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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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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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3395
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Francesco
Drago
Roberto
Galbiati
Pietro
Vertova
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Prison Conditions and Recidivism
We use a unique data set on post-release behavior of former Italian inmates to estimate the effect of prison conditions on recidivism. By combining different sources of data we exploit variation in ...
(substantially revised version published in: American Law and Economics Review, 2011, 13 (1), 103 - 130)
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K42, J18
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3393
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Yoko
Niimi
Caglar
Ozden
Maurice
Schiff
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Remittances and the Brain Drain: Skilled Migrants Do Remit Less
It has been argued that the brain drain’s negative impact may be offset by the higher remittance levels skilled migrants send home. This paper examines whether remittances actually increase with ...
(published in: Annales d’Economie et de Statistique, 2010, 97/98, 123-42)
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F22, F24, J61, O15, O16
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3392
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Daron
Acemoglu
Davide
Ticchi
Andrea
Vindigni
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A Theory of Military Dictatorships
We investigate how nondemocratic regimes use the military and how this can lead to the emergence of military dictatorships. Nondemocratic regimes need the use of force in order to remain in power, ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2010, 2 (1), 1-42)
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H2, N10, N40, P16
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3391
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Michael
Grimm
Stephan
Klasen
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Geography vs. Institutions at the Village Level
There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on cross-country regressions ...
(published as 'Migration pressure, tenure security and agricultural intensification. Evidence from Indonesia' in: Land Economics, 2015, 91 (3), 411-434.)
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K11, O12, Q12
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3390
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Mabel
Andalón
Carmen
Pagés
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Minimum Wages in Kenya
This paper examines the performance of minimum wage legislation in Kenya, both in terms of its coverage and enforcement as well as in terms of their implications for wages and employment. Our ...
(published in: Ravi Kanbur and Jan Svejnar (eds.): Labour Markets and Economic Development, Routledge, 2009)
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J23, J31, J38
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3389
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Volker
Grossmann
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Entrepreneurial Innovation and Sustained Long-Run Growth without Weak or Strong Scale Effects
R&D-based growth theory suggests that a larger population size raises either the long-run rate of economic growth (“strong scale effect”) or the level of per capita income (“weak scale effect”), with ...
(published as "Entrepreneurial Innovation and Economic Growth" in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2009, 31 (4), 602-613)
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O10, O30, O40
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3388
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Frédéric
Docquier
Maurice
Schiff
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Measuring Skilled Emigration Rates: The Case of Small States
Recent changes in information and communication technologies (ICT) have contributed to a dramatic increase in the integration and interdependence of countries, markets and people. This paper focuses ...
(revised version published in: Artal-Tur/Peri/Requena-Silvente (Eds.),The Socio-Economic Impact of Migration Flows - Springer: 2014)
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F22
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3387
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Luca
Flabbi
Marco
Leonardi
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Sources of Earnings Instability: Estimates from an On-the-Job Search Model of the U.S. Labor Market
Many contributions suggest that earnings instability has increased during the 1980s and 1990s. This paper develops and estimates an on-the-job search model of the labor market to study the ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2010, 54 (6), 832-854)
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J21, J31
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3386
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Hans
Bloemen
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Private Wealth and Job Exit at Older Age: A Random Effects Model
Private wealth holdings are likely to become an increasingly important determinant in the job exit decision of elderly workers. Net wealth may correlate with worker’s characteristics that also ...
(revised version published in: Empirical Economics, 2016, 51 (2), 763-807)
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J26, D91
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3385
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Simon
Luechinger
Stephan
Meier
Alois
Stutzer
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Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap between the Public and the Private Sector
High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2010, 45(4), 998-1045)
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E24, I31, J30, J45, J64
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3384
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
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The Rise and Fall of the American Jewish PhD
This paper is concerned with trends over the post-WWII period in the employment of American Jews as College and University teachers and in their receipt of the PhD. The empirical analysis is for PhD ...
(published in: Contemporary Jewry, 2009, 29 (1), 67-84 (Marshall Sklare Memorial Lecture, Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry, Toronto, December 2007) )
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I21, J71, J44
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3383
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Maurice
Schiff
Yanling
Wang
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North-South Technology Spillovers: The Relative Impact of Openness and Foreign R&D
This paper examines the relative contribution of openness and the R&D content of trade to TFP growth for North-South trade-related technology diffusion. The measure of foreign R&D used in the ...
(published in International Economic Journal, 2010, 24 (2), 159-69 )
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F10, F15, O19, O24, O33
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3382
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Christian
Grund
Judith
Przemeck
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Subjective Performance Evaluation and Inequality Aversion
Many firms use subjective performance appraisal systems due to lack of objective performance measures. In these cases, supervisors usually have to rate the performance of their subordinates. Using ...
(revised (consirably shortened) version published as 'Subjective performance appraisal and inequality aversion' in: Applied Economics, 2012, 44 (17), 2149 - 2155)
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M5, D63
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3381
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Kaushik
Basu
Amanda
J.
Felkey
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A Theory of Efficiency Wage with Multiple Unemployment Equilibria: How a Higher Minimum Wage Law Can Curb Unemployment
This paper uses efficiency wage theory and the existence of community-based sharing to hypothesize that labor markets in developing countries have multiple equilibria – the same economy can be stuck ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2009, 61 (3), 494-516)
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J60, O12, D40
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3380
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Julio
Cáceres-Delpiano
Eugenio
Giolito
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The Impact of Unilateral Divorce on Crime
In this paper, we evaluate the impact of unilateral divorce on crime. First, using crime rates from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report program for the period 1965-1998 and differences in the timing in ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2012, 30 (1) 215 - 248)
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J12, J13
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3379
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Arnaud
Dupuy
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The Assignment of Workers to Tasks, Wage Distribution and Technical Change: A Critical Review
This paper reviews the literature on two-sided atomeless assignment models of workers to tasks. Using simple parametric examples, the fundamental differences between the comparative advantage and the ...
(published in: Journal of Income Distribution, 2008, 17 (3-4), 12-36)
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D3, J3, O3
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3378
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Maurice
Schiff
Yanling
Wang
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Brain Drain and Productivity Growth: Are Small States Different?
This paper examines the impact of North-South trade-related technology diffusion on TFP growth in small and large states in the South. The main findings are: i) TFP growth increases with North-South ...
(published in: International Economic Journal, 2013, 27(2), 399-414)
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F22, J61
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3377
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Michael
Mandler
Paola
Manzini
Marco
Mariotti
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A Million Answers to Twenty Questions: Choosing by Checklist
Many decision models in marketing science and psychology assume that a consumer chooses by proceeding sequentially through a checklist of desirable properties. These models are contrasted to the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2012, 147 (1), 71-92)
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D01
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3376
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Wiji
Arulampalam
Sugato
Dasgupta
Amrita
Dhillon
Bhaskar
Dutta
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Electoral Goals and Center-State Transfers: A Theoretical Model and Empirical Evidence from India
We construct a model of redistributive politics where the central government is opportunistic and uses its discretion to make transfers to state governments on the basis of political considerations. ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2009, 88 (1), 103 - 119)
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C72, D72
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3375
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Barry
Hirsch
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Wage Gaps Large and Small
The law of one wage does not strictly hold, nor should it be expected to hold, in contemporary labor markets. The law of one wage, however, provides a surprisingly good first approximation of the ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2008, 74 (4), 915-933)
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J01, J31, J4, J51
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3372
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Denis
Fougère
Mirna
Safi
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The Effects of Naturalization on Immigrants’ Employment Probability (France, 1968–1999)
Naturalization is usually regarded as an important sign of civic and political integration amongst immigrants, but it can also be seen as a factor of their economic integration. The aim of this study ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1-2), 83-96)
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F22, J15, J61
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3371
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Tito
Boeri
Mario
Macis
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Do Unemployment Benefits Promote or Hinder Structural Change?
According to recent and largely untested theories, unemployment benefits (UBs) could improve the extent and quality of job reallocation even at the cost of increasing unemployment. Using yearly panel ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 39, 109-125)
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J6, J65, O15
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3367
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Nicole
Bosch
Anja
Deelen
Rob
Euwals
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Is Part-time Employment Here To Stay? Evidence from the Dutch Labour Force Survey 1992–2005
To balance work and family responsibilities, the Netherlands have chosen a unique model that combines a high female employment rate with a high part-time employment rate. The model is likely to be ...
(published in: Labour, 2010, 24(1), 35-54)
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J16, J22
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3366
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Volker
Grossmann
David
Stadelmann
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International Mobility of the Highly Skilled, Endogenous R&D, and Public Infrastructure Investment
This paper theoretically and empirically analyzes the interaction of emigration of highly skilled labor, an economy’s income gap to potential host economies of expatriates, and optimal public ...
(published as "Does International Mobility of High-Skilled Workers Aggravate Between-Country Inequality?" in: Journal of Development Economics, 2011, 95 (1), 88 - 94)
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F22, O30, H40
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3365
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Tito
Boeri
Michael
C.
Burda
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Preferences for Collective versus Individualised Wage Setting
Standard models of equilibrium unemployment assume exogenous labour market institutions and flexible wage determination. This paper models wage rigidity and collective bargaining endogenously, when ...
(published in Economic Journal, 2009, 119, 1440-1463.)
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J5, J6, D7
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3364
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François
Langot
Coralia
Quintero Rojas
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Explaining the Evolution of Hours Worked and Employment across OECD Countries: An Equilibrium Search Approach
Since 1960, the dynamics of the aggregate hours of market work exhibit dramatic differences across industrialized countries. Before 1980, these differences seem to come from the hours worked per ...
(updated version published as 'Explaining labor wedge trends: An equilibrium search approach' in: European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2016, 13 (1), 3 - 35 )
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E2, J2, J6
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3363
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Gabriel
Felbermayr
Julien
Prat
Hans-Jörg
Schmerer
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Globalization and Labor Market Outcomes: Wage Bargaining, Search Frictions, and Firm Heterogeneity
We introduce search unemployment à la Pissarides into Melitz’ (2003) model of trade with heterogeneous firms. We allow wages to be individually or collectively bargained and analytically solve for ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2011, 146 (1), 39-73)
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F12, F15, F16
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3362
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Habiba
Djebbari
Jeffrey
A.
Smith
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Heterogeneous Impacts in PROGRESA
The “common effect” model in program evaluation assumes that all treated individuals have the same impact from a program. Our paper contributes to the recent literature that tests and goes beyond the ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2008, 145 (1-2), 64-80)
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C21, C14, I38
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3361
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Massimiliano
Bratti
Daniele
Checchi
Guido
de Blasio
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Does the Expansion of Higher Education Increase the Equality of Educational Opportunities? Evidence from Italy
This paper studies the role of the expansion of higher education (HE) in increasing the equality of tertiary education opportunities. It examines Italy’s experience during the 1990s, when policy ...
(revised version published in: Labour, 2008, 22 (s1), 53–88 )
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I2
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3360
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Marco
Caliendo
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Start-Up Subsidies in East Germany: Finally, a Policy that Works?
The German government has spent between 7bn and 11bn Euro per year on active labor market policies (ALMP) in East Germany in the last decade. The effectiveness of the most important programs (in ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30(7), 625-647)
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J68, C14, H43, M13
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3359
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Thorsten
Schank
Claus
Schnabel
Joachim
Wagner
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Higher Wages in Exporting Firms: Self-Selection, Export Effect, or Both? First Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data
While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than non-exporting firms, the direction of the link between exporting and wages is less clear. Using a rich set of German linked ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2010, 146 (2), 303-322)
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F10, D21, J31
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3358
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Carla
Calero
Arjun
S.
Bedi
Robert
Sparrow
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Remittances, Liquidity Constraints and Human Capital Investments in Ecuador
Over the last decade Ecuador has experienced a strong increase in financial transfers from migrated workers, amounting to 6.4 percent of GDP and 31.5 percent of total exports of goods and services in ...
(published in: World Development, 2009, 37 (6), 1143-1154)
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I20, J22, O15
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3357
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John
T.
Addison
Mario
Centeno
Pedro
Portugal
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Unemployment Benefits and Reservation Wages: Key Elasticities from a Stripped-Down Job Search Approach
This paper exploits survey information on reservation wages and data on actual wages from the European Community Household Panel to deduce in the manner of Lancaster and Chesher (1983) additional ...
(published in: Economica, 2010, 77 (305), 46–59)
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J64, J65
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3356
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Bernd
Fitzenberger
Karsten
Kohn
Alexander
C.
Lembcke
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Union Density and Varieties of Coverage: The Anatomy of Union Wage Effects in Germany
Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining coverage is much higher than union density; and not all employees in a covered ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66 (1), 169-197)
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J31, J51, J52
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3355
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David
Neumark
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Alternative Labor Market Policies to Increase Economic Self-Sufficiency: Mandating Higher Wages, Subsidizing Employment, and Raising Productivity
The principal means by which individuals and families achieve economic self-sufficiency is through labor market earnings. As a consequence, it is natural for policy makers to look to interventions ...
(published in: Heinrich, C.; Scholz, J. (eds.), Making the Work-Based Safety Net Work Better Russell Sage Foundation, New York, NY, , 2009, 5-78)
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J18, J22, J23, J24
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3354
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David
G.
Blanchflower
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International Evidence on Well-being
National Time Accounting is a way of measuring society's well-being, based on time use. Its explicit form is the U-index, for “unpleasant” or “undesirable”, which measures the proportion of time an ...
(published in: Alan Krueger (ed.): Measuring the Subjective Well-Being of Nations: National Accounts of Time Use and Well-Being, NBER and University of Chicago Press, 2009, 155 - 226)
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J22
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3353
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Claus
Schnabel
Susanne
Kohaut
Udo
Brixy
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Employment Stability of Entrants in Newly Founded Firms: A Matching Approach Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany
Using a linked employer-employee dataset and taking the perspective of individuals rather than firms, this paper analyzes some effects of joining start-ups. We show that entrants in new firms differ ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2011, 36(1), 85-100)
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J63, J64
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3352
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Karen
van der Wiel
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Better Protected, Better Paid: Evidence on How Employment Protection Affects Wages
This paper empirically establishes the effect of the employer's term of notice on the wage level of employees. The term of notice is defined as the period an employer has to notify workers in advance ...
(substantially revised version published as IZA DP No. 4465)
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C23, J31, J38, J63
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3351
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Laszlo
Goerke
Markus
Pannenberg
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Risk Aversion and Trade Union Membership
In an open-shop model of trade union membership with heterogeneity in risk attitudes, a worker's relative risk aversion can affect the decision to join a trade union. Furthermore, a shift in risk ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Risk Aversion, Collective Bargaining, and Wages in Germany' in: Labour, 2012, 26 (2), 156 - 173 )
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J51
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3350
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Thomas
Dohmen
Hartmut
Lehmann
Mark
E
Schaffer
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Wage Policies of a Russian Firm and the Financial Crisis of 1998: Evidence from Personnel Data – 1997 to 2002
We use a rich personnel data set from a Russian firm for the years 1997 to 2002 to analyze how the financial crisis in 1998 and the resulting change in external labor market conditions affect the ...
(revised version published in: Industrial Labor Relations Review, 2014, 67 (2), 504-531.)
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J23, J31, P23
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