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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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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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3015
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Michael
Svarer
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The Effect of Sanctions on the Job Finding Rate: Evidence from Denmark
This paper investigates the effect of sanctions of unemployment insurance benefits on the exit rate from unemployment for a sample of Danish unemployed. According to the findings are that even ...
(published as 'The Effect of Sanctions on Exit from Unemployment: Evidence from Denmark' in: Economica, 2011, 78 (312), 751 - 778)
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J6, C41
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3014
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Mirjam
C.
van Praag
Peter
H.
Versloot
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What Is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research
This paper examines to what extent recent empirical evidence can collectively and systematically substantiate the claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2007, 29 (4), 351-382)
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D24, D31, E23, E24, J21, J28, J31, L26, M13
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3013
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Wendelin
Schnedler
Radovan
Vadovic
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Legitimacy of Control
What is the motivational effect of imposing a minimum effort requirement? Agents may no longer exert voluntary effort but merely meet the requirement. Here, we examine how such hidden costs of ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2011, 20 (4), 985-1009)
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C7, C9, M5
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3011
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Sandra
E.
Black
Paul
J.
Devereux
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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Small Family, Smart Family? Family Size and the IQ Scores of Young Men
How do families influence the ability of children? Cognitive skills have been shown to be a strong predictor of educational attainment and future labor market success; as a result, understanding the ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2010, 45 (1), 33-58)
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I2, J1
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3010
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Steffen
Altmann
Thomas
Dohmen
Matthias
Wibral
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Do the Reciprocal Trust Less?
We study the intrapersonal relationship between trust and reciprocity in a laboratory experiment. Reciprocal subjects trust significantly more than selfish ones. This finding raises questions about ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 99 (3), 454-457)
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C91, D63
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3009
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Tarja
Viitanen
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Public versus Private Provision of Daycare: An Experimental Evaluation
This paper provides experimental estimates of the impact of a voucher for private care within the Nordic system of universal provision of public care. The private daycare voucher acted as a ...
(published as 'Child care voucher and labour market behaviour: experimental evidence from Finland' in: Applied Economics, 2011, 43 (23), 3203 - 3212)
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H42, J2, J13
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3008
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Francesca
Mazzolari
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Dual Citizenship Rights: Do They Make More and Better Citizens?
In the 1990s, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Costa Rica and Brazil passed dual citizenship laws granting their expatriates the right to naturalize in the receiving country without losing ...
(published in: Demography, 46 (1), 2009, 169-191)
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F22, J15, J20, J30
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3007
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Sandra
E.
Black
Paul
J.
Devereux
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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Older and Wiser? Birth Order and IQ of Young Men
While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children’s outcomes such
as education and earnings, the evidence on the effects of birth order on IQ is decidedly
mixed. This ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2011, 57 (1), 103-120)
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I2, J1
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3006
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Alberto
Bisin
Eleonora
Patacchini
Thierry
Verdier
Yves
Zenou
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Are Muslim Immigrants Different in Terms of Cultural Integration?
Using the UK Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities, we explore the determinants of religious identity for Muslims and non-Muslims. We find that Muslims integrate less and more slowly than ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2008, 6 (2-3), 445 - 456)
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A14, J15
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3005
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Stefanie
Behncke
Markus
Frölich
Michael
Lechner
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Public Employment Services and Employers: How Important Are Networks with Firms?
This paper examines whether contacts between caseworkers in public employment offices and employers impact on the reemployment chances of the unemployed they counsel. This analysis is made possible ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, 2008, 1, 151-178)
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J68
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3004
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Herwig
Immervoll
Heikki
Viitamäki
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How Tight Are Safety-Nets in Nordic Countries? Evidence from Finnish Register Data
The non take-up of social assistance benefits due to claim costs may seriously limit the anti-poverty effect of these programs. Yet, available evidence is fragmented and mostly relies on ...
(substantially revised version: IZA DP 5355 / published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2012, 10 (3), 375-395)
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D31, H31, H53, I38
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3003
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Laszlo
Goerke
Markus
Pannenberg
Heinrich
W.
Ursprung
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A Positive Theory of the Earnings Relationship of Unemployment Benefits
Evidently, the benefit-structure of the unemployment insurance has a significant influence on profits and trade union utility. We show for a wage bargaining model that a stronger earnings ...
(published in: Public Choice, 2010, 145 (1-2), 137-163)
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D72, J51, J65
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3002
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Arnab
K.
Basu
Nancy
H.
Chau
Ravi
Kanbur
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A Theory of Employment Guarantees: Contestability, Credibility and Distributional Concerns
Both raw intuition and past experience suggest that the success of an employment guarantee scheme (EGS) in safeguarding the welfare of the poor depends both on the wage it promises, and the ease with ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (3-4), 482-497)
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I38, J21, K31, O12
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3001
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David
M.
Blau
Wilbert
van der Klaauw
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A Demographic Analysis of the Family Structure Experiences of Children in the United States
This paper provides a comprehensive demographic analysis of the family structure experiences of children in the U.S. Childbearing and transitions among co-residential union states defined by single, ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2008, 6 (3), 193-221)
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J10
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3000
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Anders
Björklund
Markus
Jäntti
Matthew
J.
Lindquist
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Family Background and Income during the Rise of the Welfare State: Brother Correlations in Income for Swedish Men Born 1932-1968
The goal of this study is to examine trends in the importance of family background in determining adult income in Sweden. We investigate whether the association between family background and income ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93(5-6), 671-680)
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D1, D3, J62
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2999
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Circular Migration: Counts of Exits and Years Away from the Host Country
The economic literature has largely overlooked the importance of repeat and circular migration. The paper studies this behavior by analyzing the number of exits and the total number of years away ...
(published as 'Circular and Repeat Migration: Counts of Exits and Years Away from the Host Country' in: Population Research and Policy Review, 2011, 30 (4), 495-515 )
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F22, J15, J61, C25
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2998
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Arnab
K.
Basu
Nancy
H.
Chau
Ravi
Kanbur
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Turning a Blind Eye: Costly Enforcement, Credible Commitment and Minimum Wage Laws
In many countries, non-compliance with minimum wage legislation is widespread, and authorities may be seen as having turned a blind eye to a legislation that they have themselves passed. But if ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120 (543), 244 - 269)
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D6, E61, J38
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2996
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David
M.
Blau
Tetyana
Shvydko
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Labor Market Rigidities and the Employment Behavior of Older Workers
The labor market is often asserted to be characterized by rigidities that make it difficult for older workers to carry out their desired trajectory from work to retirement. An important source of ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2011, 64 (3), 464-484)
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J26, J23
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2995
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Eswar
Prasad
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Is the Chinese Growth Miracle Built to Last?
Is the Chinese growth miracle – a remarkably high growth rate sustained for over two decades – likely to persist or are the seeds of its eventual demise contained in the policies that have boosted ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2009, 20 (1), 103-123)
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F3, E5, O1
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2994
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Christian
Belzil
Marco
Leonardi
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Risk Aversion and Schooling Decisions
We develop a non-rational expectation econometric model of sequential schooling decisions. Using unique Italian panel data in which individual differences in attitudes toward risk are measurable ...
(published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 111/112, 35-70)
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J24
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2993
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Paola
Manzini
Marco
Mariotti
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Choice Over Time
In the last twenty years a growing body of experimental evidence has posed a challenge to the standard Exponential Discounting Model of choice over time. Attention has focused on some specific ...
(published in: P. Anand, P. Pattanaik and C. Puppe (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Rational and Social Choice, Oxford: OUP, 2009)
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C91, D9
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2992
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Junfu
Zhang
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A Study of Academic Entrepreneurs Using Venture Capital Data
Academic entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important channel through which universities contribute to economic development. This paper studies academic entrepreneurs using a comprehensive ...
(published under the title 'Why Do Some U.S. Universities Generate More Venture-Backed Academic Entrepreneurs than Others?' in: Venture Capital, 2009, 11(2), 133-162)
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M13
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2991
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David
M.
Blau
Ryan
Goodstein
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What Explains Trends in Labor Force Participation of Older Men in the United States?
After nearly a full century of decline, the Labor Force Participation Rate (LFPR) of older men in the United States leveled off in the 1980s, and began to increase in the late 1990s. We use a time ...
(revised version published as 'Can Social Security Explain Trends in Labor Force Participation of older Men in the United States?' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2010, 45 (2), 328 - 363)
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J26, J21
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2990
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Alan
Barrett
Yvonne
McCarthy
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The Earnings of Immigrants in Ireland: Results from the 2005 EU Survey of Income and Living Conditions
This paper has three objectives. First, a review of the developing body of work on the economics of immigration in Ireland is provided. Second, the analysis undertaken by Barrett and McCarthy ...
(published in: Quarterly Economic Commentary, 2007, 43 - 62)
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J61
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2989
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Leilanie
Basilio
Thomas
K.
Bauer
Mathias
Sinning
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Analyzing the Labor Market Activity of Immigrant Families in Germany
This paper analyzes whether immigrant families facing credit constraints adopt a family investment strategy wherein, upon arrival, an immigrant spouse invests in host country-specific human capital ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (5), 510-520)
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D10, F22, J22
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2987
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Douglas
J.
Krupka
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Location-Specific Human Capital, Location Choice and Amenity Demand
The role of amenities in the flow of migrants has been debated for some years. This paper advances an original model of amenities that work through household production instead of directly through ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2009, 49 (5), 833 - 854)
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R23, J61
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2986
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David
M.
Blau
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Retirement and Consumption in a Life Cycle Model
Consumption expenditure declines sharply at the time of retirement for many households, but the majority maintain a smooth consumption path. A simple life cycle model with uncertainty about the time ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2008, 26 (1), 35-71)
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J26, H55
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2985
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Guido
Heineck
Regina
T.
Riphahn
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Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment in Germany: The Last Five Decades
Over the last decades the German education system underwent numerous reforms in order to improve "equality of opportunity", i.e. to guarantee all pupils equal access to higher education. At the same ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2009, 229 (1), 36-60)
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I21, I28, J11
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2984
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Uwe
Sunde
Matteo
Cervellati
Piergiuseppe
Fortunato
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Are All Democracies Equally Good? The Role of Interactions between Political Environment and Inequality for Rule of Law
Using cross-country data, we find evidence for a significant negative interaction effect between democracy and inequality in determining the quality of growth-promoting institutions like rule of law. ...
(slightly revised version published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 99 (3), 552-556)
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O43, P48, P14
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2983
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Michal
Myck
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Wages and Ageing: Is There Evidence for the "Inverse-U" Profile?
How individual wages change with time, and how they are expected to change as individuals grow older, is one of crucial determinants of their behaviour on the labour market including their decision ...
(revised version published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72 (3), 282-306)
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J14, J21, J31, C14
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2982
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David
Bishai
Shoshana
Grossbard
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Far Above Rubies: The Association Between Bride Price and Extramarital Sexual Relations in Uganda
The custom of bride price involves the payment of goods or cash from the groom’s family to the bride’s family at the time of marriage. We present a theory that views bride price as a payment in ...
(published as 'Far above rubies: Bride price and extramarital sexual relations in Uganda' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (4), 1177 - 1187)
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D13, I12, J13, O15
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2981
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Karen
A.
Mumford
Peter
N.
Smith
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Assessing the Importance of Male and Female Part-Time Work for the Gender Earnings Gap in Britain
This study examines the role of individual characteristics, occupation, industry, region, and workplace characteristics in accounting for differences in hourly earnings between men and women in full ...
(revised version published as "What Determines the Part-Time and Gender Earnings Gaps in Britain: Evidence from the Workplace" in: Oxford Economics Papers, 2009, 61(1), 56-75)
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J3, J7
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2980
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Marco
Francesconi
Helmut
Rainer
Wilbert
van der Klaauw
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The Effects of In-Work Benefit Reform in Britain on Couples: Theory and Evidence
This paper examines the effects of the Working Families’ Tax Credit (WFTC) on couples in Britain. We develop a simple model of household decisions which explicitly accounts for the role played by the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 119 (535), 2009, F66 - F100)
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C23, H31, I38, J12, J13, J22
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2977
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Pieter
Bevelander
Jonas
Otterbeck
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Young People’s Attitudes towards Muslims in Sweden
Since the 1950’s, the Muslim population in Sweden has grown from just a few individuals to approximately 350,000 of which one third is of school age or younger. With the use of multiple regression ...
(published in: Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2010, 33 (3), 404 - 425 )
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Z12, F22
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2976
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Ariel
R.
Belasen
Solomon
Polachek
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How Disasters Affect Local Labor Markets: The Effects of Hurricanes in Florida
Exogenous shocks often impact a local labor market more than at the national level. This study improves upon the standard Difference in Difference (DD) approach by examining exogenous shocks using a ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44 (1), 251 - 276)
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J23, J49, Q54, R11
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2975
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Richard
W.
Evans
Yingyao
Hu
Zhong
Zhao
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The Fertility Effect of Catastrophe: U.S. Hurricane Births
For years, anecdotal evidence has suggested increased fertility rates resulting from catastrophic events in an area. In this paper, we measure this fertility effect using storm advisory data and ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (1), 1 - 36)
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J13, C23
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2974
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Paul
W.
Miller
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Modeling Immigrants' Language Skills
One in nine people between the ages of 18 and 64 in the US, and every second foreign-born person in this age bracket, speaks Spanish at home. And whereas around 80 percent of adult immigrants in the ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 27, 75-128)
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F22, J15, J24, J40
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2973
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Alexander
K.
Koch
Julia
Nafziger
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Job Assignments under Moral Hazard: The Peter Principle Revisited
The Peter Principle captures two stylized facts about hierarchies: first, promotions often place employees into jobs for which they are less well suited than for that previously held. Second, ...
(published in: Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2012, 21 (4), 1029-1059)
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D82, J31, J33, M12
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2972
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Jeffrey
P.
Carpenter
Peter
Hans
Matthews
John
Schirm
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Tournaments and Office Politics: Evidence from a Real Effort Experiment
In many environments, tournaments can elicit more effort from workers, except perhaps when workers can sabotage each other. Because it is hard to separate effort, ability and output in many real ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (1), 504-517)
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C92, J33, J41
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2971
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Jean-Pierre
Florens
Denis
Fougère
Michel
Mouchart
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Duration Models and Point Processes
This survey is devoted to the statistical analysis of duration models and point processes. The first section introduces specific concepts and definitions for single-spell duration models. Section two ...
(published in: Patrick Sevestre and Lazlo Matyas (eds.), The Econometrics of Panel Data: Handbook of Theory and Applications, 3rd edition, Springer, 2008, 547-601)
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C41, C33, C44, C51
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