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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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2749
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Guillermina
Jasso
Samuel
Kotz
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Two Types of Inequality: Inequality Between Persons and Inequality Between Subgroups
Social scientists study two kinds of inequality: inequality between persons (as in income inequality) and inequality between subgroups (as in racial inequality). This paper analyzes the mathematical ...
(published in: Sociological Methods and Research, 2008, 37 (1), 31-74)
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C02, C16, D31, D6, I3
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2747
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Hartmut
Egger
Josef
Falkinger
Volker
Grossmann
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Brain Drain, Fiscal Competition, and Public Education Expenditure
This paper uses a two-country model with integrated markets for high-skilled labor to analyze the opportunities and incentives for national governments to provide higher education. Countries can ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2012, 20 (1), 81-94)
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F22, H52
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2746
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Andrea
Bassanini
Giorgio
Brunello
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Barriers to Entry, Deregulation and Workplace Training
We develop a theoretical and empirical analysis of the impact of barriers to entry on workplace training. Our theoretical model yields ambiguous predictions on the sign of this relationship. On the ...
(revised version published as 'Barriers to entry, deregulation and workplace training: A theoretical model with evidence from Europe' in: European Economic Review, 2011, 55 (8), 1152-1176)
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J24, L11
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2745
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Fabian
Lange
Douglas
Gollin
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Equipping Immigrants: Migration Flows and Capital Movements
Both policy makers and researchers have devoted considerable attention in recent years to the large current account and capital account imbalances among OECD countries. In particular, the size of the ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2013, 149 (4), 749-777)
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F21, F22
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2744
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Francesca
Lotti
Enrico
Santarelli
Marco
Vivarelli
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Defending Gibrat’s Law as a Long-Run Regularity
According to Gibrat’s Law of Proportionate Effect, the growth rate of a given firm is independent of its size at the beginning of the period examined. While earlier studies tended to confirm the Law, ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2009, 32(1), 31-44)
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L11, L26
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2743
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Eran
Yashiv
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Labor Search and Matching in Macroeconomics
The labor search and matching model plays a growing role in macroeconomic analysis. This paper provides a critical, selective survey of the literature. Four fundamental questions are explored: how ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2007, 51 (8), 1859-1895)
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E24, E32, E52, J23, J31, J41, J63, J64, J65
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2741
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Thomas
Cornelissen
Olaf
Hübler
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Unobserved Individual and Firm Heterogeneity in Wage and Tenure Functions: Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data
We estimate wage and job tenure functions that include individual and firm effects capturing time-invariant unobserved worker and firm heterogeneity using German linked employer-employee data (LIAB ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2011, 12 (4), 469-489)
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C23, J31, J62, J63
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2740
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Michael
Lechner
Stephan
Wiehler
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Kids or Courses? Gender Differences in the Effects of Active Labor Market Policies
This paper investigates active labor market programs in Austria with a special emphasis on male-female effect heterogeneity. On average, we find only small effects, if any, for most of the programs. ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (3), 783-812)
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J68
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2739
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Yves
Zenou
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High Relocation Costs in Search-Matching Models: Theory and Application to Spatial Mismatch
We develop a standard search-matching model in which mobility costs are so high that it is too costly for workers to relocate when a change in their employment status occurs. We show that, in ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (5), 534-546)
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D83, J15, J64, R14
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2738
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Tobias
J.
Klein
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Heterogeneous Treatment Effects: Instrumental Variables without Monotonicity?
A fundamental identification problem in program evaluation arises when idiosyncratic gains from participation and the treatment decision depend on each other. Imbens and Angrist (1994) were the first ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2010, 155 (2), 99-116)
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C21
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2737
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David
W.
Johnston
Carol
Propper
Michael A.
Shields
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Comparing Subjective and Objective Measures of Health: Evidence from Hypertension for the Income/Health Gradient
Economists rely heavily on self-reported measures of health status to examine the relationship between income and health. In this paper we directly compare survey responses to a self-reported measure ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2009, 28 (3), 540 - 552)
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I10, I18, C42
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2736
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Kaushik
Basu
Sanghamitra
Das
Bhaskar
Dutta
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Child Labor and Household Wealth: Theory and Empirical Evidence of an Inverted-U
Some studies on child labor have shown that greater land wealth leads to higher child labor, thereby casting doubt on the hypothesis that child labor is caused by poverty. This paper argues that the ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 91 (1), 8 - 14)
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D13, J20, O12
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2735
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Thomas
Dohmen
Armin
Falk
David
B.
Huffman
Uwe
Sunde
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Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?
Is the way that people make risky choices, or tradeoffs over time, related to cognitive ability? This paper investigates whether there is a link between cognitive ability, risk aversion, and ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (3), 1238–1260)
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C93, D01, D80, D90, J24, J62
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2734
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José Alberto
Molina
Maria
Navarro Paniagua
Ian
Walker
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Mums and Their Sons, Dads and Their Daughters: Panel Data Evidence of Interdependent Marginal Utilities across 14 EU Countries
We study how fathers and mothers income satisfaction correlates with the income satisfaction of their sons and daughters, as well as with other economic and socio-demographic variables. We estimate ...
(published as 'Intergenerational Well-Being Mobility in Europe' in: Kyklos, 2011, 64 (2), 253-270)
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D13, D60, D64, C33
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2733
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Erkki
Koskela
Rune
Stenbacka
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Equilibrium Unemployment with Outsourcing and Wage Solidarity Under Labour Market Imperfections
We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment in a heterogeneous labour market, where wages are determined by a monopoly labour union. We ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2010, 54 (3), 376-392)
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E23, E24, J31, J51
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2732
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Emrah
Arbak
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Endogenous Leadership: Selection and Influence
In social dilemmas, leading a team by making heroic efforts may prove costly, especially if the followers are not adequately motivated to make similar sacrifices. Attempting to understand what ...
(revised version published as 'Voluntary leadership: motivation and influence' in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2013, 40 (3), 635-662.)
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M54, J33, A13, C92, D63
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2730
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Alan
B.
Krueger
David
A.
Schkade
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Sorting in the Labor Market: Do Gregarious Workers Flock to Interactive Jobs?
This paper tests a central implication of the theory of equalizing differences, that workers sort into jobs with different attributes based on their preferences for those attributes. We present ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2008, 43 (4), 859-883)
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J0
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2729
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Alexandra
Spitz-Oener
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The Returns to Pencil Use Revisited
The increased diffusion of computers is one of the fundamental changes at workplaces in recent decades. While the majority of workers now spend a substantial fraction of their working day with a ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2008, 61 (4), 502-517)
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J31, C13
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2728
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Stephen
Gibbons
Olmo
Silva
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Urban Density and Pupil Attainment
We explore the association between urban density and pupil attainment using three cohorts of pupils in schooling in England. Although – as widely recognised – attainment in dense urban places is low ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2008, 63 (1), 631-650)
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I20, R20, J24
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2727
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Einat
Neuman
Shoshana
Neuman
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Agency in Health-Care: Are Medical Care-Givers Perfect Agents?
It has been suggested in the literature that a source of incompleteness in the agency relationship between the doctor and the patient is that the provider may respond to an incomplete or biased ...
(published in: Applied Economic Letters, 2009, 16 (13-15), 1355-1360)
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I1
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2725
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James
J.
Heckman
Dimitriy
V.
Masterov
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The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children
This paper presents a productivity argument for investing in disadvantaged young children. For such investment, there is no equity-efficiency tradeoff.
(published in: Review of Agricultural Economics, 2007, 29 (3), 446-493)
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H52, I28
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2724
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Alan
B.
Krueger
David
A.
Schkade
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The Reliability of Subjective Well-Being Measures
This paper studies the test-retest reliability of a standard self-reported life satisfaction measure and of affect measures collected from a diary method. The sample consists of 229 women who were ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (8-9), 1833-1845)
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I31, J0
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2723
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Stefan
Bach
Giacomo
Corneo
Viktor
Steiner
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From Bottom to Top: The Entire Distribution of Market Income in Germany, 1992-2001
We analyze the distribution and concentration of market incomes in Germany in the period 1992 to 2001 on the basis of an integrated data set of individual tax returns and the German Socio-Economic ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2009, 55, 303-330)
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D31, D33, H24
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2722
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Shoshana
Grossbard
Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
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Cohort-Level Sex Ratio Effects on Women’s Labor Force Participation
It follows from a number of theoretical models of marriage that the scarcer women are relative to men, i.e. the higher the sex ratio, the less married women are likely to participate in the labor ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2007, 5 (3), 249-278)
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J1, J2
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2720
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Michael
Rosholm
Rune
Majlund
Vejlin
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Reducing Income Transfers to Refugee Immigrants: Does Starthelp Help You Start?
In this paper we estimate the causal effect of lowering the public income transfers administered to newly arrived refugee immigrants in Denmark – the so-called starthelp – using a competing risk ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 258-275)
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E64, J18, J23, J38, J58, J65, J68
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2719
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Arnaud
Dupuy
Daniel
Fernández-Kranz
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International Differences in the Family Gap in Pay: The Role of Labor Market Institutions
Using microdata for 35 countries over the period 1985-1994-2002 we find that labor market institutions traditionally associated to more compressed wage structures are associated to a higher family ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2011, 43(13), 413-438)
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J31, J60
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2718
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Etienne
Lehmann
Bruno
Van der Linden
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Search Frictions on Product and Labor Markets: Money in the Matching Function
This paper builds a macroeconomic model of equilibrium unemployment in which firms persistently face difficulties in selling their production and this affects their decisions to create jobs. Due to ...
(published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2010, 10(1), 56-92)
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E12, E24, E31, J63
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2717
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Andrew
J.
Oswald
Nattavudh
Powdthavee
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Obesity, Unhappiness, and The Challenge of Affluence: Theory and Evidence
Is affluence a good thing? The book The Challenge of Affluence by Avner Offer (2006) argues that economic prosperity weakens self-control and undermines human well-being. Consistent with a ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (521), F441-F459)
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D1, I12, I31
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2715
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Shelly
Lundberg
Robert
Pollak
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The American Family and Family Economics
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Gary Becker’s path-breaking Treatise on the Family provides an occasion to reexamine both the American family and family economics. We begin by ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2007, 21 (2), 3-26)
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J1
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2714
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David
Dorn
Alfonso
Sousa-Poza
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'Voluntary' and 'Involuntary' Early Retirement: An International Analysis
Recent literature makes a distinction between 'voluntary' and 'involuntary' early retirement, where 'involuntary' early retirement results from employment constraints rather than from a preference ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2010, 42 (4), 427-438)
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J14, J21, J22, J26
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2713
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Erzo
F.P.
Luttmer
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Does the Minimum Wage Cause Inefficient Rationing?
This paper investigates whether the minimum wage leads to inefficient job rationing. By not allowing wages to clear the labor market, the minimum wage could cause workers with low reservation wages ...
(published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2007, 7(1), Article 49)
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J30, J21, D61
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2712
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Atanas
Christev
Allen
Featherstone
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A Note on Allen-Uzawa Partial Elasticities of Substitution: The Case of the Translog Cost Function
This note provides a useful property of the Allen-Uzawa partials for the translog cost function. It also suggests how the main results extend to any functional form with certain properties. The ...
(revised version published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2009, 16 (11), 1165 - 1169)
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C13, C52, D20
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2711
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Sebastián
Calónico
Hugo
R.
Nopo
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Returns to Private Education in Peru
The private provision of educational services has been representing an increasing fraction of the Peruvian schooling system, especially in recent last decades. While there have been many claims about ...
(published as 'Where Did You Go to School? Private-Public Differences in Schooling Trajectories and Their Role on Earnings' in: Well-Being and Social Policy, 2007, 3 (1), 25-46)
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J31, I2
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2710
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Panu
Poutvaara
Mikael
Priks
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Unemployment and Gang Crime: Could Prosperity Backfire?
Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that ...
(published as 'Unemployment and gang crime: can prosperity backfire?' in: Economics of Governance, 2011, 12 (3), 259 - 273)
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K42, D71, D74
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2709
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Wang-Sheng
Lee
Umut
Oguzoglu
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Are Youths on Income Support Less Happy? Evidence from Australia
The central research question addressed in this paper is how receipt of income support payments affects the well-being of youths. Using 1997-2004 panel data from a nationally representative survey of ...
(published in: Australian Economic Review, 2007, 40 (4), 369-384)
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I31, I38, C33
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2708
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Arnaud
Dupuy
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Will the Skill-Premium in the Netherlands Rise in the Next Decades?
While the skill-premium has been rising sharply in the US and the UK for 20 years, the Dutch skill-premium decreased for much of that period and only started to rise in the early 90s. In this paper, ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2007, 39 (21), 2723-31)
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D33, J11, J38
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2706
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Manuela
Angelucci
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Love on the Rocks: Alcohol Abuse and Domestic Violence in Rural Mexico
What causes alcohol abuse and domestic violence and how can we stop them? These behaviors have multiple determinants, making the effects of changes in wife's and husband's income ambiguous. This ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2008, 8(1), Article 43)
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D13, I18, O12
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2705
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Michael
C.
Burda
Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
Philippe
Weil
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Total Work, Gender and Social Norms
Using time-diary data from 25 countries, we demonstrate that there is a negative relationship between real GDP per capita and the female-male difference in total work time per day – the sum of work ...
(published as 'Total Work and Gender: Facts and Possible Explanations' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (1), 239-261)
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J22, J16, D13
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2704
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Ryan
Kellogg
Hendrik
Wolff
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Does Extending Daylight Saving Time Save Energy? Evidence from an Australian Experiment
Several countries are considering extending Daylight Saving Time (DST) in order to conserve energy, and the U.S. will extend DST by one month beginning in 2007. However, projections that these ...
(published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2008, 56 (3), 207-220)
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Q48, C21
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2703
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Belton
M.
Fleisher
Haizheng
Li
Min Qiang
Zhao
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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Regional Inequality in China
We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth patterns can be understood as a function of several interrelated factors, which ...
(substantially revised version published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 92(2), 215-231)
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O15, O18, O47, O53
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2702
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José
M.
Labeaga
José Alberto
Molina
Maria
Navarro Paniagua
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Income Satisfaction and Deprivation in Spain
The first objective of our paper is to identify the determinants of income satisfaction in Spain, with one of these being relative deprivation, and the second is to measure this relative deprivation, ...
(published as 'Deprivation using satisfaction measures in Spain' in: Journal of Policy Modeling, 2011, 33 (2), 287-310)
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D31, D63, I31
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2700
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Christoph
M.
Schmidt
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Policy Evaluation and Economic Policy Advice
Arguably, one of the most important developments in the field of applied economics during the last decades has been the emergence of systematic policy evaluation, with its distinct focus on the ...
(published in: AStA: Advances in Statistical Analysis, 2007, 91 (4), 379-389)
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A11, C01, H50
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2699
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Uta
Schönberg
Johannes
Ludsteck
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Maternity Leave Legislation, Female Labor Supply, and the Family Wage Gap
This paper analyzes the impact of expansions in leave coverage on mothers’ labor market outcomes after childbirth. The focus is on Germany, a country that underwent several changes in maternity leave ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 32 (3), 469-505)
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J16, J18, J24
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2698
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Hugo
R.
Nopo
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The Gender Wage Gap in Chile 1992-2003 from a Matching Comparisons Perspective
This paper analyzes the evolution of the gender wage gap in Chile during the period 1992 to 2003 using the decomposition approach developed in Ńopo (2004). This approach, which decomposes the wage ...
(published in: 'New Century, Old Disparities. Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean'. World Bank Publications, 2012)
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C14, D31, J16, O54
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2696
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Charles
Bellemare
Bruce
S.
Shearer
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Gift Exchange within a Firm: Evidence from a Field Experiment
We present results from a field experiment testing the gift-exchange hypothesis inside a tree-planting firm paying its workforce incentive contracts. Firm managers told a crew of tree planters they ...
(published as "Gift giving and worker productivity: Evidence from a firm-level experiment" in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2009, 67 (1), 233-244)
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J33, M52, C93
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2695
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Yves
Zenou
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Endogenous Job Destruction and Job Matching in Cities
We propose a spatial search-matching model where both job creation and job destruction are endogenous. Workers are ex ante identical but not ex post since their job can be hit by a technological ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2009, 65 (3), 323-336)
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D83, J41, J64, R14
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2694
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Arnaud
Dupuy
Philip
S.
Marey
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Shifts and Twists in the Relative Productivity of Skilled Labor
Skill-biased technical change is usually interpreted in terms of the efficiency parameters of skilled and unskilled labor. This implies that the relative productivity of skilled workers changes ...
(published in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2008, 30 (2), 718-35)
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J20, J31, O30, O40
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2692
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Roberto
Alvarez
Holger
Görg
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Multinationals as Stabilizers? Economic Crisis and Plant Employment Growth
This paper examines the link between multinational enterprises and employment growth at the plant-level. We investigate in detail the comparative response of multinationals and domestic firms to an ...
(published as 'Multinationals as Stabilisers? Economic Crisis, Access to Finance, and Employment Growth' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2012, 48 (7), 847-863)
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F2, O1, J2
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2691
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Daniele
Checchi
Jelle
Visser
Herman
G.
van de Werfhorst
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Inequality and Union Membership: The Impact of Relative Earnings Position and Inequality Attitudes
In this paper we examine the connection between union membership and economic inequality. Using several surveys from the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) covering the period 1985-2002, we ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2009, 48 (1), 84-108)
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J51
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2690
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Iván
Fernández-Val
Francis
Vella
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Bias Corrections for Two-Step Fixed Effects Panel Data Estimators
This paper introduces bias-corrected estimators for nonlinear panel data models with both time invariant and time varying heterogeneity. These include limited dependent variable models with both ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2011, 163 (2), 144-162)
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C23, J31, J51
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