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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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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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2794
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Lena
Nekby
Peter
Skogman
Thoursie
Lars
Vahtrik
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Gender and Self-Selection Into a Competitive Environment: Are Women More Overconfident Than Men?
Using a large running race in Sweden, this study shows that there are male-dominated environments in which the selection of women who participate are more likely to be confident/competitive and that, ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 100(3), 405-407)
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J2, J16, J71
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2792
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Dimitris
Georgarakos
Konstantinos
Tatsiramos
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Entrepreneurship and Survival Dynamics of Immigrants to the U.S. and their Descendants
Many studies have explored the determinants of entering into entrepreneurship and the differences in self-employment rates across racial and ethnic groups. However, very little is known about the ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16(2), 161-170)
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F22, J15, J82, C41
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2791
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Jan
Svejnar
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China in Light of the Performance of Central and East European Economies
While China shared many systemic, initial conditions with the transition economies of Central-East Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), it had a more agricultural economy ...
(published in: L. Brandt and T. Rawski (eds), China’s Great Economic Transformation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)
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O1, P2, N1
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2790
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Joshua
Angrist
Adriana
Kugler
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Rural Windfall or a New Resource Curse? Coca, Income, and Civil Conflict in Colombia
Natural and agricultural resources for which there is a substantial black market, such as coca, opium, and diamonds, appear especially likely to be exploited by the parties to a civil conflict. Even ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008, 90 (2), 191-215)
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Q34, O13
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2789
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Stephen
V.
Burks
Jeffrey
P.
Carpenter
Lorenz
Götte
Kristen
Monaco
Kay
Porter
Aldo
Rustichini
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Using Behavioral Economic Experiments at a Large Motor Carrier: The Context and Design of the Truckers and Turnover Project
The Truckers and Turnover Project is a statistical case study of a single firm and its employees which matches proprietary personnel and operational data to new data collected by the researchers to ...
(published in: Stefan Bender, Julia Lane, Kathryn Shaw, Fredrik Andersson, and Till Von Wachter (eds.), The Analysis of Firms and Employees: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches, NBER and University of Chicago Press, 2008, 45-106)
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C81, C93, L92, J63
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2788
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David
McKenzie
John
Gibson
Steven
Stillman
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A Land of Milk and Honey with Streets Paved with Gold: Do Emigrants Have Over-Optimistic Expectations about Incomes Abroad?
Millions of people emigrate every year in search of better economic and social opportunities. Anecdotal evidence suggests that emigrants may have over-optimistic expectations about the incomes they ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 102, 116 - 127)
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D84, F22, J61
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2787
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Dolores
Messer
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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Time-to-Degree and the Business Cycle
When students themselves enjoy large degrees of freedom in determining the duration of their studies, it results in a fairly large degree of interindividual variance in terms of time-to-degree. This ...
(revised version published in: Education Economics, 2010, 18(1), 111-123)
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C81, E32, I2, I23
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2784
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Vincenzo
Caponi
Miana
Plesca
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Post-Secondary Education in Canada: Can Ability Bias Explain the Earnings Gap Between College and University Graduates?
Using the Canadian General Social Survey we compute returns to post-secondary education relative to high-school. Unlike previous research using Canadian data, our dataset allows us to control for ...
(revised version published in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2009, 42 (3), 1100-1131)
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J24, J31, I2, C31
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2783
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Javier
A.
Birchenall
Rodrigo
R.
Soares
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Altruism, Fertility, and the Value of Children: Health Policy Evaluation and Intergenerational Welfare
This paper accounts for the value of children and future generations in the evaluation of health policies. This is achieved through the incorporation of altruism and fertility in a “value of life” ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (1-2), 280-295)
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J17, J13, I10
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2782
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Helmut
Fryges
Joachim
Wagner
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Exports and Productivity Growth: First Evidence from a Continuous Treatment Approach
A recent survey of 54 micro-econometric studies reveals that exporting firms are more productive than non-exporters. On the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2008, 144 (4), 695-722)
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F14, F23, L60
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