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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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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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2562
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Mariacristina
Piva
Marco
Vivarelli
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Corporate Skills as an Ex-Ante Incentive to R&D Investment
Using a balanced panel of 215 Italian manufacturing firms over the 1995-2000 period, this paper investigates the determinants of R&D investment at the level of the firm. While finding further support ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (8), 835-852)
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O31
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2560
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Matthew
D.
Rablen
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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Mortality and Immortality
It has been known for centuries that the rich and famous have longer lives than the poor and ordinary. Causality, however, remains trenchantly debated. The ideal experiment would be one in which ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27 (6), 1462-1471)
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I12
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2559
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Marko
Koethenbuerger
Panu
Poutvaara
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Rent Taxation in a Small Open Economy: The Effect on Transitional Generations
We show that taxation of rents may yield an intergenerational Pareto-improvement in a small open economy provided tax revenues are earmarked to reduce wage taxes. Previous literature has shown that ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2009, 16 (5), 697-709)
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H22, E62, F02
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2558
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Volker
Grossmann
Thomas
M.
Steger
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Growth, Development, and Technological Change
The theory of endogenous technical change has deeply contributed to our understanding of the fundamental sources of economic growth and development. In this chapter we survey important contributions ...
(published in: Wei-Bin Zhang (ed.), UNESCO Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (Mathematical Models in Economics), Eolss Publishers, Oxford, UK: 2007)
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O10, O30, O40
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2557
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Xin
Meng
Jim
Ryan
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Does a Food for Education Program Affect School Outcomes? The Bangladesh Case
The Food for Education (FFE) program was introduced to Bangladesh in 1993. This paper evaluates the effect of this program on school participation and duration of schooling using a household survey ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (2), 415-447)
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J38, I28
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2556
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Torben
M.
Andersen
Allan
Sørensen
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Product Market Integration and Labour Markets: Aggregate Gains at the Cost of More Inequality?
Important labour market consequences of globalization may arise via product market integration which affects the room for wage negotiations and generates job creation and destruction through ...
(published as 'Product Market Integration, Rents and Wage Inequality' in: Review of International Economics, 2011, 19 (4), 595 - 608)
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F15, F16, J39, J50, J63
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2555
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Herwig
Immervoll
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Minimum Wages, Minimum Labour Costs and the Tax Treatment of Low-Wage Employment
International comparisons of minimum-wage levels have largely focused on the gross value of minimum wages, ignoring the effects of taxation on both labour costs and the net income of employees. This ...
(corrected and updated version published in OECD (2007), Taxing Wages 2005/2006)
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J2, J3, H2, H3
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2554
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Jo
Blanden
Paul
Gregg
Lindsey
Macmillan
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Accounting for Intergenerational Income Persistence: Noncognitive Skills, Ability and Education
We analyse in detail the factors that lead to intergenerational persistence among sons, where this is measured as the association between childhood family income and later adult earnings. We seek to ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (519), C43-C60)
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J62, J13, J31
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2553
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Xin
Meng
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Wealth Accumulation and Distribution in Urban China
Under socialism it was neither possible nor necessary to accumulate significant levels of personal wealth. The acceleration of economic reform in the last decade, however, has brought dramatic ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2007, 55 (4), 761-791)
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D31, I30
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2550
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Flavio
Cunha
James
J.
Heckman
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The Technology of Skill Formation
This paper develops a model of skill formation that explains a variety of findings established in the child development and child intervention literatures. At its core is a technology that is ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2007, 97 (2), 31-47)
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J13, J24, I38
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2549
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Philippe
Askenazy
Eva
Moreno-Galbis
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Technological and Organizational Changes, and Labor Flows: Evidence on French Establishments
This paper investigates the effects of organizational and technological changes on job stability of different occupational categories in France. We conduct an empirical analysis in which we make ...
(published in: LABOUR, 2007, 21 (2), 265–301)
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J23, J41, J63, L23, O33
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2547
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Ansgar
H.
Belke
Daniel
Gros
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Instability of the Eurozone? On Monetary Policy, House Prices and Labor Market Reforms
This paper deals with potential instabilities in the Eurozone stemming from an insufficient interplay between monetary policy and reform effort on the one hand and the emergence of intra-Euro area ...
(published in: in: Heise, Michael, Tilly, Richard, Welfens, Paul J.J. (eds.), Integration, Financial Markets and Innovations – 50 Years of EU Dynamics, 2007, 75-108.)
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D78, E52, E61
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2546
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Steffen
Habermalz
Kristen
Monaco
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A Post-Deregulation Analysis of Wages in U.S. Freight Transportation
After a period of regulatory changes in the early 1980s we are faced with “new” freight transportation labor markets in the U.S. Using data from the 1984-1999 Current Population Survey, we examine ...
(published in: International Journal of Transport Economics, 34 (1), 2007)
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J31, L92
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2545
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David
Neumark
Junfu
Zhang
Stephen
Ciccarella
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The Effects of Wal-Mart on Local Labor Markets
We estimate the effects of Wal-Mart stores on county-level retail employment and earnings, accounting for endogeneity of the location and timing of Wal-Mart openings that most likely biases the ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2008, 63(2), 405-430)
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J21, R12
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2543
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Tue
Gorgens
Xin
Meng
Rhema
Vaithianathan
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Stunting and Selection Effects of Famine: A Case Study of the Great Chinese Famine
The Great Chinese Famine of 1959-1961 is puzzling, since despite the high death rates, there is no discernable diminution in height amongst the majority of cohorts who were exposed to the famine in ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 97 (1), 99 - 111)
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C33, I12, N95, O15
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2542
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Sascha
O.
Becker
Marco
Caliendo
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mhbounds - Sensitivity Analysis for Average Treatment Effects
Matching has become a popular approach to estimate average treatment effects. It is based on the conditional independence or unconfoundedness assumption. Checking the sensitivity of the estimated ...
(published in: Stata Journal, 2007, 7(1), 71-83)
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C40
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2541
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Benno
Torgler
Friedrich
Schneider
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The Impact of Tax Morale and Institutional Quality on the Shadow Economy
This paper analyses how tax morale and countries’ institutional quality affect the shadow economy, controlling in a multivariate analysis for a variety of potential factors. The literature strongly ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2009, 30 (2), 228-245)
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D73, D78, H2, H26, O17, O5
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2540
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L. Rachel
Ngai
Christopher
A.
Pissarides
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Trends in Hours and Economic Growth
We study long-run trends in market hours of work and employment shifts across economic sectors driven by uneven TFP growth in market and home production. We focus on the substitutions between market ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2008, 11 (2), 239-256)
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J21, J22, O14, O41
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2539
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James
Banks
Michael
Marmot
Zoë
Oldfield
James
P.
Smith
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The SES Health Gradient on Both Sides of the Atlantic
Looking across many diseases, average health among mature men is much worse in America compared to England. Second, there exists a steep negative health gradient for men in both countries where men ...
(published in: David Wise (ed.), Developments in the Economics of Aging, University of Chicago Press, pp. 359-406, 2009)
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I10
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2538
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Timothy
J.
Hatton
Andrew
Leigh
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Immigrants Assimilate as Communities, Not Just as Individuals
There is a large econometric literature that examines the economic assimilation of immigrants in the United States and elsewhere. On the whole immigrants are seen as atomistic individuals ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (2), 389-419)
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F2, J3, J6
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2537
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Holger
Bonin
Amelie
F.
Constant
Konstantinos
Tatsiramos
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity
The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We ...
(substantially revised version published in: IZA Journal of Migration , 2012, 1, Article 5 )
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D1, D81, F22, J15, J16, J31, J62, J82
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2535
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Laura
V
Zimmermann
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
Amelie
F.
Constant
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Ethnic Self-Identification of First-Generation Immigrants
This paper uses the concept of ethnic self-identification of immigrants in a two-dimensional framework. It acknowledges the fact that attachments to the home and the host country are not necessarily ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2007, 41 (3), 769-781)
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F22, J15, J16, Z10
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2533
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Holger
Bonin
Ulf
Rinne
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Beautiful Serbia
The paper studies the causal impact of participation in an active labor market program – the ‘Beautiful Serbia’ program providing training and temporary work in the construction sector in Serbia and ...
(revised version published as 'Beautiful Serbia’ - objective and subjective outcomes of active labour market policy in a transition economy" in: Economics of Transition, 2014, 22(1), 43-67 )
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J68, H43, P27
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2532
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Ana Rute
Cardoso
Miguel
Portela
Carla
Sá
Fernando
Alexandre
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Demand for Higher Education Programs: The Impact of the Bologna Process
The Bologna process aims at creating a European Higher Education Area where inter-country mobility of students and staff, as well as workers holding a degree, is facilitated. While several aspects of ...
(published in: CESIfo Economic Studies, 2008, 54 (2), 229-247)
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I28, I21, F15
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2530
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Martin
Kahanec
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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The Russian-Ukrainian Political Divide
The Orange Revolution unveiled significant political and economic tensions between ethnic Russians and Ukrainians in Ukraine. Whether this divide was caused by purely ethnic differences or by ...
(published in: Eastern European Economics, 2011, 49 (6), 103-115 )
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D72, J15
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2529
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Wim
Groot
Henriette
Maassen van den Brink
Bernard
M. S.
van Praag
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The Compensating Income Variation of Social Capital
There is a small but growing literature on the determinants of social capital. Most of these studies use a measure of trust to define social capital empirically. In this paper we use three different ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2007, 82 (2), 189-207)
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D1, D6
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2527
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Lorenzo
Cappellari
Marco
Leonardi
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Earnings Instability and Tenure
This paper develops a tractable empirical approach to estimate the effect of on-the-job tenure on the permanent and the transitory variance of earnings. The model is also used to evaluate earnings ...
(revised version published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2016, 118 (2), 202 - 234)
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C23, J21, J31
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2526
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Ed
Diener
Yannis
Georgellis
Richard
E.
Lucas
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Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction: A Test of the Baseline Hypothesis
We look for evidence of habituation in twenty waves of German panel data: do individuals, after life and labour market events, tend to return to some baseline level of wellbeing? Although the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (529), F222–F243)
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I31, J12, J13, J63, J64
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2523
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Emilia
Del Bono
Daniela
Vuri
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Is It the Way She Moves? New Evidence on the Gender Wage Growth Gap in the Early Careers of Men and Women in Italy
This paper explores newly available Italian data derived from a 1:90 sample of social security administrative records (INPS) to investigate gender differences in pay during the initial stages of a ...
(published as "Job mobility and the gender wage gap in Italy" in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (1), 130-142)
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J16, J31, C23
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2518
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David
G.
Blanchflower
Alex
Bryson
John
Forth
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Workplace Industrial Relations in Britain, 1980-2004
There was a time before the first Workplace Industrial Relations Survey (WIRS80) in 1980 when what we knew of industrial relations was based primarily upon small scale surveys and case studies. ...
(published in: Industrial Relations Journal, 2007, 38(4), 285-302)
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J51
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2517
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John
Micklewright
Sylke
V.
Schnepf
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Inequality of Learning in Industrialised Countries
Within-country differences in educational outcomes are compared for a large group of industrialised countries. We investigate where inequality is greatest, the association between inequality in ...
(published in: Stephen P. Jenkins and John Micklewright (eds.), Inequality and Poverty Re-Examined, Oxford: OUP, 2007)
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I39,I21,D39
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2516
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Maarten
Lindeboom
Ana
Llena-Nozal
Bas
van der Klaauw
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Parental Education and Child Health: Evidence from a Schooling Reform
This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we explore exogenous variation in parental education induced by a schooling reform in ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics 2009, 28 (1), 109-131)
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I12, I28
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2515
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Ana Rute
Cardoso
Dorte
Verner
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School Drop-Out and Push-Out Factors in Brazil: The Role of Early Parenthood, Child Labor, and Poverty
This paper aims at identifying the major drop-out and push-out factors that lead to school abandonment in an urban surrounding, the shantytowns of Fortaleza, Northeast Brazil. We use an extensive ...
(published as 'Factores de la deserción escolar en Brasil. El papel de la paternidad temprana, la mano de obra infantil y la pobreza' in: El Trimestre Económico, 2011, 69 (2) 310, 347-372)
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I21, O15, D1
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2514
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Werner
Eichhorst
Maria
Grienberger-Zingerle
Regina
Konle-Seidl
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Activation Policies in Germany: From Status Protection to Basic Income Support
This paper provides an overview of the sequential shift towards activating labor market and social policy in Germany. It not only shows the changes in the instruments of active and passives labor ...
(published in: Werner Eichhorst, Otto Kaufmann and Regina Konle-Seidl (eds.), Bringing the Jobless into Work? Berlin: Springer 2008; revised version published in: German Policy Studies, 2010, 6 (1), 59-100)
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J68
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2513
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Eric
Maurin
Julie
Moschion
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The Social Multiplier and Labour Market Participation of Mothers
A mother’s decision to participate in the labour market is correlated with those of the other mothers living in the same neighbourhood. This paper studies the extent to which this is causal. An ...
(published in: American Economic Journal : Applied Economics, 2009, 1(1), 251-272)
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J22
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2512
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Lídia
Farré
Francis
Vella
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Macroeconomic Conditions and the Distribution of Income in Spain
This paper analyzes the impact of changes in macroeconomic conditions on the income distribution in Spain. Using household data from the Encuesta Continuada de Presupuestos Familiares (ECPF) from ...
(published in: Labour, 2008, 22 (3), 383-410)
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D31, E32, C14
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2511
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Benoit
Dostie
David
E.
Sahn
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Labor Market Dynamics in Romania During a Period of Economic Liberalization
In this paper, we estimate a model of labor market dynamics among individuals in Romania using panel data for three years, 1994 to 1996. Our motivation is to gain insight into the functioning of the ...
(updated version: visit SSRN)
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P2, P3
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2510
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Graziella
Bertocchi
Chiara
Strozzi
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The Evolution of Citizenship: Economic and Institutional Determinants
We investigate the origin and evolution of the legal institution of citizenship from a political economy perspective. We compile a new data set on citizenship laws across countries of the world which ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2010, 53 (1), 95-136)
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P16, K40, F22, O15
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