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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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3097
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Ruth
Uwaifo Oyelere
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Africa’s Education Enigma? The Nigerian Story
In the last two decades, the social and economic benefits of formal education in Sub-Saharan Africa have been debated. Anecdotal evidence points to low returns to education in Africa. Unfortunately, ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 91 (1), 128-139 )
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J24, I21, I29, O12
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3096
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Eric
D.
Gould
Eyal
Winter
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Interactions Between Workers and the Technology of Production: Evidence from Professional Baseball
This paper examines how the effort choices of workers within the same firm interact with each other. In contrast to the existing literature, we show that workers can affect the productivity of their ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, February 2009, 91(1), 188–200)
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J2
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3095
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Jose
C.
Galdo
Jeffrey
A.
Smith
Dan
A.
Black
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Bandwidth Selection and the Estimation of Treatment Effects with Unbalanced Data
This paper addresses the selection of smoothing parameters for estimating the average treatment effect on the treated using matching methods. Because precise estimation of the expected counterfactual ...
(published in: Annales d'Economie et Statistique, 2008, 91-92, 189-216)
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C13, C14
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3094
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Rita
K.
Almeida
Pedro
Carneiro
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Inequality and Employment in a Dual Economy: Enforcement of Labor Regulation in Brazil
This paper studies the impact of an increase in the enforcement of labor regulations on unemployment and inequality, using city level data from Brazil. We find that stricter enforcement (affecting ...
(substantially revised and extended version available as IZA DP No. 5902)
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J23, J30, K31, D63
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3093
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Rachel
Connelly
Jean
Kimmel
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The Role of Nonstandard Work Hours in Maternal Caregiving for Young Children
This paper examines the effect of the timing of mothers’ daily work schedules on the amount of maternal caregiving she engages in on that same day. We look at total caregiving time on weekdays, early ...
(published as 'The Role of Non-standard Work Status in Parental Caregiving for Young Children ' in Eastern Economic Journal, 2011, 37 (2), 248-269 )
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J13, J22
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3090
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Tim
Callan
Arthur
van Soest
John
R.
Walsh
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Tax Structure and Female Labour Market Participation: Evidence from Ireland
How great an effect does the structure of income taxes have on women’s labour market participation? This issue is investigated using a discrete choice static labour supply model for married couples ...
(published in: Labour, 2009, 23(1), 1-35)
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H31, J22
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3088
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Bertil
Holmlund
Martin
Söderström
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Estimating Income Responses to Tax Changes: A Dynamic Panel Data Approach
Recent research on the behavioral effects of income taxes has to a large extent focused on the elasticity of taxable income with respect to the net-of-tax rate, i.e., one minus the marginal tax rate. ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2011, 11 (1))
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H24, H31, J22
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3087
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Nauro
F.
Campos
Menelaos
G.
Karanasos
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Growth, Volatility and Political Instability: Non-Linear Time-Series Evidence for Argentina, 1896–2000
What is the relationship between economic growth and its volatility? Does political instability affect growth directly or indirectly, through volatility? This paper tries to answer such questions ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 100 (1), 135-137)
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C14, O40, E23, D72
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3086
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
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Fatal Fluctuations? Cyclicality in Infant Mortality in India
This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India and investigates likely mechanisms. A recent OECD-dominated literature shows that mortality at most ages is ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 93 (1), 7-19)
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I12, J10, O49
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3085
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Stefanie
Behncke
Markus
Frölich
Michael
Lechner
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Targeting Labour Market Programmes: Results from a Randomized Experiment
We evaluate a randomized experiment of a statistical support system developed to assist caseworkers in Swiss employment offices in choosing appropriate active labour market programmes for their ...
(published in: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik / Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 145 (3), 221-268)
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J68
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3084
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Jaan
Masso
Raul
Eamets
Hanna
Kanep
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Estimating the Need for PhDs n the Academic Sector via a Survey of Employers
The aim of the current paper is to estimate the need for new PhDs in the Estonian academic sector for the 5-year period 2007-2012 using a survey of employers, such as universities, institutions of ...
(revised version is published in: Baltic Journal of Economics, 2009, 9 (1), 5-29)
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I2, J4, O3
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3082
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Ruth
Uwaifo Oyelere
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Disparities in Labor Market Outcomes across Geopolitical Regions in Nigeria: Fact or Fantasy?
Differences in geopolitical regions of Nigeria are not debatable. However, there is no clear consensus on the dimension of these disparities. In this paper, claims of geopolitical region disparities ...
(published in: Journal of African Development, 2008, 10 (1), 11-31)
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O5, I0, J70, O18
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3080
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Christian
Dustmann
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Return Migration, Investment in Children, and Intergenerational Mobility: Comparing Sons of Foreign and Native Born Fathers
This paper studies parental investment in education and intergenerational earnings mobility for father-son pairs with native and foreign born fathers. We illustrate within a simple model that for ...
(Published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2008, 43(2), 299 - 324)
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J15, J24, J62
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3079
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Yuriy
Gorodnichenko
Jan
Svejnar
Katherine
Terrell
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When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Emerging Market Economies
We use firm-level data and national input-output tables from 17 countries over the 2002-2005 period to test new and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the ...
(published in: Klaus Liebscher, Josef Christl, Peter Mooslechner (eds.), Foreign Direct Investment in Europe: A Changing Landscape, 2007)
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F23, M16, O16, P23
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3078
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Tim
Callan
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Analysing the Effects of Tax-Benefit Reforms on Income Distribution: A Decomposition Approach
To assess the impact of tax-benefit policy changes on income distribution over time, we suggest a methodology based on counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposing changes in ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2010, 8 (1), 1 -21)
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H23, H53, I32
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3077
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Wendelin
Schnedler
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You Don't Always Get What You Pay For
Consider a principal-agent relationship in which more effort by the agent raises the likelihood of success. Does rewarding success, i.e., paying a bonus, increase effort in this case? I find that ...
(published as ' You Don't Always Get What You Pay For: Bonuses, Perceived Income and Effort ' in: German Economic Review, 2011, 12 (1), 1 - 10)
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D8, J3, M5
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3076
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Giovanna
Aguilar
Silvio
Rendon
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Matching Bias in Labor Demand Estimation
Using a matched firm-worker dataset, we show both theoretically and empirically that positive assortative matching between firms and workers leads to an underestimation of the absolute value of wage ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 100 (2), 297-299)
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J23, J32
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3075
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David
G.
Blanchflower
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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Is Well-Being U-Shaped over the Life Cycle?
We explore the idea that happiness and psychological well-being are U-shaped in age. The main difficulty with this argument is that there are likely to be omitted cohort effects (earlier generations ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2008, 66 (8), 1733-49)
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D1, I3
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3074
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Teresa
Casey
Christian
Dustmann
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Intergenerational Transmission of Language Capital and Economic Outcomes
This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of language capital amongst immigrants, and the effect of language deficiencies on the economic performance of second generation immigrants. ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2008, 43 (3), 660 - 687)
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J15, J24, J62
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3073
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Nicolai
Kristensen
Niels
C.
Westergård-Nielsen
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Job Satisfaction and Co-worker Wages: Status or Signal?
This paper uses matched employer-employee panel data to show that individual job satisfaction is higher when other workers in the same establishment are better-paid. This runs contrary to a large ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (536), 430–447)
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C23, C25, D84, J28, J31, J33
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3072
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Pedro
Carneiro
Costas
Meghir
Matthias
Parey
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Maternal Education, Home Environments and the Development of Children and Adolescents
We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioral problems, grade repetition and obesity. We address endogeneity of maternal schooling by ...
(revised version published in: Journal of European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (S1), 123–160)
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J31
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3071
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Katrin
Assenmacher-Wesche
M. Hashem
Pesaran
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Assessing Forecast Uncertainties in a VECX Model for Switzerland: An Exercise in Forecast Combination across Models and Observation Windows
We investigate the effect of forecast uncertainty in a cointegrating vector error correction model for Switzerland. Forecast uncertainty is evaluated in three different dimensions. First, we ...
(published in: National Institute Economic Review, 2008, 203 (1), 91–108)
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C53, C32
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3070
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Anzelika
Zaiceva
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Children, Kitchen, Church: Does Ethnicity Matter?
Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labor supply. This paper examines the strength of those attitudes using time diaries on childcare, food management and religious activities ...
(substantially revised version published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2014, 12 (1): 83-103. [Open Access])
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J22, J15, J16
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3069
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Konstantinos
Tatsiramos
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The Effect of Job Displacement on the Transitions to Employment and Early Retirement for Older Workers in Four European Countries
Despite the increased frequency of job loss for older workers in Europe, little is known on its effect on the work-retirement decision. Employing individual data from the European Community Household ...
(revised version published as "Job displacement and the transitions to re-employment and early retirement for non-employed older workers" in: European Economic Review, 2010, 54 (4), 517-535)
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J14, J26, J63, J64
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3067
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Christina
Gathmann
Uta
Schönberg
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How General Is Human Capital? A Task-Based Approach
This paper studies how portable skill accumulated in the labor market are. Using rich data on tasks performed in occupations, we propose the concept of task-specific human capital to measure the ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2010, 28 (1), 1 - 49)
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J24, J31
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3066
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Marika
Karanassou
Hector
Sala
Pablo
F.
Salvador
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Capital Accumulation and Unemployment: New Insights on the Nordic Experience
This paper takes a fresh look at the analysis of labour market dynamics and argues that capital accumulation plays a fundamental role in shaping unemployment movements. This role has generally been ...
(published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2008, 32 (6), 977-1001)
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E22, E24, J21
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3065
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John
T.
Addison
Clive
R.
Belfield
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The Determinants of Performance Appraisal Systems: A Note (Do Brown and Heywood’s Results for Australia Hold Up for Britain?)
This paper offers a replication for Britain of Brown and Heywood’s analysis of the determinants of performance appraisal in Australia. Although there are some important limiting differences between ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2008, 46 (3), 521 - 531)
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J5, L23, M5
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3064
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Randolph
Sloof
Mirjam
C.
van Praag
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Performance Measurement, Expectancy and Agency Theory: An Experimental Study
Theoretical analyses of (optimal) performance measures are typically performed within the realm of the linear agency model. This model implies that, for a given compensation scheme, the agent’s ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 67 (3-4), 794 - 809)
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C91, J33
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3063
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Measuring Ethnic Identity and Its Impact on Economic Behavior
The paper advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models its determinants and explores its explanatory power for various types of their economic performance. The ethnosizer, a ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2008, 6 (2-3), 424-433)
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F22, J15, J16, Z10
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3062
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Laurens
Cherchye
Bram
De Rock
Frederic
Vermeulen
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The Revealed Preference Approach to Collective Consumption Behavior: Testing, Recovery and Welfare Analysis
We extend the nonparametric ‘revealed preference’ methodology for analyzing collective consumption behavior (with consumption externalities and public consumption), to render it useful for empirical ...
(published as 'The revealed preference approach to collective consumption behavior: testing and sharing rule recovery' in: Review of Economic Studies, 2011, 78 (1), 175 - 198)
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D11, D12, D13, C14
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3061
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Maite
Blázquez Cuesta
Silvio
Rendon
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Over-Education in Multilingual Economies: Evidence from Catalonia
Catalonia’s economy is characterized by linguistic diversity and provides a unique opportunity to measure the incidence of language proficiency on over-education, particularly, whether individuals ...
(published online in: International Migration, 2012, [Early View))
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J24, J41, I20, J61, J70
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3057
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John
Micklewright
Sylke
V.
Schnepf
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Who Gives for Overseas Development?
Individuals’ donations to overseas charities are an important source of funding for development assistance from rich industrialised countries. But little is known about the nature of these charitable ...
(published in: Journal of Social Policy, 2009, 38(2), 317-341)
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D12, D64, F35, L31
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3056
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Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Migrant Ethnic Identity: Concept and Policy Implications
With globalization, the size of migration and the value of ethnicity is rising. Also Cyprus undergoes a strong process of change while experiencing large inflows of migration. The paper investigates ...
(published in: Ekonomia, 2007, 10 (1), 1-17)
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F22, J15, J16, Z10
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3055
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David
G.
Blanchflower
Alex
Bryson
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The Wage Impact of Trade Unions in the UK Public and Private Sectors
This paper draws attention to an increase in the size of the union membership wage premium in the UK public sector relative to the private sector. We find the public sector membership wage premium is ...
(published in: Economica, 2010, 77 (305), 92-209)
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J31
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3054
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Kees
Cools
Mirjam
C.
van Praag
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The Value Relevance of Top Executive Departures: Evidence from the Netherlands
On theoretical grounds, monitoring of top executives by the (supervisory) board is expected to be value relevant. The empirical evidence is ambiguous and we analyze three non-competing explanations ...
(published in: Journal of Corporate Finance 13(5), 721-742)
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J32, J33, M12, M51, G3
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3053
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Rute
Mendes
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Maarten
Lindeboom
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An Empirical Assessment of Assortative Matching in the Labor Market
In labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, the matching between firms and workers may be assortative, meaning that the most productive workers and firms team up. We investigate this with ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (6), 919-929)
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J21, J24, D24, J63
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3052
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Astrid
Kunze
Kenneth
Troske
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Comparative Advantage or Discrimination? Studying Male-Female Wage Differentials Using Displaced Workers
In this paper we empirically examine differences in search behavior between men and women. We assess hypotheses regarding duration of search, wages and tenure. The hypotheses are derived from two ...
(revised version published as 'Gender Differences in Job Search Among Young Workers: A Study using Displaced Workers in the United States', Southern Economic Journal, 2015, 82(1), 185-207. )
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J0, J7
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3051
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Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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What Works Best for Getting the Unemployed Back to Work: Employment Services or Small-Business Assistance Programmes? Evidence from Romania
Recent empirical evidence has found that employment services and small-business assistance programmes are often successful at getting the unemployed back to work. One important concern of policy ...
(published as 'Channels Through Which Public Employment Services and Small-Business Assistance Programs Work' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72 (4), 458-485)
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J21, J23, J31, J64, J65, J68
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3050
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Rowan
Roberts
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Ethnic Identity and Immigrant Homeownership
Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper ...
(published in: Urban Studies, 2009, 46 (9), 1879-1898)
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R21, F22, J15, Z10
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3049
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Guido
Ascari
Christian
Merkl
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Real Wage Rigidities and the Cost of Disinflations
This paper analyzes the cost of disinflations under real wage rigidities in a micro-founded New Keynesian model. The consensus is that real wage rigidities can be a useful mechanism to induce the ...
(published in: Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 2009, 41 (2-3), 417-435)
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E31, E50
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3048
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Francesca
Mazzolari
Giuseppe
Ragusa
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Spillovers from High-Skill Consumption to Low-Skill Labor Markets
Census data show that since 1980 low-skill workers in the United States have been increasingly employed in the provision of non-tradeable time-intensive services – such as food preparation and ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (1), 74-86)
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J21, J22, J23, J31
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3047
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Ricardo
A.
López
Jens
Suedekum
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Vertical Industry Relations, Spillovers and Productivity: Evidence from Chilean Plants
We use disaggregated data on Chilean plants, and the Chilean input-output table to examine the impact of agglomeration spillovers on total factor productivity (TFP). In common with previous studies, ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2009, 49 (4), 721-747)
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R11, R15, O18, O54
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3046
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Ian
Gazeley
Andrew
T.
Newell
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Poverty in Britain in 1904: An Early Social Survey Rediscovered
Until now there have been no national estimates of the extent of poverty in Britain at the turn of the 20th century. This paper introduces a newly-discovered household budget data set for the early ...
(published as 'Poverty in Edwardian Britain' in: Economic History Review, 2011, 64 (1), 52 - 71)
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N33, O15
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3045
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Pieter
A.
Gautier
José
L.
Moraga-González
Ronald
P.
Wolthoff
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Structural Estimation of Search Intensity: Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?
We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influences the ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 84, 123-139)
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J64, J31, J21, E24, C14
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3044
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Richard
Blundell
Mike
Brewer
Marco
Francesconi
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Job Changes and Hours Changes: Understanding the Path of Labour Supply Adjustment
This paper uses British panel data to investigate single women’s labour supply changes in response to three tax and benefit policy reforms that occurred in the 1990s. These reforms changed ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2008, 26 (3), 421 - 453)
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C23, H31, I38, J12, J13, J22
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3043
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Joachim
R.
Frick
Markus
M.
Grabka
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Item Non-Response and Imputation of Annual Labor Income in Panel Surveys from a Cross-National Perspective
Using data on annual individual labor income from three representative panel datasets (German SOEP, British BHPS, Australian HILDA) we investigate a) the selectivity of item non-response (INR) and b) ...
(published in: Janet A. Harkness et al. (eds): Survey Methods in Multicultural, Multinational, and Multiregional Contexts, Wiley & Sons, 2010)
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J31, C81, D33
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3042
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Paul
Frijters
Michael A.
Shields
Timothy
J.
Hatton
Richard
M.
Martin
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Childhood Economic Conditions and Length of Life: Evidence from the UK Boyd Orr Cohort, 1937–2005
We study the importance of childhood socioeconomic conditions in explaining differences in life expectancy using data from a sample of around 5,000 children collected in the UK in 1937-39, who have ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2010, 29 (1), 39-47)
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I12
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3041
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Louis
Lévy-Garboua
Claude
Montmarquette
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Individual Responsibility and the Funding of Collective Goods
When a deficit occurs in the funding of collective goods, it is usually covered by raising the amount of taxes or by rationing the supply of the goods. This article compares the efficiency of these ...
(revised and augmented version published as 'Voluntary Contributions to a Mutual Insurance Pool' in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2017, 19 (1), 198-218)
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H41, H21, H30, H50, C91
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3040
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Matthew
Rabin
Georg
Weizsäcker
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Narrow Bracketing and Dominated Choices
An experiment by Tversky and Kahneman (1981) illustrates that people's tendency to evaluate risky decisions separately can lead them to choose combinations of choices that are first-order ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2009, 99 (4), 1508-1543)
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B49
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3039
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Wiji
Arulampalam
Mark
Stewart
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Simplified Implementation of the Heckman Estimator of the Dynamic Probit Model and a Comparison with Alternative Estimators
This paper presents a convenient shortcut method for implementing the Heckman estimator of the dynamic random effects probit model using standard software. It then compares the three estimators ...
(completely revised published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 71 (5), 659-681)
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C23, C25, C13, C51
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