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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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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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2273
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Eskil
Wadensjö
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Part-Time Pensions and Part-Time Work in Sweden
Sweden had a special partial pension scheme between 1976 and 2001. It was one of three part-time pension schemes in the social security system. The other two were a partial early old-age pension, and ...
(published in: European Papers on the New Welfare, 2006, 6, 29-45)
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H55, J22, J26, J14
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2272
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James
P.
Habyarimana
Macartan
Humphreys
Daniel
N.
Posner
Jeremy
Weinstein
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Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision? An Experimental Approach
A large and growing literature links high levels of ethnic diversity to low levels of public goods provision. Yet while the empirical connection between ethnic heterogeneity and the underprovision of ...
(published as 'Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision?' in: American Political Science Review, 2007, 101 (4), 709 - 725 )
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D71, H41, J15, O10, Z13
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2271
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Helena
Skyt
Nielsen
Michael
Svarer
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Educational Homogamy: Preferences or Opportunities?
Individuals match on length and type of education. We investigate whether the systematic relationship between educations of partners is explained by opportunities (e.g. low search frictions) or ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44(4), 1066-86)
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J12, J24
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2270
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Michael
C.
Burda
Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
Philippe
Weil
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The Distribution of Total Work in the EU and US
Using two time-diary data sets each for Germany, Italy the Netherlands and the U.S. from 1985-2003, we demonstrate that Americans work more than Europeans: 1) in the market; 2) in total (market and ...
(published in: Tito Boeri, Michael Burda, Francis Kramarz (eds.), Working Hours and Job Sharing in the EU and USA: Are Americans Crazy? Are Europeans Lazy? Oxford Univ. Press, 2008)
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J22, E24, D13
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2269
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Jamie
Goodwin-White
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Dispersion or Concentration for the 1.5 Generation? Destination Choices of the Children of Immigrants in the US
This paper examines determinants of inter-metropolitan destination choice for foreign-born and 1.5 generation adult children of immigrants in the US. An immigrant concentration-weighted accessibility ...
(published in: Population, Space and Place, 2007, 13 (5), 313 - 331)
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J61
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2268
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Alison
L.
Booth
Margi
Wood
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Back-to-front Down-under? Part-time/Full-time Wage Differentials in Australia
In 2003, part-time employment in Australia accounted for over 42% of the Australian female workforce, nearly 17% of the male workforce, and represented 28% of total employment. Of the OECD countries, ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2008, 47 (1), 114-135)
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J16, J22, J31
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2267
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Sourafel
Girma
Yundan
Gong
Holger
Görg
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Can You Teach Old Dragons New Tricks? FDI and Innovation Activity in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by Chinese State owned enterprises (SOEs). We use a comprehensive firm level panel data ...
(revised version published as 'What determines innovation activity in Chinese state-owned enterprises? The role of foreign direct investment' in: World Development, 2009, 37 (4), 866-873)
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F23, O31
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2266
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Jörgen
Hansen
Magnus
Lofstrom
Xuelin
Zhang
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State Dependence in Canadian Welfare Participation
This paper analyzes transitions into and out-of Social Assistance in Canada. We estimate a dynamic Probit model, controlling for endogenous initial conditions and unobserved heterogeneity, using ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2014, 39, 81-105)
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I30, I38, J18
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2265
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Marika
Karanassou
Hector
Sala
Dennis
J.
Snower
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Phillips Curves and Unemployment Dynamics: A Critique and a Holistic Perspective
The conventional wisdom that inflation and unemployment are unrelated in the long-run implies that these phenomena can be analysed by separate branches of economics. The macro literature tries to ...
(published: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2010, 24 (1), 1-51)
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E24, E31
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2264
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Olmo
Silva
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The Jack-of-All-Trades Entrepreneur: Innate Talent or Acquired Skill?
Cross-sectional tests of the Jack-of-All-Trades theory of entrepreneurship invariably conclude that accumulation of balanced skill-mix across different fields of expertise stimulates ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2007, 97 (2), 118-123)
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M13, J23, J24
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2261
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Jörgen
Hansen
Magnus
Lofstrom
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Immigrant-Native Differences in Welfare Participation: The Role of Entry and Exit Rates
This paper analyzes differences in welfare transitions between natives and immigrants in Sweden using a large representative panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1991 to 2001. The data contains ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2011, 50 (3), 412 - 442)
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I30, I38, J15, J18, J61
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2259
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Thomas
K.
Bauer
Silja
Göhlmann
Mathias
Sinning
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Gender Differences in Smoking Behavior
This paper investigates gender differences in smoking behavior using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP). We develop a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method for count data models which ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2007, 16 (9), 895-909)
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C25, I12
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2258
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Sumon
K.
Bhaumik
Ralitza
Dimova
Jeffrey
B.
Nugent
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Pulls, Pushes and Entitlement Failures in Labor Markets: Does the State of Development Matter?
This study adapts a relatively novel model of off-farm labor supply to the changing conditions of Bulgaria during the 1990s. The model’s parameters are estimated separately for each of the three ...
(published as 'Off-farm Labour Supply and Labour Markets in Rapidly Changing Circumstances: Bulgaria during Transition' in: Economic Systems, 2011, 35 (3), 378 - 389)
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J2, P23, P36, O13, Q12
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2256
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Michael
P.
Pflüger
Jens
Suedekum
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Towards a Unifying Approach of the 'New Economic Geography'
Models of the new economic geography share a number of common conclusions, but also exhibit notable differences, in particular with respect to the shape of the location pattern and the efficiency of ...
(published in revised form as 'A synthesis of footloose-entrepreneur new economic geography models: when is agglomeration smooth and easily reversible?' in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2008, 8 (1), 39-54)
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R12, R50, F12, F15, F22
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2255
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Hilmar
Schneider
Arne
Uhlendorff
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Die Wirkung der Hartz-Reform im Bereich der beruflichen Weiterbildung
Mit der Hartz-Reform wurden auch im Bereich der beruflichen Weiterbildung grundlegende Neuerungen eingeführt. Dazu gehören vor allem die Einführung von Bildungsgutscheinen als neuem ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung/Journal for Labour Market Research, 2006, 39 (3-4), 477-490)
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J64, J68, H43
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2254
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Michele
Mosca
Marco
Musella
Francesco
Pastore
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Relational Goods, Monitoring and Non-Pecuniary Compensations in the Nonprofit Sector: The Case of the Italian Social Services
This paper investigates the nonprofit wage gap suggesting a theoretical framework where, like in Akerlof (1984), effort correlates not only with wages, but also with non-monetary compensations. These ...
(published in: Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2007, 78 (1), 57-86)
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I00, J31, L31, L84
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2253
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Tuomas
Pekkarinen
Chris
Riddell
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Performance Pay and Earnings: Evidence from Personnel Records
This paper examines the effects of performance pay on earnings using linked employee-employer panel data from Finland. These payroll data contain information on the exact share of earnings obtained ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2008, 61 (3), 287 - 319)
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J33, J41
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2252
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M. Ayhan
Kose
Eswar
Prasad
Marco
E.
Terrones
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How Do Trade and Financial Integration Affect the Relationship between Growth and Volatility?
The influential work of Ramey and Ramey (1995) highlighted an empirical relationship that has now come to be regarded as conventional wisdom – that output volatility and growth are negatively ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2006, 69 (1), 176-202)
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F41, F36, F15
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2251
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Wiji
Arulampalam
Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
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Sibling Death Clustering in India: State Dependence vs. Unobserved Heterogeneity
Data from a range of different environments indicate that the incidence of death is not randomly distributed across families but, rather, that there is a clustering of death amongst siblings. A ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 2006, 169 (4), 829-848)
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J1, C1, I1, O1
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2250
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Rafael
Lalive
Maria Alejandra
Cattaneo
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Social Interactions and Schooling Decisions
The aim of this paper is to study whether schooling choices are affected by social interactions. Such social interactions may be important because children enjoy spending time with other children or ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 91(3), 457 - 477)
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C93, I21, I28
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2249
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Guido
Friebel
Michael
Raith
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Resource Allocation and Firm Scope
We develop a theory of firm scope in which integrating two firms into one facilitates the allocation of resources, but leads to weaker incentives for effort, compared with non-integration. Our theory ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2010, 2 (2), 1-33)
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D23, D82, L22, M52
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2248
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Eswar
Prasad
Raghuram
G.
Rajan
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Modernizing China's Growth Paradigm
China has achieved tremendous economic progress in the last three decades, but there is much work to be done to make the economy resilient to large shocks, ensure the sustainability of its growth, ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (2), 331-336)
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P2, F3
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2247
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Hans
Bloemen
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The Impact of Wealth on Job Exit Rates of Elderly Workers
In the literature theoretical models have appeared that predict a positive impact of the level of individual wealth on the job exit probability. Empirically this prediction is most likely to be ...
(published as 'The effect of private wealth on the retirement rate: an empirical analysis' in: Economica, 2011, 78 (312), 637 - 655)
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J26, D91
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2246
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Arie
Kapteyn
Pierre-Carl
Michaud
James
P.
Smith
Arthur
van Soest
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Effects of Attrition and Non-Response in the Health and Retirement Study
We study the effect of attrition and other forms of non-response on the representativity over time of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) sample born 1931-1941; the sample was initially drawn in ...
(published as 'Temporary and permanent unit non-response in follow-up interviews of the Health and Retirement Study' in: Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, 2011, 2 (2), 145 - 169)
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C42, C80, I10, J26
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2245
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Viktor
Steiner
Katharina
Wrohlich
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Introducing Family Tax Splitting in Germany: How Would It Affect the Income Distribution and Work Incentives?
We analyze the effects of three alternative proposals to reform the taxation of families relative to the current German system of joint taxation of couples and child allowances: a French-type family ...
(revised version published as 'Introducing Family Tax Splitting in Germany: How Would It Affect the Income Distribution, Work Incentives, and Household Welfare? ' in: FinanzArchiv, 2008, 64 (1), 115-142)
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H24, H31, J22
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2244
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Uwe
Sunde
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Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung und Demokratie: Ist Demokratie ein Wohlstandsmotor oder ein Wohlstandsprodukt?
Praktisch alle wirtschaftlich entwickelten Länder der Welt sind demokratisch. Sind demokratische Strukturen also kausal für wirtschaftlichen Wohlstand und Wachstum? Oder ist es vielmehr der ...
(published in: Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 2006, 7(4), 471-499)
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H10, N10, O10, E60
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2243
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George
Kapetanios
M. Hashem
Pesaran
Takashi
Yamagata
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Panels with Nonstationary Multifactor Error Structures
The presence of cross-sectionally correlated error terms invalidates much inferential theory of panel data models. Recently work by Pesaran (2006) has suggested a method which makes use of ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2011, 160 (2), 326-348)
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C12, C13, C33
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2242
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Emilia
Del Bono
Andrea
Weber
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Do Wages Compensate for Anticipated Working Time Restrictions? Evidence from Seasonal Employment in Austria
In this paper we investigate the existence of compensating wage differentials across seasonal and non seasonal jobs, which arise due to anticipated working time restrictions. We build on a ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2008, 26(1), 181-221)
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J22, J3, C23
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2241
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Dominik
Hübler
Olaf
Hübler
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Is There a Trade-off Between Job Security and Wages in Germany and the UK?
This paper looks at the wage effects of perceived and objective insecurity in Germany and the UK using the GSOEP and BHPS panels. The distinction between perceived worry about job loss and economic ...
(published in: Schmalenbach Business Review, 2010, 62(1), 45-67)
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J28, J31, J63, J81
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2239
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Laszlo
Goerke
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Corporate and Personal Income Tax Declarations
Decisions by firms and individuals on the extent of their tax payments have generally been treated as separate choices. Empirically, a positive relationship between corporate and personal income tax ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2007, 14(3), 281-292)
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H24, H25, H26
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