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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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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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2781
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Monojit
Chatterji
Karen
A.
Mumford
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The Public-Private Sector Wage Differential for Full-Time Male Employees in Britain: A Preliminary Analysis
Relative employment conditions have changed across the public and private sectors in Britain over the last decade with the former becoming a more attractive earnings option. Using new linked ...
(substantially revised version published as: 'Flying High and Laying Low in the Public and Private Sectors: A Comparison of Pay Differentials for Male, Full Time Employees.' Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 2012, 15 (3), 235-259)
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J3, J7
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2780
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Julien
Prat
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The Rate of Learning-by-Doing: Estimates from a Search-Matching Model
We construct and estimate by maximum likelihood an equilibrium search model where wages are set by Nash bargaining and idiosyncratic productivity follows a geometric Brownian motion. The proposed ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2010, 25 (6), 929-962)
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J31, J64
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2779
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Romain
Aeberhardt
Julien
Pouget
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National Origin Wage Differentials in France: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
This paper attempts to explain national origin wage differentials in France. Our data come from a matched employer-employee wage survey performed in 2002. Business survey data are matched to many ...
(revised version published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2010, 99/100, 17-140)
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J15, J16, J31, J71
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2778
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Marco
Francesconi
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Adult Outcomes for Children of Teenage Mothers
Using data from the British Household Panel Survey, this study examines the relationship between several outcomes in early adulthood (e.g., education, inactivity, earnings, and health) and being born ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 110 (1), 93-117)
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C23, I31, J13
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2777
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Jens
Bonke
Mette
Deding
Mette
Lausten
Leslie
S.
Stratton
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Intrahousehold Specialization in Housework in the United States and Denmark
Objective: Focusing on housework activities, we construct a gender neutral composite index measure of intrahousehold specialization. We hypothesize that the degree of specialization is influenced by ...
(published in: Social Science Quarterly, 2008, 89 (4), 1023-1043)
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D13
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2776
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Diana
Kruger
Rodrigo
R.
Soares
Matias
Berthelon
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Household Choices of Child Labor and Schooling: A Simple Model with Application to Brazil
This paper develops and estimates a simple structural model of household decisions regarding child labor and schooling. We argue that part of the conflicting results from the previous literature – ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2012, 47 (1), 1-31)
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D13, J22, O12
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2775
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Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Evidence of Unequal Treatment in Hiring against Obese Applicants: A Field Experiment
This study presents evidence of recruitment discrimination against obese individuals in Sweden by sending fictitious applications to real job openings. Otherwise identical applications were randomly ...
(revised version published as "Obesity, Attractiveness, and Differential Treatment in Hiring: A Field Experiment" in: Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44(3), 710-735)
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J64, J71
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2773
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Roland
A.
Amann
Tobias
J.
Klein
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Returns to Type or Tenure?
We analyze the joint determination of wage levels, wage growth and firm tenure. Our analysis is built on estimating a reduced form for tenure, a structural wage level equation and a structural wage ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2012, 175 (1), 153 - 166)
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J31
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2772
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Thomas
K.
Bauer
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Vincent
A.
Hildebrand
Mathias
Sinning
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A Comparative Analysis of the Nativity Wealth Gap
This paper investigates the source of the gap in the relative wealth position of immigrant households residing in Australia, Germany and the United States. Our results indicate that in Germany and ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2011, 11 (4), 989-1007)
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F22, D31
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2771
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Rodrigo
R.
Soares
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Health and the Evolution of Welfare across Brazilian Municipalities
This paper describes the pattern of reductions in mortality across Brazilian municipalities between 1970 and 2000, and analyzes its causes and consequences. It shows that, as in the international ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2007, 84(2), 590–608)
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I12, I31, I38, J17, O15, O54
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2770
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Giuseppe
Fiori
Giuseppe
Nicoletti
Stefano
Scarpetta
Fabio
Schiantarelli
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Employment Outcomes and the Interaction Between Product and Labor Market Deregulation: Are They Substitutes or Complements?
This paper provides a systematic empirical investigation of the effect of product market liberalization on employment when there are interactions between policies and institutions in product and ...
(published as "Employment Effects of Product and Labour Market Reforms: Are There Synergies?" in: Economic Journal, 2012, 122 (558), 79-104)
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J23, J50, L50
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2769
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Christophe
Rault
Robert
Sova
Anamaria
Sova
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The Role of Association Agreements within European Union Enlargement to Central and Eastern European Countries
The main goal of regionalization is the creation of free trade areas and the guarantee for countries to accede to a widened market. Many studies dealing with the effects of regional free trade ...
(published in: Aussenwirtschaft : Schweizerische Zeitschrift für internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen /Swiss Review of International Economic Relations, 2008, Issue III)
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E61, F13, F15, C25
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2768
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Marco
Cipriani
Paola
Giuliano
Olivier
Jeanne
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Like Mother Like Son? Experimental Evidence on the Transmission of Values from Parents to Children
This paper studies whether prosocial values are transmitted from parents to their children. We do so through an economic experiment, in which a group of Hispanic and African American families play a ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2013, 90, 100-111)
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C92, H41, Z1
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2767
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
Reuben
Gronau
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The Demand for Variety: A Household Production Perspective
Economists have devoted substantial attention to firms’ supply of variety, but little to consumers’ demand for variety. Employing the framework of home production, we trace differences in demand to ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008, 90 (3), 562-572)
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D13, J22
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2766
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Raven
E.
Saks
Abigail
Wozniak
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Labor Reallocation over the Business Cycle: New Evidence from Internal Migration
This paper establishes the cyclical properties of a novel measure of worker reallocation: long-distance migration rates within the US. This internal migration offers a bird’s eye view of worker ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2011, 29 (4). 697 - 739)
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J6, E32
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2765
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Armin
Falk
Christian
Zehnder
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Discrimination and In-Group Favoritism in a Citywide Trust Experiment
This paper provides field experimental evidence on the prevalence and determinants of discrimination and in-group favoritism in trust decisions. We observe choices of about 1,000 inhabitants of the ...
(published as 'A City-Wide Experiment on Trust Discrimination' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 100, 15-27)
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C90, D63
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2764
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Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Implicit Discrimination in Hiring: Real World Evidence
This is the first study providing evidence of a new form of discrimination, implicit discrimination, acting in real economic life. In a two-stage field experiment we first measure the difference in ...
(published as "Automatic associations and discrimination in hiring: Real world evidence" in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (3), 523-534)
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J64, J71
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2763
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Giacomo
Corneo
Olivier
Jeanne
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Symbolic Values, Occupational Choice, and Economic Development
Channeling human resources into the right occupations has historically been a key to economic prosperity. Occupational choices are not only driven by the material rewards associated with the various ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2010, 54 (2), 241-255)
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D1, O1
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2762
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Gianna
Claudia
Giannelli
Francesca
Francavilla
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Do Family Planning Programmes Help Women's Employment? The Case of Indian Mothers
The paper deals with female employment in developing countries. We set out a model to test our argument that, at the first stage of development, demographic and health programmes have proven to be ...
(published in: Journal of Asian Economics, 2011, 22 (5), 412 - 426)
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J13, J16, J22, O18
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2761
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Tobias
J.
Klein
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College Education and Wages in the U.K.: Estimating Conditional Average Structural Functions in Nonadditive Models with Binary Endogenous Variables
We propose and implement an estimator for identifiable features of correlated random coefficient models with binary endogenous variables and nonadditive errors in the outcome equation. It is ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 44(1), 135-161)
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C14, C31, J31
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