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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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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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2645
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Michael
Fertig
Marcus
Tamm
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Always Poor or Never Poor and Nothing in Between? Duration of Child Poverty in Germany
This paper analyses the duration of child poverty in Germany. In our sample, we observe the entire income history from the individuals' birth to their coming of age at age 18. Therefore we are able ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2010, 11 (2), 150-168)
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C41, D31, I32
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2644
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Andrew
T.
Newell
Mieczyslaw
Socha
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The Polish Wage Inequality Explosion
This paper presents and analyses the sharp increase in hourly wage inequality after 1998 in Poland. The increase was similar in magnitude to the much-studied increase in British wage inequality ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2007, 15 (4), 733-758)
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J31, P23
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2641
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Guillermina
Jasso
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Theoretical Unification in Justice and Beyond
The goal of scientific work is to understand more and more by less and less. In this effort, theoretical unification plays a large part. There are two main types of theoretical unification – ...
(published in: Social Justice Research, 2007, 20(3), 336-371)
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C02, D1, D31, D6, D8, I3, J31
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2638
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Ian
Babetskii
Nauro
F.
Campos
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Does Reform Work? An Econometric Examination of the Reform-Growth Puzzle
Why are socially beneficial reforms not implemented? One simple answer to this question (which has received little attention in the literature) is that this may be caused by generalized uncertainty ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2011, 39 (2), 140-158)
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O11, P21, C49
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2637
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Simon
Commander
Jan
Svejnar
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Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance? Evidence from 26 Transition Countries
We analyze a large stratified random sample of firms that provide us with measures of performance and each firm’s top manager’s perception of the severity of business environment constraints faced by ...
(revised version published as 'Business Environment, Exports, Ownership, and Firm Performance' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93 (1), 309 - 337)
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D24, L21, O12, O57
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2636
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Ioannis
Cholezas
Panos
Tsakloglou
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Earnings Inequality in Europe: Structure and Patterns of Inter-Temporal Changes
The paper provides an analysis of the level, the structure and the patterns of inter-temporal change in hourly earnings inequality in Europe. For the purposes of static inequality decomposition ...
(published in: P. Dolton, R. Asplund and E. Barth (eds), Education and Inequality across Europe, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham: 2009, 122-146)
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J31
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2635
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Laszlo
Goerke
Markus
Pannenberg
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Trade Union Membership and Works Councils in West Germany
The fraction of works councillors belonging to a trade union in Germany is much higher than union density among employees. If works councils represent the face of unions, union membership of ...
(published in: Industrielle Beziehungen, 2007, 14 (2), 154-175)
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J51, J53
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2634
|
Adrian
Pagan
M. Hashem
Pesaran
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On Econometric Analysis of Structural Systems with Permanent and Transitory Shocks and Exogenous Variables
This paper considers the implications of the permanent/transitory decomposition of shocks for identification of structural models in the general case where the model might contain more than one ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2008, 32 (10), 3376-3395)
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C30, C32, E10
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2633
|
David
G.
Blanchflower
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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Hypertension and Happiness across Nations
A modern statistical literature argues that countries such as Denmark are particularly happy while nations like East Germany are not. Are such claims credible? The paper explores this by building on ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27, 218-233)
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I1, I3
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