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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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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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2509
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Stephan
Klasen
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Poverty, Undernutrition, and Child Mortality: Some Inter-Regional Puzzles and their Implications for Research and Policy
This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition, and child mortality in developing countries. While there is, as expected, a close ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2008, 6(1), 89-115)
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I1, I3, O1
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2508
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Christoph
Wunder
Johannes
Schwarze
Gerhard
Krug
Bodo
Herzog
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Welfare Effects of the Euro Cash Changeover
Using merged data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper applies a parametric difference-in-differences approach to assess the real ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2008, 24 (3), 571-586)
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E31, I31
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2507
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Ekkehart
Schlicht
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Selection Wages: An Example
Offering higher wages may enable firms to attract more applicants and screen them more carefully. If firms compete in this way in the labor market, "selection wages" emerge. This note illustrates ...
(substantially enlarged version published as 'Wage Dispersion, Over-Qualification, and Reder Competition' in: Economics e-Journal, 2007, 2007-13)
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J31, J41, J62, J63
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2506
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Holger
Görg
Michael
Henry
Eric
Strobl
Frank
Walsh
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Multinational Companies, Backward Linkages and Labour Demand Elasticities
This paper investigates the link between nationality of ownership and wage elasticities of labour demand at the level of the plant. In particular, we examine whether labour demand in multinationals ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2009, 42( 1), 332-348)
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F23, J23, L23
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2505
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Bernhard
Ebbinghaus
Werner
Eichhorst
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Employment Regulation and Labor Market Policy in Germany, 1991-2005
The paper provides an overview of institutional provisions and reforms regarding employment protection, active and passive labor market policies in Germany as well as of actors' responsibilities in ...
(published in: Paul de Beer and Trudie Schils (eds.), The Labour Market Triangle Employment Protection, Unemployment Compensation and Activation in Europe, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2009, 119-144)
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J60, J68
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2504
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Brian
Krogh
Graversen
Jan
C.
van Ours
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How to Help Unemployed Find Jobs Quickly: Experimental Evidence from a Mandatory Activation Program
This paper investigates how a mandatory activation program in Denmark affects the job finding rate of unemployed workers. The activation program was introduced in an experimental setting where about ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (10-11), 2020-2035)
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C41, H55, J64, J65
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2503
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Albert
Saiz
Susan
M.
Wachter
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Immigration and the Neighborhood
What impact does immigration have on neighborhood dynamics? Within metropolitan areas, we find that housing values have grown relatively more slowly in neighborhoods of immigrant settlement. We ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2011, 3 (2), 169-188)
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J61, R23, R31
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2502
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John
Beirne
Nauro
F.
Campos
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Educational Inputs and Outcomes Before the Transition from Communism
Conventional wisdom suggests that the stocks of human capital were one of the few positive legacies from communism. However, if factories under communism were so inefficient, why would the education ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2007, 15 (1), 57-76)
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O11, J24, P27, P39
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2500
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Johannes
Abeler
Steffen
Altmann
Sebastian
Kube
Matthias
Wibral
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Reciprocity and Payment Schemes: When Equality Is Unfair
A growing literature stresses the importance of reciprocity, especially for employment relations. In this paper, we study the interaction of different payment modes with reciprocity. In particular, ...
(substantially revised version appeared as DP No. 4262)
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C92, J33, J41, M12, M52
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2499
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Graziella
Bertocchi
Chiara
Strozzi
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The Age of Mass Migration: Economic and Institutional Determinants
We study the determinants of 19th century mass migration with special attention to the role of institutional factors beside standard economic fundamentals. We find that economic forces associated ...
(revised version published as "International Migration and the Role of Institutions" in: Public Choice, 2008, 137(1), 81-102)
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F22, P16, N33, O15, K40, F54
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2498
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John
Ermisch
Chiara
D.
Pronzato
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Intra-Household Allocation of Resources: Inferences from Non-Resident Fathers’ Child Support Payments
A large proportion of divorced and separated fathers form new partnerships. The new partner’s preferences are not likely to put much weight on expenditures on the man’s children from his previous ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (527), 347-362)
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D12, D13
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2497
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T. H.
Gindling
Katherine
Terrell
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Minimum Wages, Globalization and Poverty in Honduras
To be competitive in the global economy, some argue that Latin American countries need to reduce or eliminate labor market regulations such as minimum wage legislation because they constrain job ...
(revised version published in: World Development, 2010, 38(6), 908-918)
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J23, J31, J38
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2496
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Benoit
Dostie
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Wages, Productivity and Aging
In this article, we estimate age based wage and productivity differentials using linked employer-employee Canadian data from the Workplace and Employee Survey 1999-2003. Data on the firm side is used ...
(published in: De Economist, 2011, 159 (2), 139 - 158)
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J31
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2495
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Ken
Clark
Stephen
Drinkwater
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Changing Patterns of Ethnic Minority Self-Employment in Britain: Evidence from Census Microdata
The over-representation of certain ethnic minority and immigrant groups in self-employment is, in common with other developed countries, a notable feature of the UK labour market. Compared to ...
(revised version published as 'Patterns of Ethnic Self-Employment in Time and Space: Evidence from British Census Microdata' in: Small Business Economics, 2010, 34 (3), 323-338)
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J23, J7
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2494
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Richard
A.
Easterlin
Anke
Zimmermann
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Life Satisfaction and Economic Outcomes in Germany Pre- and Post-Unification
Throughout Germany real income has trended upward since 1991, but life satisfaction has risen in the East, fallen in the West, and been fairly stable for Germany as a whole. By 1997 the initial ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 68 (3-4), 433-444)
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D60, I31, D1, O52
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2493
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Peter
J.
Kuhn
Carol
McAusland
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The International Migration of Knowledge Workers: When Is Brain Drain Beneficial?
We consider the welfare effects of the emigration of workers who produce a public good (knowledge). We distinguish between the knowledge diversion and knowledge creation effects of such emigration, ...
(revised version published as 'Consumers and the brain drain: Product and process design and the gains from emigration' in: Journal of International Economics, 2009, 78 (2), 287–291)
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F22, J61
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2492
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Barbara
Hanel
Regina
T.
Riphahn
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Financial Incentives and the Timing of Retirement: Evidence from Switzerland
We use reforms in the Swiss public retirement system to identify the responsiveness of retirement timing to financial incentives. A permanent reduction of retirement benefits by 3.4 percent induces ...
(published as 'The Timing of Retirement - New Evidence from Swiss Female Workers' in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19(5), 718-728)
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J26, H55, J14
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2491
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Juan
J.
Dolado
Eduardo
Morales
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Which Factors Determine the Grades of Undergraduate Students in Economics? Some Evidence from Spain
This paper analyses the determinants of grades achieved in three core subjects by first-year Economics undergraduate students at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, over the period 2001-2005. Gender, ...
(published in: Investigaciones Económicas (2009), 23, 179-210.)
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I21, I29
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2488
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Wiji
Arulampalam
Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
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Persistence in Infant Mortality: Evidence for the Indian States
This paper investigates the high correlation in infant mortality across siblings using micro-data for each of the fifteen major states of India. The main finding is that, in thirteen of the fifteen ...
(published in: Population Studies, 2008, 62 (2), 171-190.)
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J1, C1, I1, O1
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2487
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William
T.
Dickens
Lorenz
Götte
Erica
L.
Groshen
Steinar
Holden
Julián
Messina
Mark
E.
Schweitzer
Jarkko
Turunen
Melanie
E.
Ward-Warmedinger
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How Wages Change: Micro Evidence from the International Wage Flexibility Project
How do the complex institutions involved in wage setting affect wage changes? The International Wage Flexibility Project provides new microeconomic evidence on how wages change for continuing ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2007, 21 (2), 195-214)
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E3, J3, J5
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