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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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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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3408
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Timo
Boppart
Josef
Falkinger
Volker
Grossmann
Ulrich
Woitek
Gabriela
Wüthrich
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Qualifying Religion: The Role of Plural Identities for Educational Production
This paper examines the role of religious denomination for human capital formation. We employ a unique data set which covers, inter alia, information on numerous measures of school inputs in 169 ...
(published in: Explorations of Economic History, 2013, 50 (2), 242-266.)
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I20, H52, O10, N33
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3407
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Ariel
R.
Belasen
Solomon
Polachek
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How Hurricanes Affect Employment and Wages in Local Labor Markets
This paper adopts a generalized-difference-in-difference (GDD) technique outlined in Ariel R. Belasen and Solomon W. Polachek (IZA Discussion Paper #2976) to examine the impact of hurricanes on the ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2008, 98 (2), 49-53)
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J23, J49, Q54, R11
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3406
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Michael
Rusinek
François
Rycx
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Rent-Sharing under Different Bargaining Regimes: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
In many European countries, the majority of workers have their wages directly defined by industry-level agreements. In addition, for some workers, industry agreements are complemented by ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2013, 51 (1), 28-58)
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J31, J51
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3403
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Marco
Stampini
Benjamin
Davis
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Does Off-Farm Labor Relax Farmers’ Credit Constraints? Evidence from Longitudinal Data for Vietnam
We examine the relationship between participation in non-agricultural labor activities and farming production decisions, focusing on the use of inputs. In particular, we are interested in the ...
(revised version published in: Agricultural Economics, 2009, 40(2), 177-188)
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J43, Q12
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3402
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Philippe
Askenazy
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A Primer on the 35-Hour in France, 1997–2007
France has experienced massive changes in its regulation of working time during the last decade. These changes generate natural experiments that may help to study a variety of issues in labor ...
(revised and updated version published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2013, 37 (2), 323-347)
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J20, J30, J51, L23
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3401
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Alberto
Bayo-Moriones
Jose
Enrique
Galdon-Sanchez
Sara
Martinez-de-Morentin
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What Are the Factors Behind Pay Settlements? Evidence from Spanish and British Data
This article presents a study of the determinants of pay settlements in a sample of Spanish and British establishments. We find that variables such as establishment size and age, foreign ownership, ...
(published as 'The Determinants of Pay Settlements. The Influence of the National Context' in: The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2013, 24 (3), 579-600)
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J30, J40
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3400
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Petra
Nieken
Dirk
Sliwka
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Risk-Taking Tournaments: Theory and Experimental Evidence
We study risk-taking behavior in a simple two person tournament in a theoretical model as well as a laboratory experiment. First, a model is analyzed in which two agents simultaneously decide between ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2010, 31 (3), 254-268)
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M51, C91, D23
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3399
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Petter
Lundborg
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The Health Returns to Education: What Can We Learn from Twins?
This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin-differences strategy in order to obtain estimates that are not biased by unobserved family ...
(published as 'The health returns to schooling—what can we learn from twins?' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (2), 673-701)
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I12, I11, J14, J12, C41
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3398
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Michel
Beine
Frédéric
Docquier
Maurice
Schiff
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Brain Drain and its Determinants: A Major Issue for Small States
This paper examines the relationship between the brain drain and country size, as well as the extent of small states’ overall loss of human capital. We find that small states are the main losers ...
(revised version published in: Artal-Tur/Peri/Requena-Silvente (Eds.),The Socio-Economic Impact of Migration Flows - Springer: 2014)
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F22, J24, J61, O15
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3396
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Arnaud
Chéron
Jean-Olivier
Hairault
François
Langot
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Life-Cycle Equilibrium Unemployment
This paper develops a life-cycle approach to equilibrium unemployment. Workers only differ respectively to their distance from deterministic retirement. A non age-directed search equilibrium is then ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 31, 843-882)
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J22, J26, H55
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