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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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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
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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
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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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3253
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Matthias
Doepke
Moshe
Hazan
Yishay
D.
Maoz
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The Baby Boom and World War II: A Macroeconomic Analysis
We argue that one major cause of the U.S. postwar baby boom was the increased demand for female labor during World War II. We develop a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium model with endogenous ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2015, 82(3), 1031-1073)
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D58, E24, J13, J20
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3252
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Almas
Heshmati
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Establishment of Science Parks in the Federal Region of Kurdistan
New growth models consider the role of technology in production. The link between product flows and information flows in international trade suggests investment in information technology as a leading ...
(published in: Almas Heshmati, The Economy of Southern Kurdistan, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2010)
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D83, O10, O14
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3251
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Pablo
Brañas-Garza
Teresa
García-Muñoz
Shoshana
Neuman
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Unravelling Secularization: An International Study
The current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their life left it. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as ‘no religion’. A battery of ...
(revised version, published as: 'Determinants of Disaffiliation: An International Study', in: Religions, 2013, 4(1), 166-185)
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Z12, J12, J13, D13
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3250
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Randall
K. Q.
Akee
David
A.
Jaeger
Konstantinos
Tatsiramos
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The Persistence of Self-Employment Across Borders: New Evidence on Legal Immigrants to the United States
Using recently-available data from the New Immigrant Survey, we find that previous self-employment experience in an immigrant’s country of origin is an important determinant of their self-employment ...
(published in: Economics Bulletin, 2013, 33(1), 126-137)
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J61, J21
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3249
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Samuel
Bentolila
Juan
J.
Dolado
Juan
F.
Jimeno
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Does Immigration Affect the Phillips Curve? Some Evidence for Spain
The Phillips curve has flattened in Spain over 1995-2006: unemployment has fallen by 15 percentage points, with roughly constant inflation. This change has been more pronounced than elsewhere. We ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2008, 52 (8),1398–1423)
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E31, J64
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3248
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Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Mats
Johansson
Edward
Palmer
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Sweden's Pensioners: How They Have Fared in the Roller Coaster Ride through the Past Decade and a Half of Deep Recession and Economic Exuberance
This study analyses the development of the economic well-being of the elderly in Sweden since 1990 – a period characterized by increased influence from the financial market and extreme economic ...
(revised version published as "The Welfare of Sweden's Old-age Pensioners in Times of Bust and Boom from 1990" in: Ageing and Society, 2009, 29 (4), 539-561)
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D31, H55, I32, J14
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3247
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Almas
Heshmati
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Labor Market Policy Options of the Kurdistan Regional Government
This study is a descriptive analysis of the labor market conditions in Iraqi Federal Kurdistan Region. It explores a number of integrated factors that covariate and determine the level and patterns ...
(published in: Heshmati, The Economy of Southern Kurdistan, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2010)
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E24, I28, J24, J31, J45
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3244
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Han
Wen-Jui
Christopher
J.
Ruhm
Jane
Waldfogel
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Parental Leave Policies and Parents’ Employment and Leave-Taking
Utilizing data from the June Current Population Survey (CPS) Fertility Supplement merged with data from other months of the CPS, we describe trends in parents’ employment and leave-taking after birth ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2009, 28(1), 29-54)
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J13, J18, J22
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3243
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Guillermina
Jasso
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A New Unified Theory of Sociobehavioral Forces
This paper proposes a new unified theory of sociobehavioral forces. The goal of the new theory is to integrate theories describing five sociobehavioral processes – comparison (including justice and ...
(published in: European Sociological Review, 2008, 24 (4), 411-434)
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C02, C16, D1, D31, D6, I3
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3242
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Greg
Piper
Sylke
V.
Schnepf
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Gender Differences in Charitable Giving
The predominant part of the literature states that women are more likely to donate to charitable causes but men are more generous in terms of the amount given. The last result generally derives from ...
(revised version published as 'Gender Differences in Charitable Giving in Great Britain' in: Voluntas, 2008, 19 (2), 103-124)
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D12, D30, D64, J16, L31
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3241
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Lawrence
M.
Kahn
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Employment Protection Reforms, Employment and the Incidence of Temporary Jobs in Europe: 1995–2001
Using European Community Household Panel data for nine countries for 1996-2001, I investigate the impact of reforms of employment protection systems on employment and on temporary jobs for wage and ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 1-15)
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J21, J23
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3240
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Ulf
Rinne
Marc
Schneider
Arne
Uhlendorff
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Too Bad to Benefit? Effect Heterogeneity of Public Training Programs
This study analyzes the treatment effects of public training programs for the unemployed in Germany. Based on propensity score matching methods we extend the picture that has been sketched in ...
(revised version published as 'Do the skilled and prime-aged unemployed benefit more from training? Effect heterogeneity of public training programmes in Germany' in: Applied Economics, 2011, 43 (25), 3465-3494 )
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J64, J68, H43
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3239
|
Giorgio
E.
Primiceri
Thijs
van Rens
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Heterogeneous Life-Cycle Profiles, Income Risk and Consumption Inequality
Was the increase in income inequality in the US due to permanent shocks or merely to an increase in the variance of transitory shocks? The implications for consumption and welfare depend crucially on ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2009, 56(1), 20-39)
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D12, D31, D52, D91, E21
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3238
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Einat
Neuman
Shoshana
Neuman
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Reference-Dependent Preferences and Loss Aversion: A Discrete Choice Experiment in the Health-Care Sector
A Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) in the health-care sector is used to test the loss aversion theory that is derived from reference-dependent preferences: The absolute subjective value of a ...
(published in: Judgment and Decision Making, 2008, 3(2), 162-173)
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D01, D12, I19
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3237
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Philippe
Aghion
Thibault
Fally
Stefano
Scarpetta
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Credit Constraints as a Barrier to the Entry and Post-Entry Growth of Firms
Advanced market economies are characterized by a continuous process of creative destruction. Market forces and technological developments play a major role in shaping this process, but institutional ...
(published in: Economic Policy, 2007, 22, 731-779)
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D21, D92, L11, G32
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3236
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Guillermina
Jasso
Eva
M.
Meyersson Milgrom
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Distributive Justice and CEO Compensation
This paper develops a framework for studying individuals’ ideas about what constitutes just compensation for chief executive officers (CEOs) and reports estimates of just CEO pay and the principles ...
(published in: Acta Sociologica, 2008, 51 (2), 123-143)
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D31, D6, D8, G30, I3, J16, J31, J33, M14, M52
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3235
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Frédéric
Docquier
B. Lindsay
Lowell
Abdeslam
Marfouk
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A Gendered Assessment of the Brain Drain
This paper updates and extends the Docquier-Marfouk data set on international migration by educational attainment. We use new sources, homogenize definitions of what a migrant is, and compute ...
(published in: Population and Development Review, 2009, 35 (2), 297-321)
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F22, J61
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3234
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Timothy
J.
Halliday
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Income Volatility and Health
We investigate the impact of exogenous income fluctuations on health using twenty years of data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics using techniques from the literature on the estimation of ...
(substantially revised version published as IZA DP No. 6367, February 2012)
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I0, I12, J1
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3233
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Alberto
Alesina
Andrea
Ichino
Loukas
Karabarbounis
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Gender Based Taxation and the Division of Family Chores
Gender Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey’s optimal criterion by taxing less the more elastic labor supply of (married) women. This holds when different elasticities between men and women are ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2011, 3 (2), 1-40)
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D13, H21, J16, J20
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3232
|
Sumon
K.
Bhaumik
Manisha
Chakrabarty
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Is Education the Panacea for Economic Deprivation of Muslims? Evidence from Wage Earners in India, 1987–2005
Few researchers have examined the nature and determinants of earnings differentials among religious groups, and none has been undertaken in the context of conflict-prone multi-religious societies ...
(published in: Journal of Asian Economics, 2009, 20 (2), 137-149)
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J31, J15, I28
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12989Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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