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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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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
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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
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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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3537
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Paul
Frijters
David
W.
Johnston
Manisha
Shah
Michael A.
Shields
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Early Child Development and Maternal Labor Force Participation: Using Handedness as an Instrument
We estimate the effect of early child development on maternal labor force participation using data from teacher assessments. Mothers might react to having a poorly developing child by dropping out of ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2009, 1(3), 97–110)
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J22, J13, C31
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3536
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Martin
Halla
Friedrich
Schneider
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Taxes and Benefits: Two Distinct Options to Cheat on the State?
While there is an extensive literature on tax evasion a further aspect of cheating on the state, namely benefit fraud, has gained relatively modest attention in the economic literature. This paper ...
(revised version published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 76(3), 411–431)
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H20, H26, H44, A13
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3534
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Aslan
Zorlu
Joop
Hartog
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Employment Assimilation of Immigrants in the Netherlands: Catching Up and the Irrelevance of Education
Using two Dutch labour force surveys, employment assimilation of immigrants is examined. We observe marked differences between immigrants by source country. Non-western immigrants never reach parity ...
(published in: International Journal of Population Research, 2012, Article ID 634276)
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J15, J21, J24
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3533
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Christian
Pfeifer
Tatjana
Sohr
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Analysing the Gender Wage Gap Using Personnel Records of a Large German Company
We use monthly personnel records of a large German company to analyse the gender wage gap (GWG). Main findings are: (1) the unconditional GWG is 15 percent for blue-collar and 26 percent for ...
(published in: Labour, 2009, 23 (2), 257-282)
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J16, J3, J71, M5
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3532
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Richard
Akresh
Ilana
Redstone Akresh
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Using Achievement Tests to Measure Language Assimilation and Language Bias among Immigrant Children
We use Woodcock Johnson III child assessment data in the New Immigrant Survey to examine language assimilation and test score bias among children of Hispanic immigrants. Our identification strategy ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2011, 46(3), 647-667)
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J24, I20, J18, O15, F22
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3531
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Francesca
Francavilla
Gianna
Claudia
Giannelli
Leonardo
Grilli
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School Attendance of Children and the Work of Mothers: A Joint Multilevel Model for India
This paper investigates the determinants of school attendance of children and their mother’s working status when the mother decides how to allocate her time and that of her children. A multilevel ...
(published in: World Development, 2012, 33, 143 - 172)
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J13, J22, O15, O18
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3530
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Fernando
Alexandre
Miguel
Portela
Carla
Sá
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Admission Conditions and Graduates' Employability
We evaluate the information content of admission conditions for study programs’ quality by investigating its relationship with graduates’ employability. We find that study programs with larger numeri ...
(published in: Studies in Higher Education, 2009, 34(7), 795-805)
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C21, I21, J23, J64
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3529
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Giorgio
Brunello
Pierre-Carl
Michaud
Anna
Sanz-de-Galdeano
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The Rise in Obesity across the Atlantic: An Economic Perspective
We provide comparable evidence on the patterns and trends in obesity across the Atlantic and analyse whether there are economic rationales for public intervention to control obesity. We take into ...
(published in: Economic Policy, 2009, 24 (59), 551-596)
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I1, D6
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3526
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Yongil
Jeon
Sang-Young
Rhyu
Michael
P.
Shields
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Fertility in Sub-Saharan African Countries with Consideration to Health and Poverty
Fertility has begun to fall in Sub-Saharan Africa but it remains high on average and particularly for a few countries. This paper examines African fertility using a panel data set of 47 Sub-Saharan ...
(published in: African Development Review, 2010, 22 (4), 540–555)
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J13, O10, O55
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3525
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Marco
Caliendo
Frank
M.
Fossen
Alexander
S.
Kritikos
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The Impact of Risk Attitudes on Entrepreneurial Survival
Risk attitudes have an impact on not only the decision to become an entrepreneur but also the survival and failure rates of entrepreneurs. Whereas recent research underpins the theoretical ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2010, 76 (1), 45-63)
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D81, J23, M13
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3523
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Christian
Pfeifer
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A Note on Risk Aversion and Labour Market Outcomes: Further Evidence from German Survey Data
Using the large-scale German Socio-Economic Panel, this note reports direct empirical evidence for significant correlations between risk aversion and labour market outcomes (full-time employment, ...
(published as "Risk Aversion and Labour Market Outcomes: Evidence from German Survey Data" in: Empirical Economics Letters, 2009, 8(3))
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J01, J24, J64
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3520
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Randall
K. Q.
Akee
William
Copeland
Gordon
Keeler
Adrian
Angold
Jane
E.
Costello
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Parents’ Incomes and Children’s Outcomes: A Quasi-Experiment
Identifying the effect of parental incomes on child outcomes is difficult due to the correlation of unobserved ability, education levels and income. Previous research has relied on the use of ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2010, 2 (1), 86-115)
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J24, O12, H23
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3517
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Mariana
Blanco
Dirk
Engelmann
Alexander
K.
Koch
Hans-Theo
Normann
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Belief Elicitation in Experiments: Is there a Hedging Problem?
Belief elicitation in economics experiments usually relies on paying subjects according to the accuracy of stated beliefs in addition to payments for other decisions. Such incentives, however, allow ...
(published in: Experimental Economics, 2010, 13 (4), 412-438.)
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C72, C90, G11
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3515
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James
J.
Heckman
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Schools, Skills, and Synapses
This paper discusses (a) the role of cognitive and noncognitive ability in shaping adult outcomes, (b) the early emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2008, 46 (3), 289-324)
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A12
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3513
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Wolfgang
Lechthaler
Christian
Merkl
Dennis
J.
Snower
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Monetary Persistence and the Labor Market: A New Perspective
It is common knowledge that the standard New Keynesian model is not able to generate a persistent response in output to temporary monetary shocks. We show that this shortcoming can be remedied in a ...
(substantially revised version published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2010, 34 (5), 968-983)
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E24, E32, E52, J23
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3512
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Giovanni
Facchini
Anna Maria
Mayda
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From Individual Attitudes towards Migrants to Migration Policy Outcomes: Theory and Evidence
In democratic societies individual attitudes of voters represent the foundations of policy making. We start by analyzing patterns in public opinion on migration and find that, across countries of ...
(published in: Economic Policy, No. 56, October 2008, 651 - 713)
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F22, J61
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3511
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Suresh
de Mel
David
McKenzie
Christopher
Woodruff
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Who Are the Microenterprise Owners? Evidence from Sri Lanka on Tokman v. de Soto
Is the vast army of the self-employed in low income countries a source of employment generation? We use data from surveys in Sri Lanka to compare the characteristics of own account workers ...
(published in: Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar (eds.) International Differences in Entrepreneurship, NBER, 2010)
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O17, L26
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3510
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Alison
L.
Booth
Jeff
Frank
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Marriage, Partnership and Sexual Orientation: A Study of British University Academics and Administrators
Using a unique data source on marital status, partnership and sexual orientation of academics and administrators at British universities, we estimate the impact of personal relationships upon ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2008, 6 (4), 409-422)
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J12, J16, J30, J45
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3508
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Gordon
Betcherman
N. Meltem
Daysal
Carmen
Pagés
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Do Employment Subsidies Work? Evidence from Regionally Targeted Subsidies in Turkey
This paper studies the effects on registered employment, earnings, and number of registered establishments of two employment subsidy schemes in Turkey. We implement a difference-in-differences ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 17:4 (August 2010), 710-722)
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H32, J23, J32
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3507
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Stephan
Meier
Charles
Sprenger
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Discounting Financial Literacy: Time Preferences and Participation in Financial Education Programs
Many policy makers and economists argue that financial literacy is key to financial well-being. But why do many individuals remain financially illiterate despite the apparent importance of being ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2013, 95, 159–174)
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D14, D91, C93
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