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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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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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2426
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Valerie
Smeets
Kathryn
Ierulli
Michael
Gibbs
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Mergers of Equals and Unequals
We examine the dynamics of post-merger organizational integration. Our basic question is whether there is evidence of conflict between employees from the two merging firms. Such conflict can arise ...
(published as 'An Empirical Analysis of Post-Merger Organizational Integration' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2016, 118 (3), 463-493)
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M5, G34, J63, M14
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2425
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Maarten
Lindeboom
Marta
López
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Inequality in Individual Mortality and Economic Conditions Earlier in Life
We analyze the effect of being born in a recession on the mortality rate later in life in conjunction with social class. We use individual data records from Dutch registers of birth, marriage, and ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2009, 69 (9), 1360–1367)
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I12, J14, E32, N33, N13, C41
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2423
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Bernd
Irlenbusch
Gabriele
K.
Ruchala
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Relative Rewards within Team-Based Compensation
How to design compensation schemes to motivate team members appears to be one of the most challenging problems in the economic analysis of labour provision. We shed light on this issue by ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (2), 141-167)
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C72, C91, H41, J33, L23, M52
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2422
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Magnus
Lofstrom
Chunbei
Wang
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Mexican-Hispanic Self-Employment Entry: The Role of Business Start-Up Constraints
This paper examines causes of the low self-employment rates among Mexican-Hispanics by studying self-employment entry utilizing the 1996 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation ...
(published in: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2007, 613 (1), 32-46)
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J15, J23
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2421
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Leo
Kaas
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Does Equal Pay Legislation Reduce Labour Market Inequality?
This paper considers a labour market model of monopsonistic competition with taste-based discrimination against minority workers to study the effect of equal pay legislation on labour market ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2009, 111(1), 51 - 71)
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D43, J71, J78
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2419
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Alan
Manning
Barbara
Petrongolo
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The Part-Time Pay Penalty for Women in Britain
Women in Britain who work part-time have, on average, hourly earnings about 25% less than that of women working full-time. This gap has widened greatly over the past 30 years. This paper tries to ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (526), F28-F51)
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J24, J31, J62
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2418
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Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Ding
Sai
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Villages where China's Ethnic Minorities Live
This paper investigates how ethnic minorities in rural China are faring compared with the ethnic majority. The village is the unit of analysis and large surveys for 2002 are used. Minority villages ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2009, 20 (2), 193-207)
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J15, O12, P32
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2416
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Monique
de Haan
Erik
Plug
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Estimates of the Effect of Parents’ Schooling on Children’s Schooling Using Censored and Uncensored Samples
In this paper we estimate the impact of parental schooling on child schooling, focus on the problem that children who are still in school constitute censored observations, and evaluate three ...
(published as 'Estimating intergenerational schooling mobility on censored samples: consequences and remedies' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2011, 26 (1), 151–166,)
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I2, J62, C34
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2414
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Daniela
Del Boca
Marilena
Locatelli
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The Determinants of Motherhood and Work Status: A Survey
In this paper we present important empirical evidence regarding recent trends in women’s participation and fertility in European countries, and provide several interpretations of the differences ...
(published as 'Motherhood and participation' in: D. Del Boca and C. Wetzels (eds.), Social Policies, Labor Markets and Motherhood, Cambridge University Press, 2008, 155-180)
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J2, C3, D1, H31
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2413
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John
S.
Heywood
W. Stanley
Siebert
Xiangdong
Wei
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Examining the Determinants of Agency Work: Do Family Friendly Practices Play a Role?
This paper uses establishment data to estimate the determinants of using agency workers. It contends that those employers with less ability to direct effort of core workers are more likely to use ...
(published as 'Estimating the Use of Agency Workers: Can Family-Friendly Practices Reduce Their Use?' in: Industrial Relations, 2011, 50 (3), 535 - 564)
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J13, J81, M52
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2412
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Spyros
Konstantopoulos
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The Power of the Test in Three-Level Designs
Field experiments that involve nested structures may assign treatment conditions either to entire groups (such as classrooms or schools), or individuals within groups (such as students). Since field ...
(published in: Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2008, 1(1), 1-23)
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C9
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2411
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Thomas
Siedler
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Family and Politics: Does Parental Unemployment Cause Right-Wing Extremism?
Recent years have witnessed a rise in right-wing extremism among German youth and young adults. This paper investigates the extent to which the experience of parental unemployment during childhood ...
(revised version published as 'Parental unemployment and young people's extreme right-wing party affinity: evidence from panel data' in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 2011, 174 (3), 737-758)
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C23, D72, J6, P16
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2410
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Stephen
Drinkwater
John
Eade
Michal
Garapich
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Poles Apart? EU Enlargement and the Labour Market Outcomes of Immigrants in the UK
The UK was one of only three countries to allow migrants from accession countries to enter their labour markets more or less without restriction following EU enlargement in May 2004. Therefore, it is ...
(published in: International Migration, 2009, 47 (1), 161-190)
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J61, F22
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2409
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Jakob
R.
Munch
Jan
Rose
Skaksen
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Human Capital and Wages in Exporting Firms
This paper studies the link between a firm’s education level, export performance and wages of its workers. We argue that firms may escape intense competition in international markets by using high ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2008, 75 (2), 363-372)
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J30, F10, I20
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2408
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Vicente
Cuńat
Maria
Guadalupe
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Globalization and the Provision of Incentives Inside the Firm: The Effect of Foreign Competition
This paper studies the effect of changes in foreign competition on the incentives faced by U.S. managers in the form of wage structures, promotion profiles, and job turnover. We use a panel of ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2009, 27 (2), 179-212 )
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M52, L1, J31
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2407
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Roger
Klein
Francis
Vella
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Estimating the Return to Endogenous Schooling Decisions for Australian Workers via Conditional Second Moments
This paper employs conditional second moments to identify the impact of education in wage regressions where education is treated as endogenous. This approach avoids the use of instrumental variables ...
(published as 'Estimating the Return to Endogenous Schooling Decisions via Conditional Second Moments' in : Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44 (4), 1047 - 1065)
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J2, C31
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2406
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Andrew
E.
Clark
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A Note on Unhappiness and Unemployment Duration
Although it is now widely-accepted that unemployment is associated with sharply lower levels of individual well-being, relatively little is known about how this effect depends on unemployment ...
(published in Applied Economics Quarterly, 2006, 52 (4), 291-308)
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C30, J28, J31
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2405
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Anh
T.
Le
Paul
W.
Miller
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How Immigrants Fare Across the Earnings Distribution: International Analyses
This paper applies the quantile regression methodology to the study of the determinants of the distribution of earnings among the native born and immigrants in the United States and Australia. The ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2008, 61 (3), 353-373)
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J15, J24, J31, F22
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2404
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Robert
Drago
Mark
Wooden
David
Black
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Who Wants Flexibility? Changing Work Hours Preferences and Life Events
We consider desires for flexibility in weekly hours by analyzing changes in work hours preferences using four years of data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. ...
(Published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2009, 62(3), 394-414. doi:10.1177/001979390906200308)
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J22
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2402
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Pernilla
Andersson Joona
Eskil
Wadensjö
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Do the Unemployed Become Successful Entrepreneurs? A Comparison between the Unemployed, Inactive and Wage-Earners
In many countries unemployed people are helped to become self-employed. Self-employment, however, does not necessarily lead to success. Many leave self-employment after a short period and the ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2007, 28 (7), 604-626)
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J23, J24, J30, J60, J62, J68
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2399
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Holger
Bonin
Hilmar
Schneider
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Workfare: Eine wirksame Alternative zum Kombilohn
In the debate on in-work benefits in Germany it is often overlooked that such subsidies may only be effective if basic minimum income is remarkably decreased for those who are employable. However, ...
(published in: Wirtschaftsdienst, 2006, 86 (10), 645-650)
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J68, J38, H24, J22
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2398
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Alexander
Spermann
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Basic Income Reform in Germany: Better Gradualism than Cold Turkey
This paper advocates the cautious and constitutional evolution of existing basic income schemes (“unemployment benefit II”) and Targeted Negative Income Tax (TNIT = "Einstiegsgeld") into a ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly Supplement, 2006, 57, 113-130)
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I38, J22
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2397
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Marika
Karanassou
Hector
Sala
Pablo
F.
Salvador
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The (Ir)relevance of the NRU for Policy Making: The Case of Denmark
We reconsider the central role of the natural rate of unemployment (NRU) in forming policy decisions. We show that the unemployment rate does not gravitate towards the NRU due to frictional growth, a ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2008, 55 (3), 369-392)
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E22, E24, J21
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2396
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Matthias
Kräkel
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On the “Adverse Selection” of Organizations
According to New Institutional Economics, two or more individuals will found an organization, if it leads to a benefit compared to market allocation. A natural consequence will then be internal rent ...
(published as 'On Adverse Selection of Technologies ' in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2008, 164 (2), 343-355)
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D2, L2, M2
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2394
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Olaf
Hübler
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The Nonlinear Link between Height and Wages: An Empirical Investigation
This article investigates the relationship between individual wages and height using the German Socio-Economic Panel where five hypotheses are tested. Some explanations of a positive link exist and ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2009, 7 (2), 191-199)
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J15, J31
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2393
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Clive
Bell
Hans
Gersbach
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The Macroeconomics of Targeting: The Case of an Enduring Epidemic
What is the right balance among policy interventions in order to ensure economic growth over the long run when an epidemic causes heavy mortality among young adults? We argue that, in general, ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2009, 28 (1), 54-72 )
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E62, H20, I10, I20, O11
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2392
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Don
J.
DeVoretz
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The Economics of Citizenship: A Common Intellectual Ground for Social Scientists?
Economists studying the economic behaviour of immigrants have tended to avoid serious interdisciplinary work. I argue that when presented with a particular set of research questions that lend ...
(published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2008, 34 (4), 679-693)
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J61, J68, F22
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2390
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Gerry
Makepeace
Sarmistha
Pal
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Understanding the Effects of Siblings on Child Mortality: Evidence from India
Given the intrinsically sequential nature of child birth, timing of a child’s birth has consequences not only for itself, but also for its older and younger siblings. The paper argues that prior and ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2008, 21 (4), 877-902)
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D13, I12, O15
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2389
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Heather
Antecol
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
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Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in Local Consumer Markets: Exploiting the Army’s Procedures for Matching Personnel to Duty Locations
We use the exogenous assignment of Army personnel to duty locations to analyze the relationship between the characteristics of local markets and the propensity for consumers to be subjected to racial ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2008, 64(2), 496-509)
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J15, D12, D40
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2388
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Claus
Schnabel
Joachim
Wagner
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The Persistent Decline in Unionization in Western and Eastern Germany, 1980-2004: What Can We Learn from a Decomposition Analysis?
An empirical analysis of various waves of the ALLBUS social survey shows that union density fell substantially in western Germany from 1980 to 2004 and in eastern Germany from 1992 to 2004. Such a ...
(published in: Industrielle Beziehungen, 2007, 14(2), 118-132)
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J51
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2387
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Robert
Plasman
François
Rycx
Ilan
Tojerow
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Industry Wage Differentials, Unobserved Ability, and Rent-Sharing: Evidence from Matched Worker-Firm Data, 1995-2002
This paper investigates inter-industry wage differentials in Belgium, taking advantage of access to a unique matched employer-employee data set covering the period 1995-2002. Findings show the ...
(published in: Brussels Economic Review, 2007, 50 (1), 11-37)
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D31, J31, J41
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2386
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Hielke
Buddelmeyer
Paul
H.
Jensen
Elizabeth
Webster
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Innovation and the Determinants of Firm Survival
While many firms compete through the development of new technologies and products, it is well known that new-to-the-world innovation is inherently risky and therefore may increase the probability of ...
(revised version published as 'Innovation and the determinants of company survival' in: Oxford Economics Papers, 2010, 62 (2), 261-285)
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O31, O32, C41
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2385
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James
Albrecht
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Susan
Vroman
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The Aggregate Labor Market Effects of the Swedish Knowledge Lift Program
The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of low-skill workers. This paper ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2009, 12(1), 129-146)
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J21, J64, J31, J24, I21, C31
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2384
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Barry
Hirsch
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Wage Determination in the U.S. Airline Industry: Union Power under Product Market Constraints
The paper analyzes wages in the U.S. airline industry, focusing on the role of collective bargaining in a changing product market environment. Airline unions have considerable strike threat power, ...
(published in: D. Lee (ed.), Advances in Airline Economics, Vol. 2: The Economics of Airline Institutions, Operations and Marketing, Elsevier 2007)
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J30, L93, J50
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2383
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Roger
Klein
Francis
Vella
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A Semiparametric Model for Binary Response and Continuous Outcomes Under Index Heteroscedasticity
This paper formulates a likelihood-based estimator for a double index, semiparametric binary response equation. A novel feature of this estimator is that it is based on density estimation under local ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2009, 24 (5), 735–762)
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C35, C14
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2382
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Simon
C.
Parker
Mirjam
C.
van Praag
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The Entrepreneur's Mode of Entry: Business Takeover or New Venture Start
We analyse the decision to become an entrepreneur by either taking over an established business or starting a new venture from scratch. A model is developed which predicts how several individual- and ...
(published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2011, 27 (1), 31-46)
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J24, L26, M13
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2381
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John
T.
Addison
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Politico-Economic Causes of Labor Regulation in the United States: Rent Seeking, Alliances, Raising Rivals' Costs (Even Lowering One's Own?), and Interjurisdictional Competition
This paper offers an eclectic survey of the political economy of labor regulation in the United States at federal and state levels along the dimensions of occupational health and safety, unjust ...
(published in: R. Vaubel and P. Bernholz (eds.), Political Competition and Economic Regulation, London: Routledge 2007)
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H70, J28, J38, J41, J48, J58, J65, J80, K31
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2380
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Thomas
Dohmen
Armin
Falk
David
B.
Huffman
Uwe
Sunde
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes
We investigate whether two crucial determinants of economic decision making – willingness to take risks and willingness to trust other people – are transmitted from parents to children. Our evidence ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2012, 79 (2), 645-677)
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D1, D8, J12, J13, J62, Z13
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2378
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Roger
Klein
Francis
Vella
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Estimating a Class of Triangular Simultaneous Equations Models Without Exclusion Restrictions
This paper provides a control function estimator to adjust for endogeneity in the triangular simultaneous equations model where there are no available exclusion restrictions to generate suitable ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2010, 154 (2), 154-164)
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C14, C30
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