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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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2888
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Peter
Haan
Arne
Uhlendorff
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Intertemporal Labor Supply and Involuntary Unemployment
In this paper we develop a model to consistently estimate the intertemporal labor supply behavior on the extensive margin (participation decision) and the intensive margin (working hours decision). ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 44, 661-683)
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C23, C25, J22, J64
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2887
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Imed
Drine
Christophe
Rault
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Purchasing Power Parity for Developing and Developed Countries: What Can We Learn from Non-Stationary Panel Data Models?
The aim of this paper is to apply recently developed panel cointegration techniques proposed by Pedroni (1999, 2004) and generalized by Banerjee and Carrion-i-Silvestre (2006) to examine the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2008, 22 (4), 752-773)
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E31, F0, F31, C15
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2886
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Sascha
O.
Becker
Ludger
Woessmann
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Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History
Max Weber attributed the higher economic prosperity of Protestant regions to a Protestant work ethic. We provide an alternative theory, where Protestant economies prospered because instruction in ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2009, 124(2), 531-596)
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N33, Z12, I20
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2885
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Martin
Biewen
Bernd
Fitzenberger
Aderonke
Osikominu
Marie
Waller
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Which Program for Whom? Evidence on the Comparative Effectiveness of Public Sponsored Training Programs in Germany
We use a new and exceptionally rich administrative data set for Germany to evaluate the employment effects of a variety of public sponsored training programs in the early 2000s. Building on the work ...
(substantially revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 32 (4), 837-897)
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C14, J68, H43
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2884
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José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto
Molina
Almudena
Sevilla
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Household Division of Labor, Partnerships and Children: Evidence from Europe
This paper complements conventional economic analysis and presents a social norms interpretation to explain cross-country differences in partnership formation rates, and the dramatic decrease in ...
(published as 'Social Norms, Partnerships and Children' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2012, 10 (2), 215-236)
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E21, I29
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2883
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Liam
Delaney
Colm
P.
Harmon
Patrick
G.
Wall
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Behavioural Economics and Drinking Behaviour: Preliminary Results from an Irish College Study
This paper examines the results of single-equation regression models of the determinants of alcohol consumption patterns among college students modelling a rich variety of covariates including ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2008, 46 (1), 29-36)
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I12
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2882
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Friedhelm
Pfeiffer
Karsten
Reuss
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Age-Dependent Skill Formation and Returns to Education: Simulation Based Evidence
This study integrates findings from neurobiology and psychology on early childhood development and self-regulation to assess returns to education. Our framework for evaluating the distribution of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (4), 631-646)
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J21, J24, J31
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2881
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Ali
T.
Akarca
Aysit
Tansel
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Social and Economic Determinants of Turkish Voter Choice in the 1995 Parliamentary Election
1995 Turkish parliamentary election was held almost under the conditions of a controlled experiment. The unique cross-section data pertaining to this election is utilized to study the voter behavior ...
(published in: Electoral Studies, 2007, 26: 633-647)
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D72
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2880
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Ludger
Woessmann
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Fundamental Determinants of School Efficiency and Equity: German States as a Microcosm for OECD Countries
Cross-country evidence on student achievement might be hampered by omitted country characteristics such as language or legal differences. This paper uses cross-state variation in Germany, whose ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik , 2010, 230 (2), 234-270)
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I28, L38, L33, H52, D02, D63, J24
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2878
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Pushkar
Maitra
Sarmistha
Pal
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Birth Spacing, Fertility Selection and Child Survival: Analysis Using a Correlated Hazard Model
If fertility reflects the choice of households, results of their choice (duration between successive births and health of the children) cannot be considered to be randomly determined. While most ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27 (3), 690-705)
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J13, O10, C41, C24
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2877
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Knut
Røed
Lars
Westlie
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Unemployment Insurance in Welfare States: Soft Constraints and Mild Sanctions
Based on a sequence of reforms in the Norwegian unemployment insurance (UI) system, we show that activity-oriented UI regimes – i.e., regimes with a high likelihood of required participation in ...
(published as 'Unemployment Insurance in Welfare States: The Impacts of Soft Duration Constraints' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10 (3), 518-554)
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C14, C15, C41, J64, J65, J68
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2876
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Daniele
Checchi
Luca
Flabbi
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Intergenerational Mobility and Schooling Decisions in Germany and Italy: The Impact of Secondary School Tracks
Intergenerational mobility in income and education is affected by the influence of parents on children’s school choices. Our focus is on the role played by different school systems in reducing or ...
(published in: Rivista di Politica Economica ,2013, 3, 7 - 57)
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I2, J1
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2875
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James
J.
Heckman
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The Economics, Technology and Neuroscience of Human Capability Formation
This paper begins the synthesis of two currently unrelated literatures: the human capital approach to health economics and the economics of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation. A lifecycle ...
(published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2007, 104 (33), 13250-13255)
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I12, I21
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2874
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Raquel
Fonseca
Pierre-Carl
Michaud
Thepthida
Sopraseuth
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Entrepreneurship, Wealth, Liquidity Constraints and Start-up Costs
We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model ...
(published in: Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, 2007, 28 (4), 637-674)
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E20, D31, J62
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2873
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Frédéric
Docquier
Hillel
Rapoport
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Skilled Migration: The Perspective of Developing Countries
This chapter focuses on the effects of skilled migration on developing countries. We first present new evidence on the magnitude of the “brain drain” at the international level. Using a stylized ...
(published in: J. Baghwati and G. Hanson (eds.), Skilled Immigration Today: Prospects, Problems and Policies, Oxford University Press, 2009)
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F22, J61
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2872
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Bernt
Bratsberg
Oddbjørn
Raaum
Knut
Røed
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When Minority Labor Migrants Meet the Welfare State
We find that the lifecycle employment profiles of nonwestern male labor migrants who came to Norway in the early 1970s diverge significantly from those of native comparison persons. During the first ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2010, 28 (3), 633-676)
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F22, H55, J21, J61
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2870
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Supriya
Sarnikar
Todd
A.
Sorensen
Ronald
L.
Oaxaca
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Do You Receive a Lighter Prison Sentence Because You Are a Woman? An Economic Analysis of Federal Criminal Sentencing Guidelines
The Federal criminal sentencing guidelines struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2005 required that males and females who commit the same crime and have the same prior criminal record be sentenced ...
(research from this working paper published separately as 'Race and Gender Differences under Federal Sentencing Guidelines' in: American Economic Review , 2012, 102 (3), 256–260 and as 'Do you receive a lighter prison sentence because you are a woman or a white? An economic analysis of the federal criminal sentencing guidelines' in: BE Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2014, 14 (1), 1-54)
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J78, K14, K42
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2869
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Ana
C.
Dammert
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Child Labor and Schooling Response to Changes in Coca Production in Rural Peru
Coca eradication and interdiction are the most common policies aimed at reducing the production and distribution of cocaine in the Andes, but little is known about their impact on households. This ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2008, 86 (1), 164-180)
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J13, J22, O15, R23
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2868
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Pierre-Carl
Michaud
Arthur
van Soest
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How Did the Elimination of the Earnings Test above the Normal Retirement Age Affect Retirement Expectations?
We look at the effect of the 2000 repeal of the earnings test above the normal retirement age (NRA) on retirement expectations of male workers in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Using ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2008, 29 (2), 197-231)
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H55, J22
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2867
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Umut
Oguzoglu
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Dynamics of Work Limitation and Work in Australia
This paper examines the impact of self-reported work limitation on the labour force participation of the Australian working age population. Five consecutive waves of the Household, Income and Labour ...
(revised version published in: Health Economics, 2010, 19 (6), 656-669)
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J28, I12, C81
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2866
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Gulcin
Gumus
Tracy
L.
Regan
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Tax Incentives as a Solution to the Uninsured: Evidence from the Self-Employed
Between the years 1996 and 2003, a series of amendments were made to the Tax Reform Act of 1986 (TRA86) that gradually increased the tax credit for health insurance purchases by the self-employed ...
(revised version published in: Inquiry, 2013, 50 (4), 275-295.)
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J32, J48, I11
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2865
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Lex
Borghans
Ben
Kriechel
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Wage Structure and Labor Mobility in the Netherlands 1999-2003
In this paper we document the wage structure and labor mobility in the Netherlands in the period 1999-2003. We explain the importance of wage-setting institutions in the Netherlands and the main ...
(published in: Edward Lazear and Katryn Shaw (eds.), The Structure of Wages: An International Comparisons, NBER and University of Chicago Press, 2008)
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J31, J50, J62, J63, M52
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2863
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Joseph
Price
Justin
Wolfers
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Racial Discrimination Among NBA Referees
The NBA provides an intriguing place to test for taste-based discrimination: referees and players are involved in repeated interactions in a high-pressure setting with referees making the type of ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2010, 125(4), 1859-1887)
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K42, J15, J71
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2862
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Rainald
Borck
Michael
P.
Pflüger
Matthias
Wrede
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A Simple Theory of Industry Location and Residence Choice
This paper provides a simple theory of geographical mobility which simultaneously explains people’s choice of residences in space and the location of industry. Residences are chosen on the basis of ...
(published in revised form in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2010, 10 (6), 913 - 940)
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F12, F21, F22, R12, R23
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2861
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Erkki
Koskela
Ronnie
Schöb
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How Tax Progression Affects Effort and Employment
Within an efficiency wage framework, we study the effects of two revenue-neutral tax reforms that change the progressivity of the labour tax system. A revenue-neutral increase in both the wage tax ...
(published as 'Is Tax Progression Good for Employment? Efficiency Wages and the Role of the Prereform Tax Structure' in: FinanzArchiv, 2009, 65 (1), 51 - 72 )
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H22, J41, J48
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2860
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Arthur
van Soest
Liam
Delaney
Colm
P.
Harmon
Arie
Kapteyn
James
P.
Smith
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Validating the Use of Vignettes for Subjective Threshold Scales
Comparing self-assessed indicators of subjective outcomes such as health, work disability, political efficacy, job satisfaction, etc. across countries or socio-economic groups is often hampered by ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2011, 174 (3), 575-595)
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C81, I12
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2859
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Vesa
Kanniainen
Panu
Poutvaara
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Imperfect Transmission of Tacit Knowledge and Other Barriers to Entrepreneurship
This paper identifies several distortions which create barriers to entrepreneurship. First, in addition to the innate entry cost, there are entry costs caused by regulation. Second, union wage ...
(published in: Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal, 2007, 28 (4), 675-694)
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J24, H25
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2858
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Santanu
Chatterjee
Paola
Giuliano
Ilker
Kaya
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Where Has All the Money Gone? Foreign Aid and the Quest for Growth
This paper examines fungibility as a possible explanation for the "missing link" between foreign aid and economic growth. The composition of aid plays a crucial role in determining the composition of ...
(published as 'Where Has All the Money Gone? Foreign Aid and the Composition of Government Spending' in: B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, 2012, 12 (1), Article 26)
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E6, F3, F4, O1
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2857
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Robert
J.
Oxoby
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The Effect of Incentive Structure on Heuristic Decision Making: The Proportion Heuristic
When making judgments, individuals often utilize heuristics to interpret information. We report on a series of experiments designed to test the ways in which incentive mechanisms influence the use of ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Social Psychology. 2009, 39 (1), 120 - 133)
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C9, M5
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2856
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Giovanna
Aguilar
Silvio
Rendon
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Employment and Deadweight Loss Effects of Observed Non-Wage Labor Costs
To assess the employment effects of labor costs it is crucial to have reliable estimates of the labor cost elasticity of labor demand. Using a matched firm-worker dataset, we estimate a long run ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2010, 48 (3), 793 - 809)
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J23, J32
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2855
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Anna Maria
Mayda
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Why Are People More Pro-Trade than Pro-Migration?
I analyze individual attitudes towards trade and immigration in comparative terms. I find that individuals are on average more pro-trade than pro-immigration across several countries. I identify a ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 101 (3), 160-163)
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F22, F1, J61
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2852
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Sarmistha
Pal
Sugata
Ghosh
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Elite Dominance and Under-Investment in Mass Education: Disparity in the Social Development of the Indian States, 1960-92
Inter- and intra-state disparities in levels of literacy rates in India are striking, especially for the marginalized groups of women and low caste population. The present paper offers an explanation ...
(published as 'Poverty, Elite Heterogeneity and the Allocation of Public Spending: Panel Evidence from the Indian States' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2012, 58 (1), 51-78)
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I28, J15, O15, P48
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2851
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Christophe
Rault
Robert
Sova
Anamaria
Sova
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Modeling International Trade Flows Between Eastern European Countries and OECD Countries
Our paper deals with econometric developments for the estimation of the gravity model which lead to convergent parameter estimates even when a correlation exists between the explanatory variables and ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2009, 16(15), 1547-1554)
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F13, F15, C23
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2850
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Thomas
Lemieux
W. Bentley
MacLeod
Daniel
Parent
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Performance Pay and Wage Inequality
We document that an increasing fraction of jobs in the U.S. labor market explicitly pay workers for their performance using bonuses, commissions, or piece-rates. We find that compensation in ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2009, 124 (1), 1-49)
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J31, J33
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2849
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Karsten
Kohn
Alexander
C.
Lembcke
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Wage Distributions by Bargaining Regime: Linked Employer-Employee Data Evidence from Germany
Using linked employer-employee data from the German Structure of Earnings Survey 2001, this paper provides a comprehensive picture of the wage structure in three wage-setting regimes prevalent in the ...
(published in: Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv/Journal of the German Statistical Society, 2007, 1 (3-4), 247-261)
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J31, J51, J52
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2848
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Laurent
Gobillon
Thierry
Magnac
Harris
Selod
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The Effect of Location on Finding a Job in the Greater Paris Area
There are large spatial disparities in unemployment durations across the 1,300 municipalities in the Ile-de-France region (Paris Greater Area). In order to characterize these imbalances, we estimate ...
(published as 'The effect of location on finding a job in the Paris region' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2011, 26 (7), 1079 - 1112)
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C41, J64, R23
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2846
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Alfonso
Flores-Lagunes
Arturo
Gonzalez
Todd
C.
Neumann
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Estimating the Effects of Length of Exposure to a Training Program: The Case of Job Corps
Most of the literature on the evaluation of training programs focuses on the effect of participation on a particular outcome (e.g. earnings). The “treatment” is generally represented by a binary ...
(published as 'Estimating the Effects of Length of Exposure to Instruction in a Training Program: The Case of Job Corps ' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94 (1), 153–171)
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C21, J24, I38
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2845
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Helene
Dearing
Helmut
Hofer
Christine
Lietz
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
Katharina
Wrohlich
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Why Are Mothers Working Longer Hours in Austria than in Germany? A Comparative Micro Simulation Analysis
Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are much higher among Austrian mothers. In order to find out to what extent these ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2007, 28 (4), 463-495)
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J22, H31, H24
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2844
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Jean
Bourdon
Markus
Frölich
Katharina
Michaelowa
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Teacher Shortages, Teacher Contracts and their Impact on Education in Africa
Primary school enrolment rates are very low in francophone Africa. In order to enhance education supply, many countries have launched large teacher recruitment programmes in recent years, whereby ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2010, 73, 93-116)
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O15, I 21, C14
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2843
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Claudio
Ferraz
Frederico
S.
Finan
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Electoral Accountability and Corruption in Local Governments: Evidence from Audit Reports
Political corruption is a concern of many modern democracies. It weakens democratic institutions, restricts public services, and lowers productivity undermining economic development. Yet despite its ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (4), 1274-1311)
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D72, D78, H41, O17
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2842
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Pierre
Dubois
Bruno
Jullien
Thierry
Magnac
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Formal and Informal Risk Sharing in LDCs: Theory and Empirical Evidence
We develop and estimate a model of dynamic interactions between households where commitment is limited and contracts are incomplete to explain the patterns of income and consumption growth in village ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2008, 76(4), 679-726)
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C14, D13, D91, L14, O12
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2840
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Paul
Frijters
Michael A.
Shields
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Relative Income, Happiness and Utility: An Explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and Other Puzzles
The well-known Easterlin paradox points out that average happiness has remained constant over time despite sharp rises in GNP per head. At the same time, a micro literature has typically found ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2008, 46 (1), 95-144)
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D01, D31, H00, I31, J28
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2839
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Richard
V.
Burkhauser
Shuaizhang
Feng
Stephen
P.
Jenkins
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Using the P90/P10 Index to Measure US Inequality Trends with Current Population Survey Data: A View from Inside the Census Bureau Vaults
The March Current Population Survey (CPS) is the primary data source for estimation of levels and trends in labor earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2009, 55 (1), 166–185)
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D3, J3, C8
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2838
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Alan
Barrett
David
Duffy
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Are Ireland’s Immigrants Integrating into its Labour Market?
Ireland has experienced a remarkable change in its migratory patterns in recent years and has moved from experiencing large-scale emigration to receiving significant inflows. In this paper, we use ...
(revised version published in: International Migration Review, 2008, 42 (3), 597-619)
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J61
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2837
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Kostas
Mavromaras
Seamus
McGuinness
Yin
King
Fok
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Assessing the Incidence and Wage Effects of Over-Skilling in the Australian Labour Market
This paper examines the incidence and wage effects of over-skilling within the Australian labour market. It finds that approximately 30 percent of employees believed themselves to be moderately ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2009, 85(268), 60-72)
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J24, J31
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2836
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Claudio
Ferraz
Frederico
S.
Finan
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Exposing Corrupt Politicians: The Effects of Brazil’s Publicly Released Audits on Electoral Outcomes
This paper examines whether access to information enhances political accountability. Based upon the results of Brazil’s recent anti-corruption program that randomly audits municipal expenditures of ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008, 123 (2), 703-745)
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D72, D78, H41, O17
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2835
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Alessio
J. G.
Brown
Christian
Merkl
Dennis
J.
Snower
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Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies
This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should be targeted. We contrast measures involving targeting workers with low incomes/abilities and targeting the unemployed ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (2), 168-179)
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J23, J24, J38, J64, J68
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2833
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Giacomo
De Giorgi
Michele
Pellizzari
Silvia
Redaelli
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Be as Careful of the Books You Read as of the Company You Keep: Evidence on Peer Effects in Educational Choices
In this paper we investigate whether peers’ behavior influences the choice of college major. Using a unique dataset of students at Bocconi University and exploiting the organization of teaching at ...
(Revised version published as "Identifcation of Social Interactions through Partially Overlapping Peer Groups" in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2010, 2(2), 241-75)
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J0, I21
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2832
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David
L.
Dickinson
Robert
J.
Oxoby
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Cognitive Dissonance, Pessimism, and Behavioral Spillover Effects
This paper reports results from a unique two-stage experiment designed to examine the spillover effects of optimism and pessimism. In stage 1, we induce optimism or pessimism onto subjects by ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2011, 32 (3), 295-306)
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C91, D84
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2831
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Stephen
P.
Jenkins
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Inequality and the GB2 Income Distribution
The generalized entropy class of inequality indices is derived for Generalized Beta of the Second Kind (GB2) income distributions, thereby providing a full range of top-sensitive and bottom-sensitive ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2009, 55 (2), 392–398)
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C16, C46, D31
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