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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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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
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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
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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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3231
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Randolph
Luca
Bruno
Marco
Stampini
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Joining Panel Data with Cross-Sections for Efficiency Gains: An Application to a Consumption Equation for Nicaragua
This paper explores how cross-sectional data can be exploited jointly with longitudinal data, in order to increase estimation efficiency while properly tackling the potential bias due to unobserved ...
(published in: Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, 2009, 68 (2), 149-173)
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C33, C42, I38
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3229
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Etienne
Dumont
Bernard
Fortin
Nicolas
Jacquemet
Bruce
S.
Shearer
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Physicians' Multitasking and Incentives: Empirical Evidence from a Natural Experiment
We analyse how physicians respond to contractual changes and incentives within a multitasking environment. In 1999 the Quebec government (Canada) introduced an optional mixed compensation system, ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27(6), 1436-1450)
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I10, J22
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3228
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Tilman
Brück
Alexander
M.
Danzer
Alexander
Muravyev
Natalia
Danzer
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Determinants of Poverty during Transition: Household Survey Evidence from Ukraine
The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty in Ukraine during transition using two comparable surveys from 1996 and 2004. We measure poverty using income ...
(revised version published as 'Poverty during Transition: Household Survey Evidence from Ukraine' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2010, 38 (2), 123-145)
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P20, I32, J20, O15
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3225
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Rob
Euwals
Marike
Knoef
Daniel
van Vuuren
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The Trend in Female Labour Force Participation: What Can Be Expected for the Future?
During the 1980s and 1990s, the Netherlands experienced a strong increase in the labour force participation of women. This study investigates the increase of participation over the successive ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2011, 40(3), 729-753)
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J11, J21
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3222
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Giuseppe
Bertola
Daniele
Checchi
Veruska
Oppedisano
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Private School Quality in Italy
We discuss how a schooling system’s structure may imply that private school enrolment leads to worse subsequent performance in further education or in the labour market, and we seek evidence of such ...
(published in: Giornale degli Economisti ed Annali di Economia, 2007, 66 (3), 375-400)
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I21
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3221
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Ruth
Uwaifo Oyelere
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Within and Between Gender Disparities in Income and Education Benefits from Democracy
There is data evidence that welfare has improved post democracy in Nigeria. However, the distribution or concentration of the benefits in subgroups of the population is unknown. In this paper, the ...
(published as 'Disparities in the Benefits from Democratic Reform in Nigeria: A Gender Perspective' in: Developing Economies, 2010, 48 (3), 345–375)
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O15, P00, J16, D63
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3220
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Marco
Caliendo
Alexander
S.
Kritikos
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Start-Ups by the Unemployed: Characteristics, Survival and Direct Employment Effects
Fostering and supporting start-up businesses by unemployed persons has become an increasingly important issue in many European countries. These new ventures are being supported by various ...
(revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2010, 35(1), 71-92)
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J68, M13
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3219
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Silvio
Rendon
Alfredo
Cuecuecha
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International Job Search: Mexicans In and Out of the US
It is argued that migration from Mexico to the US and its corresponding return migration are determined by international wage differentials and preferences for origin. We use a model of job search, ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (1), 53-82)
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F22, J64, E20
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3218
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Almas
Heshmati
Rhona
Davis
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The Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment Flows to the Federal Region of Kurdistan
The flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) has increased dramatically in the last two decades. However, the distribution of FDI is highly unequal and the competition among countries to attract ...
(published in: Heshmati, The Economy of Southern Kurdistan, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2010)
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D53, E44, F21, G28, G38, O16
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3217
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Krishna
Patel
Francis
Vella
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Immigrant Networks and Their Implications for Occupational Choice and Wages
This paper employs United States Census data to study the occupational allocation of immigrants. The data reveal that the occupational shares of various ethnic groups have grown drastically in ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (4), 1249–1277.)
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J24, J3, J61
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3216
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James
J.
Heckman
Paul
A.
LaFontaine
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The American High School Graduation Rate: Trends and Levels
This paper uses multiple data sources and a unified methodology to estimate the trends and levels of the U.S. high school graduation rate. Correcting for important biases that plague previous ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 92 (2), 244-262)
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I21
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3215
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Bruno
Crépon
Marc
Ferracci
Denis
Fougère
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Training the Unemployed in France: How Does It Affect Unemployment Duration and Recurrence?
Econometric evaluations of public-sponsored training programmes generally find little evidence of an impact of such policies on transition rates out of unemployment. We perform the first evaluation ...
(published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2012, 107-108, 175-199.)
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J24, J41, J58
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3214
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Lena
Edlund
Hongbin
Li
Junjian
Yi
Junsen
Zhang
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Sex Ratios and Crime: Evidence from China’s One-Child Policy
Sex ratios (males to females) rose markedly in China in the last two decades, and crime rates nearly doubled. This paper examines whether the two are causally linked. High sex ratios imply fewer ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95(5), 1520-1534. )
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J12, J13, K42
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3213
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Almas
Heshmati
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A Model for Industrial Development of the Federal Region of Kurdistan: Science and Technology Policy, Instruments and Institutions
This report introduces two of the most successful industrial development models of the modern time – the Japanese as a leader and the South Korean as its follower. The objective is to review the ...
(published in: Heshmati, The Economy of Southern Kurdistan, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2010)
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H54, L52, L78, O14, O20, O25
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3212
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Ingo
Geishecker
Holger
Görg
Jakob
R.
Munch
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Do Labour Market Institutions Matter? Micro-Level Wage Effects of International Outsourcing in Three European Countries
This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2010, 146 (1), 179-198)
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F16, J31, C23
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3210
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Ana Rute
Cardoso
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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Mentoring and Segregation: Female-Led Firms and Gender Wage Policies
We explore the impact of mentoring of females and gender segregation on wages using a large longitudinal data set for Portugal. Female managers can protect and mentor female employees by paying them ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2010, 64 (1), 143-163)
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M52, D21, J31, J16
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3209
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Francesco
Pastore
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Employment and Education Policy for Young People in the EU: What Can New Member States Learn from Old Member States?
The EU experience with youth unemployment has changed over recent years with the launch and re-launch of the Lisbon Strategy and the Bologna process. A dramatic shift has taken place from the 1990s ...
(published in: Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations, 2008, 65, 235-254)
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I2, J24, J68, P3
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3208
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Almas
Heshmati
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Review of the Recent Trends in Development Economics Research: With Experience from the Federal Region of Kurdistan
This study is a review of the recent trends in development economics research. The focus is on the development in the recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies ...
(published in: Tocha (ed.), Development Economics Research Trends, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2010)
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D83, F10, F21, I30, L24, O10, O47
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3207
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Angel
Calderón-Madrid
Alexandru
Voicu
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The NAFTA Tide: Lifting the Larger and Better Boats
We use panel data on Mexican manufacturing plants to study the connection between plants’ responses to changes in the economic environment and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth in ...
(revised version published in: Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2011, 20 (4), 467 - 505)
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C13, D24, F13, O47, O54
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3206
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Alexander
Chudik
M. Hashem
Pesaran
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Infinite Dimensional VARs and Factor Models
This paper introduces a novel approach for dealing with the ‘curse of dimensionality’ in the case of large linear dynamic systems. Restrictions on the coefficients of an unrestricted VAR are proposed ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2011, 163 (1), 4-22)
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C10, C33, C51, O40
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3205
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David
L.
Dickinson
Marie Claire
Villeval
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The Peter Principle: An Experiment
The Peter Principle states that, after a promotion, the observed output of promoted employees tends to fall. Lazear (2004) models this principle as resulting from a regression to the mean of the ...
(revised version published as 'Job allocation rules and sorting efficiency: Experimental Outcomes in a Peter Principle Environment.' in: Southern Economic Journal, 2012, 78 (3), 842-859)
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C91, J24, J33, M51, M52
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3204
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Alfonso
Miranda
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Migrant Networks, Migrant Selection, and High School Graduation in Mexico
This paper examines whether family and community migration experience affect the probability of high school graduation in Mexico once unobserved heterogeneity is accounted for. Bivariate random ...
(revised version published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2011, 33, 263-306)
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F22, I21, J61, C35
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3203
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Almas
Heshmati
Chemen
S. J.
Bajalan
Arno
Tausch
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Measurement and Analysis of Child Well-Being in Middle and High Income Countries
Starting from the recent UNICEF publications on child poverty in the developed countries, which received a wide audience in the political and scientific world, in this paper we further analyze the ...
(published in: European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2008, 5(2), 227-249)
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D31, I10, I20, I30, J13
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3201
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Francesco
Figari
Herwig
Immervoll
Horacio
Levy
Holly
Sutherland
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Inequalities Within Couples: Market Incomes and the Role of Taxes and Benefits in Europe
In spite of there being few elements of tax or cash benefit systems in developed countries that are any longer explicitly gender-biased in a discriminatory sense, it is well recognised that they have ...
(revised version published in: Eastern Economic Journal, 2011, 37, 344-366 )
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D31, H31
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3198
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Arno
Tausch
Almas
Heshmati
Chemen
S. J.
Bajalan
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On the Multivariate Analysis of the "Lisbon Process"
Starting from Professor Kornai’s assertion about the necessity to focus on the long-term perspectives of the transformation process, we analyze in this paper the Lisbon performance of the countries ...
(published in: History & Mathematics: Processes and Models of Global Dynamics, Volgograd, Russia, 2010, 92 – 137 )
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C43, C21, F15, R11, F2, F5
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3197
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Robert
M.
Sauer
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Why Develop Open Source Software? The Role of Non-Pecuniary Benefits, Monetary Rewards and Open Source Licence Type
A review of the basic theory of optimal open-source software contributions points to three key factors affecting supply: non-pecuniary benefits, future expected monetary returns, and open-source ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2007, 23 (4), 605-619)
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C61, C80, J24, J44
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3196
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Vibeke
T.
Christensen
Nabanita
Datta Gupta
Martin
V.
Rasmussen
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Hearing Loss and Disability Exit: Measurement Issues and Coping Strategies
Using unique representative data containing self-reported functional and clinically measured hearing ability for the Danish population aged 50-64, we estimate the effect of hearing loss on receipt of ...
(published in Economics & Human Biology, 2017, 24(C), 80-91)
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J26, I12
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3195
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Claudia
Senik
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Direct Evidence on Income Comparisons and their Welfare Effects
This paper provides unheard direct evidence that comparisons exert a significant effect on subjective well-being. It also evaluates the relative importance of different types of benchmarks. Dynamic ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 72 (1), 408-424)
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C25, D31, D63, I31, J31, O57, P3, Z13
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3194
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Werner
Eichhorst
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Der Arbeitsmarkt in Deutschland: Zwischen Strukturreformen und sozialpolitischem Reflex
Die Arbeitsmarktreformen der letzten Jahre haben die strukturellen Anpassungsprobleme des deutschen Beschäftigungsmodells zum Teil gelindert – allerdings sind noch längst nicht alle Schwierigkeiten ...
(published in: Gesundheits- und Sozialpolitik, 2008, 62 (2), 17-30)
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J68, I28, J28
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