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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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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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3349
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Laurens
Cherchye
Bram
De Rock
Frederic
Vermeulen
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Economic Well-Being and Poverty among the Elderly: An Analysis Based on a Collective Consumption Model
We apply the collective consumption model of Browning, Chiappori and Lewbel (2006) to analyse economic well-being and poverty among the elderly. The model focuses on individual preferences, a ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56 (6), 985-1000)
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D11, D12, D13, D63, I31
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3348
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Stefano
Gagliarducci
Tommaso
Nannicini
Paolo
Naticchioni
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Electoral Rules and Politicians’ Behavior: A Micro Test
Theory predicts that the majoritarian electoral system should produce more targeted redistribution and lower politicians’ rents than proportional representation. We test these predictions using micro ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2011, 3 (3), 144-174)
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C20, D72, D78, P16
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3347
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Sumon
K.
Bhaumik
Subal
C.
Kumbhakar
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Impact of Reforms on Plant-Level Productivity and Technical Efficiency: Evidence from the Indian Manufacturing Sector
It is generally believed that the structural reforms that usher in competition and force companies to become more efficient were introduced later in India following the macroeconomic crisis in 1991. ...
(published in: Journal of Asian Economics, 21(2): 219-232, 2010)
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C13, O12
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3346
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Hendrik
Wolff
Howard
Chong
Maximilian
Auffhammer
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Consequences of Data Error in Aggregate Indicators: Evidence from the Human Development Index
This paper examines the consequences of data error in data series used to construct aggregate indicators. Using the most popular indicator of country level economic development, the Human Development ...
(published as 'Classification, Detection and Consequences of Data Error: Evidence from the Human Development Index' in: Economic Journal, 2011, 121 (553), 843 - 870)
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O10, C82
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3344
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Andrew
J.
Oswald
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On the Curvature of the Reporting Function from Objective Reality to Subjective Feelings
I suggest the idea of a reporting function, r(.), from reality to feelings. The ‘happiness’ literature claims we have demonstrated diminishing marginal utility of income. I show not, and that knowing ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 100 (3), 369-372)
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I3, D1
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3343
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Aslan
Zorlu
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Who Leaves the City? The Influence of Ethnic Segregation and Family Ties
In the last three decades, the population of Amsterdam has been ‘coloured’ due to immigration flows from abroad and a low outflow rate among these immigrants and their descendants. The question is to ...
(published in: Population, Space and Place, 2009, 15 (4), 323-342)
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J1
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3341
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I. Semih
Akçomak
Bas
ter Weel
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Social Capital, Innovation and Growth: Evidence from Europe
This paper investigates the interplay between social capital, innovation and per capita income growth in the European Union. We model and identify innovation as an important mechanism that transforms ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2009, 53 (5), 544-567)
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O1, O3, O52, Z13
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3339
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Yves
Zenou
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Search, Wage Posting, and Urban Spatial Structure
We develop an urban-search model in which firms post wages. When all workers are identical, the Diamond paradox holds, i.e. there is a unique wage in equilibrium even in the presence of search and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2011, 11 (3), 387 - 416)
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D83, J64, R14
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3338
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Lesley
Potters
Raquel
Ortega-Argilés
Marco
Vivarelli
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R&D and Productivity: Testing Sectoral Peculiarities Using Micro Data
The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between a firm's R&D activities and its productivity using a unique micro data panel dataset and looking at sectoral peculiarities which may ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2011, 41 (3), 817-839)
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O33
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3336
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Indraneel
Dasgupta
Pushkar
Maitra
Diganta
Mukherjee
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‘Arranged’ Marriage, Co-Residence and Female Schooling: A Model with Evidence from India
We model the consequences of parental control over choice of wives for sons, for parental incentives to educate daughters, when the marriage market exhibits competitive dowry payments and altruistic ...
(published in: Mukhopadhyay, H. et al. (eds.), Dimensions of Economic Theory and Policy, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2011 )
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D10, D91, J12, J16
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3335
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Timothy
J.
Halliday
Sally
Kwak
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What Is a Peer? The Role of Network Definitions in Estimation of Endogenous Peer Effects
We employ a standard identification strategy from the peer effects literature to investigate the importance of network definitions in estimation of endogenous peer effects. We use detailed ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2012, 44 (3), 289 - 302)
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I12, I20
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3333
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Lex
Borghans
Angela
Lee
Duckworth
James
J.
Heckman
Bas
ter Weel
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The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits
This paper explores the interface between personality psychology and economics. We examine the predictive power of personality and the stability of personality traits over the life cycle. We develop ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2008, 43 (4), 972-1059)
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I2, J24
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3332
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Nauro
F.
Campos
Yuko
Kinoshita
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Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Reforms: Evidence from Eastern Europe and Latin America
This paper investigates the role of structural reforms – privatization, financial reform and trade liberalization – as determinants of FDI inflows based on newly constructed dataset on structural ...
(revised version published in: IMF Staff Papers, 2010, 57 (2), 326-365)
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H11, F21, O16
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