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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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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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2830
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Odelia
Heizler (Cohen)
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Illegal Migration, Enforcement and Minimum Wage
This paper examines the connection between illegal migration, minimum wages and enforcement policy. We first explore the employers’ decision regarding the employment of illegal migrants in the ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 28, 197-224)
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E24, F22, J31
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2828
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Corrado
Andini
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Within-Groups Wage Inequality and Schooling: Further Evidence for Portugal
This paper provides further evidence on the positive impact of schooling on within-groups wage dispersion in Portugal, using data on male workers from the 2001 wave of the European Community ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2010, 42 (28), 3685-3691)
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I21, J31, C29
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2827
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Hielke
Buddelmeyer
Sher
Verick
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Understanding the Drivers of Poverty Dynamics in Australian Households
Using longitudinal household data and an econometric model of conditional poverty transitions, this paper contributes to the growing literature on poverty dynamics in Australian households. The ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2008, 84 (266), 310-321)
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D31, I32, C23, C35
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2826
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Lena
Nekby
Magnus
Rödin
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Acculturation Identity and Labor Market Outcomes
This paper explores the identity formation of a cohort of students with immigrant backgrounds in Sweden and the consequences of identity for subsequent labor market outcomes. Unique for this study is ...
(revised version version published as 'Acculturation Identity and Employment among Second and Middle Generation Immigrants' in: Journal of Economic Psycology, 2010, 31(1), 35-50)
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J15, J16, J21, Z13
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2825
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Subhayu
Bandyopadhyay
Howard
J.
Wall
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Is There Too Little Immigration?
This paper presents a model of legal migration from one source country to two host countries, both of which can control their levels of immigration. Because of complementarities between capital and ...
(published as 'Is There To Little immigration? An Analysis of Temporary Skilled Migration' in: Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2008, 17 (2), 197 - 211)
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F22, J61
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2824
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Trine
Filges
John
Kennes
Birthe
Larsen
Torben
Tranæs
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Labour Market Policy and the Equity-Efficiency Trade-Off
This paper studies labour market policy in a society where differently gifted individuals can invest in training to further increase their labour market productivity. Furthermore, the government ...
(publiched in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2011, 33 (4), 738-753)
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J6, J24, J31
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2823
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Xiaojun
Wang
Belton
M.
Fleisher
Haizheng
Li
Shi
Li
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Access to Higher Education and Inequality: The Chinese Experiment
We apply a semi-parametric latent variable model to estimate selection and sorting effects on the evolution of private returns to schooling for college graduates during China’s reform between 1988 ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 42, 78-92)
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J31, J24, O15
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2822
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Nauro
F.
Campos
Vitaliy
S.
Kuzeyev
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On the Dynamics of Ethnic Fractionalization
Does fractionalization change over time? If so, are there any substantial implications for economic performance? To answer such questions, we construct a new panel data set with fractionalization ...
(published in: American Journal of Political Science, 2007, 51(3), 620-639)
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O11, Z12, O55, H1
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2821
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Cécile
Wetzels
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Are Workers in the Cultural Industries Paid Differently?
This paper aims to explore wage differentials between employees in three sub-industries of the cultural industries compared with the main (1-digit level) industry to which they belong. We use data ...
(published in: Journal of Cultural Economics, 2008, 32(1), 59-77)
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J24, J31, L82, O12
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2818
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David
G.
Blanchflower
Chris
Shadforth
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Entrepreneurship in the UK
This paper examines the causes and consequences of changes in the incidence of entrepreneurship in the UK. Self-employment as a proportion of total employment is high by international standards in ...
(published in: Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship, 2007, 3 (4), 257–364)
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L26, J23
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2817
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Guillermina
Jasso
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The Terms and Relations of Comparison, Referential, and Relative Processes
This paper develops the mathematical foundations of comparison, referential, and relative (CRR) processes. The key ingredients are: (1) three kinds of terms; and (2) two kinds of relations. Combining ...
(published in: Andreas Diekmann, Klaus Eichner, Peter Schmidt, and Thomas Voss (eds.), Rational Choice: Theoretische Analyse und Empirische Resultate. Festschrift für Karl-Dieter Opp. Wiesbaden, Germany: VS Verlag, 2008)
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C02, C65, D31, D6, I3
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2816
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Olivia
Ekert-Jaffe
Shoshana
Grossbard
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Does Community Property Discourage Unpartnered Births?
This paper investigates the likelihood of an unpartnered birth as a function of laws regulating the division of joint property in case of divorce. Based on a rational choice model of marriage and ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2008, 24 (1), 25-40)
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J12, J18, K3
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2815
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T. Paul
Schultz
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Population Policies, Fertility, Women’s Human Capital, and Child Quality
Population policies are defined here as voluntary programs which help people control their fertility and expect to improve their lives. There are few studies of the long-run effects of policy-induced ...
(published in: T. Paul Schultz and John Strauss (eds.), Handbook of Development Economics, Vol. 4, Amsterdam: North-Holland, Elsevier, 2008)
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J13, J24, O15
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2814
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Stephen
P.
Jenkins
John
Micklewright
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New Directions in the Analysis of Inequality and Poverty
Over the last four decades, academic and wider public interest in inequality and poverty has grown substantially. In this paper we address the question: what have been the major new directions in the ...
(published in: Stephen P. Jenkins and John Micklewright (eds.), Inequality and Poverty Re-Examined, Oxford: OUP, 2007)
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D31, I32
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2812
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Panu
Poutvaara
Mikael
Priks
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Hooliganism and Police Tactics: Should Tear Gas Make Crime Preventers Cry?
Hooliganism is on the rise and different countries use different strategies to combat it. We introduce a model where hooligans reap utility from violence and social identity and study the effects of ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2009, 11 (3), 441-453)
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D71, D74
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2811
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Devashish
Mitra
Priya
Ranjan
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Temporary Shocks and Offshoring: The Role of External Economies and Firm Heterogeneity
We construct a model of offshoring with externalities and firm heterogeneity. Due to the presence of externalities, temporary shocks like the Y2K problem can have permanent effects, i.e., they can ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2008, 87 (1), 76-84)
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F12, F23, O19
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2810
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Anzelika
Zaiceva
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East-West Migration and Gender: Is there a “Double Disadvantage” vis-à-vis Stayers?
This paper documents whether female East-West migrants in Germany after the reunification experience a gain or a disadvantage after they moved compared to both stayers and males. It employs panel ...
(substantially revised version published as "East-West Migration and Gender: Is There a Differential Effect for Migrant Women?" in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (2), 443-454)
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J16, J61, R23
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2809
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Carlos
Gradín
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Why Is Poverty So High Among Afro-Brazilians? A Decomposition Analysis of the Racial Poverty Gap
This study aimed to identify the major factors underlying the large discrepancy in poverty levels between two Brazilian racial groups: whites and Afro-Brazilians. We performed an Oaxaca-Blinder-type ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2009, 45 (9), 1-38)
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D31, D63, J15, J82, O15
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2808
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Marian
Rizov
Patrick
Paul
Walsh
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Productivity and Trade Orientation in UK Manufacturing
Within a structural model we explicitly allow for the trade orientation of companies to estimate productivity dynamics within 4-digit UK manufacturing industries. We use the FAME data on UK companies ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 71 (6), 821-849)
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F14, D24
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2807
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Javier
Ortega
Laurence
Rioux
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On the Extent of Re-Entitlement Effects in Unemployment Compensation
A dynamic labor matching economy is presented, in which the unemployed are either entitled to unemployment insurance (UI) or unemployment assistance (UA), and the employees are either eligible for UI ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17(2), 368-382)
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J41, J65
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2806
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Markus
Pannenberg
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Risk Aversion and Reservation Wages
This study examines the relationship between individual risk aversion and reservation wages using a novel set of direct measures of individual risk attitudes from the German Socio-Economic Panel ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Risk attitudes and reservation wages of unemployed workers: Evidence from panel data' in: Economics Letters, 2010, 106 (3), 223-226)
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J64, J65
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2804
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Joaquín
Andaluz
Miriam
Marcén
José Alberto
Molina
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Income Transfers, Welfare and Family Decisions
This paper studies the effects of different income transfers on individual welfare, in both marriage and divorce situations, and on family decisions. We assume three generations within the family. We ...
(published as "The effects of inter-generational transfers on the marital surplus" in The Manchester School, 2017, 85 (3), 320-338)
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D13, J12, D64, D10, C70
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2803
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Sandra
E.
Black
Alexandra
Spitz-Oener
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Explaining Women’s Success: Technological Change and the Skill Content of Women’s Work
The closing of the gender wage gap is an ongoing phenomenon in industrialized countries. However, research has been limited in its ability to understand the causes of these changes, due in part to an ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 92(1), 187-194)
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J31, J24
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2802
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Lídia
Farré
Francis
Vella
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Role Attitudes and its Implications for Female Labor Force Participation
Using a sample of mother-child pairs from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and the Young Adults of the NLSY79 we explore the relationship between a woman’s attitudes towards ...
(published in: Economica, 2013, 80 (318), 219-247)
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J12, J62, D1, Z1
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2801
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Polona
Domadenik
Janez
Prašnikar
Jan
Svejnar
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How to Increase R&D in Transition Economies? Evidence from Slovenia
Paper addresses the recent initiatives of EU Lisbon Agenda to increase level of R&D expenses in EU Member States by studying firm-level panel data in most advanced transition economy, Slovenia. ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 12(1), 193-208)
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C33, D01, L2, O31, P2
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2800
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Conny
Wunsch
Michael
Lechner
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What Did All the Money Do? On the General Ineffectiveness of Recent West German Labour Market Programmes
We provide new evidence on the effectiveness of West German labour market programmes by evaluating training and employment programmes that have been conducted 2000-2002 after the first large reform ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2008, 61 (1), 134-174)
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J68
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2799
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Louis
N.
Christofides
Paris
Nearchou
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Real and Nominal Wage Rigidities in Collective Bargaining Agreements
An earlier study of wage agreements, reached in the Canadian unionized sector between 1976-99, found that wage adjustment is characterized by downward nominal rigidity and significant spikes at zero. ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14(4), 695-715)
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J52, J31
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2798
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Daniel
Münich
Jan
Svejnar
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Unemployment in East and West Europe
In this paper, we use 1991-2005 panel data on the unemployed, vacancies, inflow into unemployment, and outflow from unemployment in five former communist economies and in the western part of Germany ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (4), 681-694)
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P2, J4, J6, C33
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2797
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Andrea
Conte
Marco
Vivarelli
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Globalization and Employment: Imported Skill Biased Technological Change in Developing Countries
This paper discusses the occurrence of Skill-Enhancing Technology Import (SETI), namely the relationship between imports of embodied technology and widening skill-based employment differentials in a ...
(published in: Developing Economies, 2011, 49(1), 36-65)
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F16, J23, J24, O33
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2796
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Francesco
Pastore
Alina
Verashchagina
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When Does Transition Increase the Gender Wage Gap? An Application to Belarus
This paper suggests an analytical framework to analyse the joint evolution of female participation and wages across countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Former Soviet Union (FSU), of ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2011, 19 (2), 333-369 )
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J16, J22, J31, P20
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