 3 - 42)
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J30, J50, K00
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3679
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Hans
Bloemen
Elena
G. F.
Stancanelli
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How Do Parents Allocate Time? The Effects of Wages and Income
This paper focuses on the time allocation of spouses and the impact of economic variables. We present a stylized model of the time allocation of spouses to illustrate the expected impact of wages and ...
(published as 'Market hours, household work, child care, and wage rates of partners: an empirical analysis' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2014, 12 (1), 51-81)
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D1, D13, J21
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3677
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Melanie
K.
Jones
Richard
J.
Jones
Paul
L.
Latreille
Peter J.
Sloane
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Training, Job Satisfaction and Workplace Performance in Britain: Evidence from WERS 2004
This paper analyses the relationship between training, job satisfaction and workplace performance using the British 2004 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS). Several measures of performance ...
(published in: Labour, 2009, 23 (Special Issue), 139 - 175)
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J0, J2, J3
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3676
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Anders
Frederiksen
Odile
Poulsen
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Management Compensation and Firm-Level Income Inequality
In recent decades, most developed countries have experienced a simultaneous increase in income inequality and management compensation. In this paper, we study the relation between management ...
(published as 'Income Inequality: The Consequences of Skill-Upgrading - When Firms Have Hierarchical Organizational Structures' in Economic Inquiry, 2016, 54 (2), 1224-1239)
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J3, J6, M5, O3
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3674
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Michael
Daly
Liam
Delaney
Colm
P.
Harmon
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Psychological and Biological Foundations of Time Preference: Evidence from a Day Reconstruction Study with Biological Tracking
This paper considers the relationship between the economic concept of time preference and relevant concepts from psychology and biology. Using novel data from a time diary study conducted in Ireland ...
(published as 'Psychological and Biological Foundations of Time Preference' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 7 (2-3), 2009, 659 - 669)
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C81, D84, D01, D91
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3671
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Markus
Frölich
Blaise
Melly
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Identification of Treatment Effects on the Treated with One-Sided Non-Compliance
Traditional instrumental variable estimators do not generally estimate effects for the treated population but for the unobserved population of compliers. They do identify effects for the treated when ...
(published in: Econometric Reviews, 2013, 32 (3), 384-414)
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C13, C14, C21
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3670
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Adriana
Kugler
Mutlu
Yuksel
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Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives: Evidence from Hurricane Mitch
In the 1980s the composition of immigrants to the U.S. shifted towards less-skilled workers. Around this time, real wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some blame ...
(published in: David Leal and Stephen Trejo (eds.), Latinos and the U.S. Economy: A Labor Economics Perspective, Springer, 2011.)
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J11, J21, J31, J61
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3669
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Quentin
David
Alexandre
Janiak
Etienne
Wasmer
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Local Social Capital and Geographical Mobility: Some Empirics and a Conjecture on the Nature of European Unemployment
European labor markets are characterized by the low geographical mobility of workers. The absence of mobility is a factor behind high unemployment when jobless people prefer to remain in their home ...
(merged with DP 3668 into "Social Capital, Mobility and Unemployment in Europe", published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2010, 68 (2), 191-204 )
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J2, J61, Z1
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3668
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Quentin
David
Alexandre
Janiak
Etienne
Wasmer
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Local Social Capital and Geographical Mobility: A Theory
In this paper, we attempt to understand the determinants of mobility by introducing the concept of local social capital. Investing in local ties is rational when workers anticipate that they will not ...
(merged with DP 3669 into "Social Capital, Mobility and Unemployment in Europe", published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2010, 68 (2), 191-204 )
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J2, J61, Z1
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3667
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Alan
B.
Krueger
Andreas
I.
Mueller
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Job Search and Unemployment Insurance: New Evidence from Time Use Data
This paper provides new evidence on job search intensity of the unemployed in the U.S., modeling job search intensity as time allocated to job search activities. The main findings are: 1) the average ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (3-4), 298-307)
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J64, J65
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3666
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Phanindra
V.
Wunnava
Daniel
B.
Leiter
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Determinants of Inter-Country Internet Diffusion Rates
This paper employs cross-sectional data from 100 countries to analyze the main determinants of inter-country Internet diffusion rates. We set up an empirical model based on strong theoretical ...
(published in: American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2009, 68 (2), 413-426)
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O33, D63, I20
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3664
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Daniel
L.
Millimet
Rusty
Tchernis
Muna
Husain
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School Nutrition Programs and the Incidence of Childhood Obesity
In light of the recent rise in childhood obesity, the School Breakfast Program (SBP) and National School Lunch Program (NSLP) have received renewed attention. Using panel data on over 13,500 primary ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2010, 45 (3), 640-654)
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C31, H51, I18, I28
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3663
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Elke
J.
Jahn
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Reassessing the Wage Penalty for Temps in Germany
As a consequence of the rapid growth of temporary agency employment in Germany, the debate on the poor working conditions of temps, specifically their remuneration, has intensified recently. Using ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2010, 230 (2), 208-233)
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J30, J31, J42
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3661
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Claus
Schnabel
Joachim
Wagner
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The Aging of the Unions in West Germany, 1980–2006
Using data from the social survey ALLBUS for West Germany in the period 1980 to 2006, this paper demonstrates that union members are on average older than non-unionized employees. The probability of ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik , 2008, 228 (5-6), 497-511)
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J51
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3660
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John
H.
Pencavel
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How Successful Have Trade Unions Been? A Utility-Based Indicator of Union Well-Being
Can conventional economic analysis help in defining and measuring the success of labor unions? In this paper, a general indicator of union welfare is proposed and particular expressions for the wage ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2009, 62 (2), 47-156.)
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J51
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3658
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Juan
Ponce
Arjun
S.
Bedi
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The Impact of a Cash Transfer Program on Cognitive Achievement: The Bono de Desarrollo Humano of Ecuador
Throughout Latin America, conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs play an important role in social policy. These programs aim to influence the accumulation of human capital, as well as reduce ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (1), 116-125)
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I38, I28
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3657
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Annie
Georges
Susan
Pozo
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Migration, Remittances and Children’s Schooling in Haiti
In this paper, we focus on the use of remittances to school children remaining in migrant communities in Haiti. After addressing the endogeneity of remittance receipt, we find that remittances raise ...
(The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2010, 630 (1), 224-244.)
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F22, O54
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3656
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Andrew
Grodner
Thomas
J.
Kniesner
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Social Interactions in Demand
We examine theoretically demand in a two-good economy where the demand of one good is influenced by either a spillover effect in the form of an externality from other consumers’ choices and or a ...
(published in: Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2010, 6 (4), 265-366)
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D11
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3655
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Ernst
Fehr
Martin
Brown
Christian
Zehnder
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On Reputation: A Microfoundation of Contract Enforcement and Price Rigidity
We study the impact of reputational incentives in markets characterized by moral hazard problems. Social preferences have been shown to enhance contract enforcement in these markets, while at the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (536), 333 - 353)
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D82, J3, J41, E24, C9
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3654
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Betsey
Stevenson
Justin
Wolfers
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Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox
The “Easterlin paradox” suggests that there is no link between a society’s economic development and its average level of happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning ...
(published in: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2008, 1, 1-87)
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D6, I3, J1
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3653
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Ana
C.
Dammert
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Heterogeneous Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfers: Evidence from Nicaragua
In the last decade, the most popular policy tool used to increase human capital in developing countries has been the conditional cash transfer program. A large literature has shown significant mean ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2009, 58(1), 53-84)
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O15, I38
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3652
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Jonathan
B.
Pritchett
Myeong-Su
Yun
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The In-Hospital Mortality Rates of Slaves and Freemen: Evidence from Touro Infirmary, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1855–1860
Using a rich sample of admission records from New Orleans Touro Infirmary, we examine the in-hospital mortality risk of free and enslaved patients. Despite a higher mortality rate in the general ...
(published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2009, 46 (2), 241-252 )
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N31, J15, I10
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3651
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Sandra
E.
Black
Paul
J.
Devereux
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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Like Father, Like Son? A Note on the Intergenerational Transmission of IQ Scores
More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is little large-scale evidence on the intergenerational transmission of IQ scores. ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2009, 105 (1), 138-140)
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J0, I0, J1
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3650
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Martin
Kahanec
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Attitudes towards Immigrants, Other Integration Barriers, and Their Veracity
The paper studies opinions and attitudes towards immigrants and minorities and their interactions with other barriers to minorities’ economic integration. Specifically, we consider the minority ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1-2), 5-14)
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J15, J71, J78
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3649
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Esteban
Sanromá
Raul
Ramos
Hipólito
Simón
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The Portability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation: Evidence for Spain
The existing literature on immigrant assimilation has highlighted the imperfect portability of human capital acquired by immigrants in their country of origin (Chiswick, 1978; Friedberg, 2000). This ...
(published as 'Portability of Human Capital and Immigrant Overeducation in Spain' in: Population Research and Policy Review, 2015, 34(2), 223-241)
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J61, J31, J24
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3648
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Joop
Hartog
Mirjam
C.
van Praag
Justin
van der Sluis
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If You Are So Smart, Why Aren't You an Entrepreneur? Returns to Cognitive and Social Ability: Entrepreneurs versus Employees
How valuable are cognitive and social abilities for entrepreneurs’ incomes as compared to employees? We answer three questions: (1) To what extent does a composite measure of ability affect an ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2010, 19 (4), 947-989)
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J23, J24, J31, J44, M13
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3647
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Ansgar
H.
Belke
Julia
Spies
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Enlarging the EMU to the East: What Effects on Trade?
The purpose of this paper is to assess the implications of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) accession of eight Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) on their share in EMU-12 imports. ...
(published in: Empirica, 2008, 35 (4), 369-389)
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F15, F41
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3646
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Martin
Salm
Daniel
Schunk
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The Role of Childhood Health for the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from Administrative Data
We use unique administrative German data to examine the role of childhood health for the intergenerational transmission of human capital. Specifically, we examine the extent to which a comprehensive ...
(revised version published as 'The Relationship between Child Health, Developmental Gaps, and Parental Education: Evidence from Administrative Data' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10 (6), 1425-1449)
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J13, I20, I12
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3645
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W. Stanley
Siebert
Nick
Zubanov
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Management Economics in a Large Retail Organization
We study the impact of and reward to middle management ability using data from 245 stores of a nationwide retailer. The company scores six broad areas of management practice, the most important of ...
(published in: Management Science, 2011, 56(8), 1398-1414)
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D21, J24, M20, J33, M52
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3644
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Amelie
F.
Constant
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Businesswomen in Germany and Their Performance by Ethnicity: It Pays to Be Self-Employed
In this paper I assert that the entrepreneurial spirit can also exist in salaried jobs. I study the determinants of wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1-2), 145-162)
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M13, J23, J15, J61, J31
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3643
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Eric
Strobl
Frank
Walsh
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The Ambiguous Effect of Minimum Wages on Workers and Total Hours
We model a competitive labour market where firms choose combinations of workers and hours per worker to produce output. If one assumes that the scale of production has no impact on hours per worker, ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (2), 218-228)
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J22, J38
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3641
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Hessel
Oosterbeek
Mirjam
C.
van Praag
Auke
IJsselstein
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The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurship Competencies and Intentions: An Evaluation of the Junior Achievement Student Mini-Company Program
This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students’ entrepreneurship competencies and intentions using an instrumental variables approach in a ...
(published as "The impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship skills and motivation" in: European Economic Review, 2010, 54 (3), 442-454)
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A20, C31, H43, H75, 120, J24, L26
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3640
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Guido
W.
Imbens
Jeffrey
M.
Wooldridge
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Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Program Evaluation
Many empirical questions in economics and other social sciences depend on causal effects of programs or policies. In the last two decades much research has been done on the econometric and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2009, 47(1), 1-81)
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C14, C21, C52
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3639
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Simon
Gächter
Daniele
Nosenzo
Martin
Sefton
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The Impact of Social Comparisons on Reciprocity
We investigate the effects of pay comparison information (i.e. information about what co-workers earn) and effort comparison information (information about how co-workers perform) in experimental ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (4), 1346-1367; doi:10.1111/j.1467-9442.2012.01730.x)
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A13, C92, J31
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3638
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Markus
Frölich
Blaise
Melly
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Quantile Treatment Effects in the Regression Discontinuity Design
This paper shows nonparametric identification of quantile treatment effects (QTE) in the regression discontinuity design (RDD) and proposes simple estimators. Quantile treatment effects are a very ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2012, 168 (2), 382-395)
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C13, C14, C21
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3636
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James
J.
Heckman
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The Effect of Prayer on God's Attitude Toward Mankind
This paper uses data available from the National Opinion Research Center's (NORC) survey on religious attitudes and powerful statistical methods to evaluate the effect of prayer on the attitude of ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2010, 48 (1), 234-235)
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Z12
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3635
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Gabriele
Doblhammer
Kaare
Christensen
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Being Born Under Adverse Economic Conditions Leads to a Higher Cardiovascular Mortality Rate Later in Life: Evidence Based on Individuals Born at Different Stages of the Business Cycle
We connect the recent medical and economic literatures on the long-run effects of early-life conditions, by analyzing the effects of economic conditions on the individual cardiovascular (CV) ...
(published in: Demography, 48(2) 2011, 507-530)
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I10, J14, C41, H75, E32, J10, N33, N13, I12, I18
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3634
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M. Ayhan
Kose
Eswar
Prasad
Marco
E.
Terrones
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Does Openness to International Financial Flows Contribute to Productivity Growth?
Economic theory has identified a number of channels through which openness to international financial flows could raise productivity growth. However, while there is a vast empirical literature ...
(published in: Journal of International Money and Finance, 2009, 28 (4), 554-580)
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F41, F36, F43
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3633
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Enrico
Rettore
Adriano
Paggiaro
Ugo
Trivellato
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The Effect of Extending the Duration of Eligibility in an Italian Labour Market Programme for Dismissed Workers
Liste di mobilità (LM) is an Italian labour market programme targeted to dismissed workers. It combines a ‘passive’ component granting monetary benefits to employees dismissed by firms larger than 15 ...
(published as 'The Effect of Longer Eligibility to a Labour Market Programme for Dismissed Workers' in: Labour, 2009, 23 (1), 37 - 66)
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C31, J38, J65, J68
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3632
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Daniel
L.
Millimet
Rusty
Tchernis
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Minimizing Bias in Selection on Observables Estimators When Unconfoundness Fails
We characterize the bias of propensity score based estimators of common average treatment effect parameters in the case of selection on unobservables. We then propose a new minimum biased estimator ...
(published as 'Estimation of Treatment Effects Without an Exclusion Restriction: with an Application to the Analysis of the School Breakfast Program' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2013, 28 (6), 982-1017)
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C21, C52
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3631
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Indraneel
Dasgupta
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‘Living’ Wage, Class Conflict and Ethnic Strife
We examine how group-specific differences in reservation wage, arising due to asymmetries in social entitlements, impact on distribution via the joint determination of class conflict between workers ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 72 (2), 750-765)
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D31, D72, D74, I38, J52, O17
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3630
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Helena
Holmlund
Mikael
Lindahl
Erik
Plug
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The Causal Effect of Parent's Schooling on Children's Schooling: A Comparison of Estimation Methods
Recent studies that aim to estimate the causal link between the education of parents and their children provide evidence that is far from conclusive. This paper explores why. There are a number of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2011, 49 (3), 615-651, revised version available here)
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I20, J30, J62
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3629
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Stephen
Drinkwater
Paul
L.
Latreille
Ben
Knight
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When It's (Mostly) the Taking Part that Counts: The Post-Application Consequences of Employment Tribunal Claims
This paper uses the 2003 Survey of Employment Tribunal Applications to examine the post-application employment consequences for individuals registering complaints to Employment Tribunals following ...
(published as 'The post-application labour market consequences of employment tribunal claims' in: Human Resource Management Journal, 2011, 21 (2), 171-189)
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K4, J0
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3628
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Joshua
Angrist
Stacey
H.
Chen
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Long-Term Economic Consequences of Vietnam-Era Conscription: Schooling, Experience and Earnings
Military service reduces civilian labor market experience but subsidizes higher education through the GI Bill. Both of these channels are likely to affect civilian earnings. New estimates of the ...
(published as "Schooling and the Vietnam-Era GI Bill: Evidence from the Draft Lottery" in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2011, 3 (2), 96-118)
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J31, I22, I28, H56
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3626
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Lans
Bovenberg
Coen
Teulings
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Rhineland Exit?
We argue in favour of the shareholder model of the firm for three main reasons. First, serving multiple stakeholders leads to ill-defined property rights. What sounds like a fair compromise between ...
(published in International Tax and Public Finance, 2009, 16 (5), 710-726)
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E24, G32, G34
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3625
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Ernst
Fehr
Andreas
Leibbrandt
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Cooperativeness and Impatience in the Tragedy of the Commons
This paper examines the role of other-regarding and time preferences for cooperation in the field. We study the preferences of fishermen whose main, and often only, source of income stems from using ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (9-10), 1144-1155)
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B4, C9, D8, O1
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3624
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Betsey
Stevenson
Justin
Wolfers
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Happiness Inequality in the United States
This paper examines how the level and dispersion of self-reported happiness has evolved over the period 1972-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has ...
(published in: Journal of Legal Studies, 2008, 37 (s2), S33-S79)
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D3, D63, I3, J1, Y1
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3622
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Daniele
Checchi
Carlo
V.
Fiorio
Marco
Leonardi
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Intergenerational Persistence in Educational Attainment in Italy
In this paper we show that there is a reduction in the correlation coefficient between father and children schooling levels over time in Italy. However, focusing on equality of circumstances, we show ...
(published as 'Intergenerational persistence of educational attainment in Italy' in: Economics Letters, 2013, 118 (1), 229-232)
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J62, I38
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