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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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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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2377
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Michèle
Belot
Marco
Francesconi
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Can Anyone Be “The” One? Evidence on Mate Selection from Speed Dating
Marriage data show a strong degree of positive assortative mating along a variety of attributes. But since marriage is an equilibrium outcome, it is unclear whether positive sorting is the result of ...
(revised version published as 'Dating Preferences and Meeting Opportunities in Mate Choice Decisions' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2012, 48 (2), 474-507)
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D1, J1
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2376
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William
E.
Even
David
A.
Macpherson
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Pension Investments in Employer Stock
This study examines the consequences of a pension fund investing in the stock of the sponsoring firm. Using a merger of data on pension asset holdings from IRS Form 5500 filings and financial data on ...
(published in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2008, 7 (1), 67-93)
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J30, G20
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2374
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Thomas
Liebig
Patrick
A.
Puhani
Alfonso
Sousa-Poza
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Taxation and Internal Migration: Evidence from the Swiss Census Using Community-Level Variation in Income Tax Rates
We investigate the relationship between income tax rate variation and internal migration for the unique case of Switzerland, whose system of determining tax rates primarily at the community level ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2007, 47 (4), 807-836)
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J61, H73
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2373
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Pieter
A.
Gautier
Bas
van der Klaauw
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Grow Rich While You Sleep: Selection in Experiments with Voluntary Participation
We use data from a promotion campaign of NH-Hoteles to study self-selection of participants in a gift-exchange experiment. The promotion campaign allowed guests to pay any non negative amount of ...
(published as 'Selection in a field experiment with voluntary participation' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2012, 27, 63-84)
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C93
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2372
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C.
Katharina
Spieß
Katharina
Wrohlich
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The Parental Leave Benefit Reform in Germany: Costs and Labour Market Outcomes of Moving towards the Scandinavian Model
Germany is known to have one of the lowest fertility rates among Western European countries and also relatively low employment rates of mothers with young children. Although these trends have been ...
(revised version published as 'Parental Leave Bene t Reform in Germany: Costs and Labour Market Outcomes of Moving towards the Nordic Model' in: Population Research and Policy Review, 2008, 27 (5), 575-591)
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J22, H31, I38
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2371
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Spyros
Konstantopoulos
Larry
Hedges
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How Large an Effect Can We Expect from School Reforms?
Judging the success of school reform requires an interpretative context in which to judge whether effects obtained are large enough to be important or so small as to be a disappointment. The logic of ...
(published in: Teachers College Record, 2008, 110, 1613-1640)
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I20
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2370
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Christian
Belzil
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The Return to Schooling in Structural Dynamic Models: A Survey
This paper contains a survey of the recent literature devoted to the returns to schooling within a dynamic structural framework. I present a historical perspective on the evolution of the literature, ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2007, 51 (5), 1059-1105)
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J2, J3
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2369
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Philippe
Lemistre
Nicolas
Moreau
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Spatial Mobility and Returns to Education: Some Evidence from a Sample of French Youth
The purpose of this article is to reevaluate the returns to geographic mobility and to the level of education, taking into account the interaction between these two variables. We have at our disposal ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2009, 49 (1), 149-176)
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J31, J61, I21
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2367
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Gerd
Muehlheusser
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Regulating Damage Clauses in (Labor) Contracts
We analyze the role of damage clauses in labor contracts using a model in which a worker may want to terminate his current employment relationship and work for another firm. We show that the initial ...
(published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2007, 163 (4), 531-551)
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K12, K31, M12
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2366
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Leif
Danziger
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Extension of Labor Contracts and Optimal Backpay
This paper explains why a union and a firm might settle on a contract duration that may later be extended and characterizes the optimal backpay for the holdout period. It is shown that the choice ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (1), 18-36)
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J41
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2365
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Annette
Bergemann
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
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Active Labor Market Policy Effects for Women in Europe: A Survey
We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labor market policies on individual labor market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European ...
(published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2008, 91/92, 385-408)
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J08, J22, J16, J64, J68, J78
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2363
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Michael
Lechner
Conny
Wunsch
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Active Labour Market Policy in East Germany: Waiting for the Economy to Take Off
We investigate the effects of the most important East German active labour market programmes on the labour market outcomes of their participants. The analysis is based on a large and informative ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2009, 17 (4), 661-702)
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J68
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2362
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Jeffrey
M.
Hirsch
Barry
Hirsch
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The Rise and Fall of Private Sector Unionism: What Next for the NLRA?
In this Article, we ask whether the National Labor Relations Act, enacted over 70 years ago, can remain relevant in a competitive economy where nonunion employer discretion is the dominant form of ...
(published in: Florida State University Law Review, 2007, 34 (4), 1133-1180)
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K31, J5, J88
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2361
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Guy
Navon
Ilan
Tojerow
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The Effects of Rent-Sharing on the Gender Wage Gap in the Israeli Manufacturing Sector
This paper analyzes the impact of workplace characteristics on individual wages based on a unique cross-section matched employer-employee dataset for the Israeli private manufacturing sector in 1995; ...
(published in: Labour, 2013, 27 (3), 331-349)
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D31, J16, J31, J70
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2360
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Leif
Danziger
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The Elasticity of Labor Demand and the Optimal Minimum Wage
Contrary to widespread belief, we show that low-pay workers might not generally prefer that the minimum wage rate be increased to a level where the labor demand is unitary elastic. Rather, there ...
(Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22, (3), 757-772)
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J38
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2359
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Richard
Akresh
Philip
Verwimp
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Civil War, Crop Failure, and the Health Status of Young Children
Economic shocks at birth have lasting impacts on children’s health several years after the shock. We calculate height for age z-scores for children under age five using data from a Rwandan nationally ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2011, 59(4), 777-810)
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I12, J13, O12, O15
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2358
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Maarten
Lindeboom
France
Portrait
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Conjugal Bereavement Effects on Health and Mortality at Advanced Ages
We specify a model for the lifetimes of spouses and the dynamic evolution of health, allowing spousal death to have causal effects on the health and mortality of the survivor. We estimate the model ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (4), 774-794)
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I12, I11, J14, J12, C41
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2357
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Juanna
Schrøter
Joensen
Helena
Skyt
Nielsen
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Is there a Causal Effect of High School Math on Labor Market Outcomes?
Outsourcing of jobs to low-wage countries has increased the focus on the accumulation of skills – such as Math skills – in high-wage countries. In this paper, we exploit a high school pilot scheme to ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44 (1), 171-198)
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I20, J24
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2356
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Nicola
Coniglio
Giuseppe
De Arcangelis
Laura
Serlenga
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Intentions to Return of Undocumented Migrants: Illegality as a Cause of Skill Waste
In this paper we show that highly skilled undocumented migrants are more likely to return home than migrants with low or no skills when illegality causes “skill waste”, i.e. when illegality reduces ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 13 (4), 2009, 641 - 657)
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F22, C25
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2355
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Michael
Lechner
Conny
Wunsch
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Are Training Programs More Effective When Unemployment Is High?
We estimate short, medium, and long-run individual labor market effects of training programs for unemployed by following program participation on a monthly basis over a ten-year period. Since ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2009, 27 (4), 653-692)
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J68
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2354
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Lennart
Flood
N. Anders
Klevmarken
Andreea
Mitrut
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The Income of the Swedish Baby Boomers
This paper studies the income of Swedish households belonging to the baby boom generation, i.e. those born in the 1940-50. An international comparison as well as an historical presentation of income ...
(published in A. Klevmarken and B. Lindgren (eds.), Simulating an Ageing Population. A microsimulation approach to Sweden, Contributions to Economic Analysis No 285, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Bingley, U.K. 2008)
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H24, H31, H55
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2353
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James
B.
Rebitzer
Lowell
J.
Taylor
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When Knowledge Is an Asset: Explaining the Organizational Structure of Large Law Firms
We study the economics of employment relationships through theoretical and empirical analysis of an unusual set of firms, large law firms. Our point of departure is the “property rights” approach ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2007, 25(2), 201-229)
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J4, L2, M5
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2352
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Marco
Manacorda
Alan
Manning
Jonathan
Wadsworth
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The Impact of Immigration on the Structure of Male Wages: Theory and Evidence from Britain
Immigration to the UK has risen over time. Existing studies of the impact of immigration on the wages of native-born workers in the UK have failed to find any significant effect. This is something of ...
(updated version published as 'The Impact of Immigration on the Structure of Wages: Theory and Evidence from Britain' in Journal of the American Economic Association, 2012, 10 (1), 120 - 151)
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J6
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2351
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António
Dias da
Silva
Bas
van der Klaauw
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Wage Dynamics and Promotions Inside and Between Firms
We focus on the dynamic relation between wage increases, promotions and job changes. We relate our empirical analyses to the theoretical model of Gibbons and Waldman (1999). In the empirical analyses ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (4), 1513-1548)
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M5, J6, L2
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2349
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Isabel
Günther
Andrey
Launov
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Competitive and Segmented Informal Labor Markets
It has been recently argued that the informal sector of the labor market in a developing economy shows a dual structure with one part of it being competitive to the formal sector and another part ...
(revised version published as 'Informal employment in developing countries: Opportunity or last resort?' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 97 (1), 88-98)
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J42, O17
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2348
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Giorgio
Brunello
Daniele
Checchi
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Does School Tracking Affect Equality of Opportunity? New International Evidence
This paper investigates whether at the interaction between family background and school tracking affects human capital accumulation. Our a priori view is that more tracking should reinforce the role ...
(published in: Economic Policy, 52, 2007, 781-861)
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J24
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2347
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Richard
K.
Crump
V. Joseph
Hotz
Guido
W.
Imbens
Oscar
A.
Mitnik
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Moving the Goalposts: Addressing Limited Overlap in Estimation of Average Treatment Effects by Changing the Estimand
Estimation of average treatment effects under unconfoundedness or exogenous treatment assignment is often hampered by lack of overlap in the covariate distributions. This lack of overlap can lead to ...
(shorter version published as "Dealing with Limited Overlap in Estimation of Average Treatment Effects" in: Biometrika, 2009, 96 (1), 187-199)
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C14, C21, C52
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2346
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Rainer
Winkelmann
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Unemployment, Social Capital, and Subjective Well-Being
It has been shown in past research that unemployment has a large negative impact on subjective well-being of individuals. In this paper, I explore whether and to what extent people with more social ...
(published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2009, 10 (4), 421-430)
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I31, J64, Z13
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2345
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Yew
Liang
Lee
Paul
W.
Miller
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Immigrant Selection Systems and Immigrant Health
This paper is an analysis of the determinants of self-reported health status of immigrants, with a particular focus on type of visa used to gain admission. The concept of “health capital” and an ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 26 (4), 555 - 578)
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I12, J15, J61, F22
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2344
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Dwayne
Benjamin
Loren
Brandt
John
T.
Giles
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Inequality and Growth in Rural China: Does Higher Inequality Impede Growth?
We explore the relationship between the level of village inequality in 1986, and the subsequent growth of household incomes from 1986 to 1999. Using a detailed household-level data set from rural ...
(published as 'Did Higher Inequality Impede Growth in Rural China?' in: Economic Journal, 2011, 121 (557), 1281-1309)
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O12, O15, P20
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2343
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Manfred
Antoni
Elke
J.
Jahn
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Do Changes in Regulation Affect Employment Duration in Temporary Work Agencies?
Over the past three decades Germany has repeatedly deregulated the law on temporary agency work by stepwise increasing the maximum period for hiring-out employees and allowing temporary work agencies ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2009, 62 (2), 226-251)
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C41, J23, J40, J48, K31
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2341
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Paola
Manzini
Marco
Mariotti
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Two-Stage Boundedly Rational Choice Procedures: Theory and Experimental Evidence
We study and test a class of boundedly rational models of decision making which rely on sequential eliminative heuristics. We formalize two sequential decision procedures, both inspired by plausible ...
(published as 'Categorize Then Choose: Boundedly Rational Choice and Welfare' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10 (5), 1141-1165)
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C91, D9
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2340
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Shibao
Guo
Don
J.
DeVoretz
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Chinese Immigrants in Vancouver: Quo Vadis?
This paper reports findings from a Vancouver study which examines the settlement and adaptation experience of Chinese immigrants in Vancouver. The study reveals that non-economic reasons, such as the ...
(published in: Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2006, 7 (4), 425-447)
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J15, J61, J60
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2339
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Laura
Veldkamp
Justin
Wolfers
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Aggregate Shocks or Aggregate Information? Costly Information and Business Cycle Comovement
When similar patterns of expansion and contraction are observed across sectors, we call this a business cycle. Yet explaining the similarity and synchronization of these cycles across industries ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2007, 54 (s1), 37-55)
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E32, D82
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2338
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Sean
Holly
M. Hashem
Pesaran
Takashi
Yamagata
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A Spatio-Temporal Model of House Prices in the US
The purpose of this paper is to apply recent advances in the econometrics of panel data to a problem that has a clear spatial dimension. We model the dynamic adjustment of real house prices using ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2010, 158 (1), 160-173)
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C21, C23
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2337
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Rob
Euwals
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Evaluation of a Tax Reform: A Model with Measurement Error
Parts of the Dutch tax reform 2001 are directed towards fiscal partners in a household and aim at lowering the marginal tax burden of the partner with the lowest (potential) labour income. An ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2008, 15 (9), 697-700)
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C20, H31, J22
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2336
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Paolo
Figini
Holger
Görg
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Does Foreign Direct Investment Affect Wage Inequality? An Empirical Investigation
We use a panel of more than 100 countries for the period 1980 to 2002 to analyse the relationship between inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and wage inequality. We particularly check whether ...
(published in: World Economy, 2011, 34 (9), 1455-1475)
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D63, F23, J31
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2335
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Ana Rute
Cardoso
Shoshana
Neuman
Adrian
Ziderman
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Wage Mobility in Israel: The Effect of Sectoral Concentration
Using a unique eight-year data set, merging population census and national insurance data, the paper examines and compares patterns of wage mobility in Israel. First, the public and the private ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2010, 31 (2), 146-161)
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J3, J6, L5
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2334
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Dave
E.
Marcotte
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The Earnings Effect of Education at Community Colleges
In this paper, I make use of data from the 2000 follow-up of the National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS) post-secondary education transcript files to extend what is known about the value of ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2010, 28(1), 36-51)
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I2, J24, J31
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2333
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John
T.
Giles
Ren
Mu
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Elder Parent Health and the Migration Decision of Adult Children: Evidence from Rural China
Recent research has shown that participation in migrant labor markets has led to substantial increases in income for families in rural China. This paper asks how participation is affected by elder ...
(published in: Demography, 2007, 44 (2), 265 - 288)
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O12, O15, I12, J14
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