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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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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
Estevăo
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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2450
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John
C.
Haltiwanger
Stefano
Scarpetta
Helena
Schweiger
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Assessing Job Flows across Countries: The Role of Industry, Firm Size and Regulations
This paper reviews the process of job creation and destruction across a sample of 16 industrial and emerging economies over the past decade. It exploits a harmonized firm-level data-set drawn from ...
(published as 'Cross country differences in job reallocation: The role of industry, firm size and regulations' in: Labour Economics, 2014, 26, 11-25)
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J23, J53, K31
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2449
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Steven
Stillman
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The Retirement Expectations of Middle-Aged Individuals
We use the first three waves of the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey to examine the retirement plans of middle-aged workers (aged 45–55). Our results indicate that ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2009, 85(269), 146-163)
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J26, J10, J80
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2448
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Leslie
S.
Stratton
James
N.
Wetzel
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Reported Progress under the Student Right-to-Know Act: How Reliable Is It?
The Student Right-to-Know Act requires colleges to provide institution-specific information on graduation rates for students initially enrolling full-time in the fall term. Not all students, however, ...
(published in: IR Applications, 2009, 19, 1 - 10)
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I28
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2447
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Anders
Frederiksen
Elöd
Takáts
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Layoffs as Part of an Optimal Incentive Mix: Theory and Evidence
Firms offer highly complex contracts to their employees. These contracts contain a mix of incentives, such as fixed wages, bonus payments, promotion options, and layoff threats. In general, ...
(published as 'Promotions, Dismissals and Employee Selection: Theory and Evidence' in: Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2011, 27(1), 159-179)
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J30, J41, M50
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2446
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Vincenzo
Caponi
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Heterogeneous Human Capital and Migration: Who Migrates from Mexico to the US?
In this paper I document the fact that the relationship between human capital, as measured by education, and migration choices among Mexicans is U-shaped: the highest and lowest educated tend to ...
(revised version published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2010, 97/98, 207 - 234)
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F22, J61, O15
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2445
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Helen
Robinson
Jonathan
Wadsworth
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The Impact of the Minimum Wage on the Incidence of Second Job Holding in Britain
The advent of any earnings boost, such as provided by the introduction of a minimum wage, might be expected to reduce the supply of low paid individuals wanting to hold a second job. This paper uses ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2007, 54 (4), 553-574)
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J23, J31
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2443
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Boris
Hirsch
Thorsten
Schank
Claus
Schnabel
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Gender Differences in Labor Supply to Monopsonistic Firms: An Empirical Analysis Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany
This paper investigates women's and men's labor supply to the firm within a structural approach based on a dynamic model of new monopsony. Using methods of survival analysis and a linked ...
(substantially revised version published as "Differences in Labor Supply to Monopsonistic Firms and the Gender Pay Gap: An Empirical Analysis Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany" in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2010, 28 (2), 291-330)
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J42, J60, J71
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2442
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Arnaud
Chevalier
Joanne
Lindley
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Over-Education and the Skills of UK Graduates
During the early Nineties the proportion of UK graduates doubled over a very short period of time. This paper investigates the effect of the expansion on early labour market attainment, focusing on ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 2009, 172(2), 307-337)
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J24, J31, I2
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2441
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Charlene
M.
Kalenkoski
David
C.
Ribar
Leslie
S.
Stratton
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The Effect of Family Structure on Parents' Child Care Time in the United States and the United Kingdom
We use time-diary data from the 2003 and 2004 American Time Use Surveys and the 2000 United Kingdom Time Use Study to estimate the effect of family structure on the time mothers and fathers spend on ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2007, 5 (4), 353-384)
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J1, J2
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2440
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Frédéric
Docquier
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Brain Drain and Inequality Across Nations
Is the brain drain a curse or a boon for developing countries? This paper reviews what is known to date about the magnitude of the brain drain from developing to developed countries, its determinants ...
(published as 'Fuite des cerveaux et inégalités entre pays' in: Revue d'Economie du Développement, 2007, 21 (2), 49-88)
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F22, J61
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2439
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Domenico
de Palo
Riccardo
Faini
Alessandra
Venturini
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The Social Assimilation of Immigrants
Policy makers in migrant-receiving countries must often strike a delicate balance between economic needs, that would dictate a substantial increase in the number of foreign workers, and political and ...
(published in: Intereconomics, 2017, 52, 285-292)
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F22, J15
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2438
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Randall
K. Q.
Akee
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Checkerboards and Coase: Transactions Costs and Efficiency in Land Markets
The Coase theorem emphasizes the role transactions costs play in efficient market outcomes. We document inefficient outcomes, in the presence of a transactions cost, in southern California land ...
(revised version published as 'Checkerboards and Coase: The Effect of Property Institutions on Efficiency in Housing Markets' in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2009, 52 (2), 395-410 )
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R14, O12
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2437
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Alison
L.
Booth
Hiau
Joo
Kee
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Intergenerational Transmission of Fertility Patterns in Britain
Recent studies by economists exploring the nexus between culture and fertility have focused on cultural transmission from the origin country rather than the origin family. Our paper extends this ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 71 (2), 183–208)
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F22, J15, J16, Z10
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2436
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Charlene
M.
Kalenkoski
David
C.
Ribar
Leslie
S.
Stratton
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The Influence of Wages on Parents’ Allocations of Time to Child Care and Market Work in the United Kingdom
We use time-diary data on couples with children from the 2000 United Kingdom Time Use Survey to examine the impacts of own and partner’s wages on parents’ provision of child care and market work on ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (2), 399-419)
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J1, J2
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2434
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Edwin
Leuven
Mikael
Lindahl
Hessel
Oosterbeek
Dinand
Webbink
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Expanding Schooling Opportunities for 4-Year-Olds
This study presents quasi-experimental estimates of the effect of expanding early schooling enrollment possibilities on early achievement. It exploits two features of the school system in Holland. ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (3), 319-328, revised version available here)
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I21, I28, J24
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2432
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Bart
Cockx
Stéphane R.
Robin
Christian
Goebel
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Income Support Policies for Part-Time Workers: A Stepping-Stone to Regular Jobs? An Application to Young Long-Term Unemployed Women in Belgium
We verify whether an income support policy for part-time workers in Belgium increases the transition from unemployment to non-subsidised, “regular” employment. Using a sample of 8630 long-term ...
(revised version published in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 44 (1), 189 - 229 )
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J64, J68, C41
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2431
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Vincenzo
Caponi
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Intergenerational Transmission of Abilities and Self Selection of Mexican Immigrants
Building on Borjas (1993) I develop an intergenerational model of self-selection of migration and education that allows for a complex selection mechanism. In particular, it allows for the possibility ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2011, 52 (2), 523 - 547)
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F22, J24, J61
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2430
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W. Stanley
Siebert
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Labour Market Regulation in the EU-15: Causes and Consequences – A Survey
Why should floors be set under wages and working conditions by labour market regulations? This paper finds that efficiency arguments are questionable, because of the disemployment effects of strict ...
(published in: R. Vaubel and P. Bernholz (eds.), Political Competition and Economic Regulation, London: Routledge 2007)
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J38, J41, J58, J68, J83, K31
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2429
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Lex
Borghans
Huub
Meijers
Bas
ter Weel
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The Role of Noncognitive Skills in Explaining Cognitive Test Scores
This paper examines whether noncognitive skills – measured both by personality traits and economic preference parameters – influence cognitive tests performance. The basic idea is that noncognitive ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2008, 46 (1), 2-12)
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J20, J24
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2428
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Rainald
Borck
Marco
Caliendo
Viktor
Steiner
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Fiscal Competition and the Composition of Public Spending: Theory and Evidence
In this paper, we consider fiscal competition between jurisdictions. Capital taxes are used to finance a public input and two public goods, one which benefits mobile skilled workers and one which ...
(published in: FinanzArchiv, 2007, 63 (2), 264-277)
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H77, J24, J61
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2427
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Myeong-Su
Yun
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Revisiting Inter-Industry Wage Differentials and the Gender Wage Gap: An Identification Problem
We propose a measure of the industrial gender wage gap which is free from an identification problem by using inter-industry wage differentials, or industrial wage premia. We draw on a recent ...
(see DP9381 for extended and revised version published in: Pacific Economic Review, 2015, 20(4), 569-587)
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C20, J70
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