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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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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
Fougčre
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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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3192
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Madeline
Zavodny
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Is There a ‘Marriage Premium’ for Gay Men?
It is well-known that married men earn more than comparable single men, with typical estimates of the male marriage premium in the range of 10 to 20 percent. Some research also finds that cohabiting ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2008, 6 (4), 369-389)
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J12, J16
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3191
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Marcos
Chamon
Eswar
Prasad
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Why Are Saving Rates of Urban Households in China Rising?
From 1995 to 2005, the average urban household saving rate in China rose by 8 percentage points, to about one quarter of disposable income. We use household-level data to explain why households are ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2010, 2 (1), 93-130)
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D12, E21, O16
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3188
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Nabanita
Datta Gupta
Marianne
Simonsen
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Non-Cognitive Child Outcomes and Universal High Quality Child Care
Exploiting a rich panel data child survey merged with administrative records along with a pseudo-experiment generating variation in the take-up of pre-school across municipalities, we provide ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (1-2), 30-43)
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J13, J18
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3187
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Carmen
Pagés
Marco
Stampini
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No Education, No Good Jobs? Evidence on the Relationship between Education and Labor Market Segmentation
This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three Latin American and three transition countries. It looks separately at the markets ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2009, 37(3), 387-401)
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J21, J24, J31, J63
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3186
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Eswar
Prasad
Raghuram
G.
Rajan
Arvind
Subramanian
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Foreign Capital and Economic Growth
We document the recent phenomenon of “uphill” flows of capital from nonindustrial to industrial countries and analyze whether this pattern of capital flows has hurt growth in nonindustrial economies ...
(published in: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2007 (1), 153-230)
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F3, F4, E2, O4
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3185
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Danuta
Biterman
Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Torun
Österberg
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Economic and Ethnic Polarisation among Children in Sweden’s Three Metropolitan Areas
This paper investigates certain issues of economic and ethnic segregation from the perspective of children in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden by using a relative new operationalization of ...
(published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften / Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2008, 128 (1), 121 - 152)
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D31, J13, J15
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3184
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Gary
S.
Fields
Robert
Duval Hernández
Samuel
Freije-Rodriguez
Maria
Laura
Sanchez Puerta
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Earnings Mobility in Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela: Testing the Divergence of Earnings and the Symmetry of Mobility Hypotheses
This paper examines changes in individual earnings during positive and negative growth periods in three Latin American economies: Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela. We ask whether those individuals ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2015, 13, 103-128.)
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D31, J3, J6, O54
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3183
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Giovanni
Facchini
Anna Maria
Mayda
Prachi
Mishra
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Do Interest Groups Affect Immigration?
While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration, there is no systematic empirical evidence on this issue. To motivate our analysis, we develop a simple ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2011, 85, 114-128)
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F22, J61
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3182
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Damon
Clark
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Selective Schools and Academic Achievement
In this paper I consider the impact of attending a selective high school in the UK. Students are assigned to these schools on the basis of a test taken in primary school and, using data on these ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2010, 10 (1))
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C21, I21
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3181
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Solomon
Polachek
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Earnings Over the Lifecycle: The Mincer Earnings Function and Its Applications
In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population. In the years since Mincer’s seminal work, he as well as his students and ...
(published in: Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2008, 4 (3), 165-272)
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J1, J3, J7
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3180
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Sebastian
Findeisen
Jens
Suedekum
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Industry Churning and the Evolution of Cities: Evidence for Germany
In this paper we show that the recent model by Duranton (AER, 2007) performs remarkably well in replicating the city size distribution of West Germany, much better than the simple rank-size rule ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2008, 64 (2), 326-339)
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O18, R11, R12
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3179
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David
McKenzie
Yaye
Seynabou
Sakho
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Does It Pay Firms to Register for Taxes? The Impact of Formality on Firm Profitability
This paper estimates the impact of registering for taxes on firm profits in Bolivia, the country with the highest levels of informality in Latin America. A new survey of micro and small firms enables ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 91(1), 15-24)
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O17, O12, D21
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3177
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John
Micklewright
Sylke
V.
Schnepf
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How Reliable Are Income Data Collected with a Single Question?
Income is an important correlate for numerous phenomena in the social sciences. But many surveys collect data with just a single question covering all forms of income. This raises issues of quality, ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2010, 173 (2), 409-430)
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D31, C8
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3176
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Štepán
Jurajda
Katherine
Terrell
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Regional Unemployment and Human Capital in Transition Economies
Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2009, 17 (2), 241–274)
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E24, J0, J61
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3174
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Eric
V.
Edmonds
Philip
Salinger
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Economic Influences on Child Migration Decisions: Evidence from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh
Why do young children migrate without a parent? We consider the economic components of the answer to this question by examining the correlates of out-migration for children under 15 whose mother's ...
(published in: Indian Growth and Development Review, 2008, 1(1), 32-56)
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J82, O15
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3173
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David
McKenzie
Johan
Mistiaen
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Surveying Migrant Households: A Comparison of Census-Based, Snowball, and Intercept Point Surveys
Few representative surveys of households of migrants exist, limiting our ability to study the effects of international migration on sending families. We report the results of an experiment designed ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2009, 172 (2), 339-360)
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C42, O12
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3172
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Lena
Nekby
Magnus
Rödin
Gülay
Özcan
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Acculturation Identity and Educational Attainment
This paper explores the identity formation of a cohort of students with immigrant backgrounds in Sweden and the consequences of identity for subsequent educational attainment. Unique for this study ...
(updated version published as 'Acculturation Identity and Higher Education. Is There a Trade-off Between Ethnic Identity and Education? in: International Migration Review, 2009, 43 (4), 938 - 973)
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J15, J16, J21, Z13
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3170
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Andrew
E.
Clark
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Born To Be Mild? Cohort Effects Don’t (Fully) Explain Why Well-Being Is U-Shaped in Age
The statistical analysis of cross-section data very often reveals a U-shaped relationship between subjective well-being and age. This paper uses fourteen waves of British panel data to distinguish ...
(published in: Mariano Rojas (ed.), The Economics of Happiness: How the Easterlin Paradox Transformed our Understanding of Well-being and Progress, New York: Springer, 2019)
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C23, I3, J11
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3169
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Erin
L.
Krupka
Roberto
A.
Weber
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The Focusing and Informational Effects of Norms on Pro-Social Behavior
This paper reports an experiment examining the effect of social norms on pro-social behavior. We test two predictions derived from work in psychology regarding the influence of norms. The first is a ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2009, 30 (3), 307-320)
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D63, C91
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3168
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Sourafel
Girma
Holger
Görg
Eric
Strobl
Frank
Walsh
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Creating Jobs Through Public Subsidies: An Empirical Analysis
This paper analyses the impact of government grants on labour demand using plant level data for manufacturing industry in Ireland. Our data consists of a large sample of plants and their complete ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15(6), 1179-1199)
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H25, J23
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3167
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Martin
Kahanec
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Ethnic Competition and Specialization
Are ethnic specialization and thus a downward sloping labor demand curve fundamental features of labor market competition between ethnic groups? In a general equilibrium model, this paper argues that ...
(published in: Gil Epstein and Ira Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 205-229)
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J15, J24, J70, O15
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3166
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Philippe
Aghion
Philippe
Askenazy
Renaud
Bourlčs
Gilbert
Cette
Nicolas
Dromel
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Education, Market Rigidities and Growth
This note investigates the effects of the education level, product market rigidities and employment protection legislation on growth. It exploits macro-panel data for OECD countries. For countries ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2009, 102 (1), 62-65)
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O47, J24, J68, L40, O57
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3165
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Jonas
Staghřj
Michael
Svarer
Michael
Rosholm
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A Statistical Programme Assignment Model
When treatment effects of active labour market programmes are heterogeneous in an observable way across the population, the allocation of the unemployed into different programmes becomes a ...
(revised version published as "Choosing the Best Training Programme: Is there a Case for Statistical Treatment Rules?" in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72 (2), 172-201)
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J64, J68
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3164
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Markus
Poschke
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Employment Protection, Firm Selection, and Growth
This paper analyzes the effect of firing costs on aggregate productivity growth. For this purpose, a model of endogenous growth through selection and imitation is developed. It is consistent with ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2009, 56(8), 1074-1085)
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E24, J63, J65, L11, L16, O40
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3161
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Riccardo
Rovelli
Randolph
Luca
Bruno
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Labor Market Policies and Outcomes: Cross Country Evidence for the EU-27
We conduct a comparative analysis of Labor Market Policies and outcomes for the EU member states, for the period 2000-2005. We document the main differences in Labor Market Policies across EU ...
(substantially revised and rewritten version available as IZA DP No. 3502)
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J08, J38, J68
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3160
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Thomas
Cornelissen
Christian
Pfeifer
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The Impact of Participation in Sports on Educational Attainment: New Evidence from Germany
We analyze the impact of exercising sports during childhood and adolescence on educational attainment. The theoretical framework is based on models of allocation of time and educational productivity. ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (1), 94-103)
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I21, J13, J22, J24
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3159
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Andrew
J.
Oswald
Nattavudh
Powdthavee
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Death, Happiness, and the Calculation of Compensatory Damages
This paper studies the mental distress caused by bereavement. The largest emotional losses are from the death of a spouse; the second-worst in severity are the losses from the death of a child; the ...
(published in: Journal of Legal Studies, 2008, 37(S2), S217-S252)
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D1, I3, I31, K0
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3158
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Monojit
Chatterji
Karen
A.
Mumford
Peter
N.
Smith
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The Public-Private Sector Gender Wage Differential: Evidence from Matched Employee-Workplace Data
Using new linked employee-workplace data for Britain in 2004, we find that the nature of the public private pay gap differs between genders and that of the gender pay gap differs between sectors. The ...
(published as 'The public-private sector gender wage differential in Britain: evidence from matched employee-workplace data ' in: Applied Economics, 2011, 43 (26), 3819 - 3833)
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J3, J7
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3157
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Peter
Haan
Michal
Myck
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Safety Net Still in Transition: Labour Market Incentive Effects of Extending Social Support in Poland
Many aspects of the economic transition which started in 1989 in Poland are by now complete. However, the route Polish governments have so far taken concerning the system of support for low-income ...
(revised version published as 'Safety net still in transition: labour market incentive effects of social support in Poland and Germany' in: Bank i Kredyt, 2010, 41 (3), 5-34)
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J21, I38, D13
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3156
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Magnus
Lofstrom
Timothy
Bates
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African Americans' Pursuit of Self-Employment
This study examines causes of black/white gaps in business ownership and self-employment rates by analyzing small-business entry and exit patterns. We proceed by recognizing heterogeneity in business ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2013, 40 (1), 73-86)
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J15, L26
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