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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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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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2486
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Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Ximing
Yue
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Rural People’s Perception of Poverty in China
Subjective Poverty Line methodology is applied to rural China 2002 using a sample from 22 provinces. Respondents were asked two questions: one on amount of food necessary and another on amount of ...
(Revised version published as "Rural People's Perception of Income Adequacy in China" in: China Agricultural Economic Review, 2012, 4 (3), 264-280.)
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I32, O15, P36
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2485
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Christina
Gathmann
Uta
Schönberg
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How General Is Specific Human Capital?
Previous studies assume that labor market skills are either fully general or specific to the firm. This paper uses patterns in mobility and wages to analyze how portable specific skills are in the ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2020, 28 (1), 1 - 49)
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J24, J41, J62
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2484
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Robert
Drago
Mark
Wooden
David
Black
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Long Work Hours: Volunteers and Conscripts
Panel data from Australia are used to study the prevalence of work hours mismatch among long hours workers and, more importantly, how that mismatch persists and changes over time, and what factors ...
(Published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2009, 47(3), 571-600. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8543.2009.00717.x)
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J22
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2483
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Bas
ter Weel
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Does Manager Turnover Improve Firm Performance? New Evidence Using Information from Dutch Soccer, 1986-2004
This research examines the impact of manager turnover on firm performance using information from the Dutch soccer league in the period 1986-2004. The advantage of using sports data is that both ...
(published in: De Economist, 2011, 159 (3), 279-303)
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J24
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2481
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Pia
M.
Orrenius
Madeline
Zavodny
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Does Immigration Affect Wages? A Look at Occupation-Level Evidence
Previous research has reached mixed conclusions about the effect of higher levels of immigration on the wages of natives. This paper reexamines this question using data from the Current Population ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (5), 757-773)
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J61
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2480
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Marika
Karanassou
Hector
Sala
Dennis
J.
Snower
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The Macroeconomics of the Labor Market: Three Fundamental Views
We distinguish and assess three fundamental views of the labor market regarding the movements in unemployment: (i) the frictionless equilibrium view; (ii) the chain reaction theory, or prolonged ...
(published in: Portuguese Economic Journal, 2007, 6 (3), 151-180)
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E22, E24, J21, J30
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2479
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Eran
Yashiv
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The Beveridge Curve
The Beveridge curve depicts a negative relationship between unemployed workers and job vacancies, a robust finding across countries. The position of the economy on the curve gives an idea as to the ...
(published in: L. Blume and S. N. Durlauf (eds), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
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E24, E32, J63, J64
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2478
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Panu
Poutvaara
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Public Education in an Integrated Europe: Studying to Migrate and Teaching to Stay?
This paper analyzes public provision of internationally applicable and country-specific education, when job opportunities available to those with internationally applicable education are uncertain. ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 110 (3), 591–608)
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H52, I28, F22, J24, J61
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2477
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Iwan
Barankay
Ben
Lockwood
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Decentralization and the Productive Efficiency of Government: Evidence from Swiss Cantons
Advocates of fiscal decentralization argue that amongst other benefits, it can increase the efficiency of delivery of government services. This paper is one of the first to evaluate this claim ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91 (5-6), 1197-1218)
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H40, H52, H70, I20
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2475
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Enrico
Santarelli
Marco
Vivarelli
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Entrepreneurship and the Process of Firms’ Entry, Survival and Growth
This survey paper aims at critically discussing the recent literature on firm formation and survival and the growth of new-born firms. The basic purpose is to single out the microeconomic ...
(published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2007, 16(3), 455-488)
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L10, M13
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2474
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John
T.
Addison
Paulino
Teixeira
Thomas
Zwick
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Works Councils and the Anatomy of Wages
This paper provides the first full examination of the effect of German works councils on wages using matched employer-employee data (specifically, the LIAB for 2001). We find that works councils are ...
(published as 'German Work Councils and the Anatomy of Wages' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2010, 63(2), 247-270)
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J31, J50
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2473
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Andrew
Henley
Reza
Arabsheibani
Francisco
G.
Carneiro
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On Defining and Measuring the Informal Sector
A range of alternative empirical definitions of informal activity have been employed in the literature. Choice of definition is often dictated by data availability. Different definitions may imply ...
(published in: World Development, 2009, 37(5), 992-1003)
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J21, J42
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2470
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René
Fahr
Uwe
Sunde
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Did the Hartz Reforms Speed-Up Job Creation? A Macro-Evaluation Using Empirical Matching Functions
Starting in January 2003, Germany implemented the first two so-called Hartz reforms, followed by the third and fourth packages of Hartz reforms in January 2004 and January 2005, respectively. The aim ...
(revised version published in: German Economic Review, 2009, 10 (3), 284 - 316)
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J6, J63, J64, J65
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2469
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Ralitza
Dimova
François-Charles
Wolff
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Do Downward Private Transfers Enhance Maternal Labor Supply? Evidence from around Europe
Drawing on a theoretical model of downward private transfers with endogenous labor supply and recursive econometric models based on 2317 mother-daughter pairs from the 2003 SHARE data on 10 European ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (3), 911-933)
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D64, J13, J22
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2468
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Rolf
Aaberge
Ugo
Colombino
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Designing Optimal Taxes with a Microeconometric Model of Household Labour Supply
The purpose of this paper is to present an exercise where we identify optimal income tax rules under the constraint of fixed tax revenue. To this end, we estimate a microeconomic model with 78 ...
(revised version published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2013, 115 (2), 449-475)
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H21, H31, J22
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2467
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Martin
Salm
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Can Subjective Mortality Expectations and Stated Preferences Explain Varying Consumption and Saving Behaviors among the Elderly?
This study investigates how subjective mortality expectations and heterogeneity in time and risk preferences affect the consumption and saving behavior of the elderly. Previous studies find that the ...
(revised version published in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2010, 43(3), 1040-1057 )
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D81, D91, J14
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2466
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Lex
Borghans
Bas
ter Weel
Bruce
A.
Weinberg
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Interpersonal Styles and Labor Market Outcomes
This paper develops a framework to understand the role of interpersonal interactions in the labor market including task assignment and wages. Effective interpersonal interactions involve caring, to ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2008, 43 (4), 815-858)
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J21, J24, J31
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2465
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Fei
Peng
W. Stanley
Siebert
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Real Wage Cyclicality in Italy
This paper analyzes the cyclical behaviour of male real wages in Italy using the European Community Household Panel 1994-2001. We distinguish between job stayers (remaining in the same job), and ...
(published in: Labour, 22 (4), 2008, 569 - 591)
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E32, J31, K31
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2464
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Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
Jacob
Benus
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Evaluating Active Labor Market Programs in Romania
We evaluate the presence of effects from joining one of four active labour market programs in Romania in the late 1990s compared to the no-program state. Using rich survey data and propensity score ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2010, 38 (1), 65-84)
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J68
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2463
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Alexander
K.
Koch
Eloic
Peyrache
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Moral Hazard Contracts: Does One Size Fit All?
Incentive theory predicts that contract terms should respond to differences in agents’ productivities. Firms’ practice of anonymous contracts thus appears puzzling. We show that such a ...
(published in:Economics Letters, 2008, 100 (3), 399-401.)
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D80, J33, L14, M12
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2462
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Reza
Arabsheibani
Altay
Mussurov
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Returns to Schooling in Kazakhstan: OLS and Instrumental Variables Approach
This paper examines rates of return to schooling in Kazakhstan using OLS and instrumental variable (IV) methodologies. We use spouse’s education and smoking as instruments. We find that spouse’s ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2007, 15 (2), 342-364)
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C13, I21, J24
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2461
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Xin
Meng
Dominique
Meurs
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Intermarriage, Language, and Economic Assimilation Process: A Case Study of France
Lack of economic assimilation of immigrants often results in social and political unrest of a society. The increased desire to understand better the nature of the assimilation process of immigrants ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1-2), 127-144)
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J61, J12
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2459
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Marcello
Estevão
Filipa
Sa
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Are the French Happy with the 35-Hour Workweek?
Legally mandated reductions in the workweek can be either a constraint on individuals’ choice or a tool to coordinate individuals’ preferences for lower work hours. We confront these two hypotheses ...
(revised version published as 'The 35-hour workweek in France: Straightjacket or welfare improvement? ' in: Economic Policy, 2008, 23 (55), 417-463)
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E24, J22, C21
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2458
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John
F.
Geweke
Joel
L.
Horowitz
M. Hashem
Pesaran
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Econometrics: A Bird's Eye View
As a unified discipline, econometrics is still relatively young and has been transforming and expanding very rapidly over the past few decades. Major advances have taken place in the analysis of ...
(published in: Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume (eds.), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition, Palgrave MacMillan: 2008, 609-642)
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C1, C2, C3, C4, C5
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2457
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Alan
Barrett
Yvonne
McCarthy
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Immigrants in a Booming Economy: Analysing their Earnings and Welfare Dependence
Ireland’s exceptional economic growth in recent years has led to an influx of immigrants. Given the favourable economic climate into which these immigrants are arriving, it is interesting to ask how ...
(published in: Labour, 2007, 21(4), 789-808)
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J61
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2456
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Michal
Myck
Leszek
Morawski
Jerzy
Mycielski
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Employment Fluctuations and Dynamics of the Aggregate Average Wage in Poland 1996-2003
The aggregate average wage is often used as an indicator of economic performance and welfare, and as such often serves as a benchmark for changes in the generosity of public transfers and for wage ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2007, 15(4), 759-799)
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E24, J21, J31
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2455
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Eran
Yashiv
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U.S. Labor Market Dynamics Revisited
The picture of U.S. labor market dynamics is opaque. Empirical studies of U.S. gross worker flows have yielded contradictory findings, and it is not easy to get a sense of the key moments of the ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2007, 109 (4), 779 - 806)
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E24, J63, J64
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2454
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Pierre-André
Chiappori
Murat
Iyigun
Yoram
Weiss
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Investment in Schooling and the Marriage Market
We present a model with pre-marital schooling investment, endogenous marital matching and spousal specialization in homework and market production. Investment in schooling raises ages and generates ...
(published in American Economic Review, 2009, 99 (5), 1689-1713)
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C78, D61, D70
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2453
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Yundan
Gong
Holger
Görg
Sara
Maioli
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Employment Effects of Privatisation and Foreign Acquisition of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
This paper investigates the effects of domestic privatisation or foreign acquisition of Chinese State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) on employment growth, using firm level data for China and a combination ...
(published in: International Journal of the Economics of Business, 2007, 14(2), 197-214)
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P2, F2
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2451
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Kelly
Shue
Erzo
F.P.
Luttmer
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Who Misvotes? The Effect of Differential Cognition Costs on Election Outcomes
If voters are fully rational and have negligible cognition costs, ballot layout should not affect election outcomes. In this paper, we explore deviations from rational voting using quasi-random ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2009, 1(1), 229-257)
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D01, D72, D83, J10
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