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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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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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2969
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Sarinda
Taengnoi
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Occupational Choice of High Skilled Immigrants in the United States
This paper explores the impact of English language proficiency and country of origin on the occupational choice of high-skilled immigrants in the U.S. using the 2000 Census. The findings reveal that ...
(published in: International Migration, 2007, 45 (5), 3 - 34)
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J15, J24, J61
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2968
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Dan
Ariely
Anat
Bracha
Stephan
Meier
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Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially
This paper experimentally examines image motivation – the desire to be liked and well-regarded by others – as a driver in prosocial behavior (doing good), and asks whether extrinsic monetary ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2009, 99 (1), 544–555)
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D64, C90, H41
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2967
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David
de la Croix
Matthias
Doepke
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To Segregate or to Integrate: Education Politics and Democracy
The governments of nearly all countries are major providers of primary and secondary education to their citizens. In some countries, however, public schools coexist with private schools, while in ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2009, 76(2), 597-628)
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D72, I21, H42, O10
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2966
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Mathias
Sinning
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Determinants of Savings and Remittances: Empirical Evidence from Immigrants to Germany
This paper investigates the determinants of migrants' financial transfers to their home country using German data. A double-hurdle model is applied to analyze the determinants of the propensity to ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (1), 45-67)
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F22, C34, D12, D91
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2965
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Patrick
A.
Puhani
Andrea M.
Weber
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Persistence of the School Entry Age Effect in a System of Flexible Tracking
In Germany, the streaming of students into an academic or nonacademic track at age 10 can be revised at later stages of secondary education. To investigate the importance of such revisions, we use ...
(published under revised title in: Journal of Human Resources, 2010, 45 (2), 407-438)
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I21, I28, J24
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2964
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Junfu
Zhang
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The Advantage of Experienced Start-Up Founders in Venture Capital Acquisition: Evidence from Serial Entrepreneurs
Existing literature suggests that entrepreneurs with prior firm-founding experience have more skills and social connections than novice entrepreneurs. Such skills and social connections could give ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2011, 36(2), 187-208)
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M13, G24
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2963
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Miguel
Urquiola
Eric
Verhoogen
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Class Size and Sorting in Market Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence
This paper examines how schools choose class size and how households sort in response to those choices. Focusing on the highly liberalized Chilean education market, we develop a model in which ...
(revised version published as "Class-Size Caps, Sorting, and the Regression Discontinuity Design" in: American Economic Review, 2009, 99 (1), 179–215)
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I2, O1, C2, L1
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2961
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Simon
Gächter
Eric
J.
Johnson
Andreas
Herrmann
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Individual-Level Loss Aversion in Riskless and Risky Choices
Loss aversion can occur in riskless and risky choices. Yet, there is no evidence whether people who are loss averse in riskless choices are also loss averse in risky choices. We measure ...
(revised verson published in: Theory and Decision, 2022, 92, 599–624. [Online])
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C91, C93, D81
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2960
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Jens
Suedekum
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National Champion versus Foreign Takeover
We analyze an oligopolistic market where a domestic and a foreign firm are engaged in a takeover battle for a domestic competitor. Any merger or acquisition (M&A) must be approved by a welfare ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2010, 43 (1), 204-231)
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F12, F23, L13, L52
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2958
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Elena
Meschi
Marco
Vivarelli
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Globalization and Income Inequality
This paper discusses the distributive consequences of trade flows in developing countries (DCs). On the theoretical side, we argue that the interplays between international openness and technology ...
(published in: World Development, 2009, 37 (2), 287-302)
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F16, O15, O33
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2957
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Mathias
Hungerbühler
Etienne
Lehmann
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On the Optimality of a Minimum Wage: New Insights from Optimal Tax Theory
We build a theoretical model to study whether a minimum wage can be welfare-improving if it is implemented in conjunction with an optimized nonlinear income tax. We consider this issue in a framework ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (3-4), 464-481)
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D86, H21, H23, J64, J68
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2956
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Andries
de Grip
Hans
Bosma
Dick
Willems
Martin
van Boxtel
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Job-Worker Mismatch and Cognitive Decline
We have used longitudinal test data on various aspects of people’s cognitive abilities to analyze whether overeducated workers are more vulnerable to a decline in their cognitive abilities, and ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2008, 60 (2), 237-253 )
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J24, I19, I29
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2955
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Pierre
Cahuc
Guy
Laroque
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Optimal Taxation and Monopsonistic Labor Market: Does Monopsony Justify the Minimum Wage?
We analyze optimal taxation in an economy with monopsonistic labor markets. The individuals, whose only decisions are whether to work, or not, have heterogeneous productivities and opportunity costs ...
(pubished in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2014, 16 (2), 259–273.)
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H31, J30, J42
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2954
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Michael
L.
Bognanno
Ryo
Kambayashi
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Trends in Worker Displacement Penalties in Japan: 1991-2005
We examine the period from 1991 to 2005 to document the effects of a changing Japanese labor market on trends in the cost of job change. During this period, job change penalties and the extent to ...
(published in: Japan and the World Economy, 2013, 27 (C), 41-57)
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J31, J41, J63, J6
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2953
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Magnus
Lofstrom
John
Tyler
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Modeling the Signaling Value of the GED with an Application to an Exogenous Passing Standard Increase in Texas
In this paper we develop a simple model of the signaling value of the GED credential. The model illustrates necessary assumptions for a difference-in-difference estimator, which uses a change in the ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 28, 305-352)
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I2, J31
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2952
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Shelly
Lundberg
Jennifer
Romich
Kwok
P.
Tsang
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Decision-Making by Children
In this paper, we examine the determinants of decision-making power by children and young adolescents. Moving beyond previous economic models that treat children as goods consumed by adults rather ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2009, 7 (1), 1-30)
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D1, J13
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2951
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Tom
Bundervoet
Philip
Verwimp
Richard
Akresh
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Health and Civil War in Rural Burundi
We combine household survey data with event data on the timing and location of armed conflicts to examine the impact of Burundi’s civil war on children’s health status. The identification strategy ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44(2), 536-563)
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I12, J13, O12
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2950
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John
Bennett
Saul
Estrin
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Informality as a Stepping Stone: Entrepreneurial Entry in a Developing Economy
We model decisions with respect to formality or informality for entrepreneurs in a new industry for a developing economy. We show that informality allows a leader to explore, without significant sunk ...
(published as 'Informal firms in developing countries: entrepreneurial stepping stone or consolation prize?' in Small Business Economics, 2010, 34 (1), 53-63 )
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O17, L10
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2949
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Matthias
Doepke
Fabrizio
Zilibotti
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Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism
The British Industrial Revolution triggered a reversal in the social order whereby the landed elite was replaced by industrial capitalists rising from the middle classes as the economically dominant ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008, 123 (2), 747-793)
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J24, N2, N3, O11, O15, O40
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2948
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David
McKenzie
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A Profile of the World's Young Developing Country Migrants
Individual level census and household survey data are used to present a rich profile of the young developing migrants around the world. Youth are found to comprise a large share of all migrants, ...
(published as 'A Profile of the World's Young Developing Country International Migrants' in: Population and Development Review, 2008, 34 (1), 115 - 135)
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O12, O15
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2947
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Per
Engström
Bertil
Holmlund
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Worker Absenteeism in Search Equilibrium
The paper presents a general equilibrium model of search unemployment that incorporates absence from work as a distinct labor force state. Absenteeism is driven by random shocks to the value of ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2007, 109 (3), 439-467,)
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J21, J64, J65
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2946
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Anne
C.
Gielen
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Working Hours Flexibility and Older Workers' Labor Supply
This paper studies the presence of hours constraints on the UK labor market and its effect on older workers labor supply, both at the extensive and the intensive margin. Using panel data for the ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2009, 61(2), 240-274)
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J22, J26, J63
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2945
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Heather
Antecol
Anneke
Jong
Michael
D.
Steinberger
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The Sexual Orientation Wage Gap: The Role of Occupational Sorting, Human Capital, and Discrimination
Using data from the 2000 U.S. Census, we document and explore three alternative explanations for the sexual orientation wage gap: occupational sorting, human capital differences, and discrimination. ...
(published as 'The Sexual Orientation Wage Gap: The Role of Occupational Sorting and Human Capital' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2008, 61 (4), 518-543)
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J24, J31, J71
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2942
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Matloob
Piracha
Yu
Zhu
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Precautionary Savings by Natives and Immigrants in Germany
This paper analyses the savings behaviour of natives and immigrants in Germany. It is argued that uncertainty about future income and legal status (in case of immigrants) is a key component in the ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2012, 44 (21), 2767 - 2776)
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D80, E21, F22
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2941
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James
A.
Freeman
Barry
Hirsch
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College Majors and the Knowledge Content of Jobs
College students select their majors for a variety of reasons, including expected returns in the labor market. This paper demonstrates an empirical method that links a census of U.S. degrees and ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2008, 27 (5), 517-535)
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J24, I21, J31
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2940
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Flavio
Cunha
James
J.
Heckman
Salvador
Navarro
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The Identification and Economic Content of Ordered Choice Models with Stochastic Thresholds
This paper extends the widely used ordered choice model by introducing stochastic thresholds and interval-specific outcomes. The model can be interpreted as a generalization of the GAFT (MPH) ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2007, 48(4), 1273-1309)
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C31
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2939
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David
Card
Michael
R.
Ransom
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Pension Plan Characteristics and Framing Effects in Employee Savings Behavior
In this paper we document the importance of framing effects in the retirement savings decisions of college professors. Pensions in many post-secondary institutions are funded by a combination of an ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93 (1), 228 - 243)
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D91, G23, J26
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2938
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Seamus
McGuinness
Mark
Wooden
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Overskilling, Job Insecurity and Career Mobility
This paper uses longitudinal data from Australia to examine the extent to which overskilling – the extent to which work-related skills and abilities are utilized in current employment – is a ...
(Published in: Industrial Relations, 2009, 48(2), 265-286. doi:10.1111/j.1468-232X.2009.00557.x)
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J62, J24
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2937
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Myeong-Su
Yun
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Wage Differentials, Discrimination and Inequality: A Cautionary Note on the Juhn, Murphy and Pierce Decomposition Method
This paper shows how difficult it is to study the roles of discrimination and unobserved skills when studying changes in racial and gender wage gaps over time by examining merits and shortcomings of ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2009, 56(1), 114-122)
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J70, D30
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2935
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Yann
Algan
Pierre
Cahuc
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Social Attitudes and Economic Development: An Epidemiological Approach
In this paper we develop a new empirical approach to uncovering the impact of social attitudes on economic development. We first show that trust of second-generation Americans is significantly ...
(published as 'Inherited Trust and Growth' in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (5), 2060 - 2092)
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O10, F10, P10, N13
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2934
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Suresh
de Mel
David
McKenzie
Christopher
Woodruff
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Returns to Capital in Microenterprises: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Small and informal firms account for a large share of employment in developing countries. The rapid expansion of microfinance services is based on the belief that these firms have productive ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008, 123 (4), 1329-1372)
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O12, O17
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2933
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Annika
Alexius
Bertil
Holmlund
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Monetary Policy and Swedish Unemployment Fluctuations
A widely spread belief among economists is that monetary policy has relatively short-lived effects on real variables such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the ...
(published in: Economics E-Journal, 2008, 2008-4.)
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J60, E24
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2932
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Anne
C.
Gielen
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Performance Pay, Training and Labor Mobility
Market imperfections may cause firms and workers to under-invest in specific training. This paper shows that profit sharing may be a suitable instrument to enhance specific training investments, ...
(revised version published as 'Profit Sharing for Increased Training Investments' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations. 2011, 49 (4), 643-665.)
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M52, M53, J24, J62
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2930
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Barry
Hirsch
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Sluggish Institutions in a Dynamic World: Can Unions and Industrial Competition Coexist?
During the 1930s and 1940s, collective bargaining emerged as the workplace governance norm in much of the U.S. industrial sector. Following its peak in the 1950s, union density in the U.S. private ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2008, 22 (1), 153-176)
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J5, J31, J2
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2929
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Pedro
S.
Martins
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Heterogeneity in Real Wage Cyclicality
This paper presents evidence that real wage cyclicality can be a particularly heterogeneous parameter, depending on different worker characteristics and also on the specific stage of the business ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 54(5), 684-698, 2007)
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J31, E24, E32
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2928
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Pieter
Bevelander
Ravi
Pendakur
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Minorities, Social Capital and Voting
It is widely held that voter turnout among immigrants and ethnic minorities is lower than among the native born. The goal of our paper is to explore the determinants of voting, comparing immigrant, ...
(published as 'Social capital and Voting participation of Immigrants and Minorities in Canada' in: Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2009, 32(8), 1406-1430)
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D72, J15, J61
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2927
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Michael
Kosfeld
Ferdinand
von Siemens
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Competition, Cooperation, and Corporate Culture
Teamwork and cooperation between workers can be of substantial value to a firm, yet the level of worker cooperation often varies between individual firms. We show that these differences can be the ...
(published in: RAND Journal of Economics, 2011, 42 (1), 23–43)
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D23, D82, L23, M54
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2925
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Alois
Stutzer
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Limited Self-Control, Obesity and the Loss of Happiness
Obesity has become a major health issue. Research in economics has provided important insights as to how technological progress reduced the relative price of food and contributed to the increase in ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2015, 25, 1409–1424)
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D12, D91, I12, I31
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2924
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Shuming
Bao
Örn
B.
Bodvarsson
Jack
W.
Hou
Yaohui
Zhao
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Interprovincial Migration in China: The Effects of Investment and Migrant Networks
Since the 1980s, China’s government has eased restrictions on internal migration. This easing, along with rapid growth of the Chinese economy and substantial increases in foreign and domestic ...
(published in: Chinese Economy, 2009, 42 (4), 7-29)
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J61
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2923
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Dave
E.
Marcotte
Steven
W.
Hemelt
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Unscheduled School Closings and Student Performance
Do students perform better on statewide assessments in years in which they have more school days to prepare? We explore this question using data on math and reading assessments taken by students in ...
(published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2008, 3 (3), 316-338)
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I2, I21
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