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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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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 Ñopo (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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2689
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Carlos
Pestana
Barros
Antonio
Menezes
José
António Cabral
Vieira
Nicolas
Peypoch
Bernardin
Solonandrasana
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An Analysis of Hospital Efficiency and Productivity Growth Using the Luenberger Productivity Indicator
We analyze the efficiency and productivity growth of a representative sample of Portuguese hospitals from 1997 to 2004, using an innovative approach by employing the directional distance function and ...
(published in: Health Care Management Science, 2008, 11 (4), 373-381)
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I11, I18, L5
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2687
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Marco
Caliendo
Alexander
S.
Kritikos
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Is Entrepreneurial Success Predictable? An Ex-Ante Analysis of the Character-Based Approach
This paper empirically analyzes whether the character-based approach, which is based on the personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction of entrepreneurial ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2008, 61(2), 189-214)
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M13, J23, C13
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2686
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Yoram
Amiel
Frank
A.
Cowell
Xavier
Ramos
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On the Measurement of Polarisation: A Questionnaire Study
Starting from the axiomatisation of polarisation contained in Esteban and Ray (1994) and Chakravarty and Majumdar (2001) we investigate whether people's perceptions of income polarisation is ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2010, 56 (1), 23-46)
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D63
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2685
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Christian
Dustmann
Johannes
Ludsteck
Uta
Schönberg
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Revisiting the German Wage Structure
This paper challenges the view that the wage structure in West-Germany has remained stable throughout the 80s and 90s. Based on a 2 % sample of social security records, we show that wage inequality ...
(revised version published in: Quaterly Journal of Economics, 2009, 124 (2), 843-88)
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J3, D3, O3
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2684
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Pieter
Bevelander
Sandra
Groeneveld
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How Many Hours Do You Have to Work to Be Integrated? Full Time and Part Time Employment of Native and Ethnic Minority Women in the Netherlands
Labor market participation is a central factor in the economic integration of migrants in their host country. Labor market integration of ethnic minority women is of special interest, as they may ...
(published as 'How many hours do you have to work to be integrated?' in: International Migration, 2012, 50 (s1), e117 - e131)
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F22, J22, J61
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2683
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Rob
Euwals
Jaco
Dagevos
Mérove
Gijsberts
Hans
Roodenburg
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The Labour Market Position of Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands: Reason for Migration, Naturalisation and Language Proficiency
On the basis of the German Socio-Economic Panel 2002 and the Dutch Social Position and Use of Provision Survey 2002, we investigate the importance of characteristics related to immigration for the ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2010, 44 (3), 513-538)
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C25, F22, J15, J61
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2682
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Sumon
K.
Bhaumik
Ira
N.
Gang
Myeong-Su
Yun
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Rationality as a Barrier to Peace: Micro-Evidence from Kosovo
Despite a significant expansion of the literature on conflicts and fragility of states, only a few systematic attempts have been made to link the theoretical literature on social conflicts to the ...
(published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 51(2): 242-264, 2009)
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I32, O12, J15
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2679
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Juan
J.
Dolado
Marcel
Jansen
Juan
F.
Jimeno
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A Positive Analysis of Targeted Employment Protection Legislation
In many countries, Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) establishes less strict dismissal procedures for specific groups of workers. This paper builds a simple matching model with heterogeneous ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics: Topics in Macroeconomics, 2007, 7 (1), Article 14)
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J64, J63
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2678
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Nauro
F.
Campos
Dean
Jolliffe
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Earnings, Schooling and Economic Reform: Econometric Evidence from Hungary (1986-2004)
How does the relationship between earnings and schooling change with the introduction of comprehensive economic reform? This paper sheds light on this question using a unique data set and procedure ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2007, 21 (3), 509-526)
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I20, J20, J24, J31, O15, O52, P20
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2676
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Paul
W.
Miller
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Earnings and Occupational Attainment: Immigrants and the Native Born
This paper examines the determinants of occupational attainment and the impact of occupation on earnings. Results for both the native born and foreign born are presented, and these provide insights ...
(published as 'Earnings and Occupational Attainment among Immigrants' in: Industrial Relations, 2009, 48 (3), 454 - 465)
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J24, J31, J62, F22
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2674
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Andreas
Ammermüller
Claudio
Lucifora
Federica
Origo
Thomas
Zwick
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Still Searching for the Wage Curve: Evidence from Germany and Italy
This paper investigates the functioning of regional labour markets in Italy and Germany for different employee groups. In the light of high and persistent differences in unemployment and wage rates ...
(published as 'Wage flexibility in regional labour markets: Evidence from Italy and Germany' in: Regional Studies, 2010, 44 (4), 401 - 421)
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J3, J6, R1
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2673
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Mirjam
C.
van Praag
Bernard
M. S.
van Praag
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The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z)
Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials ...
(published in: Economica, 2008, 75 (300), 782-796)
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A11, A14, J32, J44
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2672
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Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Birgitta
Jansson
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Top Incomes in Sweden during Three-Quarters of a Century: A Micro Data Approach
This paper aims to throw light on the development of top incomes in Sweden as well as the causes for change. Using household income data we show that since the first half of the 1980s, real income at ...
(published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2008, 32 (6), 963-976)
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D31, J31, N34
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2671
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Arnaud
Chéron
François
Langot
Eva
Moreno-Galbis
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The “Dynamic” of Job Competition during the ICT Revolution
Our paper seeks to gain insights on the effect of labor market institutions on the evolution of overeducation (job competition), unemployment inequalities and job instability during the polarization ...
(published in: Economica, 2010, 78 (309), 159-186)
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J23, J24, J63, L23, O33
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2670
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Paul
W.
Miller
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The International Transferability of Immigrants’ Human Capital Skills
This paper uses the approach in the under/over education literature to analyze the extent of matching of educational level to occupational attainment among adult native born and foreign born men in ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2009, 28 (2), 162-169)
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J24, J31, J62, F22
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2669
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Olivier
Donni
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A Theory of Child Targeting
There is a large empirical literature on policy measures targeted at children but surprisingly very little theoretical foundation to ground the debate on the optimality of the different instruments. ...
(published as 'Targeting and Child Poverty' in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2012, 39(4), 783-808)
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D13, D31, D63, H21, H31
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2668
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Martin
Salm
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The Effect of Pensions on Longevity: Evidence from Union Army Veterans
This study uses changes in pension laws for Union Army veterans as a natural experiment to estimate the causal effect of pensions on longevity, and to examine potential pathways underlying such a ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2011, 212 (552), 595 - 619)
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I12, J14, N41
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2667
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Joachim
Wagner
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Entry, Exit and Productivity: Empirical Results for German Manufacturing Industries
Using panel data from Spain Farinas and Ruano (IJIO 2005) test three hypotheses from a model by Hopenhayn (Econometrica 1992): (H1) Firms that exit in year t were in t-1 less productive than firms ...
(published in: German Economic Review 2010, 11(1), 78-85)
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L11, L60
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2666
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Panu
Poutvaara
Lars
Siemers
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Smoking and Social Interaction
We study the social interaction of non-smokers and smokers as a sequential game, incorporating insights from social psychology and experimental economics into an economic model. Social norms affect ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27 (6), 1503–1515)
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I18, D01, D11
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2665
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Anders
Björklund
Markus
Jäntti
Gary
Solon
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Nature and Nurture in the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status: Evidence from Swedish Children and Their Biological and Rearing Parents
This study uses an extraordinary Swedish data set to explore the sources of the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status. Merging data from administrative sources and censuses, we ...
(published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2007, 7 (2), Article 4)
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I20, J30, J62
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2664
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Paul
W.
Miller
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Occupational Language Requirements and the Value of English in the U.S. Labor Market
This paper is concerned with the English language requirements (both level and importance) of occupations in the United States, as measured by the O*NET database. These scores are linked to microdata ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (1), 353-372)
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J24, J31, J62, F22
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2662
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Sherrilyn
M.
Billger
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Principals as Agents? Investigating Accountability in the Compensation and Performance of School Principals
In this study I examine the relationship between accountability (e.g., state sanctions for poor performance, or the presence of goals required by the district) and public secondary principal pay and ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 61(1), 90-107)
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J3, J48, I22
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2661
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Joachim
Wagner
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Productivity and Size of the Export Market: Evidence for West and East German Plants, 2004
Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality data at the plant level, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2007, 227 (4), 403-408)
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F14, D21
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2660
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Hans
J.
Baumgartner
Marco
Caliendo
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Turning Unemployment into Self-Employment: Effectiveness and Efficiency of Two Start-Up Programmes
Turning unemployment into self-employment has become a major focus of German active labour market policy (ALMP) in recent years. If effective, this would not only reduce Germany’s persistently high ...
(revised version published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2008, 70(3), 347-373)
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J68, C14, H43, M13
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2656
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Joachim
Wagner
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Why More West than East German Firms Export
Using unique new data and a recently introduced non-linear decomposition technique this paper shows that the huge difference in the propensity to export between West and East German plants is to a ...
(published in: International Economics and Economic Policy, 2008, 5 (4), 363-370)
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F14
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2655
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David
A.
Jaeger
Holger
Bonin
Thomas
Dohmen
Armin
Falk
David
B.
Huffman
Uwe
Sunde
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Direct Evidence on Risk Attitudes and Migration
Geographic mobility is important for the functioning of labor markets because it brings labor resources to where they can be most efficiently used. It has long been hypothesized that individuals' ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 92(3), 684–689)
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J61, D81, R23
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2654
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Peter
A.
Riach
Judy
Rich
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An Experimental Investigation of Age Discrimination in the Spanish Labour Market
In a field experiment of age discrimination, pairs of men aged twenty-seven and forty-seven, inquired, by email, about employment as waiters in twenty five Spanish towns. Discrimination against the ...
(published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 99/100, 169-185)
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J71, C93
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2653
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Stephen
Machin
Sandra
McNally
Costas
Meghir
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Resources and Standards in Urban Schools
Despite being central to government education policy in many countries, there remains considerable debate about whether resources matter for pupil outcomes. In this paper we look at this question by ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2010, 4 (4), 365-393)
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I21, H52, C52
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2652
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Yann
Bramoullé
Habiba
Djebbari
Bernard
Fortin
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Identification of Peer Effects through Social Networks
We provide new results regarding the identification of peer effects. We consider an extended version of the linear-in-means model where each individual has his own specific reference group. ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2009, 150 (1), 41-55)
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D85, L14, Z13, C3
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2651
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Corrado
Andini
Pedro
T.
Pereira
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Full-time Schooling, Part-time Schooling, and Wages: Returns and Risks in Portugal
The standard wage equation proposed by Mincer (1974) assumes that individuals start working after leaving school, which is not the actual case for many people. Using longitudinal data on Portuguese ...
(revised version published in: Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2026, 104, 102388)
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I21, J31, C23
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2650
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Christian
Belzil
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Testing the Specification of the Mincer Wage Equation
I perform the joint estimation of a reduced-form dynamic model of the transition from one grade level to the next, and a Mincer wage equation, using panel data taken from the NLSY. A very high degree ...
(published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2008, 92/92, 427 - 451)
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J2, J3
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2647
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Heather
Antecol
Vanessa
E.
Barcus
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
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Gender-Biased Behavior at Work: What Can Surveys Tell Us About the Link Between Sexual Harassment and Gender Discrimination?
This paper examines the links between survey-based reports of sexual harassment and gender discrimination. In particular, we are interested in assessing whether these concepts measure similar forms ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2009, 30 (5), 782-792)
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J16, J28
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2646
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Pierre-André
Chiappori
Murat
Iyigun
Yoram
Weiss
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Public Goods, Transferable Utility and Divorce Laws
We reconsider the well known Becker-Coase (BC) argument, according to which changes in divorce laws should not affect divorce rates, in the context of households which consume public goods in ...
(published as 'The Becker-Coase Theorem Reconsidered' in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2015, 81 (2), 157-77)
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C78, D61, D70
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