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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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3610
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Timothy
J.
Halliday
Sally
Kwak
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Weight Gain in Adolescents and Their Peers
Despite the urgent public health implications, relatively little is yet known about the effect of peers on adolescent weight gain. We describe trends and features of adolescent BMI in a nationally ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2010, 7 (2), 246-262)
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I10, I12
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3609
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Stephen
V.
Burks
Jeffrey
P.
Carpenter
Lorenz
Götte
Aldo
Rustichini
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Cognitive Skills Explain Economic Preferences, Strategic Behavior, and Job Attachment
Economic analysis has said little about how an individual’s cognitive skills (CS's) are related to the individual’s preferences in different choice domains, such as risk-taking or saving, and how ...
(revised version published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2009, 106 (19), 7745-7750)
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C81, C93, L92, J63
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3608
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John
T.
Addison
Lutz
Bellmann
André
Pahnke
Paulino
Teixeira
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A Note on the Determinants and Consequences of Outsourcing Using German Data
Using German data from the Institute for Employment Research Establishment Panel, this paper constructs two main measures of outsourcing and examines their determinants and consequences for ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung/Journal of Labor Market Research, 2011, 44(3), 231-244)
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F16, J23
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3607
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Pedro
S.
Martins
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Paying More to Hire the Best? Foreign Firms, Wages and Worker Mobility
In the context of the debate on the labour-market consequences of globalisation, we examine worker mobility in order to identify the wage differences between foreign and domestic firms. Using matched ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2011, 49 (2), 349–363)
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J31, J63, F23
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3605
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Christian
Dustmann
Uta
Schönberg
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The Effect of Expansions in Maternity Leave Coverage on Children's Long-Term Outcomes
This paper evaluates the impact of three major expansions in leave coverage in Germany on the long-run education and labor market outcomes of children. Evaluation of three policy reforms as opposed ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2012, 4, 190-224.)
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J13, H52, J2
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3604
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Paul
Frijters
David
W.
Johnston
Michael A.
Shields
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Happiness Dynamics with Quarterly Life Event Data
This paper addresses the question of when and to what extent individuals are affected by major positive and negative life events, including changes in financial situation, marital status, death of ...
(published as 'Life Satisfaction Dynamics with Quarterly Life Event Data' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2011, 113 (1), 190 - 211)
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I0
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3603
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I. Semih
Akçomak
Bas
ter Weel
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The Impact of Social Capital on Crime: Evidence from the Netherlands
This paper investigates the relation between social capital and crime. The analysis contributes to explaining why crime is so heterogeneous across space. By employing current and historical data for ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2012, 42 (4), 323-340)
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A13, A14, K42, Z13
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3602
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Peter
J.
Kuhn
Carol
McAusland
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Consumers and the Brain Drain: Product Design and the Gains from Emigration
We consider the welfare effects of skilled worker emigration in a context where skilled labor plays a role in product design. We show such emigration can benefit the residents left behind, even when ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2009, 78(2), 287–291)
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F22, J6, O34
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3601
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Viktor
Steiner
Katharina
Wrohlich
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Financial Student Aid and Enrollment into Higher Education: New Evidence from Germany
We estimate the elasticity of enrollment into higher education with respect to the amount of means tested student aid (BAfoeG) provided by the federal government using the German Socioeconomic Panel ...
(revised version published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114(1), 124–147)
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H52, H24, I28
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3599
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Massimiliano
Bratti
Daniele
Checchi
Antonio
Filippin
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Should You Compete or Cooperate with Your Schoolmates?
Building upon some education studies finding that cooperative behaviour in class yields better achievements among students, this paper presents a simple model showing that free riding incentives lead ...
(revised version published in: Education Economics, 2011, 19 (3), 275-289)
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I21, J24
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3597
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John
T.
Addison
McKinley
L.
Blackburn
Chad
Cotti
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New Estimates of the Effects of Minimum Wages in the U.S. Retail Trade Sector
This paper examines the impact of minimum wages on earnings and employment in selected branches of the retail-trade sector, 1990-2005, using county-level data on employment and a panel regression ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (4), 397-408)
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J23, J38
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3596
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Paul
W.
Miller
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Citizenship in the United States: The Roles of Immigrant Characteristics and Country of Origin
This study develops and estimates a model of the naturalization process in the US. The model is based on both the characteristics of immigrants and features of their countries of origin. The ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 29, 2009, 91 - 130)
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I38, J15, J38, F22
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3595
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Anzelika
Zaiceva
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Scale, Diversity, and Determinants of Labour Migration in Europe
While global migration is increasing, internal EU migration flows have only increased slowly. This paper contributes to a better understanding of the determinants and scale of European migration. It ...
(revised version published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2008, 24 (3), 428-452)
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F22, J15, J61
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3594
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Lina
Song
Simon
Appleton
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Social Protection and Migration in China: What Can Protect Migrants from Economic Uncertainty?
Job-related welfare entitlements are common in China. Migrants who do not hold urban registration are, in principle, not entitled to job-related welfare even if they are employees in the State ...
(published in: Ingrid Nielsen and Russell, Smyth (eds.) Migration and Social Protection in China, World Scientific Publishing, 2008)
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H41, H42, D63
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3593
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Ingo
Geishecker
Holger
Görg
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Services Offshoring and Wages: Evidence from Micro Data
This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2013, 65 (1), 124-146)
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F16, J31, C23
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3591
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Ira
N.
Gang
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Ethnicity, Assimilation and Harassment in the Labor Market
We often observe minority ethnic groups at a disadvantage relative to the majority. Why is this and what can be done about it? Efforts made to assimilate, and time, are two elements working to bring ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 29, 2009, 67-88)
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D74, F23, I20, J61, L14
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3590
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Dan
Anderberg
Arnaud
Chevalier
Jonathan
Wadsworth
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Anatomy of a Health Scare: Education, Income and the MMR Controversy in the UK
One theory for why there is a strong education gradient in health outcomes is that more educated individuals more quickly absorb new information about health technology. The MMR controversy in the UK ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (3), 515-530)
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H31, I38, J12
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3589
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Tomislav
Kovandzic
Mark
E
Schaffer
Gary
Kleck
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Estimating the Causal Effect of Gun Prevalence on Homicide Rates: A Local Average Treatment Effect Approach
This paper uses a “local average treatment effect” (LATE) framework in an attempt to disentangle the separate effects of criminal and noncriminal gun prevalence on violence rates. We first show that ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 2013, 29(4), 477-541)
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K42, C51, C52
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3588
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Hua
Shen
Adrian
Ziderman
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Student Loans Repayment and Recovery: International Comparisons
Student loans schemes are in operation in more than seventy countries around the world. Most loans schemes benefit from sizeable built-in government subsidies and, in addition, are subject to ...
(published in: Higher Education, 2009, 57, 315-333)
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I22, H52
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3585
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Ira
N.
Gang
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Good Governance and Good Aid Allocation
We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for receiving aid. Potential recipients must compete for the aid funds. The ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2009, 89(1), 12-18)
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O10, O19, F35, O11, C23, O47, E21, E22
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3584
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Francesco
Farina
Niall
O'Higgins
Patrizia
Sbriglia
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Eliciting Motives for Trust and Reciprocity by Attitudinal and Behavioural Measures
Value Surveys may reveal well-behaved societies by the statistical treatment of the agents’ declarations of compliance with social values. Similarly, the results of experiments conducted on games ...
(revised version published as "Suit the action to the word, the word to the action" in: Research in Economics, 2009, 63 (4), 253-265)
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C72, C91, D63, D64
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3583
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Amanda
H.
Goodall
Lawrence
M.
Kahn
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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Why Do Leaders Matter? The Role of Expert Knowledge
Why do some leaders succeed while others fail? This question is important, but its complexity makes it hard to study systematically. We examine an industry in which there are well-defined objectives, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2011, 77(3), 265-284)
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J24, M51
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3580
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Lorenz
Götte
Alois
Stutzer
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Blood Donations and Incentives: Evidence from a Field Experiment
There is a longstanding concern that material incentives might undermine prosocial motivation, leading to a decrease in blood donations rather than an increase. This paper provides an empirical test ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020, 170, 52-74)
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C93, D64, H41, I18
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3579
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Ana
Iturriza
Arjun
S.
Bedi
Robert
Sparrow
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Unemployment Assistance and Transition to Employment in Argentina
In 2001-02, Argentina experienced a wrenching economic crisis. Plan Jefes, implemented in May 2002, was Argentina’s institutional response to the increase in unemployment and poverty triggered by the ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2011, 59 (4), 811-837)
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J64, J65
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3578
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Philip
Oreopoulos
Till
von
Wachter
Andrew
Heisz
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The Short- and Long-Term Career Effects of Graduating in a Recession: Hysteresis and Heterogeneity in the Market for College Graduates
This paper analyzes the long-term effects of graduating in a recession on earnings, job mobility, and employer characteristics for a large sample of Canadian college graduates using matched ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2012, 4 (1), 1-29)
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J62, J64, J31
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3577
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Francesco
Drago
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Self-Esteem and Earnings
Recent research in economics suggests a positive association between self-esteem and earnings. A major problem in this literature is that from simple cross-sectional wage regressions it is not ...
(substantially revised version published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2011, 32 (3), 480-488)
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J13, J30
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3576
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Belton
M.
Fleisher
Haizheng
Li
Min Qiang
Zhao
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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Regional Inequality in China
We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth patterns can be understood as a function of several interrelated factors, which ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 92(2), 215-231)
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O15, O18, O47, O53
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3574
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José Alberto
Molina
Víctor
M.
Montuenga
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The Motherhood Wage Penalty in a Mediterranean Country: The Case of Spain
We present evidence for the motherhood wage penalty in Spain as a representative Southern European Mediterranean country. We use the European Community Household Panel (ECHP, 1994-2001) to estimate, ...
(published as 'The Motherhood Wage Penalty in Spain' in: Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2009, 30 (3), 237-251)
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J30, D10, C23
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3573
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Eva
Sierminska
Joachim
R.
Frick
Markus
M.
Grabka
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Examining the Gender Wealth Gap in Germany
Welfare-oriented analyses of economic outcome measures such as income and wealth generally rest on the assumption of pooled and equally shared resources among all household members. Yet the lack of ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2010, 62 (4), 669-690)
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D13, D31, D69, I31
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3572
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M. Daniele
Paserman
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Do High-Skill Immigrants Raise Productivity? Evidence from Israeli Manufacturing Firms, 1990-1999
During the second part of the 1990s, the Israeli economy experienced a surge in labor productivity and total factor productivity, which was driven primarily by the manufacturing sector. This surge in ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2013, 2:6)
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J61, F22, D24
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3571
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Bertrand
Candelon
Arnaud
Dupuy
Luis
A.
Gil-Alana
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The Nature of Occupational Unemployment Rates in the United States: Hysteresis or Structural?
This paper provides new evidence on the nature of occupational differences in unemployment dynamics, which is relevant for the debate between the structural or hysteresis hypotheses. We develop a ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2009, 41, 2483-93)
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E24, C22, J62
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3570
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Peter
Fredriksson
Martin
Söderström
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Do Unemployment Benefits Increase Unemployment? New Evidence on an Old Question
We examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and unemployment using Swedish regional data. To estimate the effect of an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) on unemployment we exploit ...
(published as 'The Equilibrium Impact of Unemployment Insurance on Unemployment: Evidence from a Non-linear Policy Rule' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 187, 104199)
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J64, J65
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3568
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
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The Economics of Language: An Introduction and Overview
This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of ...
(Julian Simon Lecture IV, IZA, 2008 and published in: Terrance Wiley, Jin Sook Lee and Russell Rumberger (eds.),The Education of Language Minority Immigrants in the United States, Bristol, 2009, 72-91)
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J15, J24, J31, J61
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3567
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Adama
Konseiga
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Family Migration: A Vehicle of Child Morbidity in the Informal Settlements of Nairobi City, Kenya?
Parental migration is often found to be negatively correlated with child health in Africa, yet the causal mechanisms are poorly understood. The paper uses a dataset that provides information from the ...
(published in: A. de Sherbinin, Rahman, A. Barbieri, J.C. Fotso, Y. Zhu (eds.), Urban Population-Development-Environment Dynamics in the Developing World: Case Studies and Lessons Learned. Paris: CICRED 2009)
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C31, D13, I12, R23
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3566
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Erkki
Koskela
Ronnie
Schöb
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Outsourcing of Unionized Firms and the Impact of Labor Market Policy Reforms
This paper shows that outsourcing of parts of workforce in unionized firms leads to wage moderation both in the case of strategic and flexible outsourcing and as long as the share of the outsourced ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2010, 18 (4), 682–695)
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J41, J51, H22
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3565
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James
J.
Heckman
Sergio
Urzua
Edward
Vytlacil
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Instrumental Variables in Models with Multiple Outcomes: The General Unordered Case
This paper develops the method of local instrumental variables for models with multiple, unordered treatments when treatment choice is determined by a nonparametric version of the multinomial choice ...
(published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2008, 91-92, 9-74)
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C31
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3564
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Guillermina
Jasso
Mark
R.
Rosenzweig
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Selection Criteria and the Skill Composition of Immigrants: A Comparative Analysis of Australian and U.S. Employment Immigration
This paper uses survey data on employment immigrants in Australia and the United States to identify the main determinants of the size and skill composition of employment immigrants to developed ...
(published in: Jagdish Bhagwati and Gordon H. Hanson (eds.), Skilled Migration Today: Phenomenon, Prospects, Problems, Policies. New York: Oxford, 2009)
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F22, J31, J61, J68, O15
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3563
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Paul
W.
Miller
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The "Negative" Assimilation of Immigrants: A Special Case
Research on the economic or labor market assimilation of immigrants has to date focused on the degree of improvement in their economic status with duration in the destination. This pattern has been ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2011, 64 (3), 502-525)
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J61, J31, F22
|
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3562
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Juan
D.
Barón
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
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Occupational Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap in Private- and Public-Sector Employment: A Distributional Analysis
We use HILDA data from 2001 - 2006 to analyse the source of the gender wage gap across public- and private-sector wage distributions in Australia. We are particularly interested in the role of gender ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2010, 86 (273), 227 - 246)
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J31, J70, J24
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3561
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Torbjørn
Haegeland
Oddbjørn
Raaum
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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Pennies from Heaven? Using Exogeneous Tax Variation to Identify Effects of School Resources on Pupil Achievements
Despite important policy implications associated with the allocation of education resources, evidence on the effectiveness of school inputs remains inconclusive. In part, this is due to endogenous ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31 (5), 601-614)
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I21, I28, J00
|
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3560
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Martin
Kahanec
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality
Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative ...
(substantially revised version published as 'How Skilled Immigration May Improve Economic Equality' in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2014, 3:2. )
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D33, E25, F22, J15, J61, O15
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3559
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Michael
Lechner
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Long-Run Labour Market Effects of Individual Sports Activities
This microeconometric study analyzes the effects of individual leisure sports participation on long-term labour market variables, on socio-demographic as well as on health and subjective well-being ...
(published as 'Long-run labour market and health effects of individual sports activities' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2009, 28 (4), 839 - 854)
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I12, I18, J24, L83, C21
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3558
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Ralitza
Dimova
Christophe
Jalil
Nordman
François
Roubaud
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Allocation of Labour in Urban West Africa: Implication for Development Policies
With the use of comparable data from seven West African capitals, we attempt to assess the rationale behind development policies targeting high rates of school enrolment through the prism of ...
(published as 'Allocation of Labor in Urban West Africa: Insights from the Pattern of Labor Supply and Skill Premiums' in: Review of Development Economics, 2010, 14 (1), 75 - 92)
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J24, J31, O12
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3557
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Tim
Callan
Timothy
M.
Smeeding
Panos
Tsakloglou
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Short-Run Distributional Effects of Public Education Transfers to Tertiary Education Students in Seven European Countries
Direct provision of public services can alter the balance of resources across income groups. We focus on the issues arising when taking account of the impact of publicly provided education services ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2008, 16 (3), 275-288)
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I28, D31, H42
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3556
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Murat
Iyigun
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Lessons from the Ottoman Harem (On Ethnicity, Religion and War)
The Ottoman Empire had a profound impact in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa at the apogee of its power, covering the era between 1453 C. E. and 1699 C. E. In this paper, I exploit the ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2013, 61 (4), 693-730)
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C72, D74, N33, N43, O10
|
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3555
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Andrea
Bassanini
Luca
Nunziata
Danielle
Venn
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Job Protection Legislation and Productivity Growth in OECD Countries
This paper examines the impact of employment protection legislation on productivity in the OECD, using annual cross-country aggregate data on the degree of regulations and industry-level data on ...
(revised version published in: Economic Policy, 2009, 24 (58), 349-402)
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J08, J23, J24
|
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3554
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Kendra
N.
McLeish
Robert
J.
Oxoby
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Social Interactions and the Salience of Social Identity
In this paper, we explore the effect of identity salience on behavior in a simple social interaction. Specifically, we compare behavior in a ultimatum game across three treatments: priming subjects ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2011, 32 (1), 172-178)
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C92, D64, M52
|
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3553
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Sara
de la Rica
Juan
J.
Dolado
Cecilia
García-Peñalosa
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On Gender Gaps and Self-fulfilling Expectations: Theory, Policies and Some Empirical Evidence
This paper considers a simple model of self-fulfilling expectations that leads to a multiple equilibrium of gender gaps in wages and participation rates. Rather than resorting to moral hazard ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2012, 51 (3), 1829-1848)
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J16, J18, J12, J22
|
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3552
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Brian
Duncan
Stephen
J.
Trejo
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Ancestry versus Ethnicity: The Complexity and Selectivity of Mexican Identification in the United States
Using microdata from the 2000 U.S. Census, we analyze the responses of Mexican Americans to questions that independently elicit their “ethnicity” (or Hispanic origin) and their “ancestry.” We ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 29, 2009, 31-66)
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J15, J12, J62
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3551
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Louis
N.
Christofides
Robert
Swidinsky
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The Economic Returns to a Second Official Language: English in Quebec and French in the Rest-of-Canada
Canada is a country with two official languages, French and English. The need for both languages in Quebec and the Rest-of-Canada (ROC) generates a demand for bilingualism and investment in the ...
(published as "The Economic Returns to the Knowledge and Use of a Second Official Language: English in Quebec and French in the Rest-of-Canada" in: Canadian Public Policy, 2010, 36(2), 137-158)
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J01, J24, J31
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