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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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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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3506
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Delia
Furtado
Heinrich
Hock
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Immigrant Labor, Child-Care Services, and the Work-Fertility Trade-Off in the United States
The negative correlation between female employment and fertility in industrialized nations has weakened since the 1960s, particularly in the United States. We suggest that the continuing influx of ...
(revised version published as "Low Skilled Immigration and Work-Fertility Tradeoffs Among High Skilled US Natives" in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (2), 224-228)
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D10, F22, J13, J22, R23
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3505
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Stefan
Denzler
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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Self-Selection into Teaching: The Role of Teacher Education Institutions
Good teachers are critical for a high-quality educational system. This in turns leads to the question of who is interested in going into the teaching profession. Although research has been done on ...
(published in: Cambridge Journal of Education, 2009, 39(4), 423-441)
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I2, I28, J24
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3504
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Raymond
Montizaan
Frank
Cörvers
Andries
de Grip
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Training Background and Early Retirement
Several studies show that employees with firm-specific skills are more likely to be covered by employer-sponsored pension schemes than workers with general skills. Therefore it can be expected that ...
(published as 'Training and retirement patterns' in: Applied Economics, 2013, 45 (15), 1991-1999)
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J14, J26, J31
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3503
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Christian
Pfeifer
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Risk Aversion and Sorting into Public Sector Employment
This research note uses two German data sets – the large-scale German Socio-Economic Panel and unique data from own student questionnaires – to analyse the relationship between risk aversion and the ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2011, 12 (1), 85 - 99)
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J24, J31, J45
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3502
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Riccardo
Rovelli
Randolph
Luca
Bruno
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Labor Market Policies, Institutions and Employment Rates in the EU-27
We compare labor market policies, institutions and outcomes for the EU member states, for the period 2000-2005. We document the main differences in Labor Market Policies across EU members, including ...
(published in: Journal of Common Market Studies, 2010, 48 (3), 661-685)
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J08, J38, J68
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3500
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Johannes
Abeler
Felix
Marklein
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Fungibility, Labels, and Consumption
Fungibility of money is a central principle in economics. It implies that any unit of money is substitutable for another and that the composition of income is irrelevant for consumption. We find in a ...
(substantially revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2017, 15 (1), 99-127)
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C91, C93, D01, H31, I38
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3499
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Pia
M.
Orrenius
Madeline
Zavodny
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The Effect of Minimum Wages on Immigrants’ Employment and Earnings
This study examines how minimum wage laws affect the employment and earnings of low-skilled immigrants and natives in the U.S. Minimum wage increases might have larger effects among low-skilled ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2008, 61 (4), 544-563)
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J23, J38, J15
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3498
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Amihai
Glazer
Vesa
Kanniainen
Panu
Poutvaara
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Firms' Ethics, Consumer Boycotts, and Signalling
This paper develops a theory of consumer boycotts. Some consumers care not only about the products they buy but also about whether the firm behaves ethically. Other consumers do not care about the ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2010, 26 (3), 340-350)
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M14, D43
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3497
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Randolph
Luca
Bruno
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Rule of Law, Institutional Quality and Information
The focus of this paper is the analysis of the persistent lawlessness attitude observed in some transition and developing countries where an overall increase in the quality of institutions is ...
(substantially revised and rewritten version published as 'Tax enforcement, tax compliance and tax morale in transition economies: A theoretical model' in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 56, 193 - 211)
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D81, C72, K42
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3496
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Lixin
Cai
Kostas
Mavromaras
Umut
Oguzoglu
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The Effects of Health and Health Shocks on Hours Worked
We investigate the impact of health on working hours in recognition of the fact that leaving the labour market due to persistently low levels of health stock or due to new health shocks, is only one ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2014, 23(5), 516-528)
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J22, I10, C33
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3495
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James
J.
Heckman
John
Eric
Humphries
Paul
A.
LaFontaine
Pedro
L.
Rodríguez
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Taking the Easy Way Out: How the GED Testing Program Induces Students to Drop Out
The option to obtain a General Education Development (GED) certificate changes the incentives facing high school students. This paper evaluates the effect of three different GED policy innovations on ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2012, 30 (3), 495-520)
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C61
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3494
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Alan
Barrett
Yvonne
McCarthy
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Immigrants and Welfare Programmes: Exploring the Interactions between Immigrant Characteristics, Immigrant Welfare Dependence and Welfare Policy
The primary purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the papers within the economics literature that have examined the questions of immigrant welfare use and the responsiveness of immigrants ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2008, 24 (3), 543-560)
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I38, J61
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3493
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Benedikt
Halfdanarson
Daniel
F.
Heuermann
Jens
Suedekum
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Human Capital Externalities and the Urban Wage Premium: Two Literatures and their Interrelations
In this paper we survey the recent developments in two empirical literatures at the crossroads of labor and urban economics: Studies about localized human capital externalities (HCE) and about the ...
(published in: Urban Studies, 2010, 47 (4), 749-767)
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J31, J61, R23, R12
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3492
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Anna
Fräßdorf
Markus
M.
Grabka
Johannes
Schwarze
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The Impact of Household Capital Income on Income Inequality: A Factor Decomposition Analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA
This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro-data from the Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) for three prominent panel ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, 9 (1), 35 - 56)
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D33, I31, F00
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3490
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Alan
B.
Krueger
Andreas
I.
Mueller
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The Lot of the Unemployed: A Time Use Perspective
This paper provides new evidence on time use and subjective well-being of employed and unemployed individuals in 14 countries. We devote particular attention to characterizing and modeling job search ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10 (4), 765–794)
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J64, J65
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3489
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Stephane
Mahuteau
Pramod
N. (Raja)
Junankar
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Do Migrants Get Good Jobs in Australia? The Role of Ethnic Networks in Job Search
We study the role of ethnic networks in migrants’ job search and the quality of jobs they find in the first years of settlement. We find that there are initial downward movements along the ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2008, 84, S115-130)
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J61, J68, C25
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3486
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Sara
de la Rica
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Does Immigration Raise Natives' Income? National and Regional Evidence from Spain
How immigration affects the labor market of the host country is a topic of major concern for many immigrant-receiving nations. Spain is no exception following the rapid increase in immigrant flows ...
(published as 'The Immigration Surplus and the Substitutability of Immigrant and Native Labor: Evidence from Spain', in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 44(2), 945-958)
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J61, F22
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3485
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Jeremy
Greenwood
Nezih
Guner
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Social Change
A society is characterized by the common attitudes and behavior of its members. Such behavior reflects purposive decision making by individuals, given the environment they live in. Thus, as ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2010, 51(4), 893-923)
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E1, J1, O3
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3484
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Irena
Grosfeld
Claudia
Senik
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The Emerging Aversion to Inequality: Evidence from Poland 1992–2005
This paper provides an illustration of the changing tolerance for inequality in a context of radical political and economic transformation and rapid economic growth. We focus on the Polish transition ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2010, 18 (1), 1–26)
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C25, D31, I30, P20, P26
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3482
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Peter
Herrmann
Arno
Tausch
Almas
Heshmati
Chemen
S. J.
Bajalan
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Efficiency and Effectiveness of Social Spending
In this qualitative sociological and quantitative economic policy paper, we start out from the assumption of a very recent European Commission Background paper on the “Efficiency and effectiveness of ...
(published in: Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, 2009, 35(1), 13-43)
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C43, C21, F15, R11, F2, F5
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3481
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Jörg
Oechssler
Andreas
Roider
Patrick
W.
Schmitz
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Cognitive Abilities and Behavioral Biases
We use a simple, three-item test for cognitive abilities to investigate whether established behavioral biases that play a prominent role in behavioral economics and finance are related to cognitive ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 72 (1), 147-152)
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C91, D80, D90, J24
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3479
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Alan
Barrett
Seamus
McGuinness
Martin
O`Brien
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The Immigrant Earnings Disadvantage across the Earnings and Skills Distributions: The Case of Immigrants from the EU’s New Member States in Ireland
As the movement of population from the New Member States (NMS) of the EU to the older members is a relatively new flow, it is important to build up our knowledge of who is moving within Europe and ...
(revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2012, 50 (3), 457-481)
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J31, J61
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3478
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Patrick
A.
Puhani
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The Treatment Effect, the Cross Difference, and the Interaction Term in Nonlinear “Difference-in-Differences” Models
I demonstrate that Ai and Norton’s (2003) point about cross differences is not relevant for the estimation of the treatment effect in nonlinear “difference-in-differences” models such as probit, ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 115 (1), 85-87)
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C21, C25, H0, I0, J0
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3476
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Nathalie
Colombier
David
Masclet
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Never the Same After the First Time: The Satisfaction of the Second-Generation Self-Employed
Previous empirical work has shown that the self-employed are generally more satisfied than salaried workers. This paper contributes to the existing literature in two ways. First, using French data ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2008, 29 (7), 591-609)
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J20, J21, J23, J24
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3475
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Eswar
Prasad
Raghuram
G.
Rajan
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A Pragmatic Approach to Capital Account Liberalization
Cross-country regressions suggest little connection from foreign capital inflows to more rapid economic growth for developing countries and emerging markets. This suggests that the lack of domestic ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2008, 22 (3), 149-172)
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F2, F3, F4
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3474
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Edwin
Leuven
Hessel
Oosterbeek
Marte
Rønning
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Quasi-Experimental Estimates of the Effect of Class Size on Achievement in Norway
Using a comprehensive administrative database we exploit independent quasi-experimental methods to estimate the effect of class size on student achievement in Norway. The first method is based on a ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 110 (4), 663-693)
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I2
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3473
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Juan
D.
Barón
Robert
Breunig
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Tue
Gorgens
Anastasia
Sartbayeva
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Does the Effect of Incentive Payments on Survey Response Rates Differ by Income Support History?
This paper asks which sub-groups of the population are affected by the payment of a small cash incentive to respond to a telephone survey. We find that an incentive improves response rates primarily ...
(published in: Journal of Official Statistics, 2009, 25(4), 483-507)
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C89, I39
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3468
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Javier
E.
Baez
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Civil Wars beyond their Borders: The Human Capital and Health Consequences of Hosting Refugees
Between 1993 and 1994, extremist militia groups carried out the extermination of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the genocides of Burundi and Rwanda. Nearly one million people were killed and ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2011, 2011, 96 (2), 391 - 408)
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O10, O12, O15
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3466
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Ali
T.
Akarca
Aysit
Tansel
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Impact of the 1999 Earthquakes on the Outcome of the 2002 Parliamentary Election in Turkey
The two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999, not only caused enormous amounts of death, destruction and suffering, but also exposed rampant government corruption involving ...
(published in: Institutions and Economic Development: Selected Papers from the ERF 14th Annual Conference, Economic Research Forum, Cairo, Egypt, 2008, 147-164)
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D72, D73, Q54
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3465
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Regina
Dionisius
Samuel
Mühlemann
Harald
Pfeifer
Günter
Walden
Felix
Wenzelmann
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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Cost and Benefit of Apprenticeship Training: A Comparison of Germany and Switzerland
For the first time it has been made possible to merge a German and a Swiss firm-level data set that include detailed information about costs and benefits of apprenticeship training. Previous analyses ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2009, 55(1), 7-36)
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J24, J31, J44
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