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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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3310
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James
J.
Heckman
Lance
John
Lochner
Petra
E.
Todd
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Earnings Functions and Rates of Return
The internal rate of return to schooling is a fundamental economic parameter that is often used to assess whether expenditure on education should be increased or decreased. This paper considers ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2008, 2(1), 1-31)
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C31
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3309
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
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Leaving Home: What Economics Has to Say about the Living Arrangements of Young Australians
Like their counterparts elsewhere, more young Australians than ever are delaying the move to establish residential independence from their parents. This paper reviews the developing economics ...
(published in: Australian Economic Review, 2008, 41 (2), 160-176)
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J11, J13
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3308
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Jan
C.
van Ours
Justus
Veenman
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How Interethnic Marriages Affect the Educational Attainment of Children: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
The allocation of Moluccan immigrants across towns and villages at arrival in the Netherlands and the subsequent formation of interethnic marriages resemble a natural experiment. The exogenous ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 111-117)
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I21, J15
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3305
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Paul
J.
Devereux
Robert
A.
Hart
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Forced to Be Rich? Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Britain
Do students benefit from compulsory schooling? Researchers using changes in compulsory schooling laws as instruments have typically estimated very high returns to additional schooling that are ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120(549), 1345-1364)
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J01
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3304
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Vincent
A.
Hildebrand
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The Asset Portfolios of Native-Born and Foreign-Born Households
This paper analyses the net worth and asset portfolios of native- and foreign-born Australian families using HILDA (wave 2) data. Specifically, we estimate a system of asset equations with an ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2009, 85(268), 46-59)
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J61, G11, J1
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3303
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Daniela
Del Boca
Silvia
Pasqua
Chiara
D.
Pronzato
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Market Work and Motherhood Decisions in Contexts
In this paper, we explore the impact of social policies and labour market characteristics on women’s decisions regarding work and childbearing, using data from the European Community Household Panel ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2009, 61 (1), 147-171)
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J11, C3, D1
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3302
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Ioan-Sebastian
Buhai
Miguel
Portela
Coen
Teulings
Aico
van Vuuren
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Returns to Tenure or Seniority?
This study documents two empirical regularities, using data for Denmark and Portugal. First, workers who are hired last, are the first to leave the firm (Last In, First Out; LIFO). Second, workers' ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2014, 82 (2), 705-730)
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J31, J41, J63
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3301
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Fernando
A.
Lozano
Todd
A.
Sorensen
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Mexican Immigrants, the Labor Market and the Current Population Survey: Seasonality Effects, Framing Effects, and Sensitivity of Results
In this paper we compare estimates of immigrants’ labor supply assimilation profiles using the Current Population Survey Annual Demographic Files (March ADS) and the Current Population Survey ...
(Published as: "Mexican Immigrants, Labour Market Assimilation and the Current Population: The Sensitivity of Results Across Seemingly Equivalent Surveys" in: International Migration, 2015, 53(2), 250–262)
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J16, J22
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3300
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John
T.
Addison
McKinley
L.
Blackburn
Chad
Cotti
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The Effect of Minimum Wages on Wages and Employment: County-Level Estimates for the United States
We use county-level data on employment and earnings in the restaurant-and-bar sector to evaluate the impact of minimum wage changes on low-wage labor markets. Our empirical approach is similar to the ...
(published online in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2012, 50 (3), 412-435.)
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J23, J38
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3299
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Yuriy
Gorodnichenko
Jan
Svejnar
Katherine
Terrell
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Globalization and Innovation in Emerging Markets
Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging market economies to innovate and improve their competitive position. Using recent data on firms in 27 transition ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2010, 2 (2), 194-226)
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F23, M16, O16
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3298
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Stephane
Dees
M. Hashem
Pesaran
L. Vanessa
Smith
Ron
P.
Smith
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Identification of New Keynesian Phillips Curves from a Global Perspective
New Keynesian Phillips Curves (NKPC) have been extensively used in the analysis of monetary policy, but yet there are a number of issues of concern about how they are estimated and then related to ...
(published in: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2009, 41 (7), 1481-1502)
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C32, E17, F37, F42
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3297
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John
Tyler
Magnus
Lofstrom
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Is the GED an Effective Route to Postsecondary Education for School Dropouts?
We use data from the Texas Schools Microdata Panel (TSMP) to examine the extent to which dropouts use the GED as a route to post-secondary education. The paper develops a model pointing out the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (5), 813–825)
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I2, J18
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3296
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Leonce
Ndikumana
Sher
Verick
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The Linkages between FDI and Domestic Investment: Unravelling the Developmental Impact of Foreign Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa
While the recent increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) to African countries is a welcome development, the question remains as to the impact of these resource inflows on economic development. ...
(published in: Development Policy Review, 2008, 26 (6), 713-726)
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E22, F21, F23, O16
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3295
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Stefano
Gagliarducci
Tommaso
Nannicini
Paolo
Naticchioni
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Outside Income and Moral Hazard: The Elusive Quest for Good Politicians
In most modern democracies elected officials can work in the private sector while appointed in parliament. We show that when the political and market sectors are not mutually exclusive, a trade-off ...
(published as 'Moonlighting Politicians' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (9-10), 688-699)
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D72, J45, P16
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3294
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John
T.
Addison
Clive
R.
Belfield
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Unions, Training, and Firm Performance
The present paper uses a combination of workplace and linked employee-workplace data from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey and the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey to examine ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Market Research/Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung, 2007, 40 (4), 361-381)
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J24, J33, J51
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3293
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Hector
Sala
José
I.
Silva
Manuel
E.
Toledo
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Flexibility at the Margin and Labor Market Volatility in OECD Countries
We study whether segmented labor markets with flexibility at the margin (e.g., just affecting fixed-term employees) can achieve similar volatility than fully deregulated labor markets. Flexibility at ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (3), 991-1017)
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J23, J41, J63
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3292
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Niall
O'Higgins
Marcello
D'Amato
Floro
Ernesto
Caroleo
Adriana
Barone
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Gone for Good? Determinants of School Dropout in Southern Italy
The aim of the present paper is to gain some insight into the causes of dropping out of school and, more generally, of the factors that induce parents to review their choices about their child’s ...
(published in: Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, 2007, 66(2), 207-246)
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I21, J13, J24
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3291
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Uwe
Jirjahn
Kornelius
Kraft
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Teamwork and Intra-Firm Wage Dispersion among Blue-Collar Workers
Using data on a sample of manufacturing establishments in Germany, we find that the use of self-managed teams is associated with increased intra-firm wage inequality between skilled and unskilled ...
(revised version published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2010, 57(4), 404-429)
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J30, J31, M52
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3289
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John
T.
Addison
Mario
Centeno
Pedro
Portugal
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Do Reservation Wages Really Decline? Some International Evidence on the Determinants of Reservation Wages
Using cross-country data, we investigate the determinants of reservation wages and their course over the jobless spell. Higher unemployment benefits lead to higher reservation wages. Further, again ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2009, 30 (1), 1 - 8)
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J64, J65
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3288
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Markus
Frölich
Blaise
Melly
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Unconditional Quantile Treatment Effects under Endogeneity
This paper develops IV estimators for unconditional quantile treatment effects (QTE) when the treatment selection is endogenous. In contrast to conditional QTE, i.e. the effects conditional on a ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2013, 31(3), 346-357)
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C13, C14, C21
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3287
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Pablo
Brañas-Garza
Teresa
García-Muñoz
Shoshana
Neuman
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The Big Carrot: High Stake Incentives Revisited
This paper provides an empirical demonstration of high stakes incentives in relation to religious practice. It shows that, when both positive (carrot) and negative (stick) incentives are available, ...
(published in: Behavioral Decision Making, 2010, 23, 288-313)
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C91, D64, Z13
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3286
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T. H.
Gindling
Luis
Oviedo
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Single Mothers and Poverty in Costa Rica
Despite increasing average real family incomes in Costa Rica in the late 1990s and early 2000s, poverty rates did not fall. In this paper, we argue that during this period economic growth in Costa ...
(published in: CEPAL Review, 2008, 94 (April), 121-132)
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I32, J12, J38
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3285
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Carlos
Alós-Ferrer
Julien
Prat
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Job Market Signaling and Employer Learning
This paper extends the job market signaling model of Spence (1973) by allowing firms to learn the ability of their employees over time. Contrary to the model without employer learning, we find that ...
(published online in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2012, [In Press / Corrected Proof])
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I20, C70, D82, D83
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3284
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Sumon
K.
Bhaumik
Manisha
Chakrabarty
Zhong
Zhao
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Earnings Differences between Chinese and Indian Wage Earners, 1987–2004
This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent period. While both economies have grown considerably, we illustrate significant ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2009, 55 (1), 562-587)
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O15, J24, O53, P52
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3283
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Yves
Zenou
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Social Interactions and Labor Market Outcomes in Cities
We develop a model where information about jobs is essentially obtained through friends and relatives, i.e. strong and weak ties. Workers commute to a business center to work and to interact with ...
(revised version published as 'A Dynamic Model of Weak and Strong Ties in the Labor Market' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33 (4), 891-932)
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D85, J60, R14
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3282
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Yuriy
Gorodnichenko
Yegor
Grygorenko
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Are Oligarchs Productive? Theory and Evidence
This paper develops a partial equilibrium model to account for stylized facts about the behavior of oligarchs, politically and economically strong conglomerates in transition and developing ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2008, 36 (1), 17-42 )
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C21, C25, D24, O17, P26, P31
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3281
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Alwine
Mohnen
Kathrin
Pokorny
Dirk
Sliwka
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Transparency, Inequity Aversion, and the Dynamics of Peer Pressure in Teams: Theory and Evidence
We provide an explanation for peer pressure in teams based on inequity aversion. Analyzing a two-period model with two agents, we find that the effect of inequity aversion strongly depends on the ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 26 (4), 2008, 693 - 720)
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D23, M12
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3280
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Monica
Costa Dias
Hidehiko
Ichimura
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
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The Matching Method for Treatment Evaluation with Selective Participation and Ineligibles
The matching method for treatment evaluation does not balance selective unobserved differences between treated and non-treated. We derive a simple correction term if there is an instrument that ...
(revised version published as 'Treatment Evaluation With Selective Participation and Ineligibles' in: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 108(502) 2013, 441-455)
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C21, C14, C31, J64
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3279
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T. H.
Gindling
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South-South Migration: The Impact of Nicaraguan Immigrants on Earnings, Inequality and Poverty in Costa Rica
More than half of those who emigrate from developing countries move to other developing countries, yet there have been few studies of the impact of this South-South migration. In this paper, we ...
(published in: World Development, 2009, 37(1), 116-126)
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J61, O15
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3278
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Daniel
Rondeau
John
A.
List
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Matching and Challenge Gifts to Charity: Evidence from Laboratory and Natural Field Experiments
This study designs a natural field experiment linked to a controlled laboratory experiment to examine the effectiveness of matching gifts and challenge gifts, two popular strategies used to secure a ...
(published in: Experimental Economics, 2008, 11(3), 253-267)
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C93, H41
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3277
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Giorgio
Brunello
Maria
De Paola
Vincenzo
Scoppa
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Residential Peer Effects in Higher Education: Does the Field of Study Matter?
Economists have a poor understanding of the mechanisms underlying reduced-form college peer effects. In this paper we explore a candidate mechanism, the provision of school effort. We show that, when ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2010, 48(3), 621-634)
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I21, Z13, J24
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3275
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Christiane
Schwieren
Doris
Weichselbaumer
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Does Competition Enhance Performance or Cheating? A Laboratory Experiment
In this paper we experimentally test whether competing for a desired reward does not only affect individuals’ performance, but also their tendency to cheat. Recent doping scandals in sports as well ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2010, 31 (3), 241-253)
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C91, J24, J31, M52
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3274
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Chris
van Klaveren
Bernard
M. S.
van Praag
Henriette
Maassen van den Brink
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A Public Good Version of the Collective Household Model: An Empirical Approach with an Application to British Household Data
In this paper we consider an empirical collective household model of time allocation for two-earner households. The novelty of this paper is that we estimate a version of the collective household ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2008, 6 (2), 169-191)
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D12, D13, J22
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3273
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John
A.
List
David
Reiley
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Field Experiments in Economics: Palgrave Entry
Field experiments occupy a middle ground between laboratory experiments and naturally occurring field data. The idea is to perform a controlled experiment that captures important characteristics of ...
(published in: Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume (eds.), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition, 2008)
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C72
|
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3272
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Emilia
Del Bono
Andrea
Weber
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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Clash of Career and Family: Fertility Decisions after Job Displacement
In this paper we investigate how fertility decisions respond to unexpected career interruptions which occur as a consequence of job displacement. Using an event study approach we compare the birth ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10 (4), 659 - 683)
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J13, J64, J65, J24
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3271
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Rolf
Ketzler
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Publications: German Economic Research Institutes on Track
The request for a strengthening of academic research at the German economic research institutes by the German Science Council more than a decade ago was founded on the crucial insight that sound ...
(published in: Scientometrics, 2009, 80 (1), 233-254)
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A11, I 23, L31
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3268
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Randall
K. Q.
Akee
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Who Leaves and Who Returns? Deciphering Immigrant Self-Selection from a Developing Country
Existing research examining the self-selection of immigrants suffers from a lack of information on the immigrants’ labor force activities in the home country, quotas limiting who is allowed to enter ...
(revised version published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2010, 58 (2), 323-344.)
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O15, J31
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3267
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Yuriy
Gorodnichenko
Jorge
Martinez-Vazquez
Klara
Sabirianova
Peter
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Myth and Reality of Flat Tax Reform: Micro Estimates of Tax Evasion Response and Welfare Effects in Russia
Using micro-level data, we examine the effects of Russia’s 2001 flat rate income tax reform on consumption, income, and tax evasion. We use the gap between household expenditures and reported ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2009, 117(3), 504-554)
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D73, H24, H36, J3, O1, P2
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3265
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Magnus
Lofstrom
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Why Are Hispanic and African-American Dropout Rates So High?
The proportion of students who do not graduate from high school is dramatically higher among the two largest minority groups, Hispanics and African-Americans, compared to non-Hispanic whites. In this ...
(published in: Williams Review, 2007, 2, 91-121)
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I21
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3264
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Nikolaj
Malchow-Møller
Jakob
R.
Munch
Jan
Rose
Skaksen
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Do Immigrants Affect Firm-Specific Wages?
In this paper, we propose and test a novel effect of immigration on the wages of native workers. Existing studies have focused on the wage effects that result from changes in the aggregate labour ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (4), 1267-1295)
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F22, J31
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3263
|
Randall
K. Q.
Akee
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Errors in Self-Reported Earnings: The Role of Previous Earnings Volatility
I report the measurement error in self-reported earnings for a developing country. Administrative data from the Federated States of Micronesia’s (FSM) Social Security office are matched to the FSM ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2011, 96 (2), 409 - 421)
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C80, D01, O15
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3262
|
Werner
Eichhorst
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Von der Frühverrentung zum längeren Erwerbsleben: Transferleistungen, Arbeitsmarktpolitik und Weiterbildung
Die Beschäftigung älterer Arbeitnehmer in Deutschland hat in den letzten Jahren merklich zugenommen. Die Studie untersucht diese jüngste Verbesserung der Arbeitsmarktsituation Älterer und analysiert ...
(published in: Sozialer Fortschritt, 2008, 57 (2), 24-34)
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J68, J14
|
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3261
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Sebastian
Till
Braun
Nadja
Dwenger
Dorothea
Kübler
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Telling the Truth May Not Pay Off: An Empirical Study of Centralised University Admissions in Germany
We investigate the matching algorithm used by the German central clearinghouse for university admissions (ZVS) in medicine and related subjects. This mechanism consists of three procedures based on ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2010, 10 (1), Article 22)
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C78, D02, D78, I29
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3260
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Liliya
Gataullina
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Naturalization Proclivities, Ethnicity and Integration
This paper studies the determinants of naturalization among Turkish and ex-Yugoslav immigrants in Germany differentiating between actual and planned citizenship. Using the German Socio-Economic ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1-2), 70-82)
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F22, J15, J61
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3259
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Matthias
Doepke
Dirk
Krüger
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Origins and Consequences of Child Labor Restrictions: A Macroeconomic Perspective
We investigate the positive and normative consequences of child-labor restrictions for economic aggregates and welfare. We argue that even though the laissez-faire outcome may be inefficient, there ...
(published in: Peter Rupert (ed.), Frontiers in Family Economics, Bingley: Emerald, 2008)
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I28, J13, J22, J24, J88, O40
|
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3258
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Michael
P.
Pflüger
Jens
Suedekum
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On Pitchforks and Tomahawks
The core-periphery model by Krugman (1991) has two 'dramatic' implications: catastrophic agglomeration and locational hysteresis. We study this seminal model with CES instead of Cobb-Douglas upper ...
(published in revised form in: Journal of Regional Science, 2011, 51 (2), 292-298)
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F12, F15, F22, R12, R50
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3257
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Jürgen
Maurer
Roger
Klein
Francis
Vella
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Subjective Health Assessments and Active Labor Market Participation of Older Men: Evidence from a Semiparametric Binary Choice Model with Nonadditive Correlated Individual-Specific Effects
We use panel data from the US Health and Retirement Study 1992-2002 to estimate the effect of self-assessed health limitations on active labor market participation of men around retirement age. ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93 (3), 764 - 774)
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I10, J10, J26, C14, C30
|
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3256
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Justina
A.V.
Fischer
Alfonso
Sousa-Poza
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Does Job Satisfaction Improve the Health of Workers? New Evidence Using Panel Data and Objective Measures of Health
This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health of workers using the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Methodologically, it addresses two important design ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2009, 18 (1), 71-89)
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I18, I19, J28
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3255
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Jochen
Kluve
Hilmar
Schneider
Arne
Uhlendorff
Zhong
Zhao
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Evaluating Continuous Training Programs Using the Generalized Propensity Score
This paper assesses the dynamics of treatment effects arising from variation in the duration of training. We use German administrative data that have the extraordinary feature that the amount of ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2012, 175 (2), 587-617)
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C21, J68
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3254
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M. Hashem
Pesaran
L. Vanessa
Smith
Takashi
Yamagata
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Panel Unit Root Tests in the Presence of a Multifactor Error Structure
This paper extends the cross sectionally augmented panel unit root test proposed by Pesaran (2007) to the case of a multifactor error structure. The basic idea is to exploit information regarding the ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2013, 175(2), 94-115)
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C12, C15, C22, C23
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