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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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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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2150
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John
Bennett
Saul
Estrin
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Regulatory Barriers and Entry in Developing Economies
We model entry by entrepreneurs into new markets in developing economies with regulatory barriers in the form of licence fees and bureaucratic delay. Because laissez faire leads to ‘excessive’ entry, ...
(published in Review of Development Economics, 2013, 17, 685-698)
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L50, O14
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2149
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Andrea
Ichino
Fabrizia
Mealli
Tommaso
Nannicini
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From Temporary Help Jobs to Permanent Employment: What Can We Learn from Matching Estimators and their Sensitivity?
The diffusion of Temporary Work Agency (TWA) jobs originated a harsh policy debate and ambiguous empirical evidence. Results for the US, based on quasi-experimental evidence, suggest that a TWA ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2008, 23 (3), 305-327)
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C2, C8, J6
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2148
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Marina
Bakanova
Saul
Estrin
Igor
Pelipas
Sergei
Pukovich
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Enterprise Restructuring in Belarus
We explore the impact of privatization and the entry of new firms on enterprise performance in Belarus, a transition economy in which reform and market-orientated institutional development has been ...
(published in Saul Estrin, Grzegorz Kolodko and Milica Uvalic (eds.), Transition and Beyond: A Tribute to Mario Nuti, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
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P2, P31, L1
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2147
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Anders
Frederiksen
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Gender Differences in Job Separation Rates and Employment Stability: New Evidence from Employer-Employee Data
I analyze the job separation process to learn about gender differences in job separation rates and employment stability. An essential finding is that employer-employee data are required to identify ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15(5), 915-937)
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C23, E24, J63
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2146
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Timothy
J.
Hatton
Jeffrey
G.
Williamson
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A Dual Policy Paradox: Why Have Trade and Immigration Policies Always Differed in Labor-Scarce Economies?
Today's labor-scarce economies have open trade and closed immigration policies, while a century ago they had just the opposite, open immigration and closed trade policies. Why the inverse policy ...
(published in T.J. Hatton. K. H. O'Rourke and A. M. Taylor (eds.), The New Comparative Economic History: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey G. Williamson, Cambridge Mass: MIT Press, 2007)
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F22, J1, O1
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2145
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David
A.
Jaeger
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Green Cards and the Location Choices of Immigrants in the United States, 1971-2000
This paper documents where immigrants who enter the U.S. with different types of visas (“green cards”) choose to live initially and what determines those location choices. Using population data on ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 27, 131-184)
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J61, J18, C35
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2144
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Markus
Frölich
Michael
Lechner
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Exploiting Regional Treatment Intensity for the Evaluation of Labour Market Policies
We estimate the effects of active labour market policies (ALMP) on subsequent employment by nonparametric instrumental variables and matching estimators. Very informative administrative Swiss data ...
(published in: Journal of American Statistical Association, 2010, 105 (491), 1014-1029)
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J68, C14, C21
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2143
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Marco
Francesconi
Abhinay
Muthoo
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Control Rights in Public-Private Partnerships
This paper develops a theory of the allocation of authority between two parties that produce impure public goods. We show that the optimal allocation depends on technological factors, the parties’ ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (3), 551-589)
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D02, D23, H41, L31
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2142
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Erling
Barth
Bernt
Bratsberg
Torbjørn
Haegeland
Oddbjørn
Raaum
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Who Pays for Performance?
Using Norwegian establishment surveys from 1997 and 2003, we show that performance-related pay is more prevalent in firms where workers of the main occupation have a high degree of autonomy in how to ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2008, 20 (1), 8-29)
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J33, M52
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2141
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James
Albrecht
Lucas
Navarro
Susan
Vroman
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The Effects of Labor Market Policies in an Economy with an Informal Sector
In many economies, there is substantial economic activity in the informal sector, beyond the reach of government policy. Labor market policies, which by definition apply only to the formal sector, ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (539), 1105 - 1129)
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E26, J64, J65, O17
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2139
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Natalia
Catrinescu
Miguel
Leon-Ledesma
Matloob
Piracha
Bryce
Quillin
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Remittances, Institutions and Economic Growth
There is considerable debate regarding the relative contribution of international migrants' remittances to sustainable economic development. While the rates and levels of officially recorded ...
(published in: World Development, 2009, 37(1), 81-92)
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F22, O15, O47
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2137
|
Olivier
Donni
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The Intrahousehold Allocation of Private and Public Consumption: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Data
We adopt the collective approach to consumer behavior with egoistic agents, and assume that the household consumption is either private or public. We then show that (i) household demands have to ...
(published as "A Simple Approach to Investigate Intrahousehold Allocation of Private and Public Goods" in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 91 (3), 617-628 )
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D11, D12, H41
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2136
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Gautam
Hazarika
Arjun
S.
Bedi
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Child Work and Schooling Costs in Rural Northern India
It is widely held that work by children obstructs schooling, so that working children in impoverished families will find it difficult to escape poverty. If children’s school attendance and work were ...
(published in: Ravi Kanbur and Jan Svejnar (eds.), Labor Markets and Economic Development, Routledge, 2009)
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J22, O12
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2134
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Badi
H.
Baltagi
Ingo
Geishecker
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Rational Alcohol Addiction: Evidence from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey
Alcohol consumption in Russia is legendary and has been reported to be the third leading cause of death in the former Soviet Union after heart disease and cancer. Are Russian alcohol consumers ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2006, 15 (9), 893-914)
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C23, D12, I10
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2132
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Anders
Frederiksen
Rikke
Ibsen
Michael
Rosholm
Niels
C.
Westergård-Nielsen
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Labour Market Signalling and Unemployment Duration: An Empirical Analysis Using Employer-Employee Data
This paper tests the signalling hypothesis using detailed flow-based employer-employee data from Denmark. The primary focus is to explore how the conditions in the pre-displacement firm affect the ...
(published in: Economic Letters, 2013, 118 (1), 84-86)
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J64, J65, J68
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2131
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Marc-Andreas
Muendler
Sascha
O.
Becker
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Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution
Multinational labor demand responds to wage differentials at the extensive margin, when a multinational enterprise (MNE) expands into foreign locations, and at the intensive margin, when an MNE ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (5), 1999-2030)
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F21, F23, C14, C24, J23
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2130
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Olivier
Donni
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On the Identification of Frisch Labor Supplies
This paper examines how Frisch labor supplies, and other structural components of the intertemporal model of labor supply, can be recovered from estimates obtained with the approach developed by ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2007, 95 (1), 1-6)
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J22
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2129
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Paola
Manzini
Marco
Mariotti
Luigi
Mittone
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Choosing Monetary Sequences: Theory and Experimental Evidence
In this paper we formulate and investigate experimentally a model of how individuals choose between time sequences of monetary outcomes. The theoretical model assumes that a decision-maker uses, ...
(published in: Theory and Decision, 2010, 65 (3), 327-354)
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C91, D9
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