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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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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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3038
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Mariano
Bosch
William
F.
Maloney
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Comparative Analysis of Labor Market Dynamics Using Markov Processes: An Application to Informality
This paper discusses a set of statistics for examining and comparing labor market dynamics based on the estimation of continuous time Markov transition processes. It then uses these to establish ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (4), 621-631)
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C14, J21, J24, J64, O17
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3037
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Oddbjørn
Raaum
Bernt
Bratsberg
Knut
Røed
Eva
Österbacka
Tor
Eriksson
Markus
Jäntti
Robin
Naylor
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Marital Sorting, Household Labor Supply, and Intergenerational Earnings Mobility across Countries
We present comparable evidence on intergenerational earnings mobility for Denmark, Finland, Norway, the UK and the US, with a focus on the role of gender and marital status. We confirm that earnings ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2007, 7 (2), Article 7)
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J3, J62
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3036
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Aslan
Zorlu
Clara
H.
Mulder
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Initial and Subsequent Location Choices of Immigrants to the Netherlands
The initial settlement behaviour and the subsequent mobility of immigrants who arrived in the Netherlands in 1999 are examined using rich administrative individual data. The study considers the ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2008, 42 (2), 245-264)
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F22, J15, R23
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3035
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Catia
Batista
Aitor
Lacuesta
Pedro
C.
Vicente
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Brain Drain or Brain Gain? Micro Evidence from an African Success Story
Does emigration really drain human capital accumulation in origin countries? This paper explores a unique household survey purposely designed and conducted to answer this specific question for the ...
(substantially revised version available as IZA DP No. 5048)
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F22, J24, O15, O55
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3034
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Andrew
Grodner
Thomas
J.
Kniesner
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Labor Supply with Social Interactions: Econometric Estimates and Their Tax Policy Implications
Our econometric research allows for a possible response of a person's hours worked to hours typically worked by members of a multidimensional labor market reference group that considers demographics ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 28, 1-23)
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J22, Z13
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3033
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Christian
Merkl
Dennis
J.
Snower
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Monetary Persistence, Imperfect Competition, and Staggering Complementarities
This paper explores the influence of wage and price staggering on monetary persistence. We show that, for plausible parameter values, wage and price staggering are complementary in generating ...
(published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2009, 13 (1), 81-106)
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E40, E50, E52
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3032
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M. Hashem
Pesaran
Elisa
Tosetti
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Large Panels with Common Factors and Spatial Correlations
This paper considers the statistical analysis of large panel data sets where even after conditioning on common observed effects the cross section units might remain dependently distributed. This ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2011, 161 (2), 182-202)
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C14, D13, D91, L14, O12
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3031
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Arnaud
Chevalier
Stephen
Gibbons
Andy
Thorpe
Martin
Snell
Sherria
Hoskins
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Students' Academic Self-Perception
Participation rates in higher education differ persistently between some groups in society. Using two British datasets we investigate whether this gap is rooted in students’ misperception of their ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2009, 28 (6), 716-727)
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I21, J16, Y80
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3029
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Peter
A.
Riach
Judy
Rich
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An Experimental Investigation of Age Discrimination in the English Labor Market
Carefully-matched pairs of written job applications were made to test for age discrimination in hiring. A twenty-one year-old and a thirty-nine year-old woman applied for jobs where a “new graduate” ...
(published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2010, 99-100, 169-186)
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J71, C93
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3028
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Dario
Sciulli
Antonio
Menezes
José
António Cabral
Vieira
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Unemployment Duration and Disability: Evidence from Portugal
In this paper we use Portuguese data on individual (multiple) unemployment spells and apply semi-parametric duration models to investigate the effects of different types of disabilities on ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2012, 33 (1), 21-48)
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J64, I12, C41
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3027
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Patrick
M.
Emerson
André
Portela Souza
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Is Child Labor Harmful? The Impact of Working Earlier in Life on Adult Earnings
This paper explores the question: is working as a child harmful to an individual in terms of adult outcomes in earnings? Though an extremely important question, little is known about the effect of ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2011, 59 (2), 345 - 385)
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J31, O12, O54
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3026
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Peter
Berkhout
Joop
Hartog
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Starting Wages Respond to Employer’s Risk
Firms hiring fresh graduates face uncertainty on the future productivity of workers. Intuitively, one expects starting wages to reflect this. Formal analysis supports the intuition. We use the ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 61 (3), 229-260)
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J31
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3025
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Nava
Kahana
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The Effect of Emigration on Child Labor
We present a general model of child labor that incorporates the various components presented in the literature as explanations for its existence. Our proposal is to mitigate the phenomenon by ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 99 (3), 545-548)
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D62, F22, I30, J13, J20, J24, O15
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3023
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Panu
Poutvaara
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The Expansion of Higher Education and Time-Consistent Taxation
This paper analyzes educational choices and political support for subsidies to higher education in the presence of a time-consistency problem in income redistribution. There may be political support ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 27 (2), 257-267)
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H52, I22, D72
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3022
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Charles
Bellemare
Sabine
Kröger
Arthur
van Soest
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Preferences, Intentions, and Expectations: A Large-Scale Experiment with a Representative Subject Pool
We specify and estimate an econometric model which separately identifies distributional preferences and the effects of perceived intentions on responder behavior in the ultimatum game. We allow the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2011, 78 (3), 349-365)
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C93, D63, D84
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3021
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Jeffrey
P.
Carpenter
Caitlin
Knowles
Myers
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Why Volunteer? Evidence on the Role of Altruism, Reputation, and Incentives
Volunteering plays a prominent role in the charitable provision of goods and services, yet we know relatively little about why people engage in such prosocial acts. The list of possible motivations ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (11-12), 911-920)
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C93, D12, J22, D64, D82
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3020
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Alison
L.
Booth
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness: The Part-time Work Puzzle
Using fixed effects ordered logit estimation, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and working hours satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account for ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (526) , F77–F99 )
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J22, I31, J16
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3018
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Shibao
Guo
Don
J.
DeVoretz
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The Changing Face of Chinese Immigrants in Canada
This paper analyzes the changing characteristics of Chinese immigrants to Canada between 1980 and 2001. It reveals that recent Chinese immigrants to Canada constitute a substantially different group ...
(published in: Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2006, 7 (4), 425-447)
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J15, J60, J61
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3017
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Christian
Grund
Dirk
Sliwka
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Individual and Job-Based Determinants of Performance Appraisal: Evidence from Germany
We investigate the use of performance appraisal (PA) in German Firms. First, we derive hypotheses on individual and job based determinants of PA usage. Based on a representative German data set on ...
(published as "The Anatomy of Performance Appraisals in Germany" in: International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2009, 20 (10), 2049-2065)
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J33, M52
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3016
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John
T.
Addison
Pedro
Portugal
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How Do Different Entitlements to Unemployment Benefits Affect the Transitions from Unemployment into Employment?
In Portugal duration of benefits is exclusively age determined while replacement rates are to all intents and purposes uniform. We exploit differences in potential maximum duration of benefits for ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 101 (3), 206-209)
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J64, J65
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