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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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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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2922
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Graziella
Bertocchi
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The Enfranchisement of Women and the Welfare State
We offer a rationale for the decision to extend the franchise to women within a politico-economic model where men are richer than women, women display a higher preference for public goods, and ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2011, 55 (4), 535-553)
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P16, J16, N40, H50, O11
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2921
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Hugo
R.
Nopo
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An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition to a Continuum of Comparison Groups
This paper proposes an extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition from two to a continuum of comparison groups. The proposed decomposition is then estimated for the case of racial wage differences ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 100 (2), 292-296)
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C1, J1, J7, O17
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2919
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Örn
B.
Bodvarsson
Joshua
J.
Lewer
Hendrik
Van den Berg
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Measuring Immigration's Effects on Labor Demand: A Reexamination of the Mariel Boatlift
It is now well known that exogenous immigration shocks tend to have benign effects on native employment outcomes, thanks to various secondary adjustment processes made possible by flexible markets. ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (4), 560-574)
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J23, J61, F22
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2918
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Martina
Zweimüller
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
Doris
Weichselbaumer
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Market Orientation and Gender Wage Gaps: An International Study
Two very different approaches are used to explore the relation between market orientation and gender wage differentials in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2008, 61 (4), 615-635)
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J16, J31, J71
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2917
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Derek
C.
Jones
Takao
Kato
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The Impact of Teams on Output, Quality and Downtime: An Empirical Analysis Using Individual Panel Data
To investigate the size and the timing of the direct impact of participatory arrangements on business performance, we assemble and analyze extraordinary daily data – for rejection, production and ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2011, 64 (2), 215-240)
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M54, J50, J41, D20
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2916
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Ernesto
Reuben
Arno
Riedl
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Public Goods Provision and Sanctioning in Privileged Groups
In public good provision, privileged groups enjoy the advantage that some of its members find it optimal to supply a positive amount of the public good. However, their inherent asymmetric nature may ...
(published in: Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2009, 53 (1), 72-93)
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H41, D01, C92, Z13
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2914
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
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Spending to Save? State Health Expenditure and Infant Mortality in India
There are severe inequalities in health in the world, poor health being concentrated amongst poor people in poor countries. Poor countries spend a much smaller share of national income on health ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2007, 16 (9), 911-928)
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I18, I38, O15, O12
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2913
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Eric
Verhoogen
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Trade, Quality Upgrading and Wage Inequality in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector
This paper proposes a new mechanism linking trade and wage inequality in developing countries – the quality-upgrading mechanism – and investigates its empirical implications in panel data on Mexican ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008, 123 (2), 489-530)
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F16, J31, O12, L11
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2912
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Francesco
Drago
Roberto
Galbiati
Pietro
Vertova
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The Deterrent Effects of Prison: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
In this paper we test for the theory of deterrence. We exploit the natural experiment provided by the Collective Clemency Bill passed by the Italian Parliament in July 2006. As a consequence of the ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2009, 117 (2), 257-280)
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K42
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2910
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Patricia
Apps
Ray
Rees
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The Taxation of Couples
This paper is concerned with the question of how couples should be taxed. One reason for the importance of this issue is simply that the overwhelming majority of individuals live in households formed ...
(published as "Optimal Taxation and Tax Reform for Two-Earner Households" in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2011, 57 (2), 283-304)
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H21, D13, J22
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2909
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John
Knowles
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Why Are Married Men Working So Much? Home Production, Household Bargaining and Per-Capita Hours
Empirical patterns of labor supply at the micro level tend to reject the unitary model assumption implicit in most macro theories, where households are the deemed to be rational agents. This paper ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2013, 80 (3), 1055-1085)
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E13, J12, J16, J20, J22
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2908
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Govert
Bijwaard
Justus
Veenman
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Unequal Chances on the Transitional Labor Market: The Case of the Netherlands
The emergence of a transitional labor market offers new opportunities to workers, but at the same time bears the risk of (new) inequalities. This paper deals with unequal chances on the transitional ...
(revised version published as 'Exclusionary Risks on the Transitional Labour Market' in: European Sociological Review, 2012, 28 (5), 661-673 )
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C41, J64, J7
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2907
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Rita
K.
Almeida
Ana Margarida
Fernandes
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Openness and Technological Innovations in Developing Countries: Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys
This paper examines international technology transfers using firm-level data across 43 developing countries. Our findings show that exporting and importing activities are important channels for the ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2008, 44 (5), 701-727)
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F1, F2, O3
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2905
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Matteo
Cervellati
Uwe
Sunde
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Human Capital, Mortality and Fertility: A Unified Theory of the Economic and Demographic Transition
This paper argues that accounting for the dynamic interactions between endogenous changes in longevity, the education composition of the population, and the associated fertility differential is ...
(see IZA DP 7199 for a substantially revised and extended version)
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E10, J10, O10, O40, O41
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2904
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Spyros
Konstantopoulos
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Do Small Classes Reduce the Achievement Gap between Low and High Achievers? Evidence from Project STAR
Given that previous findings on the social distribution of the effects of small classes have been mixed and inconclusive, in the present study I attempted to shed light on the mechanism through which ...
(published in: Elementary School Journal, 2008, 108 (3), 1-17)
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I2
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2903
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M. Ayhan
Kose
Eswar
Prasad
Marco
E.
Terrones
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How Does Financial Globalization Affect Risk Sharing? Patterns and Channels
In theory, one of the main benefits of financial globalization is that it should allow for more efficient international risk sharing. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive empirical evaluation of ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2009, 89 (2), 258-270)
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F2, F4
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2902
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Rita
K.
Almeida
Emanuela
Galasso
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Jump-Starting Self-Employment? Evidence among Welfare Participants in Argentina
One important concern of governments in developing countries is on how to phase-out large safety nets programs. This paper evaluates the short run effects of one possible exit strategy, programs that ...
(published as 'Jump-starting Self-employment? Evidence for Welfare Participants in Argentina' in: World Development, 2010, 38 (5), 742-755)
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J21, I38, J31
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2901
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Sylvain
Dessy
John
Knowles
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Why Is Child Labor Illegal?
We present a theory of the emergence of laws restricting child labor or imposing mandatory education that is consistent with the fact that poor parents tend to oppose such laws. We find that if ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2008, 52 (7), 1275 - 1311)
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J82, O11
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2900
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Marika
Karanassou
Hector
Sala
Dennis
J.
Snower
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The Evolution of Inflation and Unemployment: Explaining the Roaring Nineties
This paper analyses the relation between US inflation and unemployment from the perspective of "frictional growth," a phenomenon arising from the interplay between growth and frictions. In ...
(published in: Australian Economic Papers, 2008, 47 (4), 334-354)
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E24, E31, E51, E62
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2899
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Helena
Skyt
Nielsen
Nina
Smith
Aycan
Celikaksoy
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The Effect of Marriage on Education of Immigrants: Evidence from a Policy Reform Restricting Spouse Import
We investigate the effect of immigrants’ marriage behavior on dropout from education. To identify the causal effect, we exploit a recent Danish policy reform which generated exogenous variation in ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2009, 111(3), 457 - 486)
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I21, J12
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