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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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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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3463
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Timothy
J.
Halliday
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Heterogeneity, State Dependence and Health
We investigate the evolution of health over the life-cycle. We allow for two sources of persistence: unobserved heterogeneity and state dependence. Estimation indicates that there is a large degree ...
(published in: Econometrics Journal, 2008, 11(3), 499-516)
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I1, C5
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3462
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Santiago
Budría
Pedro
T.
Pereira
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The Contribution of Vocational Training to Employment, Job-Related Skills and Productivity: Evidence from Madeira Island
In this paper, we analyze the transition to the labour market of participants in vocational training in Madeira Island. In a first stage, we investigate how the employment status at different dates ...
(published in: International Journal of Training and Development, 2009, 13(1), 53-72)
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C35, I21, J64
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3461
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Hakan
Berument
Nukhet
Dogan
Aysit
Tansel
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Macroeconomic Policy and Unemployment by Economic Activity: Evidence from Turkey
This paper investigates how macroeconomic policy shocks in Turkey affect the total unemployment and provides evidence on the differential responses of the unemployment by sectors of economic ...
(published in: Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2009, 45(3), 21-34)
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E60, E24
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3460
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Guillermina
Jasso
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Shall We Kill or Enslave Caesar? Analyzing the Caesar Model
When a society overthrows a ruler – call the ruler Caesar – what determines whether Caesar is killed or enslaved? This paper presents a model of killing versus enslaving Caesar, based on a new theory ...
(published in: Advances in Group Processes, 2008, 25, 327-343)
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D6, I3, N40
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3459
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Simon
Appleton
Lina
Song
Qingjie
Xia
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Growing out of Poverty: Trends and Patterns of Urban Poverty in China 1988–2002
This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty ...
(published in: World Development, 2010, 38 (5), 665-678)
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O15, J38, O38
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3458
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Timothy
J.
Halliday
Michael
C.
Kimmitt
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Selective Migration and Health
Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we investigate the impact of health on domestic migration within the United States. We find that, for men below 60 years of age, a move from the ...
(published as: 'Selective Migration and Health in the USA, 1984 - 93' in: Population Studies, 2007, 61 (3), 321 - 334)
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J61
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3457
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Francesco
Pastore
Alina
Verashchagina
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The Determinants of Female Labour Supply in Belarus
Unlike in many other transition countries, where the gender pay gap has remained stable while female employment rates have reduced, in the case of Belarus women’ activity rate has been practically ...
(published in: Ravi Kanbur and Jan Svejnar (eds.), Labour Markets and Economic Development, London: Routledge, 2009)
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J13, J16, J22, P20, P52
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3456
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Milan
Vodopivec
Nisha
Arunatilake
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The Impact of Population Aging on the Labor Market: The Case of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka’s population is predicted to age very fast during the next 50 years, bringing a slowdown of labor force growth and after 2030 its contraction. Based on an original, 2006 representative ...
(published in: Journal of Population Ageing, 2011, 4 (3), 141-163)
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J11, J14, J26
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3455
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Hans
Bloemen
Elena
G. F.
Stancanelli
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Modelling the Employment and Wage Outcomes of Spouses: Is She Outearning Him?
This paper is focused on couple households where the wife is the main earner. The economic literature on this subject is particularly scant. According to our estimates, the wife was the main earner ...
(published as 'Toyboys or supergirls? An analysis of earnings and employment outcomes of spouses' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2015, 13 (3), 501-530)
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D1, J12, J21
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3454
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Simon
Appleton
John
Knight
Lina
Song
Qingjie
Xia
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The Economics of Communist Party Membership: The Curious Case of Rising Numbers and Wage Premium during China’s Transition
Why is it that, as the Chinese Communist Party has loosened its grip, abandoned its core beliefs, and marketized the economy, its membership has risen markedly along with the economic benefits of ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2009, 45, (2), 256-275)
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J31, J40, J71, P20, P30
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3453
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Ira
N.
Gang
Kunal
Sen
Myeong-Su
Yun
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Was the Mandal Commission Right? Living Standard Differences between Backward Classes and Other Social Groups in India
Affirmative action has been at the heart of public policies towards the socially disadvantaged in India. Compensatory discrimination policies which have been adopted for the Scheduled Castes (SC) and ...
(published in: Economic and Political Weekly, 2011, 46(39), 43-51)
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I32, O12, J15
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3452
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Sandra
E.
Black
Paul
J.
Devereux
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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Too Young to Leave the Nest? The Effects of School Starting Age
Does it matter when a child starts school? While the popular press seems to suggest it does, there is limited evidence of a long-run effect of school starting age on student outcomes. This paper uses ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93 (2), 455-467.)
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J1
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3451
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Wolfram
F.
Richter
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Efficient Tax Policy Ranks Education Higher Than Saving
Assuming a two-period model with endogenous choices of labour, education, and saving, it is shown to be second-best efficient not to distort the choice of education. In general this implies ...
(revised version based on DP 2328 and DP 3451 published as "Taxing education in Ramsey's tradition" in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (11-12), 1254-1260)
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H21, I28, J24
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3450
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Martin
Kahanec
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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International Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Inequality
While the allocative efficiency of mobility is typically considered to be positive but small in the long run, the induced changes in equality may be considerable in size. In practice, however, ...
(substantially revised version published in: Oxford Handbook on Economic Inequality, Oxford University Press, Oxford et al., 2009, 455 - 490)
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D33, D63, E25, F22, F24, J15, J61, O15
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3449
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Liangrong
Zu
Lina
Song
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Determinants of Managerial Values on Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from China
This paper empirically investigates how Chinese executives and managers perceive and interpret corporate social responsibility (CSR), to what extent firms’ productive characteristics influence ...
(published in: Journal of Business Ethics, 2008, 88, (1), 105-117)
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M14, M21
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3448
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Delia
Furtado
Nikolaos
Theodoropoulos
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Interethnic Marriage: A Choice between Ethnic and Educational Similarities
This paper examines the effects of education on intermarriage, and specifically whether the mechanisms through which education affects intermarriage differ by immigrant generation, age at arrival, ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (4), 1257-1279)
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J12, I21, J61
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3447
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Bruno
Chiarini
Elisabetta
Marzano
Friedrich
Schneider
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Tax Rates and Tax Evasion: An Empirical Analysis of the Structural Aspects and Long-Run Characteristics in Italy
By using official time series of the Italian evaded VAT base (Ministry of Finance) for the period 1980-2004 we investigate empirically the long-run characteristics of tax evasion and the relationship ...
(revised version published as 'Tax Rate and Tax Evasion: An Empirical Analysis of the Long-run Aspects in Italy', in: European Journal of Law and Economics, 35(2) 2013, 273-293)
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H30, H26, O17, C32
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3446
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Núria
Quella
Silvio
Rendon
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Occupational Selection in Multilingual Labor Markets
In multilingual labor markets agents with high proficiency in more than one language may be selected into occupations that require high levels of skill in communicating with customers or writing ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2012, 33 (8), 918-937)
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J24, J61
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3445
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Nauro
F.
Campos
Renata
Leite Barbosa
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Paintings and Numbers: An Econometric Investigation of Sales Rates, Prices and Returns in Latin American Art Auctions
This paper uses a unique data set of Latin American paintings auctioned by Sotheby's between 1995 and 2002 to investigate several puzzles from the recent auctions literature. Our results suggest ...
(revised version published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2009, 61 (1), 28–51)
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D44, G11, L12, Z10
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3444
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Lorenzo
Cappellari
Claudio
Lucifora
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The "Bologna Process" and College Enrolment Decisions
We use survey data on cohorts of high school graduates observed before and after the Italian reform of tertiary education implementing the ‘Bologna process’ to estimate the impact of the reform on ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (6), 638-647)
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I23, I28, J24
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3443
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Lina
Song
Simon
Appleton
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Life Satisfaction in Urban China: Components and Determinants
Survey data from urban China in 2002 show levels of life satisfaction to be low, but not exceptionally so, by international comparison. Many of the determinants of life satisfaction in urban China ...
(published in: World Development, 2008, 36 (11), 2325-2340)
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I31, I38, J18, D63
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3442
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M. Ayhan
Kose
Christopher
Otrok
Eswar
Prasad
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Global Business Cycles: Convergence or Decoupling?
This paper analyzes the evolution of the degree of global cyclical interdependence over the period 1960-2005. We categorize the 106 countries in our sample into three groups – industrial countries, ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2012, 53 (2), 511 - 538)
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C11, C32, E32, F42, F41
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3441
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Guillermina
Jasso
Douglas
S.
Massey
Mark
R.
Rosenzweig
James
P.
Smith
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From Illegal to Legal: Estimating Previous Illegal Experience among New Legal Immigrants to the United States
This paper develops a framework for estimating previous illegal experience among annual cohorts of new legal immigrants to the United States – using public-use administrative microdata alone, survey ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2008, 42 (4), 803-843)
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F22, C42, K42
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3440
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Tor
Eriksson
Anders
Poulsen
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Feedback and Incentives: Experimental Evidence
This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (6), 679-688)
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C70, J16, J24, M52, J33, J31, C91
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3439
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David
A.
Jaeger
Esteban
F.
Klor
Sami
H.
Miaari
M. Daniele
Paserman
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The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds: Violence and Public Opinion in the Second Intifada
This paper examines how violence in the Second Intifada influences Palestinian public opinion. Using micro data from a series of opinion polls linked to data on fatalities, we find that Israeli ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2012, 96 (3-4), 354-368)
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D72, D74, H56
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3438
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Milan
Vodopivec
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How Viable Are Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts: Simulation Results for Slovenia
By simulating the working of the unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) in Slovenia using a methodology similar to Feldstein and Altman (1998), the paper examines two questions: how viable ...
(published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2010, 52, 225–247)
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J65, C23
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3437
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Stefanie
Behncke
Markus
Frölich
Michael
Lechner
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A Caseworker Like Me: Does the Similarity between Unemployed and Caseworker Increase Job Placements?
This paper examines whether the chances of job placements improve if unemployed persons are counselled by caseworkers who belong to the same social group, defined by gender, age, education, and ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120(549), 1430-1459)
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J64, J68, C31
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3436
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David
G.
Blanchflower
Alex
Bryson
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Union Decline in Britain
This paper investigates the demise of unionisation in British private sector workplaces over the last quarter century. We show that dramatic union decline has occurred across all types of workplace. ...
(published in: Brown, W. et al. (eds.) - The Evolution of the Modern Workplace, Cambridge University Press, 2009)
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J51
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3435
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Armin
Falk
David
B.
Huffman
W. Bentley
MacLeod
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Institutions and Contract Enforcement
We provide evidence on how two important types of institutions – dismissal barriers, and bonus pay – affect contract enforcement behavior in a market with incomplete contracts and repeated ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33 (3), 571-590)
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J41, J3, C9, D01
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3434
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Leo
Kaas
Paul
Madden
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Minimum Wages and Welfare in a Hotelling Duopsony
Two firms choose locations (non-wage job characteristics) on the interval [0,1] prior to announcing wages at which they employ workers who are uniformly distributed; the (constant) marginal revenue ...
(published in: Economic Theory, 2010, 43 (2), 167 - 188)
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D43, E24, J48
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3433
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Badi
H.
Baltagi
Uwe
Blien
Katja
Wolf
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New Evidence on the Dynamic Wage Curve for Western Germany: 1980–2004
In 1994, Blanchflower and Oswald reported that they have found an ‘empirical law of economics’ – the Wage Curve. According to their empirical results, the elasticity of wages with respect to regional ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (1), 47-51)
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J30, C23, R10
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3432
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Ofer
Malamud
Abigail
Wozniak
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The Impact of College Graduation on Geographic Mobility: Identifying Education Using Multiple Components of Vietnam Draft Risk
College-educated workers are twice as likely as high school graduates to make lasting long-distance moves, but little is known about the role of college itself in determining geographic mobility. ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2012. 47(4), 913-950.)
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J61, J24, I23
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3431
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Sarmistha
Pal
Robert
Palacios
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Understanding Poverty among the Elderly in India: Implications for Social Pension Policy
The Government of India is implementing a new policy which dramatically increases funding for a cash transfer program targeted to the poor elderly. The expansion of this ‘social pension’ in terms of ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2011, 47 (7), 1017 - 1037)
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J14, I31
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