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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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2212
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Carmel
U.
Chiswick
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The Economic Determinants of Ethnic Assimilation
Expanding on the concept of ethnic human capital, the paper distinguishes between cultural assimilation compatible with persistent ethnic groups and assimilation through intermarriage and other ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (4), 859 - 880)
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J11, J15, J24, Z13
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2211
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Anne
C.
Gielen
Marcel
Kerkhofs
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Performance Related Pay and Labor Productivity
This paper uses information from a panel of Dutch firms to investigate the labor productivity effects of performance related pay (PRP). We find that PRP increases labor productivity at the firm level ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (1), 291-301)
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C41, H55, J64, J65
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2210
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Robert
A.
Hart
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Piece Work Pay and Hourly Pay over the Cycle
This paper investigates the relative cyclical behavior of the pay of piece workers and hourly paid workers. It uses a unique data set of blue-collar workers in British engineering between 1926 and ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15(5), 1006-1022)
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E32, J31, J33
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2209
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Michèle
Belot
John
Ermisch
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Friendship Ties and Geographical Mobility: Evidence from the BHPS
A common finding in analyses of geographic mobility is a strong association between past movement and current mobility, a phenomenon that has given rise to the so called ‘mover-stayer model’. We ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society), 2009, 172 (2), 427-442)
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J61, Z13
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2208
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Andrew
J.
Oswald
Nattavudh
Powdthavee
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Does Happiness Adapt? A Longitudinal Study of Disability with Implications for Economists and Judges
Economics ignores the possibility of hedonic adaptation (the idea that people bounce back from utility shocks). This paper argues that economists are wrong to do so. It provides longitudinal evidence ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (5-6), 1061-1077)
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D1, I3, I31, K0
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2207
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Andrea
Ichino
Enrico
Moretti
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Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism and the Earning Gap
In most Western countries illness-related absenteeism is higher among female workers than among male workers. Using the personnel dataset of a large Italian bank, we show that the probability of an ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2009, 1(1), 183-218)
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J7, M5
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2206
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Menzie
D.
Chinn
Robert
W.
Fairlie
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ICT Use in the Developing World: An Analysis of Differences in Computer and Internet Penetration
Computer and Internet use, especially in developing countries, has expanded rapidly in recent years. Even in light of this expansion in technology adoption rates, penetration rates differ markedly ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2010, 18 (1), 153 - 167)
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O30, L96
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2205
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Thomas
Dohmen
Armin
Falk
David
B.
Huffman
Uwe
Sunde
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Homo Reciprocans: Survey Evidence on Prevalence, Behavior and Success
Experimental evidence has convincingly shown the existence of reciprocal inclinations, i.e., a tendency for people to respond in-kind to hostile or kind actions. Little is known, however, about: (i) ...
(published in: The Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (536), 592 - 612)
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D63, J3, J6
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2204
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Tuomas
Pekkarinen
Roope
Uusitalo
Sari
Pekkala Kerr
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Education Policy and Intergenerational Income Mobility: Evidence from the Finnish Comprehensive School Reform
Many authors have recently suggested that the heterogeneity in the quality of early education
may be one of the key mechanisms underlying the intergenerational persistence of earnings. This paper ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93, 965-973)
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D31, J62, I20
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2203
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Giorgio
Brunello
Simona
Lorena
Comi
Daniela
Sonedda
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Income Taxes and the Composition of Pay
According to the standard principal-agent model, the optimal composition of pay should balance the provision of incentives with the individual demand for insurance. Do income taxes alter this ...
(published as 'Income Taxes and the Composition of Pay: Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey' in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 58 (3), 297 - 322)
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J33, H24
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2202
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Alberto
Chong
Jose
C.
Galdo
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Does the Quality of Training Programs Matter? Evidence from Bidding Processes Data
We estimate the effect of training quality on earnings using a Peruvian program, which targets disadvantaged youths. The identification of causal effects is possible because of two attractive ...
(updated version published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (6), 970-986 )
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I38, H43, C13, C14
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2201
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Robert
W.
Fairlie
Harry
A.
Krashinsky
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Liquidity Constraints, Household Wealth, and Entrepreneurship Revisited
A large body research shows a positive relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship and interprets the relationship as providing evidence of liquidity constraints. Recently, however, the ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2012, 58 (2), 279-306)
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J01
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2200
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Rafael
Lalive
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How Do Extended Benefits Affect Unemployment Duration? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
This paper studies a program that extends the maximum duration of unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to 209 weeks. Interestingly, this program is targeted to individuals aged 50 years or older, ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2007, 142 (2), 785-806)
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C41, J64, J65
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2199
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Gil
S.
Epstein
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Extremism within the Family
This paper considers an economic analysis of intergenerational transition of ethnic and social trait. We consider the level of social traits chosen by parents and its effect on their children's ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (3), 707-715)
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F22, J1, D1
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2198
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Spyros
Konstantopoulos
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Fixed and Mixed Effects Models in Meta-Analysis
The last three decades the accumulation of quantitative research evidence has led to the development of systematic methods for combining information across samples of related studies. Although a few ...
(published in: J. Osborne (ed.), Best Practices in Quantitative Methods. Sage, 2007)
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C02
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2196
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M. Hashem
Pesaran
Allan
Timmermann
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Testing Dependence among Serially Correlated Multi-Category Variables
The contingency table literature on tests for dependence among discrete multi-category variables is extensive. Existing tests assume, however, that draws are independent, and there are no tests that ...
(published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2009, 104 (485), 325-337)
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C12, C22, C42, C52
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2194
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Etienne
Lehmann
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A Search Model of Unemployment and Inflation
In this paper, I introduce money in the standard labor-matching model (Mortensen and Pissarides 1999, Pissarides 2000). A double coincidence problem makes Fiat Money necessary as a medium of ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (1), 245-266.)
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E24, E52, J64
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2193
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Bernd
Fitzenberger
Karsten
Kohn
Qingwei
Wang
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The Erosion of Union Membership in Germany: Determinants, Densities, Decompositions
Union density in Germany has declined remarkably during the last two decades. We estimate socio-economic and workplace-related determinants of union membership in East and West Germany using data ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (1), 141-165)
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J51
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2192
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Pablo
Brañas-Garza
Shoshana
Neuman
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Is Fertility Related to Religiosity? Evidence from Spain
The paper explores the relationship between religiosity and fertility among Catholics in Spain, thereby answering the question whether the two parallel trends of dramatic drops in fertility and in ...
(revised version published as 'Is Fertility Indeed Related to Religiosity? A Note on: 'Marital Fertility and Religion in Spain, 1985 and 1999' ' in: Population Studies, 2007, 60 (2), 219-224)
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Z12, J12, J13, D13
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2191
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Jérôme
Adda
Francesca
Cornaglia
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The Effect of Taxes and Bans on Passive Smoking
This paper evaluates the effect of excise taxes and bans on smoking in public places on the exposure to tobacco smoke of non-smokers. We use a novel way of quantifying passive smoking: we use data on ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2010, 2 (1), 1-32)
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I1
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2190
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Eric
I.
Knudsen
James
J.
Heckman
Judy
L.
Cameron
Jack
P.
Shonkoff
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Economic, Neurobiological and Behavioral Perspectives on Building America's Future Workforce
A growing proportion of the U.S. workforce will have been raised in disadvantaged environments that are associated with relatively high proportions of individuals with diminished cognitive and social ...
(published in: World Economics, 2006, 7 (3), 17 - 41)
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H43, I28, J13
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2189
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Albert
Saiz
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Immigration and Housing Rents in American Cities
Is there a local economic impact of immigration? Immigration pushes up rents and housing values in US destination cities. The positive association of rent growth and immigrant inflows is pervasive in ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2007, 61(2), 345-371)
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J61, R23, R31
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2188
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John
H.
Pencavel
Luigi
Pistaferri
Fabiano
Schivardi
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Wages, Employment, and Capital in Capitalist and Worker-Owned Firms
Differences in wages, employment, and capital between worker-owned and capitalist enterprises are computed from a matched employer-worker panel data set from Italy, the market economy with the ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2006, 60 (1), 23-44)
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J54, D21, L21
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2187
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Markus
Frölich
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Statistical Treatment Choice: An Application to Active Labour Market Programmes
Choosing among a number of available treatments the most suitable for a given subject is an issue of everyday concern. A physician has to choose an appropriate drug treatment or medical treatment for ...
(published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2008, 103 (482), 547-558)
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C13, C14
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2186
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Lawrence
M.
Kahn
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The Economics of College Sports: Cartel Behavior vs. Amateurism
This paper studies intercollegiate athletics in the context of the theory of cartels. Some point to explicit attempts by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to restrict output and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2007, 21 (1), 209-226)
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L12, L44, I21
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2184
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James
J.
Heckman
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Contributions of Zvi Griliches
In this article, I summarize Griliches’ contributions to economics and to applied econometrics.
(published in: Annales d'Economie et Statistique, 2005 (Special issue in tribute to Zvi Griliches),79-80, 5 - 22)
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B31, D24, O33
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2183
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Pablo
Brañas-Garza
Shoshana
Neuman
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Intergenerational Transmission of 'Religious Capital': Evidence from Spain
The paper examines intergenerational transmission of 'religious capital' from parents to their offspring, within an economic framework of a production function of 'religiosity' where parental inputs ...
(published in: Revista Internacional de Sociologia, 2011, 69 (3), 649-677 in English)
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Z12, J12, J13, D13
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2182
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Horst
Entorf
Martina
Lauk
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Peer Effects, Social Multipliers and Migrants at School: An International Comparison
This article analyses the school performance of migrants dependent on peer groups in different international schooling environments. Using data from the international OECD PISA test, we consider ...
(published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2008, 34(4), 633-654)
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I21
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2180
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Francine
D.
Blau
Lawrence
M.
Kahn
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Changes in the Labor Supply Behavior of Married Women: 1980-2000
Using March Current Population Survey (CPS) data, we investigate married women’s labor supply behavior from 1980 to 2000. We find that their labor supply function for annual hours shifted sharply to ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2007, 25(3), 393-438)
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J16, J22
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2179
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Katalin
Balla
János
Köllő
András
Simonovits
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Transition with Heterogeneous Labor
We extend the benchmark model of Aghion and Blanchard (1994), assuming two segments of the emerging private sector that differ in workers’ productivity. We look at the paths of employment, wages, ...
(published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2008, 19 (3), 203-220. )
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J64, P31, H53
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2178
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Hervé
Boulhol
Sabien
Dobbelaere
Sara
Maioli
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Imports as Product and Labor Market Discipline
This paper tests the pro-competitive effect of trade in the product and labor markets of UK manufacturing sectors between 1988 and 2003 using a two-stage estimation procedure. In the first stage, we ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2011, 49(2): 331-361)
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C23, F16, J51, L13
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2177
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Miguel
Malo
Fernando
Muñoz-Bullón
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The Role of Temporary Help Agencies in Facilitating Temp-to-Perm Transitions
This paper evaluates the impact of agency work on temporary workers’ posterior likelihood of being hired on a permanent basis. We use administrative data on two groups of temporary workers for whom ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2008, 29 (2), 138-161 )
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J2, J4
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2176
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Francine
D.
Blau
Lawrence
M.
Kahn
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The U.S. Gender Pay Gap in the 1990s: Slowing Convergence
Using Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) data, we study the slowdown in the convergence of female and male wages in the 1990s compared to the 1980s. We find that changes in human capital ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2006, 60 (1), 45-66)
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J16, J31
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2175
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Peter J.
Sloane
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Rottenberg and the Economics of Sport after 50 Years: An Evaluation
Simon Rottenberg’s seminal 1956 article in the Journal of Political Economy, 1956, is generally accepted as the starting point for the development of the economics of sport. While he recognised that ...
(published in Rodriguez P., Kesenne S. and Garcia J (eds.), Sports Economics after Fifty Years: Essays in Honour of Simon Rottenberg, University of Oviedo Press: 2006)
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J0, L0, L8
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2173
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Thai-Thanh
Dang
Herwig
Immervoll
Daniela
Mantovani
Kristian
Orsini
Holly
Sutherland
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An Age Perspective on Economic Well-Being and Social Protection in Nine OECD Countries
This paper quantifies the economic well-being of different age groups and the extent of their reliance on incomes from public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the ...
(also available as OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper)
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C81, D31, H22, H55
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2171
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Jan
C.
van Ours
Milan
Vodopivec
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Shortening the Potential Duration of Unemployment Benefits Does Not Affect the Quality of Post-Unemployment Jobs: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
This paper investigates how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects the quality of post-unemployment jobs. It takes advantage of a natural experiment introduced by a change in ...
(revised version published as 'Does reducing unemployment insurance generosity reduce job match quality?' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (3-4), 684-695)
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C41, H55, J64, J65
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2170
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Solomon
Polachek
Carlos
Seiglie
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Trade, Peace and Democracy: An Analysis of Dyadic Dispute
At least since 1750 when Baron de Montesquieu declared "peace is the natural effect of trade," a number of economists and political scientists espoused the notion that trade among nations leads to ...
(published in: T. Sandler and K. Hardley (eds.), Handbook of Defense Economics Vol. 2, Elsevier 2007)
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F01, F51, F59, D74
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2169
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Andrew
E.
Clark
David
Masclet
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Effort and Comparison Income: Experimental and Survey Evidence
This paper considers the effect of status or relative income on work effort combining experimental evidence from a gift-exchange game with ISSP survey data. We find a consistent negative effect of ...
(revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2010, 63 (3), 407-426.)
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M54, J33, A13, C92, D63
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2168
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Marco
Caliendo
Frank
M.
Fossen
Alexander
S.
Kritikos
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Risk Attitudes of Nascent Entrepreneurs: New Evidence from an Experimentally-Validated Survey
The influence of risk aversion on the decision to become self-employed is a much discussed topic in the entrepreneurial literature. Conventional wisdom asserts that the role model of an entrepreneur ...
(revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2009, 32 (2), 153-167)
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D81, J23, M13
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2167
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Guido
W.
Imbens
Lisa
M.
Lynch
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Re-Employment Probabilities over the Business Cycle
Using a Cox proportional hazard model that allows for a flexible time dependence in order to incorporate business cycle effects, we analyze the determinants of reemployment probabilities of young ...
(published in: Portuguese Economic Journal, 2006, 5 (2), 111-134)
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E24, E32, J2, J6
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2166
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Evelyn
L.
Lehrer
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Age at Marriage and Marital Instability: Revisiting the Becker-Landes-Michael Hypothesis
An early age at first marriage is known to be associated with a high risk of divorce. Yet it has been suggested that beyond a certain point, the relationship between age at marriage and marital ...
(Published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2008, 21 (2), 463 - 484)
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J12, J11, J10
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2165
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Anne
C.
Gielen
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Why Do Worker-Firm Matches Dissolve?
In a dynamic labor market worker-firm matches dissolve frequently causing workers to separate and firms to look for replacements. A separation may be initiated by the worker (a quit) or the firm (a ...
(published as 'Layoffs, quits and wage negotiations' in: Economics Letters, 2010, 109 (2), 108-111 )
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J31, J63, M51
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2164
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Frank
M.
Fossen
Viktor
Steiner
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Income Taxes and Entrepreneurial Choice: Empirical Evidence from Germany
Entrepreneurial activity is often regarded as an engine for economic growth and job creation. Through tax policy, governments possess a potential lever to influence the decisions of economic agents ...
(revised version published in: Empirical Economics, 2009, 36 (3), 487-513)
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H24, H25, J23
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2163
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Arthur
van Soest
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Birth Spacing, Fertility and Neonatal Mortality in India: Dynamics, Frailty and Fecundity
A dynamic panel data model of neonatal mortality and birth spacing is analyzed, accounting for causal effects of birth spacing on subsequent mortality and of mortality on the length of the next birth ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2008, 143 (2), 274-290)
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I12, J13, C33
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2161
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Ruta
Aidis
Saul
Estrin
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Institutions, Networks and Entrepreneurship Development in Russia: An Exploration
In this paper we explore the ways in which institutions and networks influence entrepreneurial development in Russia. By utilizing new Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data collected in 2001, we ...
(published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2008, 23 (6), 656-672)
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J23, M13
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2160
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Paola
Giuliano
Marta
Ruiz-Arranz
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Remittances, Financial Development, and Growth
Despite the increasing importance of remittances in total international capital flows, the relationship between remittances and growth has not been adequately studied. This paper studies one of the ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2009, 90 (1), 144-152)
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F22, F43, O16
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2155
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Riccardo
Faini
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Remittances and the Brain Drain
In most destination countries, immigration policies are increasingly tilted toward the most skilled individuals. Whether this shift hurts economic prospects in sending countries, as argued by the ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review , 2007, 21 (2), 177-191)
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F02, F22
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2154
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Helmut
Rainer
Thomas
Siedler
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Does Democracy Foster Trust?
The level of trust inherent in a society is important for a wide range of microeconomic and macroeconomic outcomes. This paper investigates how individuals’ attitudes toward social and institutional ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2009, 37 (2), 251-269)
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P51, Z13
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2153
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Pieter
Bevelander
Justus
Veenman
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Naturalisation and Socioeconomic Integration: The Case of the Netherlands
This paper investigates Dutch immigrants’ naturalisation decision and how naturalisation affects their employment chances and wages in the Netherlands. The population under consideration consists ...
(published in: Pieter Bevelander and Don J. DeVoretz (eds.): The Economics of Citizenship, Malmo University, Malmö: Holmbergs, Sweden, 2008)
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F22 J61 J68
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2152
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Deng
Quheng
Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
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China's Lesser Known Migrants
In China hukou (the household registration system) imposes barriers on permanent migration from rural to urban areas. Using large surveys for 2002, we find that permanent migrants number about 100 ...
(revised version published as 'The Hukou Converters - China's Lesser Known Rural to Urban Migrants' in: Journal of Contemporary China, 2014, 23, 657-679)
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J61, O15, P36
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