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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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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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3550
|
John
Bennett
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Formality, Informality, and Social Welfare
An industry is modeled in which entrepreneurs, who are heterogeneous in ability, may produce formally or informally. It is shown how the formal-informal mix depends on the distribution of ability, ...
(published as 'Informal Production and Labour Market Segmentation' in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2011, 167 (4), 686-707)
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O17, D2
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3549
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Sandra
Sookram
Eric
Strobl
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The Role of Educational Choice in Occupational Gender Segregation: Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago
We analyse the role of educational choice on the degree of occupational segregation in Trinidad and Tobago during a period in which educational policies intent on equating gender opportunities in ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2009, 28 (1), 1-10)
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I21, J16, J24
|
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3548
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Keith
Chen
Fabian
Lange
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Education, Information, and Improved Health: Evidence from Breast Cancer Screening
While it is well known that education strongly predicts health, less is known as to why. One reason might be that education improves health-care decision making. In this paper we attempt to ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (1), 43-54)
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I10, I12, I20, D83
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3547
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Brian
Duncan
Stephen
J.
Trejo
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Intermarriage and the Intergenerational Transmission of Ethnic Identity and Human Capital for Mexican Americans
Using microdata from the 2000 U.S. Census and from recent years of the Current Population Survey (CPS), we investigate whether selective intermarriage and endogenous ethnic identification interact to ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2011, 29 (2), 195-227)
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J15, J62, J12
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3546
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Maria
Concetta
Chiuri
Daniela
Del Boca
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Household Membership Decisions of Adult Children
While several social, economic and financial indicators point to a growing convergence among European countries, striking differences still emerge in the timing of leaving home for adult children. In ...
(published in: Labour, 2010, 24 (s1), 3-24)
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J13, C41, H53
|
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3543
|
Michael
Svarer
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Crime and Partnerships
This paper tests whether being convicted of a crime affects marriage market outcomes. While it is relatively well documented that crime hurts in terms of reduced future income, there has been little ...
(reduced version published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (3), 307 - 325)
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J12
|
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3541
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Evelyn
L.
Lehrer
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The Role of Religion in Economic and Demographic Behavior in the United States: A Review of the Recent Literature
This paper presents a critical review and synthesis of recent research on the role of religion in economic and demographic behavior in the United States. Relationships reviewed include the effects of ...
(published in: Evelyn Lehrer: Religion, Economics, and Demography, London: Routledge, 2009)
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J1, J2
|
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3540
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Bernd
Fitzenberger
Olga
Orlyanskaya
Aderonke
Osikominu
Marie
Waller
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Déjà Vu? Short-Term Training in Germany 1980–1992 and 2000–2003
Short-term training has recently become the largest active labor market program in Germany regarding the number of participants. Little is known on the effectiveness of different types of short-term ...
(revised version published in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 44(1), 289-328)
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C14, J68, H43
|
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3539
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Javier
Díaz-Giménez
Eugenio
Giolito
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Gender Differences and the Timing of First Marriages
We study the steady state of an overlapping generations economy where singles search for spouses. In our model economy men and women live for many years and they differ in their fecundity, in their ...
(revised version published as 'Accounting for the Timing of First Marriage' in: International Economic Review, 2013, 54 (1), 135–158)
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J12, D83
|
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3538
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María
Cervini-Plá
Xavier
Ramos
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Long Term Earnings Inequality, Earnings Instability and Temporary Employment in Spain: 1993–2000
This paper provides a longitudinal perspective on changes in Spanish male earnings inequality for the period 1993-2000, by decomposing the earnings covariance structure into its permanent and ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2011, 50 (4), 714-736)
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C23, D31, J31
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