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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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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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3430
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Matthias
Parey
Fabian
Waldinger
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Studying Abroad and the Effect on International Labor Market Mobility: Evidence from the Introduction of ERASMUS
We investigate the effect of studying abroad on international labor market mobility later in life for university graduates. As a source of identifying variation, we exploit the introduction and ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2011, 121(551), 194–222)
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J61, I2, F22
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3429
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Michael
P.
Brady
Steven
Y.
Wu
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The Effect of Intragroup Communication on Preference Shifts in Groups
We use a laboratory gift-exchange game to examine decisions made by groups under three different procedures that dictate how group members interact and reach decisions in comparison to individuals ...
(published as "The aggregation of preferences in groups: Identity, responsibility, and polarization" in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2010, 31(6), 950-963)
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C91, C92
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3428
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Thomas
Dohmen
Hartmut
Lehmann
Anzelika
Zaiceva
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The Gender Earnings Gap inside a Russian Firm: First Evidence from Personnel Data – 1997 to 2002
Using unique personnel data from one Russian firm for the years 1997 to 2002 we study the size, development and determinants of the gender earnings gap in an internal labor market during late ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung/Journal for Labour Market Research, 2008, 41 (2-3), 157-180.)
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J16, M52, P23
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3426
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Nigel
Driffield
Sarmistha
Pal
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Evolution of Capital Structure in East Asia: Corporate Inertia or Endeavours?
The present paper examines the capital structure adjustment dynamics of listed non-financial corporations in seven East Asian countries during 1994-2002. Compared to firms in the least affected ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2010, 173 (1), 1- 29)
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G32, O16
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3425
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James
J.
Heckman
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Econometric Causality
This paper presents the econometric approach to causal modeling. It is motivated by policy problems. New causal parameters are defined and identified to address specific policy problems. Economists ...
(published in: International Statistical Review, 2008, (76) 1, 1-27)
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B41
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3423
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Herbert
Brücker
Elke
J.
Jahn
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Migration and the Wage Curve: A Structural Approach to Measure the Wage and Employment Effects of Migration
Based on a wage curve approach we examine the labor market effects of migration in Germany. The wage curve relies on the assumption that wages respond to a change in the unemployment rate, albeit ...
(revised version published as 'Migration and Wage-Setting: Reassessing the Labor Market Effects of Migration' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2011, 113 (2), 286-317)
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F22, J31, J61
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3422
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Michele
Mosca
Francesco
Pastore
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Wage Effects of Recruitment Methods: The Case of the Italian Social Service Sector
This paper uses a unique data set containing detailed micro-information on organisations, managers, workers and volunteers belonging to public, private forprofit and private nonprofit institutions ...
(published in: Sergio Destefanis and Marco Musella (eds.), Paid and Unpaid Labour in Social Utility Services, Heidelberg: Physica Verlag, 2009)
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I11, J31 J41, L31, L33, L84
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3421
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Matthias
Doepke
Michèle
Tertilt
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Women’s Liberation: What’s in It for Men?
The nineteenth century witnessed dramatic improvements in the legal rights of married women. Given that these changes took place long before women gained the right to vote, they amounted to a ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2009, 124(4), 1541-1591)
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D13, E13, J16, N30, O43
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3420
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Martin
Kahanec
Anzelika
Zaiceva
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Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrants and Non-Citizens in the EU: An East-West Comparison
The starkly different histories and institutions in the eastern and western member states of the European Union (EU) suggest different roles of being non-native in these two regions. In this paper we ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1+2), 97-115)
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F22, J15, J61, J71
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3419
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Juan
J.
Dolado
Florentino
Felgueroso
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Occupational Mismatch and Moonlighting among Spanish Physicians: Do Couples Matter?
There are relevant gender differences in the labour-market status of health sciences graduates in Spain: (i) female physicians have lower participation rates than male physicians plus they are ...
(published in: Vázquez, P. (Ed.) La Feminización de las Profesiones Sanitarias, (2010) Fundación BBVA. )
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J24, J42, J44, J61, J70
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3418
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Simonetta
Longhi
Peter
Nijkamp
Jacques
Poot
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Meta-Analysis of Empirical Evidence on the Labour Market Impacts of Immigration
The increasing proportion of immigrants in the population of many countries has raised concerns about the ‘absorption capacity’ of the labour market, and fuelled extensive empirical research in ...
(published in: Région et Développement, 2008, 27(1), 161-191)
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C51, F22, J31, J61
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3417
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Steve
Dowrick
Massimiliano
Tani
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International Business Visits and the Technology Frontier
This paper studies the impact of international business trips on the stock of knowledge available to an economy. It develops a theoretical model to analyse the possible effects, and presents an ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2011, 110 (3), 209-212)
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F2, J6
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3416
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Roland
Benabou
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Ideology
I develop a model of ideologies as collectively sustained (yet individually rational) distortions in beliefs concerning the proper scope of governments versus markets. In processing and interpreting ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2008, 6 (2-3), 321-352)
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H11, D72, D83, P16, Z1
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3414
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Filipa
Sa
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Does Employment Protection Help Immigrants? Evidence from European Labor Markets
High levels of employment protection reduce hiring and firing and have a theoretically ambiguous effect on the employment level. Immigrants, being new to the labor market, may be less aware of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (5), 624-642)
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J6
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3412
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Harald
Tauchmann
Silja
Göhlmann
Till
Requate
Christoph
M.
Schmidt
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Tobacco and Alcohol: Complements or Substitutes? A Structural Model Approach
The question of whether two drugs – namely alcohol and tobacco – are used as complements or substitutes is of crucial interest if side-effects of anti-smoking policies are considered. Numerous papers ...
(published online as 'Tobacco and Alcohol: Complements or Substitutes? A Structural Model Approach to Insufficient Price Variation in Individual-Level Data' in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 45(1), 539-566)
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C31, D12, I12
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3410
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Mirko
Draca
Stephen
Machin
Robert
Witt
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Panic on the Streets of London: Police, Crime and the July 2005 Terror Attacks
In this paper we study the causal impact of police on crime by looking at what happened to crime before and after the terror attacks that hit central London in July 2005. The attacks resulted in a ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (5), 2157-2181)
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H00, H5, K42
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3409
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Richard
A.
Easterlin
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Lost in Transition: Life Satisfaction on the Road to Capitalism
In the transition from socialism to capitalism in Eastern Europe life satisfaction has followed the V-shaped pattern of GDP but failed to recover commensurately. In general, increased satisfaction ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 71 (2), 130-145)
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I31, P5, P27, D60
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