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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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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
Bourlès
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
Staghøj
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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3155
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Aslan
Zorlu
Jan
Latten
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Ethnic Sorting in the Netherlands
This paper examines the residential mobility behaviour of migrants and natives in the Netherlands using a rich administrative individual data file. The inclination to move and the choice of ...
(published in: Urban Studies, 2009, 46 (9), 1899-1923)
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J1, J6, R3
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3153
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John
de New
Mathias
Sinning
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Social Deprivation and Exclusion of Immigrants in Germany
This paper aims at providing empirical evidence on social exclusion of immigrants in Germany. We demonstrate that when using a conventional definition of the social inclusion index typically applied ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2010, 56 (4), 715-733)
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F22, I31, Z13
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3151
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Eliane
El Badaoui
Eric
Strobl
Frank
Walsh
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Is There an Informal Employment Wage Penalty? Evidence from South Africa
We estimate the wage penalty associated with working in the South African informal sector. To this end we use a rich data set on non-self employed males that allows one to accurately distinguish ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2008, 56 (3), 683–710)
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J31, O17
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3150
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Leif
Danziger
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The Elasticity of Labor Demand and the Minimum Wage
We show that, contrary to widespread belief, low-pay workers do not generally prefer that the minimum wage rate be increased until the labor demand is unitary elastic. Rather, there exists a critical ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (3), 757-772)
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J38
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3149
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Stefanie
Behncke
Markus
Frölich
Michael
Lechner
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Unemployed and Their Caseworkers: Should They Be Friends or Foes?
In many countries, caseworkers in a public employment office have the dual roles of counselling and monitoring unemployed persons. These roles often conflict with each other leading to important ...
(published in: Journal of Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2010, 173 (1), 67-92)
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J68, C31
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3147
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Pernilla
Andersson Joona
Eskil
Wadensjö
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The Employees of Native and Immigrant Self-Employed
Using unique register data for Sweden we can match self-employed persons to their employees. We analyze the national composition of the employees and ask if self-employed immigrants mainly employ ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2009, 29, 229 - 250)
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J15, J61
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3146
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Martin
Kahanec
Mariapia
Mendola
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Social Determinants of Labor Market Status of Ethnic Minorities in Britain
The labor market outcomes of ethnic minorities in advanced societies and their dependence on social relationships and membership in social networks are important empirical issues with significant ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2009, 29, 167-195 )
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J7, J15, J21
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3144
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René
Böheim
Ana Rute
Cardoso
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Temporary Agency Work in Portugal, 1995–2000
There is widespread belief that workers in temporary agency work (TAW) are subject to poorer working conditions, in particular pay, than comparable workers in the rest of the economy. The first aim ...
(published as 'Temporary help services employment in Portugal, 1995-2000' in: David H. Autor (ed.), Studies of Labor Market Intermediation. Chicago: Chicago Univ. Press and NBER, 2009, 520-560)
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D21, J31, J40
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3143
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Guido
Friebel
Wendelin
Schnedler
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Team Governance: Empowerment or Hierarchical Control
We investigate a team setting in which workers have different degrees of commitment to the outcome of their work. We show that if there are complementarities in production and if the team manager has ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2011, 78 (1-2), 1-13)
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M54, D86
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3142
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Clemens
Fuest
Andreas
Peichl
Thilo
Schaefer
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Is a Flat Tax Feasible in a Grown-up Welfare State?
The success of the flat rate tax in Eastern Europe suggests that this concept could also be a model for the welfare states of Western Europe. The present paper uses a simulation model to analyse the ...
(revised version published as "Is a flat tax reform feasible in a grown-up democracy of Western Europe? A simulation study for Germany" in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2008, 15 (5), 620-636)
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D31, D60, H20
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3141
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Laszlo
Goerke
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Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts and Collective Wage Determination
Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts (UISAs) entitle workers to unemployment benefits at the expense of future pension payments. Therefore, such accounts make unemployment less attractive, ...
(published as 'The Effects of Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts in the Presence of Collective Bargaining Contracts' in: W. Franz, H.-J. Ramser, M. Stadler (Hrsg.), Arbeitsverträge – Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Seminar Ottobeuren, Tübingen, 2008, 37, 199-226)
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J38, J51, J65, J68
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3140
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Martin
Kahanec
Mehmet
S.
Tosun
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Political Economy of Immigration in Germany: Attitudes and Citizenship Aspirations
This paper examines resident foreigners’ interest in German citizenship. The study focuses on the roles played by attitudes towards foreigners, political interest of foreigners, intergenerational ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2009, 43 (2), 263 - 291)
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F22, J15, J22
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3139
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David
G.
Blanchflower
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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What Makes a Young Entrepreneur?
This paper documents some of the patterns in modern microeconomic data on young people’s employment, attitudes and entrepreneurial behaviour. Among other sources, the paper uses the Eurobarometer ...
(published in: Andy Furlong (ed.), International Handbook on Youth and Young Adulthood, Routledge: 2009)
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J21
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3137
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James
Albrecht
Axel
Z.
Anderson
Susan
Vroman
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Search by Committee
We consider the problem of sequential search when the decision to stop searching is made by a committee. We show that a symmetric stationary equilibrium exists and is unique given that the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2010, 145(4), 1386-1407)
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D72, D83
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3136
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Kostas
Mavromaras
Seamus
McGuinness
Nigel
C.
O'Leary
Peter J.
Sloane
Yin
King
Fok
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The Problem of Overskilling in Australia and Britain
This paper examines the parallel trends in education and labour market developments in Australia and Britain. It uses unique information in the WERS and HILDA surveys on reported overskilling in the ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2010, 78(3), 219-238)
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J24, J31
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3135
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Mayssun
El-Attar
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Trust, Child Care Technology Choice and Female Labor Force Participation
In this paper we test the effect of trust on the choice of child care technology. We estimate individual-level trust as a latent attribute using survey questions on personal attitudes by applying the ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2013, 11 (4), 507-544)
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J13, J22, D10
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3134
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Joshua
Angrist
Daniel
W.
Lang
Philip
Oreopoulos
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Incentives and Services for College Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Trial
Many North American college students have trouble satisfying degree requirements in a timely manner. This paper reports on a randomized field experiment involving two strategies designed to improve ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2009, 1(1), 136–63.)
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I21, I28, J24
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3133
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Jocelyn
A.
Lehrer
Vivian
L.
Lehrer
Evelyn
L.
Lehrer
Pamela
Oyarzun
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Sexual Violence in College Students in Chile
Young women's experiences of sexual victimization can have far-reaching consequences, including unwanted pregnancy and increased risk of psychological, sexual, and reproductive health difficulties; ...
(published in: International Family Planning Perspectives, 2007, 33(4), 168-175)
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J4, J16, I12, I18
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3132
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Arghya
Ghosh
Takao
Kato
Hodaka
Morita
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Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement, and Competitive Pressure
Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, prior studies ignored a distinction between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technology and continuous ...
(revised version published as 'Incremental innovation and competitive pressure in the presence of discrete innovation' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 135, 1-14)
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L10, L60, M50, O30
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3130
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David
G.
Blanchflower
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Entrepreneurship in the United States
In this paper I examine changes in self-employment that have occurred since the early 1980s in the United States. It is a companion paper to a recent equivalent paper relating to the UK. Data on ...
(published in: Annals of Finance, 2009, 5 (3-4), 361-396)
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J15
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3128
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Peter
Haan
Katharina
Wrohlich
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Optimal Taxation: The Design of Child Related Cash- and In-Kind-Benefits
This paper contributes to the debate about the optimal design of tax-transfer systems. Based on the theory of optimal taxation, combined with microsimulation and microeconometric techniques we derive ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2010, 11(3), 278-301)
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C23, C25, J22, J64
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3126
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Alessandra
Catozzella
Marco
Vivarelli
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The Catalysing Role of In-House R & D in Fostering the Complementarity of Innovative Inputs
The aim of this study is to test the possible catalysing role of in-house R&D in fostering the complementarity of innovative inputs on a sample of 3045 manufacturing firms drawn from the third ...
(published in: Industry and Innovation, 2014, 21, 179-196 )
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O31
|
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3125
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John
S.
Earle
Álmos
Telegdy
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Ownership and Wages: Estimating Public-Private and Foreign-Domestic Differentials Using LEED from Hungary, 1986–2003
Studies of public-private and foreign-domestic wage differentials face difficulties distinguishing ownership effects from correlated characteristics of workers and firms. This paper estimates these ...
(published in: Analysis of Firms and Employees - Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches (F. Andersson, S. Bender, J. Lane, K. Shaw, and T. von Wachter, eds.), NBER and University of Chicago, 2008.)
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D21, G34, J23, J31, L33, P31
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3124
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Hiroshi
Ono
Madeline
Zavodny
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Immigrants, English Ability and the Digital Divide
This study examines the extent and causes of inequalities in information technology (IT) ownership and use between natives and immigrants in the U.S., focusing on the role of English ability. The ...
(published in: Social Forces, 2008, 86 (4), 1455-1480)
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J61, F22, O33
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3123
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Maarten
Lindeboom
France
Portrait
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Long-Run Longevity Effects of a Nutritional Shock Early in Life: The Dutch Potato Famine of 1846–1847
Background: Nutrition in utero and infancy may causally affect health and mortality at old ages. Until now, very few studies have demonstrated long-run effects on survival of early life nutrition, ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2010, 29 (5), 617-629)
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N33, J10, I10
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3121
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Charles
Bellemare
Luc
Bissonnette
Sabine
Kröger
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Flexible Approximation of Subjective Expectations Using Probability Questions: An Application to the Investment Game
We use spline interpolation to approximate the subjective cumulative distribution function of an economic agent over the future realization of a continuous (possibly censored) random variable. The ...
(published separately as ‘Flexible Approximation of Subjective Expectations Using Probability Questions ‘in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2012, 30 (1), 125 - 131 and as ‘Bounding Preference Parameters under Different Assumptions about Beliefs: a Partial Identification Approach’ in: Experimental Economics, 2010, 13, 334 - 345)
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C81, C10, D39
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3120
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Maria
Knoth
Humlum
Kristin
J.
Kleinjans
Helena
Skyt
Nielsen
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An Economic Analysis of Identity and Career Choice
Standard economic models which focus on pecuniary payoffs cannot explain why there are highly able individuals who choose careers with low pecuniary returns. Therefore, financial incentives are ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2012, 50 (1), 39-61)
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I21
|
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3117
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Andreas
Roider
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Risk, Delegation, and Project Scope
This paper studies a partial-contracting model where an agent may provide effort to increase a project’s scope before some later decisions have to be taken. Consistent with existing empirical ...
(revised version published as 'Delegation, Risk, and Project Scope ' in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2009, 165 (2), 193-209)
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D86, D21, D23, G34, L14
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3114
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Marco
Caliendo
Alexander
S.
Kritikos
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Die reformierte Gründungsförderung für Arbeitslose: Chancen und Risiken
Support schemes for unemployed aiming for self-employment have been recently reformed several times. In 2003, the “start-up subsidy” was added to the existing “bridging allowance”. In 2006 both ...
(published in: Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 2009, 10(2), 189-213)
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J68, M13
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3112
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Pedro
S.
Martins
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Dismissals for Cause: The Difference That Just Eight Paragraphs Can Make
This paper provides evidence about the effects of dismissals-for-cause requirements, a specific component of employment protection legislation that has received little attention despite its potential ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 27(2), 257–279, 2009)
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E24, J64, J65
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3110
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Andrea
Ichino
Guido
Schwerdt
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
Josef
Zweimüller
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Too Old to Work, Too Young to Retire?
We use firm closure data from social security records for Austria 1978-1998 to investigate the effect of age on employment prospects. We rely on exact matching to compare workers displaced due to ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2017, 9, 14-29)
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J14, J65
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