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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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2634
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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
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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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2632
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Pieter
A.
Gautier
Michael
Svarer
Coen
Teulings
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Sin City?
Is moving to the countryside a credible commitment device for couples? We investigate whether lowering the arrival rate of potential alternative partners by moving to a less populated area lowers the ...
(published as 'Sin City? Why is the Divorce Rate Higher in Urban Areas' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2009, 111 (3), 439 - 456)
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J12, J64
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2630
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Bernd
Fitzenberger
Robert
Völter
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Long-Run Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed in East Germany
Public sector sponsored training was implemented at a large scale during the transition process in East Germany. Based on new administrative data, we estimate the differential effects of three ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (4), 730-755)
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C14, J68, H43
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2629
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Ying
Wang
Dave
E.
Marcotte
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Golden Years? The Labor Market Effects of Caring for Grandchildren
The number of Americans raising grandchildren has been rising steadily. In this paper, we add to what is known about the implications of this trend by focusing on the economic effects of raising a ...
(published in: Journal of Marriage and Family, 2007, 69 (5), 1283-1297)
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J13, J14, J22, J26
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2628
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Erkki
Koskela
Rune
Stenbacka
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Equilibrium Unemployment with Outsourcing under Labour Market Imperfections
We study both the various consequences and the incentives of outsourcing. We argue that the wage elasticity of labour demand is increasing as a function of the share of outsourcing, which is ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (3), 284-290)
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E23, E24, J51, J64
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2627
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Antonio
Menezes
Dario
Sciulli
José
António Cabral
Vieira
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Wage Persistence and Labour Market Institutions: An Analysis of Young European Workers
This paper investigates the effects of labour market institutions on wage persistence among young European workers at the beginning of their careers. We use ECHP data from 1995 to 2001 for 13 EU ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2011, 18 (9), 823 - 828)
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J31, C23, J5
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2626
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Calin
Arcalean
Gerhard
Glomm
Ioana
Schiopu
Jens
Suedekum
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Public Budget Composition, Fiscal (De)Centralization and Welfare
We present a dynamic two-region model with overlapping generations. There are two types of public expenditure, education and infrastructure funding, and governments decide optimally on budget size ...
(published in:Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2010, 43 (3), 832-859)
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H72, H74, E62
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2624
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Don
J.
DeVoretz
Sergiy
Pivnenko
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The Immigration Triangle: Quebec, Canada and the Rest of the World
Quebec, as many other immigrant destination areas, has experienced difficulty in retaining its original set of newcomers. The paper addresses this issue of retention in terms of a brain circulation ...
(published in: Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2008, 9 (4), 363-382)
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J61, J60
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2621
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Marco
Vivarelli
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Innovation and Employment: A Survey
According to the "compensation theory", market forces should assure a complete compensation of the initial labour-saving impact of process innovations. In this paper a critique of this approach is ...
(published in: Horst Hanusch and Andreas Pyka (eds.), Elgar Companion to Neo-Schumpeterian Economics, Cheltenham: Elgar, 2007, 719-32)
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J64, O33
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2618
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Conchita
D'Ambrosio
Joachim
R.
Frick
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Individual Well-Being in a Dynamic Perspective
This paper explores the determinants of individual well-being as measured by self-reported levels of satisfaction with income. Making full use of the panel data nature of the German Socio-Economic ...
(published in: Economica, 2012, 79 (314), 284-302 )
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D63, I31, D31
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2617
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Nil Demet
Güngör
Aysit
Tansel
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Brain Drain from Turkey: The Case of Professionals Abroad
The paper presents research findings on the return intentions of Turkish professionals residing abroad. The study uses a descriptive framework to establish the validity of several proposed models of ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2008, 29 (4), 323-347)
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F22, J61, O15
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2614
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Ambra
Poggi
Xavier
Ramos
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Empirical Modeling of Deprivation Contagion among Social Exclusion Dimensions (Using MCMC Methods)
Economic theory and empirical evidence clearly show that social exclusion dimensions are inter-related. Notwithstanding that, dimensions are usually assumed independent from one another in the ...
(published in: Jacques Silber (ed.), The Measurement of Individual Well-Being and Group Inequalities: Essays in Memory of Z.M. Berrebi, Routledge, 2010)
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C11, C15, I30
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2613
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Eleonora
Patacchini
Yves
Zenou
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The Racial Test Score Gap and Parental Involvement in Britain
We investigate the racial gap in test scores between black and white students in Britain both in levels and differences across the school years. We find that there is an increasing racial gap in test ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2009, 102, 49-52 )
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I21, J15, J24
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2612
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Melvyn
Coles
Marco
Francesconi
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On the Emergence of Toyboys: Equilibrium Matching with Ageing and Uncertain Careers
Toyboy marriages (where the female partner is at least 5 years older than her male partner) have grown threefold since the 1970s in the United States and Britain. This paper examines this phenomenon ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2011, 52 (3), 825-853 )
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J12, J16, J62
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2611
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Eric
V.
Edmonds
Nina
Pavcnik
Petia
Topalova
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Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform
Do the short and medium term adjustment costs associated with trade liberalization influence schooling and child labor decisions? We examine this question in the context of India's 1991 tariff ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2010, 2 (4), 42-75)
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J24, O15, J22, J13
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2609
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Bernd
Fitzenberger
Ralf
Wilke
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New Insights on Unemployment Duration and Post Unemployment Earnings in Germany: Censored Box-Cox Quantile Regression at Work
In light of nonstationary search theory (van den Berg, 1990), this paper estimates the effects of benefit entitlement periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations and ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72 (6), 794 - 826)
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C13, C14, J64
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2608
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Eleonora
Patacchini
Yves
Zenou
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Intergenerational Education Transmission: Neighborhood Quality and/or Parents’ Involvement?
We develop a model that analyzes the impact of residential neighborhood and parents’ involvement in education on children’s educational attainment and test it using the UK National Child Development ...
(published as 'Neighborhood Effects and Parental Involvement in the Intergenerational Transmission of Education' in: Journal of Regional Science, 2011, 51 (5), 987 - 1013)
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I21, J13, J24
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2606
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Eric
V.
Edmonds
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Child Labor
In recent years, there has been an astonishing proliferation of empirical work on child labor. An Econlit search of keywords "child lab*r" reveals a total of 6 peer reviewed journal articles between ...
(published in: Handbook of Development Economics Volume 4: T.P. Shultz and J. Strauss, eds., 2008)
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J13, J22, O15
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2605
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Werner
Eichhorst
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Dann waren's nur noch vier… Wie viele (und welche) Maßnahmen der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik brauchen wir noch? Eine Bilanz nach der Evaluation der Hartz-Reformen
Die deutsche Arbeitsmarktpolitik ist im Zuge der Hartz-Reformen grundsätzlich neu strukturiert und systematisch evaluiert worden. Die vorliegenden Evaluationsberichte der ersten drei Hartz-Gesetze ...
(published as ,And Then There Were Four… How Many (and Which) Measures of Active Labor Market Policy Do We Still Need?' English version; in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2007, 53 (3), 243-272)
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J68, H43, D61
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2603
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Massimiliano
Bratti
Daniele
Checchi
Antonio
Filippin
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Territorial Differences in Italian Students’ Mathematical Competencies: Evidence from PISA 2003
In this paper we investigate the existence and the size of territorial differences in Italian students’ mathematical competencies. Our analysis benefits from a new data set that merges the 2003 wave ...
(revised version published as "Geographical Differences in Italian Students' Mathematical Competencies: Evidence from PISA 2003" in: Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, 2007, 66(3), 299-333)
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J21, J24, H52
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2602
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Betsey
Stevenson
Justin
Wolfers
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Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces
We document key facts about marriage and divorce, comparing trends through the past 150 years and outcomes across demographic groups and countries. While divorce rates have risen over the past 150 ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2007, 21(2), 27-52)
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D1, H31, I3, J1, K36, N3
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2601
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Stephen
L.
Ross
Yves
Zenou
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Are Shirking and Leisure Substitutable? An Empirical Test of Efficiency Wages Based on Urban Economic Theory
Recent theoretical work has examined the spatial distribution of unemployment using the efficiency wage model as the mechanism by which unemployment arises in the urban economy. This paper extends ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2008, 38, 498-517)
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J41, R14
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2599
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Marco
Caliendo
Ludovica
Gambaro
Peter
Haan
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The Impact of Income Taxation on the Ratio between Reservation and Market Wages and the Incentives for Labour Supply
This paper extends previous research about the determinants of reservation wages by analysing the effect of progressive income taxation on the ratio between reservation and net market wages. Based on ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2009, 16 (9), 877-883)
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J22, H24, H31
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2598
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Guillermina
Jasso
Samuel
Kotz
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A New Continuous Distribution and Two New Families of Distributions Based on the Exponential
Recent work on social status led to derivation of a new continuous distribution based on the exponential. The new variate, termed the ring(2)-exponential, in turn leads to derivation of two ...
(published in: Statistica Neerlandica, 2007, 61(3), 305-328)
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C02, C16, D31, D6, I3
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2596
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Eric
Maurin
Sandra
McNally
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Educational Effects of Widening Access to the Academic Track: A Natural Experiment
It is difficult to know whether widening access to schools which provide a more academically oriented general education makes a difference to average educational achievement. We make use of reforms ...
(published as 'The Effect of Tracking Students by Ability into Different Schools: A Natural Experiment' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2012, 47 (3), 684-721)
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I2
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2594
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Juan
Carlos
Candeal
Esteban
Induráin
José Alberto
Molina
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Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility: An Algebraic Characterization of Projective Preorders and Some Welfare Consequences
It is shown that any completely preordered topological real algebra admits a continuous utility representation which is an algebra-homomorphism (i.e., it is linear and multiplicative). As an ...
(published as 'Numerical representability or ordered topological spaces with compatible algebraic structure' in: Order, 2012, 29, 131-146 )
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C60, C65, D60, D63
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2593
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Roberto
Bande
Marika
Karanassou
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Labour Market Flexibility and Regional Unemployment Rate Dynamics: Spain 1980-1995
This paper aims to shed light in the dynamics of Spanish regional unemployment rates and determine the driving forces of their disparities. The Spanish economy has one of the highest unemployment ...
(published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2009, 88(1), 181-207)
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R23, J64
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2592
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Guillermina
Jasso
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Studying Justice: Measurement, Estimation, and Analysis of the Actual Reward and the Just Reward
This paper describes procedures for measuring and estimating the fundamental quantities in the study of distributive justice. We examine a variety of methods for measuring the actual reward and the ...
(published in: Kjell Törnblom and Riel Vermunt (eds.), Distributive and Procedural Justice: Research and Social Applications. London, UK: Ashgate, 2007)
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D1, D31, D6, D8, I3, J31
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2591
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Síle
O'Dorchai
Robert
Plasman
François
Rycx
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The Part-Time Wage Penalty in European Countries: How Large Is It for Men?
Economic theory advances a number of reasons for the existence of a wage gap between part-time and full-time workers. Empirical work has concentrated on the wage effects of part-time work for women. ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2007, 28 (7), 571-603)
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C13, C31, J24, J31, J71
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2590
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David
Card
Raj
Chetty
Andrea
Weber
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The Spike at Benefit Exhaustion: Leaving the Unemployment System or Starting a New Job?
In this paper, we review the literature on the “spike” in unemployment exit rates around benefit exhaustion, and present new evidence based on administrative data for a large sample of job losers in ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2007, 97 (2), 113-118)
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J64, J65
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2589
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Rosa
Duarte
José-Julián
Escario
José Alberto
Molina
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Peer Effects, Unobserved Factors and Risk Behaviours: An Analysis of Alcohol Abuse and Truancy among Adolescents
The objective of this paper is to examine the factors which affect alcohol abuse and truancy among adolescents. We propose a new theoretical specification in which alcohol abuse and truancy appear as ...
(published as 'Peer Effects, Unobserved Factors and Risk Behaviours in Adolescence' in: Revista de Economía Aplicada, 2011, 29 (55), 125-152)
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I10, I12, I20, I21
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2587
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Paul
W.
Miller
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Matching Language Proficiency to Occupation: The Effect on Immigrants’ Earnings
This paper analyzes the effect on earnings of the matching of English language skills to occupational requirements. It uses data from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) database and a ...
(published as 'The impact of surplus skills on earnings: Extending the over-education model to language proficiency' in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 36, 263-275)
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J24, J31, F22
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2584
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Richard
A.
Easterlin
Onnicha
Sawangfa
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Happiness and Domain Satisfaction: Theory and Evidence
In the United States happiness, on average, varies positively with socio-economic status; is fairly constant over time; rises to midlife and then declines; and is lower among younger than older birth ...
(published in: A.K. Dutt and B. Radcliff (eds.), Happiness, Economics, and Politics: Towards a Multi-Disciplinary Approach, 2009, Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar)
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I3, D60, D1, O51
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2581
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Miquel
Clar
Christian
Dreger
Raul
Ramos
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Wage Flexibility and Labour Market Institutions: A Meta-Analysis
Evidence during the nineties about the response of real wages to shocks highlights that this response is substantially lower in European countries than in the United States and that there are ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2007, 60(2), 145-163)
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J30, J50
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2580
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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Fun with Matched Firm-Employee Data: Progress and Road Maps
With the beginnings of a worldwide burgeoning development of matched firm-employee data, it is worthwhile to examine the possibilities for using these data. This essay discusses a variety of areas in ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (4), 663-673)
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J2, J3
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2579
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Pieter
A.
Gautier
Arjen
Siegmann
Aico
van Vuuren
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The Effect of the Theo van Gogh Murder on House Prices in Amsterdam
This paper estimates the impact of the murder of film maker Theo van Gogh on November 2, 2004, on listed house prices in Amsterdam with a unique dataset. We use an hedonic-market approach to show ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2009, 65(2), 113-126.)
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C31, C41, R21, R23, R31
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2578
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Graziella
Bertocchi
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The Vanishing Bequest Tax: The Comparative Evolution of Bequest Taxation in Historical Perspective
Several countries have recently abolished or significantly reduced their taxes on bequests. Bequest taxes, on the other hand, were among the first to be introduced when modern systems of taxation ...
(revised version published in: Economics and Politics, 2011, 23 (1), 107 - 131)
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H20, P16, N40, O40
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2576
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Kenneth
D.
Boyer
Stephen
V.
Burks
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Stuck in the Slow Lane: Traffic Composition and the Measurement of Labor Productivity in the U.S. Trucking Industry
Mirroring the railroad industry of the 1940’s and 1950’s, the trucking industry today appears to be achieving impressive productivity gains. But it is easy to confuse true productivity advances in ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 75 (4), 2009, 1220-1237)
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L92, D24, C43
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2575
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Paul
W.
Miller
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The Critical Period Hypothesis for Language Learning: What the 2000 US Census Says
A critical period for language learning is often defined as a sharp decline in learning outcomes with age. This study examines the relevance of the critical period to English proficiency among ...
(published as "A Test of the Critical Period Hypothesis for Language Learning" in: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2008, 29 (1), 16-29)
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F22, J15
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2574
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Gary
Charness
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Cooperation, Competition, and Risk Attitudes: An Intergenerational Field and Laboratory Experiment
The population of most developed societies is ‘graying’. As life expectancy increases and the large baby-boom generation approaches retirement age, this has critical consequences for maintaining a ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2009, 99 (3), 956–978)
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A13, B49, C91, C93, J14, J18, J38, J70
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2573
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Thomas
Siedler
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Schooling and Citizenship: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms
This paper examines whether schooling has a positive impact on individual's political interest, voting turnout, democratic values, political involvement and political group membership, using the ...
(revised version published as 'Schooling and Citizenship in a Young Democracy: Evidence from Postwar Germany' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2010, 112 (2), 315-338)
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I2, H4, H23
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2571
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David
Autor
William
Kerr
Adriana
Kugler
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Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States
Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity by distorting production choices. Firms facing (non-Coasean) worker dismissal costs will curtail hiring below efficient ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (521), F189 - F217)
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J11, J21, J31, J61
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2570
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David
Neumark
William
Wascher
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Minimum Wages and Employment
We review the burgeoning literature on the employment effects of minimum wages – in the United States and other countries – that was spurred by the new minimum wage research beginning in the early ...
(published in: Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2007, 3 (1+2), 1-182)
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J23, J38
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2569
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Veneta
Andonova
Luis
Diaz-Serrano
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Political Institutions and the Development of Telecommunications
It has traditionally been argued that the development of telecommunications infrastructure is dependent on the quality of countries’ political institutions. We estimate the effect of political ...
(published as 'Political Institutions and the Development of Telecommunications', Journal of Development Economics, 2009, 89, 77-83)
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O1, O3
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2568
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Bernard
M. S.
van Praag
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Perspectives from the Happiness Literature and the Role of New Instruments for Policy Analysis
After having been ignored for a long time by economists, happiness is becoming an object of serious research in 21st century economics. In Section 2 we sketch the present status of happiness ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2007, 53, 42-68)
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B21, B41, D63, I31, I38
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2567
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Robert
J.
Oxoby
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Skill Uncertainty and Social Inference
Research in psychology indicates that individuals often make inferences regarding unknown individual qualities based on potentially irrelevant (but socially observable) information. This paper ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (3), 422-427)
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D63, D83, J64, J70
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2566
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Alicia
Robb
Robert
W.
Fairlie
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Determinants of Business Success: An Examination of Asian-Owned Businesses in the United States
Using confidential and restricted-access microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we find that Asian-owned businesses are 16.9 percent less likely to close, 20.6 percent more likely to have profits of ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (4), 827-858)
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J15, L26
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2565
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Flavio
Cunha
James
J.
Heckman
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A New Framework for the Analysis of Inequality
This paper presents a new framework for analyzing inequality that moves beyond the anonymity postulate. We estimate the determinants of sectoral choice and the joint distributions of outcomes across ...
(published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2008, 12 (Supplement 2), 315-354)
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I30, D80
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2564
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Robert
M.
Hutchens
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Worker Characteristics, Job Characteristics, and Opportunities for Phased Retirement
This paper uses a telephone survey of 950 employers to examine employer-side restrictions on phased retirement. Not only did the survey collect information on establishment level policies, it also ...
(substantially revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (6), 1010-1021)
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J26, J23, J14
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