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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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2330
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Martin
Kahanec
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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The Russian-Ukrainian Earnings Divide
Ethnic differences are often considered to be powerful sources of diverse economic behavior. In this paper, we investigate whether and how ethnicity affects Ukrainian labor market outcomes. Using ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2012, 20 (1), 1 - 35)
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J15, J70, J82
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2329
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Nicolai
Kristensen
Niels
C.
Westergård-Nielsen
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A Large-Scale Validation Study of Measurement Errors in Longitudinal Survey Data
In this paper, we analyze measurement and classification errors in several key variables, including earnings and educational attainment, in a matched sample of survey and administrative longitudinal ...
(published in: Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 2007, 32 (2-3), 65-92)
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J24, J31, I2, J28
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2328
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Wolfram
F.
Richter
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Taxing Human Capital Efficiently: The Double Dividend of Taxing Non-Qualified Labour More Heavily Than Qualified Labour
Assuming decreasing returns to education and the endogenous supply of qualified and non-qualified labour it is shown to be efficient to supplement a consumption tax with positive incentives for ...
(revised version based on DP 2328 and DP 3451 published as "Taxing education in Ramsey's tradition" in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (11-12), 1254-1260)
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H2, I2, J24
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2327
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Peter
T.
Gottschalk
Minh
Huynh
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Are Earnings Inequality and Mobility Overstated? The Impact of Non-Classical Measurement Error
Measures of inequality and mobility based on self-reported earnings reflect attributes of both the joint distribution of earnings across time and the joint distribution of measurement error and ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 92 (2), 302 - 315)
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J30
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2326
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Alan
de Brauw
John
T.
Giles
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Migrant Opportunity and the Educational Attainment of Youth in Rural China
In this paper, we investigate how reductions of barriers to migration affect the decision of middle school graduates to attend high school in rural China. Change in the cost of migration is ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52 (1) 274-313)
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O12, O15, J22, J24
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2325
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John
T.
Addison
Christopher
J.
Surfield
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Does Atypical Work Help the Jobless? Evidence from a CAEAS/CPS Cohort Analysis
Atypical employment, such as temporary, on-call, and contract work, has been found disproportionately to attract the jobless. But there is no consensus in the literature as to the labour market ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2009, 41 (9), 1077 - 1087 )
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J40, J64, J20
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2324
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Laurent
Davezies
Xavier
D'Haultfoeuille
Denis
Fougère
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Identification of Peer Effects Using Group Size Variation
This paper considers the semiparametric identification of endogenous and exogenous peer effects based on group size variation. We show that Lee (2006)’s linear-in-means model is generically ...
(published in: Econometrics Journal, 2009, 12 (3), 397-413)
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C14, C21, C25
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2322
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W. Stanley
Siebert
Nick
Zubanov
Arnaud
Chevalier
Tarja
Viitanen
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Labour Turnover and Labour Productivity in a Retail Organization
We study the impact of labour turnover on labour productivity using a panel dataset of 347 shops belonging to a large UK clothing retailer over1995-1999. For the within-shop link – holding constant ...
(published in: Academy of Management Journal, 2009, 52 (2), 294-313)
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J63, J24, L81
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2321
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Philippe
Askenazy
Eve
Caroli
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Innovative Work Practices, Information Technologies and Working Conditions: Evidence for France
We investigate the impact of new work practices and information and communication technologies (ICT) on working conditions in France. We use a unique French dataset providing information on ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2010, 49(4), 544-565)
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J28, L23
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2320
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James
J.
Heckman
Sergio
Urzua
Edward
Vytlacil
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Understanding Instrumental Variables in Models with Essential Heterogeneity
This paper examines the properties of instrumental variables (IV) applied to models with essential heterogeneity, that is, models where responses to interventions are heterogeneous and agents adopt ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2006, 88 (3), 389-432)
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C31
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2319
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Laurens
Cherchye
Bram
De Rock
Frederic
Vermeulen
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Analyzing Cost Efficient Production Behavior Under Economies of Scope: A Nonparametric Methodology
In designing a production model for firms that generate multiple outputs, we take as a starting point that such multi-output production refers to economies of scope, which in turn originate from ...
(published in: Operations Research, 2008, 56(1), 204-221)
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C12, C14, D21, P32, Q12
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2318
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Luis
Diaz-Serrano
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Housing Satisfaction, Homeownership and Housing Mobility: A Panel Data Analysis for Twelve EU Countries
We investigate the determinants of housing satisfaction in twelve EU countries. To do so, we use panel data covering the period 1994-2001, which allows us to control for individual heterogeneity. We ...
(published as 'Mobility and housing satisfaction: an empirical analysis for 12 EU countries ' : Journal of Economic Geography, 2010, 10 (5), 661-683 )
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D1, R0, J0
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2316
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Kristiina
Huttunen
Jarle
Moen
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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How Destructive Is Creative Destruction? The Costs of Worker Displacement
We analyze short and long-term effects of worker displacement. Our focus is on prime-age male workers displaced from Norwegian manufacturing plants. We find that displacement increases the ...
(published as 'How Destructive is Creative Destruction? Effects of Job Loss on Job Mobility, Withdrawal and Income' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (5), 840 - 870)
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J63, J65
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2315
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Friedrich
Schneider
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Shadow Economies and Corruption All Over the World: What Do We Really Know?
Estimations of the size and development of the shadow economy for 145 countries, including developing, transition and highly developed OECD economies over the period 1999 to 2003 are presented. The ...
(published in: Economies: The Open-Access, Open-Assesment E-Journal, 2007, 1)
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O17, O5, D78, H2, H11, H26
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2314
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Katarina
Richardson
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
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Swedish Labor Market Training and the Duration of Unemployment
The vocational employment training program is the most ambitious and expensive training program in Sweden and a cornerstone of labor market policy. We analyze causal effects on the individual ...
(revised version published as 'Duration dependence versus unobserved heterogeneity in treatment effects: Swedish labor market training and the transition rate to employment' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 28 2013, 325-351)
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J64, C14
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2313
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Nauro
F.
Campos
Francesco
Giovannoni
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Lobbying, Corruption and Political Influence
Conventional wisdom suggests that lobbying is the preferred mean for exerting political influence in rich countries and corruption the preferred one in poor countries. Analyses of their joint effects ...
(published in: Public Choice, 2007, 131 (1), 1-21)
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E23, D72, H26, O17, P16
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2312
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Matteo
Cervellati
Joan
Esteban
Laurence
Kranich
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The Social Contract with Endogenous Sentiments
In this paper we present a model of rational voting over redistribution where individual self-esteem and relative esteem for others are endogenously determined. Individuals differ in their ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 95 (9-10), 612-627)
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D64, D72, Z13, H3, J2
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2311
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Niclas
Berggren
Henrik
Jordahl
Panu
Poutvaara
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The Looks of a Winner: Beauty, Gender and Electoral Success
We study the role of beauty in politics. For the first time, focus is put on differences in how women and men evaluate female and male candidates and how different candidate traits relate to success ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (1-2), 8-15)
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D72, J45, J7
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2310
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Armin
Falk
David
B.
Huffman
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Studying Labor Market Institutions in the Lab: Minimum Wages, Employment Protection and Workfare
A central concern in economics is to understand the interplay between institutions and labor markets. In this paper we argue that laboratory experiments are a powerful tool for studying labor market ...
(published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2007, 163 (1), 30-45)
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J9, I38, K31, J3
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2309
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Steffen
Habermalz
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The Speed of Employer Learning and Job Market Signaling Revisited
This paper discusses the claim made in Altonji and Pierret (1997) and Lange (2005) that a high speed of employer learning indicates a low value of job market signaling. The claim is first discussed ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2011, 18 (7), 607-610)
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I20, D8, J41
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2308
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Sarit
Cohen Goldner
Chemi
Gotlibovski
Nava
Kahana
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The Role of Marriage in Immigrants’ Human Capital Investment under Liquidity Constraints
This paper presents a two-period human capital investment model of married and single immigrants under binding liquidity constraints, which explains alternative patterns in the host country's labor ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (4), 983-1003)
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D10, J24, J61
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2307
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Andrew
Burke
Felix
FitzRoy
Michael
A.
Nolan
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What Makes a Die-Hard Entrepreneur? Beyond the ‘Employee or Entrepreneur’ Dichotomy
The paper makes three contributions to the economics literature on entrepreneurship. We offer a new measure of entrepreneurship which accounts for variations in persistence in self-employment and as ...
(published in: Small Business Economics 2008, 31, 93 - 115)
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J23, C25
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2305
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David
L.
Dickinson
Ronald
L.
Oaxaca
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Statistical Discrimination in Labor Markets: An Experimental Analysis
Statistical discrimination occurs when distinctions between demographic groups are made on the basis of real or imagined statistical distinctions between the groups. While such discrimination is ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2009, 76 (1), 16-31)
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J31, J71, C92
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2304
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Olivier
L'Haridon
Franck
Malherbet
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Employment Protection Reform in Search Economies
The design of the employment protection legislation (EPL) is of a particular acuity in the European debate on the contours of the EPL reform. In this article we used an equilibrium unemployment model ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2009, 53 (3), 255-273)
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J41, J48, J60
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2303
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Štepán
Jurajda
Teodora
Paligorova
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Female Managers and their Wages in Central Europe
This paper examines the gender gaps in employment and wages among top- and lower-level managerial employees in a recent sample of Czech firms. Unlike the existing analyses of managerial gender pay ...
(published as "Czech Female Managers and their Wages" in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (3), 342-351)
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J31, J71, P31
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2302
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Suzanne
Grazier
Peter J.
Sloane
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Accident Risk, Gender, Family Status and Occupational Choice in the UK
Many studies show that women are more risk averse than men. In this paper, following DeLeire and Levy (2004) for the US, we use family structure as a proxy for the degree of risk aversion to test the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15(5), 938-957)
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J0, J2, K2
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2301
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Jidong
Huang
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The Earnings of American Jewish Men: Human Capital, Denomination and Religiosity
This paper analyzes the determinants of the earnings of American Jewish men using the 2000/01 National Jewish Population Survey. Non-response to the question on earnings is analyzed. Earnings are ...
(published in: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 2008, 47 (4), 694-709)
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J31, J15, Z12, C81
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2300
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Laura
V
Zimmermann
Liliya
Gataullina
Amelie
F.
Constant
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Human Capital and Ethnic Self-Identification of Migrants
The paper investigates the role of human capital for migrants' ethnic ties towards their home and host countries. Pre-migration characteristics dominate ethnic self-identification. Human capital ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 98 (3), 235-239)
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F22, J15, J16, J24, Z10
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2299
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Arne
Uhlendorff
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Unemployment Dynamics among Migrants and Natives
Unemployment rates are often higher for migrants than for natives. This could result from longer periods of unemployment as well as from shorter periods of employment. This paper jointly examines ...
(substantially revised version published in: Economica, 2014, 81, 348-367)
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C41, J61, J64
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2298
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Abdurrahman
B.
Aydemir
Arthur
Sweetman
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First and Second Generation Immigrant Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes: A Comparison of the United States and Canada
The educational and labor market outcomes of the first, first-and-a-half, second and third generations of immigrants to the United States and Canada are compared. These countries’ immigration flows ...
(published as ''First and Second Generation Immigrant Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes: A Comparison of the United States and Canada' in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 27, 215-70.)
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J61, J62, I29
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2297
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Björn
Brügemann
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Employment Protection: Tough to Scrap or Tough to Get?
Differences in employment protection across countries appear to be quite persistent over time. One mechanism that could explain this persistence is the so called constituency effect: high employment ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (521), F386 - F415)
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E24, J41, J65
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2296
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Antonio
Cabrales
Gary
Charness
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Competition, Hidden Information and Efficiency: An Experiment
We devise an experiment to explore the effect of different degrees of competition on optimal contracts in a hidden-information context. In our benchmark case, each principal is matched with one agent ...
(revised version published as 'Hidden information, bargaining power, and efficiency: an experiment' in: Experimental Economics, 2011, 14, (2), 133-159.)
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A13, B49, C91, C92, D21, J41
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2295
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Adama
Konseiga
Eliya
Msiyaphazi
Zulu
Yazoumé
Yé
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Assessing the Effect of Mother’s Migration on Childhood Mortality in the Informal Settlements of Nairobi
Between one and two million migrants reside in cramped conditions in Nairobi’s slums without proper access to sanitation or affordable clean water. Children in such areas are exposed to enormous ...
(published in: M. Collinson, K. Adazu, M. White, S. Findley, (eds.), The Dynamics of Migration, Health and Livelihoods: INDEPTH Network Perspectives, Ashgate, 2009, 128 - 138)
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C24, C41, I12, R23
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2294
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Rakesh
Basant
Simon
Commander
Rupert
Harrison
Naercio
Menezes-Filho
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ICT Adoption and Productivity in Developing Countries: New Firm Level Evidence from Brazil and India
This paper uses a unique new data set on nearly a thousand manufacturing firms in Brazil and India to investigate the determinants of ICT adoption and its impact on performance in both countries. The ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011)
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J2, E20, L20, L60, O33
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2293
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Dirk
Sliwka
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Trust as a Signal of a Social Norm and the Hidden Costs of Incentive Schemes
An explanation for motivation crowding-out phenomena is developed in a social preferences framework. Besides selfish and fair or altruistic types a third type of agents is introduced: These ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2007, 97 (3), 999-1012)
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M52, J33, D23
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2292
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Alexandre
Mas
Enrico
Moretti
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Peers at Work
We investigate how and why the productivity of a worker varies as a function of the productivity of her co-workers in a group production process. In theory, the introduction of a high productivity ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2009, 99 (1), 112-145)
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J01
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2288
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Michael
Kosfeld
Akira
Okada
Arno
Riedl
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Institution Formation in Public Goods Games
Centralized sanctioning institutions are of utmost importance for overcoming free-riding tendencies and enforcing outcomes that maximize group welfare in social dilemma situations. However, little is ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2009, 99 (4), 1335-1355)
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C72, C92, D72
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2287
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Nil Demet
Güngör
Aysit
Tansel
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Brain Drain from Turkey: An Investigation of Students' Return Intentions
The emigration of skilled individuals from Turkey attracted greater media attention and the interest of policymakers in Turkey, particularly after the experience of recurrent economic crises that ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 40 (23), 2008, 3069 - 3087)
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F20, F22
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2286
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Björn
Brügemann
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Does Employment Protection Create Its Own Political Support?
This paper investigates the ability of employment protection to generate its own political support. A version of the Mortensen-Pissarides model is used for this purpose. Under the standard assumption ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10 (2), 369 - 416)
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E24, J41, J65
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2285
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Daniela
Del Boca
Robert
M.
Sauer
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Life Cycle Employment and Fertility Across Institutional Environments
In this paper, we formulate a dynamic utility maximization model of female labor force participation and fertility choices and estimate approximate decision rules using data on married women in ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2009, 53(3), 274-292)
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J2, J6, C3, D1
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2284
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Jean-Yves
Duclos
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Equity and Equality
Is horizontal equity (HE) the "most widely accepted principle of equity"? Or does it stand in "opposition to the advancement of human welfare"? This paper argues that the case for the HE principle is ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2006, 39 (4), 1073-1104)
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D31, D60, D63, I30
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2283
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Nikolaj
Malchow-Møller
Jakob
R.
Munch
Sanne
Schroll
Jan
Rose
Skaksen
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Attitudes Towards Immigration: Does Economic Self-Interest Matter?
In this paper, we re-examine the role of economic self-interest in shaping people’s attitudes towards immigration, using data from the European Social Survey 2002/2003. Compared to the existing ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 100 (2), 254-257)
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F1, F22, J61
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2282
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Sami
H.
Miaari
Robert
M.
Sauer
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The Labor Market Costs of Conflict: Closures, Foreign Workers, and Palestinian Employment and Earnings
In this paper, we measure the implications of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for Palestinian employment and earnings. We quantify the conflict by the frequency of temporary closures of the West ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (1), 129-148)
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J21, J31, J40, J61, F22, C23
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2281
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Magnus
Carlsson
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Evidence of Ethnic Discrimination in the Swedish Labor Market Using Experimental Data
We present experimental evidence for recruitment discrimination against men with an Arabic sounding name. Our results show that every fourth employer discriminates against the minority. However, ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (4), 716-729)
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J64, J71
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2280
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Konstantinos
Tatsiramos
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Unemployment Insurance in Europe: Unemployment Duration and Subsequent Employment Stability
The empirical literature on unemployment insurance has focused on its direct effect on unemployment duration, while the potential indirect effect on employment stability through a more efficient ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(6), 1225-1260)
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J64, J65, C41
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2279
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Maria
L.
Loureiro
Anna
Sanz-de-Galdeano
Daniela
Vuri
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Smoking Habits: Like Father, Like Son, Like Mother, Like Daughter
We analyze data from the 1994-2002 waves of the British Household Panel Survey to explore the influence of parental smoking habits on their children’s smoking decisions. In order to account for the ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72 (6), 717-743 )
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I1, C5
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2278
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Jennifer
Hunt
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How Corruption Hits People When They Are Down
Using cross-country and Peruvian data, I show that victims of misfortune, particularly crime victims, are much more likely than non-victims to bribe public officials. Misfortune increases victims’ ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2007, 84 (2), 574-589)
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H1, K4, O1
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2277
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Volker
Grossmann
Panu
Poutvaara
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Pareto-Improving Bequest Taxation
Altruistic parents may transfer resources to their offspring by providing education, and by leaving bequests. We show that in the presence of wage taxation, a small bequest tax may improve efficiency ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2009, 16 (5), 647-669)
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H21, H31, D64, I21
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2276
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Filipe
Almeida-Santos
Karen
A.
Mumford
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Employee Training, Wage Dispersion and Equality in Britain
We use British household panel data to explore the wage returns to training incidence and intensity (duration) for 6924 employees. We find these returns differ greatly depending on the nature of the ...
(substantially rewritten - see 'Employee Training and Wage Dispersion: White and Blue Collar Workers in Britain', IZA DP No. 4821)
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J24, J31, J41
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2274
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Mark
Ellis
Jamie
Goodwin-White
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1.5 Generation Internal Migration in the US: Dispersion from States of Immigration?
The issue of immigrant spatial concentration and the possibilities for immigrant dispersion through migration features in at least three interrelated debates about immigration. First, the ethnic ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2006, 40 (4), 899-926)
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J61
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